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Colin Perkins

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Colin Perkins is an author and a comedian. In addition to mental_floss, he's written for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Splitsider, McSweeney's, and Cracked.

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The Wonderful Chaos of "The Exquisite Corpse Project"

Imagine that you were given five random pages from the middle of a film screenplay to read. Then, imagine you were tasked with writing the next 15 pages of that screenplay. How would you know what to write—what to have the characters say or how to have them relate to one another? That’s the exact dilemma that the writers of The Exquisite Corpse Project faced in penning this highly-entertaining film.... READ ON

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The Missing Links: The Count Is A Maniac and Other Weird Viewer Theories

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The Missing Links: Why You Won't Win the Lottery

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The Missing Links: A Great Way to Lose Everything

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The Missing Links: The Psychology of Scams

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The Missing Links: Don't Press That Button

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The Missing Links: Awfully Odd Anti-Drug PSAs

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)