History BetterThanItSounds / Other

** [[spoiler:{{BFM}}s]]: A body of work with an inflated sense of ambition and importance (and budget). A source rich in HypeBacklash and FanDumb.

* [[spoiler: Israel]]: A small country that, despite being located in the middle of a desert, is apparently indestructible, considering that over the past 10,000 years or so, every attempt to destroy it has failed. Strangely though, it has spent a lot of time...defeated at one point or another. Took a break for a few hundred years, but reappeared in the late 40's.

* [[spoiler:JimHenson]]: A strange kid from Mississippi who devoted his life to giving his many [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary friends]] physical bodies made out of foam rubber, fur, feathers, and ping-pong balls.

* [[spoiler:JimHenson]]: A strange kid from Mississippi who devoted his life to giving his many ImaginaryFriends physical bodies made out of foam rubber, fur, feathers, and ping-pong balls.

* [[spoiler:JimHenson]]: A strange kid from Mississippi who devoted his life to giving his many imaginary friends bodies made out of foam rubber, fur, feathers, and ping-pong balls.

* [[spoiler:Computer]]: billions of electronic switches turn on and off billions of times a second for the purpose of adding two binary numbers.

** [[spoiler:RomanticComedies]]: A body of work dedicated to the belief that mature relationships are the result of [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensuing]].

** [[spoiler: Guy Fawkes Day]]]: People stay up late to set things on fire and watch said things exploding in the air as they are being blown sky high. They do this to celebrate the failure of a religious terrorist to blow up a building.

* [[spoiler:Trains]]: A chain of boxes on wheels travelling along one a predetermined path.
** [[spoiler:Bicycle]]: A device that is so unstable it must be travelling at speed to remain upright on its own. People, especially young children, fall off them frequently; as a result, many places have laws requiring specialised safety gear to operate them.
* [[spoiler:Video Games]]: The distillation of war, but with all the physical aspects that may actually result in excercise removed, and a general aura that only men can participate, although women take place in a different distilation, which is in fact a distillation of lock picking put into the form of moving non-physical jewels around a 2-dimensional surface.

*** [[spolier:Dodgeball]]: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Sometimes doubles as a real life equivalent of BulletHell.

** [[spoiler:Dreams]]: A set of variably bizarre hallucinations happening daily if you're doing it right.

*[[spoiler: NapoleonBonaparte]] : A Corsican mobster tries to TakeOverTheWorld. French think he is the Messiah and English think he is a good excuse to kill and plunder frenchmen while drinking lots of rum.

** [[spoiler:Forest Honey]]: Parasite excrements regurgitated by hordes of flying insects and used as edible foodstuffs.

** [[spoiler:Competitive Eating]]: People who are unable to do any of the above due to lack of stamina attempt to commit suicide by giving themselves fatal heart attacks by stuffing copius amounts of meat-like substances wrapped in animal intestines down their throats in record times. There are no winners in this game. %%Note to editors: put any future sports examples above this one since the description doesn't work as well otherwise

*[[spoiler: Peter The Great]] : A giant Russian builds boats and gets in a fight with a teenaged swede who doesn't like him building boats in his backyard.

** [[spoiler:Valentines Day]]: A day where people celebrate romantic affection by giving eachother dead tree slices, sweet confections, and plant genitals.

** [[spoiler: Thanksgiving]]: People celebrate a group of people having a feast by spending a day with people they rarely communicate with, consuming copious amounts of cooked fowl covered in meat juice, and watching large men physically assault eachother for a ball.

** [[spoiler: Ghost in the Graveyard]]: Humans wander around a dark area while being stalked by ghosts. If a human is caught by a ghost they become one too. If the ghosts manage to kill all the humans they gain thier lives back and the game starts over.

*[[spoiler: Peter The Great]] : A giant russian builds boats and gets in a fight with a teenaged sweede who doesn't like him building boats in his backyard.

** ''[[spoiler:Horse Racing]]'': Guys ride animals in circles for hours.
** ''[[spoiler:FormulaOne Racing]]'': Some people build a very expensive car. Some other people drive it around in a figure eight for hours.
* ''[[spoiler:Rodeo Bronc Riding and Bull riding]]'': Guys hold onto very strong animals while being flung around for a few seconds, before getting flung off.

*[[spoiler:Breathing]] The constant repetition of an act that intakes a deadly and addictive poison on principle, can cause internal bleeding and hemmhorage if done improperly, and significantly increases the carbon footprint of every person who does it. Any attempt to stop results in painful and invariably fatal withdrawal.
**[[spoiler:Oxygen]] A gas that, when inhaled, makes one feel better than when they weren't. After a short period of time any attempt to abstain from this gas will kill you slowly and painfully. Often force fed to old people and hospital patients. When combined with many substances, results in their deterioration and destruction.