Weird Universe Archive
December 2011
December 13, 2011
Story Problem
18.7HT x I 95 + 16.2B = $1000y
55mph
Where: I=interstate B=bridge height HT=height of equipment and trailer y=unknown thousands the repairs will cost
Read the problem here.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 13, 2011 -
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Disturbing Images
The 'crabid squirrel', my name for it not the taxidermist's, is just one of the nightmarish animal combos by the taxidermy artist Enrique Gomez de Molina.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 13, 2011 -
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Sugabeat Nation, Featuring Lash
Lash is my new idol. Those sexy dance moves! That music!
Why not friend Lash and her pals at their Facebook page?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 13, 2011 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Sex Symbols
December 12, 2011
Crushing Defeat
A young man in New Zealand has the misfortune of being the first to be punished under a reckless driving law enacted in 2009. It is a three strikes law, on the third time one is convicted of reckless driving of the kind street racers engage in, their car is confiscated and crushed. That's a rough lesson.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 12, 2011 -
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Johnson Smith Catalog Item #15
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What's good for pigs is good for people!
From the 1950 catalog.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 12, 2011 -
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Category: Agriculture, Animals, Injuries, Johnson Smith Catalog, 1950s, Pranks
News of the Weird / Pro Edition (December 12, 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
December 12, 2011
(datelines December 3-December 10) (links correct as of December 12)
Don't Tax Me and Don't Tax Thee But Tax That Fella Behind That Tree, and More Things to Worry About
★ ★ ★ ★!
But . . . No "Individual Mandate"! The government can't expand health insurance coverage unless everyone kicks in . . unless of course any objectors could just opt out altogether (no kick-in, no coverage). That would make health insurance like fire protection in South Fulton, Tenn. Rather than force everyone to kick in, the $75 annual fee is voluntary (although, no kick-in, no coverage). But then the home of non-kicker-inner Vicky Bell caught fire. Oh . . firefighters rushed to the scene, still, but only to keep the fire from spreading to Vicky's neighbors, who had kicked in; Vicky, though, now owns a pile of ashes. Kingsport Times-News
Good to Know: Centers for Disease Control's latest newsletter warned (via a case report from a sheep ranch) that you could get a C. jejuni infection (and we all know how bad that is!) if you castrate the little buggers by biting off their testicles (the elastrator-band method being too slow and the Burdizzo emasculatome maybe too expensive). Wall Street Journal
What Year Is This? According to Lisa Nassef's lawsuit, there was still at least one "recovered memories" clinic operating in 2010 (Castlewood Treatment Center, suburban St. Louis), trying desperately to convince unhappy women that their problem was that it had completely slipped their minds that they had been raped by their daddies and in satanic cults (that is, when the cultists weren't busy eating babies) and that such trauma would take hundreds of billable hours of therapy to overcome. Nassef said she tried suicide, even--not, of course, during her original unhappiness (over anorexia), but only after Castlewood convinced her what a disaster her life was. Associated Press via Fox News
More in extended >>
Posted By: Chuck - Mon Dec 12, 2011 -
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December 11, 2011
The Boston Santa Speedo Run
Check out the rest of the pictures from the 2011 Santa Speedo Run.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 11, 2011 -
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Follies of the Mad Men #169
You saw the Janus-faced cat. You saw the Janus-faced baby. But little did you think that such mutants could grow up to have a profitable career in advertising!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 11, 2011 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, 1950s
Chewing Through The Restraints
A sentiment that was not held by two previous (now) RIM executives on a recent business flight. The men were so obnoxious they were restrained mid flight and then proceeded to chew through the restraints. They had to be subdued by flight staff with the assistance of other passengers. The uproar caused the flight to be diverted to offload the men. They have since lost their jobs, been charged large fines and put on probation for a year. Loud, drunk and disorderly is no way to fly son.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 11, 2011 -
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December 10, 2011
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions
I've just finished reading the fine book about weird fraternal lodge devices from a century ago. It would make a fine gift for any WU-vie.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 10, 2011 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Inventions, Books, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Pranks, Nineteenth Century
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