22 Words http://twentytwowords.com Curious | Cute | Comical | Crazy Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 50 common misquotes and misattributed quotes corrected http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/23/50-common-misquotes-and-misattributed-quotes-corrected/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/23/50-common-misquotes-and-misattributed-quotes-corrected/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:41 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75272 “This is a pretty interesting video. You should check it out.” -Jesus

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/23/50-common-misquotes-and-misattributed-quotes-corrected/feed/ 0 Ice cream shop advises against their product if you want nutritious food http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/23/ice-cream-shop-advises-against-their-product-if-you-want-nutritious-food/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/23/ice-cream-shop-advises-against-their-product-if-you-want-nutritious-food/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 13:45:31 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75276 Wisconsin’s Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream isn’t going to adjust their recipe just because eating healthy is becoming more popular. And they aren’t going to join the trend with misleading ads or nutritional info, either.

Nope. Their food is delicious instead of good for you and they don’t mind coming right out and saying it…

(via Boing Boing, Consumerist)

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/23/ice-cream-shop-advises-against-their-product-if-you-want-nutritious-food/feed/ 1 Seemingly bored 14-year-old girl’s cover of Van Halen’s “Eruption” solo http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/23/seemingly-bored-14-year-old-girls-cover-of-van-halens-eruption-solo/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/23/seemingly-bored-14-year-old-girls-cover-of-van-halens-eruption-solo/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 12:30:55 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75263 With 1.2 million views in the past 3 days, this clip from Tina S is clearly very impressive…

Her other videos, some of them from years ago, show that she has range beyond face-melting solos, too. For instance, this performance from when she was about 10 of a piece by Ferdinando Carulli, an Italian composer for classical guitar…

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]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/flooding-allows-for-a-makeshift-roadside-water-slide/feed/ 8 A young student describes what it takes to be a good teacher http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/a-young-student-describes-what-it-takes-to-be-a-good-teacher/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/a-young-student-describes-what-it-takes-to-be-a-good-teacher/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:57 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75237 It’s a low standard, but an important one…

Transcription: Dear Mrs. Store, you are the best music teacher ever because my last music teacher choked a boy. Love your student...

(via Reddit)

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/a-young-student-describes-what-it-takes-to-be-a-good-teacher/feed/ 1 1984 movie about Harvey Milk, California’s first openly gay public official http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/1984-movie-about-harvey-milk-californias-first-openly-gay-public-official/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/1984-movie-about-harvey-milk-californias-first-openly-gay-public-official/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 18:45:09 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75244 Here’s the trailer for the 1984 documentary The Times of Harvey Milk…

…and here’s the whole film…

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]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/how-to-seem-smart-about-new-technology-you-know-nothing-about/feed/ 0 Man turns tattoo of ex-girlfriend’s face into a shrouded skull http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/man-turns-tattoo-of-ex-girlfriends-face-into-a-shrouded-skull/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/man-turns-tattoo-of-ex-girlfriends-face-into-a-shrouded-skull/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 16:15:41 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75188 A man who was dating a pleasant-enough looking lady named Jennifer apparently got his heart broken by her and realized maybe he shouldn’t have gotten her face emblazoned on his arm. But instead of having it removed like a normal person (which I suppose he’d already proven he wasn’t by getting the immoderate image in the first place) he had it covered up and turned it into a skull.

Whereas before, he shamelessly showed the world that she was his whole life, he now advertises that she’s dead to him. Creative and emotionally healthy…

(via Huffington Post)

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(via Tastefully Offensive)

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/german-man-asks-passersby-to-name-three-germans/feed/ 11 Before-and-after photos of the tornado’s devastation in Oklahoma [14 pictures] http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/before-and-after-photos-of-the-tornados-devastation-in-oklahoma-14-pictures/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/before-and-after-photos-of-the-tornados-devastation-in-oklahoma-14-pictures/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 12:30:43 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75193 Using images from Google and Bing Maps for “before” pics and various news photos from the last couple days for “after” pics, NBC News compiled a short series of then-and-now images showing some of the damage brought about by Monday’s storm in and around Moore, Oklahoma…

Moore Medical Center

A Shopping Center

Residential Neighborhoods

Plaza Towers Elementary School

Briarwood Elementary School and the surrounding neighborhood

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/22/before-and-after-photos-of-the-tornados-devastation-in-oklahoma-14-pictures/feed/ 1 Ads hide storybook characters in images of others iconic characters [3 pics] http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/ads-hide-storybook-characters-in-images-of-others-iconic-characters-3-pics/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/ads-hide-storybook-characters-in-images-of-others-iconic-characters-3-pics/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:08 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75101 In this creative campaign from last year, a Colombian book exchange program promoted itself with the slogan, “Come with a story and leave with another.” Each poster featured a minimally designed but easily recognizable fictional character with a key character from another book hidden in the image.

Snow White and Sherlock Holmes

Little Red Riding Hood and Moby Dick

Harry Potter and the Trojan Horse

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/ads-hide-storybook-characters-in-images-of-others-iconic-characters-3-pics/feed/ 2 Kids imagine going hunting, adults act it out http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/kids-imagine-going-hunting-adults-act-it-out/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/kids-imagine-going-hunting-adults-act-it-out/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 21:30:49 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75181 Little did you know that good hunters speak fluent Reindeer…

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/kids-imagine-going-hunting-adults-act-it-out/feed/ 1 Subway optical illusion — Train appears to be moving both directions http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/subway-optical-illusion-train-appears-to-be-moving-both-directions/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/subway-optical-illusion-train-appears-to-be-moving-both-directions/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 20:00:51 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75139 Sometimes the train appears to be coming out of the tunnel and other times it seems to be going in…

(via Boing Boing)

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/subway-optical-illusion-train-appears-to-be-moving-both-directions/feed/ 3 9 more ladies of Disney portrayed more realistically http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/9-more-ladies-of-disney-portrayed-more-realistically/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/9-more-ladies-of-disney-portrayed-more-realistically/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 18:30:45 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75110 Previously, we’ve seen several Disney women depicted closer to real life by artist Jirka Väätäinen.

Here are several more that she’s done over the last few years…

Jane

Cinderella

Alice

Pocahontas

Rapunzel

Tiana

Tinkerbell

Wendy

Snow White

Related…

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/9-more-ladies-of-disney-portrayed-more-realistically/feed/ 18 How to start your own Mumford band http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/how-to-start-your-own-mumford-band/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/how-to-start-your-own-mumford-band/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 17:00:41 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75135 Some important tips if you want to follow in the musical footsteps of Mr Mumford…

(from The Key of Awesome, via Tastefully Offensive)

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/how-to-start-your-own-mumford-band/feed/ 0 Mom sends daughter to school in ugly clothes as consequence for bullying http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/mom-sends-daughter-to-school-in-ugly-clothes-as-consequence-for-bullying/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/mom-sends-daughter-to-school-in-ugly-clothes-as-consequence-for-bullying/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 15:00:52 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75159 Recently, a mother in Murray, Utah got an email from her stepdaughter’s 4th-grade teacher that her child had been harassing another student for the last three weeks, making fun of that other student’s clothes. It had gotten to the point that the kid who she’d been bullying didn’t want to come to school anymore.

As soon as she heard about it, the mother spoke to her daughter but saw no remorse, so she decided to get more creative.

She took a trip to the thrift store and bought a few cheap clothes that she knew her daughter would hate. When the girl woke up the next morning a terrible outfit and old sneakers were laid out for her to wear…

 

She wore the embarrassing ensembles for two days.

Of course, the child psychologist who was contacted for this story frowned on the mother’s approach, saying that it would lead to anger not empathy. But after the embarrassing two days, the daughter reported that she had heard kids talking about her behind her back and that she wasn’t going to make fun of other kids anymore, “because it’s stupid and it’s mean. It hurts them.”

(Read more at Fox News 13)

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]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/21/translating-craigslist-apartment-ads/feed/ 0 Ridiculous Japanese pommel horse routine http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/ridiculous-japanese-pommel-horse-routine/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/ridiculous-japanese-pommel-horse-routine/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 22:30:58 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75070

(via Tastefully Offensive)

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I hope this remains on the internet into perpetuity, but I’m predicting it won’t.

(via Whatevs)

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/handwash-style-hospitals-terribly-awkward-hand-hygiene-psa/feed/ 7 Key and Peele turn photo shoot into an impromptu sketch comedy bit http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/key-and-peele-turn-photo-shoot-into-an-impromptu-sketch-comedy-bit/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/key-and-peele-turn-photo-shoot-into-an-impromptu-sketch-comedy-bit/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 20:00:35 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75066 Comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are featured in Fast Company’s 2013 collection of 100 Most Creative People. When they got together to shoot the photos that would go along with the article, it turned into an extemporaneous skit…

Related: Substitute teacher from the inner city isn’t too happy about white kids’ names

(via PetaPixel)

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/key-and-peele-turn-photo-shoot-into-an-impromptu-sketch-comedy-bit/feed/ 3 A bat carrying her baby through the air http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/a-bat-carrying-her-baby-through-the-air/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/a-bat-carrying-her-baby-through-the-air/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 18:45:30 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75043 A young bat and his mother. By Gilad Guy for National Geographic…

(via The Atlantic, This Isn’t Happiness)

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(via Reddit)

]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/classroom-chemistry-experiment-goes-horribly-and-totally-predictably-wrong/feed/ 2 Secret thoughts of creative professionals http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/secret-thoughts-of-creative-professionals/ http://twentytwowords.com/2013/05/20/secret-thoughts-of-creative-professionals/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 16:15:11 +0000 Abraham http://twentytwowords.com/?p=75038 From Matt Groening back in the day…

(via Biblioklept, This Isn’t Happiness)

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