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Dreamcasting a Live-Action Simpsons Movie
If you were going to produce a live-action movie based on The Simpsons, and money was no object, who would you cast in the roles of the familiar citizens of Springfield? You can carry out this fantasy through the use of artificial intelligence, at least for the length of a trailer, which is really just a roll of credits. YouTuber Multiverse of AI selected his top picks for each character, which would appear to suck up a lot of Hollywood talent for the time it would take to film such a movie. While we all know that its success would ultimately depend on the writing, it's fun to dream of such a cast. Those responding to this video suggested Bruce Willis as Homer, although that is impossible due to Willis' health challenges. Adam Sandler will do. Many people voted for Bryan Cranston to play Ned Flanders, which is an idea that's been around a long time. And Jack Black should be in there somewhere, just let him pick the character.
The Sad Tale of the Immigrant
It's not easy to pull up your roots and travel to another country but you do it for the betterment of your family. In a new nation where you don't speak the language, you take whatever work you can, and put your heart into earning a living, because your family is depending on you. But even after years of living this new life, you still feel like an outsider. Even your children have lost respect for the culture their parents came from.
Putting the "Rube" in Rube Goldberg
We've seen a lot of homemade chain reaction videos, or Rube Goldberg machines, and they never fail to impress us. But you will be more impressed when you see how many things can go wrong in designing and building these contraptions.
Someone is Cheating During the Olympics? Say It Ain't So!
We've all been enjoying watching the Olympic games in Paris. Sometimes it's to cheer on our national team, or maybe just to bask in the awesomeness of people who are way more athletically talented ands skilled than we are. But sometimes the news behind the games comes up and destroys that excitement. These guys are just enjoying the Olympics like the rest of us when the news comes in that someone is cheating! Yeah, it took me a while to figure out what's happening here. You may have to watch it second time to catch all the particulars, like I did, to see where everything went wrong. Foil Arms and Hog had to do something with the Olympics and this is what they came up with. As one commenter said, they take gold in the long jump to conclusions. Incidentally, Kellie Harrington is an Irish lightweight boxer who won Olympic gold in both the 2020 (in 2021) and the 2024 games, and announced her retirement after the Paris competition.
The Funeral Was Completely Spoiled
In November of 1883, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published a human interest story without naming the principal characters, nor the name of the business. A man came into a mortuary and enlisted the services of a funeral director.“My old woman died last night, and I’m thinking some of buying a coffin and having her buried. Got time to figger a little?”The man haggled with the funeral director over the particulars of the service, nothing fancy, just the basics. They came to an agreement on price and the coffin was to be delivered to the man's home the next day. But nothing in this funeral went according to plan. I won't give away the ending of the story, but you'll be glad you read it. We cannot vouch for the veracity of the reporting, but the item was amusing enough that it was syndicated and republished on other newspapers, including at least one in Britain. -via Strange Company(Image credit: Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky)
People From Around the Globe Report Stereotypes of Their Countries
Every country or culture suffers from the stereotypes that people from other nations hold about them. The stereotype the world has of Americans is that we are rich, fat, and armed. While we might outdo the rest of the world in those things, they are hardly universal. An AskReddit thread collected stereotypes from people all over the world, not the ones they hold, but that they have heard about their own nations. You know a lot of these, but it's the ones who admit that the stereotypes are true that are the funniest.Switzerland: "Everything is clean, and everything is wildly expensive. Yes, this is entirely true."Italy: "That we eat pasta six times per week at least. Honestly, it's true for the vast majority of Italians."Finland: That were only happy and social when drunk. And sadly there’s 100% truth to it too.Strangely, Finland was listed as the happiest country on earth, a designation that many Finns take issue with. But of course, there are other stereotypes that are wrong, simplistic, and/or need an explanation. Read up on 40 stereotypes that people have heard about their own countries in a ranked list at Bored Panda.(Image credit: crash71100)
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