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Bottle Cap Blues. Piecaken - Star 94.1. Dude-stop-this. World's funniest joke. The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research.

World's funniest joke

For his experiment, named LaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes.[1] Purposes of the research included discovering the joke that had the widest appeal and understanding among different cultures, demographics and countries. [citation needed] The History Channel eventually hosted a special on the subject. [citation needed] Official Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - The Vet & The n00b.

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Ant Death Spiral. Perfect timing. "I dont need drugs to have fun" Funny-bully-gif-muscles.gif (GIF Image, 500×326 pixels) Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers. I love learning something that flips my head upside down.

Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers.

So, let's look at one of the coolest head-flippers I've found: Japanese addresses. Imagine you're standing in Chicago and a Japanese man asks you, “What's the name of this block?” Thinking you've misunderstood the question, you say, “This is Erie Street. We're between Wabash Ave and Rush Street.” But the man asks you again, “No. You say, “Uh. (Blocks don't have names! He leaves disappointed. Now imagine you're standing in Tokyo. Thinking she's misunderstood the question, she says, “This is block 5. But you ask again, “Huh? She says again, “Uh. See: in (most of) Japan, streets don't have names! And the buildings on the block are numbered in order of age. Mailing addresses in Japan, after naming the province and city, are a series of three numbers: district number, block number, building number. As an example, see this Google map from Tokyo.

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Buddha Pears! // Current

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20 of the World's Worst Jobs

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The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget

One time I arrived in the middle of the night for a pick up at a building that was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, then drive away. But I had seen too many impoverished people who depended on taxis as their only means of transportation. Unless a situation smelled of danger, I always went to the door. "Just a minute," answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. "Would you carry my bag out to the car? " "It's nothing," I told her.

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