Before I got sick of sucking in secondhand smoke at the tables and quit, I learned a few weird things about the art of betting on pictures of numbers and royalty to pay my rent.
So whatever happened to good old physical effects -- you know, the models, animatronics, all that stuff? Well, we asked a couple of experts that very question.
Carl Wilkens was right in the middle of the Rwandan Genocide. He rescued hundreds from unspeakable violence. Cracked sat down to talk with him about just what it takes to stand up and stick your thumb in the eye of Pure Human Evil.
We recently sat down with a Disneyland employee working on the less glamorous side of the Magic Kingdom, and we learned that working at the Happiest Place on Earth is a lot like being in high school.
We decided to track down three members of Comcast's customer service strike force, and learned their terribleness is complicated and also very strange.