Weird Universe Archive
July 2010
July 9, 2010
Py Kim and Cukes
Not Recommended When Present at Vocational Venues.
More from our Korean Sex Educator here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 09, 2010 -
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Category: Food, Sexuality
July 8, 2010
The Orange People
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 08, 2010 -
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Category: Regionalism, Skin and Skin Conditions
July 7, 2010
Big Bang Big Boom
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 07, 2010 -
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Category: History, Stop-motion Animation
Sky Cruises
Giant Airships may become the luxury travel of the future. New York to London in 37 hours on the spacious ship, and no seasickness. Bonus: Green friendly fuel system.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 07, 2010 -
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Worst Art-house Movie Ever?
The site where I found this clip explains:
"The now-infamous 'cup and sea' sequence from director Turge Babonet's 1968 film, THE HORRIBLE HORROR -- which prompted writer Cleveland Amory (TV Guide. May 12, 1968) to comment on the state of European cinema, 'You have to be on LSD to understand it'. Babonet's Dutch-language drama was ambitiously rescored and subtitled for US distribution, but its story of tragically depressed cod fishermen held no appeal for American audiences."
However, many folks believe Turge is a hoax.
Look at this purported list of Turge's films, and tell me what you think.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 07, 2010 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Movies, Performance Art, 1960s, Europe
July 6, 2010
La Tour Véreuse
La tour véreuse from MiQ on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 06, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Cartoons, Europe, Eating
News of the Weird / Pro Edition (July 5, 2010)
News of the Weird/Pro EditionYou're Still Not Cynical Enough
Prime Cuts of Underreported News from Last Week, Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
July 5, 2010
(datelines June 26-July 3) (links correct as of July 5)
Turbo Fatties, Plus Exalted Cyclopses, Antiquated Use of Whale Vomit, and Fish Pickle-Tickling
★ ★ ★ ★ ★!
"Gainers Come Out of the Closet" (Recurring Theme): An ABC News reporter is persuaded that mega-fat people (and their fetishist admirers) are more numerous than imagined (or at least more articulate). (One was highlighted here [NOTW/Pro, 3-22-2010]: the 602-pound Donna Simpson of New Jersey, whose business model calls for her to eat while on streaming video so that admirers will pay to watch her ballooning before their very eyes.) Wrote one blogger, "Lately I've been infatuated with the physics of my belly. . . t moves with me. . . . The more attention I pay to it, the easier it becomes to imagine sizes like 300, 400 [pounds]. I like to think I don't romanticize it, but I can't help lusting over those sizes." ABC News
Ambition of the Blind: In what will be viewed by "progressive" people as a great success, researchers and the National Federation of the Blind announced a prototype for a breakthrough car that will, they say, enable blind people to drive alone, using technology they call "nonvisual interfaces," meaning a bunch of sensors that tell blind drivers who's coming from the left / right / back / front / top / approaching top speed / medium speed / slow speed / big / medium / small / from way up high / little lower / little lower than that / real low, etc. It'd be so easy that anyone could drive! [ed.: "Safety," Your Editor believes, will be provided only by car apps to alert sighted drivers any time one of those cars is near, so the sighted drivers can all pull off the road until the two-ton death machine passes.] Associated Press via ABC News
Inexplicable: Colin Hall, Lord Mayor of Leicester, England, visiting the Southfields library for its Summer Showcase on global understanding, apparently at some point just had his pants fall down. His spokesman said, "He was not wearing a belt, and the trousers came loose and fell." He apologized. [ed.: Nothing sexual or exhibitionistic was reported; it was just that . . the mayor's pants fell down.] The Guardian
Foreclosed on? Lost Your Job? Underemployed?: From the Wall Street Journal, 6-28-2010: "More than $3 billion in cash has been openly flown out of Kabul International Airport in the past three years, a sum so large that U.S. investigators believe top Afghan officials and their associates are sending billions of diverted U.S. aid and logistics dollars and drug money to financial safe havens abroad. The cash–packed into suitcases, piled onto pallets, and loaded into airplanes–is declared and legal to move." [ed.: Still, it appears Afghans are far less advanced than Iraqis were in the early years of that war.] Wall Street Journal
Must've Had an Interesting Life So Far: Arrested for DUI in Massillon, Ohio: the 51-year-old Donald N. Duck. Canton Repository
More in extended >>
Posted By: Chuck - Tue Jul 06, 2010 -
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July 5, 2010
Stars and Stripes Muppet Style
Caution!!S: That was terrible!
W: Horrendous!
S: I'm offended!
W: I'm appalled!
S: So what are we gonna do?
W: What else? E-mail it to everyone we know.
S: Good idea.
Happy
Posted By: gdanea - Mon Jul 05, 2010 -
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Category: Entertainment
Follies of the Mad Men #114
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 05, 2010 -
Comments (8)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, LGBT, Europe
July 3, 2010
Happy Birthday USofA
The GoodMore in extended >>
Posted By: Expat47 - Sat Jul 03, 2010 -
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