Weird Universe Archive
April 2011
April 24, 2011
April 23, 2011
Follies of the Mad Men #138
Is that a hydraulic slurry mining hose in your pants, or do you just work here?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 23, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1940s, Genitals, Mining
April 21, 2011
Monkey Song
More about Clarence Williams here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 21, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Humor, Music, 1930s
April 20, 2011
Mini-luchador
WU-vie "jswolf19" presents this astonishing find. Thanks, JSW!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 20, 2011 -
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Category: Performance Art, Wrestling, Children, Asia
Follies of the Mad Men #137
Did you ever realize that goldfish were such astute fashion consultants, able to comment knowingly on zipper failure?
Read the text at the original site.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 20, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Fish, 1940s
April 19, 2011
Office Chair Racing
Learn more here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 19, 2011 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Work and Vocational Training, Europe
Barbie
If Barbie was 6 feet tall her measurements would be 39-18-33. Galia Slayen decided to build one to illistrate the dolls unrealistic proportions. But then Barbie has no nipples, her toes are fused together, her mouth doesn't open, she doesn't even HAVE any other openings, she's got plastic skin, not to mention she hasn't aged a day in over 50 years. In short IT is a toy. Little girls see women of all shapes and sizes all around them every day. While, yes, her proportions are ridiculous blaming that for eating disorders in women seems unrealistic. If only we could find one root cause for any, all social woes then we could fix every one of them. Admitting it is a combination of factors makes it too difficult to even contemplate repair. After all alarmingly large numbers of the male population aren't working out to the point of injury and exhaustion to look like G.I. Joe. Any guesses on HIS comparative proportions?
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 19, 2011 -
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April 18, 2011
Timber Bridge Inspection
Perhaps the single most boring video ever created. Utterly mesmerizing in its boredom. Boredom as art. Boring beyond belief.
What do you think? Any other contenders?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 18, 2011 -
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Category: Boredom, Government, PSA’s
News of the Weird / Pro Edition (April 18, 2011)
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
April 18, 2011
(datelines April 9-April 16) (links correct as of April 18)
"I Brought You Some Funyuns, Your Honor" Plus Incendiary Porno and Cancer-Curing Tobacco
★ ★ ★ ★!
Next Up, the Crucial Question of 'How Long Since They Had 'em Some?': Researchers from Columbia University and Israel's Ben Gurion University examined trial judges' calendars over a 50-day period and found a remarkably proportional diminishing of criminals' chances for parole as the morning or afternoon wore on. That is, the researchers hypothesized, the louder that judges' stomachs growled, the lower the perp's chances for freedom. ABC News
Westboro Baptist Updates: The good news for the Phelpses is that there is now evidence that someone, anyone whose name is not "Phelps" actually appears to agree with them--specifically, Ms. Zoe Bethel, who is a high school student in Middletown, Ohio, and who was given a hard time by administrators for wearing a T-shirt bearing Westboro's signature slogan. The bad news for Westboro, though, came at one of their soldier-funeral protests, at Fort Meade, Md., in a deliciously ironic reaction by Margie Phelps-Roper (Pastor Fred's point person, daughter, and lawyer). As the Westboro message was quickly being drowned out by a large, wild "flash mob" of performance artists and rational Christians (and a revving-up biker gang), Margie just muttered, "What the heck's wrong with these people?" Dayton Daily News /// The Capital (Annapolis)
The Death Penalty Deters: Yr Editor knows that's impossible (P.C.-wise), but listen to jilted lover Dmitry Smirnov, who admitted tracking Ms. Jitka Vesel from British Columbia to Oak Brook, Ill., and then, he told police, killing her. According to the prosecutor, Smirnov had researched Illinois's death penalty (abolished by statute on March 9th, following numerous embarrassing misconvictions) and proceeded only when certain he would not have to walk the last mile for his crime. Chicago Sun-Times
No Cure For Cancer . . Well, Except for Cigarette Smoke: Indonesia is Big Tobacco's Promised Land. U.S. firms have subsidiaries there; most people smoke; and the 400,000 deaths a year from it are quickly attributed to other things. Enter Dr. Gretha Zahar, a healer who touts cures for autism and various cancers, and emphysema, with a therapy in which she actually blows cigarette smoke into the patient's lungs through a tube. (But they're "divine cigarettes," infused with "nanotechnology" that removes cancer-causing "free radicals" by manipulating mercury levels.) Big Tobacco having been very, very good to Indonesia over the years, Dr. Zahar's clinic is in good standing. Agence France-Presse via Yahoo News
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Posted By: Chuck - Mon Apr 18, 2011 -
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April 17, 2011
BBB
Bellybutton bacteria, ick! Makes me glad I no longer have one.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 17, 2011 -
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