Random Facts: Hidden treasures from the internet

Nov 1st, 2008 | By Jordan DeFrank | Category: Random Facts

Two kids created cryingwhileeating.com, where you can witness user-submitted videos of people … well, crying while eating.
Examples include Sam, who is crying over milk and cookies because he broke up with his girlfriend; Aggi, who is crying over a chicken leg because she feels sorry for the chicken; and Tom, crying while eating the last pizza crust from the party he missed.
Fans of cryingwhileeating.com are anxiously awaiting the newest addition, featuring David Hasselhoff and a hamburger.

Idreamofhillaryidreamofbarack.com features real dreams people have about Clinton, Obama and McCain.
One woman dreamed Obama was pumping breast milk in an elevator. A gay married man dreamed he had an affair with Barack, who told him, “It’s not really cheating if one of you is a politician.” (They were caught by McCain’s mother.)
One woman (blogname “hrclint”) dreamed Barack had to forfeit the election due to a debilitating stomach virus and the first runner-up accepted the crown, uh, nomination.

Thanks to improveverywhere.com, on January 12, 2008, 2,000 people took off their pants at 5:28 p.m. in Grand Central Station. This day was dubbed “No Pants 2k8.”
The website is also responsible for people breaking out in spontaneous musical dance numbers in public, faking a suicide jump off a 2-foot ledge and staging a reading by Anton Chekhov, who has been dead over 100 years.
The latest project from the trickster website is the plot to convince moviegoers that Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are serious actors. Gotcha!

Popular website craigslist.com has a section called “Missed Connections,” where people try to reconnect with strangers whom they admired from afar or briefly flirted with.
One McDonald’s patron still yearns for the “bolt of beauty” who “sauntered into McDonald’s” and smiled at him eating his Big Mac. Others wrote about the meaningful eye contact made with fellow Whole Foods shoppers.
Oh, and if you’re reading this and you are the guy whose hand I brushed reaching for orange juice at Winn-Dixie, I can’t stop thinking about you …

If you want to attend coordinated cuddling sessions with groups of strangers, go to cuddleparty.com.
At cuddle parties, pajamas must be worn at all times, no sexual contact is permitted and you must ask permission before you cuddle.
Related interests might include eharmony.com, benandjerrys.com and desperateandlonely.com.

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