Weird Universe Archive
November 2012
November 19, 2012
Never Enough Cats?
"Woman with over 150 cats in one house shows how she feeds them."
My one wish is that this video was in High Definition and showed us all 24 hours of this woman's average day.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 19, 2012 -
Comments (6)
Category: Eccentrics, Collectors, Cats, Russia
November 18, 2012
Attack of the Turkeys
This driver in Connecticut claims he has been attacked by turkeys twice.View more videos at: http://nbcconnecticut.com.
If you listen to his turkey impersonation, maybe the turkeys were right to attack.
Here's the original story.
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/weird/wild-turkey-video-179279021.html
Supposedly, many turkeys attack shiny cars thinking their reflection is another turkey challenger.
When I was 9, a headless turkey chased me across the backyard.
Anybody else been attacked?
Posted By: gdanea - Sun Nov 18, 2012 -
Comments (7)
Category: Animals
Tasty Tasty Bacon Turkey
Saw the bacon.
Had to post it.
Posted By: gdanea - Sun Nov 18, 2012 -
Comments (9)
Category: Bacon
Freeing the Mind
The possibility of communicating with severely brain damaged patients with the use of brain scans has become reality. Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging or FMRI doctors were able to get answers to yes or no questions by asking apparently vegetative patients to think of playing tennis or walking around the house. Those 2 activities, when thought of, cause activity in different parts of the brain. One for yes and the other for no allowed one patient who has been in a vegetative state for 12 years to indicated he was not in pain and that he was aware he has a 7 year old niece. What a wonderful gift for these people and their families. Also, what great potential to help ALS and other paralyzed patients to communicate.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 18, 2012 -
Comments (10)
Category: Brain Damage
Follies of the Mad Men #193
I just don't know... That lion looks pretty forbidding to me, for a suitable company mascot, as if he's saying, "Yeah, pal, just try to take my caffeine fix away from me!"
And won't the creatures of Narnia complain that we're using Aslan as a shill?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 18, 2012 -
Comments (11)
Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1900s
Euthanasia Coaster
Euthanasia Coaster from Julijonas Urbonas on Vimeo.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Nov 18, 2012 -
Comments (9)
Category: Art, Death
November 17, 2012
1980s Cartoons
Part 3, for which embedding is senselessly disabled.
By the 1980s, I was an adult and beyond the purview of these cartoons. Looking at the intros now, I do not detect what anyone would would label a "Golden Age" of animation. But surely, many of them qualify as "weird."
I hope these stir some nostalgic moments for those WU-vies who are younger than this old fart.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 17, 2012 -
Comments (7)
Category: Cartoons, 1980s
Tilting the Bucket
Tilting the Bucket is one of the unusual sports that used to be played in the British Isles. Life magazine offers this description of it:'Tilting the bucket' is a burlesque of medieval jousting. Instead of a lance ye knight carries a pole. His steed is a wheelbarrow. To win the tilt the young clansman must throw his pole through a small hole in an overhead target. The target is attached to a bucket of water. If he misses, as he almost always does, the barrow-pusher must run at top speed to avoid a drenching.
The game requires some specialized equipment (the revolving overhead bucket), but if you don't have this, there's is a board game version you can play.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 17, 2012 -
Comments (5)
Category: Sports
November 16, 2012
Could Bacon Be More Delicious
Could genetic re-sequencing make pork tastier? Or might we just accidentally make them smarter? Then we could end up the other white meat!
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 16, 2012 -
Comments (7)
Category: Bacon
Meat Eaters
A textbook being used in some schools in India describes "meat eaters" in highly unflattering terms. Apparently, according to the book New Healthway, those of us who indulge in "flesh food" are liars, cheats and sex offenders. Gee, I didn't know protein caused criminal behavior.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 16, 2012 -
Comments (12)
Category: Vegetarians and Vegans
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