Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
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Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
Back in the dog days of summer, we featured a very hot gallery of Daphne Joy to bring some happiness to your life. Now that the holidays are here, it's time for additional tidings of comfort and joy in the form of more sexy photos of the model/actress. Keep clicking to see all 11 luscious pics of the "Filipino Puerto Rican Princess."
Also, follow Daphne Joy on Twitter.
The bitter wind beats at your windows as the furnace blows back with all its might, but you're trapped inside this frigid box whose only doors are mounted by towering snowdrifts. So, you savor every bit of fiery warmth from what's left of the woodpile and dream of summer mornings to get you through the night.
Or if you'd like an alternate ending, you could dip your frozen tongue in one (or all) of these 10 deliciously toast-worthy winter cocktails, cheers to the holidays, and head outside with your friends to pee curse words in the snow.
Hot Toddy
Aside from what you call your best friend Todd, a Hot Toddy is both a warm and soothing cocktail with some resemblance to a cup of hot tea, only instead of tea, we're drinking whiskey, gents.
It's as easy as adding boiling water, whiskey and honey together in your mug, stirring in your cinnamon, nutmeg and clove spices and adding a slice of lemon before letting it set for five minutes. It's great for a cold night at home when your lady hogs all the blankets, giving you a chance to catch a nice buzz and tell her how she makes you feel.
Ingredients:
1 tsp honey
2 oz boiling water
2 oz whiskey (or more)
3 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
1 lemon slice
1 dash nutmeg
White Russian
It would be sold in milk cartons to elementary schools if there wasn't so much damn alcohol in them. This delicious dairy sneaker, although seemingly healthy, can have you casually carrying on a conversation one minute and doing ass dances atop your barstool the next, if you're not careful.
A simple blend of milk, Kahlua and vodka across ice makes any White Russian the cool, but classic winter choice. And if you're lactose intolerant, just make it a Black Russian by holding the milk and get sauced that much quicker.
Ingredients:
1½ oz vodka
¾ oz Kahlua coffee liqueur
¾ oz cream (or milk)
Invisible Man
Any friend of a Manhattan is a friend of the Invisible Man, a short order of spirits with a righteous kick that'll curl the ends of your mustache. Like a Manhattan, this whiskey cocktail also orders up a taste of bitters and fresh fruit but also delivers a healthy buzz in its small portion. The only difference is the whiskey is white, along with the white crème de cacao.
Ingredients:
2½ white whiskey
¾ oz white crème de cacao
2 dashes plum bitters
Pomegranate Champagne Punch
If you're hosting a party, or if you're just going to one, and enjoy spiking the punch bowl and watching people get lit, the pomegranate champagne style is always a gentlemanly way to go. Plus, it'll keep people entertained for awhile.
Boil together some water sugar, add in a bunch of champagne, along with some white rum and pomegranate juice, then garnish with a little lemon, pomegranate seeds and mint leaves, and you'll be crowned king of holiday cocktail hosting as everybody slurs their cheers and spills on the carpet.
Ingredients:
½ cup simple syrup (sugary water mixture for sweetener)
2 750-mL bottles chilled champagne
1½ cup white rum
1¼ cup pomegranate juice (or more)
1 lemon (thinly) sliced
Pomegranate seeds
Fresh mint leaves
Toasted Marshmallow Martini
The love you have for your childhood and your woman are about to collide as this s'more-like cocktail will bring a smile to both you and your lady's faces. So what if you feel like a sissy holding a tall, delicate martini glass; it's a heartwarming cocktail that'll shoot you up with masculinity for decades to come when you start using fire to make a cocktail.
Shaken with ice, the martini is a mixer of vodka, hazelnut, cream and marshmallow. Shake until cold and serve in a marshmallow whip-rimmed martini glass with actual toasted marshmallows strewn across like olives on a dirty man's dirty martini. Your lady will love you for it, too.
Ingredients:
2 oz vanilla vodka
2 oz hazelnut liqueur
2 oz cream
2 oz marshmallow topping/whip
3-5 whole mini marshmallows
Rye & Ginger
It's a simple, yet sophisticated cocktail for a simple, yet sophisticated man. After enough of them, you might be too loopy to play chef of the cocktail anyway, so here's to simplicity in a short glass.
It's as easy as pouring a generous portion of rye whiskey over ice and freshening it up with the tiniest bit of ginger goodness. It's great if you love whiskey and you're a social drinker who can't stop putting the glass to his mouth. This cocktail's greatness depends both on your love of whiskey and your ability to choose the right kind.
Ingredients:
1 oz rye whiskey (or however much you like)
Splash of ginger ale
Dirty Martini
Nothing hits the taste buds on a cool evening, or any evening for that matter, like a well-executed dirty martini. And there's also nothing more depressing than a poorly made one, so let's educate ourselves and drink like responsible men of perfection.
First of all, your martini glass needs to be chilled. Combine the vermouth with ice in a shaker and swirl and then add the gin. Swirl and strain into the martini glass, adorned by two olives, one for you and one for the lady. Make it three if you've had a bad day; you've earned it.
Ingredients:
3 oz (2 shots) gin (Bombay or Tanqueray, preferably)
1 oz dry vermouth
2 olives
Classic Southern Eggnog
What would the holidays be without some form of eggnog biting at your lip, even though a majority of folks find it disgusting? This leaves an opening for you to fill your niche at the family dinner as eggnog connoisseur, as long as you don't get everyone bloated and frothing at the mouth.
Put an interesting spin on eggnog by making it from scratch and adding tasty bourbon with a little sugar and spice. Begin by beating up three egg yolks and mix together with sugar (a little salt and vanilla if you like) until thick. Slowly add bourbon and milk and then chill in the fridge.
Before serving, beat the egg whites until stiff, adding in the last of the sugar until creamy. Slowly pour this cream over the chilled bourbon mixture, served best in a mug, before garnishing with nutmeg. It's time-consuming but worth it for a fancy holiday to-do, as well as a good reason not to talk to your crazy relative who keeps asking you where her cat is.
Ingredients:
3 eggs
3 oz milk
3 oz sugar
3 oz Bourbon
1 dash nutmeg
Fresh Ginger Sparkler
Using fine, fresh ginger, a little sugar and a whole bunch of champagne, the ginger sparkler is a celebratory drink with a pretty emasculated name, but it tastes so good. Whether you're at an office party, having folks over for a nice get-together or you're just home alone with a bad cold, toss down a few of these bad boys and feel your body thank you immediately.
One way to go about making this one is to boil water and ginger together into an almost syrupy mixture, then strain (careful because the ginger is very fine) and use about an ounce of the mixture for each cocktail. Then add your champagne and stir. Before you know it, you'll be karaoking crap '90s hits in no time. Serves several.
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons fine, peeled ginger
½ cup sugar
1 bottle champagne
Boilermaker
Every group has one, the sloppy obnoxious holiday drunk that has a six-pack and a few tequila shots down before you've even opened your eyes the next wicked, hungover morning. Well, this drink is for him in all his shaker-free, fruitless madness. It's a cock's tail that says you don't need to choose between beer and whiskey when you can just have both.
It's as simple as a shot of whiskey and a beer, but whether you enjoy them separately, slowly together or in a rapid drop-shot-like manner is up to you. We'll give you a hint; none of them have any respectability whatsoever, but it does the trick.
Ingredients:
1 beer (light or microbrew, unless you're truly mad)
1 big shot whiskey (Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, whatever)
The man you see here reading a book while standing on his head is Caulton Morris and he is a very creative photographer. Morris has been snapping these incredibly inventive shots on and off for the last four years. He likes to be very clear on the subject matter: these are not photoshopped. All of the pics you see in this gallery are 100 percent real.
Morris didn't totally reveal his methods, but he did explain what has gone into the series. "I literally just take the shots on the spur of the moment with very little, if any, preparation," Morris says. "It's all about play. I go out with my camera not knowing what will happen. I play around and usually end up with a unexpected result. My thinking is that if I have fun taking the shot then people might have fun looking at it!"
Keep clicking to see more insane headstand shots.
Via Caulton Morris
"I grew up in a time when everyone believed the saying, 'The camera never lies,'" says Morris. "Nobody believes that anymore. In fact we believe the complete opposite...'The camera ALWAYS lies!' That's pretty interesting to me."
"I'm well aware of the Photoshop claims. That's part of the fun," says Morris. "This series is completely real and incredibly simple...that's the trick. Buddhist monks have been doing it for a lot longer than me so people should really take it up with them."
Even though this shoot looks like it might've involved some serious planning, Morris claims it was pretty simple: "There's no trick! The toilet shot was very easy...its literally just as you see it."
"The camera was sat on top of a small bin that I put in the shower cubicle opposite the toilet," says Morris.
Morris welcomes the doubters: "Now let the photoshop debate rage on...I'm off to meditate!"
Keep clicking to see the rest of Morris' headstand series.
It's almost impossible to imagine a bat-world pre-Christopher Nolan, where the caped crusader was a laughing stock, a Day-Glo covered punchline forced to trade lame quips with A-listers cashing in whatever goodwill they had with the public. But Nolan went back to the beginning, started from scratch, rebuilt Bruce Wayne brick by brick, and created one of the greatest movie trilogies of all time. As the final chapter, "The Dark Knight Rises," arrives on Blu-ray and DVD Dec. 4th, it's time to look back and learn a few things about Gotham's solitary protector...
10. Michael Caine helped flesh out the backstory for his take on Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, including hints at Alfred's former military career. In the British army, privates who act as valets for officers are referred to as "batmen." Caine liked to quip that Alfred is "Batman's batman."
9. During a trip to "the Narrows" in "Batman Begins," Batman runs into a kid on a fire escape and gives him a spy device as a souvenir. Little did we know that that wide-eyed little moppet would grow up to be "Game of Thrones'" most despised character, the bratty child King Joffrey Baratheon (the actor's name is Jack "Don't Call me Jackie" Gleeson).
8. The score for "Batman Begins" was actually a tag team effort between Hans Zimmer ("Gladiator," "The Last Samurai," "Crimson Tide") and James Newton Howard ("The Fugitive," "The Hunger Games," "The Bourne Legacy"). Each composer worked on separate pieces of music to represent Bruce Wayne's split personality. The bizarre track list names - "Vespertilio," "Eptesicus," "Myotis" - are the Latin names for species of bats.
7. Being a well-connected bat-fan has its privileges. Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy is such a renowned Batman fanboy that he not only scored a cameo in "Batman & Robin," he's done voice work on the animated series, and appeared in "The Dark Knight" as the Harvey Dent fundraiser attendee who stands up to The Joker ("We're not intimidated by thugs.") Leahy returned for a quick cameo in "Rises" as well.
6. "The Dark Knight" is the first Batman movie not to physically feature Wayne Manor. Not that that's entirely without precedent - Bruce Wayne actually did rock a penthouse pad in the comics from the late 60s to the early 80s. Among TDK's other firsts - it's the first Batman movie to not have "Batman" in the title, and it's the first to feature Batman fighting villains outside of Gotham City.
5. How's this for roundabout inspiration? The "smile" scars sported by The Joker are similar to ones inflicted upon the infamous "Black Dahlia" murder victim Elizabeth Short in 1947. Her killer was believed to have been inspired by a creepy 1928 film called "The Man Who Laughs," about a man whose face is permanently frozen into a freakish grin. That same film inspired Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger when they originally dreamed up The Joker in 1940.
4. Actor Cillian Murphy holds a unique position in Batman-history. He's the only actor to reprise a villain role in any of the Batman movie series. He plays Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow in all three of the Dark Knight films.
3. One of the major set pieces in "The Dark Knight Rises" takes place in the Gotham Rogues football stadium (actually Pittsburgh's Heinz Field). Most people know that the Rogues are played by actual members of the Pittsburgh Steelers (including a very prominent Hines Ward), but did you know that the kicker for the opposing team is played by Luke Ravenstahl, the mayor of Pittsburgh?
2. Christopher Nolan refused to even mention the Joker in "The Dark Knight Rises" out of respect for the late Heath Ledger, but there are some clues out there as to what exactly happened to the Clown Prince of Crime. The movie's novelization stokes the mystery: "Now that the Dent Act had made it all but impossible for the city's criminals to cop an insanity plea, it (Blackgate Prison) had replaced Arkham Asylum as a preferred location for imprisoning both convicted and suspected felons. The worst of the worst were sent here, except for the Joker, who, rumor had it, was locked away as Arkham's sole remaining inmate. Or perhaps he had escaped. Nobody was really sure. Not even Selina."
1. The massive showdown in Gotham's financial district between Bane's army, Batman, and the Gotham PD was actually pieced together from two entirely different shoots. Part of it was shot in the middle of winter in New York's snow-covered Wall Street (while the Occupy Protests were going on), while the other was shot earlier in the heat of summer at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University while fake snow was pumped in.
The location shift happens right in the middle of the action. Bane attacks Batman and knocks him onto the steps of a large building. The initial hit was from the first shoot and its impact is from the second, according to Nolan: "Bane literally kicks Batman from Wall Street in New York to the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh. That's one big kick."
Murder: is there any crime more foul? To take a human life is a serious decision, one that shouldn't be taken lightly. But because we are human beings, and thus irrevocably flawed, we tend to murder people over all sorts of dumb things. In this piece, we'll investigate ten hideous murders that were prompted by the most idiotic reasons. Sadly, no one is safe.
Facebook Unfriending, 2012
The Internet is serious business, as any number of YouTube videos will tell you. But in the murder of Billy Clay Paine, Jr. and Billie Jean Hayworth of Mountain City, Tennessee, it got a little more serious. Paine and Hayworth unwittingly sealed their own fate when they defriended a woman named Jenelle Potter from their lists in 2012. Potter had been allegedly harassing and threatening the two, so they had no compunctions about removing her from their online world. When she found out, she complained to her father, Marvin Potter, and her boyfriend Jamie Curd. The two men then marched over to Paine and Hayworth's house and shot them dead with shotguns, leaving Hayworth's six-month-old baby crying in her dead mother's arms.
Cold Eggs, 2010
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but that doesn't mean you should kill over it. In 2010, Kentucky trailer park resident Stanley Neace got a little agitated when his wife Sandra served him a plate of scrambled eggs that had gone cold. Instead of popping them in the microwave, Stanley grabbed his pump-action shotgun and murdered his wife and her daughter before going over to his neighbor's trailer and killing them, as well. Presumably their breakfast was also not to his liking. The neighbor's seven-year-old daughter escaped and ran to call the police, but by the time they arrived to the crime scene Neace had already turned his gun on himself.
No Toilet Paper, 2006
Often times these dumb murders are caused in the heat of passion, when something pushes the killer over the edge. For Franklin Paul Crow, it was not being able to wipe his butt. Lakeland, Florida native Crow was living with a roommate named Kenneth Matthews in 2006, but the two men weren't getting along. What sparked their furor was Matthews' refusal to replace the toilet tissue in their shared bathroom, leaving Crow unable to clean his rear end. Incensed by having to walk around poopy, Crow grabbed a sledgehammer and bludgeoned Matthews to death, finishing the job with a claw hammer. He originally blamed the brutal crime on a local motorcycle gang but soon confessed to the whole thing.
Speed Bumps, 2010
We're not huge fans of speed bumps, but we can accept that they have their place, especially in residential neighborhoods with lots of little rugrats running around. Some people really don't like them, though. Stephen Carr was an active resident of his Burke, Virginia neighborhood who worried about passing traffic down his street, so he lobbied the City Council to install a speed bump. One of his neighbors, however, considered that an infringement on his liberty and decided to take matters into his own hands. That neighbor, a man named David Patton, was so incensed following an argument with Carr on the street that he broke into Carr's house, tied up him and his girlfriend, and shot Carr in the head before fleeing the scene.
Avril Lavigne Tickets, 2008
This is a particularly grisly one. In 2008, a Carol Stream, Illinois man named Robert Lyons murdered his own mother by smashing her skull with a bottle of champagne and then stabbing her multiple times in the back. His motive? She refused to call a friend of hers and arrange for Lyons to get tickets to an upcoming Avril Lavigne concert. Now we've all said that there are musicians we'd "kill to see," but this is ridiculous - especially since Lyons was 39 at the time. What kind of thirty-something dude listens to Avril Lavigne? Police tracked Lyons down at a local Hooters and took him into custody.
A Free Breakfast, 2010
Kids do some really stupid stuff, but murder? It happens. In 2011, Aberkenfig, Wales teenager Joshua Davies was getting over a breakup with a young woman named Rebecca Aylward. He was doing so with typical teenage subtlety, fantasizing about killing her in text messages and Facebook posts. On a cold October day in 2010, Davies texted a friend and asked, "What would you do if I actually did kill her?" The friend responded, "Oh, I would buy you breakfast." A few days later, Davies bludgeoned Aylward to death with a huge rock and then texted his friend, saying, "Don't say anything but you just may owe me a breakfast." Davies was soon apprehended, convicted and given 14 years in prison.
Stolen Chickens, 2010
Wayne Thomas McMinn isn't what you'd call a winner. The resident of a DeKalb County, Alabama township called "Dogtown" had previously been busted for sex offenses, but life as a free man was confusing to him. When he got an idea into his head that a neighbor named Rickey McCallie had swiped some of his chickens, it led to a dispute that would leave one man dead. McMinn's rage at not having his chickens returned led him to grab a gun, put multiple bullets into McCallie's body, and throw him in a neighbor's backyard. Thankfully, everybody in town knew who did it and McMinn was quickly nabbed by the cops.
Farting, 2012
You need to be careful these days - the tiniest little thing could set somebody off. Take the shocking case of a pair of Warrensville Heights, Ohio teenagers. Shaakira Dorsey was sitting with a group of other girls when one of them passed gas. As teenagers will do, Dorsey began capping on her friend for her ill-timed fart. The girl didn't take the teasing well and things quickly escalated to fisticuffs. The unnamed farter got so violent with Dorsey that she ended up beating her to death. Several adults watched the fight and didn't intervene until it was too late.
FarmVille, 2010
I think we can all agree that Facebook games are the bane of civilized society. It's annoying enough that your relatives waste valuable time growing virtual crops, but then they plaster it all over your social networks. The kind of demented addiction that these games cause has even been enough to drive people to murder. In 2010, a woman named Alexandra Tobias was trying really hard to concentrate on her virtual agricultural enterprise in FarmVille but her three-month-old baby Dylan wouldn't stop crying. So she shook him to death, taking a break in the middle of her horrific act to have a cigarette.
Cheetos, 2012
Sometimes when you really want to snap into a crispy, salty Cheeto, nothing else will do. How else can you explain the stabbing death of Roger Wilkes in St. Louis, Missouri? Wilkes had a bag of Cheetos that fellow homeless man David Scott had designs on. But when you're snacking, you don't want to share. The two men started to argue outside of a train station, and the scuffle quickly escalated to murder when Scott pulled a knife and stabbed Wilkes in the chest. Two bicycle officers heard the fight and chased Scott several blocks before arresting him. Wilkes was rushed to the hospital, where he died of his injuries. What happened to the bag of Cheetos is unknown.
The weather outside is frightful, but today's funny photos are delightful. So since you have nowhere to go (you don't have a job, right?) you...might as well...click through today's funny photo...gallery. (I need to work on this "Let It Snow" parody.)
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What else did you think it was? (Oh right, her boob.)
This looks like a pretty important presentation.
Am I the only one who's terrified of becoming Stevie Wonder every time I walk around the city when it's raining?
Not sure that's the best name for your restaurant.
Father of the year.
This is why you should never go with the cheap wedding photographer.
I think that guy should be the new starter for the Jets.
Mobile phone expectation vs reality.
The cycle of (girl) life.
This gentleman is better than you.
Snowflake cookies: Nailed it!
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Well, that escalated quickly.
Even dogs like a good photobomb.
Thanks for the heads up, weird newspaper article.
There's a lot of stuff to like about this Facebook exchange.
If you're a fan of very off-color humor, then you should probably get to know the Mr. Tourette comic.
Every year.
Tracy Morgan's life is pretty much what you'd expect Tracy Morgan's life to be.
That's quite a log.
by Ashley Lutz
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show airs tonight, with an estimated production cost of over $12 million.
The show has been criticized for promoting unrealistic beauty, especially since a Limited Brands executive famously told the New York Times that fewer than 100 women worldwide were capable of walking its runway.
But many of the models have appeared without makeup, showing what they look like before several stylists have worked their magic.
We compiled side-by-side comparisons of some of the most famous Victoria's Secret models with and without makeup.
See Tyra Banks, Miranda Kerr, Adriana Lima and more without their makeup.
This is Candice Swanepoel's IMG portfolio shot contrasted with a picture of her from a Victoria's Secret event. She'll appear in tonight's 2012 show.
Angel Miranda Kerr appeared bare-faced to a red carpet event. Her skin is famously smooth, even without makeup.
Longtime angel Adriana Lima smiles for the camera as she prepares for the show.
Model Selita Ebanks didn't make the Victoria's Secret show this year, but she still looks naturally gorgeous.
Rosie Huntington-Whitely's famous pucker is present with and without makeup.
Model Chanel Iman released her agency photo, in which she appears sans-makeup. She's normally more put-together.
Related: Meet the Lucky Boyfriends and Husbands of Victoria's Secret Supermodels
Former Angel Heidi Klum shows off her face without makeup.
Gisele Bundchen, one of the richest models of all time, got her start as a Victoria's Secret Angel.
Tyra Banks revealed her makeup-free face on her Twitter page. She's normally more made-up.
Israeli-born model Bar Raphaeli is still gorgeous without her makeup on.
Alessandra Ambrosio, who will wear the $2 million Fantasy Bra in tonight's show, revealed her makeup-free look.
Related: What You'll See During The Outrageous Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Tonight
Famous Angel Karolina Kurkova is often photographed without makeup when she's not on the job.
A little friendly rivalry between musicians is usually a good thing for everybody involved-by encouraging a spirit of good-natured competition, performers have added incentive to improve their skills, and a few snappy jibes at each other's expense are sure to garner a little extra publicity for both bands. On the other hand, it's entirely possible to go a bit too far, to the point where people remember you less for your music and more for bitching at each other in the press and/or getting shot to death.
Come to think of it, if someone gets shot to death that's probably a worse problem than the bad press surrounding it. Take a journey with us into the harshest of realms as we look at some of the pettiest, meanest, and most violent band battles of the twentieth century.
LYNYRD SKYNYRD VS. NEIL YOUNG
Good-ol' country-rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd were fans of the heavier, bluesier sound of scruffy Canadian Neil Young, so they were among the first to grab his 1970 album "After The Gold Rush." Imagine their shock at coming across the track "Southern Man," a vivid (if heavy-handed) condemnation of Southern racism and the failure of reconstruction and reparation. Young rubbed it in with 1972's "Alabama," and Skynyrd decided to defend Dixie's wounded honor two years later with the hugely popular "Sweet Home Alabama," which contained two full stanzas calling out Neil Young by name and concluding "A Southern man don't need him around anyhow."
Young ended up liking the song and respecting Skynyrd's gumption, and even played it a few times for concert performances. Lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant reciprocated by frequently wearing Neil Young t-shirts, even while singing about how much of a jerk he was. Both songs remain controversial ("Sweet Home Alabama" also had lyrics interpreted by many to support noted segregationist governor George Wallace, while Young said in his 2012 autobiography that "I don't like my words when I listen" to "Southern Man") but widely popular, with "Sweet Home Alabama" given the dubious honor of being sampled by human genital wart Kid Rock in his song "All Summer Long."
PAVEMENT VS. SMASHING PUMPKINS
Pavement was one of the most influential bands you've never heard of, a post-punk pre-grunge proto-indie group that stubbornly refused to sign on with a major label but whose sound was so quintessentially Nineties that critics like Robert Christgau referred to them as the best band of the decade.
A humble and somewhat obscure fixture of the music scene for all ten years of its existence, Pavement attracted mass media attention exactly twice-first with their single and accompanying video "Cut Your Hair," which received moderate airplay and an appearance on Beavis and Butthead, and second with the release of the 1994 single "Range Life," where vocalist Stephen Malkmus sang "Out on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins / Nature kids, but they don't have no function / I don't understand what they mean and I could really give a fuck."
Malkmus has repeatedly claimed that the song is from a fictional viewpoint of an aging hippie (for one thing, Pavement never actually toured with the Pumpkins) but that failed to appease SP frontman Billy Corgan, rock's most delicate and precious snowflake, who threatened to pull out of Lollapalooza '94 if he had to share a stage with Pavement.
Pavement essentially self-destructed in late 1999, briefly "reuniting" in 2009 for a handful of benefit performances and a brief, fractious tour, but as late as October 2012 Billy Corgan is still incredibly pissed off at the long-dead band, claiming in an interview with Time Out New York that "Range Life" had become an "anthem [for] every guy with a fucking beard."
Is it true that the bearded men of America are still obsessed with Pavement and unfairly decry Smashing Pumpkins based on that one song? Considering that the only people who could conceivably have heard and remembered a song from eighteen years ago have by now reached prime beard-growing age, Billy could conceivably have a point.
NIRVANA VS. GUNS N' ROSES
In the early nineties, Nirvana and Guns n' Roses were seen as representative of two polar opposites of popular rock music. It was a good time for both bands, with Axl Rose not yet insane and Kurt Cobain not yet dead, and someone in Gn'R thought to bridge the gap by inviting Nirvana to tour with them.
Nirvana refused, then added literal insult to injury when Cobain declared Guns n' Roses to write "crap music" in a later interview. The bad blood persisted up until the 1992 VMAs, when Axl responded to Courtney Love's mocking request for him to be the godfather of their newborn child by demanding that Kurt "shut [his] bitch up."
When Cobain failed to comply, Rose then threatened to "take [him] to the pavement" (hopefully he was going to let Kurt put his baby down first) and even invited Duff McKagan to join the fight (this was back when McKagan could stand being in the same zip code as Rose, let alone the same band). Cobain laughed the incident off, saying "I couldn't help but laugh because I've never been in that kind of situation since the sixth grade."
The matter was ultimately resolved with Cobain's death and Rose's self-imposed exile, but recently Slash stated during an interview with Howard Stern that "there were some issues that happened having to do with Axl" that made him secretly grateful for Cobain and Love's attempt to poke holes in the singer's hyperinflated ego. As we've seen before, Axl does tend to have that effect on people...
OASIS VS. BLUR
When their time wasn't taken up fighting with each other, Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis were happy to take part in what began as a ginned-up battle with Damon Albarn and Alex James of Blur and ended up (like so many things associated with the brothers Gallagher) a genuinely spiteful and long-standing spat.
A minor rivalry between fans of the two groups was exploited by their two labels, who agreed to release the Blur single "Country House" and Oasis single "Roll With It" on the same day as a marketing stunt. The media quickly seized upon this artificial competition, especially after Noel classily kicked it up a notch by stating that he hoped Albarn and James would "catch AIDS and die."
Dubbed "The Battle of Britpop," the conflict soon took on weird dimensions entirely beyond the groups' music: Oasis came to represent Northern England and Blur the South, Oasis was supposedly more working-class laborer and Blur more middle-class intellectual, Oasis tasted great and Blur was less filling, etc. etc. "Country House" ended up selling more copies than "Roll With It," but Oasis was ultimately more commercially successful-music writers at the time largely decided that Blur had won the battle but lost the war. On the other hand, Blur reunited in 2008 and by all accounts they have yet to physically assault each other, so maybe they came out better in the grand scheme of things.
SLAYER VS. MACHINE HEAD
Renowned guitarist and Slayer cofounder Kerry King has a reputation for semi-random feuds that fizzle out as soon as he forgets why he was angry in the first place. When Dave Mustaine tried to get him to ditch the "poseurs" of Slayer, it led to a major public squall, but basically everybody and his dog has had a fight with Dave Mustaine at some point so it hardly counts.
Ditto for Metallica, who nabbed Rick Rubin for Death Magnetic when Slayer was counting on his support for Christ Illusion, leading King to presciently dub the band a "sinking ship." His most famous and random fit, however, would be when he decided Machine Head and frontman Robb Flynn were not just "sellouts" but responsible for rap-metal, perhaps one of the most serious charges ever leveled at a fellow metal musician.
Flynn for his part was baffled, saying that King was "talking shit about us out of nowhere," but handily retaliated by suggesting King looked like somebody from Right Said Fred (remember? Bunch of dancing bald gay dudes? Too sexy for my etc? Not sure why they're still on Flynn's mind). For six years the band sniped at each other in the press until once again, King realized he had no idea why he was angry in the first place and buried the hatchet by inviting Machine Head to substitute for Anthrax on the Big Four Tour.
MR. BUNGLE VS. THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Mike Patton is known to the music press for a number of things-his incredible vocal range, his pioneering efforts to blend genres, his performance as the Anger Sphere in 2007 video game Portal-but to the wider world he may be most known for his feud with considerably more popular band Red Hot Chili Peppers in general and frontman Anthony Kiedis in particular.
The feud began with the release of Patton-fronted Faith No More's video for "Epic," where Patton was seen wearing dumb clothes, dancing around all crazy, and rapping over funk-metal. Kiedis was somehow under the impression that his band had singlehandedly invented all these things and accused Patton and FNM of plagiarism. Years later, Patton's newest project Mr. Bungle saw its album "California" pushed back so as not to conflict with "Californication," which they were mildly irritated by but willing to accept given that the Peppers were more popular and had more pull.
The last funk-metal straw was when Mr. Bungle was preparing to tour Europe, only to find that RHCP refused to play any show where Bungle would also put in an appearance, effectively blocking them from a number of major venues. At that point Patton and company took revenge the only way they knew how: at their next show they took the stage wearing white briefs, performing twisted covers of Red Hot Chili Pepper hits while Mike bounced and lunged around the stage pretending to shoot heroin and generally acting like a huge goon.
Mr. Bungle would soon dissolve and reform in a number of different incarnations and musical combinations, typically under the aegis of Patton's Ipecac Records, but rumor has it that even now Kiedis is still nursing a pointless grudge.
EMMURE VS. THE ACACIA STRAIN
The New England metal community is a small place, and minor disagreements tend to become major quickly. Case in point: the feud between The Acacia Strain (out of Chicopee) and Emmure (out of Queens), two metalcore/deathcore/somethingcore bands who sound similar enough for mutual charges of riff-stealing to start flying.
TAS first raised the accusation in their song "Skynet," prompting an Emmure response in the form of "R2Deepthroat" which may be metal's first out-and-out diss track (it even has a Mobb Deep reference!). At the height of the crisis, The Acacia Strain was rumored to be spitting on anyone in their audience wearing an Emmure t-shirt and it became impossible to read any article or Youtube comment section concerning either band without coming across a pitched battle between warring armies of fans.
The issue was finally settled by a backstage fistfight between frontmen Frankie Palmieri (Emmure) and Vincent Bennet (TAS), ending with a handshake and a formal declaration of beef-quashing. The bands went their two separate stylistic ways, with The Acacia Strain continuing to sing about destroying the sun and Emmure continuing to sing about Street Fighter.
GLENN DANZIG VS. EVERYONE TALLER THAN HIM
It's not easy being Glenn Danzig-coping with the rumor that he's the bastard son of Jim Morrison, people assuming that he's a god-damn son-of-a-bitch despite his claims to the contrary, being a teeny-tiny little elf-man-but it's also not easy being anybody near Glenn Danzig when his Short Man's Syndrome kicks into high gear. Danzig's mania for perfection tends to alienate bandmates, and his short fuse is by all accounts very easy to light.
During his time with the Misfits, he accused both Rick James and Motley Crue of biting their style ("Up until then, [Crue] was a Dolls imitation and then all of a sudden they were into 'the mark of the beast,'") and famously chased Vince Neil out of a club and down the street with the assistance of Henry Rollins (who didn't really have a beef with Motley Crue but knew a good time when he saw one). Later on with his self-titled band (the mark of any self-respecting genius/egomaniac) he got violent with Def Leppard in an altercation that was reported to have ended badly for Danzig.
Still later, touring to support a new album, Danzig refused to allow supporting band Northside Kings to perform; frontman Danny Marianino went where eagles dared and had something to say with the singer backstage. Glenn gave Marianino a shove, Marianino came back with a solid right cross that dropped Danzig like a sack of Satanic potatoes:
Danzig later claimed that the reason he didn't fight back was that he didn't want to trigger a lawsuit; he also claims to be a practitioner of Jeet Kune Do, the martial art developed by Bruce Lee, so maybe take what Danzig says with a grain of salt. For his part, Marinanino is apparently out of the music business, but has lately released a book entitled "Don't Ever Punch A Rock Star," to which one might add the subtitle "Unless You're Looking To Sell Your Memoirs."
2PAC VS. BIGGIE SMALLS
Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. were two of rap's most talented voices and tragic figures in the mid-nineties, both men getting caught up in the infamous (and somewhat bogus) East Coast-West Coast Feud and both men dying tragically under mysterious circumstances.
NYC's Bad Boy Records had an overarching beef with LA's Death Row records for taking up most of the media's attention at the time (in part because before Notorious and fellow New Yorker Craig Mack debuted, East Coast hip-hop was largely moribund) and as headliners of the two labels, 2Pac and Biggie were more or less compelled to diss each other on and off their albums, with 2Pac claiming B.I.G. and Bad Boy head Sean "Not Nearly As Good A Rapper As His Friend" Combs of engineering an armed robbery in an NYC recording studio where Shakur was shot five times.
Things got worse after a friend of Tupac's was shot in the arm at a party in Atlanta shortly before the release of Biggie's single "Who Shot Ya?" Bad Boy sources confirm that Biggie had been working on the song prior to the shooting but Tupac wasn't willing to believe in such a serendipitous coincidence, and the put-downs and diss tracks began flowing. Supposedly Biggie was preparing a full-scale diss record when Tupac was shot to death in his car; only six months later Notorious died in much the same fashion.
The media, which had already been making the intercoastal rivalry out to be much scarier than a bunch of musicians insulting each other should rightfully have been, immediately decided that hip-hop's cold war must have gone hot, blaming the battling labels and their criminal connections and presenting the two murders as targeted assassinations.
In truth, Tupac's death was almost certainly the work of the Southside Crips (who had earlier tangled with the Death Row entourage) and while there are some links to Death Row's Suge Knight in the B.I.G. shooting, the LAPD typically botched the case so badly that nothing came of it (there is some suspicion that the triggerman was in fact a corrupt LAPD undercover/gangs officer).
But truth has never stood in the way of a good story, and soon attention hounds as prominent and annoying as Louis Farrakhan were calling for some kind of East-West Peace Summit or Strategic Diss Limitation Treaty or any sort of event where they could get in front of cameras and create a grand bargain.
JOE TEX VS. JAMES BROWN
It's hard not to feel a little bad for Joe Tex, a talented and pioneering singer who had the bad luck to share a label with invincible soul dynamo James Brown, inviting comparisons that rarely came out in Tex's favor and sparking a rivalry between the two that got waaay the hell out of hand even by Brown's standards for public scandal.
After being called out by Brown in a local juke joint, Tex first accused Brown of stealing his moves (kicking and otherwise fooling around with the mic during performances) then accused him of stealing his song (Joe recorded a single named "Baby, You're Right;" James covered, rewrote, and arguably improved the song a year later to massive sales success) then accused him of stealing his woman (Brown had recruited a backup singer, Bea Ford, who was once married to Tex; after Brown was done with her he wrote Tex a letter saying he could have her back). Joe paid Brown back first with a diss record appropriately titled "You Keep Her," where he called out Brown by name, and secondly with a prank he pulled at a concert opening for James in his home town of Macon, Georgia.
Joe Tex came on stage wearing a raggedy blanket around his shoulders, fell to his knees shouting and screaming, and sang out "Please! Please! PLEASE get me out of this CAPE!"
That's easily one of the funniest jokes anyone has ever made about James Brown, but if Tex had thought his rival would accept the incident with good humor, he had another think coming. It turned out that you can say anything you want about James Brown himself, but you damn sure never insult his cape, as after Brown finished his performance he went to see Tex at a local juke joint, making a quick detour first to pick up a few shotguns.
The Godfather came in shooting, injuring several bystanders, prompting a scattering of return fire, and rudely interrupting a performance by Otis Redding and the Pinetoppers. Tex, realizing that discretion is the better part of not getting killed by a crazy asshole, beat a hasty retreat out the back, while Brown, realizing that he had just shot seven innocent people because somebody made fun of his cape, ran out the front door to his tour bus, which he drove far enough away to figure out how he might avoid going to prison.
Brown later paid off the club's owners and the injured parties (it's rumored that as he ran out of the club he was throwing $100 bills over his shoulder to try and cover the damages) and even patched things up to a limited extent with Joe Tex.
"To Catch a Predator" is a serious show with a serious mission. Somehow, that results in some of the funniest exchanges you will ever read. This collection of the most ridiculous "To Catch a Predator" screen grabs welcomes you into the deep and twisted and hilarious world of Dateline's ultimate "Gotcha!" show.
There is no better time to make love than after a day of boot shopping.
Seems like a fair trade.
It's pretty much a rule of thumb that you never trust someone online with "69" in their screen name.
Oh, the irony.
Horny level: Arrested.
One of the few gross things you can't do over the Internet.
I enjoy how he conveys the urgency of the situation with all-caps.
The secret to remaining pure forever: a lifetime of anal sex.
Women love a confident man.
If spelling is any indication, most predators aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer.
That is some quality innuendo.
"Hi buddy waz sup" is a man who knows what he wants.
