13 Inventors Who Ended Up Regretting Their Inventions

Plus: Jamie Lee Curtis Sticks Her Oscar Exactly Where It Belongs 

Welcome to the Cracked newsletter!  This issue is about St. Patrick's Day, a dead jockey who won a race, Monty Python songs, inventors with regrets, and much more. Before 'Shazam!' DC Tried Making Another Funny Superhero Movie. Unfortunately, It Was 'Green Lantern' Today, DC's Shazam! Fury of the Gods opens, chronicling the further adventures of young Billy Batson, an everyday teen who has been given superpowers that transform him Big-style into an adult who looks like the dude from Chuck. When the original film came out in 2019, it was hailed as a breath of fresh air in the world of superhero cinema. Released just a few weeks before Marvel's Avengers: Endgame, the movie that concluded Marvel's shift to increasingly darker stories, Shazam! was more of a lark, with Zachary Levi appropriately silly and self-deprecating as the titular hero. Shazam isn't on the same level as other DC characters like Superman or Batman — he wasn't featured in 2017's all-star Justice League — and so the filmmakers wisely didn't take the property too seriously. Let Endgame and DC's Zack Snyder drape their universes in dour tones: Shazam! just wanted to have fun. READ MORE An Incredibly Exact Calculation of Precisely How Many People Throw Up on St. Patrick's Day Most people who celebrate St. Patrick's Day have some kind of barfing story — they might be the barfer themselves, or have been an eyewitness to a particularly gross bit of barfing, or been privy to the knock-on effects of a big ol' barf (slipping in it, sitting in it, accidentally kicking over a cup full of it, etc., etc.).   But how many people end up regurgitating bright green beer on the festival of Ireland's patron saint? He emptied the Emerald Isle of snakes, but how many people's stomachs empty themselves of their contents in his honor? Let's do some math!  READ MORE More St. Patrick's Day Reads: 15 Ways Our Movie And TV Favs Celebrated St. Patrick's Day Wanted To Be Irish Royalty? All You Needed Was Nipples 5 Reasons Irish People Don't Love American St. Patty's Day The Irish Horror-Comedy That Should Be a St. Patrick's Day Staple Wait -- Leprechauns Are Actually Italian? Sarah Silverman Moves On Without Going Anywhere The Dead Man Who Won A Horse Race Jason Sudeikis' Anti-Ted Lasso Scumbag Characters, Ranked Jamie Lee Curtis Sticks Her Oscar Exactly Where It Belongs Five Movie Monsters That Blew The Reveal Big-Time How the Letter X Became the Sexiest Letter in the Alphabet 4 Modern Medical Treatments That Sound Like Fetishes Bert Kreischer Says Chris Farley Was More Aykroyd Than Belushi Monty Python Songs, Ranked 13 Inventors Who Ended Up Bitterly Regretting Their Inventions The Agonizing Case of 'The Atomic Wedgie Killer' 12 Tiny Things That Changed the Course of Human History Will Ferrell Tackles a 72-Ounce Steak Challenge While Dressed as Sherlock Holmes Crazy 'Seinfeld' Bosses, Ranked 13 Absolutely Humongous Examples Of Normally Small Things 12 Pop Culture Masterpieces That Were Absurdly Low-Effort TWEET OF THE DAY ARTICLES         |         PICTOFACTS         |         Videos   Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2022 Cracked is published by Literally Media Ltd.

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