The Unipiper is getting into the spirit of ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’ with this video of him on a unicycle, dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow, playing the theme to Pirates of the Caribbean, on flaming bagpipes!
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Girls Dressed As Pirates
To celebrate ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ we present to you, a plethora of ‘wenches’ to shake your sword at
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LEGO The Three R’s — Talk Like a Pirate Day
To kick off ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’, Lego has released the cute vid
ARRRRRGH you ready for a new adventure with the Brick-a-Brack Bunch™? Watch as they celebrate the first holiday of the school year!
Alf Sings “Berzerk” by Eminem
Alf does his own music video to “Berzerk” by Eminem because, you know, this is the internet. This one goes out to all my people on Melmac
Interesting Histories of Iconic Products
Since the advent of mass production, millions of products have come and gone. Even some innovative and successful products outlive their usefulness, fading into the sands of time alongside interesting failures and ill-conceived fiascoes.
The following products have been around for a very long time, some for a hundred years or more. They’ve become an iconic and ingrained part of our culture, and the little-known and fascinating stories behind their creation and marketing deserve to be told.
Dr Pepper
It’s somewhat of a misconception that Dr Pepper was created by a doctor (we can’t imagine why), but it’s not too far from the truth. The inventor of the world’s oldest soft drink (in 1885) was Charles Alderton, a pharmacist at Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas. It’s also somewhat commonly believed that it was created as a medicine, but that’s untrue: Alderton just enjoyed mixing up flavorful, fizzy stuff when we wasn’t being a pharmacist. He enjoyed the smell of all the fruity syrups from the soda fountain mingled together, and set out to create a drink that tasted like that smell.
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