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The Secretlab TITAN Evo and TITAN Evo Lite share the same sizing dimensions. The flagship TITAN Evo is available in three sizes — Small, Regular and XL. The TITAN Evo Lite is available in Regular and XL, our most popular sizes.

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We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to our chairs, which is why we have different sizes for different heights and builds. In addition, our S and R sizes come with shorter, re-engineered hydraulics to allow more people to easily set their feet flat on the ground for a more ergonomic posture.

That aside, all three sizes share the same features, so you enjoy the same support no matter which one you choose.

Secretlab TITAN Evo

• Small
  Recommended height: ≤5’6” / 169cm
  Recommended weight: <200lbs / 90kg
  Max. weight: 285lbs / 130kg
• Regular
  Recommended height: 5’7”-6’2” / 170-189cm
  Recommended weight: <220lbs / 100kg
  Max. weight: 285lbs / 130kg
• XL
  Recommended height: 5’11”-6’9” / 181-205cm
  Recommended weight: 175-395lbs / 80-180kg
  Max. weight: 395lbs / 180kg

Secretlab TITAN Evo Lite

• Regular
  Recommended height: 5’7”-6’2” / 170-189cm
  Recommended weight: <220lbs / 100kg
  Max. weight: 285lbs / 130kg
• XL
  Recommended height: 5’11”-6’9” / 181-205cm
  Recommended weight: 175-395lbs / 80-180kg
  Max. weight: 395lbs / 180kg

Secretlab gaming chairs are built to be highly customizable and feature a wide range of adjustments. Our handy sizing calculator can help you decide which size suits you best, based on your height and weight.

Checking our Resources page for the full measurements of each size. It can be helpful to use your current chair as a reference by comparing its measurements against those on our Resources page.

For those who still need help planting their feet firmly on the ground, we recommend the Secretlab Premium Footrest (PlushCell™ Memory Foam) or Secretlab Professional Footrest (CloudSwap™ Technology). An ergonomic footrest can help distribute weight more evenly across the soles of your feet, while also reducing pressure on your buttocks and the backs of your thighs.

Every Secretlab chair you buy is an investment in the science of sitting. We put all our materials, components and chairs through rigorous tests that far exceed industry standards, so you know they’re really built to last. Every design change we make is grounded in data and feedback drawn from testers in our research lab and over 3 million users worldwide. To make sure we get even the little things right, we also put together an independent Ergonomics Advisory Board comprising experts in the fields of biomechanics, orthopedics and more to facilitate extensive ergonomic studies and product development reviews.

On top of that, the benefits of economies of scale have allowed us access to state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies and to invest even more in new features, enabling us to further push the boundaries of comfort.

The Secretlab TITAN Evo is shaped to support you in a healthy, neutral posture, while distributing weight evenly and relieving peak pressure zones. It leverages cutting-edge engineering to offer more advanced personalization, including our new 4-way L-ADAPT™ Lumbar Support System and CloudSwap™ replacement system for our 4D armrests. We continue to break new ground with our upholstery — Secretlab NanoGen™ Hybrid Leatherette, NEO™ Hybrid Leatherette, and SoftWeave® Plus fabric are our most advanced materials to date, bringing together both looks and performance.

Finally, we believe in taking care of you directly. By cutting out the middleman and selling directly to you, we get rid of extra expenses like retailer and distributor margins and storefront costs. These cost savings are then passed on to you, so you get the best value when you buy from us.

The idea of support for multiple activities and postures is at the heart of every Secretlab chair. Most ergonomic chairs today are still based on design theories that have been outdated since the 21st century. They were built for workers in the s, who spent most of their time at their desks occupied with just a single task such as working at a typewriter or paperwork.

Designed in consultation with leading ergonomic experts, the Secretlab TITAN Evo Series is engineered to support the way you really sit today. From video calls to gaming, streaming Netflix, playing the guitar, texting, and even napping, you’re doing so much more at your desk — and for over 12 hours a day.

TITAN Evo adapts to you as you switch between all these different activities and postures, whether it’s sitting upright, cross-legged, or in full recline. Frequent movement and posture changes are also crucial to preventing the buildup of stress at any one area on your body. That’s why every element of TITAN Evo is quick, intuitive, and easy to adjust, including the tilt, height, and recline levers.

Every angle, curve, and contour has also been carefully considered. Our proprietary pebble seat base is purposefully sculpted to guide you toward the middle for more even pressure distribution, while still leaving plenty of room for natural movement. The unique medium-firm formulation of our patent-pending cold-cure foam delivers ultra-responsive and supportive cushioning. When weight is applied, it adapts immediately for improved pressure relief.

The gentle side wings on our full-length backrest also follow the natural horizontal curve of your shoulders. This allows for optimal support throughout the day — without ever restricting you to a single posture.

Learn more about how we design for ergonomic comfort.

The Secretlab TITAN Evo and TITAN Evo Lite share the same sizing dimensions. The flagship TITAN Evo is available in three sizes — Small, Regular and XL. The TITAN Evo Lite is available in Regular and XL, our most popular sizes.

We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to our chairs, which is why we have different sizes for different heights and builds. In addition, our S and R sizes come with shorter, re-engineered hydraulics to allow more people to easily set their feet flat on the ground for a more ergonomic posture.

That aside, all three sizes share the same features, so you enjoy the same support no matter which one you choose.

Secretlab TITAN Evo

• Small
  Recommended height: ≤5’6” / 169cm
  Recommended weight: <200lbs / 90kg
  Max. weight: 285lbs / 130kg
• Regular
  Recommended height: 5’7”-6’2” / 170-189cm
  Recommended weight: <220lbs / 100kg
  Max. weight: 285lbs / 130kg
• XL
  Recommended height: 5’11”-6’9” / 181-205cm
  Recommended weight: 175-395lbs / 80-180kg
  Max. weight: 395lbs / 180kg

Secretlab TITAN Evo Lite

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• Regular
  Recommended height: 5’7”-6’2” / 170-189cm
  Recommended weight: <220lbs / 100kg
  Max. weight: 285lbs / 130kg
• XL
  Recommended height: 5’11”-6’9” / 181-205cm
  Recommended weight: 175-395lbs / 80-180kg
  Max. weight: 395lbs / 180kg

Secretlab gaming chairs are built to be highly customizable and feature a wide range of adjustments. Our handy sizing calculator can help you decide which size suits you best, based on your height and weight.

Checking our Resources page for the full measurements of each size. It can be helpful to use your current chair as a reference by comparing its measurements against those on our Resources page.

For those who still need help planting their feet firmly on the ground, we recommend the Secretlab Premium Footrest (PlushCell™ Memory Foam) or Secretlab Professional Footrest (CloudSwap™ Technology). An ergonomic footrest can help distribute weight more evenly across the soles of your feet, while also reducing pressure on your buttocks and the backs of your thighs.

The Secretlab TITAN Evo Series is all you need for optimal support and comfort. Its medium-firm seat base is made from our proprietary patent-pending* cold-cure foam, formulated for just the right amount of give and support.

Ultra-soft seats sink when you sit and result in poor circulation, particularly when they bottom out. This is why we designed the TITAN Evo’s seat base and its high-density foam mix to offer the structure you need for even weight distribution and pressure relief over long hours of sitting.

The Secretlab Seat Cushion is an optional add-on. It is designed for the small minority of users who have experienced serious injuries or have underdeveloped muscles from sitting in ultra-soft seats. The seat cushion adds a slim layer of memory foam to ease these users in their transition to a firmer seat base and its long-term benefits.

The Secretlab MAGNUS Metal Desk was designed as a simple, fuss-free solution to cable mess. Our in-house product and engineering teams spent years developing and fine-tuning every aspect of it, from the slimness of the table top to its elegant floating surface. The majority of the chassis is constructed from metal, so it’s exceedingly durable while still maintaining a slim and modern profile for greater leg room and improved air flow if you want to set your PC on the floor.

More crucially, the steel construction of the Secretlab MAGNUS Metal Desk allows it to support an entire suite of magnetic accessories, designed specially for the desk. This includes the Secretlab MAGPAD™ Desk Mat, dedicated cable anchors and cable sheaths, a headphone hanger, and more — so you can organize all your tech essentials and reduce clutter. The Secretlab MAGPAD™ is a full-coverage desk mat that adds an additional level of customization to your setup. Choose between plush and durable leatherette or a soft, velvety smooth microsuede for an unmatched feel under your skin.

Secretlab MAGNUS Pro is the world’s first sit-to-stand metal desk with a single cable integrated 10/13A power supply that allows users to power their device or a power extension strip directly from their desk. This eliminates dangling cables, making cable management even easier. It is compatible with the same modular, magnetic ecosystem of accessories as the Secretlab MAGNUS Metal Desk, so organizing your cables and peripherals is a breeze.

The desk can be adjusted to a minimum height of 650mm (25.6”) and a maximum height of mm (49.2”), allowing it to accommodate user preferences for either sitting or standing.

Both the Secretlab MAGNUS Metal Desk and MAGNUS Pro feature a built-in cable management tray covered by a hinged cover with an offset gap. This gap allows cables to be easily routed from the cable management tray to your devices, so you can set your desk flush against the wall without crushing your cables.

We’ll send you an order confirmation with your order details once your order has been successfully placed. When your order is ready for pickup by our courier, we’ll let you know with a second . Once your order ships, you’ll receive an with tracking details, so you can follow your order as it makes its way to you.

Pre-Order
The estimated shipping date for pre-order products can be found in your order confirmation and invoice. This date is an estimate of when your order will be back in stock and shipped to you.

Once your order arrives at our warehouse, our team will work to dispatch it as soon as possible. You’ll then receive a shipping with tracking details.

Under certain conditions, magnets may interfere with medical devices. The neodymium magnets we use have been extensively tested for safety and interference, but we strongly recommend consulting your doctor or device manufacturer for specific guidelines if you have a medical implant.

To avoid any potential interactions with your device, keep the magnetic head pillow and armrests a safe distance (30cm / 12 inches) away from your medical device.

Small magnets may also pose a choking hazard and are dangerous if swallowed. Keep them away from children and pets.

Our desks are packaged with helpful instructions with accompanying videos to guide you through the assembly process from start to finish. You can also find them on our Resources page.

We strongly recommend that you watch the assembly video before attempting to assemble your Secretlab MAGNUS desk as it contains vital safety information and tips that will make your assembly process smoother.

If you run into any issues during assembly, please contact us via our Contact page. Our Support team will be in touch shortly.

You can perform a quick reset of your Secretlab MAGNUS Pro by pressing and holding the “Down” button until “RST” is displayed on the digital panel and a beep is heard.

If your standing desk remains unresponsive, please disconnect it from power and allow the Control Box to rest for at least 10 seconds, before reconnecting it to power.

Do also check that the Control Box is securely attached to the metal desk top, all cables are properly connected and there are no obstructions which may trigger the anti-collision system.

If the above steps do not resolve the issue or there is a specific error code showing in the digital panel, please refer to our Troubleshooting Guide. Should your issue persist, please get in touch with our Support team via our Contact page.

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Leaning Tower of Suurhusen Beating the world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa by 1.22 degrees. List of destroyed landmarks in Spain Over 60 interesting buildings, including larger castles, royal palaces, leaning towers, city gates which were completely or partially demolished and no longer exist, with their respective articles and images. Listenbourg The European country most Americans can't point out on a map (because it doesn't exist). Llandegley International Airport When is an international airport not an international airport? When it's not an airport at all. Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, if you want to get technical. Lupanar A brothel preserved underneath the ashes of Pompeii, complete with -year-old lewd graffiti. Magic Roundabout Only in the United Kingdom would you find a large roundabout with six mini-roundabouts. (Not to be confused with the "Magic Roundabout"s in Colchester, Swindon or High Wycombe – or, for that matter, this "Magic Roundabout".) Manneken Pis
Jeanneke Pis A statue in Brussels depicting a urinating child. And its female counterpart. Märket A lighthouse built on this island led to a redefinition of the border between Sweden and Finland. Metro-2 A purported secret metro line in Moscow. Millstreet A small town in Ireland that hosted the Eurovision Song Contest despite only having a population of around 1,500 at that time. Monte Kaolino A ski resort without snow. Mount Athos An autonomous polity in Greece home to 20 monasteries, notable for being the only political subdivision in the world in which women (as well as female animals) are prohibited from entering for any reason. Municipalities of Liechtenstein The blotchy, angular borders between these divisions seem almost arbitrarily strange. The UAE's are similarly weird. Museum of Broken Relationships Zagreb is home to this collection of things left behind by break-ups. Muzeon Park of Arts A Russian park best known for its toppled statues. Neitokainen This isn't just any pond in Finland, this is a pond in Finland that looks exactly like Finland! Nelson's Pillar Dublin used to have its own version of Nelson's Column, that ended up serving as a symbol of British imperialism up until the s, when it was blown up by Irish republicans, leading to the creation of several celebratory folk songs. Neutral Moresnet A tiny European region – approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2) – that existed for a century as neutral territory between Germany and Belgium. Newhaven Marine railway station A railway station that was technically open between and , despite (a) no passenger trains serving the station during that time, (b) an inability to buy tickets to the station and (c) the station itself being demolished in . New York–Dublin Portal An art exhibit visually connecting the streets of the two cities that was temporarily shut down after multiple instances of flashing, profanities, and showcasing images of the September 11 attacks. Other World Kingdom A micronation and BDSM resort whose ultimate goal is "absolute matriarchy" – for all men to be enslaved by women. Paradiskullen A ski jumping hill with a landing area that goes under one of Sweden's busiest railroads. Pheasant Island An uninhabited river island which switches sovereignty between France and Spain every six months. Piața Romană metro station A station on the Bucharest Metro that was cancelled because the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu was worried that the students nearby would get fat and need exercise. It was built in secret anyway and thus opened in . Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station An unassuming military station in France became a cause célèbre after French Intelligence tried to threaten Wikipedia into deleting its article on it. Predjama Castle A castle built partially inside the mouth of a nearby cave. Principality of Sealand A micronation located 6 miles (9.7 km) off the coast of Suffolk, England whose population rarely exceeds ten. Punkendeich A former dyke that was once the home of prostitutes, and is now the site of a festival where a tailor walks across the river to check if it's frozen. Reality Checkpoint A lamppost with its own name. Röstigraben The "Coarsely Grated Potato Ditch" in Switzerland, dividing Swiss-German and Swiss-French cuisine. Saatse Boot A piece of Russian territory through which a 900-metre (3,000 ft) stretch of Estonian road passes. Although people are allowed to drive on the road without a permit or visa, it is prohibited to travel on foot, or to stop the vehicle for any reason. Schwerbelastungskörper A piece of Nazi architecture in Berlin, built with the sole purpose of being heavy. Scottish Court in the Netherlands A former Dutch NATO base called Camp Zeist was briefly ceded to Scotland to enable the trial of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombers. Sedlec Ossuary A Christian chapel decorated by the bones of approximately 40,000 people. Sexi (Phoenician colony) An ancient ruins, also known as Sex or Ex, with several Roman-era suburbs, including Pænis, Socordia and Villa Fatuus Maximus. Shell Grotto, Margate A grotto with a mosaic of 4.6 million seashells, hidden underneath a backyard. Nobody knows who built it, when, or for what purpose. Shit Museum Don't worry, it's actually a good museum. For looking at excrement. Shitterton Its sign got stolen so often, they bought a 1.5 tonne stone with the town's name engraved in it. (Surprisingly, that rude name really does mean what you'd think.) Smallest House in Great Britain Only 5.49 square metres (59.1 sq ft) in size, in North Wales. SnowCastle of Kemi The world's largest snow fort and ice hotel, constantly rebuilt and redesigned each winter. Sovereign Military Order of Malta A sovereign state with no land? How is that possible? Spreuerhofstraße The world's narrowest street. Svalbard Global Seed Vault If a global famine occurs, you better hope you live in Svalbard. Transnistria An unrecognized state that broke away from Moldova during the fall of the Soviet Union due to ethnic tensions and has remained in limbo ever since, retaining Soviet-era aesthetics and even a hammer and sickle on its flag. Uffington White Horse A giant chalk figure that has to be hit with hammers regularly to maintain it. Unst Bus Shelter The only of its kind on the island of Unst, Shetland. It is periodically refurnished and contains a sofa and TV. Uppland Runic Inscription 53 An 11th century runestone which got accidental fame by being scavenged for the foundation of a 17th century building in the middle of Stockholm. Vajdahunyad Castle A castle in Budapest that was originally partially built out of cardboard. Vatican Railway It consists of a 680-metre (2,230 ft) branch line and was constructed as a direct result of the Vatican's recognition as a country. Vennbahn A disused railway in Belgium which separates five pieces of Germany from the rest of Germany. Veyshnoria A nonexistent border country of Belarus invented for a Union State military exercise and adopted by the Internet. It's totally coincidental that the territory of this "enemy state" corresponds to the most Catholic, most anti-Lukashenko, and least Russian-speaking regions of Belarus, honest. Victor Noir A young journalist killed by the cousin of the French Emperor, who subsequently became a symbol of resistance prior to the fall of the regime... who also got a statue of himself with a massive bulge in his crotch that subsequently became a fertility symbol, with the bulge having become worn and polished due to being fondled by so many members of the public. Vilnius–Lublin Portal A first-of-its-kind project connecting residents on the streets of the two cities, and the predecessor to a much more chaotic one. Wallsend Metro station A station on the Tyne and Wear Metro in Northern England which has Latin signage. Weißwurstäquator The "White Sausage Equator" in Germany. White's London's oldest and most famous gentleman's club had several famous people as members, including King Charles III, Prince William, former prime minister David Cameron and so on. The club is pretty much top secret, so yes, the English illuminati definitely aren't lurking and drinking tea there. Also, no girls are allowed. Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate And the best street name has to go to this street in York, England. Also said to be the shortest street in the city too! Wooden Spoons Museum A museum with the largest collection of wooden spoons in the world, ranging from 3,500 to over 6,000. Ladles and 500 erasers can also be found! World Map at Lake Klejtrup After finding a rock shaped like the Jutland peninsula, a Danish farmer was inspired to create a map of the world out of the surrounding countryside over the next 25 years. Wrocław Dwarfs Gotta catch 'em all! Zeitpyramide To celebrate the th anniversary of a Bavarian town, one artist decided to stack concrete blocks for years. The next block is scheduled for . Željava Air Base An abandoned air base, located on the border between Croatia and Bosnia, that's almost entirely underground. Zone rouge A series of areas in northeastern France that were so devastated by unexploded ordnance and toxins during World War I that they remain uninhabitable a century later. 11 foot 8+8 Bridge Also known has the "Can Opener", this is a bridge that slices the roof off of trucks that have fallen victim to it. 33 Thomas Street A windowless skyscraper in New York and suspected NSA mass surveillance hub. Not suspicious at all. A Mountain Also known as Sentinel Peak, this hill in Tucson, Arizona literally has a big letter "A" on it. Agloe, New York A fictional town in New York. Originally a phantom settlement, created as a copyright trap for a mapmaker, that ended up developing into an actual landmark. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake Supposedly named after the treatment center nearby. Aroma of Tacoma "What an incredible smell you've discovered" could have been this Washington city's motto. Aquarius Reef Base A real-live underwater laboratory. Badlands Guardian A natural topographic feature in Alberta, Canada, which, when viewed from above, looks remarkably like a human wearing a Native American headdress and earbuds. Beatosu and Goblu Two non-existent towns that appeared on Michigan's official highway map as a reference to the University of Michigan and its rival, Ohio State University. Big Blue Bug Officially named Nibbles Woodaway, this 58-foot long termite overlooking I-95 is a Providence landmark and is claimed to be the world's largest artificial bug. Bishop Castle A rocky castle in the Rocky Mountains! This fire-breathing construction project seems to endlessly... drag on. Boston Citgo sign This advertisement for an oil company was placed in the perfect spot for it to become a recognizable landmark of the Boston skyline. Borscht Belt For those who love borscht and find the Bible Belt and Rust Belt too boring. Bubblegum Alley 70 feet of alleyway with its walls covered in used chewing gum. Bubbly Creek The branch of the Chicago River that was so contaminated with blood from the Stock Yards that it gained this appetizing moniker. Bullfrog County, Nevada A former county in Nevada established around a mountain which was to become a radioactive waste disposal site. As of , it is the only uninhabited county-equivalent to ever be created in the United States. Busta Rhymes Island Otherwise unnamed island because it had "rope-swinging, blueberries, and ... stuff Busta would enjoy." Canusa Street A road that's in both Canada and USA. Capitol Hill mystery soda machine A machine that offered rare drinks with nobody knowing who operated it. It was in operation from the s to , when it disappeared and a note was left saying: "Went for a walk". Carter Lake, Iowa A flood of the Missouri River caused this Iowa town to end up inside Omaha, Nebraska! Casey, Illinois A town that's seemingly almost entirely populated by oversized models of things. Cat Girl Manor A manor described as "the Playboy Mansion of the kitten play community". Centralia, Pennsylvania A town that's been on fire since . Clinton Road (New Jersey) In addition to having the longest traffic light in the country, the road is also notorious for reported occurrences of paranormal activity. Colma, California A town where the dead outnumber the living by to 1. Their motto is, ironically, "It's great to be alive in Colma". Conch Republic As a protest against the actions by the United States federal government, Key West in Florida seceded from and then declared war on the United States, surrendered one minute later and then applied for $1 billion in foreign aid. Corporation Trust Center A small single-story building where over 285,000 companies, or over 15% of all companies in the United States, are legally based. Crush, Texas A temporary "city" established as the site of an publicity stunt, a staged train wreck. The wreck unexpectedly caused two deaths and numerous injuries among spectators. Crazy Horse Memorial The Native American answer to Mount Rushmore, started in and still nowhere near completed. Cuyahoga River Environmentalism in the United States essentially started because a river in Cleveland kept on catching fire. Dave Thomas Circle A six-way intersection in Northeast D.C. with a Wendy's located in the middle until . The site of numerous traffic fatalities, it's currently being converted into a city park. Delaware Wedge It's harder than you think to construct the state of Delaware with a ruler and compass. Desert of Maine A 20-acre patch of sand right in the middle of the most forested state in the U.S. Dixie Square Mall A shopping mall that stood abandoned for over twice as long as it was in business until it was finally demolished in . It was featured in the film The Blues Brothers and became a popular target for urban explorers. Donald J. Trump State Park The most tremendous, fantastic, amazing state park you've ever seen. The media wants to say it has poor upkeep, it should be renamed, that it's not even a real state park; but they're all liars and very bad people, believe me. (See also the exhaustive list of things named after Donald Trump.) Dorset, Minnesota A town that, on multiple occasions, has had a child as their "mayor". Dude Chilling Park Originally a sign placed in a Vancouver park as a prank, now officially recognized public art. eBART An extension of the BART system that, despite functioning as its own railway line and is powered by unique diesel trains, is officially shown as an extension of the Yellow Line. Exorcist steps A set of steps in 36th Street most famous for having the character of Father Karras fall to his death after being possessed. Fenelon Place Elevator The shortest and steepest railroad in the world, (supposedly) located in a town of around 60,000 people. Florence Y'all Water Tower A Northern Kentucky town's unique "welcome" sign. Foamhenge An exact recreation of Stonehenge made entirely out of styrofoam. List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia All the places that are no longer found in Virginia, such as Illinois County, and a few that never were (including Walton's Mountain). Gann Valley, South Dakota The county seat of Buffalo County, South Dakota, despite nearby Fort Thompson having a population more than 120 times larger than Gann Valley. Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport Consists entirely of a deeply rutted unmanned strip of soil/gravel and a windsock. Gum Wall A brick wall in Seattle burdened by chewing gum. Cleaned in , only to be turned into a memorial for Paris. Habitat 67 A futuristic residential complex built in the s that resembles a mass of cuboids haphazardly balanced on top of each other. Hans Island A deserted Arctic island fought over by Canada and the Kingdom of Denmark for decades. The settlement created a land border between a North American and a European country. Hawaii 2 A quaint island in Maine purchased by Cards Against Humanity in . Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Life lesson: if you see hunters chasing buffalo off a cliff, don't stand at the bottom. Hess triangle This used to be part of a bigger plot of land but a road destroyed it but the planners couldn't plan correctly so it left this piece of land. Holy Land Experience A defunct Christian theme park built in Orlando, Florida where you could meet Jesus Christ instead of Mickey. It has also been accused of trying to convert Jewish visitors. Also a great Loo Loo Land alternative. Horace Burgess's Treehouse A tree house built by a minister who claimed to have received a vision from God. God apparently didn't like it, since it burnt down. Indianapolis Catacombs Despite the name, never used as a burial place. Interstate 180 (Wyoming) An Interstate Highway that isn't really a freeway at all. Interstate 19 The only U.S. highway marked in SI units, a relic of a historical push for metrication. Island of California The third-largest US state was formerly an island – at least on paper. Jackass Flats The aptly named test site for the world's first and only nuclear-powered rocket engines. Jeddito, Arizona This small town in the Navajo Nation requires 4 separate time zone changes to get to during daylight saving time. Jerimoth Hill The highest natural point in Rhode Island. For years, one of the toughest highpoints in the U.S. to scale, not because of its 812-foot (247 m) height, but because of an angry old man who lived nearby. Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue A very strange monument to the 39th president, who reportedly hated it during his lifetime. John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant A sewage plant in Danbury, Connecticut named after John Oliver after he satirically insulted the city on Last Week Tonight. Joker Stairs We live in a society where a movie can make a star out of a flight of stairs. Just Room Enough Island This island is about one-thirteenth of an acre in size but that didn't stop the aptly named Sizeland family from building a house on it. Kentucky Bend A part of Kentucky that is cut off from Tennessee. Lake Peigneur A 10-foot-deep swimming lake at one time, it was turned into the deepest lake in Louisiana thanks to a salt mining accident. Landsat Island A lonesome island with a frankly humorous tale. List of canceled Las Vegas casinos What happened on the drawing board stayed on the drawing board. List of gaps in Interstate Highways Traffic-lighted intersections, drawbridges, and other oddities in the Interstate Highway System which violate the standards. Lizzie Borden House The location of one of the most famous ax murders in history, which was turned into a B&B in . According to the building's former owner, the room where Abby Borden was murdered is its "most requested room." London Bridge An over century year old authentic English bridge...that now resides in the middle of the desert. M-185 (Michigan highway) The only state highway in the country that bans motor vehicles. It's also the only state highway to not have an accident until . Mary Ellis grave A grave that found itself in the middle of a movie theater parking lot. Memphis Pyramid The tenth-largest pyramid in the world, located in Memphis, Tennessee, and home to a Bass Pro Shops megastore. Michigan left Directions are more complicated in Michigan. Mickey pylon A powerline pylon with a shape reminiscent of a certain fictional rodent. Mojave booth A public booth that stood for several decades in the middle of a desert, miles away from any roads or other structures. Mountain Home Air Force Base A Singaporean air force base in Idaho. Mollie's Nipple The name of multiple places in Utah... including at least one butte. Monowi A village in Nebraska with a population of one. Hi, Elsie! Mr. Trash Wheel A trash interceptor with giant googly eyes that patrols the Baltimore Inner Harbor, consuming trash. Has its own Instagram page. Murder Kroger A supermarket with a dark story. Nataqua Territory A failed U.S. territory that was, quite literally, beside itself. National Mustard Museum Collecting and chronicling the common condiment. National Raisin Reserve Created after World War II to control raisin prices. Run by the Raisin Administrative Committee, of course. Ned Flanders Crossing A bridge over Interstate 405 in Portland, Oregon, which was originally called Flanders Crossing, but was renamed after a fictional character himself named after the road. Nettilling Lake Located on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It's the largest lake on an island and also contains the largest lake on an island on a lake on an island, which in turn contains the world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island. New York–Dublin Portal An art exhibit visually connecting the streets of the two cities that was temporarily shut down after multiple instances of flashing, profanities, and showcasing images of the September 11 attacks. Nitt Witt Ridge A house in California, built out of beer cans, abalone shells, car parts, and other garbage previously tossed out by local residents, is now a historic landmark. Northeast Greenland National Park The world's largest national park consists of over a quarter of Greenland's total land area, is larger than 166 sovereign states, and has no permanent human population. Northwest Angle This little spoke jutting out of northern Minnesota was created as the result of a surveying error, and its land is completely cut off from the rest of the U.S. by the Lake of the Woods. Nutty Narrows Bridge A grand suspension bridge solely used by squirrels trying not to get squashed by the vehicles below. Old Man of the Mountain A rock formation in northern New Hampshire resembling the side profile of a person. Collapsed in , but is immortalized on the state's license plates, highway signs and state quarter. Park No. 474 To meet funding requirements, the Illinois Institute of Technology deeded a 6-by-9-foot granite slab to the city of Chicago, creating the smallest park in Illinois, which has no natural features. Peter Camani A (now retired) Canadian art teacher who built a massive complex of sculptures of screaming faces on his property in his spare time, and converted his house into a castle with a turret of a screaming face. Point Roberts, Washington When defining international boundaries, sometimes a straight line isn't the best solution. Polar Bear Holding Facility A prison for polar bears. Poozeum A museum dedicated to coprolites. Prada Marfa, Texas For your luxury shopping bug, a Prada store in the desert. — Pyramid mausoleums in North America Arizona Governor George Hunt will hereafter be addressed as "Pharaoh George I". Rabbit Hash, Kentucky A town whose mayors, since , have all been dogs. Raising of Chicago During the s, the city was raised on jacks, building by building. Rainbow Farm The only place where gay married couples could guard their marijuana plants with guns. Notably visited by Merle Haggard and Tommy Chong. Republic of Indian Stream An area of land in northern New Hampshire that was an independent country from to . Republic of Molossia A 34-person micronation in Nevada which takes the meaning of the phrase "a man's home is his castle" to new extremes. Rock N Roll McDonald's A rock 'n roll-themed McDonald's restaurant located in Chicago, famous for being the subject of a song by outsider musician Wesley Willis. Rocky Steps Thanks to their appearance in a certain movie, the steps leading up to the main entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is as popular of a tourist attraction as the museum itself. Rough and Ready, California This mining town seceded from the Union in , but came back three months later because they realised they couldn't celebrate Independence Day. Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec A very serious town in Quebec's Bas-Saint-Laurent region that happens to have the most exclamation marks of any known place name. Sam Kee Building Known as the world's narrowest commercial building. Santa Claus, Arizona In Mohave County, visit an abandoned tourist trap deep in the desert where Santa Claus, of all people, allegedly resides! Slab City, California A massive off-the-grid trailer park on a former military base in the Sonoran Desert, that became a large-scale alternative community of misfits and wanderers that has persisted for decades, complete with various displays of colourful experimental sculptures made from whatever the residents can get their hands on. S.N.P.J., Pennsylvania A municipality consisting solely of a Slovenian fraternity's recreation center, established (in part) to get around liquor laws. State of Franklin A proposed state in Eastern Tennessee that tried its hand at independence and fell into debt to Spain. State of Scott Scott County in northern Tennessee seceded and formed its own state in opposition to Tennessee joining the Confederacy. It remained this way for over a century until it rejoined Tennessee in . Statue of Lenin (Seattle) How a statue of Lenin made its way from Czechoslovakia to Seattle's Fremont neighborhood. Texas State Highway 165 The only state highway in the country specifically designated to serve a cemetery...and nothing more. It's also the only state highway in the country to be partially closed every night. The Greenbrier A luxury resort that, for three decades, housed an emergency bunker for Congress to work from if a nuclear war broke out. And no, the bunker isn't available to rent. This Street, That Street, and The Other Street Can cause a lot of trouble when telling Uber drivers what street you live at. Toadsuck, Texas A fake town made up by a presidential candidate after having too much to drink one night. Track 61 (New York City) A secret train platform located below the Waldorf Astoria New York designed for use by U.S. Presidents when they would visit the hotel. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico A New Mexico town that chose to rename itself after the Truth or Consequences game show in , then never bothered changing back. U Thant Island An island in the East River with a surprisingly in-depth history for only being 2,000 square feet (190 m2) in area. U.S. Route 19 Truck (Pittsburgh) A road in Pittsburgh that features a number of wrong way concurrencies, including one with itself. Vulcan Bridge A bridge in rural West Virginia whose repairs were almost funded by the Soviet Union after a local mayor, tired of the West Virginia state government ignoring his requests for funding, reached out across the Iron Curtain. Weather Station Kurt That time when the Nazis landed in North America. Whittier, Alaska A city in Alaska where (almost) all of its residents live in one building: Begich Towers. Winchester Mystery House A house believed to be haunted by the ghosts of individuals killed by Winchester rifles. World's littlest skyscraper The result of a fraudulent investment scheme, it's a four-story brick building constructed in in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas that has only one room on each of its four floors. Zilwaukee, Michigan Just TRY to convince spellcheck you're not crazy. Zone of Death The part of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, where any crime can technically be committed without punishment – but don't tempt fate! -ussy Yes, it means what you think it does. renaming of Turkmen months and days of week For almost six years, the months and days of the week in the Turkmen language had their names changed at the order of Turkmenistan's President for Life, including naming one after his mother. Académie de la Carpette anglaise A French organisation that "rewards" people who are doormats for the English language. Antiqua–Fraktur dispute A dispute over which typeface was more "German". At first, the Nazis were for Fraktur... Apples and oranges According to scholars, comparing the two may be easier than previously thought. Argumentum ad crumenam
Argumentum ad lazarum Even if money can't buy you happiness, it (or a lack thereof) might win you an argument. Arebica Turns out, Slavic-based languages can also be written in the Arabic script. Belarusian Arabic alphabet A Book from the Sky A must-see for connoisseurs of gibberish. Bouba/kiki effect You instinctively know exactly which is which, no matter what language you speak. Bow-wow theory Competitors include the pooh-pooh theory, the ding-dong theory, and the yo-he-ho theory. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo
buffalo Buffalo buffalo A meaningful, grammatical construction that has inspired linguists to talk about bullying amongst Western New York's bison population. Capitalization of Internet There is internet and Internet... and Internets. "The Chaos" The poem that mocks English spelling and pronunciation. Try to read it out loud! Chinese characters of Empress Wu Ever needed to be taken seriously so hard that you invented completely new characters and forced people to use them? Chinese word for crisis More notable among Americans than among the Chinese, apparently. Codex Seraphinianus A made-up enigmatic text released in . Colorless green ideas sleep furiously A sentence contrived by Noam Chomsky to demonstrate that a sentence can be grammatical yet nonsensical. Comparative illusion More people have researched these nonsensical sentences than I have. [sic] Contronym Sometimes you need oversight to prevent oversight. Controversies about the word niggardly How a simple word can cause so much controversy. Covfefe President Trump's most astounding contribution to the modern English lexicon. Absolutely superb, trust me... Crazy English APPARENTLY A VERY EFFECTIVE WAY TO TEACH ENGLISH TO CHINESE PEOPLE IS BY SHOUTING RANDOM ENGLISH PHRASES AT THEM. Croatian Wikipedia A once-innocent wiki became subjugated by a fascist regime of editors for 8 years. Cryptophasia The secret language of identical twins, also called idioglossia. Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook Is your hovercraft really full of eels? Disambiguation (disambiguation) Sometimes people do dumb things. Dord A nonexistent English word, supposedly meaning "density", found in Webster's New International Dictionary from to . Dozens (game) A usually good-natured African American game in which two competitors, usually male, exchange trash-talk until one has no comeback. Duck test A humorous abductive reasoning test based on the activities of a duck. Dze This Cyrillic letter looks exactly the same as the Latin letter S, making it the ultimate weapon in IDN homograph attacks. Eggcorn When you say something wrong but it still sounds kinda right. English as She Is Spoke A 19th century Portuguese-English phrasebook that became legendary for its overtly literal and inaccurate translations. Engrish Attempts by East Asian people – especially the Japanese – to construct English words and phrases. Eskimo words for snow The claim that Eskimo languages have an unusually large number of words for "snow". Etaoin shrdlu Cryptic echoes from the days of hot metal typesetting. Expletive infixation Linguists abso-fucking-lutely love to shock students with this knowledge. Faggin–Nazzi alphabet What? That's its real name. What did you think it was about? Faux Cyrillic Give text some of that Яussiaи flavour. Fictitious entry The content may be fictitious, but the entry is a fact. Fnord Deliberately misleading, irrelevant or false information meant to suggest conspiracy. A popular word among Discordians. Fumblerules Don't listen to any of this advice. Garden-path sentence A sentence that doesn't seem grammatically correct, but that's because it tricks you into thinking the verb isn't where it is. It's very easy to catch yourself doing double takes when reading this article. Ghost characters When your writing system includes 6,355 characters, a few may end up coming out of nowhere. Ghoti As good an argument as any for English-language spelling reform. Glossary of Wobbly terms Would you see the beanmaster fry a couple eggs on the banjo? Grelling–Nelson paradox Is "autological" autological? Hamburgevons Literally all you need to know if a typeface is any good. Hopi time controversy A long-lived academic debate about the concept of time in the Hopi language. Hyphen War A dash between communism and independence. Ingressive sound In many languages and dialects around the world, a loud inhalation means "yes". Inherently funny word Some influential comedians have long regarded certain words in the English language as humorous because of their sound or resemblance to other words. Poodle, wankel, ni... Intentionally blank page The self-refuting meta-reference that is "This page intentionally left blank". Irony punctuation Is your irony too subtle? Irreversible binomial Or, why it's fish and chips and not chips and fish. James while John had had had had had had had
had had had had a better effect on the teacher Repetition gone wrong. A language is a dialect with an army and navy A solid test. Latin profanity Latin for the profane. Laws of holes If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging! La plume de ma tante One of the first phrases stereotypically learned in French, and outside of being possessed by an ancient Mesopotamian demon, is one of the least likely phrases to ever actually be used in practice. Language deprivation experiments Also known as "the forbidden experiment". Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den A 92-character poem written in Classical Chinese, in which every syllable has the sound "shi" (in different tones) when read in modern Mandarin Chinese. List of common false etymologies of English words Believe it or not, "crap" did not originate from Thomas Crapper. List of English words containing Q not followed by U A Scrabbler's dream article. List of English words without rhymes Does anything rhyme with orange? Or silver? List of ethnic slurs Ever wondered why they got so angry at you? List of linguistic example sentences 'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' is a valid sentence, and this is why. List of proposed etymologies of OK There's more than you think, OK? List of shorthand systems Featuring Gregg, Pitman, and other quickly-written but only-theoretically-readable scripts. Longest words How are you even gonna say these? Longest word in English Mamihlapinatapai The Guinness World Record holder for the "most succinct word". Martian language Chinese language + Internet = new language. May you live in interesting times The worst curse you can put on someone. Probably not Chinese in origin. Metal umlaut Gïvë thë lögö för ÿöür hëävÿ mëtäl bänd ä töügh Gërmänïc fëël. Muphry's law Proceed very cautiously before correcting someone else's grammar. Murad Takla Converting the Bengali language to Latin script can sometimes have interesting consequences. "My postillion has been struck by lightning" A perfectly normal thing to say, as recommended by 19th century multilingual phrasebooks. Newton's flaming laser sword Not an actual weapon, but a philosophical razor created by an Australian mathematician. Nucular Enough people have mispronounced nuclear that it's apparently a real word now. -ough The combination that has inspired delightful poems through tough thorough thought. Phaistos Disc Ancient spirals of undeciphered hieroglyphs. Placeholder name You know, thingamajigs, doohickeys, whatchamacallits... Pompatus All Steve Miller's fault. Potrzebie A Polish word best known to American readers of MAD magazine. Pronunciation of GIF Remember when the internet spent most of arguing about this? Good times. RAS syndrome ...which is itself an example of RAS. Rebracketing How an ickname became a nickname. Response to sneezing Achoo! A great fortunate occurrence! Robert Shields You think you are hooked on recording every detail of your life...? Rohonc Codex A mysterious book found in Hungary that to this day remains unsolved. Scientific wild-ass guess Please excuse my SWAG. Scots Wikipedia What happens when an American teen writes 23,000 articles in a language he has no idea how to speak? Shavian alphabet A new (well, s) alphabet made exclusively for English. Shibboleth A type of slang used to identify an individual with a very specific region, usually with accompanied value judgments. Also, a funny word. Shit happens A statement of philosophical existentialism boiled down to two words. Shm-reduplication Ah, Wikipedia-shmikipedia. Skunked term If "it's all downhill from here", shouldn't it mean it's easy? Spelling of Shakespeare's name What is the correct spelling of the famous English playwright? Spoonerism When you accidentally switch the first two letters of a word tile whalking...er...while talking, that is. Strč prst skrz krk Who needs vowels anyway? Taito A kanji with 84 strokes, the most for any CJK character by some distance. Talk to the hand ...'cause the face ain't listening. Tenevil Chukchi man who independently created his own writing system for the Chukchi language. Thagomizer The word referring to those spikes on the tails of Stegosauria originated from the same guy that made "Cow tools". The Moon is made of green cheese Is it really made out of cheese? There is no sex in the USSR Did you know that? Thinking about the immortality of the crab A colorful Spanish idiom for daydreaming; try using this one if your teacher notices you becoming inattentive in class. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana Another example of syntactic ambiguity. Toynbee tiles Tiles found embedded in asphalt, usually sporting cryptic messages. Tsundoku Buy a book and then don't read it. Tuffet What did Miss Muffet sit on? Unknown unknowns Things that we don't know we don't know, as immortalised by Donald Rumsfeld. Uncleftish Beholding "Atomic theory" in Anglish. Unpaired word Can you be shevelled, kempt, and gainly? Voynich manuscript An undeciphered illustrated book written six hundred or so years ago by an anonymous author using an unidentified alphabet. Wine-dark sea Homer's epithet that raises a theory that Greeks of his time were color blind. Yan tan tethera The proper, Brythonic way to count sheep oop North. "Yo mama" joke What is this article about? Your- Zhemao hoaxes An editor on Chinese Wikipedia created over 200 articles about fake Russian history, making it one of the largest hoaxes on Wikipedia. Zzxjoanw A fictional word that really confused linguists. Japan Airlines mid-air incident Two Japan Airlines aircraft were roughly 135 m (443 ft) away from causing the deadliest aviation accident in history. Angola Boeing 727 disappearance A Boeing 727 was stolen, with at least two people aboard, and never found. Filair Let L-410 crash As Hollywood taught us, letting reptiles loose on a plane is never a good idea. Horizon Air Bombardier Q400 incident A ground service agent with no flight experience whatsoever managed to do insanely difficult aerial maneuvers in a stolen plane that was thought to be impossible to do those maneuvers in. Aeroflot Flight 593 A plane that crashed because the pilot let his kids fly it. Aeroflot Flight A plane that crashed after the pilot made a bet with the first officer that he could land it blind. Unfortunately for 70 people on board, he couldn't. Aloha Airlines Flight 243 Landed safely and with only one casualty, despite the plane's ceiling flying off mid-flight. Ampelmännchen The East German "traffic-light little-man". Amtrak paint schemes Various colors of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. Animals taking public transportation Nonhuman commuters. AVE Mizar This nightmare lovechild of a Cessna Skymaster and a Ford Pinto eventually killed its inventor. Bayside Canadian Railway A 220 foot (70 meter) long railway created solely to exploit a loophole in the Jones Act. U.S. Customs and Border Protection found out and promptly issued a $350 million fine. Billups Neon Crossing Signal A local inventor's extreme solution to railway crossing safety. Boaty McBoatface What happens when you allow the British public to name a ship in an online poll? Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway What do you do when there's water in the way of your train? Just build the rails underwater and make the train a moving pier on 23 foot high legs, complete with lifeboats and a requirement a ship captain be aboard at all times. British Rail flying saucer Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the 10:13 to Venus. China National Highway 110 traffic jam The world's longest-lasting traffic jam, in which some drivers were stuck for up to 5 days, moving only 1km (0.6 miles) per day. Cleckheaton Central railway station The only train station in history to be stolen. Crash at Crush A high-speed head-on collision between two locomotives, staged as a publicity stunt and attended by an estimated 40,000 people. Daallo Airlines Flight 159 A terrorist detonated a bomb on a plane and ended up becoming the sole casualty of the incident. Cycloped The entrant into the Rainhill Trial that placed Horse Power against Steam Power. Dagen H September 3, : The day that Sweden changed its traffic directionality. Deli Mike An Airbus A340 that does what she wants. Driving licence in Poland The real identity of a notorious traffic offender in Ireland named "Prawo Jazdy". Dymaxion car A concept car with 3 wheels. It was 20 feet (6.1 m) long, carried up to 11 passengers, could go at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour (190 km/h), and had a steering wheel that turned the car in the opposite direction. One of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion concepts. Experiment A boat with eight horse-powers. Literally. Fastest Shed Holder of the world land speed record for sheds. Ferry Lina The world's shortest regular ferry located in Sweden that takes 25-30 seconds (depending on how strong you are). Gadgetbahn Fun fun fun. And useless. Ganz MFAV An odd-looking train that is designed specifically to be used on the second-oldest underground metro line in the world. Get Out and Push Railroad Just what it sounds like. Gimli Glider A confusion over units of measurement leads to a Boeing 767 plane running out of fuel mid-flight and becoming a glider. Horsey Horseless How to stop cars scaring horses? Put a wooden horse's head on the front. Human mail Why buy an expensive ticket when you can go by mail? Iron Dobbin A mechanical horse made in for the Italian Fascist Youth Movement, later copied by the Germans. Jesus nut Not your local Bible-thumping preacher but the bolt on the top of a helicopter that connects it to the rotor blades. Loose wheel nut indicator Yes, those little red tags you see on truck wheels really do have a purpose. Nut rage incident Macadamia nuts: delicious, instigator of air rage. Helped coin a neologism to describe hierarchical social systems in South Korea. M-497 Black Beetle The New York Central Railroad decided to see what would happen when they strapped two jet engines on a railcar; this was the result. It currently holds the record for fastest train in the Americas at 183.68 mph (295.6 km/h). Mehran Karimi Nasseri An Iranian refugee who lived in Charles de Gaulle Airport from until and again from September until his death in November that year. Men's parking space An antonym to women's parking spaces. The only known instances are two spaces in a garage in Germany. Mile high club Soaring members. Miss Belvedere A car buried in a time capsule in and unearthed in , only to discover that it had suffered 50 years of water damage underground and wouldn't start. MTT Turbine Superbike The most powerful street-legal motorcycle is run by a turboshaft engine designed for aircraft and can hit 250 miles per hour (400 km/h). No Pants Subway Ride A celebration of going underground with only underwear down there. Northwest Airlines Flight 253 Bombing a plane with exploding underwear is never a good idea. Parliamentary train Have a useless railway station but can't afford to close it? Just run one train every few weeks there! Passenger train toilet Why passengers must be discouraged from flushing or using toilets while the train is at a station. Paternoster lift Strange European elevators without doors that travel in a loop. Considered by many to be very dangerous. Peel P50 The world's smallest car. See also its similarly queer-looking successor, the Peel Trident. Pimpmobile Drive like a blaxploitation movie protagonist. Plastic bicycle It seems that making bikes out of plastic is not a recipe for success. Popemobile Drive like the Bishop of Rome. PZL M-15 Belphegor A Soviet attempt at a turbofan-powered crop duster. It is the slowest jet aircraft to enter production as well as the only jet biplane or jet crop duster to exist. Reduced-gravity aircraft Also known as the 'vomit comet', lack of gravity is not good for the stomach. Reliant Regal A three-wheeled car formerly manufactured in England that could be driven with a motorcycle license. Rocket mail The delivery of mail by rocket or missile, attempted by various organisations in many different countries, with varying levels of success. Rolligon tires Probably the only way you can survive getting run over. RP FLIP A manned ship that was designed to be capsized at a 90° angle for weeks on end. Schienenzeppelin An unholy combination of a Zeppelin and a locomotive. School bus yellow The color specially formulated for use on school buses in the United States. Screw-propelled vehicle "Screw off" literally. Shipping container architecture The concept and art of using intermodal containers to build stuff. Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" Created, sadly, by non-porters called George who didn't want to be linked with the mostly-Black porter workforce. South-pointing chariot An ancient Chinese mechanical compass which took a millennium to reproduce. Tall bike A bike which consists of two conventional bicycle frames connected one atop the other. Train surfing As respectable and practical as drying one's hair in most parts of the world. Unused highway Lost highways, unloved and unused. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 Question: How do you survive on a freezing cold glacier with the impending threat of starvation? Answer: eat your friends. USGlobal Airways An active airline founded in that has never operated a single commercial flight. ValuJet Airlines Quite possibly the most unsafe airline in history. Think of it as being the air transport equivalent of Action Park. Vortech Meg-2XH Strap-On A discontinued strap-on helicopter designed for amateur construction. Somehow no lawsuits are mentioned in the article. Wallsend Metro station All railroads lead to Rome. With "no smoking" signs, although tobacco was unknown to ancient Romans... Westray to Papa Westray flight The world's shortest passenger flight, lasting as little as 53 seconds. Just don't expect an in-flight meal. The wrong type of snow Possibly the most feeble excuse for why British trains are so awful. 747 A performance art piece in which the artist fired shots at a Boeing 747 flying overhead, leading him to be questioned by the FBI. America A fully-functioning solid gold toilet, formerly on display (and available for use) in one of New York's finest art museums. Artist's Shit A quite literal and humorous meta-art. Augsburg Book of Miracles A book dated from the 16th century full of weird religious drawings. Featuring a human–donkey–demon hybrid as one of its highlights. Babylonokia A clay Nokia with cuneiform keys. Was once misrepresented as an actual artifact. Big things (Australia) Giant folk art as tourist traps. Bliss (photograph) The most viewed photograph in all of human history is... the default wallpaper for Windows XP. Bog Standard Gallery It's a museum... inside a portable toilet. Boll Weevil Monument The only known monument built to honor an agricultural pest. Joachim-Raphaël Boronali The world's most artistically-tailed donkey. Bottle Rack A modern art piece created by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. His sister, who mistook it for trash, threw it out. Pierre Brassau "That's not art; a chimp could have painted that!" Cabazon Dinosaurs Comprises of "Dinny the Dinosaur," a larger-than-life, 150 ton sculpture of a brontosaurus in the desert of Southern California west of Palm Springs. Dinny's companion is "Mr. Rex," a 150 ton sculpture of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Made by people that think dinosaurs never existed. Cerne Abbas Giant A very interesting hill figure in the English countryside. Chamber of Art and Curiosities, Ambras Castle A cabinet of curiosities created by Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in the 16th century. Christo and Jeanne-Claude A pair of 20th century artists that became famous for their colossal side ecological works, such as 's Valley Curtain and 's The Floating Piers. Cool S A symbol of uncertain origins often used in graffiti. Degenerate Art exhibition When the Nazis exhibited examples of art that they didn't consider "purely German" enough, so people could hate it in person. It ended up drawing visitor numbers that regular art galleries in the country could only dream of. The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife An Hokusai woodcut of a woman getting intimate with a pair of octopuses, sometimes described as the originator of tentacle erotica. Droste effect The effect of a picture appearing within itself. Disumbrationism A novelist who's never picked up a paintbrush before creates a false art school and submits amateurish paintings as part of it... and is successful for a while. Earring Magic Ken How Barbie's boyfriend, in an attempt to look cooler, became a gay icon. Ecce Homo An otherwise-unremarkable fresco of Jesus that was "restored" by an untrained amateur and now looks like a monkey. Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, Glasgow Has been regularly topped off with a traffic cone since the s. Fire photography The act of taking photographs of firefighting operations. Fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square The horse is missing. Fremont Troll An 18 foot, 13,000 pound concrete sculpture of a troll clutching a Volkswagen Beetle. Fuckart & Pimp Going all the way to own your own art. Gävle goat A giant straw Yuletide goat that is the target of frequent arson attacks and vandalism. Geostationary Banana Over Texas An Argentinian artist's plan(?) to launch a banana-shaped airship over Texas. Hahn/Cock A giant blue cock in Trafalgar Square. Headington Shark An Oxford man has had a 25-foot (7.6 m) long sculpture of a shark embedded headfirst into the roof of his unassuming house since . He-gassen It really puts the "art" in "fart". Hellmouth The entrance to Hell envisaged as the gaping mouth of a huge monster, an image which first appears in Anglo-Saxon art. Hobby tunneling Some people just love to dig. Howard Hallis An artist who attempted to draw the "Picture of Everything", a massive painting containing drawings of thousands of people and items, both real and imaginary. Megumi Igarashi Perhaps the world's most prominent in the field of drawing and sculpting the vulva. Jazz An iconic s disposable cup design. Katrina refrigerator Loot this! Free meal inside! Knitta Please NYC hip hop graffiti knitters. Kryptos A sculpture on the grounds of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency containing four encrypted messages, only three of which have been solved. Latte art The best art is caffeinated. Latrinalia The sage and insightful scribblings on your local public bathroom wall. List of largest photographs Includes information on print and digital photos that are reputedly the world's largest. Musca depicta For some reason, a lot of artists wanted you to think a fly had landed on their paintings. Museum of Bad Art A Museum "dedicated to the collection, preservation, and exhibition of really awful artwork". Emil Nolde The curious case of an artist who was an avid supporter of Nazism, yet was later featured in the country's "degenerate art" gallery (see above). Paintings by Adolf Hitler The dictator and perpetrator of one of the worst genocides in history was also a painter. One can only imagine a world where he got accepted into art school. Pantone 448 C "Drab dark brown", the least attractive colour, according to research. Used for plain tobacco packaging. Phallic architecture Does the Washington Monument, Ypsilanti Water Tower or Peoples Daily building remind you of something? Pink Lady In , a woman secretly painted a 60-foot (18 m) tall portrait of a nude woman over a tunnel and sued when the county tried to take it down. Portland International Airport carpet A carpet design so famous that it gained a cult following. Pricasso A man who paints with his genitalia. La Princesse A 15-metre (50 ft) mechanical spider which stomped about Liverpool in . Project Graham A work of art "symboliz[ing] the vulnerability of human bodies in [car] crashes". Abel Ramírez Águilar A Mexican sculptor who made a name for himself in ice and snow sculpture after winning gold at the Winter Olympics. Le Rêve A Picasso painting that purportedly would have sold for a record price had its owner, Steve Wynn, not accidentally poked a hole in it, and which eventually did sell for a different record price. Roundabout dog Seen any dog on the loose while out driving lately? Chances are it's a roundabout dog. Sacred Cod There's also a "Holy Mackerel", Batman. Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism Mine is better than yours. Secretum (British Museum) The British Museum's "Homework" folder during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Seedfeeder An illustrator who contributed around 48 free-use drawings to Wikipedia, each being sexually-graphic drawings for articles on each (in)appropriate act. Lives up to their name, don't they? Andres Serrano An artist who submerged a crucifix in his own urine and photographed it. Also created album covers for Metallica by mixing his other bodily fluids. Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel A spin-off of the famous medieval book Pantagruel, about the adventures of a gluttonous gigantic being; in the illustrated book, we can have a clue of what that wonderful fella dreams at night. Spoiler alert: it's all hellish creatures. Superlambanana A statue in Liverpool that's half-lamb, half-banana. Tennis Girl Photo of a girl with no underwear that became so popular politicians began to cosplay it. Thomasson Finding the art in things that are still maintained despite being useless. Tillie An odd painting of a grinning face that used to be on the Palace Amusements building in Asbury Park, New Jersey before it was demolished. Tipu's Tiger A very... curious mechanical toy created for Indian ruler Tipu Sultan that represented his feelings for the expansionist East India Company on the Indian sub-continent. Trump, the Buddha of Knowing of the Western Paradise A surreal Buddha-ified statue of Donald Trump, promoted on Taobao with the slogan "make your company great again". Turnip Prize The prize that satirises modern art by giving awards to low-effort collections of junk. Bonus points for titling it with a bad pun. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space At least sixteen casts of this "unique" sculpture exist. Not to mention that the sculptor already made a few similar designs. William Utermohlen An artist who drew self-portraits after being diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease in , and would continue these portraits for six years, until . Les UX A French artistic movement that expresses itself in underground places. *** The story of a man who creates ***s out of raws. It is never explained what "***" nor "raw" means. A quite risqué squib telling a conversation between Queen Elizabeth I and various famous 16th century writers fully on scatological topics, described as "the most famous piece of pornography in American literature". Notably written by Mark Twain. 112 Gripes About the French A handbook produced to help American soldiers understand the French. A True Story An Ancient Greek parody of tall tales that were told as true in ancient sources, that contains the first literary references to space travel and fighting wars against aliens. The story ends with "the biggest lie of all" - a promise of future sequels. A Void An entire novel written without using the letter e. See also Gadsby below. Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos Published in as a Victorian children's book and described as "a round game for merry parties", the object of the game was to quickly recite alphabetical tongue-twisting mock-Latin gibberish. Alien space bats An implausible divergence from the real world, used as a plot device in alternate history. Anthropodermic bibliopegy The practice of binding books in human skin. Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication Your helpful NASA guide on talking to aliens. Atlanta Nights A group of science fiction authors get together and deliberately write an absolutely horrible novel to fool and embarrass a "vanity publisher". Bad Sex in Fiction Award Created to draw attention to the worst-of-the-worst in describing sex. The Beginning Was the End A piece of racist pseudoscience written by a self-proclaimed psychic, that posits man devolved from a species of intelligent cannibalistic apes. Would be completely obscure if not for Devo. Betteridge's law of headlines Why, when a newspaper asks a yes-no question, the answer is usually "no". Big Dumb Object Objects in science fiction literature and media that are specifically created to be interesting. Too bad they'll probably be overlooked with a name like this... The Book of Heroic Failures A book which glorifies failure. Started off by the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain. The book was a success and thus declared a "failure as a failure". Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year Who can forget such classics as Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers, How to Avoid Huge Ships or Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts? La Bougie du Sapeur A French newspaper published every February 29th. Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest A contest to find the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. Cain's Jawbone A murder mystery puzzle book that only three people have solved since it was published in . Catullus 16 An explicit ancient Roman poem whose opening line has been described as "one of the filthiest expressions ever written in Latin". The Anarchist Cookbook Have you ever been in need of an easy-to-follow bomb manual? Well, now you have it. Codex Seraphinianus An illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, written in an imaginary language. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater This highly popular autobiographical account about the effects of laudanum led several English authors to opium use. Henry Darger Writer of a 15,000-page manuscript along with several thousand watercolor paintings and other drawings illustrating the story, who rarely left his small room. His word was worth millions a few years after his death. Dinosaur erotica Have you ever been Taken by a T-Rex or Ravished by a Triceratops? Death poem The urge to have famous last words, taken to its logical, carefully rewritten extreme. Empty book A literal example of why you should not judge a book by its cover. English as She Is Spoke A Portuguese–English phrasebook translated from a Portuguese–French phrasebook by a man who spoke no English. What could go right? English-language editions of The Hobbit Now collectors' items because of their printing differences. Evil laughter "Mua-ha-haha-ha-haaa" and the like. The Eye of Argon An infamously bad heroic fantasy novella, written in by Jim Theis and circulated anonymously in science fiction fandom since then. Fallout: Equestria A five volume, 620,000-word long crossover fanfiction of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the post-apocalyptic Fallout video game franchise. The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women A diatribe by John Knox against Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary Tudor. Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley A non-existent book by a non-existent author, created for a Yellow Pages UK ad, and made real eight years later. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" Supposedly the shortest story possible in the English language, though Ernest Hemingway had nothing to do with it. Future Library project Project that collects an original work by a popular writer every year from to . The works will remain unread and unpublished until ; one thousand trees were specially planted for the project; the 100 manuscripts will be printed using paper made from the trees. Gadsby A 50,110-word long book famous for not using the letter "e". Grammarians' War At the start of the 16th century, British schoolmasters were insulting one another. In Latin, of course. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Textbook on rationality disguised as a Harry Potter fanfiction. Hawking Index Are you one of the 1.9% to have read Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices from cover-to-cover? Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed The perfect picture book for your little conservative. Hitler Diaries A sensational discovery in , which turned out to be an elaborate hoax. Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles An evangelical Christian version of the Harry Potter series, featuring creationism, anti-Catholicism, and Biblical references that assume you have a Bible handy. Maybe written by a traditionalist wife and mother for her children, maybe a hoax - who knows? How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming No, this isn't about the murder of a Disney character. This is the memoir of the man responsible for declassifying Pluto. A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems Mix-and-match lines of ten sonnets with the same rhymes, to get one of up to (= 100,000,000,000,000) different poems. I Am a Cat A novel written from the perspective of a cat. I Am God A novel in which God is made to keep a diary to chronicle his love for an atheist. I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter A pro-transgender story, written by a transgender woman, that's named after a transphobic meme. I, Libertine A non-existent novel that was the subject of a hoax intended to criticize the manner in which best-seller lists are determined. If Israel Lost the War A very soft alternate history romance. The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs Ten editions' worth of history of the Iraq War, as told through changes to the Wikipedia page that was just linked. Jennifer Mills News A weekly newspaper written by, and about, herself since . The Jungle This exposé on the meat factories of the s would result in the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and later, by extension, the FDA. L'Art de péter A pioneering treatise on farts. Lajja How this novel was the primary reason for the exile of its author overseas. Lecherous Limericks Dirty limericks by Isaac Asimov. Lesbian vampire They don't bite...necks. A Letter to a Royal Academy An essay written by Benjamin Franklin about flatulence. "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" A poem written by a Chinese poet in Classical Chinese. It can be read and understood by all who understand the language, even though it consists entirely of the word "shi" repeated 92 times in different tones. Lobby Lud "You are ____ and I claim my five pounds". Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon A fictional dish with a quite long name. Magical Negro An outdated stock character who helps out white protagonists. William McGonagall A writer widely held to be the worst poet in the English language. Men in Aida A homoerotic homophonic translation of Homer: "Men in Aida, they appeal, eh? A day, O Achilles." The Meaning of Hitler Sir Max Hastings called it 'among the best' studies of Hitler. Yukio Mishima The only Literature Nobel nominee to attempt a bloody coup of his government (with only four supporters). It's still unclear exactly why. Mock Turtle The weirdest, and least recorded, character in Alice in Wonderland. Monostich Poetry doesn't need rhyme, or meter, or in this case, even more than one line. My Immortal A legendarily terrible piece of Harry Potter fan fiction that awkwardly inserted vampires, time travel, and emo/"goff" subcultures into J.K. Rowling's wizarding world. Someone who may have been the author of the piece almost got a major publishing deal for her memoirs. My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy Bart Simpson's (actually, his voice actress's) autobiography. Naked Came the Stranger Journalists prove a point when their intentionally awful sex novel becomes a bestseller. Later the basis of a porn film starring Darby Lloyd Rains. Nat Tate: An American Artist – A hoax biography written about a fictional artist, written as part of an elaborate prank pulled on art critics. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Cat poems by T. S. Eliot. Basis of the musical Cats (and subsequently, the godawful film adaptation). Omegaverse What if humans had alphas, too? (not to be confused with the actual terms alpha and beta males). On Bullshit A very serious essay by Harry Frankfurt sketching a philosophical theory of, well, bullshit. Order of the Occult Hand It was as if an occult hand had edited this Wikipedia article. Ossian "The greatest poet that has ever existed", according to Jefferson. But he didn't. P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever "M" is for... mnemonic? "B" is for bdellium? What? Philip M. Parker Writer of The - Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India and thousands of other works... by means of a computer program. A Pickle for the Knowing Ones Without questions one of finnest Pieces of wrriten text in the English language Pinocchio paradox What if Pinocchio said his nose will grow? Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The context of U.S. politics of the mid-to-late s gives a different understanding of the gold, silver and emerald symbolism, among other things. Print Wikipedia Yes, it does exist. Project Mars: A Technical Tale A sci-fi book about Mars exploration and the Martians led by "the Elon", written by NASA's chief rocketer Wernher von Braun in . Rangila Rasul How this religious satire made a massive controversy between India's Muslim and Hindu communities, and helped change the nation's legal system. Rejecting Jane Turns out publishers really don't know anything about literature. Rolling Stone (Uganda) The Ugandan version wasn't a music magazine, but instead tried to out gay men and get them killed. Amanda McKittrick Ros The McGonagall of prose. J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis competed as to who could read her longest without laughing. Saddam Hussein's novels Crimes against literature? Shakespeare apocrypha Anti-Stratfordians (see "Shakespeare authorship question" below) can take heart that there really are works attributed to Shakespeare that weren't written by him! Shakespeare authorship question The conspiracy theory that "William Shakespeare" was not the true author of his classic plays. The Earl of Oxford and Christopher Marlowe are popular candidates, despite them being dead when some of the plays were written. Society of Science, Letters and Art 19th century bogus literary society which duped learned (and would-be learned) people into purchasing the right to the society's academic dress and letters after their name. Peter Sotos A writer and musician who explores serial killer and pedophile lore, while simultaneously praising them in his work. For one of his magazine covers, he used an image taken from real child pornography, which he plead guilty to possessing. Pornotopia "Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose." —Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn Angus McDiarmad, a native Scots-Gaelic speaker, writes a book on a Scottish Highland area with the help of an English dictionary to great comic effect and is termed "the world's worst author". The Tale of Two Lovers A 15th century erotic novel written by a future pope. Tender Is the Flesh What happens when a virus infects every animal on earth including livestock? Instead of going vegan, most of the world in this novel decides to legalize canibalism, and make human meat farms. There once was a man from Nantucket A gratifying theme for limericks; some of them obscene. Time travel in The Lord of the Rings Turns out time travel is embedded into The Lord of the Rings in several different ways. Chuck Tingle A monster erotica writer whose stories feature sexual encounters with almost anything you can imagine, ranging from a sentient jet plane to the concept of time. Also a master of taekwondo (allegedly) and is always seen wearing a pink sack on his head. Le Train de Nulle Part A French novel, 233 pages long, written without verbs. The Unfortunates A book whose chapters you can read in pretty much any order. "Whitey on the Moon" Not everybody was happy to see the first man on the Moon. Winnie ille Pu Winnie-the-Pooh in Latin that became a bestseller. Wonders of the East An Old English text from a millennium ago, all about the various creatures that can supposedly be found in Asia. These apparently include dragons, giant ants, hens which burn people, human-donkey hybrids and humans with fan-like ears that cover their entire bodies. AKB48 Group Girl group or franchise? Same with their "official" rival group and "spin-off" group as well! GG Allin A punk-rocker who would attack people attending his concerts, consisting of hoarse, disheveled vocals. He would also take an excessive amount of drugs, strip naked, and defecate on stage. ArnoCorps
Austrian Death Machine A pair of bands who perform songs solely based on Arnold Schwarzenegger films. Y. Bhekhirst A mysterious man with an implaceable accent hands over copies of his self-recorded cassette to random New York record stores in the 80s/90s, which contain a selection of strange, barely comprehensible songs set against sparse, repetitive instrumentation, later spawning a cult following among outsider music enthusiasts and a decades-long mystery. Bis Kaidan What happens when noise music meets J-pop? Boston Typewriter Orchestra Ah, the beautiful sound of typewriters. Rosemary Brown A spiritualist who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her. Buckethead A virtuoso electric guitarist known for always wearing a white mask and a KFC bucket on his head while performing and releasing over 300 albums over the course of over 30 years. Bull of Heaven A group that is known for their extremely long albums. Most known for 210: Like a Wall in Which An Insect Lives and Gnaws at a runtime of 5.7 years; their longest album is 310: ΩΣPx0(2^18×5^18)p*k*k*k at 3.343 quindecillion years long. Caninus Metal "sung" by pitbulls. CD Rev Because nothing says gangsta like being funded by a corrupt communist government. Cupcakke Composer of such notable hits as "Vagina", "Deepthroat", "Best Dick Sucker", "Squidward Nose", and, most recently, "One of My Bed Bugs Ate My Pussy". Dave Blunts If you thought the Notorious B.I.G or BigXthaPlug was the largest a rapper could get, you are sorely mistaken. Also known for his liberal use of the word faggot and working with Kanye West. Death in June Not many other anti-fascist music groups can claim to be so blanketed with fascist imagery, even down to the name. Eva Braun A rock band from Serbia. Damião Experiença An eccentric Brazilian singer-songwriter, known for being a reclusive hoarder and singing in his own made-up dialect of Portuguese (which he claimed was spoken on his "home planet"), often about self-contradictory and pro-authoritarian political themes and popular culture. Matt Farley A songwriter who has released thousands of songs under at least seventy pseudonyms such as "Papa Razzi and the Photogs", "The Hungry Food Band", and "The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee". The Gerogerigegege A very special music project that released the sound of a man defecating and a record commemorating the deceased Japanese emperor with the sound of people having sex to the national anthem, and had a member who just masturbated on stage. Half Man Half Biscuit Have you ever listened to "Man of Constant Sorrow (With a Garage in Constant Use)" from the album No-One Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin' Hedge Cut? Hanatarash The Japanese noise band that drove a bulldozer into their concert venue. Hatebeak The thing that should not beak. Hatari A band that entered the Söngvakeppnin (Iceland's Eurovision Song Contest selection competition) as a joke, only to win first place. The band then finished third in Eurovision's semi-finals, advancing to the Grand Final and finishing 10th place there. Joyce Hatto A pianist who had many doctored recordings falsely attributed to her long after she stopped performing in public. Les Horribles Cernettes A science-themed parody band that became the subject of the first ever photographic image posted on the World Wide Web. Bobby Jameson A hippie singer-songwriter outcast who never received financial compensation for his songs and records. Thought to be dead after the s, but then resurfaced with a blog in aiming to set the record straight about his life story. Jandek A prolific and pseudonymous singer/songwriter active since who only grants the occasional interview and has never provided any biographical information. Florence Foster Jenkins An American soprano famous for her singing ability or lack thereof. Kevin MacLeod Perhaps the most heard musician on the whole internet. Klaus Nomi Countertenor with an unusually wide vocal range, whose style of dress was commonly referred to as "alien-like" and enjoyed recording new wave covers of s pop music. The KLF An electronic band that became mainstream chart-toppers while undertaking confrontational Situationist-influenced performance stunts, culminating in them performing at the nationally-televised Brit Awards with a grindcore band while firing machine gun blanks into the audience, dumping a dead sheep at the afterparty, and then disbanding. Kunt and the Gang If you think his name is a bit rude, you should hear his songs such as "Use My Arsehole as a Cunt", "I'm Wanking over a Pornographic Polaroid of an Ex-Girlfriend Who Died" and "Jesus Died of a Stranglewank". Then there was the one about his paperboy... LadBaby A British YouTuber who had five Christmas number ones in the UK in a row between and , all of them being sausage roll-themed parodies of well-known songs. Laibach A Slovenian industrial band known for combining totalitarian aesthetics with pop culture, including martial covers of the Beatles and Queen. Also known as the first Western band to perform in North Korea. Longmont Potion Castle An anonymous musician and infamous prank-caller who distorts his voice, and plays up the absurdity of a call without breaking character. Alex Trebek hasn't caught him yet, but one day he will. Merzbow A Japanese experimental music project whose most popular album has been affectionately described as "what a bug hears when it's being flushed down the toilet" and "directly looking at the sun with your ears". Moondog A blind composer, theoretician, poet, and inventor of musical instruments who dressed like a viking and lived as a street musician in New York between the s and s. MP4 Rock music and Members of Parliament do mix. Nigga A Panamanian singer adopted this unfortunate name after being told he sang like a Jamaican. Renamed himself Flex in . Okilly Dokilly A band that performs metalcore songs about the character Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, while dressed as the character as well. One Pound Fish Man A man who works at a market who saw his sales patter go viral and challenge the X Factor for the Christmas number one single in . Panchiko A group of British teenagers form a band and record a demo CD-R which is quickly forgotten about. Around fifteen years later, someone discovers a corrupted copy in a charity shop, and it becomes an online phenomenon. Eilert Pilarm The Elvis impersonator who looks and sounds nothing like Elvis. Charles Manson discography Wait, whose discography?? Joe Seiders In a bizarre case of life imitating art, this New Pornographers drummer was arrested for child pornography in April . SpaceGhostPurrp Rapper credited with inventing or coining at least 3 seperate sub-genres of hip hop single-handedly, also known for his extremely profane social media rants. R. Stevie Moore A one-man band who has self-released over 400 albums through his home-based mailing service since . Later noted as a pioneer of DIY music and indie rock. Portsmouth Sinfonia An orchestra made up entirely of people with no experience in playing their respective assigned instruments. Les Rallizes Dénudés A pioneering Japanese experimental rock band, known for releasing virtually no studio material despite being active for around 30 years, their reclusive founder refusing nearly all interviews and media coverage, while nevertheless going on to be highly influential among Japan's avant-garde underground. This may or may not have been due to the fact the original bassist was involved in hijacking a domestic air flight and redirecting it towards North Korea. The Residents A long-running avant-garde music collective that perform wearing eyeball helmets and disguises, successfully maintaining their anonymity for around 50 years. One early rumor was that they were actually the Beatles. Rockbitch An all-female pagan rock band who were notorious for performing live sex acts on stage. Mamoru Samuragochi A "deaf composer" who wasn't deaf and didn't compose anything. The Shaggs None of this band's members really wanted to form a band, nor did they really have any musical talent, but hey, a fortune teller predicted success, so off they went... Thai Elephant Orchestra An orchestra of elephants playing specially-designed instruments. TISM An (extremely) Australian rock band whose members are anonymous, perform wearing balaclavas and use pseudonyms like "Eugene de la Hot Croix Bun" and "Ron Hitler-Barassi". Known for their confrontational dark comedy, their song titles include "Defecate on My Face", "I Might Be a Cunt, But I'm Not a Fucking Cunt", "Martin Scorsese Is Really Quite a Jovial Fellow", "What Nationality Is Les Murray?", "Whatareya? (You're a Yob or You're a Wanker)" and "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me". Tonetta A reclusive divorced man who gained a cult following in his sixties after posting videos to YouTube of his own lo-fi, independently made songs, often with sexually explicit lyrics coupled with footage of himself cross-dressing. Tout-à-Coup Jazz A Burkinabé jazz band from the s whose membership included two future leaders of the country: coincidentally, both the victim and perpetrator of the same coup d'état. Twin Temple "Satanic doo-wop". Enough said. The Vegetable Orchestra An Austrian orchestra whose musical instruments are made solely from vegetables. Viper Has released over 1,927 albums, though a majority contain recycled material. Titles of his work include You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack and Kill Urself My Man. Arrested in for allegedly holding a woman captive in his garage in Houston for five years, among other atrocities. The Wealdstone Raider A supporter of English non-league football team Wealdstone F.C. whose retorts towards rival supporters went viral and saw him challenging for the Christmas number one spot in . Wesley Willis A musician and visual artist who recorded songs about topics such as his home town of Chicago, his schizophrenia, violent confrontations with cartoon superheroes, and bestiality, was fond of headbutting fans, and often ended his songs with "Rock over London, rock on, Chicago" followed by a product slogan. Gary Wilson An experimental musician who sings about stalking girls and plays with duct tape, fake blood, powder, and mannequins when on stage. Wild Man Fischer A schizophrenic Los Angeles street entertainer whose big break was recording an album with Frank Zappa. Their collaborations ended when Fischer, in a violent rage, threw a bottle that nearly hit Zappa's daughter Moon. Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx A South African grindcore band known for their strange name and even stranger logo. Ya Ho Wha 13 A cult psych rock band... literally. The Zimmers A rock band made up of elderly musicians. As of , the oldest member had lived to 101. The Zombeatles Paul is undead. "The Anacreontic Song" An 18th-century drinking song whose melody was later adopted for "The Star-Spangled Banner". "All Summer Long" A song where two karaoke cover versions became one-hit wonders in on the Billboard Hot 100 because the original song was not released on iTunes, only to radio. One of the covers even charted a few places higher than the original. "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt" A foul-mouthed comedy punk song about the then-British Prime Minister that attempted to be the UK Christmas number one in . Despite getting no air time, it got to No. 5. The following year, it spawned a sequel, which also got to No. 5 in the Christmas chart. From the same band that brought you "Prince Andrew Is a Sweaty Nonce" and "Fuck the Tories". "Camouflage" A vinyl single from that contained a computer programme for the song's own music video for the ZX81. Created by a man who later found fame wearing a papier-mâché head. "Chinese Food (song)" A song about Chinese cuisine (as you can tell from the title) that created a controversy due to its music video featuring geishas, which are Japanese, in a song with Chinese themes, causing it to be controversial with cultural insensitivity. What's even weirder is that the music video has subtitles changing language as the song progresses. "Chocolate Salty Balls" A song from South Park, which got to the top 10 in several countries' charts, including number one in the UK, but it is not just about food. "Do the Bartman" A novelty dance one-hit wonder rap song from The Simpsons in , whose backing vocals were done by none other than Michael Jackson. "Eat Your Salad" The Latvian entry of the Eurovision Song Contest . The lyrics speak of "eating veggies and pussy", along with numerous other sexual innuendos. Somehow, the song still has a serious message. "E depois do adeus" The Portuguese entry of the Eurovision Song Contest was used as a signal to launch a successful national coup d'état. "Euro-Vision" The Belgian entry of the Eurovision Song Contest whose lyrics spoke precisely of the event in which they took part, and deliberately attempted to be last-place. "Fat Juicy & Wet" Bruno Mars + Sexyy Red + strip club beat? "So, so dry", according to Pitchfork. "Five Per Cent for Nothing" A very short instrumental by a band noted for very long songs that was retitled as a parting shot at their former manager, who sued them afterwards. "Flappie" A Dutch Christmas song about cannibalism. "Flatline" Who knew the guy who made "Nothin' on You" and "Airplanes" would veer into the most redundant conspiracy theories? "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" A song "created to fail" by Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis that instead ended up becoming a global smash hit. "Give That Wolf a Banana" A song that combines Little Red Riding Hood and two crazy 4.5 billion year old yellow wolves called Keith and Jim. The meaning of the song is debated, but one common theory is of all things, vaccines. It's also a Eurovision song, to boot. "Gloomy Sunday" A Hungarian dirge from the s that the press of the time claimed was linked to over 100 suicides, earning it the moniker of the "Hungarian Suicide Song". "Hatten är din" A Lebanese love song turned into a Swedish song about hats and a drinking game, by mishearing the lyrics. "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" Was der Führer only half a man? See also Possible monorchism of Adolf Hitler. "How to Rob" If you made a diss track, how many people would you target? "Jeg har set en rigtig negermand" A Danish #1 single from , extolling the virtues of racial equality while calling a "negro man" "black as a bucket of tar". "Jiggle Jiggle" That time when an autotuned interview with Louis Theroux became so popular they convinced him to do a song. "Justice for All" A surreal choral/spoken-word... thing recorded by Donald Trump and 20 men in prison for attacking the Capitol on January 6. "Lemon Incest" Fun for the whole family!..... NOT! "Lift Yourself" Poopy-di scoop. Scoop-diddy-whoop. Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop. Lostwave Unknown songs, lost to time. "The Most Unwanted Song" Featuring operatic rapping, a children's choir urging listeners to go to Walmart, bagpipes, cowboy music, and political slogans shouted through a bullhorn. "Never Learn Not to Love" The Beach Boys' collaboration with Charles Manson. (Yes, that Charles Manson.) "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah" If you can see someone's underwear, here's the tune to tell them by. "Planet of the Bass" The affectionate parody of s Europop that became a hit in its own right. "Poison: Iitai Koto mo Ienai Konna Yo no Naka wa" A random Japanese rock song that gained popularity due to its ability to calm crying babies. "Prisencolinensinainciusol" The song where the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent. "Ram Ranch" A spoken-word heavy metal song about a gay cowboy orgy that became an internet meme and a counter-protest song against the Canadian convoy protest. "Ready 'n' Steady" A song mentioned in a top songs list of a notable magazine, that was long-believed by some to be non-existent because collectors were unable to find a recording or further information on it until 33 years after it was written. "Rocket Queen" If you want to hear the sound of a woman having sex with Axl Rose set to music, now's your chance! "Save the Badger Badger Badger" Brian May of Queen fame lays down guitar for a mashup of the viral flash animation Badgers with his own song "Flash" with vocals from Brian Blessed, all to protest against UK PM David Cameron's policies on badger culling. "Shukusei!! Loli Kami Requiem" Touch her, you'll be arrested. "Steve's Lava Chicken" As of , the shortest song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart is a 30-second jingle about la-la-la-lava ch-ch-ch-chicken. "Subways of Your Mind" A lostwave song taped off a radio station in by a German teenager for a mixtape, resulting in a 40-year hunt for the song that was resolved in November . "Supermarioland" Rapping set to the theme of Super Mario Land. After hearing the song, Nintendo not only cleared the sample but also requested they make an album of Super Mario material. "Suzukake no Ki no Michi de 'Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru' to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono" Apparently AKB48's producers couldn't come up with a snappier title. "Teletubbies say "Eh-oh!"" A novelty nursery-rhyme remix of the Teletubbies theme tune that got to number one in the United Kingdom, and was narrowly beaten for Christmas number one in . This did not stop Bob the Builder from getting Christmas number one three years later, though. "Tetris" A Eurodance version of the Tetris theme co-produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It was in the British charts at the same time as "Supermarioland" mentioned above. "Timothy" A top 40 hit in , written by Rupert Holmes of "The Piña Colada Song" fame, that gained success despite (or due to) the fact it was about cannibalism during a mining disaster. "To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)" A comic rap performed by Mel Brooks, sung as Adolf Hitler. "Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the Nazi Party". "To Me, To You (Bruv)" An unexpected collaboration between rapper Tinchy Stryder and British comedy duo the Chuckle Brothers. "Ulterior Motives" A lostwave song which mysteriously surfaced on the Internet in on a little-known song finding website, which went viral in when a group of Redditors tried to find the origin of it; it was later found in an obscure porn film from the year after. "United Breaks Guitars" A protest song against United Airlines which caused their stock price to fall by 10% and cost shareholders $180 million. "We Didn't Start the Fire" A song covering the major events of 40 years. Check "Events mentioned" for explanations of each. "Who I Smoke" No matter how deep rap feuds get, it can never get as bad as dissing your dead opps over "A Thousand Miles" of all samples. (Officially sanctioned by Vanessa Carlton herself.) "You Suffer" At a full 1.316 seconds in length, the shortest song with a physical single release of all time. "You're Pitiful" The true story of how a Weird Al Yankovic parody caused the article for Atlantic Records to be regularly vandalized. 3 Dev Adam A Turkish movie featuring (unlicensed) Captain America and El Santo battling evil Spider-Man. Quite successful in Turkey, resulting in other unlicensed films such as the infamous Turkish Star Wars. 100 Years A movie that your grandchildren and great-grandchildren might be able to enjoy! An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn A movie about a director who makes a bad movie, but can't remove his name from the credits because his real name is Alan Smithee. In reality, the movie about the movie was so bad that director Arthur Hiller was credited as Alan Smithee to disguise himself from the production. Amazing Grace A film that got assembled 40 years after the director forgot to use clapperboards, and the star didn't want you to see. Ambiancé An experimental film that was scheduled to have a thirty day-long running time, with the only copy being destroyed after its premiere, only for it to be unexpectedly cancelled by the director after its release date passed without a showing. Atuk A comedy screenplay, never filmed as its intended lead actors just kept dying. Barbenheimer The biggest movie phenomenon of , where Malibu meets the Manhattan Project. Birdemic: Shock and Terror A climatology fever dream meets a virology fever dream meets an ornithology fever dream meets a cinematography fever dream. Black and white hat symbolism in film The hat, sir, whatever could it mean? Can Dialectics Break Bricks? A Hong Kong kung fu film re-edited and dubbed to be turned into a Situationist analysis and parody of class conflict and the workers' movement. William Castle Horror director who loved a promotional gimmick. One film offered a $ insurance policy if you died of fright, and another offered audiences a full refund if they were too scared to see the ending. Cocksucker Blues A Rolling Stones documentary which was banned from being shown unless the director was physically present. The Conqueror John Wayne IS Genghis Khan! The filming location IS radioactive! The Cure for Insomnia A movie that runs for 85 hours. Not the longest movie ever screened though (see below). The Day the Clown Cried A notorious unreleased film about the Holocaust by Jerry Lewis – hey, it's a comedy! Deafula A vampire movie shot entirely in American Sign Language. Death of a President A mockumentary film created about the hypothetical future assassination of George W. Bush, released while he was still in office. Dump months The opposite of the summer movie season. El Conde What if I told you Augusto Pinochet was a centuries-old vampire, and son of Margaret Thatcher? It's more likely than you think. Emesis Blue A psychological horror fan film animated with Source Filmmaker loosely based on the lore of Team Fortress 2. Emilia Pérez A film about a Mexican transgender cartel leader made by a French guy who didn't film it anywhere even near Mexico because he "already knew enough". Surprisingly managed to anger every community it pandered to and was still nominated for 13 Oscars, winning 2. Empire A film by Andy Warhol consisting entirely of eight hours of still footage of the Empire State Building. Empires of the Deep A $140 million unreleased US-Chinese aqua-fantasy film that sunk to the depths of the sea... The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks An early Soviet film featuring a wealthy American man and his bodyguard named "Cowboy Jeddy" who find themselves involved in a series of stereotypical comedic mishaps in post-revolutionary Russia. Fidos Award For the world's best acting dogs. First on the Moon Proof that the Soviets got there, thirty years before Armstrong and Aldrin didn't. Freddy Got Fingered The Tom Green gross-out comedy that is simulteneously agreed upon to be one of the worst films ever made, and one of the best comedies of all time, depending on who you ask. Fritz the Cat "We're not rated X for nothin', baby!" Golden Raspberry Awards An award given to bad movies. Notable recipients include Twister, Gigli, and The Cat in the Hat. Him One of the most sought-after lost films is a gay porno about Jesus. I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney "I knew I wanted to be a director, and I did a couple of short films, and this is the only one that haunts me." —Ben Affleck, Academy Award winner In the Aftermath A B-movie studio gets the rights to a surrealist anime and re-edits it into a post-apocalyptic thriller. Italian Spiderman An Australian production made with the goal of being a tribute to old Italian action films. Killer Bean Forever An action movie with sentient coffee beans as the main characters. Lee Kin-yan A Hong Kong actor repeatedly cast in Stephen Chow films as a nose-picking, bearded transvestite. List of films featuring giant monsters You are never safe in Tokyo. List of films featuring time loops Study this to know what to do if you're trapped in a time loop. List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck" Golly! Logistics The world's longest movie ever made, it follows the entire five-week process of making and selling a pedometer in reverse chronological order. The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World A movie that runs for 48 hours. Despite its title, it isn't the world's longest movie, but the jury's still out on whether it's the most meaningless.... Maidstone A film notable for a real, bloody fight between its director and its star actor that was kept in the final edit. Manic Pixie Dream Girl A female stock character in (usually) movies who is extremely eccentric and girlish, and serves mainly to motivate and/or provide character development for the male protagonist. Manos: The Hands of Fate A low-budget film created by a fertilizer salesman from Texas, which is often considered to be the worst film of all time. The Many Faces of Jesus
Gay Jesus film hoax A very controversial abandoned film which would have depicted a bisexual Jesus engaged in robbery and drunkenness, personally condemned by Pope Paul VI. Its screenwriter was personally banned from entering the United Kingdom following its announcement. Since the s, a widespread hoax has came up claiming that a similar film will feature Jesus as a swinger. Mockbuster Not the movie you want, but the bargain-bin equivalent. Modern Times Forever (Stora Enso Building, Helsinki) The second longest film ever shot: ten whole days of one decaying building Life After People-style and first screened in front of itself. The directors have a point. MTV Movie Award for Best Shirtless Performance Had only been awarded three times. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish A s silent film about an ace detective who takes loads of cocaine. Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2 has the longest film title in the English language. Norodom Sihanouk filmography The prolific, decades-long filmmaking career of the former king and prime minister of Cambodia. Oscar bait There are certain rules one follows when making an Oscar film. Including mental illness, the Holocaust and Meryl Streep in your film also helps. On the Art of the Cinema North Korean cinema is best Korean cinema. The Overcoat A Russian animated film that the director has been struggling to complete for forty years. Paint Drying Created to test the patience of the British Board of Film Classification. Palm Dog Award An award given out every year at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate outstanding performances by dogs in movies. Passage de Vénus A six second long "film" made in , consisting of plates capturing the transit of Venus. Currently rated a 6.8 on IMDb. Patterson–Gimlin film Bigfoot's most famous appearance. Pennin Manathai Thottu A Tamil film where some song lyrics misheard into English went viral on YouTube in , as "Benny Lava". Pink Flamingos A cult film following "the filthiest person alive", notorious for its deliberately disgusting content and culminating in to protagonist eating dog feces. Plan 9 from Outer Space The epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema. Pulgasari A Godzilla-esque cult film, supposedly an allegory for unchecked capitalism. It was directed by Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean filmmaker who Kim Jong Il had ordered to be kidnapped along with his wife so that they could make films for the North. Rampart A Woody Harrelson flick now infamous for its horrible marketing, including possibly the worst AMA of all time. Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa An all-star cast appear in this badly written, badly animated picture. The producer apparently gave the animators $500,000 and didn't check their work until he saw it on television. Raza A drama about a family's roles in the Spanish Civil War that was written and supposingly ghost-directed by Francisco Franco himself. Takes "history is written by the victors" to a new level. Reefer Madness A s anti-marijuana propaganda film which failed at its task so badly it became a cult classic within the marijuana subculture. Return of the Ewok One of the rare cases of lost media within the Star Wars franchise. Roar Back in the s, a family of African wildlife activists gathered together to make a movie with over 150 untrained big cats, leading to seventy members of the cast and crew getting injured. Its genre? A comedy, of course! The Room
Tommy Wiseau Perhaps the worst film ever created, filled with bad acting, poor dialogue, scenes that go nowhere, crazy behind-the-scenes, and more. And, of course, the man behind it all. Roundhay Garden Scene The first ever moving picture, which lasted for an epic two seconds. Saving Christmas The strangest attempt to synthesise the Christian view of Christmas and the modern materialistic view you'll ever see. If you ask star Kirk Cameron, it was poorly reviewed because of an atheist smear campaign (and not because it was bad). Self-Portrait An experimental film by Yoko Ono, featuring a 42-minute shot of John Lennon's half-erect penis. A later Lennon/Ono collaboration called Erection is surprisingly unrelated. Sex Lives of the Potato Men The state of British comedy in the s. Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk Was the world's first video mashup British WW2 propaganda? Shaken, not stirred Why 007 prefers his martini shaken. Sharknado Exactly what it implies: Sharks + Tornado = the best damn disaster movie on earth. You better know it's got an ungodly amount of sequels and a cult following too! Smell-O-Vision A system designed to enhance films with odors. Used once for the film Scent of Mystery and never again. Spermageddon A Pixar-esque animation about the beginning of life, starring Simen the Semen and Cumilla. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man "I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us!" Stinking badges Something nobody needs. Possibly the most frequently quoted and misquoted line from a movie ever. Taylor Mead's Ass An Andy Warhol film consisting of a single prolonged shot of exactly what the title says. Titanic ( film) The Nazi propaganda version. Twin films When two studios make the same idea at the same time. The Uranus Experiment An unusually high-concept porn film that contains a real scene of sex in zero-gravity and was nominated for a Nebula science fiction award as an act of protest by a group of disgruntled authors. United Passions A $30 million film sponsored by FIFA about how great they are. Came out right after the FIFA corruption case came to light. One of the lowest grossing sports movies of all time. Unsimulated sex When two actors really have sex for a scene, rather than a simulation. Violent Night Santa's gonna kick some ass. Directed by the same guy who would go on to make Spermageddon (see above). Who Killed Captain Alex? A Ugandan action-comedy film produced on a budget of $85. Wilhelm scream A stock sound effect first recorded in and used in dozens of films (including seven Star Wars films, two Lord of the Rings films and Kill Bill). Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey Horror movie about Winnie-the-Pooh, from the director who probably hated that bear as a kid. The film went on to "win" five Razzies and now has its own cinematic universe. Zyzzyx Road Budget: $1.2 million. Box office: 30 bucks. It makes sense in context. Connecticut false evacuation alert An erroneous EAS message which next to nobody actually cared about. Georgian news report hoax If you're going to broadcast fake news about the collapse of the government and a Russian invasion, maybe don't do it in the country where that's most believable, a year and a half after Russia actually invaded part of said country. Emergency Alert System hijackings Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. Hawaii false missile alert The consequences of mistaking a drill as an actual order can be quite serious. Al Murray's Compete for the Meat A British game show where the top prize is a frozen chicken and the second prize is some sausages. Alternative 3 An April Fools joke by an ITV science show leads many to believe that scientists were being kidnapped to prepare for the colonization of Mars. Amaan Ramazan A Pakistani reality show where one of the prizes was orphaned babies. Anti-Barney humor An article for all Barney & Friends haters. Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos Forget Turn-On – this never even made it to the end of its only episode. An American attempt fared little better. Barbara Dex Award A former unofficial Eurovision award for the worst costume worn by a contestant, named after Belgium's representative, who came dead last for wearing a transparent light-green costume that "look[s] like a lampshade". It has now been replaced with the not quite-as-unusual You're a Vision Award. BBC Green Book Comedy show broadcasting standards, circa . Avoid the vulgar use of "basket", don't joke about stammering, and whatever you do don't mention the McGillycuddy of the Reeks! Bernd das Brot The mascot of a German children's television network: a chronically depressed loaf of bread who laments his life and enjoys very boring activities. The Canadian Conspiracy A mockumentary released in that asserts that Canada is subverting the United States by taking over its media. Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion On a clear night in April , a frustrated electrical engineer jams HBO's signal to protest against its rates for satellite dish owners in what has been dubbed an act of "video terrorism". Celebrity Big Brother racism controversy Put a disgraced beauty queen, a former child star, a person famous for being on a previous version of the show and her dysfunctional family in a house with a Bollywood star and watch the sparks fly over cooking a chicken dinner and food stocks. Chantelle Houghton A non-celebrity winner of season 4 of the UK's Celebrity Big Brother, while the producers had her pretend to be the lead singer of a non-existent band. Chris Rock–Will Smith slapping incident What happens when a G.I. Jane joke goes horribly wrong. At an awards ceremony. On worldwide television. "The City on the Edge of Forever" How an internal fight between the screenwriter and the series creator resulted in one of the most celebrated episodes of the original Star Trek series. Conspiracy 58 A mockumentary that claimed that the World Cup was never actually held. Despite being revealed as a hoax at the end, people still believed it. Dinner for One A classic British comedy sketch, virtually unknown in its homeland, that has become the most-repeated television programme in German history. Don't Scare the Hare A British television game show involving a large robotic hare and an underground forest. It was not popular and lasted only one season. Flanderization When a TV character becomes a literal caricature of their initial form. Flemish Secession hoax Our regular programming is now interrupted to declare independence from Belgium. The Force is with Cristal Beer Imagine waking up to watch Star Wars only to be served beer advertisements. Friday night death slot Where TV shows go to die. Graggle Simpson What do you mean, "who"? You know him! He's your favorite Simpsons character! Greg Packer A man on the street, no matter which street you're talking about. De Grote Donorshow An apparently terminally ill woman offers her kidney to one of three lucky patients live on TV. Controversy erupts before broadcast, in which it is then revealed that the whole show is a hoax meant to draw attention to the lack of available organ donors in the Netherlands. Guy Goma BBC interview A man who went to the BBC for a job interview is instead interviewed on its news channel about the Apple Corps v. Apple Computer lawsuit. Heil Honey I'm Home! Hitler has his own sitcom, with his Jewish neighbors. History of Pop How a TV program guide became an actual channel. "Hold on Tight!" (Inside No. 9) An entirely fake episode of the dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9, featuring mocked-up photos and clips for a trailer, designed to trick the show's viewers. "How to Eat with Your Butt" The plot and the title of this South Park episode are pretty strange, even by the show's standards. Hypothetical The only quiz containing only hypothetical questions, such as: "You must steal Russell Crowe's shower gel. How do you do it?", "How much money do you have to be paid to eat a packet of crisps every time you have a conversation with someone for a year?", and the stone-cold original: "Big hat or small hat?" I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant A documentary series on TLC. You can probably guess the plot. Ikea Heights A parody soap opera shot entirely in Ikea stores in the greater Los Angeles area... without the permission of the retailer. It's So Funny A North Korean comedy show which is anything but funny. I Wanna Marry "Harry" An American reality show to find "Prince Harry" (really an actor they tried to pass off as him) a wife. Meghan Markle was not a contestant. John Dillermand A Danish children's series featuring a man who gets into all sorts of (family friendly) trouble with his elongated penis. "The Joy of Sect" A Simpsons episode that subtly parodies Scientology (and other groups), despite having one in their cast. South Park weren't so lucky when they did it more blatantly years later. Judaism in Rugrats A Maccababy's gotta do what a Maccababy's gotta do. Jumping the shark Metaphor, based on something that Fonzie actually did on an episode of Happy Days, for the moments when popular TV series lose all credibility and have undeniably entered their twilight years. Michael Larson Through countless VCR recordings and pattern memorization, this man became Press Your Luck's biggest winner ever. List of Saturday Night Live incidents Everything from Ashlee Simpson's lip-sync fail to Adrien Brody's possibly racist introduction to Sean Paul. Max Headroom signal hijacking TV signals in Chicago are twice overpowered on 22 November by broadcasts featuring a person (possibly a male) disguised as the s virtual TV character Max Headroom. The source of the broadcasts and the people involved remain unknown. Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial The real former leader of the Soviet Union starred in a Pizza Hut commercial. What else is there to say? My Husband's Not Gay This reality TV special features Mormons who love men but still marry women. It's also partially about conversion therapy. It'll make you want to say "Hasa diga eebowai" by the end. Nasubi
Susunu! Denpa Shōnen A man who became famous after appearing in a reality show in which he was locked in an apartment for 11 months until he won ¥1 million from mail-in sweepstakes. Said show also featured, among other things, two men who had to hitchhike their way from the Cape of Good Hope to Norway, a challenge to shave the beard of Fidel Castro, and a segment in which baseball fans would only be allowed to eat if their supported team won a game. Odagiri effect Turns out that women find sexy men on TV shows quite appealing. Phil Silvers Archival Museum Featuring personal artifacts from the comedian and 24/7 screenings of The Phil Silvers Show, in an English city to which he had no connection. Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Proof that the isekai genre either is or isn't out of ideas, depending on whom you ask. Reception of The Simpsons An in-depth analysis of whether, when and why people stopped finding The Simpsons funny. Sailor Mouth An episode of SpongeBob SquarePants that featured profanity bleep censored by various sounds, such as dolphin vocals and lighthouse foghorns. Ironically, the episode has positive views by fans of the show and critics, as they praise this episode to be one of their favorites thanks to its satire. Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell What's wrong Shaun? Why must you be mad as hell? Soap opera rapid aging syndrome A tragic condition suffered by some young characters on soap operas. Southern Television broadcast interruption A news program in England interrupted by an interstellar message from Vrillon, representative of the mighty Ashtar Galactic Command. Space Cadets Four lucky average Joes got tricked into thinking that they were shot into space. The entire show was, in fact, so planned out that people thought the contestants were actors - basically making the show a prank in itself. Spaghetti-tree hoax Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best. Star Wars Holiday Special What do you get when you combine Star Wars and Christmas? One of the worst films of all time. Superstar USA A music competition looking for the worst singers America has to offer. Tomorrow's Pioneers A Hamas-produced children's show co-hosted by various costumed characters, including a Mickey Mouse ripoff, who are mostly killed by Jews in some violent manner. Turn-On An ABC comedy series that was cancelled even before the first episode had finished. "Turner Doomsday Video" When he founded CNN, Ted Turner made sure they would be ready for the end of the world. TV pickup Britons regularly cause massive power surges by simultaneously making tea during program breaks. Uh Oh! 90's Canadian children's game show, with an energetic wacky host, fun trivia questions, and a leather daddy dumping slime on kids! What could go wrong? Very special episode A genre of television episodes with controversial life lessons interweaved into the storyline, popularized by Blossom. Wank Week A Channel 4 project for all those who think there aren't enough jerks on TV. Tommy Westphall How an autistic child and Detective Munch may be responsible for more than 200 TV series. Wonder Showzen Sesame Street with the grimdark dial turned up to 11. Who's Your Daddy? To win $100,000, adoptees have to pick their biological father out of 25 men. Zuiikin' English Combines gymnastic exercises with the teaching of "useful" English language phrases, such as "Spare me my life!", "I am allergic to penicillin", "I have a bad case of diarrhea" and "Lovely golf weather today!" Action 52 Inspired by Taiwanese NES multicarts, one businessman sets to create an all-American version with original games... but leaves the devs only 3 months to create 52 of them, resulting in disaster. Also, a tie-in comic book for a franchise that never got started, and a contest where the game is so bugged you can't even enter it. The Adventures of Ninja Nanny & Sherrloch Sheltie An "educational" PC game from ... what it was meant to be educating anyone about, we have no idea. Atari video game burial Are your video games not selling? Why not do what Atari did and bury them in a New Mexico landfill? Bad Rats A mediocre physics puzzler that became perhaps the greatest ever digital gag gift. Bartle taxonomy of player types What type of gamer are you? Battle of B-R5RB A player-versus-player battle in Eve Online which involved over 7,500 players, lasted 21 hours, and cost over $300,000 worth of in-game currency. Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em An early "erotic" game for the Atari . Control a pair of nude women trying to catch and eat falling semen. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing A racing game considered one of the worst of all time with Metacritic's worst-ever score of 8/100. It has opponents that don't move, the ability to drive through buildings and accelerate infinitely in reverse, and a notorious "YOU'RE WINNER !" [sic] message after each race. BMX XXX A controversial video game mixing strippers with BMX cycling. Bob's Game An unreleased homebrew game of a game, in a game, within a game. The developer went on a protest against the evil corporation known as "Gantendo". Boong-Ga Boong-Ga The first arcade game about shoving a giant finger up someone's anus. Boss key Quick, pretend you're working! Breast physics Follow the bouncing boobs! Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm A sequel in name only to a classic beat 'em up, based on an unrelated comic book that predates the first game, and programmed by none other than Elon Musk. Casio Loopy A video game console made specifically for girls. Calculator The best video game ever: A $10 software calculator. Cat hair mustache puzzle Considered among the worst puzzles of any video game. Catechumen Hallelujah! Shoot possessed Roman soldiers with a magical sword until they turn Christian and start to pray. Chex Quest Doom for ages 6 and up, made as a promotion for Chex cereal. Cho Aniki A long-running series of games from Japan, known for their absurdist humor and homoeroticism, about the quest of sweaty bodybuilders for protein supplements. Communist Mutants from Space A Cold War Space Invaders clone in which you do battle with the Mother Creature, driven mad by radioactive vodka. Concord What happens when you try to make people spend $40 plus microtransactions for a genre known for free-to-play fare; a game that spent over 8 years in development, but lasted only a fortnight from its August release. For perspective: The average lifespan of a housefly (Musca domestica) is around twice the period this game was available (28 days). Still didn't stop them from making an adaptation, though. Corrupted Blood incident An unintentional virtual epidemic in World of Warcraft, which became an important medical case study. Cow level A secret level in Diablo II which originated as a player inside joke. Crab Champions From the guy who brought you "Crab Rave". Be a crab. Have a gun. Shoot up a beach. ????. Cubic Ninja A game that ended up being resold for over $500 due to its unintentional ability to let a 3DS run homebrew. Dance Dance Immolation It's exactly like Dance Dance Revolution, just with flamethrowers pointed at you. Dark Room Sex Game Contains explicit sex. Contains no graphics. Development of Duke Nukem Forever A chronicle of fourteen years of development hell, complete with four changes of engines, lawsuits, and profane responses to company executives. The end result was judged by critics to have been very much not worth the wait. Don't Buy This A rare example of truth in advertising. Edge Games This company decided that the word edge was so important to them that it started to sue everything video game-related using that word. Until EA got involved. Eggplant run A challenge playthrough of Spelunky in which you carry an eggplant and toss it into the final boss's face. Ethnic Cleansing Perhaps the most racist video game ever made. Family Guy Online "Holy crap, Lois, this is worse than the time I created an MMORPG that lost a load of money!" Allegedly flopped because players were more interested in quoting their favourite Funny Moments than progressing. Fortnite Holocaust Museum A virtual museum about the victims of the Holocaust, created in Fortnite. Glucoboy The only handheld game console accessory that uses blood glucose monitoring as a game mechanic. The Goat Puzzle Goats' contributions to gaming aren't all positive. Goat Simulator What do you mean you've never fantasised about being a goat? Enough people have to warrant the oddly named sequel Goat Simulator 3. Goodboy Galaxy A video game made for the Game Boy Advance in (for its 20th anniversary). The Great Giana Sisters A game that was withdrawn from the shelves virtually as soon as it went on them. Grezzo 2 Doom mod that spoofs modern Italian culture, featuring blasphemous references to the Catholic Church, including the main character killing Jesus. Twice. Hatoful Boyfriend A dating sim where your romantic partners are all sapient birds. Hong Kong 97 A video game where you play as Bruce Lee's superpowered, heroin-addicted cousin, who has been assigned to kill the entire population of China. The giant head of Deng Xiaoping has been revived as a weapon of mass destruction and the death screen displays an actual dead body from the Yugoslav Wars. "Hot Coffee" All you had to do was do yo' damn girlfriend, CJ! Hunt Down the Freeman A notorious Half-Life fan game that has you "hunting down" the titular Gordon Freeman as revenge for supposed attempted assassination of the player character (or so you're led to believe) (Also starring President Keemstar). I Am a Teacher: Super Mario Sweater Knit with your NES. I Am Bread You play as bread. "I am Error" A line line said by a character in Zelda II, I Love Bees A very creative marketing strategy for Halo 2. I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A dating sim where you romance KFC founder Colonel Sanders. The best part: It's official. Incidente em Varginha Brazil's first ever first-person shooter is based on a UFO sighting. Also used to train Army division soldiers. Incredible Crisis Just an ordinary day in the life of a family... Islamic Fun All the classic Muslim-themed educational games you could want. Help build a mosque! Race some rabbits! Defend Lebanon against Israel's invasion! Wait, what? JFK Reloaded A first-person shooter where the player gets to kill President John F. Kennedy and is rewarded for accurately recreating his assassination. Kanye Quest Just an innocent game about Kanye West. There definitely aren't any secret cults lying around! Kanye Zone He's definitely in his zone... Killer7 Play an assassin inhabited by the personas of seven dead hitmen and use their abilities to fight a terrorist group of virus-infected humans while uncovering conspiracies about Japan's interference in US politics and being haunted by your former victims. Laden VS USA In the early s, a shady Chinese LCD game manufacturer decided that 9/11 was the hottest new cash-grab. Lethal Company Who would win? a multibillion dollar franchise with 2 decades of experience under its belt or a singular furry who used to make Roblox games? Limbo of the Lost An adventure game that was pulled from sale over stolen assets. List of Doom ports Slay demons on your PC, your console, your , your thermostat, your pregnancy test, and so many others. List of video games notable for negative reception And we were so sure No Man's Sky would be a hit! LSD: Dream Emulator The trippiest game in existence. MissingNo. A Pokémon species that only appears as the result of a glitch and has since been the subject of many sociological studies. Mister Mosquito Be a mosquito. Moonbase Alpha A simulation video game officially published by NASA themselves that is most well known for its built-in text-to-speech function. Mother 3 fan translation An unofficial translation of a never-translated game that's become a force all of its own. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog As an April Fools' joke, Sega released a free visual novel where you have to investigate the murder of Sonic. It's sweeter than it sounds. Ninja Golf Hole in your enemies! Nuclear Gandhi According to an urban legend, a bug in Civilization makes Mahatma Gandhi prone to start a nuclear war. More recent games in the series made it a feature. Overwatch and pornography Yes, many people would like to "Nerf This!" Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors A compendium of games to trick your friends, including Desert Bus, a painstakingly realistic eight-hour bus journey from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas. Pepsiman Save people from thirst! But not from tooth decay. PETA satirical browser games Bored of playing your usual video games? Try PETA's Super Chick Sisters and Super Tofu Boy, they will definitely get you to work. Phalanx Who knew that putting an old man playing a banjo on the box of an unrelated game would make for effective marketing? Piglet's Big Game From before Blood and Honey, here's Piglet in a survival horror game that was rediscovered after 21 years and compared to Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Playing History 2 - Slave Trade An educational game that featured a minigame where you would fit slaves into a slave ship like Tetris pieces. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties This visual novel/dating sim got a lot of attention after it was featured in an episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd. Pokémon and pornography Hey guys, did you know that in terms of male human and female Pokémon breeding, Vaporeon is the most compatible Pokémon for humans? (see bestiality) Pokémon Uranium A fangame set in a region of the Pokémon universe that was victim to a nuclear disaster. Polybius An arcade game that supposedly causes its players to go insane. Pyongyang Racer The height of North Korea's gaming industry tries to lull you into travelling there. Quest for Bush A first-person shooter, released by al-Qaeda's propaganda arm, with George W. Bush as its final boss. Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon The anti-smoking SNES run-and-gun game. Publisher Raya also had you covered for diabetes- or asthma-based games. Saeko: Giantess Dating Sim A very serious game with a very serious story that's definitely totally unrelated to the developer's fetishes. Seaman A game where you take care of a fish with a human head while being guided by Leonard Nimoy. Sex with Hitler Want to get frisky with the Führer? Sex with Stalin Seize the means of (re)production! Shobon no Action A platformer known for its levels designed to cause extreme frustration. Simlish The language spoken by characters in The Sims. Soda Drinker Pro The gamified menial task of drinking soda that contains a hidden surrealist minigame compilation. Sonic Dreams Collection This surreal fangame, said to be unfinished Sonic the Hedgehog games on the Dreamcast, pulls no punches to the notorious Sonic fandom. Spanish for Everyone! "Let's make our educational game end in a drug cartel murder, nobody will play it anyway!" – the developers, probably. Special Force Hezbollah recreated its battles against Israel as a first-person shooter... twice. See also Ethnic Cleansing. Stalin vs. Martians The Man of Steel takes on an alien menace. The Story of Kamikuishiki Village A strategy game created by the same people responsible for Hong Kong 97 where you play as Shoko Asahara and the end goal is to carry out the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. Often mistakenly believed to have been created by Asahara's cult themselves as propaganda. Super Columbine Massacre RPG! A gamified(?) recreation of the Columbine massacre, featuring a Hell sequence where the perpetrators fight South Park-style Satan. Allegedly the Dawson College shooter's favorite game. Takeshi's Challenge A deliberately unfair and confusing video game made by Takeshi Kitano, noted video game hater. Tetris effect A psychological effect where Tetris players start arranging blocks in the real world. Thatcher's Techbase A mod of Doom II where the main goal is to kill an undead Margaret Thatcher. The Thompson Twins Adventure One of the only video games to ever be released via vinyl record. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion A young turnip goes on a quest to evade taxes; see also its sequel Turnip Boy Robs a Bank. Universal Paperclips A machine learning algorithm is tasked only with optimizing paperclip production. Untitled Goose Game A game where you can bother the inhabitants of an English village. As a goose. Yeah! You Want "Those Games," Right? So Here You Go! Now, Let's See You Clear Them! A game parodying advertisements for mobile games. You Have to Burn the Rope ...and doing the titular task takes about half as long as listening to the credits song. 2 Hours Doing Nothing An Indonesian kid who gained fame by staring into his camera for two hours. 100 men versus a gorilla Who would win? A group where we all pretend to be boomers A group of Facebook friends who decided to pretend to be elderly. ai_sponge A Twitch and YouTube channel that livestreams fictional episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants made with AI, down to the script and voices. All your base are belong to us A phrase that originated in the video game Zero Wing and sparked an Internet phenomenon in and . Babiniku The phenomenon of men on the Internet depicting themselves as anime women, often without using voice changers. The Backrooms A very strange online urban legend originating from an image taken from someone renovating a furniture store into a hobby shop. Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash A Facebook group dedicated to memes about American politician Bernie Sanders. Bogdanoff twins A pair of French twin brothers known for their extravagant looks and (pseudo)scientific claims; which made them the subject of a long-lasting internet meme involving aliens, secret knowledge and bear markets. Boneghazi A witch digs up human corpses and sells them online. Tumblr turns it into identity politics. Boobquake Female users of social networking websites agree to determine whether their scandalous clothing can cause earthquakes. Bowsette The Internet was once titillated over this Bowser-Peach fusion (see Rule 63). Brain rot Ever heard of "rizz", "unc" or "mid"? It's probably brainrot. British scientists According to Russian Internet users, the height of British scientific research is at the University of the Bleedin' Obvious. The Bus Uncle A Hong Kong resident gets into an uncomfortably tense argument with a fellow passenger—all caught on video. Bronies You thought My Little Pony could never be loved by grown men. Wrong. Very wrong. Carstuckgirls.com An erotic(?) website devoted to women trying to free their cars from various obstacles. Chad From the incel forums comes this whole new slang. Cinnamon challenge Unless you enjoy lung damage, please do not try this at home. Actually, better yet, don't try it at all. Consumption of Tide Pods Ever thought a Tide pod looked kind of like candy? Apparently you're not alone. Countryballs A comic genre with balls and other bits for different countries doing what real countries do. Crush on Obama That's great. Cursed image Low quality images with a mysterious aura, sometimes with a comedic effect. Cute cat theory of digital activism "Web 1.0 was invented to allow physicists to share research papers. Web 2.0 was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats." — Ethan Zuckerman Dancing baby One of the very first internet memes: a weird 3D baby dancing in . da share z0ne Social justice skeletons? ʜᴇʟʟ ʏᴇᴀʜ!!! DashCon A Tumblr convention where the organisers unexpectedly announced that the hotel needed $17,000 extra - and that was just the first day. Anyone fancy an extra hour in the ball pit? Dave rule "Dave-to-girl ratio" as gender balance criterion. Doge very readers, such article, much wiki Depths of Wikipedia A social media account that's basically this Project page (most of the time). Elsagate Here kids, watch these YouTube videos with Elsa and Spider-Man, I'm sure nothing inappropriate will be on them... Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten If that's not a good enough reason why you shouldn't, I don't know what is. Extremely online A state that everybody reading this can probably relate to. Florida Man Superhero native to the state of Florida best known for his frequent run-ins with law enforcement and intoxicating substances. Godwin's law Every long, protracted online discussion always ends with comparisons of others to Hitler. Really... Goncharov The Martin Scorsese classic... that was entirely made up by the Internet 49 years later. Googling Google created a verb that is really in the dictionary. Half-Life: Full Life Consequences The worst Half-Life fan fiction ever written, later adapted to video. Hampster Dance A web page featuring dancing hamsters set to music. "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" A ClickHole article about a truly devastating moment, complete with a stock image of a random Spanish man. Homunculus loxodontus A bizarre blob-like creature known in Russia as "The One Who Waits". Sam Hyde A transgressive American comedian blamed for numerous terrorist attacks and killings. Instagram egg An image of any old egg...is what this egg would be if it didn't take over Instagram and become the most-liked post on the internet until December . It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers A viral online essay celebrating the joys of Autumn. Italian brainrot Proof that it's not your imagination; memes are getting worse. Jar'Edo Wens hoax A Wikipedia hoax about a fictional Australian Aboriginal deity that lasted for nearly a decade. The Jerma985 Dollhouse Streamer sets about making an interactive version of The Truman Show with himself as the main character. Joe Biden (The Onion) What if Joe Biden was actually pretty rad? Josh fight The face-off of the century to determine who could keep the name Josh. Eduard Khil Our eternal Mr. Trololo. Lasagna Cat Live-action reenactments of Garfield strips followed by absurd concluding pieces, including a mouse performing oral sex on Garfield, Odie committing suicide, and John Blyth Barrymore musing over a single strip for a whole hour. Don't even get me started on the ending to "Sex Survey Results"... Lenin was a mushroom A hoax that Vladimir Lenin consumed large quantities of psychedelic mushrooms and eventually became a mushroom himself. The Library of Babel (website) A digital library hosting 1.956 × 101,834,097 books. Markovian Parallax Denigrate Three random words that caused over 25 years of mystery. Meow Wars A flame war on Usenet that lasted for over 2 years. Microsoft acquisition of the Roman Catholic Church Sadly for those who were hoping for an online Eucharist, this was an early Internet hoax. Miguxês A brief guide to Portuguese Internet slang. Namuwiki A Korean online encyclopedia just like Wikipedia...based in Paraguay. North American Fella Organization An internet meme and social media movement which fights Russian internet propaganda through shitposting and trolling. NBACentel A satirical news page on X (formerly Twitter) that has tricked many people, including many notable basketball players, into believing what they say. Sounds familiar? Neuro-sama Who said a VTuber even needs a human behind it? To that idea, Neuro says "(Filtered)". No Nut November ...and its antithesis, Destroy Dick December. Nothing, Forever A procedurally generated sitcom that parodies Seinfeld. Apparently inspired ai_sponge (see above). Nukemap New York got blown up by the Tsar Bomba! Well, at least you can do that in this. Numa Numa Or how a fat kid dancing to the O-Zone song "Dragostea din tei" in front of his computer became very popular. Oddly satisfying videos Have you ever wondered why slime gets such a pull on people? Omission of New Zealand from maps Antipodean cartographic incompleteness: so rife that it's become a meme. Omission of Tasmania from maps of Australia On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog Little-known fact: all articles on this page were written by a team of Golden Retrievers. And thanks to the anonymity of the Internet, you didn't know until now. OS-tan A small Internet phenomenon where certain types of software (including various Microsoft and Linux operating systems) are depicted as young anime women. Peak beard The rise and fall of human beards. Pepe the Frog The true story of how a webcomic character became synonymous with the alt-right. PewDiePie vs T-Series A competition between two YouTube channels to be the most subscribed channel. Philosophical zombie I am dead, therefore I eat brains. Press F to pay respects Have you ever wondered why you might see the letter "F" being spammed on pages about someone's death? r/BreadStapledToTrees People do an odd activity of stapling bread to trees as a hobby and post it online in the nature of the early internet. (Is NOT to be confused with r/BreadTapedToTrees.) RentAHitman.com A website where people keep incriminating themselves despite it being an obvious parody. Rickrolling Careful: that link you're about to click on might take you to a video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". Rule 34 "If it exists, there is Internet porn of it." Rule 63 Rule 34's best buddy, one of them can usually lead to the other "If it's a character, there's a genderbent version of it" Mark V. Shaney A fake Usenet user whose computer-generated postings were created using Markov chain techniques. Serbia Strong A moniker for a Serbian music video considered to be Islamophobic, Croatophobic, and Serbian nationalist that became an Internet meme as well as amidst the alt-right and far-right groups. Shitposting ???? Shock site Don't look! (No, really.) Shrek fandom Maybe "fandom" isn't the correct word? Sitting and Smiling A YouTube series in which a man sits and smiles for four hours, documenting his descent into inevitable madness. Skibidi Toilet One of the most popular web series among the children of today is a series of animated YouTube Shorts about the battle for world domination between a race of toilets with human heads and a race of humans with cameras for heads. Spiders Georg A man that lives in a cave and eats 65 million spiders every day. SpongeBob SquarePants fan theories Is the show's cast a representation of the cardinal sins or mental disorders? I guess we'll never know… Storm Area 51 An Internet meme which, as all great things, began on Facebook and spiralled a bit of out control, and of course Wikipedians couldn't be stopped in making it its own article. Suntukan sa Ace Hardware Fight Club taking place at a hardware store of all places. Techno Viking When the protagonist of a meme sues its creator. Ted Cruz–Zodiac Killer meme A mock conspiracy theory gone wild. Timberwolves Brasil A Twitter account run by a Minnesota Timberwolves fan with very... interesting tastes. Time Cube The personal website of a schizophrenic old man who claimed that time is "cubic" in nature and that all of modern science is a lie. Tumblr Sexyman What do you mean you don't find Sans Undertale sexy? John Titor A purported time traveller from the year . This Man The dreamiest man you'll ever meet. Tourist guy The picture of a Hungarian man on 9/11. Twitter suspensions Tweeting's not a right, it's a privilege. Unusual eBay listings Those strange things people sell on the Internet... Uncyclopedia Wikipedia but with almost 99 percent more Oscar Wilde! uwu *notices ur Wikipedia article* owo what's this? uwu Very erotic very violent See also very good very mighty. Wikiracing The competitive arts of trying to navigate from one Wikipedia page to another. Wiki rabbit hole Starting from an article about video cameras, after a few clicks you start reading about science fiction, then you start reading about conspiracy theories, then you start reading about politics, then about modern history, then about languages, then about ancient history, then about modern history again, then about urban legends, etc, etc... eventually you land on a Wikipedia project page and go insane. wikiFeet The world's largest image sharing website devoted to foot fetishism. WTFPL A public domain software license whose abbreviation stands for "Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License". Wikipedia Star Trek Into Darkness debate Is it "into" or "Into"? Listed at Wikipedia's lamest edit wars. Yaoi paddle A weapon to be wielded only by a true kenshi. YouTube Poop Videos of mass media, almost always audiovisual ones edited to make them more humorous. Ironically, the first video that is considered to be a YouTube poop was uploaded back in December , predating a few months before the site's creation in February and the upload date of the first YouTube video, Me at the zoo in April . Absurdistan The place where silly bureaucracy rules. Has been located in places as diverse as Czechoslovakia and Iraq. Bagism A social ideology created by the Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono which involves wearing a bag over one's entire body to promote peace and equality. Beard Liberation Front A British interest group which campaigns in support of beards and opposes discrimination against those who wear them. Berners Street hoax The day that all of London gathered at one house. Birth tourism Going on vacation to get a different citizenship for the child. Frank Chu All he wants is royalties for being featured in a real life soap opera broadcast in 12 galaxies – or was it 785,249,000,000,000? Correspondence between the Ottoman sultan and the Cossacks Amongst other insults and profanity, it supposedly told Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire to fuck his mother. Crypt of Civilization A time capsule not to be opened before A.D. Cutting in line How rude! Eggplant emoji These are totally friendly emoji, having no hidden sexual meanings at all, right? Peach emoji Elaine Davidson A Brazilian woman that has the record of having the most piercings in the face. Erika Eiffel Wife of the Eiffel Tower. Elvavrålet The time of night when Swedish university students throw open their windows and scream their stress away. Escalator etiquette Which side are you on? Fat men's club Social clubs for the weightiest members of society. Female husband Women who specifically marry other women whilst pretending to be men. Jenaro Gajardo Vera A Chilean lawyer who claimed to own the Moon. Justo Gallego Martínez A Spanish Catholic priest who, for almost seven decades, single-handedly constructed his own church. Georgia Guidestones A granite monument commissioned to help guide humanity, which became the subject of conspiracy theories, and the target of a bomber. Guerrilla gardening "Quick... torch on... plant those carrots!" Go Topless Day A day to advocate topfreedom for women. Great Stork Derby The strangest competition in Canadian history: female residents of Toronto were promised a financial reward to give birth to the most kids in just ten years. Charles Harrelson One of the most infamous hitmen in US history... and the father of actor Woody Harrelson. He never married A euphemism often used in mid-20th century obituaries in United Kingdom for gay men. Marie Sophie Hingst The late German historian and blogger who claimed to be born to Holocaust survivors, despite not being Jewish. Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles Not a ninja turtles fan group, but "an honorable drinking fraternity composed of ladies and gentlemen of the highest morals and good character, who are never vulgar." Japanese adult adoption The vast majority of adoptees in Japan are childless adult males, adopted by families needing a strong heir or a male successor for their businesses. Elizabeth Klarer A 20th century Afrikaner woman who claimed that she dated an extraterrestrial being and gave birth to an alien. She later wrote two books about this. Knobbly knees competition A favourite in holiday camps all over the UK. Hideaki Kobayashi A man in his sixties dressed as a schoolgirl. Completely innocent, trust us. Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle A television show produced by the North Korean government intended to educate the public on good and bad hairstyles. List of people who have lived in airports Wish you were here? Long-term nuclear waste warning messages How do you warn people to stay away from nuclear waste repositories, in a way that will be understandable 10,000 years from now? Jean-Marie Loret He (and his children) claimed that he was the son of an affair between his mother and a WW1-era, pre-infamy Adolf Hitler. Mónica Macías The daughter of Equatoguinean president Francisco Macías Nguema who grew up in North Korea, with Kim Il Sung himself serving as her second father. Man of the Hole The last survivor of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil, and arguably the world's loneliest person. Mitsuyasu Maeno Porn actor, yakuza member, Japanese ultranationalist and failed assassin. Mongrel complex A concept regarding an inferiority complex reportedly felt by some Brazilians. Coined following an especially agonizing World Cup loss. Montreal–Philippines cutlery controversy A 7-year-old boy's eating habits became an international incident. Neturei Karta An international organization of Orthodox Jews that oppose Israel. Niche insurance Insure yourself against being abducted by aliens, losing your genitalia, or conceiving the second Christ. Emperor Norton A man who claimed to be "Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico" in . Panty tree Trees covered in various articles of clothing cast off by ski lift passengers. Pole and Hungarian brothers be A two-nation proverb often cited, usually while drinking, in both Poland and Hungary. Poop emoji An emoji representing a pile of feces, usually with a cartoony face, which is considered to be good luck in Japan, and used for disapproval and humor in the West. Posthumous marriage Saying "'til death do us part" with someone who's already dead. The Queue A queue, stretching for 10 miles at one point, all the way to Southwark Park, formed by Britons in September in order to pay their respects to their late sovereign. Sentinelese An autonomous Stone Age human tribe which completely avoids contact with the outside world. South Korean National Liberation Front Preparation Committee A pro-North Korean organization in South Korea. Travelling gnome Taking a garden gnome on an adventure... occasionally without telling the owner of the garden it was on. Vesna Vulović A Serbian flight attendant who became famous for surviving the highest fall without the use of parachutes. War of the stop signs Free movement means free movement. Ziona An Indian man who holds the record for fathering the largest living family in the world. In total, he had 39 spouses and 94 children. Talk about the weekly home bills.... Gatton by-election Three candidates, two receiving zero votes after the one opposing ballot was disqualified by the borough's owner's brother in law. A rare contested by-election in one of the UK's most notorious rotten boroughs of the early 19th century - a very rare event showing how attempting to contest them was futile. Liberian general election The most fraudulent election in recorded history, with a turnout of 1,680%. Texas gubernatorial election A gubernatorial election in which Democratic nominee Allan Shivers won in a landslide against Republican nominee... Allan Shivers... Illinois gubernatorial election Followers of a bizarre political figure hijack an election, and force one of the main candidates into running under a different party. Makassar mayoral election In which Munafri Arifuddin ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar, Indonesia, won more than 250,000 votes, and lost. Above Znoneofthe A Canadian politician who changed his name so that people would misread it as "none of the above" on the ballot (with the Z added to appear at the end of the list) and pick his name by mistake. However, he was printed on the ballots not as "Znoneofthe Above" but as "Above Znoneofthe", and his (almost) masterminded plan failed. Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act An apparently innocuous piece of congressional legislation that became the subject of outrageous but widely believed conspiracy theories in . André Dallaire How often do would-be assassins break into a Prime Minister's residence without resistance? Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany A satirical party formed in the s. Some of its main objectives include balkanizing Germany, legalizing all drugs and creating so-called "fuckpooling centers". Antanas Mockus The surprisingly effective mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, known for civically-targeted publicity pranks. Anti-Japaneseism Advocates for self-inflicted genocide. Anti-PowerPoint Party Fighting the overuse of Microsoft PowerPoint in offices since . Bald–hairy Russian leadership has alternated between bald and hairy leaders since . Banned in Boston Boston now has a reputation as a liberal city, but it wasn't always so... Barack Obama "Joker" poster You wanna know how I got these scars? Alejandro Cao de Benós A Spanish man who is the only non-Korean person to officially work for the North Korean government. Benós is also featured in some documentaries about North Korea, such as The Propaganda Game and The Mole: Undercover in North Korea. Biotic Baking Brigade Pie-throwing anarchists. Boris Skossyreff Belarusian adventurer, who tried to seize the monarchy of Andorra and called himself Boris I of Andorra. British Israelism A long discredited form of British nationalism, by way of the idea that the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel made their way to Britain. Brown Dog affair Political scandal that resulted in police protection for the statue of a dog. Bunga bunga Nobody knew what it meant, until one Italian politician made it mean "kinky sex". Bung Moktar Radin A Malaysian politician known for his notoriously unparliamentary behavior, including shouting "fuck you" on the Dewan Rakyat floor and tweeting "long live Hitler" after a World Cup match. God knows how he's managed to retain his position for the last 20 years. Bushism Any of a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, semantic or linguistic errors that have occurred in the public speaking of former United States President George W. Bush. Byron (Low Tax) Looper Not only did he give himself a parenthetical middle name, he tried to win an election by simply murdering his opponent. It didn't quite work out. Candy Desk A desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate has been kept filled with candy since . Charles the Bald A 9th century emperor of the Carolingian Empire who is depicted in artwork as having a full head of hair. Chernomyrdinka Russia can do Bushisms too. Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office An official government position in the United Kingdom. Count Binface An intergalatic warlord and British political candidate (formerly Lord Buckethead). Celso Daniel A city mayor in Brazil who was, allegedly, assassinated in by criminals, but many people say that he was murdered for political reasons. Within five years, seven witnesses were found dead. To this day, the case remains unsolved. Frank Collin A Jewish Neo-Nazi. Congressional office lottery The process that determines when representatives in the House can pick their rooms, host to such rituals as playing Frank Sinatra songs and Jedi mind tricks. Crusade of Romanianism s Romania saw possibly the world's only political movement which attempted to synthesize fascism with libertarian socialism. Darth Vader in Ukrainian politics The Sith Lord has participated in elections in Ukraine. Multiple times actually. So much that a Lenin statue was modified to replicate his likeness. David Rice Atchison Possibly President for a day, only finding out after his "term" had ended. Deez Nuts A satirical candidate who ran for president during the U.S. presidential election and polled 10% at his best. In the polls, he had defeated other notable candidates such as Harambe, Beast Mode, Darrell Castle (this one is real), and nearly Jill Stein. Division of Batman A former electoral district in Melbourne, Australia. And no, it wasn't named after the superhero. Democracy sausage Part of Australia's tradition of holding a fundraising sausage sizzle at polling places on election day. Not connected to the observation about similarities between how laws and sausages are made. "Dewey Defeats Truman" When Thomas E. Dewey was falsely thought to have defeated Harry S. Truman in the election. Dizzy Gillespie presidential campaign Had it succeeded, it would have created a dream cabinet including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and Ray Charles; the White House would be renamed to the Blues House. Donald Duck Party A non-existent political party, at occasions among the top ten parties in Swedish parliamentary elections. Dunwich Another rotten borough which had almost entirely fallen into the sea over two centuries before it was abolished. Not to be confused with the other Dunwich... Ed Miliband bacon sandwich photograph The biggest enemy of British politician - and then Leader of the Opposition - Ed Miliband? A simple bacon sandwich. Eddie Eagle Not the British ski-jumping pioneer, but the NRA's firearm safety mascot. For kids! Wolfgang Engels A 19-year old civilian employee of the National People's Army who smashed through the Berlin Wall with a stolen APC. Euromyth Paranoid and imaginative speculations about the bureaucratic excesses of the European Union. Executive Order The executive order that (accidentally) made everyone in the US female. Four Pests campaign Mao Zedong's campaign to eliminate all sparrows in China. Helped (in some small way, at least) cause the Great Chinese Famine. Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference The bizarre scene when Trump's presidential campaign hosted a presser not at the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia... but at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Philadelphia. Fuddle duddle A Canadian political incident involving most unparliamentary language. Gaysper When Spain's major far-right party accidentally created an LGBT+ icon. George H. W. Bush broccoli comments The president's strategy for winning the baby vote. George W. Bush shoe-throwing incident An incident where Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw a pair of shoes at George W. Bush on December 14th, during a press conference. German Apples Front A campaign to purify the German... fruit crop. Glee Club Predating the American television series by some decades, one British political party hosts this evening of entertainment in which participants are encouraged to sing rude songs making fun of politicians past and present, both in the party and in more general politics. Greek Ecologists A Green party which uses nudity in its political campaigns. Günter Schabowski A Freudian slip of this East German official started the demolition of the Berlin Wall. H'Angus A monkey football mascot who was elected mayor of Hartlepool, England, with a platform of "free bananas for all schoolchildren". Harcourt interpolation The editor of this page then said he felt inclined for a bit of fucking. Harold Holt He goes swimming, and then missing. In a strange turn of events, this also led to a swimming pool being named in his honor. Helengrad A nonexistent communist dystopia that supposedly gripped Wellington, New Zealand between and . Huh Kyung-young A perennial South Korean political candidate who owns a palace filled with portraits of himself, claims to be able to levitate and teleport, and that he has an IQ of 430. Got 0.8% of the vote for President in . Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party The best satirical party in Hungary. Ich bin ein Berliner President Kennedy did not call himself a jelly donut in front of a German audience. Ilona Staller A Hungarian porn star elected to the Italian Parliament. Incidents of objects being thrown at politicians In various countries, objects have been thrown at politicians for reasons varying from comedic to harmful with objects from pies to grenades. Jakob Maria Mierscheid A fictitious politician in the German Bundestag since , originally introduced in the s by Weimar Social Democrats to avoid paying restaurant bills. Discovered the Mierscheid Law. Jón Gnarr An Icelandic comedian who started the satirical Best Party, and became the mayor of Reykjavík. John Turmel With a record of no wins and 100 losses in campaigns since , he's probably the world's least-successful would-be politician. Dennis Hof An American pimp who owned several legal brothels in Nevada and won the Nevada 36th district election in ... While he was dead. Justin Humphrey An American politician who made a bill that would make it illegal to be a furry in Oklahoma schools and promoted an official Bigfoot hunting season, among others. Kasongo Ilunga A man who spent several months of as the Minister for Foreign Trade of the Democratic Republic of the Congo – even though he wasn't a real person. Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary If you ever find yourself an alien in the Klavern and someone asks "AYAK?", remember to answer "AKIA". It's all "CABARK". Lyndon LaRouche What does the Glass-Steagall Act, concert pitch, and a hypothetical Eurasian Land Bridge have in common? According to him, Elizabeth II's attempts to suppress "the truth" about them. Legislative violence Where politicians actively fight for what they believe in. Liz Truss lettuce The vegetable that outlasted a British prime minister. Longest Ballot Committee Lord Bloody Wog Rolo Australian political personality and founder of the British Ultra Loyalist League Serving Historical Interests Today (B.U.L.L.…). Luke Lea Former American Senator who tried to kidnap the exiled former Kaiser of Germany in . The plan failed when the Kaiser refused to allow him to visit. He ended up stealing a bronze ashtray instead. List of Kim Jong Il's titles Because just being the "Great Leader" wasn't enough. List of politically motivated renamings Freedom fries and liberty cabbage! List of short-tenure Donald Trump political appointments "You're fired!" (almost as quickly as you were hired) Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands A fake Maoist political party set up by the BVD in order to spy on the Chinese government. Fooled Zhou Enlai, and may have helped facilitate Richard Nixon's tour of China. Mitsuo Matayoshi Perennial candidate. Self-proclaimed God. Repeatedly told opponents to kill themselves. McGillicuddy Serious Party A satirical political party in New Zealand. Mel Carnahan In , he was elected to the United States Senate, despite dying in a plane crash 3 weeks before election day. Merkel-Raute More than one German leader has been known for a distinctive hand gesture. Mini-dokuritsukoku That time when hundreds of local communities and businesses in Japan declared "independence". Moha The online cult of former Chinese President, Jiang Zemin. Nagriamel A libertarian, welfarist, traditionalist, cargo cultist Ni-Vanuatu political movement that was once led by a man named "Moses" with 23 wives and briefly tried to secede. Still represented in the Parliament of Vanuatu, making it perhaps the world's strangest non-satirical party with actual influence. Name changes due to the Islamic State Companies thought it would be a great idea to name their project "Isis" until... National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation A yearly event when the US president pardons two turkeys instead of letting them get eaten for Thanksgiving. New shoes on budget day One of Canada's less grand political traditions. Nicolás Zúñiga y Miranda Mexican eccentric who repeatedly ran for president, lost, and claimed he'd won. Sound familiar? NHK Party The Japanese anti-TV licensing fees party with nine names since , two feuding leaders, and a habit of picking YouTubers as candidates, that is somehow still represented in the National Diet. Niuas Nobles' constituency An electoral constituency consisting of just three voters, who elect one of their number to one of the twenty-six seats in the Legislative Assembly of Tonga. Nobody for President Vote for Nobody! Nobody will listen to their campaign promises! Non-human electoral candidate Why be ruled by some monkey, RINO or pig when you can get a real chimp, rhino or pig into office? Norway Debate A series of adjournment debates over three days, one of which ended with the House of Commons nearly voting against the question 'that this House do now adjourn'. Highlights include former Prime Minister David Lloyd George comparing future Prime Minister Winston Churchill to an air raid shelter. 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens A recurring article from The Onion published dozens of times with minimal changes as a satire of America's gun control. Nuisance candidate In the Philippines, political candidates can be disqualified for bringing the election into disrepute or mockery, having a name which confuses voters or not actually intending to run for office. Official Monster Raving Loony Party
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Catmando Among other policies, this British political party advocates the banning of semicolons as "no-one knows how to use them". Its original leader still holds a British record by standing in 40 elections and losing all of them. Also, it was run for a while by a cat. Old Sarum A notorious UK rotten borough which elected 2 MPs, despite having an electorate of 11, none of whom actually lived there. Gabriele Paolini His sole aim in life: to get condoms on TV. Panda diplomacy Turns out that the best Chinese diplomats are pandas. Parliamentary snuff box The only place where you can legally get free tobacco in the UK is the House of Commons. Pascual Racuyal A Filipino presidential aspirant who promised to build plastic roads and govern the Philippines "via satellite". Patrol 36 The most famous group of Neo-Nazi Israelis. Pedro Lascuráin President of Mexico for 45 minutes. People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada) The only Marxist-Leninist constitutional monarchy in history with Elizabeth II as monarch. Pink Pistols They're here, they're queer – and they're armed to the teeth. Polish Beer-Lovers' Party One of the major political powers in Poland in the early s. Political Google bombs in the U.S. presidential election I was searching for waffles, not John Kerry. ¿Por qué no te callas? It's not often a head of state tells another head of state to shut up at an official summit. Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act An act of Congress specifically made to ban a specific popular Chinese social media app, that only succeeded in banning said specific Chinese social media app for 12 hours. In those 12 hours, Americans were flocking to another Chinese social media app. Puedo prometer y prometo Spain's first political joke after the end of the Franco era. Putin khuylo! Or "Putin is a dickhead", in Ukrainian. Ratfucking What the Watergate conspirators did. (Not bestiality, if that's what you're thinking.) Redskins Rule When Washington's NFL team won, the party of the current president retained the presidency; when they lost, the opposition party won. Resignation from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Illegal since . Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, ) A British Trotskyist cult party that went right-libertarian post-Cold War, discovered genocide denial, accused ITN of faking footage, and got sued out of existence. Rhinoceros Party A former political party in Canada, which often promised outlandishly impossible schemes designed to amuse and entertain the voting public. Richard Nixon mask One of the United States' most popular masks. Russian political jokes In Soviet Russia, the article reads you. Shanghai Fugu Agreement A completely fictitious international treaty accepted by the German state of Hesse in . Shawinigan Handshake A tense Prime Minister puts a chokehold on a protestor. Shi Pei Pu A male Chinese opera singer-turned-spy who seduced French diplomat Bernard Boursicot for 20 years by pretending to be a woman, even "having" a child with him. Sister Boom Boom A drag queen who dressed as a nun and ran for the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco. Socialist fraternal kiss When two socialist leaders are very close... Socialist Patients' Collective An organization that charged that diseases were caused by capitalism. Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of You've got to really care about white supremacy to talk for 24 hours straight. (Happily, it didn't stop the Civil Rights Act from passing.) Taiwan Communist Party The founder of the party claimed he had no knowledge of communist theory and only picked the name to garner interest. The Wizard of New Zealand The Prime Minister of New Zealand gave a friend the title of "Wizard of New Zealand." "There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama" A song celebrating the Irish heritage of then-candidate for President of the United States Barack Obama. Tía Pikachu A Chilean preschool teacher who wore an inflatable Pikachu costume in the country's protests, who was later elected to a board to rewrite the country's constitution. Tsang Tsou-choi From the s to his death, he claimed to be the "Kowloon emperor". Wilson Tucker The power of group voting tickets brought a man living in America to Australian regional office despite only having gained 98 votes. Unabomber for President saw a presidential campaign for an infamous domestic terrorist serving eight life sentences in a supermax prison. Union of the Centrist Center Actually centre-right. Vermin Supreme A presidential candidate with a boot on his head, who carries around a large toothbrush and pledges that, if elected, he will give every U.S. citizen a pony. Waitangi dildo incident Once upon a time in New Zealand, Minister for Economic Development Steven Joyce was attacked with a dildo. White House horseshoe pit Where George H. W. Bush won an epic duel of horseshoes 21-0 in five minutes. Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan A spoof scientific study by J.G. Ballard which compares the face of Ronald Reagan to an erect penis. Was circulated at the RNC as a prank. You have two cows A political satire comparing different political ideologies with cows, for some reason. double eagle An extremely rare U.S. coin that is illegal to privately own. Samsung fat-finger error When new Samsung Securities shareholders became 112 trillion won (1,017,719,218.54 USD) richer. BackpackersXpress It's hard to see what went wrong with this proposal to fly Boeing 747s full of singing, dancing and drinking backpackers between Australia and the UK. Bank of England £100,000,000 note If you thought the largest UK banknote was £50, then you're VERY wrong. Big Ass Fans Hey, it's not a lie. Big Mac Index Ronald McDonaldonomics. Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions Or "BUGA-UP" for short. An Australian group of subversive artists who live up to their self-description by defacing tobacco and alcohol billboard advertisements to promote healthy living. Bitcoin buried in Newport landfill How far would you go to take back your money? Boss key A special button on an application used to quickly mask an employee's counterproductivity. CeX It sells. Christmas Price Index How much it would cost to buy (or hire) all the items in the Twelve Days of Christmas each year. Dead cat bounce In finance, a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock, because "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height." Dead mall That formerly active and popular mall that no one goes to anymore. Elongated coin What better souvenir than a mangled and defaced penny. EURion constellations Not-so-secret recognition patterns you can find on banknotes. Fedspeak Federal Reserve Board statements were made deliberately cryptic so no one understood them. Financial Modeling World Cup An esport competition of financial modelling, using Microsoft Excel. Fixed price of Coca-Cola from to For over 70 years, the price of a bottle of Coke in the U.S. was five cents. Fukuppy A branding exercise by a Japanese refrigeration company, which turned into a, well, ... GameStop short squeeze Internet traders meme their way into a battle for Wall Street. To the moon! Gruen transfer Shopping malls are designed to confuse the customer, making them more susceptible to impulse buying. Prix Guzman A French Academy of Sciences prize to be given to the first person to communicate with a celestial body, other than Mars (widely believed to be inhabited at the time), and receiving a response. It caught the attention of Tesla among others, but was not awarded until . Hallmark holiday A holiday that seemingly exists primarily for commercial purposes. Hemline index The other reason why CEOs like women with short skirts. Hungarian pengő The worst inflation in history caused this currency to be replaced with another that was 400 octillion times its value. Inflatable rat Common tool of U.S. labor unions. IKEA pencil Free, popular, and even used in surgery. Kongō Gumi The world's oldest company that is still in operation today. Maid café So cuteeee. Men's underwear index An economic indicator popularised by Alan Greenspan. Meme coin Actual traded cryptocurrencies based on internet memes. Merchant Marine of Switzerland A landlocked country with a significant commercial fleet. Money burning For behaviour modification, political notoriety and a warm fireplace. (See also K Foundation Burn a Million Quid above.) Olim L'Berlin A Facebook page that urged Israelis to move to Germany by comparing prices of a popular Milky pudding. Oil futures drunk-trading incident A rather costly drunken mistake. Operation Bernhard A Nazi plan to cause hyperinflation in the UK by way of forged banknote dropping. Purple squirrel Mythical creature, a job candidate with precisely the right education, experience, and qualifications that perfectly fits a job's requirements. Rai stones Stone money, some of which is 3 meters (10 ft) in diameter, and weighs 4 metric tons (8,800 lb). Gerald Ratner Business 101: If you own an incredibly popular jewellery company, maybe don't publicly announce that your products are all cheap garbage. Slum tourism And if you look to your left you will see an impoverished minority neighborhood. Swastika Laundry A laundry service whose electric vans cheerfully displayed the notorious symbol around Dublin until the s. Tanganyika groundnut scheme A scheme, stymied by a lack of water, to grow peanuts where none had been grown before. Therbligs In motion studies, the elemental motions used by a person when performing a process in the workplace. Named by and after Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (yes, the parents in Cheaper by the Dozen). Ting Hai effect A sudden drop in the stock market that follows whenever Hong Kong actor Adam Cheng stars in a new TV show. Tingo Group
Dozy Mmobuosi A seemingly magical Nigerian agri-fintech company that was once valued for more than $1 billion. Actually discovered to be a personal vehicle for its founder, who's now charged with securities fraud. Toyokawa Shinkin Bank incident How idle chatter between three high school girls led to a 2-billion-yen bank run. Trillion-dollar coin A concept that was proposed as a way to bypass US debt-ceiling crisis through the minting of high-value platinum coins. Tulip mania The first recorded asset bubble was for Dutch tulips, which at the peak of the mania sold for 10 times a skilled artisan's income. Disputed to have ever occurred by some. "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!" An ad campaign that figured the best way to sell cigarettes is to show all the consumers with black eyes. Veblen good Goods whose demand increases as price increases, violating the law of demand. Why didn't you invest in Eastern Poland? Because if you don't, your in-laws will hate you, your children won't respect you, even your therapist will judge you, according to this mocked PR campaign. Zero-rupee note A method of reducing bribery in India. Rajneeshee bioterror attack The first and largest bioterror attack in United States history involved the poisoning of salad bars with Salmonella in an attempt to sway an election in favor of the followers of an Indian mystic. San Diego tank rampage They say that being in a tank gives you the high ground. It certainly reigns true here. Boston Mooninite panic A guerilla marketing campaign for an animated TV series that quickly became a homeland security issue. Sada Abe Sensational journalism—from the Land of the Rising Sun. Acoustic Kitty A failed CIA experiment at using a cat for covert surveillance. Animal trial Historically, the law in some areas of Europe subjected animals to criminal liability for their conduct. Attempted theft of George Washington's skull Alas, poor George! Baby Jesus theft When a child is gone... Batman rapist Batman's back at it again, but this time it's actually a sex offender who attacked women in the city of Bath. Bowling Green massacre A nonexistent massacre mentioned by the Trump administration, subject to parody. Burke and Hare murders What is the best way to accelerate scientific progress? Killing people, of course. Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108 Non-suicide aircraft bombings for insurance money have been done afterwards, but certainly not for the purposes of elopement. Chamoy Thipyaso At 141,078 years, she holds the record for the longest prison sentence without lifetime imprisonment – and didn't even serve 1% of it. Chewbacca defense "Now, why would Wikipedia have an article about the Chewbacca defense? That does not make sense!" Michael Cicconetti A judge renowned for his strange alternative punishments. Cicada Criminals or puzzle enthusiasts? Commission Regulation (EC) No. /94 The infamous "bendy banana law", this seemingly-dry piece of EU quality standards legislation convinced the UK media and many ordinary people that Brussels had banned bananas from being curved. One of the most infamous Euromyths. Confraternities in Nigeria In Nigeria, university student societies have been frequently linked to kidnapping, sexual assault and mass murder. Crime in Antarctica It's not the Wild West—er, South. Crime in Vatican City Because of its low population and large number of tourists, the statistics suggest the average citizen commits two crimes per year. Dead Man's Statute Enacted to prevent a witness from testifying about communications with a dead person. Easter Act The government of the United Kingdom legally mandated a change of date for Easter Sunday to a period of seven days - and then never actually enforced it. Emo killings in Iraq Music fans killed for their alleged Satan worship and homosexuality. Expert wizard amendment New Mexico narrowly avoided requiring all psychiatrists testifying in court to put on a robe and wizard hat. Free Bench An unusual English legal custom permitting a widow to inherit her deceased husband's land. In one version, she would have to ride into court backwards on a black ram while reciting a nonsense verse. Glasgow ice cream wars In the s, violent conflicts between ice-cream vendors (who also sold drugs and stolen goods) left six people dead. Troy Leon Gregg Escaped from death row, got killed in a bar fight that same night. Disappearance of Johnny Gosch In , a 12 year-old went missing. As of , the case is still unsolved, and Gosch's whereabouts remain a mystery. However, Gosch's mother claims that he visited her in , and in she found a photo sent by an anonymous person to her front door. Guano Islands Act This strange piece of legislation enables citizens of the U.S. to take possession of islands containing guano deposits. Gresham cat hostage taking incident In , a cat was taken hostage by its owner in a store. The owner would later get shot and killed by police. Robert Hanssen Tasked by the FBI to help rat out Soviet spies. The problem? He was one of them. Helen Duncan The last woman convicted under the UK's Witchcraft Act. Her favourite trick: "ectoplasm" made out of fabric and egg. Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal A craft store chain purchases stolen Iraqi artifacts. Hungry judge effect Pray your hearing doesn't come right before lunch. 'I know it when I see it' "Not that, but something sort of like that?" John Smeaton Sometimes, the best way to avoid a terrorist attack is to simply kick the terrorist in the balls. John "Half-hanged" Smith They tried to hang him, but he survived. Later attempts to try him fizzled out until they just decided to deport him to America. Lake Erie Walleye Trail cheating scandal "We got weights in FISH!!!" Learned Hand Thanks to his name, this American judge could've part-timed as a superhero—"The Learned Hand of the Law" has a nice ring to it. Given his impact on tax law, his birth name of Billings Learned Hand is even more apropos. Jay Leiderman The lawyer that represented Anonymous. Lesbian rule Not the replacement for the Patriarchy, but an archaic term meaning legal flexibility (and originally a building tool from Lesbos). Ley de fugas Prisoners were allowed to escape, as an excuse to kill them for trying to escape. Viola Liuzzo One of the FBI's darkest criminal cases. Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano A Guatemalan attorney who arranged his own death and blamed it on the President, seeking justice for his murdered girlfriend. Massachusetts School Laws How 17th-century Massachusetts sought to rid itself of the Prince of Darkness. Matrix defense A claim that the defendant committed a crime under the belief of being inside a simulated reality. The defense has been successful more than once. Gary McKinnon How a UFO enthusiast with Asperger syndrome was able to hack into the US government's computers. A moron in a hurry Used in passing-off law, this is the sort of fictional person who would look at a knockoff product and think it's the real thing for long enough to buy it. Mug shot of Donald Trump How a photo of the 45th president of the U.S. getting arrested (and released shortly after) became a source of comedy on the internet. My Way killings There's one song you shouldn't sing in a Filipino karaoke bar. Ninja of Heisei An elderly Japanese man who successfully committed over 250 burglaries while disguised in a ninja outfit. Not proven A controversial Scots law verdict for those neither guilty nor innocent. Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi In , a teenage girl went missing in the Vatican and the search for her whereabouts became a major controversy. In , the religious state opened for the first time an official investigation on the matter. Onion Futures Act Why you can't buy any onion futures, but you can for corn, oats, rice, aluminum, crude oil, wood, etc. Operation Flagship Do not trust the San Diego Chicken. Perry Mason moment "Mr. Menendez, did you know Big 5 stopped selling pistols in ?" Phantom of Heilbronn A DNA-traced serial killer, also known as the "Woman without a face", who turned out to be nonexistent. Phantom social workers They make children disappear. Prenda Law A law firm that blackmailed people for allegedly downloading pornography; the firm was described by one court as a "porno-trolling collective". Prohibition of dying There are really some places where death is illegal. (Although it is unknown what happens to anyone who breaks this law.) Regulation of flamethrowers in the United States No permit needed in 48 states. Rough sex murder defense It is what it is. Mitchell Rupe The man who was too fat to hang. Salmon Act A UK law, designed to curb illegal fishing, which creates the humorously-named crime of "handling salmon in suspicious circumstances". Sand theft What do you mean I can't take the sand home? Shaggy defense Caught committing a crime, but don't know what to do? Say it wasn't you. Small penis rule A technique used by authors to avoid libel lawsuits. Steve Comisar America's #1 solar-powered dryer salesman. Suspensory Act An act whose sole purpose was to postpone the coming into force of two other acts. Tennessee login law Laws against password sharing are older than you think, but have always been this unpopular. The Beatles (terrorist cell) An Islamic State terrorist cell named after a rock band. Keron Thomas In , aged sixteen, he posed as a motorman on the New York City Subway and managed to operate a scheduled passenger train for over three hours. Andre Thomas Serial killer who tore out his eyes and consumed them in order to prevent the government from reading his mind. Twinkie defense When you don't want to go to jail. Ugly law A type of U.S. city ordinance banning anyone "diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object" from being in public. United Airlines Flight 976 The worst case of air rage ever? Or just a very bad case of traveler's diarrhea? United Nations (gang) I thought that organization was going to bring world peace and prevent future wars once for all! Angie Sanclemente Valencia A former lingerie model alleged to have run one of the largest drug cartels in the world. Clement Vallandigham A lawyer who proved his client had not killed a man, but the victim had shot himself... by shooting himself dead. Whipping Tom The name given to multiple London sex attackers. One of them, upon seeing an unaccompanied woman, would grab her, lift her dress, and slap her buttocks repeatedly before fleeing. He would sometimes accompany his attacks by shouting "Spanko!" Wet feet, dry feet policy America seems to not like wet feet. Abeguwo Remember when you were a kid, and joked that the rain was peeing? Well... Adorcism For when you want spirits inside you. Asher yatzar A Jewish blessing, read to praise the ability to excrete urine or faeces. Axinomancy Foretelling the future by looking at an axe or hatchet. Ben Hana A homeless man in Wellington, New Zealand who worshiped the Māori sun-god Ra (not to be confused with the ancient Egyptian sun-god Ra). Bhekuli Biya "Frog marriage", designed to bring rain. At least one has ended in divorce in order to stop floods. Braco (faith healer) Meet the Gazer and be healed with a single glance. Cargo cult Tribal rites and rituals developed in the belief they will attract the goods, wealth and materials – the "cargo" – of a more technologically advanced and affluent culture. Coca-Cola Fatwa It's the real thing... and thankfully, it's not haram. Coconut Religion A religion founded in Vietnam that advocates subsisting solely off of coconuts and coconut milk, created a "Coconut Kingdom" on an islet of the Mekong River, and referred to its leader and founder as "His Coconutship". Crepitus A Roman god of flatulence (allegedly). Ded Moroz Like Santa, but Russian, and blue. Dendera light Does an engraving of the Egyptian creation myth show that Ancient Egypt had lightbulbs? As it turns out, no. Dhana Kumari Bajracharya A woman did not walk for 60 years. Disconnection (Scientology) The result of a poor signal with Scientology. Fluffy bunny A controversial epithet in Wicca. Gang Bing After his act of self-castration, he became the patron saint of eunuchs. Haitian Vodou and homosexuality Surely a troll, you say? No! A perfectly legitimate article! High-Heel Wedding Church Want to get married in a giant shoe in Taiwan? Iglesia Maradoniana A religion with the Argentine footballer Diego Maradona as its god. International date line in Judaism and Jewish law in the polar regions Jewish law can get tricky when you travel to Hawaii... or go for a hike near the North Pole. Jerusalem syndrome For some people, a visit there is just too much. Jewish pope Andreas A Jewish pope..? Johnson cult Was US President Lyndon B. Johnson worshiped as a god in Papua New Guinea? Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory Can't decide whether to blame the Jews or the Freemasons? The conspiracy nuts have you covered. Kachera Sikh underwear. Kapo (mythology) The Hawaiian fertility goddess, known for having a detachable vagina. Khecarī mudrā How to maximise your spiritual energy: shove your tongue up your nose. List of games that Buddha would not play Including, it appears, a predecessor to chess. List of UFO religions Our Father, which art in spaceship... Lou de Palingboer God sells eels? Jesús Malverde A popular saint among drug dealers in Mexico. Matshishkapeu The "fart man" of Innu mythology. Don't cross him or he'll make you constipated. Missionary Church of Kopimism To Ctrl+C is human; to Ctrl+V is divine. Mizab al-Rahma The holiest rain gutter in Islam. Oomoto L. L. Zamenhof as kami. Open-source religion And we're not talking about the Church of Emacs either. Prince Philip movement A religious movement on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu which holds that Queen Elizabeth II's late husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was a divine being. Pseudoskepticism The philosophical or scientific argument that tries to appear skeptical, but really is trying to prove a position, as in "I don’t see enough evidence that we landed on the moon". Raël A French journalist who started a religion named after himself in the s. Religion in Antarctica There's no continent on Earth without organized religion. Reincarnation Application Must be filed by all living Buddha within the People's Republic of China before they are allowed to reincarnate. Religious pareidolia A tendency to see religious imagery in the textures of corn chips, cinnamon rolls, toast, clouds, etc. Saint Urho A fictitious saint of Finland created in Minnesota. Silver Sisterhood A bizarre neo-Victorian Irish spiritual movement with a sideline in creating text adventure games, including the first 18-rated game. Sin-eater An old belief that someone eating over a body would consume the sins of the deceased. Space opera in Scientology L. Ron Hubbard's history of the universe, including alien Invader Forces, "little orange-colored bombs that would talk" and brainwashing episodes in "a railway carriage quite like a British railway coach with compartments". Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case How a British schoolteacher teaching overseas in Sudan got in trouble for letting her six-year-old students name a teddy bear "Muhammad". Taghairm A couple of uncomfortable methods of fortune telling. Temple of Priapus A religion based on the worship of the phallus. Tlazōlteōtl Aztec god of vice, purification, steam baths, lust, filth, and a patroness of adulterers. Toilet god God living in the toilet. Turtles all the way down A myth about the nature of the universe, or perhaps a myth about a myth about the nature of the universe. United Nation of Islam Royall, Allah in Person claims to have spent the s in a spaceship with angels who informed him that he was God and instructed him on how to govern the world. Public records say he was a truck driver. Universe People Specific cult in Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Urantia Book Over two thousand pages of anonymous, religious, subconscious ramblings on religion and "God" (whatever that means in the billion planets out there). Xenu An ancient interstellar dictator who unleashed a genocide which created Christianity and psychiatry and whose story is "calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it". Yakub (Nation of Islam) Mad scientist creates white race. – papal election If you think modern conclaves take a bit long, consider this one; it took three years, after magistrates had locked the cardinals in and torn the roof off the building to force them into a decision. It's the reason why the conclave works as it does in the first place. Adam–God doctrine A previous belief held by the Mormons that said Adam was a space alien who became God on his death. Alexamenos graffito Possibly the oldest depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus was made by a boy mocking his Christian peer by depicting the Messiah with a donkey for a head. The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters Started by Peter the Great, and consisted mostly of drinking and partying. As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly An oldie but a goodie from the Bible. Jim Bakker Televangelist founds a Christian theme park so successful that it competes with Disneyland, gets arrested for fraud and loses his park, then promptly returns to televangelism upon release. Also admitted to never fully reading the Bible until his imprisonment, and to getting information on it from Lyndon LaRouche. Banquet of Chestnuts Enough to make even the most committed and diehard Roman Catholic agree that the church was in a pretty poor state at the time of the Reformation. Bible errata A typesetter's complaint finds justification in Psalm 119. Carlo Acutis Gamers don't die, they get canonized... Eventually. Cadaver Synod In 897, Pope Stephen VI had the body of the former Pope that appointed him, Pope Formosus exhumed, dressed in papal vestments and then seated on a throne while he read charges against it and conducted a trial. Caganer A traditional Catalan statue, similar to a garden gnome, that depicts a person defecating. Often included in Catalan nativity scenes or other Christmas decorations. Christmas in Nazi Germany The Nazi Party reinvented Christmas by removing a certain baby boy raised in the Jewish faith. Church of the First Born of the Lamb of God A fundamentalist Mormon group with a surprisingly large body count. Chute na santa incident An infamous kicking of a saint. Apparently done to one-up a rival TV network's previous blasphemous broadcasting. Clare of Assisi Because she claimed to have seen and heard Mass on the walls when she was ill, she was made the patron saint of television in , despite dying 674 years before television was invented. Harold Davidson A s Church of England clergyman, known as "The Prostitutes' Padre", who was defrocked and later died after being mauled by a toothless lion. Donus II A Pope falsely believed to have existed during the 970s, and was recognized as a legitimate Pope for two centuries. Ejaculatory prayer A short and impulsive prayer not—as the name may suggest—a prayer related to ejaculation. Ruben Enaje A former construction worker from the Philippines who has been voluntarily crucified 36 times as of . Ezekiel 23 One of the odder visions from God: a piece of Rule 34 with Samaria and Jerusalem portrayed as women who sleep around. The Family International A Christian-ish cult founded by a man too nutty even for Jim Jones and focused on sex. Followers' relationship with Jesus is erotic (with men having to imagine themselves as women so it isn't gay), and they previously used Flirty Fishing, where prostitution meets proselytizing. You won't be surprised to hear that there's a lot of child sexual abuse involved. Feast of the Ass No... this isn't about that ass. It's an old tradition where a girl and a child on a donkey go to church together, with the donkey sitting beside the altar during the sermon. Freedomites A Canadian religious cult that bombed and set fire to public buildings. All while nude. Gambling on papal conclaves How much you wanna bet he's going to be Catholic? General Butt Naked A former Liberian warlord who found Christ and now preaches to the communities he committed atrocities against would be pretty odd even if he weren't called... that. Great Disappointment Hundreds of people were convinced the world would end on a very specific date. Turns out they were wrong. Ahem. Hell house A type of Christian horror house to make children more pious. Holy Prepuce One of several relics purported to be associated with Jesus. Also known as The Holy Foreskin. (See also Circumcision of Jesus.) Jesus H. Christ Does it stand for Henry? Kolob God's home planet, so say the Mormons. List of people claimed to be Jesus Christ has risen...again...and again. LOLCat Bible Translation Project In teh beginnin, Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez an da urfs n stuffz... Luce Don't mess with this jubilee mascot! She has the power of God and anime on her side! Mental health of Jesus It's always "How can I see the Son of God?" and never "is he okay?". Miracle of the Sun 70,000 people in Portugal gather to witness a miracle and are treated to an inexplicable solar event. Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God Suicide cult or mass murder? You decide. Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible The Bible refers to lost books – even pagan ones – much more than you'd think. Omphalos hypothesis The answer to all the evidence against creationism – maybe the Earth was created to look like it was billions of years old! Phallic saint Figures of holy people, but a hundred times more hung. Pope Joan Medieval documents cite the existence of a female pope – proof of a Vatican cover up or a blasphemous slur? Pope John numbering There have been 21 legitimate Popes John, but there have been two known as John XXIII. Pope Michael Elected Pope in (by six people, including his parents) as a conclavist opponent to the current Pope, while not even an ordained priest. Pornocracy A near-60-year period, also known as Saeculum obscurum or the "Rule of the Harlots", where the Popes were controlled by the women of a corrupt noble family. Prophecy of the Popes According to this document, the Pope is the one who will bring about the fall of Rome. Most aren't convinced. Rod of Iron Ministries The cult of the AR-15, which holds ceremonies where firearms are blessed and whose leader wears a crown of bullets. Rumspringa Amish Gone Wild. Saint Guinefort A Saint who was also a dog. Not to be confused with this Saint, who was also a dog, Sort of, or the Saint whose name is a breed of dog Secret Gospel of Mark An incredibly elaborate forgery, or proof Jesus was gay? Self-crucifixion of Mattio Lovat An Italian attempts to crucify himself in public settings. Two times. And prevented by passerby in both attempts. Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tonga One of only a few territories (others notably including Samoa and Kiribati) where the famously Saturday-observing church observes the Sabbath on Sunday. Skoptsy "Holy" emasculation, started by a man who claimed to be a deceased emperor. John Murray Spear This guy thought Frankenstien was a how-to guide, and created Robo-Jesus. St. James-Bond Church No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour! Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera Was Jesus' father buried in Germany? Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions Doomsdays that didn't. Wicked Bible A reprint of the King James Bible, which rendered commandment number 7 as "Thou shalt commit adultery". Zipporah at the inn God apparently tries (and fails) to kill Moses. Adrian Carton de Wiart Fought in two World Wars, shot repeatedly, survived two plane crashes, escaped a POW camp, married a countess, and amputated his own fingers when his doctor refused. Also looked like a pirate. Angels of Mons Phantom bowmen from the Battle of Agincourt rose up from the dead to enact justice on the invading German Empire during the Battle of Mons... supposably. Michael Angelo Aquino U.S. Army officer, psychological warfare specialist and advocate for them to be used on American civilians... oh, and founder and high priest of an occult magic order. Vasily Arkhipov One man who averted the United States and the Soviet Union causing the end of the world. Bolivian Navy Not having access to the sea won't stop Bolivia from having a 5,000 man navy. Boot Monument In celebration of Benedict Arnold's foot. List of camoufleurs Pioneering artists in the field of military camouflage. Caspian Sea Monster Actually a product of the Cold War. Jack Churchill Longbows and broadswords weren't used in World War II. Or were they? The Crucified Soldier A Canadian soldier who was reportedly crucified with bayonets during the Second Battle of Ypres...ouch. CONOP The Pentagon's zombie apocalypse plan. Boston Corbett English-born soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth. Devoutly religious to the point of eccentricity, he was later committed to a mental institution, and disappeared after escaping from it. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm Crossword puzzles: A major danger to national security. Demob suit Imagine the feeling: you've come back from war and they've given you a nice civilian suit, but it's too small for you. Devil Eyes This CIA psyop plan called for Hasbro to make G.I. Joe style figures of Osama bin Laden with a hidden demon face underneath. Dreadnought hoax A practical joke at the expense of the Royal Navy, inspiring the influential Bloomsbury Group. Guy Gabaldon Helped capture over a thousand Japanese soldiers during the WWII battle for Saipan when he was only 18. Juan Pujol García A spy who worked as a double agent for the Nazis and the United Kingdom during World War II. General Butt Naked Don't laugh. Henry Gunther The last man to die in World War I, and quite possibly the dumbest. Simo Häyhä Showed some extraordinary Finnish sisu in the Winter War against the Soviets. Ice cream barge Warning! Delicious creamy goodness ahead! Kamikaze A series of typhoons which were said to have prevented two Mongol fleets from invading Japan, seven years apart. Koshiro Tanaka A salaryman who decided he wanted to do more with his life... and achieved this by joining the mujahideen to fight the Soviets. Aimo Koivunen Finnish soldier in the Continuation War, and first documented case of meth overdose during combat. Lehi A Zionist militant group founded in who oxymoronically tried to ally with the Nazis. Line-crossing ceremony An initiation rite performed when a ship crosses the equator. List of wartime crossdressers Because war demands proper fashion. Alan Mcilwraith A call center worker who pretended to be a British Army officer, and then pretended to be a magician. Wilmer McLean It can be said that the American Civil War both started and ended in one man's front yard. Miss Russian Army A beauty contest minus the swimsuit competition but plus the automatic weapons drills. Montauk Project Real military science experiment or urban legend? Maybe the civilians who were in full view of the military base will be able to tell you. Moro Islamic Liberation Front A rebel, some might say terrorist, group in the Southern Philippines who may or may not be aware that their initials are also an acronym for mom I'd like to... Mozart Group An ambitious American private military company created for the purpose of supporting Ukraine during the Russian invasion. Fell apart after less than a year due largely to underfunding, infighting and rowdy soldier behavior. Navies of landlocked countries Mongolia once had one of the world's largest navies. Today they have one vessel with a crew of seven sailors, one of them able to swim. Nebraska Admiral The landlocked U.S. state of Nebraska and its "Great Navy". Night Witches An all-women Soviet bomber regiment who, despite flying in wooden training planes (or perhaps because of it), were highly successful and featured 23 different Heroes of the Soviet Union. NORAD Tracks Santa A tradition with the American and Canadian military to track Santa Claus for children. Hiroo Onoda A Japanese soldier who hid out in the Philippines during World War II, refusing to surrender until . Stanislav Petrov Another man who potentially averted nuclear war. Pentagon UFO videos Yes, they're official. Philadelphia Experiment An alleged experiment in involving electromagnetic technology to render vessels invisible. Portuguese Fireplace A fireplace in the middle of the New Forest. Project A119 If you can't land on the Moon, nuke it. Ratlines The underground secret lines for fleeing Nazis after World War II. Russian warship, go fuck yourself An eternalized catchphrase of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Shi Yousan Early 20th-century Chinese general who seemingly made it his life mission to betray everyone he met. Siachen Glacier The world's highest battlefield, with very predictable terrain. Otto Skorzeny His career reads like several thriller novels in a row; he worked for the Nazis, Franco, Nasser, Perón, and apparently Mossad as a hit man (without ever denouncing Nazism). Henry Tandey Allegedly met a young Adolf Hitler during World War I and spared his life. The terrorists have won Or have they? Truelove Eyre A man who supposedly saved William the Conqueror's life during the Battle of Hastings. András Toma A Hungarian soldier taken as a prisoner of war by the USSR in and declared dead... until he turned up in a Russian mental hospital in , having not spoken to anyone for 55 years. Lauri Törni Fought in the Finnish Army, Waffen-SS, and United States Army, in that order. Only member of the Waffen-SS interred in Arlington National Cemetery. USS Gyatt Does that thing have guided missiles? It do... USS William D. Porter The US Navy's unluckiest ship ever? William Patrick Hitler Hitler fought in World War II... on the side of the United States. The last surviving member of the Hitler family. Tsutomu Yamaguchi Survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in . See also Jacob Beser. Yang Kyoungjong A mysterious Korean soldier said to have served Japan, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany. Z (military symbol) A modern symbol of Russian military might is a letter they don't even use. Zeppelin LZ 66 Real-life sky pirates. Zhang Zongchang Eccentric Chinese warlord who, among other things, assigned numbers to his many concubines, as he could not remember all of their names. Sokcho submarine incident North Korean submarine becomes entangled in a large South Korean fishing net. All of the crew aboard perished before it could be towed to port. Anglo-Zanzibar War The world's shortest war. It literally lasted 38 minutes. Attack of the Dead Men Russian combatants looking like zombies win the battle by scaring away the Germans. Attack on Marstrand A Danish-Norwegian siege in Sweden that succeeded partly because the Danish commander used all sorts of trickery to force a Swedish surrender. One popular story tells that he ordered his soldiers to walk slowly and in larger groups so it looked like there were more of them. Bahia incident Did you know that the American Civil War also took place in Brazil? Battle of Castle Itter American and German soldiers team up against the Nazis in a battle for a medieval castle. Battle of Domažlice A Hussite army routs the twice as numerous crusading Holy Roman army with the power of singing. Battle of Fishguard That time when France tried to invade Wales, got drunk and surrendered because they took the British forces too seriously. Battle of Karánsebes How the Austrians fought against themselves over liquor and resulted in 1,200 own casualties. Battle of Lake Baikal Czechoslovak Legionnares stole a steamship and won a naval battle against the Red Army. Battle of Tanga A World War I battle where 8,000 British troops were defeated by a German-led force of 1,100 Askaris – aided by swarms of angry bees. Battle of the Crater If you're going to blow up the enemy, don't run into the crater right after and let them shoot you like fish in a barrel. Battle of the Eclipse Lydia and Media had been fighting for six years, until an eclipse happening during one of their battles abruptly convinced them to stop. Battle of the Herrings An incident during the siege of Orléans, where French and Scottish forces attempted to stop a supply convoy full of barrels of herring. British invasion of Iceland How do you stop an enemy nation from invading a neutral country? By invading it yourself. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising When you're subject to execution for being late, what else can you do but revolt? Dai Hong Dan incident North Korea and the United States team up to defeat Somali pirates. Empresa de China Spain's plan for an Iberian-Filipino-Japanese motley crew to take over China. Cancelled after England sunk the Armada. Emu War Final score for this one: Emus 1, Australians 0. Exercise Tiger Fire live ammunition over your troops' heads and do so in close proximity to enemy boats? What could possibly go wrong? Flagstaff War A war that started between British military forces and the indigenous Polynesian people in New Zealand after a flagstaff was cut down four times. Football War A six-day war fought between El Salvador and Honduras in that was triggered by a game of football (soccer). Gombe Chimpanzee War A four-year war, fought between two groups of chimpanzees in Tanzania. Huéscar-Danish War When one town joined a war on the opposite side from the rest of its country, then forgot about it for 170 years. If Day A simulated Nazi invasion of the Canadian city of Winnipeg, complete with book-burning, arrests of politicians, and newspaper censorship. Iowa Cow War A battle between cow ranchers and the state of Iowa over tuberculosis testing. Lobster War A particularly heated dispute over whether lobsters swim or walk. Operation Cottage The Japanese never showed up. Operation Mincemeat The true story behind the best-reviewed West End musical of all time. Operation Pastorius Hitler's disastrous attempt to sabotage America from the inside, including one guy who left his confidential documents on a train, two others who accidentally revealed they were secret agents, and two who just turned themselves in. Operation Paul Bunyan An American and South Korean military operation conducted over a tree. Operation Pig Bristle A daring air force operation to transport 25 tonnes of pig bristles from Chongqing in China to Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War. The bristles were shipped to Australia to be made into paint brushes. Operation Red Dog A group of American and Canadian white supremacists plot to independently filibuster a small Caribbean nation. A plan straight from the mid-s: foiled in . Operation Tamarisk Claimed to be the most successful intelligence operation in the Cold War; emptying supplies of Soviet toilet paper, forcing them to use documents, and retrieving these documents after use. Operation Wikinger Poor communication leads to the German air force scoring a great victory ... against the German navy. Pastry War Looting a pastry shop? This means war! Pig War A war between the United States and the British Empire that almost erupted over one dead pig. Taiping Rebellion One of the most lethal wars in history centers around a Chinese man claiming to be the brother of Jesus Christ. Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War A "war" that lasted 335 years without a single shot being fired, between the Netherlands and the tiny Isles of Scilly. Toledo War A war between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory that resulted in one injury and over a century of bitterness. Toyota War A war in the last phase of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, named after the Toyota trucks that were used in the battle. Turkish Abductions A slave raid by Turkish pirates off the coast of Iceland. War of the Bucket Supposedly started when Modenese soldiers stole a bucket from a city well in Bologna. (They actually stole it later during the war as a trophy) War of Jenkins' Ear A nine-year war, started when Captain Robert Jenkins complained that the Spanish Coastguard had cut off his ear. War of the Stray Dog Greek soldier chases his pooch across the Bulgaria border. Warfare nearly ensues. War of the Donkey Two Venetian noble families go to war over a single donkey. Just one. It probably died during the conflict anyway. War of the Insane Hmong revolt against taxing by the French colonial administration in Indochina lasting from to . War of the League of Cambrai A war that started when France and the Pope attacked Venice. Ended when France and Venice defeated literally everyone else in Western Europe. War Plan Red US war plans from the s to invade Canada in the unlikely event of war with the United Kingdom. Also see the counterpart war plan Defence Scheme No. 1 (the Canadian war plan to invade the United States).