Danny Gallagher is a freelance writer, reporter, humorist and all around nice guy living in Texas who is a regular contributor to TheFW and has also contributed features, essays and stories to Maxim, GameTrailers, Aol, TruTV's "Dumb As a Blog," Cracked, Mental Floss, CBS' "Mancave Daily and Spike. He also likes puppies and cookies. He can be found on the web at www.dannygallagher.net and on Twitter @thisisdannyg.
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Oldest Woman to Scale Mount Everest Scales Mount Everest Again
You can't keep a good woman down. Apparently, neither can the mighty Mount Everest.
Tamae Watanabe, 73, of Japan broke the world record by becoming the oldest woman in history to climb the world's highest mountain. She decided that breaking the world record once wasn't good enough for her. So she climbed it again.
Fiat Photobombs Volkswagen Headquarters By Parking Fiat 500 on Google Street View
Fiat and Volkswagen have had a long standing rivalry between them and not just with their car sales.
Both companies' headquarters are located in Sweden and Fiat noticed a Volkswagen speeding in the front of their building on Google Maps' Street View. So they got the ingenious idea to do the same to their neighborly competitor.
14 Signs You Aren’t Going to Graduate
Graduation is just around the corner, and now is the time for high schoolers to start deciding what college they want to attend next semester and college grads to choose a career with the least potential for unemployment benefits in two years.
Some, however, won’t get a diploma that they can hang on their wall (assuming that they make enough to afford a frame for it). Here some ways to tell if you
Photographer Jan von Holleben Recreates Classic Film Scenes with Kids That Defy Gravity
A very enterprising film buff and photographer created a series of photographs that turn some of the cinema's most classic moments into pure, unadulterated kiddie cuteness.
Photographer Jan von Holleben of Germany got together a group of neighborhood kids and a bunch of homemade costumes and props to create faithful stills of famous movie moments by laying them all on the ground.
High School Seniors’ Post-It Note Prank Leads to Suspensions, Firing
An innocent-sounding prank at an Indiana high school prompted some very serious suspensions and even a janitor losing his job.
Will Smith’s Son Jaden Actually Asked Obama If Aliens Really Exist
If you had the chance to borrow the ear of a real sitting U.S. president and could only ask him one question that every American was dying to know the truth about, what would it be? Will Smith's oldest son Jaden got that chance, and completely failed.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Tries to Out-Awesome Newark Mayor Corey Booker
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Corey Booker are legends in their own right. However, when the two get together, their natural competitive instincts kick in and they become bitter rivals that can make Seinfeld and Newman look like the Olsen Twins.
10 Things Overheard During Facebook’s IPO Announcement
Just a few years ago, Facebook became a simple way for teenagers and old classmates to keep up with their friends while pretending to work. Now, it’s a billion dollar company with its own publicly traded stock.
The announcement offered its own share of shocked faces and flabbergasted statements. Here are some things that were probably said during Facebook's IPO announcement.
Bicycle Theft Victim Uses Craigslist to Steal Back His Own Bike
Nothing can ruin a urban dweller's day more than discovering that their bike has been stolen by some thoughtless thief. One bike rider, however, decided he wasn't going to just roll on with his life and let them get away with it.
Korean Toddlers Help Build Record-Breaking Lego Tower
It's amazing the number of things that can be done with simple Legos. You can build sweet 'Avengers' props with them. You can turn them into life-size vehicles. You can even make eye-deceiving 3D works of art. It turns out you can also use them to put your homeland in the national spotlight.
12 Things We Wished Happened on the ‘Desperate Housewives’ Finale
All TV shows must come to an end and even though the world is anxiously awaiting the day when ‘Two-and-a-Half Men’ joins the ranks of polio and disco music, audiences recently had to say goodbye to another long-running resident of TV Land.
The final ‘Desperate Housewives’ episode aired Sunday with a shocking two-hour finale that tied up the lives of characters beloved by die-hard audiences of wome
‘Hello, My Name is Tyrannosaurus Rex’ – Nebraska Man Names Himself After Dinosaur
We can understand someone not liking the name that their parents gave them. It's not like they had any say in the matter when their parents decided to give them a moniker that could earn them more teasing on the playground than names like Terry Bull, Mary Christmas or Andy Dick.
Tyler Gold of York, Nebraska, however, sounds like a perfectly normal name to us. The one he changed it to makes us extr
Pam Shaw, 70-Year-Old Virgin, Is Ready for Love
We can understand why some people would rather wait to find that perfect man or woman before physically giving themselves to someone else. We can't imagine being able to successfully do it (especially if we constantly use the phrase "do it"), but we can understand it.
Pam Shaw of East Lancashire, England has waited 70 years to find her perfect man to give her virginity to and she's final
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak’s passing marked more than just the end for a great children’s author and illustrator. Parents and children alike have read and loved Sendak’s works and stories for years because as Sendak often said, he didn’t consider his books to be for children. They may have been marketed that way, but the ideas and images Sendak created spoke to more than just the young and young at heart.
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MIT Student Invents Real Life ‘Mario Kart’
Science and engineering have given us so many things that mankind once thought were mere fantasy: the gift of flight, fax machines, the toaster. Now, the march of progress continues to this day with this real-life creation of pop-culture transportation.
A mechanical engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology built a miniature go-kart called the "Chibikart." It look