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. 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. 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. Quagga: half zebra, half horse (extinct since 1883) [Wiki] 6 Random Coincidences That Created The Modern World. History's 10 Most Terrifying Contraceptives. The three most terrifying things in the world are werewolves, clowns and unplanned pregnancy. Humanity has known this since time began and as such has endeavored to make sure the last one of these would happen as infrequently as possible.
When you combined extreme motivation, human ingenuity and the fact that most people are stupid, you wound up with contraception methods that will blow your mind. Or at least leave you feeling a little weird down there. In the Dark Ages in Europe, things were dark for a reason, not the least of which was that, with the lights on, a typical man might wonder why his girlfriend had weasel balls strapped to her leg. The reason is obvious to anyone with a degree in Magickery or Weasel Ballogy, as any magician at the time would tell you that the weasel balls would prevent pregnancy. Diaphragms ... Ancient Egyptians were a crafty lot, what with those pyramids and that cool dance and mummies and all. Beaver Testicles, With Alcohol Ah, delicious, hot mercury. Hey! 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain.
We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls. But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads. For instance, you have the following enigmas that we believe were created for no other purpose than to fuck with future generations.
The Voynich Manuscript The Mystery: The Voynich manuscript is an ancient book that has thwarted all attempts at deciphering its contents. And it's not like some idiot just scribbled a bunch of nonsense on paper and went, "Figure THIS out, fuckwads. " It appears to be a real language--just one that nobody has seen before. Translation: "...and when you get her to put the tennis racket in her mouth, have her stand in a fountain for a while. There is not even a consensus on who wrote it, or even when it was written.
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