Cracked Archive - Weird World
How Stress Is Killing You [CHART]
Your body isn't good at dealing with stress. Here's why ...
- By John Larwood
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- September 07, 2011
If Flash Games Got Their Own Movie Adaptations
We've all played them. We've all cursed them for making us keep playing them when we know we should be working, or tending to that wound that's starting to look infected. And yet, the time wasting game in our browser or on our iPhone is one of the rare pop culture institutions that hasn't yet gotten made into a movie. What it will look like when th
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- September 07, 2011
5 Common Responses to Awkwardness (That Make Things Worse)
There are someawkward situations we can anticipate, and prepare a little plan ready to defuse the tension. Unfortunately, a lot of those strategies end up making things even more awkward.
- By Christina H
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- September 06, 2011
7 Comic Characters Who Outlasted the Trends That Made Them
And the women who love them.
- By Brendan McGinley
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- September 05, 2011
7 Ruthless Criminals Who Turned Good When Nobody Was Looking
If there is one thing we learned from Robin Hood, Hudson Hawk and that guy who gives Indy his hat in the beginning of 'The Last Crusade', it's that sometimes even the most hardened lawbreaker will defy all expectations and do the right thing to help another human being in need. It even happens in real life.
- By Robert Evans
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- September 04, 2011
8 Ways Suburban Apathy Got Me Through Irene: A Hero's Story
Fortunately, my 30-plus years of living in the suburbs, multiple educational degrees and countless pairs of khakis had prepared me for this natural disaster.
- By Gladstone
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- September 03, 2011
The 8 Most Badass Make-A-Wish Foundation Wishes
Since its inception in 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has been responsible for granting the wishes of thousands of terminally ill children all across the United States. While the vast majority of wishes involve taking vacations, meeting celebrities or going to Disneyland, occasionally kids go off-prompter, and things get awesome.
- By Matt Culkin
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- September 03, 2011
My Brief Time Undercover As Dan O'Brien (Among Others)
Name's Swaim. I'm an alcoholic that can't hold his liquor, and if you thought THAT was funny, you're going to love the one about go f#@k yourself.
- By Michael Swaim
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- September 02, 2011
If You Could Photoshop the Real World
f you spend enough time in Photoshop, you start thinking things like,
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- September 01, 2011
Movie Character Crossovers Too Awesome to Actually Happen
The only time movies mix and match characters from different universes, two invincible monsters are doing battle with each other, and the audiences ability to care who wins. What it might look like if Hollywood realized how awesome certain characters could be if they got to try on different movies.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- August 31, 2011
8 Words the Internet Loves to Confuse With Other Words
Since everyone knows online humor columns by obscure writers are extremely effective in changing society, We're sure misuse of these words will no longer a problem.
- By Christina H
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- August 30, 2011
The 7 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Propaganda Campaigns
We sort of expect propaganda to be a little stupid to begin with, but there are some examples that go beyond all our expectations and into the land of the hilarious.
- By Danny Vittore
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- August 29, 2011
12 Great Parenting Products for Traumatizing Your Baby
We get it. Parenting is hard. We also get that it's human nature to invent useless products for people who don't know any better than to just throw gadgets at every problem ... which is why we wound up with these.
- By Tracy V.
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- August 27, 2011
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