My Very Gonzo Life

A conversation with Dave Goelz, the man who for nearly 50 years has served as the voice and puppeteer of Gonzo — the pain-loving, dare-deviling, chicken-dating, Charles Dickens-impersonating, furry blue star of the Muppets

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32 Sneaky Details Left by Brilliant Creators

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Thought movies and TV shows had a monopoly on Easter eggs, did you? Well, musicians, writers and painters have been scattering them around for centuries, too. We’ve even got some 15th-century eggs here that, if you can withstand the smell, are actually quite satisfying.

Easter Eggs for Polyglots The Lord World: Jurassic Park I left Japan to get away from this! The screams of a Japanese man running from the rampaging T-rex reference another city- destroying dinosaur, who is really big in Japan. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED COM WEIRD AL'S SONG, I REMEMBER LARRY, CONTAINS THE BACKWARD MESSAGE WOW, YOU MUST HAVE AN AWFUL LOT OF FREE TIME ON YOUR HANDS

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Hints proceeding unfortunate events. A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket Book THE leacher the Wide Window CRACKED.COM In Lemony Snicket's 13 part series of children's novels, A Series of Unfortunate Events, there are full-page illustrations at the end of each book that contain clues to the next installment. For instance, the last illustration in The Reptile Room features a man wearing a shirt that reads Lachrymose Leeches, which make their slimy debut in the next book, The Wide Window.

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Tolkien in another language. The Fellowship of the Ring BEING THE FIRST PART OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS BY CRACKED.COM The Lord Of The Rings books were just an excuse for linguist J.R.R. Tolkien to flex his fantastical language crafting, and he took every opportunity to decorate his work with secret translations. On the title page of The Fellowship Of The Ring, the top Cirth runes and bottom Tengwar script spell out the message: The Lord of the Rings translated from the red book of Westmarch by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Herein is set forth the history of-the War

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CRACKED When restoring Isaac van Ostade's 17th-century A Village Fair With A Church Behind in 2015, art historians discovered that a bush was a later addition, painted in by some poop-hating killjoy to cover a guy cheerfully taking a dump.

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CRACKED The Adoration of the Magi places multiple well-known figures of the time around Christ, including the powerful Medici family and the guy who commissioned the painting. The dude on the far right looking straight at us? Botticelli himself, showing off.

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CRACKED Ghirlandaio's 15th-century The Madonna with Saint Giovannino contains a baffling detail that looks a lot like a flying saucer, with a dogwalker pointing at it. It's probably not incontrovertible proof of aliens, but, you know, maybe it is.

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CRACKED Georges Seurat's Young Woman Powdering Herself depicts his lover, Madeleine Knoblauch, painted using his pointillism technique. The odd-looking window was originally a mirror showing the artist himself, but he painted over it after a friend made fun of him.

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My Very Gonzo Life

A conversation with Dave Goelz, the man who for nearly 50 years has served as the voice and puppeteer of Gonzo — the pain-loving, dare-deviling, chicken-dating, Charles Dickens-impersonating, furry blue star of the Muppets

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