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Top 10 Apocalypse Flops

Top 10 Apocalypse Flops

With the most recent episode in the never ending saga of apocalyptic scares behind us – the December 21, 2012 so-called ‘Mayan apocalypse’ – one is left to wonder exactly why everyone’s so hell-bent on selling hysteria. Indeed, when you consider the seemingly endless list of apocalyptic preachers and doomsayers through the ages, “The Boy [...]

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Top 10 Death Row Requests

Top 10 Death Row Requests

We’ve all asked or at least thought about the situation whereby we could only eat one more food for the rest of our lives, or perhaps what we would request if we could have anything in the world as our last meal…period. Macabre a thought as it may, be there are hundreds of people the [...]

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Top 10 Amusing Phobias for All Other than the Poor Sufferers

Top 10 Amusing Phobias for All Other than the Poor Sufferers

Each and every last one of us will have something somewhere in the world that we hold with a sense of abject dread and simply cannot bear the thought of – at least to a modest extent. However, those with true medically diagnosed phobias have something of a much more difficult lot and have to [...]

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Top 10 Unusual International Birthday Gestures

Top 10 Unusual Birthday Gestures

It is of course only human nature to believed that our culture and heritage hit the nails right on the head when it comes to special occasions and birthday rituals, but for those willing to look a little further afield, there is a whole world of interesting and amusing practices going on that hold just [...]

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Top 10 Competitive Eating Achievements NOT to be tried at home

Top 10 Competitive Eating Achievements NOT to be tried at home

Often find that your eyes are bigger than your belly? Most of us of course do, but for some brave and rather questionable souls across the world today, overeating is not something to be avoided, but instead to be celebrated and indeed rewarded. So, we’ve all heard of the local hot dog eating contest set [...]

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Top 10 “What Were They Thinking?” Place Names

Top 10 “What Were They Thinking?” Place Names

From time to time we will all pass a place or perhaps encounter a road with a name so wonderfully silly that we just have to stop and have our picture take next to it – we really are all guilty of this innocent pleasure from time to time. True, what’s rude and frankly hilarious [...]

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Top 10 Bizarre Triumph Bras

Top 10 Bizarre Triumph Bras

Few will argue with the fact that bras are cool given their actual purpose. Especially men! But, could bras get any cooler? Well, some creative folks over at Triumph seem to believe so. Triumph International is a widely known (operates in 120 countries around the world) underwear manufacturer that was founded in Germany back at [...]

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Top 10 Controversial United Colors of Benetton Ads

Top 10 Controversial United Colors of Benetton Ads

“We did not create our advertisements in order to provoke, but to make people talk, to develop citizen consciousness,” Luciano Benetton assures us. Whether or not they began in this way, many Benetton advertisement campaigns have ended with controversy. Most recently, in the Autumn of 2011, with the launch of the unHate campaign, some of [...]

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Top 10 Xmas Accident and Emergency Visits

Top 10 Xmas Accident and Emergency Visits

Christmas is of course known to bring around a great many things to the people of the world, though one of the slightly less documented is the veritable compendium of ridiculous reasons poor-souls find themselves in the emergency room, resulting from festive catastrophes. Of course, few would argue that there is a better time of [...]

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Top 10 Haunting Items of Clothing in Literature

Top 10 Haunting Items of Clothing in Literature

To be moved by something, to really experience it is the sensation of being haunted. It is a captivation made up of equal parts desire and disgust. It is a haunting. Something to fear and retain as dear, haunting items of clothing in literature are not new. They actually seem to be developing into a [...]

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Top 10 Mad Madams of Fiction

Top 10 Mad Madams of Fiction

So it is said that white-haired, usually bearded, men continue to have control over the arts, over what is read, watched, and seen. Where, then, does that leave the representation of womankind? As servantile home bodies, surely, without minds or passions of their own. This is often the case, although there was also interest in [...]

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