Children's books seem like timeless tales to the kids who love them, and yet parents find there's a whole new batch of tales being told by the time they have kids, the old stories left by the wayside.
When I was a kid Richard Scarry, Dr. Seuss and the Berenstein Bears were all the rage, and an old classic called Raggedy Ann was enjoying a revival thanks to the animated features released in the late 70s.
Nowadays most kids have never heard of the Raggedy Ann stories created by Johnny Gruelle, and people will call someone a "goody two-shoes" without realizing the name comes from a story published by John Newbery in 1765.
And even though there are a dozen or more imitators out there today the original sensory exploration book The Touch Me Book by Pat and Eve Witte has been placed on some faraway bookshelf time forgot.
The mind of a child works in ways we adults typically cannot comprehend, and what makes perfect sense to their very young brains often seems like pure madness to our adult minds.
Those crazy kids' thoughts are hilarious, but when a kid says something that makes perfect sense yet sounds a bit sinister we stop laughing and our mind starts racing.
We find ourselves wondering who let the little evil mastermind into the house in the first place, let alone gave them their own room, and as the kid's campaign of wickedness continues they go from being a mere brat to our archenemy.
The bloodhound has one of the keenest senses of smell in the animal kingdom, which is why hunters of both man and beast rely on their super keen smeller to help them locate their target no matter how far they try to run.
With about 230 million scent receptors up in that big ol' doggy schnoz of theirs nobody stands a chance of escaping from a bloodhound once it has narrowed in on your trail.
But Mike Carrier, host of BuzzFeed's Outsmarted, thinks he figured out how to dupe the dog by using Vaseline to prevent dead skin from falling and skunk odor to distract the dog with as many scents as possible.
Mike's master plan had better work, or else he's going to have to eat a can of dog food...
Here's the story about a one punch hero who was dreaming of starting a new life, he was stronger than all the others but he was all alone. Here's the story of a DVR which was full of cool characters galore, they were all super cool to look at but didn't pack a punch. 'Til the one day when the hero met those others and knew he would like to buy them all lunch, so this group could become a super family, and that's the way they all became the One Punch Bunch!
Make sure you look "OK" by wearing this The One Punch Bunch t-shirt by Platinum Bastard, it's one cool shirt with a dozen different looks!
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There are two types of Rick and Morty fans- those who understand what the show's writers are trying to say when they use a dipping sauce McDonald's released briefly in 1998 as a punchline and those who totally miss the point and go bananas about Szechuan sauce.
The smart fans didn't care when McDonald's announced they'd be giving out the sauce for one day only, an advertising stunt that backfired spectacularly, because they knew McDonald's would re-release the sauce soon enough.
The dumb fans, on the other hand, got straight up stupid on October 7th when they stormed in to McDonald's locations across the country demanding Szechuan sauce and acting like fools when they discovered many locations didn't have any sauce at all.
So rather than acting like an idiot about sauce that was a joke in an animated TV show just use this recipe created by Binging With Babish and make your own damn Szechuan sauce!
Even though many terrible horror movies have been made I'd say about 50% of the horror movies made are good, or at least decent, but their sequels almost always suck.
However, a number of sequels have been made that truly rival the original film in terms of quality and viewing enjoyment, a few of my faves being Friday the 13th Part 2, Evil Dead II and A Nighmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.
Friday the 13th Part 2 is the first appearance of adult Jason, Evil Dead II sets up the franchise nicely for all the Deadite fun to come, and Dream Warriors has the most creative dreams, and kills, in the series.
But why stop there when Wes Craven's New Nightmare had Freddy IRL hunting the creators of the series? And let's not forget Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers, aka the flick that brought ol' Mikey back with a vengeance.
Digging around in the internet muck can leave you feeling jaded, dirty and searching for posts that will lift your mind out of the swamp, like a pic of a tiny frog on a tiny hand truck.
The internet is full of filth, smut and all sorts of lewd content, but it's also full of pure goodness and posts that will restore your faith in humanity, including important stories people have sourced from their local newspapers.
So when you need to scrub the muck out of your brain, and you're craving a clean and wholesome laugh, just think about this guy hiring a photographer to take pics of his puppy.
Then think about getting a puppy, then imagine hiring a photographer to shoot pics of your new pup...brain clean!
It's unconscionable for a vet to lie to us about our pet's health, let alone lying to us about putting the poor sick animal to sleep, but that's just what happened to Keri Levy and her family's dog Caesar.
Keri took the 15-year-old miniature pinscher in to the Briarwood Veterinary Hospital in Howell, New Jersey and was told Caesar would have to be euthanized due to a chronic medical condition called Cushing's disease.
She agreed and went home, receiving a call later from the hospital stating Caesar was now "at peace", but then a week later she received an anonymous tip that Caesar was still alive:
Keri left her pet at Briarwood Veterinary Hospital in Howell, New Jersey, and says she later got a call that Caesar was "at peace" and that she could come back to retrieve his collar, reports NJ.com.
So when Keri received an anonymous tip last week that Caesar was still alive and living with one of the animal hospital's former vet techs, a wave of heartbreaking emotions reemerged. "It broke my heart in a way like my heart has never been broken," Keri told News 12 New Jersey.
Keri says that when she went back to Briarwood Veterinary Hospital to figure out what happened, she was shocked to learn that both the vet tech and Dr. George Menez, the vet who recommended the euthanization, no longer work there.
Luckily, the new vet in charge, Dr. Maureen Kubisz, helped Keri track down what happened to Ceasar.
Sadly, when Keri was reunited with Caesar he was even sicker than when she last saw him, and he'd lost 10 pounds. Unfortunately, Keri had to go to a different veterinary hospital to say another teary goodbye to Ceasar before the beloved pup was finally put to rest.
As a rule skulls should not talk or hop around, and their eyes shouldn't glow either, so if you encounter a red eyed skull that won't shut up while you're out trick-or-treating you should drop kick it like a football and run...unless you own a museum or a sideshow. If you own an establishment where people go to stare at cool stuff then by all means capture that demonic living skull if you can, but don't let it sink its teeth into you or you might lose your head!
Don't be a bonehead, grab this super fun Human Skulls Boo t-shirt by Early Kirky and have fun making people grin wherever you go!
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Since people don't care as much about the discovery of new dinosaur bones as they used to Chinese paleontologists have decided to step up their game- by digging up the skeleton of a dragon.
This 60-foot-long skeleton was "discovered" in the city of Zhangjiakou in Northern China's Hebei province, and while some say it's an obvious hoax the dragon lovers among us want to believe.
A translation of the story at wukong.com says the skeleton measured about 60 feet long with a horned skull and two tiny arms at the neck-body joint. The long thin serpentine body matches the Chinese version of dragons rather than the Game of Thrones or flying lizard types.
However, the skull seems more like an antelope and some witnesses thought the bones looked like they were from multiple cows and pieced together to fool the public or be used in a movie or TV show. While the Chinese have long revered dragons and tell many scary stories of them, these witnesses didn’t seem reverent or afraid, as evidenced by a photo of two guys trying to ride it.
Well, those two guys seem to believe it's truly a dragon and that's good enough for me! *wink*
Pixar movies have made our geeky minds race like no other animated features, and aside from the far out fan theories movies like Toy Story, Cars and A Bug's Life have spawned they have also inspired some deep shower thoughts.
I've never thought about all the horrifying implications present in Pixar movies, but now I can't help but see the Pixar lamp as a murderer and the Toy Story gang as little plastic corpses.
So if you can't handle being creeped out by your favorite cartoons then you should probably avoid these Pixar Shower Thoughts, but I've found they give me hope for our planet's future.
The Indiana Jones movies are full of Easter eggs and small background details many people missed until they were pointed out online, but in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade there's a moment that we all saw but didn't quite register.
It has to do with the scene where Indy avoids a saw blade trap by falling to his knees then rolls out of the way of a second blade like an archaeological ninja.
So why is this scene so horrifying? I'll let Cracked's Jordan Breeding explain:
In one section of the cave, Indy is told "Only the penitent man will pass." Knowing this is some sort of Biblical riddle (and that apparently faith makes you better at solving riddles), Indy struggles for an answer before, at the last possible second, he realizes he must literally kneel down "before God" and ... do a kickass forward somersault?
Why would a penitent man also be a skilled tumbler with lightning-fast reflexes? Is the 11th Commandment that one must become an expert in P90X so you may answer the call? And how the heck did Indy even know that would happen? The answer, it appears, is that he would have been fine if he'd just knelt -- the second blade would whip in front of him, though close enough to graze his knees. So what's the point of it?
Let's put it this way: If your idea of being penitent before God looks like this ...
... you'll be fine. But if it looks like this:
That blade will lop your f$%#ng head off. It makes perfect sense if you notice the title of the film, and the fact that the ancient knights protecting the grail (including the one who'd been magically kept alive by it for centuries) were from the First Crusade -- that is, a war to retake the Holy Land from the Muslims who'd captured it more than four centuries earlier. So our Crusaders were forward-thinking enough to ensure that only true Christians would get through, and that intruding Muslims would be killed on the spot even if they figured out the riddle.
John Malkovich has played an extremely wide range of characters over the years, from the meek and mentally disturbed to the violent and full-blown psychotic, but his most important role was when he played himself in Being John Malkovich.
That's the role which prepared him for his second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth most important roles- playing the most iconic characters created by David Lynch.
Malkovich really captures the oddball feel of Lynch's characters, and it's really too bad he was busy with other projects or he could have easily taken over for the dearly departed Log Lady in the new season of Twin Peaks.
These images were taken from a series of vignettes directed by Sandro Miller which were shared on PlayingLynch.com, including this extra disturbing portrayal of The Lady In The Radiator from Eraserhead.
The portable hole has always been one of my favorite cartoon gags, and as a kid I wished there was actually an ACME company out there selling portable holes so I could slap one down and watch the fun.
But since ACME doesn't exist, and there's no such thing as a portable hole, we'll have to settle for the next best thing- Scott Jarvie's optical illusion Void Rug, which give your home that cartoon feel without the danger.
Scott's rugs look so realistic from the right angle that your guests will cry "hole-y cow!", and they come in both round and rectangular shapes so they look sharp in every room in your home.
Most dogs don't dance unless they're dancing for some food, and those dogs who actually enjoy dancing with their human can do little more than raise up on their hind legs and do the Bunny Hop without a little help from their humans.
But the dogs captured by Russian photographer Andrey Seliverstov really like to kick up their heels and dance with their darling nine-year-old owner Maria Palkina, and she's even teaching them how to do ballet.
Maria's dogs don't look like they'll be joining the Bolshi Ballet anytime soon, but they do look like they're genuinely enjoying the experience of dancing with their little ballerina buddy.
