Cracked Archive - Weird World
The 6 Dumbest Things Schools Are Doing in the Name of Safety
It's understandable that school administration and staff go a little crazy. Unfortunately, they reserve the extra-crazy for our children's saftey.
- By Sara J., Steve Blair
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- August 14, 2011
6 Companies That Rigged The Game (And Changed the World)
Sometimes when you see this kind of behind-the-scenes scheming, you do have to kind of admire it. Not approve of it, mind you -- just appreciate the kind of balls it takes to do it.
- By Garrett Moll
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- August 13, 2011
If Famous Photographs Were Off By a Second
A photograph can go down in history for capturing the spirit of an entire people or era in one split second. But they can be misleading for the same reason. You can't help but wonder how different some iconic images would look if the photographer had clicked the button a few seconds too early, or too late.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- August 10, 2011
5 Ridiculous Secrets Only Two Living People Know: Part 2
Here are five more things you will never learn in your lifetime -- unless you happen to be one of the only two people on the planet who already know them.
- By Kathy Benjamin, M. Asher Cantrell
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- August 09, 2011
Turning a Scammer Into a Hero: An Email Exchange
It's not enough for me to ignore these scammers completely, they have developed layered and elaborate characters and then squandered them on duplicity. As a writer, I cannot abide by that. I want to offer these fictitious people a chance to redeem themselves, a chance to trade in their pretend riches for real riches of the heart. What follows is an
- By Soren Bowie
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- August 08, 2011
The 5 Biggest Disasters in the History of Marketing Ideas
Sometimes companies screw up so badly that you wonder if they, like us, are just making it all up as they go along. How else do you explain these things?
- By Evan V. Symon
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- August 07, 2011
One Step Solutions to Fixing the Economy
It seems like every economic solution you hear about these days requires hundreds of different initiatives, each one with more moving parts than a Transformer. We asked you to come up with simpler ideas that could fix it in one fell swoop.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- August 07, 2011
The 8 Most Baffling Food Mascots of All-Time
If you're ever diagnosed with crippling insanity, you can always get a job designing corporate mascots.
- By Seanbaby
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- August 06, 2011
The 5 Most Depraved Sex Scenes from Important Cultural Myths
If you've spent time studying history at all, you probably already know that depraved sex acts are to religion as rock star groupies from the '70s are to depraved sex acts. In other words, they go hand in hand. Or hand in some other body part, depending on who we're talking about.
- By Jim Yew
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- August 06, 2011
4 More Things You Love to Discuss that No One Cares About
Oh my god, you guys I totally saw a ghost!
- By Daniel O'Brien
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- August 05, 2011
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