As George Bernard Shaw wrote, “A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.” Modern travels come with their share of perpetual and inescapable misfortunes; screaming babies, airplane bathrooms, and flight delays can turn a relaxing trip into an existential journey.  Holiday travels come with their own set of lower demons, which seem as predestined as fruitcake, coal, and re-gifted Brookstone products. However, there are effective ways to avoid these sinful six holiday travel faux pas without tempting the fates.

When you’re rich and famous, the last thing you’re thinking about is collecting a meager fee to do some public speaker. Right? Well, that’s what I thought, until I started digging around a little and found out that there are a great many celebrities and “celebrities” who are more than happy to pimp themselves out for make-it-rain money.

Some of these speakers are currently famous, some of them used to be famous and some probably shouldn’t have ever been famous in the first place. Because there are so many celebrities/”celebrities” who do this, I had a hard time choosing just ten for this list. But, I’m nothing if not diligent, so here for you are the top ten celebrities who pimp themselves out as public speakers.


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A new piece of Nazi memorabilia being put up for auction reveals that not only was Adolf Hitler one of (if not the) worst people to ever live, he was also a really crappy employee!

Just four days after his new job as a junior administrator in the state of Brunswick made him an automatic German citizen (and thus eligible to run for office) Hitler did what is considered a major faux pas in the world of employment - immediately asked for vacation time! Why? He wanted to lead the Reich!

Controversial organized hate group masquerading as a religious organization (inb4 "which one isn't?") Westboro Baptist Church has always been the subject of outrage. Between their history of protesting the funerals of American soldiers to their boisterous hate-filled rhetoric they seem to have made quite a name for themselves on the hate circuit so to speak. Fellow American hate group the Ku Klux Klan wants you to know however that they want nothing to do with such bigotry, posting a disclaimer on the bottom of their website. Seriously. You have to see this.

From time to time you’ll click on a link only to reach an error page. Most of the time you’ll get a basic 404 page, but sometimes you’ll reach a customized page that brings a little humor to the situation. For those that like enjoy seeing interesting error pages pop up when there is a problem, here is a top-10 list of 404 pages.