Our friends over at Design Boom tipped us off to an interesting new series by German photographer Oliver Schwarzwald that looks at typical breakfasts around the world. We’ve decided to turn it into a challenge for your lunch hour. Can you match the various foods in these lovely photographs with the country where they’re considered traditional breakfast fare? Don’t worry, we’ll start you out with one that’s easy.
Ten years of talking by public figures makes for some interesting (and very often not-so-smart sounding) bloopers. After the jump we’ve posted the Huffington Post’s roundup of the dumbest quotes of the decade — sans attribution. Wager a guess on who said what and highlight the black box to find out if you’re right. Be warned: Some of these gems are much easier to identify than others. That said, if you don’t get at least half of them right, we’re going to be concerned.
A death mask, as the name suggests, is a wax or plaster cast made of a person’s face following death. While the Ancient Egyptians used them as part of the mummification process, Westerners adopted the tradition as a way to document what a person looked like, before photography became more popular. Life Magazine just posted a slideshow of 12 rather famous ones, and we’ve picked five of our favorites for you to ID after the jump. But don’t get cocky. Thanks to slight distortions caused by the weight of the plaster during the making of the mold, subjects can sometimes be hard to recognize. So we’ll give you a few hints. There are two famous poets (one Italian, one English), one American president, an Austrian painter, and one playwright who you probably read in high school more than once. Good luck!
1. “I’ve got this thing and it’s (expletive) golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there.”
2. “I live my life, I don’t apologize to take care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on the strings held by all of those big shots. That’s my life I don’t apologize for that. But I always thought that when it was your time that you would be the one to hold the strings.”
3. “I want to make money.”
4. “There’s a lot of money in that white powder.”
5. “They’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation. (Expletive) them.”
6. “I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were a serious man. A man to be treated with respect but I must say no to you and I will give you my reasons. It’s true, I have a lot of friends in politics.”
7. “You gotta be careful how you express that and assume everybody’s listening, the whole world is listening. You hear me?”
Find the answers after the jump…
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