Dream Job

How would you like to make 25,000 pounds, $39,105, a year to test out sex toys? That is what Nat Garvey does. Sex toys to PVC S&M outfits to sexy undergarments she tries them out and rates them to determine which ones will be stocked in the sex shop she works for. Talk about your dream job!

Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 14, 2012 - Comments (11)
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Angel

See how long you can last through this 1966 film without ingesting any drugs. Caffeine permitted.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 14, 2012 - Comments (13)
Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Body Modifications, Dreams and Nightmares, Drugs, Movies, 1960s

Trim-Jeans

This product was so bizarre that it inspired a Monty Python skit. See the video below. (I have a vague memory of something about trim-jeans appearing on WU before, but couldn't find anything, so I decided I was wrong.)

Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 14, 2012 - Comments (10)
Category: Exercise and Fitness, Advertising, Products, 1970s

One For The Good Guys

While not necessarily weird this story will most certainly be of interest here and on most similar sites across the web. In a recent copyright case the judge ruled against a copyright troll company and ordered them to forfeit all the copyrights they held. Perhaps this vile bit of corporate bullying and blackmail will soon be a thing of the past.

Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 13, 2012 - Comments (9)
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Worst.  Movie Theater.  Ever.

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 13, 2012 - Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Movies, Excrement

Interior Clouds

Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde creates temporary clouds inside rooms by regulating the temperature and humidity inside the rooms.



When I saw this it immediately reminded me of an experiment conducted in the eighteenth century by the Dutch scientist Martin van Marum. He created two artificial clouds by filling calf's bladders with hydrogen, causing them to float around his laboratory. He gave one of these bladder-clouds a positive charge, and another a negative charge. As these charged clouds floated around, sparks would pass between them. This was Van Marum's way of simulating a lightning storm.

But van Marum had an extra trick that was always a great crowd pleaser. He introduced a third (non-charged) cloud into the room. When this non-charged cloud passed between the two charged ones as they were exchanging sparks, it would noisily explode into flames (kinda like a miniature Hindenburg). That's how to do an interior cloud installation properly!

Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 13, 2012 - Comments (11)
Category: Art, Science, Experiments

The Tide Trade

Apparently theft of Tide laundry detergent is suddenly an epidemic all over the US, drug dealers are even dealing Tide on the side. Police better get busy, it sounds like they have a Tide-al wave of crime to clean up!

Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 13, 2012 - Comments (12)
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A Scientific Guide To Blood Alcohol Levels

A diagram from Psychology in Human Affairs (1946), by J. Stanley Gray. Could be useful for charting your progress as the evening wears on.

Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 12, 2012 - Comments (8)
Category: Alcohol

Tentacle Grape

Old-hand WU-vies know all about the fascination of the Japanese for "tentacle sex." But did you know you could buy the matching soft drink?

One question remains: is the English-only pun with "tentacle rape" intentional or accidental?

Buy yours here.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 12, 2012 - Comments (8)
Category: Animals, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Junk Food, Asia

Chuck’s Weekly Cite-Seeing (March 12, 2012)

Chuck's Weekly Cite-Seeing Tour
The Crème de la Crème, Every Monday

Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
March 12, 2012
(datelines from March 2 or later) (links correct as of March 12)

Kantale, Sri Lanka: Mr. Janaka Basnayake, 24, passed away. He was trying to establish a world's record for surviving being buried alive. (Note to File: 6½ hours, too long.) Associated Press via Huffington Post

Tacoma, Wash.: Alan O'Neill, 41, was charged with bigamy after his first wife found out about the second when Facebook recommended that she and the second become "friends." Associated Press via Oregon Live

Detroit: In the District of Calamity II, an independent audit reported that a $148,000 grant to help 400 unemployed people get better clothes for job interviews provided clothes for exactly 2. Detroit News

Ottawa: The city government ordered Doug Rochow to stop clearing snow near his home, that that's the city's job even when the city's not doing it. (The city's afraid Rochow will make the pathways more inviting, which increases the possibility of lawsuits. Snowbound pathways create no "paths.") Toronto Star

Edmonton, Alberta; More name frivolity, this time from the 50,000 babies born in Alberta last year. Boys: Moo, J-Cub, Tuff, and R. Girls: Tuba, Camry, Unique, and J. Said one man on the street, "Those look like dogs' names." Edmonton Journal

Washington, D.C.: (Can't Possibly Be True?) USDA has purchased 7 million pounds of "pink slime," destined for school lunches. Even Taco Bell won't touch the stuff. It's animal connective tissue, not muscle, but oh-so-cheap, and it's been sanitized--mostly, except for, y'know, occasional e.coli. Huffington Post [citing the Evil Empire's tablet app The Daily]



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Posted By: Chuck - Mon Mar 12, 2012 - Comments (13)
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