J.F. Sargent: 5 Terrifying Things Only Truckers Know About the Highway (Cracked)
We don't spend much time thinking about truckers, which is strange considering that everything we eat, wear, and plug into our walls was at one point entrusted to their care. Well, Cracked tracked down Donec Quis and Mallory Spline, two of these noble "freeway cowboys," to ask them what it's like to be the platelets that carry nutrients down the arteries of America. After they corrected us (apparently plasma cells carry nutrients, and "freeway cowboys" is the dumbest thing they've ever heard), we discovered that ...
33 Pictures Taken At The Right Moment (Bored Panda)
We Bored Pandas are huge fans of perfectly timed photos that capture perfect (and usually funny or unexpected) moments that come and go with a blink of the eye. The internet is abound with images shared by people who have captured images at just the right moment or from just the right perspective, so we wanted to share some more of them with you.
Friends | NO JOKES, ALL PLOT / The One with the Apothecary Table (YouTube)
"The eleventh episode in the sixth season of Friends is called "The One with the Apothecary Table." It's 22 minutes long. But YouTube user Tunglebrek removed all of the jokes and almost all of the laugh track so that it's just 2 minutes, 43 seconds long. The plot remains entirely coherent with two clearly discernible story arcs (an A story and a B story)." - Neatorama
Paul and Tina Sirimarco: "You're the one That I Want" from the musical Grease in ASL (YouTube)
"Paul and Tina Sirimarco perform in the car to with the song "You're The One That I Want" from Grease in American Sign Language ..and it's just as cute as can be! Tina is an ASL interpreter and Paul learned ASL because he loves Tina. I got just a tad nervous when he took his hands off the steering wheel, but they seem to have made it through the drive." - Neatorama
According to the official history of the original 1962 Pier 1 Imports store in San Mateo, California, "Our first customers were post-World War II baby boomers looking for beanbag chairs, love beads and _____?_____."
According to the official history of the original 1962 Pier 1 Imports store in San Mateo, California, "Our first customers were post-World War II baby boomers looking for beanbag chairs, love beads and incense."
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
Incense
They left out the peppermints
Alan J wrote:
Incense
Lois Blaming The Dog In Oregon said:
They sold INCENSE to dirty hippies to cover the smell...of
something. Just another pollutant in the atmosphere.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
According to the company's official history, the original store catered to hippy baby boomers and featured love beads and incense.
Adam answered:
Incense.
Deborah replied:
Candles?
Just a W.A.G. there.
Oh, and @Charlie, A. Kristoff is having a very good year. So is Vincenzo Nibali.
Marian said:
incense
DJ Useo replied:
I'm going to take a guess, but when I try to finish that trio of words, I think of "LAVA LAMPS".
Black lights are really cool, too, but I think more people are into lava lamps.
Especially some of the hippies in the burn ward. YEOWCH!
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CBS opens the night with a RERUN'2 Broke Girls', followed by a RERUN'Men', then a RERUN'Mike & Molly', followed by a RERUN'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Under The Dome'.
On a RERUNDave (from 6/17/14) are Olivia Wilde, Shep Gordon, and Empires.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Guy Pearce and Andi Osho.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Running Wild With Bear Gryllis', followed by a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior'.
Jimmy Fallon are Helen Mirren, James Cameron, and Spoon.
Seth Meyers are Joan Rivers, Josh Meyers, and Rixton.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/19/14) are Band of Skulls and the Burning of Rome.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Bachelor In Paradise', followed by a FRESH'Mistresses'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Kim Kardashian, Damon Wayans Jr., Jake Johnson, and Disclosure.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then a RERUN'Arrow'.
On a RERUNArsenio Hall (from 3/27/14) are Wayne Brady, Aisha Tyler, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Penn Jillette, and Hot Chelle Ray.
Faux has a FRESH'MasterChef', followed by a FRESH'Hotel Hell'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Criminal Minds', followed by a FRESH'Longmire'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Perfect Storm', followed by the movie 'Jaws'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 12 - The Pandorica Opens
[9:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 13 - The Big Bang
[10:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Everything Changes
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 13 - Aquiel
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 6 - Ep 14 - Face of the Enemy
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 12 - Casa Roma
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 12 - Charlie's
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 6 - Revisited: Cafe Hon, Chiarella's, Leone's
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 1
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 2
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR: SYDNEY SPECIAL
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 1
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[9:00PM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF AUSTRALIA-Episode 2 NEW
[10:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3
[11:00PM] TOP GEAR: SYDNEY SPECIAL
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF AUSTRALIA - Episode 2
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 1
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 3
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 1
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 7 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Real Housewives Of OC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of OC', then a FRESH'Jersey Belle'.
Comedy Central has an old 'Colbert Report', an old 'Jon Stewart', 'Futurama', another 'Futurama', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Elisabeth Moss.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report are Pat Buchanan and John W. Dean.
FX has the movie 'The Sitter', followed by a FRESH'Partners', followed by another FRESH'Partners', then a FRESH'Anger Management', followed by another FRESH'Anger Management'.
History has 3 hours of old 'Pawn Stars', 'Counting Cars', and another 'Counting Cars'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] THE THREE STOOGES-THREE MISSING LINKS
[6:25AM] THE THREE STOOGES-THREE SAPPY PEOPLE
[6:50AM] THE THREE STOOGES-THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS
[7:15AM] BATMAN-THE JOKER GOES TO SCHOOL
[7:45AM] BATMAN-HE MEETS HIS MATCH, THE GRISLY GHOUL
[8:15AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-MALCOLM VISITS COLLEGE
[8:45AM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-POLLY IN THE MIDDLE
[9:15AM] MARON-WHITE TRUCK
[9:45AM] MARON-THE JOKE
[10:15AM] MARON-DESERT ROAD TRIP
[10:45AM] ENEMY AT THE GATES
[1:45PM] THE LOOKOUT
[3:45PM] BATMAN-THE SPELL OF TUT
[4:15PM] BATMAN-TUT'S CASE IS SHUT
[4:45PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-MALCOLM VISITS COLLEGE
[5:15PM] MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE-POLLY IN THE MIDDLE
[5:45PM] EASTERN PROMISES
[8:00PM] KILL BILL: VOL. 1
[10:15PM] KILL BILL: VOL. 1
[12:30AM] WILD THINGS
[2:45AM] THE WRESTLER
[5:00AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-COOL MACHINE
[5:30AM] THE BIRTHDAY BOYS-HELPFUL TIPS (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] The Writers' Room-House of Cards
[6:30AM] Ordinary People
[9:15AM] Groundhog Day
[11:30AM] Out of Africa
[3:00PM] Law & Order-Tabula Rasa
[4:00PM] Law & Order-Empire
[5:00PM] Law & Order-Ambitious
[6:00PM] Law & Order-Admissions
[7:00PM] Law & Order-Refuge
[8:00PM] Law & Order-Refuge
[9:00PM] Law & Order-Gunshow
[10:00PM] Law & Order-Killerz
[11:00PM] Law & Order-DNR
[12:00AM] Law & Order-Merger
[1:00AM] Law & Order-Justice
[2:00AM] Law & Order-Marathon
[3:00AM] Dead Ringers
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-Sons of Anarchy (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Red: Werewolf Hunter', followed by the movie 'Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans'.
TBS:
Conan are the cast of "Orange is the New Black", and Nikki Lake.
Trombone Shorty, center, performs with Pete Murano, left, and Mike Ballard at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I., Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014.
Photo by Michael Dwyer
A 14-year-old whose trombone was stolen at gunpoint has a new one thanks to musician Troy Andrews, much better known as Trombone Shorty.
Bill Taylor, executive director of the Trombone Shorty Foundation, said he delivered the instrument, which is engraved with the name "Trombone Shorty," on Saturday.
"He was like speechless. And I got Troy on the phone. As soon as I gave him the horn I had Shorty on the line and gave him the phone," Taylor said.
Andrews described the phone call in an emailed statement: "He was full of joy, thankful and happy. I think we were both very excited to speak to each other. He seems like a cool kid and I'm happy that after a situation like that, I can help to put a smile on his face."
The foundation didn't release the boy's name. The mother accepted the offer of the new trombone after receiving assurances that the boy's name wouldn't be released because she feared for his safety.
Singer Lulu performs during the closing ceremony of the 2014 commonwealth games at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland August 3, 2014.
Photo by Jim Young
At a Spago luncheon on Friday, the conversation touched upon moviegoing demographics, the new film "The Giver" and the importance of branding - but the key talking point was solutions to hunger.
AARP threw the event to honor Jeff Bridges, the cover subject of the org's August/September issue. The story is tied to the Weinstein Co.'s Aug. 15 release of "The Giver," which AARP Media SVP-editorial director Myrna Blyth described as being based on a YA novel but focused on "the wisdom of age." She also talked about the new alliance between AARP Foundation's end-hunger program and No Kid Hungry, which Bridges has been championing for 20 years. The former is focused on needy seniors, while the latter focuses on children; the two have come up with programs to help both.
The actor spoke briefly, thanking AARP and praising the "Giver" team who were there, including producers Neil Koenigsberg and Nikki Silver (who praised Bridges for sticking with the project for the 17 years it took to get made), screenwriter Robert Weide and stars Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.
Among those congratulating Bridges on the film and his philanthropic work were T-Bone Burnett and Callie Khouri.
Celebrities and animal lovers from around the world are flocking to the Faroe Islands in a bid to stop a controversial dolphin hunt that activists describe as an "archaic mass slaughter".
Actress Pamela Anderson, who arrived on the remote North Atlantic archipelago in recent days, is set to be joined by 500 volunteers who will patrol the ocean and beaches around the islands to try to block the killing of pilot whales, one of the largest members of the dolphin family.
Renowned ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem and sailor Florence Arthaud, both from France, are also taking part in the campaign led by environmental group Sea Shepherd.
"Operation GrindStop" aims to save more than 1,000 pilot whales, members of the dolphin family, from being slaughtered in a practice known locally as a "grind".
The method involves the mammals being forced into a bay by flotillas of small boats before being hacked to death with hooks and knives.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and actress Cheryl Hines married on Saturday evening at the Kennedy family compound at Hyannis, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, according to media reports and the designer of Hines' wedding gown.
The couple married under a tent before a cheering group of family and friends during the Kennedy family's annual reunion, according to People magazine.
Kennedy, 60, is an environmental lawyer and son of the late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Hines, 48, is an actress and writer on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
A fans' website for Hines provided links to media accounts of the wedding, and the designer of her gown, Romona Keveza, announced the wedding on her company Facebook page on Saturday.
A wave of brief but fierce storms rolled through Southern California mountains and deserts on Saturday, leaving 40 bicycle racers with hypothermia and possibly causing a 14-car highway pileup in the desert that injured nine people, authorities said.
In California's San Bernardino Mountains, the 100-mile contest in the annual Tour de Big Bear race was disrupted when a storm dumped rain on bicyclists on 8,400-foot-high Onyx Peak.
Most had mild to moderate hypothermia and were taken back to the starting line, county fire spokesman Eric Sherwin said. Normally, "we deal more with heat emergencies," he said. "It was the exact opposite."
The downpour only lasted about 1 1/2 hours and the temperature was only 50 to 60 degrees but "dressed in cycling clothes, 60 degrees and wet is cold, especially when you've got done sweating climbing up a mountain pass," said race event director Craig Smith.
It's not much of an exaggeration to say that Jo Macsween has haggis in her blood. The business founded by her butcher grandfather is a leading purveyor of Scotland's national dish: a blend of offal, oats and spices, traditionally served in a sheep's stomach.
"I describe it as the food that hugs you from inside," said Macsween, a passionate advocate for her product. "I feel loved after I've eaten haggis."
She says this while scooping crumbly nuggets of haggis onto a plate of nachos, along with cheese, sour cream and guacamole. Food purists might wince, but others may see haggis nachos as a symbol of modern Scotland, comfortable with both tradition and change - themes that run through Scotland's independence debate.
Haggis, Macsween said, "goes to the very identity of what makes Scotland Scotland." Like millions of other Scots, she has been thinking a lot recently about what that means.
On Sept. 18, Scottish voters will decide whether to break up Britain by dissolving a 307-year-old union with England to become an independent country. The outcome will be decided partly by economic arguments: Would independence make individual Scots, and businesses like Macsween's, better or worse off? But questions of identity and national image also loom large.
People watch an effigy burn at the Hungry Ghost festival in Kuala Lumpur August 3, 2014. According to Taoist and Buddhist beliefs, the seventh month of the Chinese Lunar calendar, known as the Hungry Ghost Festival is when the Gates of Hell open to let out spirits who wander the land of the living looking for food. Food offerings are made while paper money and joss sticks are burnt to keep the spirits of dead ancestors happy and to bring good luck.
Photo by Olivia Harris
Graffiti expressing affection for someone named Miranda has marred one of the most sacred sites for an American Indian tribe in Washington state.
Jamestown S'Klallam officials learned last month of the pink and white painting of "I (heart) Miranda" on the towering Tamanowas Rock northwest of Seattle. The 43-million-year-old monolith has been used for millennia by Salish Native Americans for hunting, refuge and spiritual renewal rituals.
The Jamestown S'Klallam tribe bought the rock and 62 surrounding acres from the Jefferson Land Trust for $600,000 in December.
Standing more than 150 feet tall, Tamanowas Rock is made up of a pair of basalt masses that shoot up through a dense forest, offering sweeping vistas of Admiralty Inlet, Whidbey Island and the Cascades.
The graffiti is about 8 feet long from end to end in letters that are roughly 3 feet tall.
People dressed up as Vikings sail on a boat during the annual Viking festival of Catoira in north-western Spain August 3, 2014. The festival re-enacts past Viking raids in the area and is celebrated annually on the first Sunday of August.
Photo by Miguel Vidal
For almost 50 years, "The Sound of Music" has captured the imagination of movie-goers and musical fans with its catchy tunes and lovable characters set against the stunning Austrian Alps.
And this has proven to be big business for the city of Salzburg, where the real-life singing von Trapp family lived and the 1965 Hollywood movie was filmed.
While Mozart and classical music remain the city's main tourist attractions, half of all visitors who come here every year from the US, Britain, Canada and Asia make the trip because of "The Sound of Music", according to the tourism office.
Bus tours take visitors around the movie's locations twice a day, "Sound of Music" dinner-and-concert evenings are organised regularly and the Salzburg puppet theatre has even created its own version of the musical.
But Austria itself was slow to catch on to this worldwide craze.
A cosplayer waits for the start of the Osu Cosplay Parade held as a part of the World Cosplay Summit (WCS) 2014 in Nagoya, central Japan, August 3, 2014.
Photo by Franck Robichon
"Guardians of the Galaxy" blasted past expectations at the weekend box office.
Marvel Studios' cosmic romp starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista as members of an intergalactic band of rebels earned $94 million in its debut weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Ahead of its Friday debut, box office analysts initially projected that the comic book adaptation would earn between $60 million and $75 million in North America.
The out-of-this-world launch gives "Guardians" the biggest opening for a film released in the traditionally low-key month of August, a record previously held by the $69.2 million debut of 2007's "The Bourne Ultimatum." It also makes "Guardians" the third largest opening of 2014, coming behind the $95 million inauguration of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" in April and the $100 million launch of "Transformers: Age of Extinction" in June.
In a distant second place at the North American box office, "Lucy," starring Scarlett Johansson as a woman with mind-bending powers, nabbed $18.3 million in its second weekend, bringing the Universal Pictures release's domestic total to $80 million.
Meanwhile, Universal's James Brown biopic "Get on Up" featuring Chadwick Boseman as the soulful singer opened in third place with $14 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.
1. "Guardians of the Galaxy," $94 million ($66.4 million international).
2. "Lucy," $18.3 million ($5.1 million international).
3. "Get on Up," $14 million.
4. "Hercules," $10.7 million ($14.2 million international).
5. "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," $8.7 million ($47.5 million international).
6. "Planes: Fire & Rescue," $6.4 million ($3.5 million international).
7. "The Purge: Anarchy," $5.5 million ($8.1 million international).
8. "Sex Tape," $3.5 million ($4.2 million international).
9. "And So It Goes," $3.3 million ($650,000 international).
10. "A Most Wanted Man," $3.3 million ($30,000 international).
This Aug. 2, 2014 photo provided by the Alhambra Police Department shows a giant 150-pound tortoise who was found wandering the streets of Alhambra, Calif. The tortoise was lifted into a patrol car and taken to the station, where it was later picked up by Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control in Downey.
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