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Five Games That Tried to Be Sexy And Failed

radmanovac — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:59:37 +0000

There are, in the human mind, very few vital needs. Food. Shelter. Clothing. The beast with two backs. And, ever since we discovered we could make other people farm the food and kill the meat, and just pay them with other stuff to do it, we’ve been trying to satisfy those needs more fully, but with a new problem added in: boredom. So we spend a lot of time amusing ourselves too, which led to video games.

And, inevitably, games and sex met. This was not the glorious, light-from-the-heavens union we see in romance flicks. No, it was, and still is, the awkward, horribly embarrassing fumbling of that first time. And there’s no sign that gaming and doing it are going to get any better at the act of uniting, as witnessed by these five disasters.

BMX XXX

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Five Plant Defense Mechanisms (That Backfired)

rale — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:50:22 +0000

We don’t actually get most of our drugs from labs, believe it or not. No, we get most of our drugs from the natural world, namely plants. And most of those drugs have actually evolved not because of some higher being who wants us to get wasted, or improve the flavor of our food, but because they can really mess up the day of anything that isn’t a human dumb enough to eat them.

WeirdWorm would like to take this moment to remind you that (some) drugs are bad. Drugs are very, very bad (sometimes). You should avoid doing drugs as much as possible (usually). Some drugs have fatal side effects, but all drugs are inherently funny, which is why we’re focusing on them so much.

Caffeine

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9 Disappointing 90′s Movies…for 90′s Teens

radmanovac — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:25:49 +0000

If you happened to have been a teen in the 90’s (the Beavis & Butthead age) it was certainly a “dope” time to be coming of age. If you were one of the lucky ones, your biggest problems were likely trivial (depending on which crowd you ran with).

To put things into perspective…
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6 Weird World Championships

rale — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:26:02 +0000

Everybody wants to be the greatest in the world at something. That’s why we have events like the Olympics: to celebrate the incredible achievements of people who have completely and utterly mastered their chosen skill. Unfortunately, we can’t all be world class sprinters or swimmers. But don’t worry: there are enough people who have the desire to be a world champion at something, anything, that ridiculously specific events have been created, allowing pretty much anyone who gets serious about them to immediately count themselves as among the best in the world. So if you want to be a world champ but don’t want to put too much effort into earning your title, then consider competing at one of these weird tournaments.

Rock-Paper-Scissors

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Six Brands In The Movies You Can’t Find In The Store

rale — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:30:56 +0000

Hollywood lives and dies on creating a sense of realism in its films. That includes brands that the characters actually use. The problem being, of course, that the owners of these brands want to get paid money to be featured in major Hollywood films, especially if the movie is, say, rife with sex and violence and they’re worried about being seen as too offensive by the three people that will actually notice the hero slammed a Red Bull before throwing the impossibly hot actress into bed and making PG-13-rated love to her.

So what’s Hollywood to do? Make up their own brands, of course! They’ve been doing it for decades and, in fact, some of these brands are so established, you might mistake them for actual products. Some of them get featured more often and have a better reputation than regular products. Likes these lovely products:

Morley

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5 Comic Book Spinoffs (That Never Should Have Happened)

radmanovac — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:35:22 +0000

When a comic book becomes incredibly popular, the only logical thing a publisher can do is create a spin-off exploring other characters. Sometimes you get a series that can carry its own weight, like the Batman spinoff Robin, but more often than not you’re left with duds like these five titles.

Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane

Between 1958 and 1979, any character of moderate significance warranted a spin-off, and for evidence of this you need look no further than Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane. As the title would suggest, the book was a means to explore Superman’s other half in greater detail because Supe’s own book was dedicated to action, adventure, justice and other things the average adolescent male certainly didn’t really give a damn about.

Borrrrrrrrrrr-iiiiiiiiiiing.

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The 9 Most Awesome Tombs

radmanovac — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:38:55 +0000

There really is nothing quite like a massive tomb to say “Look at me! I was really, really important!” Time is the great equalizer, forgetting most men and turning great men into trivia questions (just look at this list and tell us how many of these guys you’ve ever heard of), but if you’ve got the cash, the ego, and (usually) the slave labor to do it, you can leave behind some really kickin’ reminders of how awesome you used to be. Like, for example:

The Mausoleum of the First Emperor

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The Ten Saddest Collectible Card Games Ever

radmanovac — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:39:36 +0000

Collectible card games, or CCGs to the nerd in a hurry, exploded in the early ’90s as the hot alternative to pen-and-paper role-playing. “Magic: The Gathering” was an exciting new way to play with friends and combining this with the tantalizing prospect of wasting lots of money soon lured in legions of fans. People looking for a piece of that action soon followed; here are some of the atrocities they wrought:

Hyborean Gates

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7 Types of Beach Personalities

radmanovac — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:25:31 +0000

Chances are good that you’ll be headed to the beach sometime this summer. Chances are also good that you’ll encounter other people at the beach, unless you’re incredibly rich and have your own beach, or else you’re incredibly dumb and decide to swim at a beach contaminated with oil, E. Coli, horseshoe crabs, or some other beach-happiness wrecking menace.

And when you do come across these other strange, humanoid creatures, which you will be unused to seeing as chances are good you spend an inordinate time in front of the computer reading weird and entertaining news articles, you’ll want to be able to neatly categorize them into groups so that you can better analyze and understand them. Seriously, why else would you want to go to the beach? To get sunburned and have to deal with sand in uncomfortable places? Please.

The Consumer

Something like this, but just more of everything.

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Luke Skywalker’s 6 Biggest FAILS

radmanovac — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:56:10 +0000

The most interesting heroes in films are often relatively flawed and make their fair share of mistakes. Much like in real life (where lightsabres and AT-AT’s sadly do not exist) it’s these mistakes which help us to learn and grow. This brings us to Luke Skywalker, who is undoubtedly one of the most popular and beloved heroes in the entire Star Wars universe, but is also among the biggest screwups in the history of cinema.

Stick around and hear us out. There just might be a collectable Boba Fett PEZ dispenser in it for you… though probably not.

Many Star Wars fans base Luke’s unequivocal awesomeness on the grounds that he blew up the first Death Star. However, let’s not forget that he only achieved that feat thanks to Han Solo’s timely assistance and with Obi-Wan in his ear, all “Use the Force, Luke.”, and “The Force will be with you, always.” Reportedly, he also added “Luke, zipper up!”, which really saved him some embarrassment at the final award ceremony.

The two guys behind R2 do however have their zippers down for reasons we’d rather not discuss.

Upon further inspection, Luke’s failures were quite numerous. Frankly we find it surprising that others haven’t picked up on this before. Luke tends to mostly receive praise and adoration but few fans fault Luke for anything outside of his whiny attitude in A New Hope. Our intention is to boldly shatter Luke’s near perfect image with the following notable examples of his biggest fails throughout the Star Wars saga.

Sandpeople / Cantina FAIL

Prior to even stepping foot in the Cantina of Doom, Luke was saved by Obi-Wan from Sandpeople who had viscously attacked him. It should be noted however that the attack in question only went down because Luke had carelessly removed a restraining bolt from R2 which allowed him to run off in the first place.

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5 Terrible Sidekicks

rale — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:15:48 +0000

Behind every good super-hero is a great sidekick. But behind every great sidekick is a long line of chumps who just couldn’t make the cut as Robin the Boy Wonder.

Though some sidekicks are considered to be just as iconic as the heroes they aid, others have fallen to the wayside, almost vanishing from popular culture completely. These sidekicks were once in the limelight but had it taken away, often for very good reasons.

Demolition Man

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The Five Superhero Reboots

radmanovac — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:01:57 +0000

Superheroes have been with us since the 1930s. With their simple morality, bright costumes, and science-mangling powers, we’ve had literally thousands of superheroes created. And sometimes they get recreated, usually proving that as goofy as the original might have been, it can get a whole hell of a lot goofier.

Doctor Fate

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5 Fashion Trends That Double as Self Defense

rale — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:37:53 +0000

It’s not always easy being a woman. Sure, you have the benefit of certain assets that can be used for fun or profit when dealing with members of the opposite sex. But on the flip side, those assets are always in demand, and sometimes they need protecting when someone gets a little too friendly.

It’s nice to know that, if you’re wandering around the dangerous streets of major cities such as Los Angeles or New York, you’ll have a way to defend yourself without worrying about whether the sheath for your knife matches your dress. Because if you can manage to squeeze in to (literally, in some cases) some of the fashion trends on this list, you’ll never be without a practical and fashionable weapon close to hand. What more could a girl ask for? Except a hunky bodyguard, perhaps…

Stilettos

Despite popular belief, dangerous to more than just the wearer.

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16 Highest Selling Items in Auction History

radmanovac — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:25:08 +0000

In 1674, the first auction house was opened in Sweden. It was named Stockholms Auktionsverk. In modern times, thousands of precious antiques and historical artifacts are auctioned off every year. Some of the most popular hobbies in the world include collecting cars, coins, stamps, paintings, sculptures, and a number of other high quality items. The most valuable collectables are famous pieces of art, either paintings or sculptures, but many other items have raised millions of dollars at auction. This article will be documenting 16 of the highest selling items in auction history. It is organized by category and will be exploring fifteen separate types of collectables.

Highest Selling U.S. Government Auction

U.S. Wireless Spectrum Sale

If you live in the United States (and aren’t a total lush) then you remember the government advertising campaign that was launched in 2008 to inform the public about the U.S. digital television transition. On June 12, 2009, all full power TV stations in the U.S. ceased analog broadcasting. Before the change, the analog TV broadcasting spectrum was the accepted method used for transmitting television signals for free over-the-air TV programming. On January 24, 2008, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened an auction and accepted bids on a United States 700 MHz FCC wireless spectrum. It was officially known as Auction 73.

The event sparked major controversy between some of the largest telecommunication companies in the world, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Google Inc. The 700 MHz spectrum that was being sold was previously used for analog television broadcasting, specifically UHF channels 52 through 69. After the change to digital television was announced, the FCC ruled that these TV frequencies were no longer necessary for broadcasters. The auction divided the UHF spectrum into 5 blocks. The most highly publicized block was the open access C-Block, which was sold to Verizon for $4.74 billion. In all, Auction 73 raised an astounding $19.59 billion.

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Top 10 of Weird Art

rale — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:29:45 +0000

Every artist chooses his own direction when it comes to the way of expressing his creativity. Today WeirdWorm presents top 10 artists who are the best at what they do, in this case- bringing some of the darkest and most bizarre emotions hidden deep inside one’s subconsciousness. The way you perceive these pieces of art will differ so it is crucial that you share your thoughts on the subject with us.

Karl Persson

Official Website: Karl Persson

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6 Coolest Things Made With Legos

rale — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:26:35 +0000

Lego’s have got to be the most adaptable toy on the planet. In the hands of a child they are a choking hazard. In the hands of an adult they’re a multi-thousand dollar investment and a huge waste of time.

The beauty of Legos is that you can build anything – anything at all – if you have the dedication to click little pieces of plastic together for huge amounts of time. Instructions? Aw hell naw! They don’t print an instruction sheet for success, son. If you’re gonna make it big in the constructible toy bracket then you’re going to have to fly by the seat of your pants and boldly into the blocky future.

A Harpsichord

Henry Lim is an odd fellow. If you venture over to his website you’ll note that he’s made a hobby of Lego sculptures. His subjects range from a replica bust of Beethoven, a gray-scale mosaic of Catwoman from Tim Burton’s Batman Returns and a fourteen foot long stegosaurus. But as impressive as spending seven months building a dinosaur out of a children’s toy is, these feats don’t compare to building a functioning musical instrument.

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The Five Failed Video Game Consoles (That Had It Coming)

radmanovac — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:10:55 +0000

Video games have a long and complex history. The Atari crash. Nintendo saving the entire industry. The rise of Sony. And even today a game console designed for simple games that appeal to old people and children and makes them stand up and flail around like loons makes cash by the bucket while “hardcore” gamers scream bloody murder about it and the other two systems fight tooth and nail for second place.

But, although we only remember a few systems, the history of gaming is littered with many consoles. Some were ahead of their time. Some were way behind before they were even released. Others were bad ideas. And still others, five to be specific, deserved the heaping helping of miserable failure that was force-fed to them. Whether it was charging way too much, eating batteries like a fat kid eats cake, or simply not having a reason to exist, here are the five that deserved everything fate gave them and more.

Pioneer LaserActive

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Weird and Funny Baby Behavior

rale — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:12:36 +0000

Babies can act very weird sometimes. Since babies don’t know what they are doing the only thing left is to laugh and enjoy their facial expressions.

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Karate Baby

Who said that babies don’t have karate skills? Just how much time has he spend preparing for this shooting?

Weird Head Crawling Baby

He probably has a tick head or crazy parents.

Evil Baby

Not all babies are angels some of these little cherubs can look evil.

Baby Dancing to Beyonce

Even in such a young age she looks up to Beyonce. Years and years of practice are needed to reach up to her level but this baby deserves an applause.

???

Is he dreaming or maybe he loves to behave like this while someone is recording?

Weird Baby Sleep

The weirdest way to put your baby to sleep. In this case these parents don’t have such a problem. Take a look.

The Baby Laughing At Paper

Oh back in the days when we were babies…Everything was amusing but i can’t recall that i was laughing at a paper being shred.

Chubby Baby Does Weird Tile Slid

Is it a seal? Is it a walrus? No it’s just a baby walking strangely.

I Am Better Then You

I think that she has definitely showed us that she is better then her sister.

WTF

Isn’t he too young for such things?

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5 Not So Super (Real Life) Heroes & Villains

rale — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:23:06 +0000

Who wouldn’t want to live in a world occupied by superheroes and super villains? Okay maybe not the villains so much. Still, imagine never having to worry about falling down an open sewer (as opposed to falling down open sewers 2-3 times a week). Or perhaps being free to roam through creepy alleys knowing Spiderman or Batman has your back. Well, snap out of it, watch where you’re walking and stay out of alleys because we’re doomed to live in crappy reality. The best our “not-so-super” world has to offer us are the following candidates…

Joker

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5 Awkward Hollywood Cash-Grabs for the Urban Market

radmanovac — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:25:41 +0000

Following extensive market research and several colorful PowerPoint presentations, it appears that the money in African Americans’ wallets is of equal value to the money in Caucasian people’s wallets. Science! With that in mind, Hollywood execs have done their best to get that green and thus obtain even more yachts, blow and high-priced hookers. However, this tinsel town venture goes far beyond whatever it is Tyler Perry is famous for. We here at Weirdworm have managed to compile an interesting list of awkward and often not so subtle Hollywood attempts to appeal to the “urban market”.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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5 Fundamental Concepts (We Can’t Hash Out as a Species)

rale — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:05:56 +0000

There has been a great deal of speculation about the existence of other forms of intelligent life in the universe. Some claim that we are alone. Others say that it’s like sober Irishman: it exists but we may never find it. Still others believe that we have already made contact, citing various probing-related accounts as evidence.

Were an intelligent, advanced species able to observe our planet, there’s a good chance that things would probably only going poorly for us. Best case scenario: they find our bumbling hilarious and make us the space equivalent of bears riding tricycles in the circus. But in all likelihood they might just wipe us off this rock for our sins and let evolution roll the dice again.

Not that we don’t deserve it. Forget the war, famine, disease and terrorism; we can’t even decide basic stuff, like what to call our fizzy beverages. Let’s look at the ways we’re failing to get organized as a species, and maybe then we can work on no longer being the laughingstock of the galaxy.

We Still Can’t Agree How to Observe Things

One of the most basic tasks we do as an intelligent species is make observations. It’s vital to our survival. We assess temperature when we get dressed in the morning before going out so we don’t freeze to death. We gauge distance, speed and time on our way to work so we won’t be late. We estimate the weight of the prostitute we pick up after work so we don’t get crushed to death. All of these pedestrian, daily tasks involve making observations and these observations are measured in units.

Some things are easier to observe than others.

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The Twelve Saddest Exercise Machines

radmanovac — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:25:47 +0000

If there’s one universal constant in our world, it’s that people want to be slimmer, trimmer, and sexier. No matter how attractive a person is, they’re never satisfied; it’s actually coded into our brains as a survival mechanism, because making you miserable is fun for your brain. And people are willing to pay through the nose to get that last millimeter of fat off, no matter how much it costs, no matter how stupid they look, no matter how insane the idea even is. Here are twelve very, very sad methods trying to cash in on this tragic evolutionary quirk.

The Dumbbell Phone

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5 Blatant Toy Commercials Disguised As Kids Shows

radmanovac — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:59:27 +0000

If you wish to put out a television show and market it to kids, you basically have two options: gently educate them, or suck their parents for every dollar they own. Teaching kids and molding them into responsible adults is a wonderful venture, but it’s also really, really hard. Luckily, it’s far easier to just flash a bunch of shiny stuff in front of their faces and basically hypnotize them into screaming and crying until Mom and Dad buy them everything they saw on the tube that morning. These six shows have turned option two into an art form.

Transformers and He-Man

These are the ones that started it all, basically. Prior to the mid-1980’s, there were several strict advertising laws in place that prohibited television creators and producers from creating shows that blatantly used their shows as an excuse to sell toys. Well, if you enjoy being pandered to in cartoon form, you have President Reagan to thank. He authorized the deregulation of the kid’s show industry, mainly because all those wars we were fighting back then were just too quick and easy (hi Grenada!). So he needed something to do.

The war really freed up his schedule.

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“Five of the “Best” Worst Comic Villains”

rale — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:35:10 +0000

Everyone loves a good super-villain. There’s something about a madman in tights committing heinous acts of violence that everyone loves. Everyone also loves absurdly bad villains because you know the waddling man in the top hat isn’t going to beat Batman but dammit, he’s giving it his all. Isn’t that all that really matters?

Typeface

After serving in and losing his brother to one of America’s undefined wars, Gordon Thomas returns home only to have his wife leave him with their son. Left with nothing, Thomas decides to become a new, less interesting man by becoming a sign smith, smithing signs for Ace Signs. Then Ace Signs is purchased by apparent sign enthusiast George Finch. Now without a sign to smith, Thomas makes the logical career choice of becoming a villain in New York City. Now known as Typeface, Thomas draws letters all over his body and attacks people with comically oversized letters for seemingly no reason; he attacks thugs on the basis that they’re thugish and goes out of his way to strike down Spider-Man because that’s apparently what you do when you’re angry in New York.

Actually, he looks pretty normal for a guy in New York City.

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Five Extreme Diets

rale — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:03:13 +0000

If you want to know how to determine whether a diet is a scam, use the following simple process:

Does it charge you money to tell you to restrict caloric intake and exercise more? Then it’s a scam!

Sorry, but there’s no bulletproof easy way to lose weight beyond just not eating Baconators for breakfast and working out more. You’ve got to eat more vegetables, eat less crap, and hit the gym for once in your life, fatso. The diet industry, however, has managed to turn this basic truth into a massive scam that any con man would be proud of. Seriously, these guys make billions repackaging the same advice. And even better, the audience never takes that advice! Two-thirds of Americans are overweight and want to do something about it.

Unfortunately, there are only so many iterations of one scam you can do, and the diet industry increasingly finds itself hitting a brick wall when it comes to originality.

The Five Bite Diet

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The Strangest Covers Ever Recorded

radmanovac — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:39:18 +0000

The list of weird song covers is nearly bottomless. For every tune, there’s a musician who should never perform it under any circumstances. And thanks to an absentee God, that musician is practically guaranteed to choose that song to slather with “their own flavor”. Generally, the worst offenders are part of a longstanding musical war wherein a pop act murders a metal classic, or a metal act murders a pop classic. We thought we’d split the difference, and give you a little of both.

“Enter Sandman” – Pat Boone

So, did you know Pat Boone actually put out an entire album of jazz covers of metal songs? That’s the kind of fact that has never been greeted by anything better than silence and the slow uncorking of a bottle of Jack Daniels. There are a lot of gems on the set, but this, for our money, is both the strangest and the one that works the best. Boone, for those unfamiliar, was absolutely insanely popular in the ’60s, and your grandma probably owns all of his albums except for this one. He is one of the most important figures in the entire history of white people thoroughly ripping off black culture. He was so popular, he got beaten up by Superman:

Boosh! Take that you talentless crooner!

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6 Comic Books About Musicians Who Should Have Known Better

rale — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:06:24 +0000

Comic books and music. Two things that are widely and wildly consumed by people the world over. Musicians read comics, sometimes they write comics. Occassionally you get comic artists and writers playing music. They are two wonderful artistic mediums, no doubt about it. However, unlike peanut butter and chocolate, which are two great tastes that go great together, somehow musicians starring in the comics just doesn’t seem to work out.

Prince

From DC’s ill-fated Piranha Press imprint of a couple of decades back comes this incredibly odd concept for a comic book. Prince, back when he was called Prince the first time around, stars as a sort of version of himself. We say “sort of” because while he is portrayed as around 5 feet tall, and he is shown to be a musician, that’s about where it stops, reality-wise.

The story, such as it is, is one that could be told in 2-3 pages but instead fills the entire book. Prince and this other guy, named Gemmini, who was his…evil twin…or something, were very close when they were starting out, see. Only Prince learned to use his incredible musical gift for good, and this other fellow, well, for reasons not adequately (read: not at all) explored, his music incites folks to riot and kill each other.

There’s also some rot about Prince’s current girlfriend being a spy for the other guy or something, but truthfully, everything wrong with this comic (which admittedly was under a gorgeous Brian Bolland cover) can be summed up thusly: Prince, after taking a baseball bat away from the bad guys, sort of… shoves on it with his high-heeled boot and just shatters the thing. Prince, the little 5 foot nothing dude weighing no more than 110 pounds soaking wet, shatters a friggin’ baseball bat.

There’s also a totally weird moment where Prince brings a woman back to life with the power of Purple Rain, but seriously, a baseball bat.

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5 Civil War’s Worse than the U.S. Civil War

radmanovac — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:08:43 +0000

There are many reasons to fight a war. It could be over resources or religion. It could be because of politics or power. It’s usually over people wanting a plot of land that someone else seems to want to occupy. One thing remains constant- people love to kill each other. In fact, the only thing people like more than killing each other is attaching nebulous concepts to “why” they are killing each other.

In the case of civil wars, men are even willing to turn against their own countrymen and brothers. Why? Freedom. Bar-b-cue. Baseball. All of them are probably accurate. Nevertheless, as Americans, our barometer for civil war stems from our own experience- the “war of northern aggression.” It may come as a disappointment to some Americans to know that we aren’t even the best at war, our national pastime.

Chinese Civil War, 1927-1936, 1946-1950

There is a certain balance to nature. Some people call it “yin” and “yang”. Those people are called, “hippies” by everyone else. This balance manifests itself with mortal enemies- mongoose and cobra, Autobot and Decepticon, communist and everyone else. In the case of the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong fit the latter category. While sounding strangely like Streetfighter characters- these two men represented factions that truly hated each other- the nationalists and the communists, respectively. Both sides were fighting for power and maybe freedom- so they sought to oppress each other as brutally as possible.

In China, pornography is a little different…

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6 Strange Facts About Chocolate

radmanovac — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:28:47 +0000

Who doesn’t love chocolate? That’s not a rhetorical question; we’re asking because in our calculations, not liking chocolate is the first sign of being a witch. We have bar graphs that prove it. Unfortunately, since most of us have been exposed to chocolate since we were children, we often think of it as something about which we know almost everything that is worth knowing. Lucky for you, we here at WeirdWorm have compiled the following list of entries to show you exactly how surprising and colorful the faces about our favorite obesity booster can be.

Chocolate Led to Microwave Oven’s Invention:

One website tells us that when scientists were testing devices called magnetrons after World War 2, in one lab, a scientist named Percy Spencer got near a magnetron. It just so happened that he discovered the bar of chocolate in his pocket had melted from standing so close to the device. Spencer started suspecting the magnetrons were responsible, which, quite frankly, would have been fourth on our list of suspects in the situation, below our body temperature, cloth temperature and fart temperature.

"The chocolate in my pocket melted. Must be the microwaves."

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The Five Nastiest Databases On the Internet

radmanovac — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:43:01 +0000

The Internet is full of information, but it can be hard to find exactly the information you need. That’s where databases come in, and fortunately, no matter how nasty something is, it’s probably got a database dedicated to it! Like these five! Yes, these conglomerations of depravity are all very real, so click the included links at your own risk.

Since this article deals with obscene acts, offensive terms, celebrity nudity, and other things that Weird Worm, being a site that has advertisers, can’t exactly feature pictures of, we’ve decided to include images from Google Image Search by using the word “Database”. Apparently this yields lots of flowcharts and clip art. Enjoy!

The Racial Slur Database

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