Cracked Archive - Weird World

The 5 Most Insulting Ways Products Are Advertised to Men

Just as ads in the 1950s assumed that all women were housewives desperate for new ways to starch their husbands' shirts, advertisers today demonstrate an extremely low opinion of their male customers.

Authors: By Colin Murdock, Aren Wilborn
Published: April 03, 2012
Comments: 2554

The 9 Most Insane Board Games of All Time

We realize that advertising should be taken with a whole shaker of salt, especially when it comes to toys, where there's a long history of making products look better than they are (as multiple generations of Sea Monkeys owners can testify). These board game boxes, though, go beyond deceptive advertising and right into the realm of 'See, this is wh

Authors: By Tracy V.
Published: April 03, 2012
Comments: 470

6 Popular Children's Books That Teach Kids Horrible Lessons

The cutesy, cartoony little picture books you find in the beanbag section of the library aren't actively teaching kids to idolize crack dealers or mock the disabled, right? Actually, some of the biggest names in the industry are practically seeding our children's brains with impending personality disorders.

Authors: By Jeff Beauvoir
Published: April 02, 2012
Comments: 1555

7 Outrageous Hoaxes That Actually Worked

Since society has had several thousand years of practice at recognizing con artists, you'd think we'd get pretty good at spotting them. But you'd be wrong. For a scam to succeed, it doesn't take any kind of special genius. Or even average genius.

Authors: By Dwayne Hoover, Dustin Koski
Published: April 01, 2012
Comments: 778

5 Priceless Works of Art Destroyed by Unintentional Hilarity

Like a slapstick movie where the buffoon main character encounters a priceless work of art, and then accidentally destroys it in some hilarious way, a shocking number of the world's great pieces have in fact been ruined in this fashion.

Authors: By Siobhan McKeown
Published: March 30, 2012
Comments: 661

5 Bizarre Ways You Can Brainwash a Courtroom

Some day you might wind up in front of a judge due to a 'hilarious' misunderstanding (or because you had to murder some dudes). If so, there are several things that can tip the scales of justice in your favor that have nothing to do with the law or evidence.

Authors: By Kathy Benjamin, Lillian Marx
Published: March 29, 2012
Comments: 694

5 Real Judges Who Put the Most Evil Supervillain to Shame

It's one thing for a judge to be corrupt -- we sort of expect that to happen in all public jobs, because we watch the news. It's quite another for judges to be hilarious lunatics, criminally lazy schemers or just impossibly evil.

Authors: By E. Reid Ross, Tom Rodgers
Published: March 25, 2012
Comments: 888

6 Nobodies Who Stumbled Into World Changing Discoveries

Some of the greatest historical finds have been stumbled across by random dudes just wandering around the neighborhood.

Authors: By Evan V. Symon
Published: March 24, 2012
Comments: 692

6 Psychotic Punishments Doled Out by Famous Superheroes

Sometimes a hero's unwavering moral code results in the meting out of far more cruel and unusual punishments than a quick, clean death.

Authors: By Drew Anderson
Published: March 21, 2012
Comments: 845

If Airplane Safety Instructions Were Honest

Plus, loads of extra seatback reading material!

Authors: By Winston Rowntree
Published: March 20, 2012
Comments: 453

The 5 Most Insane Examples of Chinese Counterfeiting

The amount of work and creativity the Chinese underworld puts into their fakes is so damn impressive that you have to wonder why they'd ever need to steal other people's ideas.

Authors: By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
Published: March 19, 2012
Comments: 817

6 Iconic Things You Won't Believe Began as Publicity Stunts

Apparently, some of the most iconic places and rituals in the world were started purely to create 'buzz.'

Authors: By Erik Germ, Tracy V.
Published: March 19, 2012
Comments: 564

Cracked Round-Up: Avoid Crack Edition

Authors: By CRACKED Staff
Published: March 17, 2012
Comments: 5

6 Tiny Mistakes That Caused Apocalyptic Explosions

Settle in and celebrate the fact that no matter how badly you've screwed up at work, you've probably never caused an explosion that destroyed half of a city.