Animals
Dali’s CHAOS AND CREATION
I would like to find the whole 17-minute video of Dali's CHAOS AND CREATION, especially after reading the description in the newspaper article. But I can only find bits and pieces. The second clip shows a brief image of the motorcycle in the pigpen.
Original article here.
Foto source.
Foto source, more at site.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 14, 2017 -
Comments (2)
Category: Animals, Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Motorcycles
Woody Woodpecker, Deconstructed
Thanks to Mark Evanier, who explains.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 28, 2017 -
Comments (0)
Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Cartoons, 1960s, Parody
Big Earl the Beer-Drinking Pig
Big Earl was a talented pig. He could drink a can of beer while standing on his hind legs, and then he'd eat the can. He performed this stunt in various barrooms, until the State Liquor Commission found out what was going on and ordered Big Earl to stop, citing a law against bringing pigs into bars.At least, that's how a lot of newspapers reported the story. But it seems there was also a more disturbing part to Big Earl's act. In addition to eating the beer can, he would also eat a live chicken. Someone called to complain, and that's what got his act banned.
Philadelphia Inquirer - May 10, 1975
Minneapolis Star - May 15, 1975
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 25, 2017 -
Comments (1)
Category: Animals, 1970s
Too Many Tigers
In favor of species extinctions.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 25, 2017 -
Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Music, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #329
Tony the Tiger is a protective deity against the occult forces of Friday the Thirteenth?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 13, 2017 -
Comments (0)
Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Food, 1960s
Chickens as traffic control
1975: Rather than installing expensive signs or speed bumps, Napa, California experimented with using chickens to slow down motorists on one of its streets — Streblow Drive, bordering Kennedy Park. They simply let 85 chickens roam the park and street at will. Said park superintendent Bob Pelusi, "Only occasionally does an errant driver charge through the flock. In the nine months we've had the chickens on the job, we've lost 12 of them — gone in the line of duty, so to speak."
Tampa Times - Apr 11, 1975
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 07, 2017 -
Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, 1970s
Naked Chicken Research
1976: Drs. William Johnson and Robert Truax of Louisiana State University raised and studied featherless chickens."I guess 'embarrassed' is as good a word for it as any. You put one of them in with a flock of normal birds, and it huddles off in a corner by itself. The other birds won't have anything to do with it until they get used to it," he said.
"And then they're just not as active sexually. They will court and strut much more than the normal bird, but they don't mate as readily."
The story reminds me of the old urban legend about KFC raising mutant, featherless chickens. Maybe this is where the story started.
Argus Leader - Aug 31, 1976
Salisbury Daily Times - Aug 31, 1976
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 29, 2017 -
Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Science, Psychology, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #326
1) Sturgeons are the ONLY ones to make caviar, therefore they are best by default, and the point is moot.
2) The mental juxtaposition engendered by this ad between a fishy taste and the taste of coffee is most unpleasant.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 20, 2017 -
Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1940s
Lion Cage Weddings
The recurring theme of people who get married in a lions' cage.1930s — no exact date or location specified
Lion-tamer George J. Keller weds Ginny Lowry in Cleveland, Ohio
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Mar 10, 1957
Lion-tamer Jimmy Bells weds trapeze artist Experanza Esqueda Gonzales
Torreon, Mexico - July 18, 1967
Lion-tamer Julius Von Uhl and his assistant of six years Linda Pritchard wed in Warren, Michigan
Fremont News-Messenger - Aug 15 1987
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 03, 2017 -
Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Weddings, Love & Romance
Yellow Snow Experiment
An experiment conducted by animal behavior expert Marc Bekoff of the University of Colorado, Boulder with his dog, Jethro:More info: Psychology Today - June 29, 2009
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 19, 2017 -
Comments (0)
Category: Animals, Experiments, Body Fluids
| Who We Are |
|---|
| Alex Boese Alex is the creator and curator of the Museum of Hoaxes. He's also the author of various weird, non-fiction, science-themed books such as Elephants on Acid and Psychedelic Apes. Paul Di Filippo Paul has been paid to put weird ideas into fictional form for over thirty years, in his career as a noted science fiction writer. He has recently begun blogging on many curious topics with three fellow writers at The Inferior 4+1. Contact Us |