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Bombastic Little Creep

This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August…

Flash’em Poker

In Texas Hold’em Poker, which hand is known as ‘six tits’?

Glory and Sadness, Beauty and Pain

X is a song written by Y and famously covered by Z. Time Magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel described it thus:…

May be harmful if inhaled or swallowed

In the book “The World of _____” by Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K Bealer, there is a photograph…

19 March, 2007

Blackbeard foiled!

Question by J Ramanand

Edward Teach, a.k.a Blackbeard, punished a mutinous crew by banishing them on a tiny island in the Caribbean Sea. Each crewman was given a cutlass and some drink to survive the snake infested place. He also hoped that they would eventually get rid of each other. But returning after a month, he found that fifteen of them still survived. What is this tale supposed to be the origin of?