Top 12 Oprah Mistakes, Lies and Embarrassments. Oprah Winfrey has legions of faithful followers across the country, but they’d do well to keep a careful eye out as they tread the trail that Oprah blazes: the aftermath of her “good works” and “good judgment” is sometimes messy—and even dangerous. Recent news reports have warned of the dangers of taking medical advice from Oprah and her guests, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It seems that when your reach is as long as Winfrey’s, there are a thousand little (and not so little) ways to be wrong—and unlike most of us, Oprah manages to inspire millions to join in her mistakes. The television diva, who Forbes magazine estimated in 2007 had made $1.5 billion in her career, seems to be able to sail through the glitches undamaged.
Unfortunately, that’s not always true for those who’ve put their faith in her. Free Cars for Everyone In 2004, Oprah “gave” 276 people in her audience brand new cars. Inspirational Candles An Overnight Bestseller Lesson (Not) Learned Over 9,000 Penises. Mental_floss Blog » The Quick 10: 10 Facts About Freddie Mercury. Stacy is off today—she's covering Lollapalooza in Chicago and will be back on Tuesday with all sorts of good material and crazy stories. In her absence, here's a Quick 10 that originally ran last November. And to keep up with Stacy's adventures this weekend, you can follow her on Twitter. It was on this day (November 24) in 1991 that Freddie Mercury passed away.
I'm a fan, so I thought I'd pay a little tribute to him in our Q10 today. I was born a little too late, but I would have loved to see Queen in concert. They sound like they were amazing. If any of you have first-hand concert experience, let me live vicariously through you - share it in the comments! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Delilah, Delilah, oh my, oh my, oh my - you're irresistible You make me smile when I'm just about to cry You bring me hope, you make me laugh - you like it You get away with murder, so innocent But when you throw a moody you're all claws and you bite - That's alright ! 10. Movie cars, general lee, Batmobile, Speed Racer, Death Race 2000, Smokey and the Bandit, Back to the Future,
The 5 Most Ridiculous Sex Self-Help Books. Sex is something everyone claims to be good at, but very few people actually take the time to research. For a man to be a successful lover, he has to be attentive, fit and focused. As for a woman, she must be awake-ish and attached to her vagina. There aren't very many structured ways to learn how to make love. In school, they taught us about sex by showing us pictures of chancres and child birth until crotches were our sworn enemies.
And if pornographic movies seem anything remotely close to instruction manuals to you, the girls you're dating have chancres. Luckily, I searched through dozens of used book stores to find research done on the art of sexing. . #5. This book is a cry for help. Besides a clear message that his wife is out to destroy him, the introduction also included my favorite thing about buying used books--the fact that they're used.
If you make it past the intro, the book is 101 tips ranging from the obvious to the religious. Is his wife a circus clown? #4. . #3. . #2. 5 Real News Items That May Be Supervillain Origin Stories. When you would awake from nightmares as a child, screaming into the darkness, the first thing your mother did to reassure you was tell you that there was no such thing as monsters. All the over the top, ridiculous evil beings weren't real, she'd say; the Boogeyman, Darth Vader and Dr. Doom are just stories, she'd say; reality isn't nearly that scary, she'd say. Man, what a lying bitch. The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State was started as part of the Manhattan Project--a program dedicated to weaponizing atomic power.
When mud dauber wasps moved into the long abandoned site back in 2003, they began to build their nests out of the still-contaminated mud and, rather than dying off like good little attack insects, they survived... irradiated. Like this, but probably firing nuclear blasts. Jesus! There's not much in the natural world worse than wasps. Luckily for humanity, the cleanup crew had to deduce all of this from the empty nests. ...because they've all moved on.
What? Jesus! The 5 Creepiest Unexplained Broadcasts. As we speak, broadcast signals are moving invisibly through the air all around you, from millions of sources. And some of them are really, really freaking weird. We know this because occasionally somebody with a shortwave radio, or a special antenna or even a common household television, will capture one of these mystery signals and suddenly start broadcasting utter insanity. Where do these signals come from? Who the hell knows? What is it? It is an irritating, electronic noise, not unlike the sound of a truck horn played through a cheese grater. Hammertime? In its 20-something year run, the sound has been interrupted only three times, the earliest known time being Christmas Eve in 1997. The case gets curiouser when you realize that the noise is apparently something held up to a live microphone rather than a recording or just some random feedback (distant conversations can be sometimes heard behind the sound, though they're difficult to decipher).
It sounds like "robble-robble. " Our theory? 5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy. We all understand that action movies are cheesy escapism. After all, could one commando really take out a whole compound full of bad guys? Actually, yes. It turns out the history books are full of stories of soldiers doing things so badass they'd hesitate to put them into a film for fear of killing the realism. Like these five, for example. #5. Simo Hayha Who Was He?
Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. Can you spot Hayha? Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got fucking scared.
They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. 6 Ways World of Warcraft is Worse Than Real Life. If you don't play World of Warcraft, you have friends that do. And while we can't begin to explain all the ins and outs of this 11 million-member community, we can bring out a few fascinating aspects of the WoW lifestyle ... some of which you might wish you could go back to not knowing. Did you know... WoW is a Lot Like Work In World of Warcraft, like real life, you need money.
WoW uses in-game gold as currency and to do the fun stuff ("raiding" and killing huge monsters) you'll need a lot of gold. You earn gold by "farming," which is the slang term for the monotonous quests players slog through each day, that generally involve killing X monsters, or collecting X items and getting gold in return.
Active players will need to do this tedious farming about two days a week, to fund the actual fun part of their game. Even stranger, enterprising gamers can make gold in a sort of commodities market that has formed in the WoW world. WoW is Also a Lot Like Job Hunting 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7 Movies You Didn't Know Can Come True (With Mental Illness) Let's make it clear: Having a mental disorder is no fun. Even if some of them kind of sound like fun. For instance, there is a whole list of mental disorders that basically turn your life into a live action Hollywood movie. Capgras Delusion - Your Friends are Body Snatchers The Movie: There's no one you can trust. The Disorder: If you have the unwavering belief a loved one has been replaced with an impostor (and you don't have the pimp mustache) you're probably dealing with Capgras Delusion.
The alleged impostor can sometimes be perceived as a threat or simply as a docile stranger who just happens to look exactly like your spouse and inexplicably wants to live their life. The question is, if you think you've been replaced, why were you not replaced with a fitter, more well hung version of yourself? Syndrome of Subjective Doubles - Bring in the Clones Do you remember the Arnold Schwarzenegger remake of The Parent Trap called The Sixth Day? Cotard's Syndrome - You Are the Undead. The 5 Most Maddeningly Unresolved TV Plotlines. Writing TV shows is hard. We think. Actually it probably depends on the show.
Either way, with all those characters and plotlines going on it's apparently really easy to lose track of what you're doing. That's why even good shows have plotlines that they've just discarded like so many Egg McMuffin wrappers on the street. Peter from Heroes Dumps his Girlfriend... in the Future In season two of Heroes, superpowered protagonist Peter Petrelli and his girlfriend Caitlin time-travel to a virus-riddled, post-apocalyptic New York City. Peter's time travel powers conveniently wonk out, stranding Caitlin in the future. But wait! Why It's Maddening: Who knows? It's not actually Peter's fault here. When the next season rolled around, Heroes creator Tim Kring was eager to jump-start the flagging series, sans time travel and pointless tertiary love interests. Fair enough, but Peter's total lack of concern for Caitlin raises some disturbing implications for his character.
We know spiders aren't insects. The 15 Worst Comics of the Decade - ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews. Yesterday, we covered the Best Comics of 2009, and now to even the scales ComicsAlliance is back with an even more far-reaching list: The 15 Worst Comics of the Decade. Yes, yes, I know that the decade isn’t technically over, but most people don’t realize that, and we couldn’t resist doing a roundup of the very worst comics to come out in the aughts, or the ’00s, or whatever else people tried to call this limbo decade, before we roll over to double digits.
Marville (2002)We’ll be going (mostly) chronologically through our fifteen favorites, by which I mean the ones we hate the most. Some of these will surely come as no surprise, but others may be more unexpected — drop your own thoughts in the comments if we missed your (least) favorite. We’ll be hitting the first seven today, going roughly from 2001 to 2004, with the remaining eight tomorrow. It begins! Man, he wrote some terrible comics. As of issue #3, Jemas abandons the regular parody format of the book. -Jason Michelitch No, friends. Ten mystery diseases you've never heard of.
10 Greatest TV and Movie Devils. 10 Greatest TV and Movie Devils Monday, June 08, 2009 He goes by many names. The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, the Fallen Angel, Beelzebub, etc. But no matter what you call him, he's one of the scariest villains you can think of. It was recently announced that Supernatural will be adding Lucifer to its cast for season 5, so we decided to look at what kind of competition he'll be up against. {*style:<b> Vote for Your Favorite TV or Movie Devil>> </b>*} Welcome to Hell-diddly-ell, sinner-inos. . #9 John Glover, <i>Brimstone </i></b>*}He's been Lex Luthor's dad on , Sylar's dad on and Bane's creator in the horrible movie , but Glover's most evil role was as the Devil in the very short-lived FOX drama Brimstone, which was essentially , only as a drama. #8 Harvey Keitel and Rodney Dangerfield, <i>Little Nicky </i></b>*}Satan and Lucifer are often used as different names for the same evil being.
One of George W. Al Pacino is pretty damn scary in any movie, even when he's the hero. Legendary Guitars - AskMen.com. Click to launch the Top 10 © Everett Collection Start with No.10 Today, the late guitarist Les Paul would have turned 96. He, along with his impressive guitars (which appear three times in this list), were legendary. But he was not the only one. From the international theft of George Harrison’s “Lucy” to the raging inferno that gave birth to B.B. Interesting facts put down simply (33 pics) » Izismile - Pictures, videos, games and more. The 75 Books You Should Own For DC Comics' 75th Anniversary. 25 of the Scariest Science Experiments Ever Conducted. Most of that stuff (aside from animal torture and torture/experimenting with prisoners, obviously) isn't half as bad as it's made to sound here. For example, the mouse that has human neurons still has a mouse brain - just made out of human neurons.
It's not the type of cell that determines creature's intelligence, but how they are arranged. Mouse's physiology can't produce anything remotely resembling a human brain. Also, the death ray was bogus. Nikola Tesla, as incredibly brilliant as he was became a little funny in his later years. Incidentally, where are the plans for the cobalt bomb. 15 Retarded Dungeons and Dragons Monsters. Not all of us have had the pleasure sitting down with a bag of oddly-shaped dice and playing Dungeons & Dragons, and the ones who have tend not to admit it. And that's too bad, because within the rich, expansive universe detailed in D&D manuals is a vast array of wondrous creatures.
Many of which are laugh-out-loud retarded. Such as... What is it? The visual approximation of Mufasa infected by The Thing. Where it Went Wrong: Besides looking like something Sebastian Bach would airbrush onto the side of a monster truck, the roving mauler is little more than a biological liability. And where is his lion dick during all this? The Gelatinous Cube is an enormous block of ooze that roams through the perfectly square hallways of D&D, devouring anyone foolish enough to walk directly into it. Unless an encounter plays out exactly like the steamroller scene in Austin Powers, we fail to see how the Gelatinous Cube ever kills anybody who's not either glued to the floor or fast asleep.
"Huge horn, got it. " 10 Most Amazing Extinct Animals. From the Quagga --half zebra, half horse-- to the Irish Deer --the largest deer that ever lived--, an impressive list with pictures of amazing animals we will never see. Tyrannosaurus Rex (extinct 65 million years ago) [Wiki] Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest land carnivores of all time, measuring up to 43.3 feet long, and 16.6 ft tall, with an estimated mass that goes up to 7 tons. Like other tyrannosaurids, Tyrannosaurus was a bipedal carnivore with a massive skull balanced by a long, heavy tail. Relative to the large and powerful hindlimbs, Tyrannosaurus forelimbs were small and they retained only two digits. Fossils of T. rex have been found in North American rock formations dating to the last three million years of the Cretaceous Period at the end of the Maastrichtian stage, approximately 68.5 to 65.5 million years ago; it was among the last dinosaurs to exist prior to the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.
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