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Jack O'Brien

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Am the Editor-in-Chief of Cracked.com.
Still laugh out loud at your article (that's me laughing out loud in my avatar).
Am a contributor to the micro-blogging site Twitter.com: https://twitter.com/jack_obrien

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Two sisters and a wife who are cooler than me.
Two dogs and a wife who are all smaller than me.
A column on Cracked: http://www.cracked.com/blog/author/Jack+Obrien/

6 Dumb Celebrities Who Are Way Smarter Than You Think

We may like to think of celebrities as a bunch of shallow dumbasses, but in a surprising number of cases (assuming that you find the number six surprising), some of our stupidest celebrities are like daytime TV versions of Verbal Kint.

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The Baffling New Trend in Movie Poster Design

The marketing departments at movie studios are in the business of boiling the success and failure of movies down to simple, straightforward formulas. Based on the posters from the first half of the year, the formula they seem to have settled on is 'Movie Posters - Faces = Money.'

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5 Actors Who Do the Exact Same Thing in Every Movie

Everyone assumes that directors and writers get to decide what goes into a movie, but a lot of times the movie star is the most powerful person involved with a project. For instance, when Jim Carrey wanted to make a movie about his favorite number, The Number 23 hit theaters across the country. A much more entertaining abuse of this star power occu

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5 Things That Are Way Easier Than They Look in Movies

There are some fairly idiot-proof tasks that movies pretend are difficult. Story structure demands things like clever arguments, plot twists and wealthy billionaires dancing through shifting fields of laser beams, and it turns out reality is decidedly less crazy about those things.

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5 Baffling 80s Trends (Explained by Rare Mental Disorders)

At a certain point, future generations are going to come to us with questions like, 'What? Why?' Fortunately, neurologists and sociologists have identified a number of mental disorders that are perfectly designed to explain the decade I grew up in.

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Why Bill Murray Is The World's Greatest Mythological Figure

Bill Murray has become the urban equivalent of Bigfoot -- a mythical figure who generates sightings anywhere people are too drunk to totally trust their memory. Instead of being half-human, half-ape, Bill Murray exists somewhere between celebrities and the rest of us.

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