22 Words http://twentytwowords.com Curious | Cute | Comical | Crazy Wed, 16 May 2012 23:15:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 22_wordshttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily RotationI really appreciate that you're thinking about subscribing to 22 Words. Thanks a lot for reading! -Abraham Piper Graphing how common different birthdays are http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/graphing-how-common-different-birthdays-are/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/graphing-how-common-different-birthdays-are/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 23:15:15 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44773

(from The Daily Viz)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/graphing-how-common-different-birthdays-are/feed/ 0 Men save a deer that got stuck jumping over a fence http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/men-save-a-deer-that-got-stuck-jumping-over-a-fence/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/men-save-a-deer-that-got-stuck-jumping-over-a-fence/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 20:45:28 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44775 This is a scary and sad video — but with a fortunate ending, thank goodness…

From the description…

As we were driving home from Legends, we noticed what appeared to be a dead deer stuck on a fence, obviously got stuck while trying to hop over…as we got closer we realized it was still alive and begging for help…we had to do everything we could to help this deer get free…put that thing on my shoulder and heaved and he ran away, hope hes gonna be ok…


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/men-save-a-deer-that-got-stuck-jumping-over-a-fence/feed/ 4 Store’s endcap demonstrates the value of a dollar http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/stores-endcap-demonstrates-the-value-of-a-dollar/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/stores-endcap-demonstrates-the-value-of-a-dollar/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 19:30:32 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44713

(via Damn That’s Whack)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/stores-endcap-demonstrates-the-value-of-a-dollar/feed/ 1 The loneliest nightmare http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/the-loneliest-nightmare/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/the-loneliest-nightmare/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 18:15:30 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44717 From SMBC…


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/the-loneliest-nightmare/feed/ 0 Working on bamboo scaffolding just a few stories up…Oh, wait— http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/working-on-bamboo-scaffolding-just-a-few-stories-up-oh-wait/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/working-on-bamboo-scaffolding-just-a-few-stories-up-oh-wait/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:26 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44740


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/working-on-bamboo-scaffolding-just-a-few-stories-up-oh-wait/feed/ 2 Moonshiners evade police in Sherlock-Holmes-inspired hoof-print shoes, 1922 http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/moonshiners-evade-police-in-sherlock-holmes-inspired-hoof-print-shoes-1922/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/moonshiners-evade-police-in-sherlock-holmes-inspired-hoof-print-shoes-1922/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 15:45:41 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44728 From May 27, 1922 edition of The Evening Independent…

Here is a 1924 photograph of such a cow shoe from the Library of Congress…

(via Kottke)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/moonshiners-evade-police-in-sherlock-holmes-inspired-hoof-print-shoes-1922/feed/ 3 Blue Jays baseballer ejected for throwing his helmet at the ump http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/blue-jays-baseballer-ejected-for-throwing-his-helmet-at-the-ump/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/blue-jays-baseballer-ejected-for-throwing-his-helmet-at-the-ump/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:30:51 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44702 Brett Lawrie of the Toronto Blue Jays let his temper get the best of him after the ump called a couple strikes that Lawrie was fairly certain should have been balls…

(via Business Insider)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/blue-jays-baseballer-ejected-for-throwing-his-helmet-at-the-ump/feed/ 14 Korean Lego tower sets new world record for height http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/korean-lego-tower-sets-new-world-record-for-height/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/korean-lego-tower-sets-new-world-record-for-height/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 13:15:47 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44694 On Sunday, in Seoul, the world’s new tallest Lego tower was unveiled in honor of the toy’s 80th birthday. It was constructed over 5 days by 4,000 kids and is made of half a million blocks reaching 105 feet into the sky.

Since the first record-setting Lego tower was constructed in 1988, the record has changed hands over 30 times, so don’t expect this tower to be the tallest for long.

(via The Daily Mail, My Modern Met)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/korean-lego-tower-sets-new-world-record-for-height/feed/ 2 Extended preview for the upcoming Spider-Man movie http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/extended-preview-for-the-upcoming-spider-man-movie/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/extended-preview-for-the-upcoming-spider-man-movie/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:50 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44707 To my surprise, watching this made me feel sort of meh about this movie. What about you?


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/16/extended-preview-for-the-upcoming-spider-man-movie/feed/ 13 Car dealership doesn’t quite understand surfing http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/car-dealership-doesnt-quite-understand-surfing/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/car-dealership-doesnt-quite-understand-surfing/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:18 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44664 Thanks to reader Adam for sending in this snapshot…

Judging by this dealership’s current logo, they already got the memo re: what side of the wave people surf on…

Too bad.


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/car-dealership-doesnt-quite-understand-surfing/feed/ 5 Why there’s some pretty important stuff missing from the 10 commandments http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/why-theres-some-pretty-important-stuff-missing-from-the-10-commandments/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/why-theres-some-pretty-important-stuff-missing-from-the-10-commandments/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 22:30:01 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44678 From Mel Brook’s History of the World, Part I…

(via Pleated Jeans)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/why-theres-some-pretty-important-stuff-missing-from-the-10-commandments/feed/ 3 Not the corporate message you’d expect IHOP to be sending http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/not-the-corporate-message-youd-expect-ihop-to-be-sending/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/not-the-corporate-message-youd-expect-ihop-to-be-sending/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 21:00:10 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44674

(via Reddit)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/not-the-corporate-message-youd-expect-ihop-to-be-sending/feed/ 6 Baby elephant can’t stay upright while playing in the mud http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/baby-elephant-cant-stay-upright-while-playing-in-the-mud/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/baby-elephant-cant-stay-upright-while-playing-in-the-mud/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 19:22:40 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44621 Hilarious footage from Planet Earth Live…


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/baby-elephant-cant-stay-upright-while-playing-in-the-mud/feed/ 5 The dangers of freezing time http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/the-dangers-of-freezing-time/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/the-dangers-of-freezing-time/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 18:00:58 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44660 From Loading Artist…


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(via Stuff I Stole)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/how-to-call-a-strike-at-a-little-league-game/feed/ 4 A paean to plywood — In praise of plain, old sheets of wood http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/a-paean-to-plywood-in-praise-of-plain-old-sheets-of-wood/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/a-paean-to-plywood-in-praise-of-plain-old-sheets-of-wood/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:30:37 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44630 A beautiful, if melodramatic, “love letter” to one of the most (seemingly) mundane components of construction…

(via MetaFilter)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/a-paean-to-plywood-in-praise-of-plain-old-sheets-of-wood/feed/ 1 The 80′s as compared to 80′s parties http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/the-80s-as-compared-to-80s-parties/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/the-80s-as-compared-to-80s-parties/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 14:15:31 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44649

(via BuzzFeed)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/the-80s-as-compared-to-80s-parties/feed/ 6 Lamborghini loses control around a simple left turn. The rest of us laugh… http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/lamborghini-loses-control-around-a-simple-left-turn-the-rest-of-us-laugh/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/lamborghini-loses-control-around-a-simple-left-turn-the-rest-of-us-laugh/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 13:15:09 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44635

(via Reddit)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/15/lamborghini-loses-control-around-a-simple-left-turn-the-rest-of-us-laugh/feed/ 6 Intricate camel haircut http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/intricate-camel-haircut/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/intricate-camel-haircut/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 01:30:54 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44552

A camel covered with elaborate patterns waited to be judged in a camel haircut competition at an annual festival in Bikaner, India. (Dinesh Gupta/Associated Press)

(via TYWKIWDBI)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/intricate-camel-haircut/feed/ 6 How a slight tap could literally knock down The Empire State Building http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/how-a-slight-tap-could-literally-knock-down-the-empire-state-building/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/how-a-slight-tap-could-literally-knock-down-the-empire-state-building/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:57 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44612 Here’s a little fact that doesn’t seem overly interesting at first: A tipping domino can knock over another domino that is about 1.5 times bigger than it is.

But here is the astounding implication: If you start with a tiny domino — only 5 millimeters tall — and then set up a series of dominoes, each 1.5 times larger than the previous one, in fewer than 30 blocks, you will have a domino as large as The Empire State Building, which will crash to the ground as a result of tipping the tiny block over.

Check it out…

(via HyperVocal)


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(from Keith Greenstein, via meme meme)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/imperial-walker-walker/feed/ 0 Interesting bit of trivia about the increase in weird baby names http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/interesting-bit-of-trivia-about-the-increase-in-weird-baby-names/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/interesting-bit-of-trivia-about-the-increase-in-weird-baby-names/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 21:00:16 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44563

According to baby name blogger Laura Wattenberg…

Historically, names in the English-speaking world were a relatively constrained set, with a small collection of classic names dominating. In England in 1800, the top six names for boys and girls accounted for more than half of all babies born….

By 1950 in the United States, you needed 79 names…to get the same population coverage that those six names achieved in England in 1800. Today, it would take 546 different names…

(via Live Science, TYWKIWDBI)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/interesting-bit-of-trivia-about-the-increase-in-weird-baby-names/feed/ 23 3 color photographs of Winston Churchill with animals http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/3-color-photographs-of-winston-churchill-with-animals/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/3-color-photographs-of-winston-churchill-with-animals/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 19:30:03 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44543

(via Time)


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/3-color-photographs-of-winston-churchill-with-animals/feed/ 1 Girls don’t want smart guys http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/girls-dont-want-smart-guys/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/girls-dont-want-smart-guys/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 18:00:09 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44566 From Cyanide and Happiness…


]]> http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/girls-dont-want-smart-guys/feed/ 3 Curious camel gets spooked by a plastic bin http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/curious-camel-gets-spooked-by-a-plastic-bin/ http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/14/curious-camel-gets-spooked-by-a-plastic-bin/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 16:30:19 +0000 Abraham Piper http://twentytwowords.com/?p=44601

This is the same awesome camel as we saw racing a girl a few months ago.

(via Cynical-C)


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