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Before the Castles

—devadutta @ June 25, 2011

Before becoming the iconic company that they are now, company X churned out random toys like these. The last one is especially super lol + WTF. Which company?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Sai Subramanian, Ananth, shrik, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Urthstripe, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, grey_matters, username, raklodramA, anurag, Swarun, Thejas V R, s m muneer ali, mankuTimma, dirty-i, udupendra, Ebzhent, krudebox, Manoj Venkat, Jayaprakash B R, SV, dhruv, jowens, Mod, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, Logik, sandeep bhat, Prasad and Shwetha Maiya

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Nintendo. Even bigger WTF than this is that they apparently ran Love hotels.


Close your windows?

—devadutta @ June 24, 2011

Who shot to instant fame due to this news report? Obviously, the important part is cut out.

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Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, shrey, shrik, Rogi, Urthstripe, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, grey_matters, raklodramA, Thejas V R, dirty-i, anurag, username, udupendra, Ebzhent, Manoj Venkat, krudebox, SV, jowens, Mod, Siddarth Pai, Logik, sandeep bhat and yaksha

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Antoine Dodson and the Bed Intruder song


Gandhiji loves it.

—devadutta @ June 23, 2011

Yay! Guest question time! %gqh% raklodramA (Ameya) sent us this question. Thanks saar!

Simple. Identify this device.

Cracked by: thiru d gr8, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, shrey, Manish Achuth, shrik, akhi, Rogi, raklodramA, Urthstripe, Martin, Anjul, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, username, grey_matters, KK, Shwetha Maiya, anurag, Benjamin, Swarun, Nagendra U M, Thejas V R, dirty-i, s m muneer ali, mankuTimma, udupendra, Ebzhent, krudebox, Jayaprakash B R, SV, jowens, dhruv, Mod, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, Logik and BastardoH

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Sewing machine


Only in Japan!

—devadutta @ June 22, 2011

Japanese pop group. What is special about the last girl?

See this image for reference.

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Cracked by: udupendra, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Goyal, Ananth, Rogi, Ebzhent, Anjul, Dibyo, sandeep bhat, Raghuvansh, grey_matters, Vegus Sixx, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Logik, D’Anconia, username, thiru d gr8, Martin, jins, Manish Achuth, Sridhar C, Urthstripe, dirty-i, Qqsachin, Swarun, Shwetha Maiya and s m muneer ali

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She is CGI. Not real! Entire Japan thought she was real and awesome!


<avoids obvious Portal joke>

—srikanth @ June 20, 2011

Sitters ahoy. What’s the story?

Cracked by: wanderlust, Ananth, Rogi, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, grey_matters, dhruv, raklodramA, sandeep bhat, KK, username, Bharath, Thejas V R, D’Anconia, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Jayaprakash B R, anurag, Rahulk, Sai Subramanian, Siddarth Pai, udupendra, Nagendra U M, Goyal, shrey, Ebzhent and Swarun

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The Internet Explorer team in Microsoft sends the Mozilla Firefox team a cake to celebrate every release! These are a few of those cakes.


Pirates of the Silicon Fen?

—srikanth @ June 19, 2011

Identify the show that these images would connect to:

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, raklodramA, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, shrik, arpit mehta, udupendra, grey_matters, Pawankumar Hegde and dineshk

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BBC’s 2009 show ‘Micro Men’ or ‘Syntax Era’, a show about the ‘war’ between Sir Clive Sinclair of Sinclair computers and Chris Curry of Acorn.


He has the best pet ever...

—srikanth @ June 18, 2011

Scientists found this mushroom living under the sea. And because of its appearance they named it… what?

Cracked by: shrey, Raghuvansh, Ananth, dineshk, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth, KK, anurag, grey_matters, Goyal, Sai Subramanian, raklodramA, Nagendra U M, jins, Bharath, username, Vegus Sixx, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Jayaprakash B R, shrik, Swarun, Manoj Venkat, thiru d gr8, Siddarth Pai, arpit mehta, udupendra and Rogi

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The so-called Spongiforma squarepantsii. I have no words. More details here.


100 Degree C.

—devadutta @ June 17, 2011

Who invented this? What is it called?

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Ladies and Gents,
Y U NO SENDING US GUEST KOSCHANS?
MAIL IT TO [email protected]
KTHXBAI.

Cracked by: shrey, Rogi, vkamath, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, username, shrik, anurag, Thejas V R and udupendra

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Hero’s engine or the Aeliophile


Disobedience?

—devadutta @ June 15, 2011

1 is supposedly the earliest known instance of this type of “protest”. 2 is the most popular one in recent times. What are we talking about?

For bonus fake cookie points, identify 1 and 2.

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Dibyo, grey_matters, Nagendra U M, Goyal, anurag, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Urthstripe, sandeep bhat, Siddarth Pai, Mo, Manish Achuth, username, Martin and thiru d gr8

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Hacktivism - Hacking some page as a protest


Daily grind...

—srikanth @ June 14, 2011

Not-so-obscure meme question time :)

Identify the man, the series, and the company :)

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Ananth, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Sai Subramanian, Bharath, anurag, jins, username, Thejas V R, Goyal, badideabear, Martin, Siddarth Pai, grey_matters, raklodramA, rohanquizzer, s m muneer ali, Dirty-i, thiru d gr8, Rogi, Anjul, dineshk and Shwetha Maiya

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Tom Dickson, famous protagonist of famous ad series ‘Will It Blend’ by now-famous blender company BlendTec. Incidentally he’s blending the iPhone 4 in this ad.