Weird Universe Archive
January 2012
January 20, 2012
Happy Ozzy Osbourne Bites the Head off a live bat 30th Anniversary!
Immediately, though, something felt wrong. Very wrong. For a start, my mouth was instantly full of this warm, gloopy liquid, with the worst aftertaste you could ever imagine. I could feel it staining my teeth and running down my chin. Then the head in my mouth twitched. Oh fuck me, I thought. I didn't just go and eat a fucking bat, did I?
(via Rolling Stone)
Ozzy in 1982
Edit: Changed the title from "20th" to "30th" anniversary. Thanks, DownCrisis!
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 20, 2012 -
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Category: Anniversary, Music
January 19, 2012
Real Corpse Bride
A couple in Thailand dated for 10 years without getting around to getting married, then the young lady was killed in a tragic accident. Her grieving beau decided to make her his bride in a Wedding/Funeral ceremony. A lesson in not putting off the important stuff and perhaps in knowing when the moment has passed.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 19, 2012 -
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L L Bean Bootmobile
I'd pay good money to see the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile side-by-side with the Bootmobile!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 19, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Shoes, Trucks
I Want That Hat
It's a blog devoted to strange hats.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 19, 2012 -
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Weird Shorts: A Rude Awakening!
When Iranian national Golshifteh Farahani decided to take a stand against Iran's notoriously strict rules for women, she wanted maximun exposure. So what better way for the Paris based actress to show Ahmedinejad the finger than to show a whole lot more than than, by posing naked for a French magazine. Well it certainly got their attention (plus the attention of a many others judging by the huge upsurge in visitors to her Facebook page from her home country), the Iranian government has banned her from ever returning home. According to Ms. Farahani, an official from Iran's Ministry of Culture told her that Iran didn't need any actors or actresses, which was especially ironic since Iran won it's first ever Golden Globe award this year for the film "A Separation" (The Independent).From the nude to the rude now, as popular British daytime quiz “Countdown” stirred up a bit of controversy this week when a contestant won one round with the word “wanker”. The object of the game is to make the longest possible word from a random selection of vowels and consonants in just 30 seconds, and in this particular round this meant the letters RAEPKWAEN. Mark Murphy’s six letter offering left host Nick Hewer at a loss for words, but was the longest and is in the dictionary, hence took the round after his opponent could do no better than 5. Clearly though “wanker” shouldn’t have netted Mark the points, he could have had “reawaken” for eight (Orange).
A slightly more pleasant shock greeted teacher Parijat Saha from Dinajpur in India when he checked his bank account online one evening. In a classic Monopoly moment, a bank error in his favour gave him a balance of 490 billion rupees (about $9.7 billion). Mr. Saha promptly rang the State Bank of India to report the mistake, joking that the bank appeared to have so much money it was overflowing into his account. A bank spokesman later claimed that the funds were uncleared, and in any case couldn’t have been withdrawn (Digital Spy).
Finally, a three-night astronomy special on British television scored two spectacular successes this week. The BBC show “Stargazing Live”, hosted physicist Brian Cox and comedian Dara O’Briain live from Jodrell Bank, encouraged viewers to get more involved with astronomy, both from their gardens and online, and has led to a 500% surge in telescope sales in the UK in the last few days, but more spectacularly, one viewer may have actually discovered a new exo-planet after visiting a website featured on the show. Chris Holmes was one of sixty thousand people who were inspired to visit planethunter.org after watching the show, and despite having no more than a passing interest before, he identified a possible eclipse of the star SPH10066540 by a Neptune sized object in a 90 day orbit (BBC News).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu Jan 19, 2012 -
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How to burble a pea
How in the world did I reach the age of 43 without knowing that it was possible to burble a pea? Instructions can be found at askapastor.org:you take the roundest pea you can find. You purse your lips and tilt your head completely back. You place the pea on your lips and blow out a gentle but consistent stream of air until the pea begins to lift off your lips sustained by the air.
Or just watch one of these videos:
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 19, 2012 -
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Category: Food, Vegetables
January 18, 2012
How lace curtains helped win World War II
The story goes that, during the Battle of the Bulge, in the winter of 1944, Sgt. William Furia (shown) decorated his helmet with some lace curtains that he found in an abandoned home. He did it as a joke, but then he and his fellow soldiers realized the lace made excellent camouflage in the snow. So the practice of decorating helmets with lace curtains became widespread. And thus camouflaged, the Allied soldiers were able to beat back the German offensive. Which is how lace curtains became America's secret weapon that allowed it to win the war.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 18, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Headgear, Military
Two New Weird Books
The book on the left proves that for every conceivable product in the human consumerist culture, there exist fanatical collectors.
The book on the right shows that you don't have to travel to exotic lands to discover weird things.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 18, 2012 -
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Category: Regionalism, Weird Studies and Guides, Books, Collectors
JAPP Energy Bar Commercials
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 18, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Junk Food, 1990s
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