In the late 1900’s, Howard Hughes bought an entire casino named The Silver Slipper just so he could tear down their neon sign. This was because the sign was visible from Hughes’ bedroom and it was keeping him awake at night.
After American physicist Richard Feynman was named the world’s smartest man by Omni Magazine, his mother was actually quoted as saying, “If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.”
There’s a popular variation of “Yo Momma” type jokes in Kenya that goes a little something like this: “Your family is so stupid you gave your chickens hot water so they can lay boiled eggs.”
Twenty-year-old Kiran Cable from South Wales was with his girlfriend so much that his friends said he actually disappeared from their lives. So much so, that after eighteen months of unreturned calls and emails, fifty of Cable’s friends decided to surprise him with a mock funeral that included a coffin, a hearse, and a eulogy.
As a result of a decades old prank, there’s a tradition in Glasgow of placing a traffic cone on the head of the Duke of Wellington Statue. The cost of removing the cones cost an estimated $ 11,000 a year.
