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If Everything Got An Adorable Mascot

Adorable mascots are tricky. Car insurance companies and NFL teams are supposed to have them, but if the Merrill Lynch bull started talking in a pip-squeaky voice, or a prize fighter entered the ring behind a pirate with a giant foam head, they'd be laughed at. We asked you to show us some adorable mascots that would be even worse ideas than that.

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23 Rejected Covers of Famous Books

There's an old policy about judging books by their covers, but we can't remember what it was on account of our policy towards memorizing stuff from books that don't have awesome dragons on the cover. We asked you to show us what it might have looked like if some of history's greatest books were designed with similar short-sightedness.

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16 Secret Pet Peeves of Famous Sidekicks

Being a sidekick is all fine and good when you're snapping off witty comebacks to punctuate the ass beatings the hero's dolling out. But day in and day out it's got to be a bit of a drag. We asked you to show us the stuff that really gets on their nerves.

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14 Scandalous Paparazzi Photos of Historical Figures

The photographing of noteworthy people when they don't want to be photographed is a giant industry these days, for some reason. But it's not always been like that. We asked our readers to take us back through history to show us some of the photographs that earlier generation deprived us of due to their debilitating insistence on having dignity.

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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

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Ill-Advised Movie Merchandise for Kids

The line between children's toys and movies has grown increasingly blurry since 'Transformers' created an entire TV show for the purpose of selling toys, and that TV show became one of the most successful movie franchises of all-time. Here are some products that would have killed the connection between films and kids toys on contact.

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16 Lessons You Wish They'd Taught In School

As we demonstrated recently, the lessons you learned in school were often built around whatever made the coolest illustration, and have nothing to do with what's true. We asked you to show us what school might have looked like if they were actually concerned with teaching you stuff that might come in handy.

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The Worst Possible Thing to Be Wearing at That Moment

A popular recurring nightmare seems to be going to school or work wearing only your underwear. We've never had it because our brains no better than to enter a nightmare without a place to conceal your guns, but it really seems to freak people out. Which is weird, because it's far from the worst mistake you could make when dressing for an occasion.

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