Here kitty kitty kitty. Uhh, I don’t really know what that intro was all about but I thought it fit. Anyway, today we are taking a look at the top 10 best fictional cats of all time. There are a pretty good amount of fictional cats out there in the pop culture universe so this list is pretty tight.

Please let us know if we missed one!

Bagheera

Bagheera the black-toned Indian Leopard is an animal fictional character in Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (coll. 1894) and The Second Jungle Book (coll. 1895). The word Bagh (बाघ) means tiger in Hindi.

Puss in Boots

Puss in Boots is a fictional cat from the Shrek film series, voiced in English and both Spanish versions by Antonio Banderas. He is based loosely on the fairy tale character of the same name, and is the main “other fairy tale character” in the two sequels. He was introduced in Shrek 2.

Tom

Thomas “Tom” Cat is a fictional character and half of the academy-award winning Tom and Jerry cartoon cat-and-mouse duo. He is a blue/grey anthropomorphic cat who first appeared in the 1940 animated short Puss Gets the Boot.

Garfield

Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield (named after Davis’s grandfather); his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and Arbuckle’s dog, Odie.

Mufasa

Mufasa is the lion who rules the Pride Lands and the father of the main character, Simba. In the opening of the first film, the animals of Mufasa’s kingdom arrive at Pride Rock to greet and honor the birth of his newborn son and their next king, Simba.

Simba

Simba is the title character of the franchise and main protagonist of the first two films, the musical and several video games.

Tigger

Tigger is a fictional orange-furred, black-striped, anthropomorphic tiger character originally introduced in A. A. Milne’s book The House at Pooh Corner. He is easily recognized by his orange and black stripes, beady eyes, a long chin, springy tail, and his bouncy personality.

Robot Lions

The first season was based on the 1981 series Beast King GoLion, which featured a team of five young pilots commanding five robot lions, which could be combined to form Voltron.

Cheshire Cat

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat popularized by Lewis Carroll’s depiction of it in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Known for his distinctive mischievous grin, the Cheshire Cat has had a notable impact on popular culture.

Thundercats

ThunderCats follows the adventures of the eponymous team of heroes, cat-like humanoid aliens from the planet of Thundera.

They call Los Angeles the “City Of Angels.” I didn’t find it to be that, exactly. But I’ll allow there are some nice folks there. ‘Course I can’t say I’ve seen London, and I ain’t never been to France. And I ain’t never seen no queen in her damned undies, so the feller says. But I’ll tell you what - after seeing Los Angeles, and this here story I’m about to unfold, well, I guess I seen somethin’ every bit as stupefyin’ as you’d see in any of them other places.

There are so many movies set in Los Angeles we were forced to break this one out by decades. Let’s take a look at the 1990s:

10. Friday

9. Clueless

8. Boyz N the Hood

7. Point Break

6. Reservoir Dogs

5. Swingers

4. Pulp Fiction

3. Escape from L.A.

2. The Big Lebowski

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Giant glasses, suspenders, brains and smooth dance moves. The geeks of the 90s had it all and if we ever saw them on a reunion special, we place our money on them being the most successful of their popular peers.

Below are ten of the most memorable 90s nerds. Let us know in the comments if anyone was left out!

10. Kimmy Gibler – Full House

9. T.J. Henderson - Smart Guy

8. Ferguson Darling – Clarissa Explains it All

7. Millhouse Van Houten - The Simpsons

6. Artie – The Adventures of Pete and Pete

5. Stuart Minkus – Boy Meets World

4. Dexter – Dexter’s Laboratory

3. Carlton Banks – The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

2. Screech Powers – Saved By the Bell

1. Steve Urkel – Family Matters

Did the school bully just steal your lunch money? Don’t go running to the principal, what you need is some good ol’ fashion vigilante justice. If you hire any one of these 10 characters you’re sure to get your lunch money back - you might get a few extra teeth to go along with it.

10. Police Lieutenant Columbo - Columbo

Why?

Hard as nails detective Columbo doesn’t look like much - what, with his trench coach and cigar and all. But before you know it you’ll be behind bars.

9. Sam Spade - The Maltese Falcon

Why?

This guy will stop at nothing to get the answers he wants. He’ll shmooze over a few ladies along the way…

8. Batman

Why?

Why wouldn’t you want to hire Batman?

7. Shaggy, Fred, Scooby-Doo, Velma, and Daphne - Scooby Doo

Why?

Those meddling kids are always uncovering mysterious and sending bad guys to prison. They have a perfect 100% success rate.

6. Walter Sobchak - The Big Lebowski

Why?

Is this your homework Larry? Is this your homework Larry? DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS LARRY! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS LARRY!

5. Major Alan “Dutch” Schaeffer - Predator

Why?

Some damn fool accused him of being the best.

4. Chief Casey Ryback - Under Siege

Why?

Punches are so accurate. Kicks are so lethal. Hair is so slicked back.

3. Murdock, B.A. Baracus, Hannibal and Faceman - The A-Team

Why?

I pity the fool who would have to answer to these guys!

2. Jack Bauer - 24

Why?

Not only would you get caught. But you’d somehow be strapped to a missile heading for terrorist outpost.

1. Cordell Walker - Walker Texas Ranger

Why?

When Chuck Norris does push-ups…the entire world moves down (thanks Jeff).

The term “bromance” may in and of itself be new, but the truth is, characters on film and television have been bromancing for a long time. And nothing shows the dynamic of these male bonds better than the following 50 animated friendships!

Urban Dictionary defines a “bromance” as a term that “Describes the complicated love and affection shared by two straight males.” Complicated indeed! The following duos (and sometimes trios and groups) exemplify the typical bromance! Let us know what you think, bro.

50. Tod & Copper

49. Lumiere & Cogsworth

48. Arthur & Buster

47. Alvin, Simon & Theodore

46. He-Man and Battlecat

45. Speed Racer & Sparky

44. Bambi, Thumper & Flower

43. Sonic & Tails

42. Danger Mouse & Penfold

41. Throttle, Modo & Vinnie

40. Thomas & Percy

39. Rocky & Bullwinkle

38. Joe, Peter, Quagmire and Cleveland

37. Tom & Jerry

36. Baloo & Kit Cloudkicker

35. David the Gnome & Swift the Fox

34. Lion-O & Panthro

33. Cartman, Kyle, Stan & Kenny

32. Rocko & Heffer

31. Master Shake, Frylock & Meatwad

30. Chip & Dale

29. Buzz Lightyear & Woody

28. Bill, Hank, Dale & Boomhauer

27. Bumblebee & Spike

26. Bebop & Rocksteady

25. Tommy Pickles & Chuckie

If you grew up in the 90s, pop culture told you that you should be afraid of exactly three things: 1. Getting detention 2. Having anything go on your “Permanent Record” and 3. Bullies.

Bullies were some of the scariest prospects of a middle schooler’s life. Nickelodeon convinced you that you were going to encounter them and every movie stereotype contributed to that fear. But even if bullies never existed in your real life, some of these bullies had you waiting in fear!

10. Draco Malfoy – Harry Potter

Although Draco is often regarded as a cowardly bully who uses psychological manipulation and verbal taunts to denigrate his victims, he reveals an ability to cunningly wield magic to attain his objectives. He is frequently accompanied by his two dim-witted accomplices, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, who act as bodyguards.

9. Helga Pataki – Hey Arnold

Helga is something of a tomboy, as evidenced by her interest in playing contact sports alongside her male classmates, blatant lack of femininity, and disregard, to near dislike, for stereotypical female behavior. She can also be very sarcastic, cynical and bossy, bullying her fourth-grade classmates with an iron fist, and often taking advantage of her best friend, Phoebe.

8. Nelson – The Simpsons

Nelson is the archnemesis of Bart Simpson, who is best identified by his signature laugh (”Haw-Haw!”). Over the years, he has terrorized virtually everyone in Springfield. However, he rarely associates with the other bullies of the school, namely Jimbo Jones, Dolph and Kearney, who form a separate clique of their own.

7. Roger Klotz - Doug

Doug’s green-skinned rival, and first-known bully of the series. He once lived in a trailer park with his divorced mother but Disney had Roger’s family become suddenly wealthy, and living in a mansion. Doug uses Roger as a villain in most of his fantasies. Roger has a crush on Doug’s sister Judy, and owns a cat named Stinky that rivals Porkchop.

6. O’Doyle – Billy Madison

O’Doyle Rules!

5. Budnick – Salute Your Shorts

Budnick and his sidekick Donkeylips were the bullies at Camp Anawana.

4. Angelica - Rugrats

Angelica Pickles is Drew and Charolettes’ child, three years old. A spoiled little brat, she loves to push the younger kids around, steal their toys or candy, and just make their lives miserable.

3. Harley, The Enforcer and The Rat – Boy Meets World

Harley, though he appears and acts like a typical 1950s greaser always speaks with strangely proper grammar. He is eventually sent to “juvenile boot camp”. Following Harley’s departure, Frankie and Joey latch onto the popular Eric to be their new ringleader, but as Eric finds the two annoying and irritating he devises a plan to pawn them off on a new boss.

2. Biff Tannen – Back to the Future

Biff started bullying George McFly when they were kids and never stopped. Over the next 30 years, Biff would continue to bully and intimidate George, as they both ended up working for the same company where Biff became George’s supervisor.

1. Johnny Lawrence – The Karate Kid

Daniel meets a girl, Ali Mills, a high school cheerleader; but earns the enmity of her ex-boyfriend, Johnny Lawrence, a karate student. Johnny is the best student at the Cobra Kai dojo, where he is taught an unethical, vicious form of martial arts. Daniel knows some karate from books and the YMCA, but is the victim of repeated beatings from Johnny and his friends.

OK - now, many of you might remember our post Top 10 Signs You Were a Girl In The 90s. Yes, both boys and girls played with Super Soakers, but only boys drenched our victims mercilessly. Both boys and girls watched Saved By the Bell on Saturday mornings, but only half of us desperately wanted to bang Kelly Kapowski. For that half of our readers, I present you with “Top 10 Signs You Were a Boy in the 90s.” The 90s were all about Body Slams and Nintendo because boys rule and girls drool.

10. You Drenched People with the Super Soaker 50

Your mom, sister, dad, brother, cousin, neighbor, family dog…nobody was safe when you had the Super Soaker 50 in your hands. Pump that thing to the max and get ready to drench somebody! If you never had a Super Soaker 50 when you were a kid I’m terribly sorry for your childhood.

9. You Were Obsessed with the WWF (not the WWE)

The glory days of the WWF - before this WWE nonsense. These were the days when Shawn Michaels could actually get his leg over his head to super kick somebody. These were the days when Razor Ramon was oozing machismo. These were the days when the Nasty Boys were sending people to Pitty City. The golden era of the WWF. RIP WWF.

8. You Know The Konami Code By Heart

If you never entered the Konami Code before a game of Contra then you officially have a life-time ban from TheDailyContributor.com - this also means you were DEFINITELY not a boy in the 90s.

7. You Would Stop Whatever You’re Doing to Watch an Episode of Thundercats

Thundercats! Thundercats!! HHOOOOOOO!! Widely regarded as the greatest cartoon by many in my inncer-circle, Thundercats is a show-stopper. Whatever you’re doing, day or night, you have to stop to watch an episode of the show.

6. You Still Secretly Want to be a Member of the Goonies

The Goonies was the greatest adventure movie of the generation. All boys wanted to be part of that epic team who landed bad guys in jail, discovered treasure, and were part of the greatest summer adventure of all-time.

5. You Threatened Potential Victims with the “Crane Kick”

Any boy who grew up in the 90s not only watched the Karate Kid, not only wanted to participate in the All-Valley Karate Tournament, but would frequently stand on one leg…gently raise the other leg…and raise both arms up in the air as to warn any potential threat that they were about to get annihilated by the Crane Kick.

4. You Wish Marv Albert was calling the NBA action on NBC and that the Knicks & Bulls would play every weekend

3. You Sold Magazine Subscriptions for Little Fuzzy things called Weepuls

Did some man come to your gymnasium trying to get you to make him money? Did all he only offer you weepuls in return? If any of this sounds familiar then you were definitely a kid in the 90s and you definitely wasted a bunch of time selling magazines to your neighbors.

2. You Probably Know Most of the Lyrics to “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

1. You Think Kelly Kapowski‎ is the Hottest Girl of All Time

Kelly Kapowski was smokin’ back in the day…and Kelly  Kapowski‎ is smokin’ now. If you were a boy in the 90s, Kelly  Kapowski‎ was absolutely the hottest girl on the planet.

Reading. Remember when it meant getting a ribbon for reading the most books at the library over the summer? No? Just me? Ok well surely, you remember when it was just for writing a one-page book report. You know, back in the days before college papers that you wrote while drunk or the horror that was Beowulf, reading was fun! Especially when you could get away with picking the books you wanted to read for homework.

So, forget Twilight and Gossip Girl and all the other horrible trash kids these days are reading. If you were lucky enough to be a kid in the 90s, you probably ordered from one of these 5 childhood favorite series. Long live the Scholastic Book Order Form!

5. Louis Sacher – Wayside School Series

4. K. A. Applegate – Animorphs

3. Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen – The Magic School Bus

2. Ann M. Martin - The Babysitter’s Club

1. R. L. Stine – Goosebumps

In times of national crisis it’s imperative that the Commander in Chief remains cool, calm, and collected. Case in point: these actors seemed totally competent leading the nation amidst plane hijackings, alien invasions, and impending solar explosions. That’s why I would feel completely comfortable if Jack Nicholson were to be elected the next President of the United States. God Bless America!

10. Jack Nicholson – Mars Attacks!

9. Leslie Nielsen – Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4

8. Peter Sellers – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

7. William Hurt – Vantage Point

6. Donald Pleasance – Escape from New York

5. Michael Douglas – The American President

4. Jeff Bridges – The Contender

3. Morgan Freeman – Deep Impact

2. Bill Pullman – Independence Day

1.Harrison Ford – Air Force One

Online poker tells can be read just as easily and be just as profitable as being able to read someone heads up in person. Although you cannot physically see the opponent, there are many different things your opponent can do to give away his hand. A few things to look for are:

• The Whiner

When a person gets beat by a dumb play by his opponent, drawn out on, or completely bluffed, keep an eye on the chat box. Most of the time the player will type obscenities into the box or engage in a heated argument with his opponent. Keep an eye on which players are “chatting” and keep a note on how frustrated they are. If a player continues to complain through several hands they are obviously frustrated to the point where their actions will become irrational and detrimental to their game. In other words, on tilt. A good way to make some money when a player is on tilt is to wait for a strong hand then bet it weak. The player on tilt will then raise you trying to steal the pot. I like to just call and then check, where the tilting player will bet even larger to compensate for his last bet. All you have to do now is put him all in and 9 times out of 10 he will call out of frustration.

• The Thinker

Most of the time when a player takes a long time to act they are trying to represent more strength than they actually have. They want you to believe that they are considering raising so that you wont. Sometimes more advanced players will take a long time when they have a strong hand to provoke a bet to steal the pot. Be sure to take note of any players using this tactic and be cautious when this situation arises with them.

• Raise Raise Fold

Another way to tell if a player is on tilt is if he frequently raises pre-flop then folds at the first bet or a raise to his own bet

• Betting the Turn

Frequently in online Holdem, if a checks then calls on the flop, but then bets out at you on the turn it is typically a signal that they missed their draw and are taking a stab at the pot. Re-raise them.

• Consistently Slow to Act

It is also worth mentioning that sometimes when players consistently take a long time to act, they are usually involved in multiple tables. This type of player will typically fold to most bluffs because he is simply playing odds and premium hands. However if this player calls or raises you, be ready to lay your hand down.

Although poker has to do with odds and calculated guesses, it also has a lot to do with your opponent. The more you watch your opponent and know what he does in certain situations the better chances you have at making good calls and taking his money. Some good sites for not only playing normal cash games, but also small nickle blind and free tables is http://UltimateBet.com and http://PartyPoker.com. Good Luck!

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By guest blogger: Micheal Thorn
Source: http://www.articlecity.com/articles/recreation_and_sports/article_2745.shtml
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Old Spice commercials are utterly ridiculous (do a ppc search if you don’t believe me) and have been cracking me up for as long as I can remember. I’m not sure who the ad wizards are who came up with that one but I have to tip my cap to their creativity and originality. I can only hope they continue what they’re doing because the formula is working.

Today we are taking a look at the 10 best Old Spice commercials of all time. We had to go back in time for this one and one vintage Old Spice commercial was lucky enough to make the list. Let’s take a look:

10. Vintage Old Spice Commercial

9. Old Spice Neil Patrick Harris Commercial

8. Jackie Moon Old Spice Armpit Commercial

7. Old Spice Arm Wrestler Commercial

6. Old Spice The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Commercial

5. Old Spice Blocker Commercial

4. Old Spice L.L. Cool J Commercial

3. Old Spice Chainsaw Commercial

2. Old Spice Slide Commercial

1. Old Spice Different Scents for Different Gents Commercial

The idea that celebrities use Twitter is kind of cool, right? It bridges the gap between the famous and us little people and makes us think, “Hey! Stars are just like us.” Yeah, dude, they really are. More specifically, some of them are just like the intensely annoying people you know in real life. Right down to every last emo tweet, angry shoutout and boring anecdote.

While half of these people have already been established as lame and annoying on our list of The 100 Lamest Celebrities, unfortunately the other half are celebrities we kind of like… we just won’t be following them on Twitter anymore. Tell us if you disagree and if you agree, well, retweet this post and warn your friends! Continue Reading

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I bet you can’t think of 10 of the top of your head in the next 5 minutes as we did…ready…go. What did you come up with? Take a peak at our list and I’m pretty sure there are a few things you completely forgot about! In case you’re struggling with your 90s Costume idea for next Halloween, use this post to complete your costume. Continue Reading

Today we’re taking a look at some very special movies. All these classic movies feature drug use in one form or the next.  Would Easy Rider be Easy Rider without that famous drug scene at the end? Probably not. Either way we’re pretty excited to post this and hope you guys like it.

There were several movies that narrowly missed the cut so this list is bound to disappoint some. Although the “I’m on drugs!” scene during Almost Famous completely rocks our world - the movie as a whole didn’t make this list! Even the mighty Jeffrey Lebowski was left off but leaving off The Big Lebowski was just like, our opinion, man. Sorry guys :) Let us know in the comments section what was left off or what completely didn’t deserve to make it. Continue Reading