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Now they are outsourcing superheroes!! Oh wait. It is just a 1987 Indian movie of Superman. I guess I jumped the gun.
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Seems like a lot of work.

That’s right , this website will show you how to build a stormtrooper costume from the ground-up. Everything from making a bodycast of yourself to sculpting out the parts correctly, and then pulling vacuumformed plastic for the final pieces. Its’ all right here… right now. So sit back and start reading, and dont forget to print out these pages too. Hard copy is still the best reference material when your hard at work in the REAL world.

Do you have to actually die to get a Darwin Award?

I had done the latter several years earlier in a cryogenics lab, and remembered the physics behind how it worked. Naturally, people around me were skeptical. “You can’t drink the stuff… it’ll freeze your whole body… Remember ‘Terminator 2?’ ” But I was sure of myself. I had done it before, and I believed in the physics behind it. So, naturally, I poured myself a glass and took a shot.

Simple. Swallow. Blow smoke out nose and mouth and impress everyone at the party. Within about two seconds, I had collapsed to the floor, unable to breathe or feel anything other than intense pain. Ambulance arrives. Police arrive. Trip to hospital. Admission. Try to explain to ER staff exactly how something like this happens. Then I pass out. Wake up next morning connected to many machines, some beeping, others performing more important functions like digesting my food and breathing for me.

This is pretty funny. It is how some of the world’s leaders see themselves as.

One of my favorite movies of all time. They compare shots from the movie to present day San Francisco.
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Pretty cool.
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Images of the Second World War and its aftermath.

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Give a random name to that special someone you meet at the bar.

My random name is Max Yadon.

The competition for this list must have been intense.