Animals
Frozen Turkey Comes Back To Life
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you all enjoy your turkey dinner — and that your frozen turkey doesn't come back to life.
Sioux Center News - Nov 28, 1940
Following the snow storm Neal Spaan, Orange City hatchery man loaded up his frozen turkeys and peddled them. One customer, wanting to keep the turkey frozen for a few days put it into a snow bank and covered it with snow. When he came to dig it up the turkey lifted its head, stood up, shook off the snow and calmly walked away.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 26, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Holidays, Thanksgiving, 1940s
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 26, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Food, Holidays, 1920s
Alibi Goat
I've heard about people sucking on pennies or mints to hide the alcohol fumes on their breath. But keeping a goat in the back of the car is new to me. Though I guess it could be an effective strategy.
The Bakersfield Californian - Sep 14, 1937
"Why not?" asked Judge J.M. Braude.
"He had a goat in the back of the car," said Lambert, "and I couldn't smell anything but the goat."
Radkewicz was placed on probation.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 18, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Inebriation and Intoxicants, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #265
Hey, wait, most beaches don't allow pets!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 17, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Fashion, 1950s, Women
The Hambone Award
The Hambone Award was named after a "dog that got stuck in a refrigerator and ate an entire Thanksgiving ham while waiting for someone to find him."
The most recent winner is Curtis, a 5-year-old Boxer, who ate an entire BBQ skewer during a birthday party. He was rushed to the hospital, but doctors couldn't find the skewer. It was only a year later, when he was taken back to the doctor because he still wasn't feeling well, that surgeons found the skewer, which had become a "baseball-sized mass" encapsulated by the body, located between the dog's stomach and pancreas.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 16, 2015 -
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Category: Accidents, Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests
Parrot Problem
Why is it always a parrot, rather than some other kind of pet bird, at the center of these disputes? A recent case in Rhode Island involved a lawsuit against a parrot taught to swear at neighbors.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 09, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Annoying Things, 1930s
Weirdo the Superchicken
My latest about.com article:
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 30, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Alex
Cat Head Bags
Made by Japanese artist Pico. They're entirely artificial. That is, not actual cat heads. But they're realistic enough that people might, for a moment, think that you're using the severed head of a cat as a handbag.One of these will set you back about $700, but are sold only in Japan. via OhGizmo!
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 25, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Fashion, Cats
Soviets Eat Bambi
In 1985, a Soviet production of a live-action film about Bambi (Bambi's Childhood) had to be halted when three of the deer who were playing Bambi and his friends disappeared. Turned out they had been stolen, then butchered and served as the main course at a birthday celebration. The culprits were sent to a labor camp as punishment for their crime.The news was reported in a lot of papers, but the Weekly World News (below) had the best coverage of it.
Spartanburg Herald-Journal - Feb 7, 1985
Weekly World News - Mar 12, 1985
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 22, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Movies, 1980s
Canned Parrot
A soon-to-be-opened San Francisco store called Terrific Street is displaying cans of "canned parrot" in its front window. Two kinds of canned parrot are on display — "free range cherry conures in their own syrup" and "colorful sky rat boiled parrot."The store isn't actually selling canned parrot. The owner of the store has explained that the display is an "art installment" inspired by Andy Warhol's paintings of canned food, while also referring to the local wild parrot population.
Says the owner: "The thinking behind the display was to make something unusual and fun for folks to walk by between now and the time we are open for business."
More info: SFGate.com
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 21, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Food
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