7. Atilla the Hun
One of the greatest warriors in history was able to win a lot of his battles in his lifetime, but marriage was not one of them. Atilla suffered a heart attack while having sex with his wife…on their wedding night. Feel free to mention that the next time your girlfriend pesters you about making an honest woman out of her.
No Comments AS a kid i used to enjoy certain things very much! Catching bees – eating trees – building forts etc and the list does go on. The most fun was the massive box of hand-me-down lego that i inherited!! I mean this thing caused a tidal wave of little yellow men and houses when poured out onto the floor!! You could build entire civilizations and destroy them in mere hours which as a kid was one of the greatest things your brain could do!
The below site was sent to me by a friends of mine and it really brings back some awesome memories – do yourself a favour and go check it out!!
In today’s day and age I would imagine that a status symbol for a child in elementary school would be their iphone or even possibly the kind of cell phone they have. Hell eventually it’ll be whether or not they had sex the night before. Kids today are just too advanced and it’s quite disturbing.
However, back when I was a kid it was stuff like baseball cards, candy, gum, etc etc. I mean if you were the kid with the pack of Juicy Fruit you were 100% popular. Another awesome status symbol? The lunchbox.
It’s a shame they stopped making the metal lunchbox. Though I’d image that today they’d be used as weapons. Here are some 80s lunchboxes that were probably sure to open up the popularity gates.
THIS MAN SURVIVED TWO NUKES!!
93-year old Tsutomu Yamaguchi was recently recognized as the first survivor of both the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bomb droppings of 1945. Allegedly, he still pisses depleted uranium.
Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki just in time for the second attack, city officials said.
“As far as we know, he is the first one to be officially recognized as a survivor of atomic bombings in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” Nagasaki city official Toshiro Miyamoto said.Thousands of survivors continue to seek official recognition after the government rejected their eligibility for compensation. The government last year eased the requirements for being certified as a survivor, following criticism the rules were too strict and neglected many who had developed illnesses that doctors have linked to radiation
In case you guys don’t know already, I’m incredibly nostalgic when it comes to the WWF. I guess it’s because for the same reasons you miss going to ballgames and having hotdogs as a child. Back then it all just felt so much more “real.” And to this day I still watch a ton of matches on MSG.
OK that last part was a lie. I barely watch stuff anymore. However I won’t deny that I miss the old wrestling a great deal. And one of the things that made wrestling back then were the outfits that these guys wore. It established such a great story line for each wrestler. Those outfits truly epitomized who these guys were.
So from the bright colors of a punk rocker to the crazy spikes laying on top of football pads, here are the ten best costumes from the WWF.
Killer Bees
These guys were one of the first tag teams to implement masks. When they would use the “switch” move, audiences were dazzled and loved the trickery. These were clearly one of the most recognizable costumes in the WWF.
Demolition
Faces like the band Kiss and shoulder pads reminding us of a character from a Mad Max movie, these costumes played perfectly into the “psychoness” that was Demolition. Did they ever spit blood and stick their tongues out? I can’t recall.
Road Warriors/Legion of Doom
Similar in the style of Demolition, Hawk and Animal bore amazing should pad gear. No one could ever mistake those spikes for any other tag team. These guys were badass.
Rick Rude’s Pants
Do you realize how amazing Ravishing Rick Rude’s pants were? First of all he had the cool robe. Second of all, every time this guy came out he had some face on his tights. Sometimes it was a woman, a man, whatever. The mouth of the face was always covering his junk.
Ted Dibiase
A fake belt and a golden jacket with a money symbol? Priceless.
Macho Man
It wasn’t one costume on Savage, it was all of them. This guy wore the most lavish and ridiculous robes of any wrestler. He should have been called the Liberace of the WWF.
Ultimate Warrior
It wasn’t much but that Mask was one of the most famous masks in the history of the WWF. And I guess the arm tassles were pretty cool too.
The Undertaker
This was the first costume that truly scared the crap out of me. Well I think it was his manager Paul Bearer. But that long black trench coat and hat were awesome.
Roddy Piper
The kilt! The guy wore a damned kilt!
The Rockers
Easily the “flamiest” costumes ever but man how could you ever forget those bright colors?
Honorable Mention
Kamala
The dudes costume was on his breasts. Now that’s a costume. Moon and star. Love it.
Also mentions to IRS and Brutus the Barber Beefcake (that bow tie was awesome).
And some of them changed the world.
Where:
Jericho.
When:
1400s B.C.
How She Got Her Start?
Rahab probably came from a middle-class family in Jericho. She was an intelligent, independent-minded woman, and in those days there was only one profession for a girl like her to go into. A married woman was a slave to her husband, but a prostitute lived her own life and made her own decisions. As a scarlet woman, Rahab had freedom.
The cost of freedom, circa 1400 BC.
By all accounts, she was good at it, too. By the time she comes up in the Bible, she had her own house and made a comfortable income. Comfortable enough that she began to long for a career that didn’t involve, at best, being fisted by middle-aged men who bathed once a year.
What Made Her Great?
Back in 1422 B.C., the Israelites were living on a barren tract of land appropriately named, Shittim. Joshua, king of the Jews, didn’t really like living in a place that reminded him of his own bowel movements, so he set his sights on the city of Jericho.
Better than Shittim.
Joshua sent out two spies to scout out the defenses. The young Jews did their job and then sought “refuge” at Rahab’s place. The Bible doesn’t state why they chose to stay there, but it’s pretty obvious Joshua’s spies were “scouting out the defenses” for a “full frontal assault.”
Their sweaty reconnaissance was cut short, however, when the king of Jericho sent his men out to look for the two Jewish spies skulking around his city. Rahab hid the young men, and convinced the king’s soldiers that the spies were hiding elsewhere. Because of Rahab’s kindness, Joshua’s spies survived and were able to bring back crucial information that lead to the conquest of Jericho by the armies of Israel.
That’s right; believe what you want about the Bible, but it’s right there in the Old Testament that the course of world history was turned by a hooker with a heart of gold.
Where:
Athens.
When:
470 B.C.-400 B.C.
How She Got Her Start?
Like a lot of whores, Aspasia was born into a bad situation. She was a foreigner in Athens, which meant she had close to nothing in the way of civil rights and would almost certainly never marry.
The only area of Athenian society that was more open for women than men was in Athens’ legendary brothels. Prostitution was neither illegal, or frowned upon in Athenian society. Both men and women could be whores, although men had to quit when they became adults. Yes, in Athens they’d only bust you if your clients weren’t pedophiles.
Aspasia took advantage of this and became a hetaera, or really high class hooker. Hetaerae were generally well-educated and, under law, they were independent from any men, and were even allowed to pay taxes and own property. In short order, the beautiful Aspasia was at the top of the hooker hierarchy and renowned through all of Athens.
What Made Her Great?
Aspasia knew she was hot, and she knew how to use that beauty to get what she wanted. Soon, she began to court Pericles, the First Man in Athens (that is, a famous statesman and orator–kind of a mix between Obama and Oprah).
She and her husband became the center of a great group of philosophers and thinkers from all across the city. She not only knew Socrates, but many credit her with being one of his teachers. Some scholars even suggest she had a hand in the origins of the Socratic method though, for some reason, they left that one out of our philosophy textbooks.
Where:
London, England.
When:
1650-1687.
How She Got Her Start:
The same way most of us did: giving handjobs to aristocrats in the back of a theater. Nell Gwynn was the daughter of an alcoholic brothel owner in dire financial straits. She started working at an early age, selling snacks during plays and delivering messages to randy young noblemen. Most historians seem to agree that the girls often ended up delivering more than refreshments.
One lucky day, when Nell was a young adult, she met King Charles II during a play. The king was impressed with the young harlot’s wit and moxie, and invited her back to the castle. One thing lead to another, and pretty soon Nell Gwynn was a regular attendee of the king’s court (by “court,” we mean his penis).
Unfortunately for Nell, King Charles was a bit of a player. At the time the two met, the king had a wife, a mistress and a string of former and aspiring mistresses all vying for his attention. Nell was clever, though, and by a combination of wit, charm and poisoning her rivals with laxatives, she managed to become the king’s most beloved concubine.
What Made Her Great?
Nell Gwynn never denied her past, nor did she seem the least bit guilty over it. At one point, a fight broke out when one of her detractors screamed that she was a whore. Nell broke the fight up in short order by saying, “I am a whore. Find something else to fight about.”
This wasn’t the first time Nell had admitted her ho’ness in front of a massive crowd of strangers. Another time, a large crowd mistook her for a rival mistress, the Duchess of Portsmouth, and began to shout at her carriage, calling her a Catholic whore along with a laundry list of funny-sounding British insults that no one born in a sane country could understand.
You gobshite tallywacker!
Nell stuck her head out of the carriage and corrected the mistaken commoners, “Good people, you are mistaken. I am the Protestant whore.”
This mixture of wit and bigotry won the crowd over, and lead to her becoming the only one of King Charles’s many mistresses to become popular with the mob. Nell was a shrewd woman, and she used her favor with the king and the people of England to secure her son a dukedom, and convince Charles to approve the construction of a Royal Hospital for ex-servicemen in the city of London, one of the precursors to our modern VA Hospitals.
Thanks, terrifying ceramic version of Nell with an amazing rack!
So, yeah, keep that in mind the next time you’re congratulating yourself for never having touched a man’s wiener for money.
Athens
Berlin
Buffalo
Chicago
Dubai
Hong Kong
London
Miami
Moscow
New York
Oslo
Paris
Prague
China
Singapore
Tokyo
Sydney
Taiwan
Toronto
Zurich
When Uncle Harold (Dr. Harold Carr) passed away recently the family began cleaning out the house. In the garage they found a 1937 Bugatti Type 57S Atalante. This vehicle has been sitting untouched in the garage since the 60’s but what is more remarkable is the mileage on the odometer, 26,284.
Due to the fact that only 17 of these vehicles were ever made and this one has 99% of it’s original parts it looks like Uncle Harold has left quite an inheritance. According to auctioneers the family can expect to land several million with the reserve price set at £3million ($4.7 million).
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