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The Acting Role That Stopped an Actor Changing his Name

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Frasier is a show that has accomplished an ever rarer feat in the world of television in that it’s a spin-off that arguably more successful that the show that led to its genesis. Something that can be, in part, attributed to the acting talent of one David Hyde Pierce, a breakout star of the show who nonetheless felt a significant amount of ill will towards it initially due to it stopping him from changing his name.

The Roman Emperor Who Had a Penis-based Promotion System

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As we’ve discussed before, the infamous Roman emperor Elagabalus was a, interesting individual known for doing things like catapulting snakes at his own people or spicing up dinner parties with a surprise leopard. One thing we didn’t get into though was the Emperor’s fondness for penises of the giant fuck off variety. So allow us to correct that unfortunate error by spending the next 500 words talking about how much Elagabalus loved himself some big swinging dicks.

The Particle Accelerator That Was Powered by a Pooping Ferret

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Since ancient man first gingerly rubbed a pair of sticks together and created fire, human beings have worked tirelessly to master the elements. The culmination of which is inarguably, the particle accelerator a device designed to harness, capture and control the very building blocks of our universe. A science quest that was aided, in part, by a shit-caked ferret called Felicia.

Vultures Can Eat Disease and Shit Bleach

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As we’ve discussed before and contrary to popular opinion, vultures are remarkably clean creatures that are noted as playing an important, albeit unsavoury, role in the ecosystem. Mainly that of an organic dustbin that removes carrion and more importantly, disease from an environment. Something facilitated by the vultures uncanny ability to eat batteries and shit bleach.

That Time Studios Insisted on Killing Optimus Prime

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Few characters in fiction have eaten shit as much as Optimus Prime, with The Last Prime dying at least a dozen times during his tenure as the wisened leader of the Autobots. Inarguably his most shocking death though was in The Transformers: The Movie. A death the studio not only insisted upon, but had no idea would affect kids.