Weird Universe Blog — January 15, 2025
World’s Deepest Hotel
You can also read an article at ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST.
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough | Caves, Caverns, Tunnels and Other Subterranean Venues | Hotels
January 14, 2025
Frigid Fluid Cosmetic Kit
Frigid Fluid is both the name of a company and of the product it primarily sells: embalming fluid.The company also recently came out with a line of "Frigid Cosmetics" (makeup for dead people). Its full kit will set you back $785, but the company promises that the cosmetics are "designed to accentuate the natural features and accurate color hues, tones and complexions of decedents."
This makes me curious about how funeral-home cosmetics differ from regular cosmetics for the living. Do funeral-home cosmetics perhaps contain substances that would be banned in cosmetics for the living?
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 14, 2025 -
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Category: Cosmetics | Death
Automan
As Wikipedia tells us:Automan is an American superhero television series produced by Glen A. Larson. It aired for 12 episodes (although 13 were made) on ABC between 1983 and 1984. It consciously emulates the visual stylistics of the Walt Disney Pictures live-action film Tron, in the context of a superhero TV series.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 14, 2025 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art | Motor Vehicles | Police and Other Law Enforcement | Technology | Computers | Television | 1980s
January 13, 2025
Miss Uranium
During the 1950s and 1960s, a number of women were given the title of "Miss Uranium."I don't think there was one organization awarding the title. Instead, I think various local entrepreneurs held separate 'Miss Uranium' pageants. Or they didn't even bother with a pageant and just declared a model to be 'Miss Uranium'.
Toronto Star - June 11, 1968
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Aug 26, 1951
Toronto Star - Nov 4, 1953
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 13, 2025 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests | Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters
Amazon Puppy Delivery
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 13, 2025 -
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Category: War | Air Travel and Airlines | Dogs | 1930s
January 12, 2025
Lionel Toxic Waste Car
One of the stranger model train cars sold by Lionel is its "Toxic Waste Car," which it introduced in 1956 . From the product info:Congratulations! Your Lionel railroad has won the government contract to safely remove toxic waste from your friendly local nuclear power plant for transport to remote dump sites located all across the continent. The simulated toxic waste load is held in two containers from which an ominously radiating light flashes on and off whenever the track is energized.
Over the years, Lionel has made various design changes and tweaks to the Toxic Waste Car. For instance, in 2007 it turned it into the "Area 51 Alien Radioactive Flatcar."
More info: tcatrains.org
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jan 12, 2025 -
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Category: Toys | Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters | Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails
RIP Artist Pippa Garner
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 12, 2025 -
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Category: Art | Humor | Parody | Products
January 11, 2025
Esophageal exercises to treat GERD
Several articles in medical journals have proposed the idea of using esophageal exercises to treat GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease). But how exactly does one exercise the esophagus?Here's one way, as described in the article "A Simple Exercise to Strengthen the Lower Esophageal Sphincter and Eliminate Gastroesophageal Reflux: An Autobiographical Case Report" by Eric Karrfalt:
Eventually, I devised the following regimen with the intent of providing the LES [lower esophageal sphincter] with some resistance training. The resistance was provided by positioning my head below my stomach in a kneeling posture. This required food being swallowed to be pushed up an incline. I began eating part of each breakfast (oatmeal) and sometimes lunch (a sandwich) in the exercise position. I would kneel on a platform (which happened to be 6 ½” high), take a normal mouthful, chew it as needed, and prepare to swallow. I would then lay my forearms and the backs of my hands on the floor, rest my head on my hands, and complete the swallowing process. With a little practice, I was soon able to initiate and complete the swallowing process with my head resting on my hands on the floor. I did not attempt to determine what the optimal height of the platform might be or if, indeed, any was necessary.
Similarly, the authors of "Bridge Swallowing Exercise for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Symptoms: A Pilot Study" report that "bridge swallowing" can improve GERD symptoms. They helpfully provide a picture of the bridge swallowing position.
I have no idea if these techniques would work. Thankfully I don't suffer from GERD so I can continue eating upright.
via hacker news
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 11, 2025 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness | Health | Stomach
Satan Never Sleeps
This is the prettiest melody ever devoted to Satan. Perhaps death metal groups could follow this tactic.The singer's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 11, 2025 -
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Category: Music | Religion | 1960s
January 10, 2025
Dr. Garbee’s Wild Game Dinners
When Dr. Eugene Garbee became president of Upper Iowa College in 1952, he started a tradition of hosting an annual Wild Game Dinner. He had acquired a taste for wild game, and knowledge of how to cook it, growing up in the Missouri Ozarks. Some of the dishes that were served at his dinner:- Rattlesnake Paste on crackers
- Moose Nose Hash
- Roast Elephant Trunk
- Raccoon Sausage
- Fayette Sparrow Birds in Nest
- Rotisseried Volga River Beaver
- Minnesota Black Bear Roast
- Hasenpfeffer of Fayette Rabbit
- Walker's Ridge Squirrel Stewed in Onions
- Charbroiled Muskrat Saddles
- Roast Growler's Gulch Possum
Davenport Quad-City Times - Apr 16, 1967
He collected together his favorite recipes into a cookbook: For the Chow Hound With a Taste for Something Different... Dr. Garbee's Wild Game Dinners. You can probably find a used copy somewhere.
Some of his recipes:
Fayette Sparrow Birds in Nest
Take a raw potato, cut it in half, hollow out enough room for a cleaned sparrow, insert the bird, put the two halves back together again, tie the potato with string and wrap with foil and bake.
Take a raw potato, cut it in half, hollow out enough room for a cleaned sparrow, insert the bird, put the two halves back together again, tie the potato with string and wrap with foil and bake.
Mother's Squirrel and Dumplings
Mother's favorite recipe. She wanted the head left on. Mother always claimed the head — picking off the tender juicy muscles and finally breaking open the thin skull bones for the brains — was the most tasty bite of all, for her.
2 squirrels, with heads on.
¼-pound fatback (salt pork).
1½ cups of seasoned flour, half teaspoon of salt, half teaspoon of pepper.
½ cup of diced onions, or large onion slices.
1 large turnip or 1 or 2 large carrots, chopped.
Bouillon.
Dumplings.
Cut the squirrels into pieces, including the heads. Dredge in the seasoned flour in a paper bag. Fry out the fatback in an iron skillet or dutch oven. Brown the squirrel, add two cups of bouillon and cook for an hour or until tender. Then add vegetables and cook for 15 to 20 minutes. Add more bouillon if needed. Use your own favorite dumpling recipe.
Mother's favorite recipe. She wanted the head left on. Mother always claimed the head — picking off the tender juicy muscles and finally breaking open the thin skull bones for the brains — was the most tasty bite of all, for her.
2 squirrels, with heads on.
¼-pound fatback (salt pork).
1½ cups of seasoned flour, half teaspoon of salt, half teaspoon of pepper.
½ cup of diced onions, or large onion slices.
1 large turnip or 1 or 2 large carrots, chopped.
Bouillon.
Dumplings.
Cut the squirrels into pieces, including the heads. Dredge in the seasoned flour in a paper bag. Fry out the fatback in an iron skillet or dutch oven. Brown the squirrel, add two cups of bouillon and cook for an hour or until tender. Then add vegetables and cook for 15 to 20 minutes. Add more bouillon if needed. Use your own favorite dumpling recipe.
Rattlesnake Paste
Cut rattlesnake in chunks two or three inches long. Cook in a small pressure cooker until tender. Add a bay leaf. Cook 10 to 12 minutes. Grind two or three times.
To one cup of ground meat mix in the following: three tablespoons bacon grease, melted butter or oil to which has been added a pinch of marjoram, rosemary and savory, salt and pepper.
Heat for a minute or two before stirring in the meat to make a rather thick paste. More fat may be added if desired. Cook in a double boiler for 20 to 30 minutes. Serve on crackers or thin sliced rye bread.
Cut rattlesnake in chunks two or three inches long. Cook in a small pressure cooker until tender. Add a bay leaf. Cook 10 to 12 minutes. Grind two or three times.
To one cup of ground meat mix in the following: three tablespoons bacon grease, melted butter or oil to which has been added a pinch of marjoram, rosemary and savory, salt and pepper.
Heat for a minute or two before stirring in the meat to make a rather thick paste. More fat may be added if desired. Cook in a double boiler for 20 to 30 minutes. Serve on crackers or thin sliced rye bread.
More info: wikipedia, iagenweb.org
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 10, 2025 -
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Category: Food | Cookbooks
