Top 10 Strangest Political Ads of 2010

became viral hits, but there were plenty of other insane ads out there that deserve recognition too. Here are the ten that still have us scratching our heads.

10. Elect Pamela Gorman and She Will Shoot Everything

You’ve probably seen this popular ad for Dale Peterson,

which is more American than a bald eagle making love to an apple pie at a baseball game. But that’s nothing compared to Arizonian Pamela Gorman’s commercial, because she doesn’t just pull out a gun; she shoots four different ones. Sadly, not all at the same time, but it’s still pretty extreme.

We’re not going to get into gun politics (because we don’t want to get shot), but shouldn’t a political ad say a little more than

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Top 10 Strangest Monarchs

The Ming Dynasty’s strangest emperor, Zhu Houzhao, aka the Zhengde Emperor, took to the throne of China at the age of 14. Not long after becoming Emperor, Zhengde became drunk with power. He neglected his duties as ruler, and instead chose to spend his time drinking and visiting brothels, which he filled with women of his choosing. He built lavish palaces to store exotic animals like tigers and leopards, and he would often have them turned loose so that he could hunt them down for his own amusement. Even weirder, Zhengde would have his servants go to great lengths to dress up the inside of his palace like a city block. He would then command all the court employees to pretend to be vendors and passersby, so that he could stroll down the

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Top 10 Strangest Animal Behaviors

strange. Here is my top 10:

10. Naked Mole Rats

The Queen Gets Pushy And Runs In (Backwards) To 10

Most commonly known as naked mole rats (also called the desert mole rat and sand puppy), they are neither moles nor rats but a type of guinea pig. They are ugly animals, often described as resembling a bloated bratwurst with teeth. The behavior they exhibit, in all its hilarity, is their ability to run as fast backwards as they can forwards, in the dark and completely blind. Even stranger, the queen mole rat is the only one to breed and bear young, similar to the queen bee. In order to secure her exclusivity to mate she will push around other female mole rats in order to cause them stress. This releases hormones that make them unable to procreate.

9. The Bowerbird

Interior Decorator at Heart

For all those anal-retentive interior designers the Bowerbird enjoys decorating too. Not only does the Bowerbird make great efforts to adorn his nest, he even goes so far as to destroy the nests of his neighbors. In an effort to attract a mate, the male Bowerbird builds what are termed,

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