Weird Universe Archive
February 2012
February 15, 2012
Follies of the Mad Men #175
For one fraction of a second after he sniffs it, I was sure the human was going to chow down on this bowl of dog food. After all, if the dog can talk, why not?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 15, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Dogs, 1970s
Fijian Cannibal Forks
If you're ever at a dinner party where the host has a set of forks that look like these, you might want to consider leaving, quickly.
These are Fijian "cannibal forks" used for eating human flesh. The iron dance blog offers this description of them:
The cannibal fork, or iculanibokola, was used by attendants during ritual feasts to feed individuals considered too holy to touch food. These forks arose for several reasons. First is a cultural taboo that prohibits chiefs and priests from touching food with their hands. Common Fijians generally did not use utensils until Europeanization. One of the most important ceremonies a chieftain participated in was the devouring of their or the tribes enemy. Combining the significance of the event and the inability to use their hands the chiefs needed a way to participate-hence the development of the cannibal fork. Forks became a way to show power and influence. The fancier more elaborate the fork, the higher status the owner had.
Fijian cannibal forks are still made, to sell to tourists. What the tourists use them for... I guess that's their own business.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 15, 2012 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Food, Rituals and Superstitions
February 14, 2012
Bird Benny
Bird Benny from Kristof Luyckx on Vimeo.
Warning: cartoon bird intimate anatomy depicted, late in the "film."
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 14, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Cartoons, Genitals
Saliva Noodles
"Xian shui mian" is a spicy pork and vegetable soup that's a delicacy in the Chinese counties of Meixian, Wugong and Qianxian, traditionally served at weddings, funerals, festivals and birthday feasts. But it's the special ingredient in the soup that gives it the English name "Saliva Noodle". According to a 2010 story on cri.cn: "the noodle soup is reused many times and contains each diner's saliva."I can't tell from the article exactly how the saliva noodle soup is made. That is, are people given a bowl of the soup, and whatever they don't finish is thrown back into the pot -- making it Backwash Soup? Or are people actually spitting and drooling in the soup?
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 14, 2012 -
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Category: Food
Happy Valentine’s Day
St. Valentine wishes you a Happy Valentine's Day!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 14, 2012 -
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Category: Holidays
Tyrusguy’s wacky world of weird wheels
This video is from the youtube channel of Colin Furze
Posted By: Tyrusguy - Tue Feb 14, 2012 -
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February 13, 2012
Smokin’ Hot Car
Why spend all that money getting the car's heater repaired when you can just install a wood burning stove for heat. At least that is what one Swiss man thought. Now he drives one hot Volvo!
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 13, 2012 -
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Mystery Gadget 6
What's the purpose of this sprayer? It's not the obvious!
Answer here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 13, 2012 -
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Category: Technology, 1930s
100 Radioactive Men
A "guerrilla lighting installation" by Luzinterruptus that appeared in Hamburg, August 2011, during the Dockville Festival. According to de zeen magazine, its purpose was to "demonstrate, in a humorous tone, the paranoia that we are suffering from since the escape of radioactive material in Japan... to simulate, for the festival, a life under the constant threat of nuclear accidents."
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 13, 2012 -
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Category: Art
Chuck’s Weekly Cite-Seeing (February 13, 2012)
Chuck's Weekly Cite-Seeing TourThe Crème de la Crème, Every Monday
Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
February 13, 2012
(datelines from February 3 or later) (links correct as of February 13)
Houston, Tex.: Ms. Donnicia Venters can't sue for being fired for suggesting she needed a room at work for breast-feeding. Federal EEO law protects "pregnancy" things, and Judge (Mr.) Lynn Hughes ruled that "pregnancy" ends when the kid drops. Houston Press
Brooklyn, N.Y.: Fausat Ogunbayo, 46, sued in federal court to get her kids back from child welfare . . and besides that, wants, umm, $900,000,000,000 in walking-around money). Staten Island Advance
San Diego, Calif.: PETA got a formal hearing (more than it usually gets in cases like this) but was ultimately rebuffed by a federal judge on its argument that Amendment XIII (abolishing slavery) protects SeaWorld whales. Associated Press via CBS News
New Castle, Ind.: Another recent denture-only theft. No, not the same as that other guy. And not that third one, either. The Star Press (Muncie, Ind.) /// Observer-Reporter (Washington, Pa.) /// Associated Press via WPVI-TV (Philadelphia)
Ellisville, Miss.: Harold Hadley Jr., 19, was charged with a bomb threat at Jones County (Miss.) Junior College. Friends and family point out that Hadley is a notorious wind-breaker and that when he wrote that he "passed a bomb" in the library, it was methane and not sarin. WDAM-TV (Hattiesburg) via WLOX-TV (Biloxi)
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Posted By: Chuck - Mon Feb 13, 2012 -
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