Weird Universe Archive
June 2011
June 11, 2011
American Women: Partners in research
Buying stuff for the house, that's all the gals care about!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 11, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, 1960s, Women
June 10, 2011
Cinema’s Greatest Slaps
Glove, Actually - An Ode to Cinema's Greatest Slaps from Jeff Smith on Vimeo.
Caution: lots of swears.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 10, 2011 -
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Category: Movies, Violence
Rambo Amadeus
Why do Eastern Europeans persist in the pathetic delusion that they can rap?
Learn more about Rambo Amadeus here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 10, 2011 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Europe
June 9, 2011
Carstache!
Car bras? That's old school uncool! Your vehicle needs a 'stache. Visit Carstache to learn more, especially about their newest, pictured here and available just in time for July 4th!
All thanks to WU-vie Ethan Eyler.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 09, 2011 -
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Category: Inventions, Reader Recommendation, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Cars
June 8, 2011
Follies of the Mad Men #143
N.A.S.A. "Gifted" from three legged legs on Vimeo.
Has air travel ever looked so hideous as in this pro-airlines ad?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 08, 2011 -
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Category: Etiquette and Formal Behavior, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Inebriation and Intoxicants, PSA’s, Travel, Transportation, Advertising
Unimog
Mercedes Benz has come out with a special 60th anniversary edition of their multi-use SUV, the Unimog.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 08, 2011 -
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June 7, 2011
Cicada Flavor
Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream decided to take advantage of the appearance of cicadas this year. They made a half batch of what they thought would be a little ordered novelty, cicada flavored ice cream. Word leaked and the stuff sold out the day before it was even supposed to be offered. Although the interest and demand is still high, due to the health department's suggestion to discontinue the flavor, it will no longer be sold. Awww, that is too bad.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 07, 2011 -
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Achievement USA
*Sigh* Will such a time ever return?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 07, 2011 -
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Category: Motor Vehicles, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Chicken Fingers
Trichan Kann has a unique skill, in fact he is a world record holder. The Thailand native can reach into boiling oil with his bare hands and come away uninjured. He has been doing this for about 7 years, since an accident that splashed him with hot oil and caused no damage to him. Afterwards he started trying out his new skill and now works that way all the time, usually with an audience. Pulling chicken from 480 degrees Celsius boiling oil, pretty impressive!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jun 07, 2011 -
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June 6, 2011
News of the Weird / Pro Edition (June 6, 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
June 6, 2011
(datelines May 28-June 4) (links correct as of June 6)
Superheroes Subdue the Face of Evil, Plus Hermaphrodite Snails and Graduate-Level Shoplifting
From Yr Editor
Being the first of four somewhat abbreviated weekly editions . . .
★ ★ ★ ★!
Sweet Justice: When Bank of America wrongly, inexplicably, foreclosed on Warren and Maureen Nyerges's home in Collier County, Fla., they challenged, won, and got a judgment for reimbursement of legal expenses ($2,534). Then, BoA failed to pay. So the couple got a sheriff's seizure order, and deputies accompanied them to the nearest branch, where the couple eyed BoA's computers and furniture while the branch manager practically peed in his pants. Check issued, lightning speed. Naples Daily News
Can't Possibly Be True: The enrollment application for elementary school students in the Dry Creek School District, Roseville, Calif., actually asks the parent whether the applying urchin was a C-section or natural birth. (Seriously.) KOVR-TV (Sacramento)
Could Be True, But You Don't Want It to Be True: Scientists have found "complex, multi-celled creatures" living a mile underground ("worms from hell"). That means (a) assumptions we've made about extraterrestrial life may have to be liberalized, and (b) assumptions we've made about whatever the hell is down there on our own planet may have to be liberalized. [Y'all see the movie The Descent?] (Bonus Discovery Last Week: giant carnivorous snails--hermaphrodite snails, with working pairs of sex organs!) Washington Post /// The Descent /// Dominion Post (Wellington, New Zealand)
Gays 1, Switch-Hitters 0 (so far, at least): A federal judge scheduled August 1st for the trial to determine whether a team from the 2008 Gay Softball World Series ought to have been DQ'd for not being gay enough. (Three of its players might have been straight or bi, and the rules allow a max of two.) The judge said the "two" rule was solidly First-Amendment-protected but set for trial the issue on how the board went about judging the players' orientations. 365Gay.com
Massive Collision of Negative Karma, Creating Anti-Matter: As the phabulous Phelpses of Westboro Baptist waxed gleeful at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, among their protesters was a small crew from Knights of the Southern Cross (Ku Klux Klan), supporting the troops. CNN
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Posted By: Chuck - Mon Jun 06, 2011 -
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