Month: January 2020

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These Cat Owners Understand Who’s Actually in Charge

Cats pretty much rule the Internet and honestly, no one (except maybe the dogs) are complaining. We could look at their pictures and antics all day long, and honestly, with images like these 12, who could blame you?

There’s no better way to smile, no better way to relax, so just sit back and enjoy yourself, why don’t you?

12. That face! Those eyes!

11. Proof that cats are not (always) in league with Satan.

My husband has Alzheimer’s and has trouble staying still. Unless this lil bug is on his lap. This is pretty much an everyday thing with them. from cats

10. All you need for a happy holiday.

9. I love you so much I need to bite you.

8. You are now one step closer to being prepared to own a toddler.

My sister’s cat follows me everywhere, here’s a video of her following me to the bathroom from cats

7. Whoever made this is a hero.

6. Just go about your business peasants.

5. It’s a selfie win for everyone, really.

4. What, you’re not using them right now.

3. Sure, it’s sacrilegious, but it’s funny.

Our Lord and Savior is born from cats

2. This cat does more cardio than I do.

1. I suddenly feel cozier and happier.

I do love a good cat meme. In fact, I’m not chill enough so I think I’ll go looking for some more?

Where are your favorite cat memes and pics? Share a great one with us in the comments!

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15 Funny Tweets About the Realities of Marriage

Isn’t it always like this? Husbands and wives going back and forth, making each other crazy and in love at the same time.

Hey, that’s life!

Let’s take a look at some hysterical tweets about married life in all its glory.

1. Can you please move?

2. How could you?

3. Not anymore…

4. Always listening.

5. An embarrassment to the family.

6. A lot of deep sighs.

7. Thank God for your wife.

8. I can’t pretend.

9. I’ll sleep standing up tonight.

10. A very confident man.

11. You can die first.

12. From the grave.

13. Gonna be a shoot out.

14. Has it really, though?

15. That took a while.

Married life…you gotta love it!

Tell us a funny story about something your spouse has done recently. Let’s put them on blast!

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15 Funny Tweets About the Realities of Marriage

Isn’t it always like this? Husbands and wives going back and forth, making each other crazy and in love at the same time.

Hey, that’s life!

Let’s take a look at some hysterical tweets about married life in all its glory.

1. Can you please move?

2. How could you?

3. Not anymore…

4. Always listening.

5. An embarrassment to the family.

6. A lot of deep sighs.

7. Thank God for your wife.

8. I can’t pretend.

9. I’ll sleep standing up tonight.

10. A very confident man.

11. You can die first.

12. From the grave.

13. Gonna be a shoot out.

14. Has it really, though?

15. That took a while.

Married life…you gotta love it!

Tell us a funny story about something your spouse has done recently. Let’s put them on blast!

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15 Wholesome Animal Tweets Just for You

I love good, wholesome animal posts on social media, I’ll tell you that much.

These kinds of posts just never get old. Having a bad day? Look at some great photos of dogs and cats! Down in the dumps? There’s a never-ending supply of pure animal pics out there!

Here are some very good examples. Enjoy…

1. Sure enough…

2. In love with peaches.

3. Can’t get enough of this.

4. A bunch of ducks coming through.

5. Downward facing dog.

6. I like this look.

7. Cuddle buddies.

8. Awwwwww. Would ya look at that…

9. Bath time!

10. Can barely contain himself.

11. That doesn’t do you any good.

12. That’s right!

13. GREATEST OF ALL TIME = GOAT.

14. And…attack!

15. I like this.

Those sure put a big smile on this guy’s face.

Will you help us out today? Please post some pics of your lovely pets in the comments. We’d love to meet them!

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15 Wholesome Animal Tweets Just for You

I love good, wholesome animal posts on social media, I’ll tell you that much.

These kinds of posts just never get old. Having a bad day? Look at some great photos of dogs and cats! Down in the dumps? There’s a never-ending supply of pure animal pics out there!

Here are some very good examples. Enjoy…

1. Sure enough…

2. In love with peaches.

3. Can’t get enough of this.

4. A bunch of ducks coming through.

5. Downward facing dog.

6. I like this look.

7. Cuddle buddies.

8. Awwwwww. Would ya look at that…

9. Bath time!

10. Can barely contain himself.

11. That doesn’t do you any good.

12. That’s right!

13. GREATEST OF ALL TIME = GOAT.

14. And…attack!

15. I like this.

Those sure put a big smile on this guy’s face.

Will you help us out today? Please post some pics of your lovely pets in the comments. We’d love to meet them!

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How Did Casper Became a Ghost?

We’ve all heard about the story of the friendly ghost who just wants to make friends – and if you’re anywhere close to my age, you have a strangely romantic relationship with Casper, since we all immediately fell in love with Devon Sawa when this happened:

But where did the story come from in the first place? How did Casper die? Why is he a friendly ghost and not a scary one?

There are a lot of questions if you think about it, and if you want answers, we might have a few.

Since his debut in 1945, Casper the Friendly Ghost has appeared in dozens of animated shorts and specials, hundreds of comic books, as well as the feature film referenced above. The affable ghost always searches among the living for friends instead of people to frighten and encounters problems due to his non-corporeal status.

The character was created by writer Seymour Reit and artist Joe Oriolo back in 1940. But before the duo could pen their children’s book based on the concept, the two were drafted, and while they were gone, the animation studio they worked for was sold to Paramount – a sale that included the intellectual property of all employees (what a racket).

They were given $200 for their then-untested character.

In 1945 he appeared in a short called The Friendly Ghost, but the film made no mention of how Casper came to be a spirit in the first place. It did reference siblings who enjoyed scaring people, but no other personal details.

He appeared in another short in 1948, There’s Good Boos To-Night. In that one, he is shown leaning on a tombstone (presumably his own), while his “neighbors” – the ghosts from the nearby headstones – go on their nightly haunts.

Casper began starring in comic books in 1952, and it was due to Harvey Comics that Casper finally got a ghost family: a mom and three uncles, who were later named Fatso, Fusso, and Lazo. Originally, none of the group had backstories, talked about what their lives were like when they were alive, or made reference to a beginning of their relationship to each other.

Basically, it seems that Casper’s early mythology sort of implied that he and the others like him were “born” ghosts and had never been alive at all.

The 1995 feature film, starring Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, and Devon Sawa, gave Casper a full living backstory. He told Christina Ricci’s character that he had been a boy named Casper McFadden who had died from the flu – perhaps the Spanish flu, based on his dress and the time period – at the age of 12.

In it, we also see Ricci’s mother portrayed as an “angel,” suggesting there’s a more complicated hierarchy and mythology for the dead than the comics had previously envisioned – perhaps something more along the lines of what’s established in It’s a Wonderful Life? But that’s just speculation.

The original creators had to let go of Casper before they could fully flesh out their idea of who he was and how he became a ghost – friendly or otherwise – so perhaps it’s fitting that the truth of his origins seem to be left up to whoever is continuing his story at the moment.

Though, to me, the fact that he seems to get so much comfort from hanging around a particular headstone seems the point to the fact that it is his headstone. That means he was once alive, and he perished before his time.

I know he’s a child’s character, but hey. Life isn’t fair, and sometimes a bittersweet touch is just what a story needs to make it come alive (see: The Fox and the Hound).

Or in this case, dead.

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How Did Casper Became a Ghost?

We’ve all heard about the story of the friendly ghost who just wants to make friends – and if you’re anywhere close to my age, you have a strangely romantic relationship with Casper, since we all immediately fell in love with Devon Sawa when this happened:

But where did the story come from in the first place? How did Casper die? Why is he a friendly ghost and not a scary one?

There are a lot of questions if you think about it, and if you want answers, we might have a few.

Since his debut in 1945, Casper the Friendly Ghost has appeared in dozens of animated shorts and specials, hundreds of comic books, as well as the feature film referenced above. The affable ghost always searches among the living for friends instead of people to frighten and encounters problems due to his non-corporeal status.

The character was created by writer Seymour Reit and artist Joe Oriolo back in 1940. But before the duo could pen their children’s book based on the concept, the two were drafted, and while they were gone, the animation studio they worked for was sold to Paramount – a sale that included the intellectual property of all employees (what a racket).

They were given $200 for their then-untested character.

In 1945 he appeared in a short called The Friendly Ghost, but the film made no mention of how Casper came to be a spirit in the first place. It did reference siblings who enjoyed scaring people, but no other personal details.

He appeared in another short in 1948, There’s Good Boos To-Night. In that one, he is shown leaning on a tombstone (presumably his own), while his “neighbors” – the ghosts from the nearby headstones – go on their nightly haunts.

Casper began starring in comic books in 1952, and it was due to Harvey Comics that Casper finally got a ghost family: a mom and three uncles, who were later named Fatso, Fusso, and Lazo. Originally, none of the group had backstories, talked about what their lives were like when they were alive, or made reference to a beginning of their relationship to each other.

Basically, it seems that Casper’s early mythology sort of implied that he and the others like him were “born” ghosts and had never been alive at all.

The 1995 feature film, starring Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, and Devon Sawa, gave Casper a full living backstory. He told Christina Ricci’s character that he had been a boy named Casper McFadden who had died from the flu – perhaps the Spanish flu, based on his dress and the time period – at the age of 12.

In it, we also see Ricci’s mother portrayed as an “angel,” suggesting there’s a more complicated hierarchy and mythology for the dead than the comics had previously envisioned – perhaps something more along the lines of what’s established in It’s a Wonderful Life? But that’s just speculation.

The original creators had to let go of Casper before they could fully flesh out their idea of who he was and how he became a ghost – friendly or otherwise – so perhaps it’s fitting that the truth of his origins seem to be left up to whoever is continuing his story at the moment.

Though, to me, the fact that he seems to get so much comfort from hanging around a particular headstone seems the point to the fact that it is his headstone. That means he was once alive, and he perished before his time.

I know he’s a child’s character, but hey. Life isn’t fair, and sometimes a bittersweet touch is just what a story needs to make it come alive (see: The Fox and the Hound).

Or in this case, dead.

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These Unexpected Coincidences May Make You Reconsider the Fictionality of “The Matrix”

Sometimes, you just can’t explain the odd things that happen in this world. I’m talking about those weird coincidences that make you scratch your head and wonder, “Huh…what the hell did I just see?”

Here are 15 times that things just like that happened.

Let’s take a look.

1. The most beautiful pigeon sh*t in the world.

Pigeon poops portrait of itself on a leaf from nevertellmetheodds

2. A perfect landing.

The cat knocked my daughter’s fish bowl off the dresser. from nevertellmetheodds

3. What are the chances?

The first time my friend visited my apartment she was mind-blown that my shower curtain looked “exactly” like one of her shirts. I half-seriously said that her story sounded made up and promptly forgot about it until she returned the following week to demonstrate. I forever stand corrected. from nevertellmetheodds

4. Blending right in.

Girl’s shirt matches a coffee mug perfectly at Purdue University from nevertellmetheodds

5. Musical curly fries.

Found a treble clef in my Arby’s curly fries once from mildlyinteresting

6. That is random.

my grandma (left) went to a wine tasting & met her two friends there & they were all wearing the same dress from mildlyinteresting

7. One in a million.

The serial number on this pizza cutter from nevertellmetheodds

8. Separated at birth?

It’s gotta be weird to go to the mall one day and run into… yourself. from nevertellmetheodds

9. I’m a huge fan!

This bird that looks like Danny DeVito from mildlyinteresting

10. That is incredible.

My girlfriend and I both took pictures from the same angle at the same show… 3 years before we met each other from nevertellmetheodds

11. Saved by a bird.

The police Facebook page posted a picture taken by a speeding camera. The bird saves the day from nevertellmetheodds

12. Thank your lucky stars.

This car not being swallowed up after the earthquake in Alaska from nevertellmetheodds

13. Here I am!

Well that was easy. from nevertellmetheodds

14. Twist of fate.

This pilot found out that the OH58 Kiowa helicopter he’d been flying was the very same aircraft which made him want to become an army pilot in the first place from interestingasfuck

15. It equals ten!

I was born with 6 toes on my left foot and my Co-worker was born with 4 toes on her right foot from nevertellmetheodds

Those sure are odd!

Have you ever captured photos of some totally random coincidences? If so, share them with us in the comments! Please and thank you!

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These Unexpected Coincidences May Make You Reconsider the Fictionality of “The Matrix”

Sometimes, you just can’t explain the odd things that happen in this world. I’m talking about those weird coincidences that make you scratch your head and wonder, “Huh…what the hell did I just see?”

Here are 15 times that things just like that happened.

Let’s take a look.

1. The most beautiful pigeon sh*t in the world.

Pigeon poops portrait of itself on a leaf from nevertellmetheodds

2. A perfect landing.

The cat knocked my daughter’s fish bowl off the dresser. from nevertellmetheodds

3. What are the chances?

The first time my friend visited my apartment she was mind-blown that my shower curtain looked “exactly” like one of her shirts. I half-seriously said that her story sounded made up and promptly forgot about it until she returned the following week to demonstrate. I forever stand corrected. from nevertellmetheodds

4. Blending right in.

Girl’s shirt matches a coffee mug perfectly at Purdue University from nevertellmetheodds

5. Musical curly fries.

Found a treble clef in my Arby’s curly fries once from mildlyinteresting

6. That is random.

my grandma (left) went to a wine tasting & met her two friends there & they were all wearing the same dress from mildlyinteresting

7. One in a million.

The serial number on this pizza cutter from nevertellmetheodds

8. Separated at birth?

It’s gotta be weird to go to the mall one day and run into… yourself. from nevertellmetheodds

9. I’m a huge fan!

This bird that looks like Danny DeVito from mildlyinteresting

10. That is incredible.

My girlfriend and I both took pictures from the same angle at the same show… 3 years before we met each other from nevertellmetheodds

11. Saved by a bird.

The police Facebook page posted a picture taken by a speeding camera. The bird saves the day from nevertellmetheodds

12. Thank your lucky stars.

This car not being swallowed up after the earthquake in Alaska from nevertellmetheodds

13. Here I am!

Well that was easy. from nevertellmetheodds

14. Twist of fate.

This pilot found out that the OH58 Kiowa helicopter he’d been flying was the very same aircraft which made him want to become an army pilot in the first place from interestingasfuck

15. It equals ten!

I was born with 6 toes on my left foot and my Co-worker was born with 4 toes on her right foot from nevertellmetheodds

Those sure are odd!

Have you ever captured photos of some totally random coincidences? If so, share them with us in the comments! Please and thank you!

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These Tidbits From Children’s Shows Might’ve Escaped You as a Kid

One interesting thing about being a parent is getting to watch kid’s television and children’s movies again as an adult. There are so many details that make no sense – and so many more that you finally realize are definitely not included for the kids in the audience.

To that end, these 14 pieces of information probably didn’t mean anything to you as a child….but you might find them interesting now.

14. Barney doesn’t exist.

Image Credit: PBS

I mean, obviously – but if you’ll notice, this “imaginary friend” only appears when there are no adults in the room.

13. Some Proud Family characters are named after Southern California streets.

Image Credit: Disney Channel

La Cienega and Sunset Boulevards, to be exact.

12. This puberty joke on Victorious.

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

It’s actually pretty well-timed and funny.

11. This “balloon” looks a lot like a condom.

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

But I guess they’d find a lot of those in the ocean these days.

10. Miss Yvonne’s mind had no place in a children’s show.

Image Credit: CBS

I mean, neither did Pee Wee Herman’s, it turned out. So.

9. Helga’s mom on Hey, Arnold! had a drinking problem.

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

There’s definitely more than fruit in those “smoothies.”

8. Spongebob is about to get even weirder…

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

Because crabby patties are made from crabs, so Mr. Crabs…yeah.

7. Patrick lives under a rock for a reason.

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

Because he’s that dumb and clueless that, yes, he has literally been living under a rock.

6. The Crusty Crab is shaped like a lobster trap.

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

I wonder what exactly they’re trying to say here?

5. I guess there’s no point in lying to kids about Hollywood at any age.

Image Credit: Disney Channel

They should know what they’re getting into, right?

4. The Victorious homage episode to The Breakfast Club made a few alterations.

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

I don’t think Bender said “vegan.”

3. There was a character named Faymen Phorchin on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

Fame and fortune. Now that’s the kind of boyfriend I want.

2. Also on Victorious, Tori’s mom seems to be having an affair?

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

I mean, I don’t know what else they would be implying.

1. That time Patrick thought Spongebob was saying “penis.”

Image Credit: Nickelodeon

One more reason to just lol at this show.

 

Do you have a moment like this, where an adult joke “got” you after several years of watching? Share it with us in the comments!

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