posted August 26, 2008 09:03 AM            

Unfortunately this means there's a whole bunch of jaw-dropping pics that the internet declared "FAKE!" the moment they appeared But as it turns out, some of the most baffling of them are, in fact, real

#15 The Machine Apparently Made to Saw the World in Half

What appears to be some normal-sized machine cropped and pasted onto a skyline is actually a gigantic machinized monstrosity designed for excavation <by some Germans Those things that look like saw teeth big enough to cut down the Empire State Building are actually buckets, each of which could pretty much scoop up your whole house

If this thing's secretly a transformer, we're screwed

#14 Macaroni Push-Pop

Yes, this push-pop made of "Macaroni & Cheese in Chili Sauce With Beef" is very real, part of a "convenience meets nausea" movement to provide your favorite foods on the go in a microwaveable, cardboard tube Scrambled eggs are also available

Here's a tip for all you potential consumers: if you want macaroni and cheese so badly that you're willing to eat it in a push pop, you have an illness and need to reach out to a professional

#13 "AAAAARRGGHH! EDDIE MURPHY HEAD!"

This giant, terrifying Eddie Murphy head that looks like a badly photoshopped and probably racist 4chan meme, was actually part of an enormous bust they were building to promote the movie, Meet Dave

Incidentally, the only thing that would scare us more than driving next to Axl Foley's humongous noggin on the highway is being forced to see the movie

posted August 26, 2008 09:05 AM            

This humongous table and chair is a sculpture in England The artist wanted to build a monument to the privacy and loneliness of writing And by that we assume he means the loneliness of being a writer who is also a giant that eats passing bicyclists

#11 "Do You See Those Letters, Uh, Floating There?"

Yes, if you stand in this spot in the parking garage shown in the photo, the word "DOWN" is just floating there The sign was desgined by an artist who won an award for it, because there are apparently awards for making innovative signage in parking garages

He created the effect of continuous letters by adjusting the angles for appropriate perspective as they reached walls, just like in those incredible chalk sidewalk drawings that are all over the web

These sorts of illusions are great when they appear on sidewalks, and probably much less entertaining when you ram straight into the wall of this Wile E Coyote-inspired parking garage after swerving to avoid the giant DOWN sign that materialized in midair in front of your car

#10 If You Look Past The Unsettlingly Tiny Speedo, You'll See a Huge Freaking
Airliner

posted August 26, 2008 09:07 AM            

Holy crap, look at that thing We were hoping that was just a tiny trash can but, no, it's a coconut crab, which is the biggest arthropod that lives on land

We like how they chose the innocuous name "coconut crab" to describe something that can only be killed with a flamethrower If these things were called "Skull Crabs" or "Under Your Bed Crabs" mankind would have declared war on them long ago

#8 A Splotch From God's Paintbrush

This Mark Rothko-looking blotch of color is the Grand Prismatic Spring, which supposedly gets its colors from bacteria that grow around the water

Since this explanation seems far too simple for something so brilliant, we'll go ahead and assume it's really an alien spacecraft landing site being covered up by the government

#7 If Dogs Played Major League Baseball

This cartoonish muscle-dog is Wendy, a whippet with a genetic disorder causing ridiculous muscular growth

While Wendy's condition is sure to have many medical applications to various muscle development disorders, we're still hoping Disney casts her as the bad guy in Air Bud 4

posted August 26, 2008 09:09 AM            

Taken by Kevin O'Mara

At first sight, this appears to be a home improvement project that accidentally tapped into Stephen Hawkings' most abstract theories on space and time But then you notice that the kid who is right next to the portal to another dimension isn't disintegrating into millions of pieces, or even looking up from his ******* cellphone

So it must be a photoshop right? Wrong again The Inversion House is an art project that answers the pressing question: what would your neighbor's place look like if it was sucked through a straw in the Looney Tunes universe? The answer is pretty cool, though apparently not nearly as cool as whatever 13 year-olds are texting each other these days

#5 Body Builder, With Flesh Puppet

Yes, the proportions are correct The tiny man is Aditya "Romeo" Dev, the world's smallest bodybuilder He stands a towering 2 feet 9 inches tall and weighing in at a whopping 20 pounds

We'd love to see him and Vern Troyer go at it in a no holds barred cage match Or, see two huge men get into a cage match using this guy and Vern Troyer as weapons

#4 Freudian Gummy Candy

As you can see from the package, these are supposed to be lighthouses but may in fact be the most unfortunately shaped product of all time

#3 "Looks Like Another Neighborhood Got Sucked Into the Vortex Yesterday"

It looks like a city about to get drained out of a giant's bath tub, but it's actually a picture of the world's largest diamond mine outside of Mirny, Russia

posted August 26, 2008 09:11 AM            

This seems to be a Photoshop with some Japanese text thrown on, to mock a culture whose major export seems to be insanity But the product is real and oh by the way, it's from Pizza Hut

It's the Double Roll Pizza and comes with a pigs-in-blankets crust The only thing it's missing is some pork rinds Maybe sprinkle some tiny cans of beer on there

#1 A Scene From a Michael Bay Movie About Tennis?

posted May 11, 2010 03:16 AM            

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