December 2015
December 24, 2015
Merry Christmas!
For everyone who celebrates Christmas and enjoys Christmas music here is 3 hours of songs of the season for you. Have a wonderful Holiday season all my wonderful WU friends!
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 24, 2015 -
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Category: Holidays, Music
Annual Christmas Fire & Ice Sale
A jeweler in DeLand, Florida is, for the third year, holding their Fire & Ice sale. Buy $450 or more worth of jewelry and get a free 12 gauge shot gun worth $270, provided you pass the background check. They have already given away 20 shot guns and have ordered more. Pretty good deal!
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 24, 2015 -
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Category: Guns, Holidays, Jewelry
The battle over belief in Santa
Over at about.com, I gathered together some of the more memorable moments in the long history of people battling over whether or not Santa exists. There were so many I had to do it in a 2-part series: PART ONE and PART TWO.Some of my favorites:
- The french woman who divorced her husband because of his insistence on believing in Santa (which was his excuse for not giving her any presents — because Santa was supposed to bring them).
- The Freudian psychologist who argued that Santa really is a representation of the father figure, inserting himself into the chimney, which is a symbol of mom's hoochie coochie.
- Spy magazine's classic 1991 "statistical investigation" of Santa which noted that if Santa traveled fast enough to deliver gifts to millions of children in one night, the air resistance at that speed would cause his reindeer to burst into flames.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 24, 2015 -
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Category: Christmas
Buchstein’s Vulcanized Fiber Limb
It's "soothing to your stump."
via Bifurcated Rivets
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 24, 2015 -
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Category: Advertising, 1910s
Fighting Tigers
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 24, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Movies, Asia
December 23, 2015
The Fainting Woman Sex Case
Classic weird news from 1993. Posted over at about.com.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 23, 2015 -
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Category: Crime, 1990s
Santa Claus Is Dead
How would it be for you if your car had killed Santa Claus?
Source: Kansas City Times - Dec 9, 1969
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 23, 2015 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s, Christmas
Battle Bike
Original pic here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 23, 2015 -
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Category: Destruction, Surrealism, Transportation, 1940s, Weapons
December 22, 2015
USAF Lip Balm Recall
Somebody in ordering is in trouble! The Air Force has recalled lip balm that contains THC due to the use of hemp oil in it. Its too low a dose to show up on a drug screen but, you know, zero tolerance and all that.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 22, 2015 -
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Category: Drugs, Military
Distinctive facial tattoo
Meet Paul Terry, whose choice of facial tattoos don't help his chances of gaining employment. So he's had to turn to a life of crime. But those same tattoos also make it super easy for the police to find him whenever he's committed a crime.More info at Fox News, who censored part of his mugshot (their censored version below). The Smoking Gun has the uncensored version.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 22, 2015 -
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Category: Crime
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