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Death
Death
Billy Mays
This has been the weirdest month with (in)famous people dying. First, David Carradine was found dead hanging naked in a hotel closet in Thailand, then Ed McMahon dies of pneumonia, both Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson die on the same day and now Billy Mays has sold his last tub of Oxiclean. May they all rest in peace.
Posted By: mdb777 - Sun Jun 28, 2009 -
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Category: Celebrities, Death, Video
Michael Jackson on THE SIMPSONS
Goodbye, Gloved One!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 26, 2009 -
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Category: Celebrities, Death, Music, Cartoons
Alligator Wrestling
Eddie Snyder wrestles gators from jim on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 25, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Human Marvels, Regionalism, Stupidity
When You Are A Pedestrian
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 23, 2009 -
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Category: Death, Motor Vehicles, Documentaries, 1940s
The Cress Funeral Home
The Cress funeral home in Madison, Wisconsin offers modern facilities, ample parking, a pleasant environmentally comfortable atmosphere, and an on-site cremation center. Oh, and it's also got a gallery of taxidermied squirrels, including several albino squirrels, posed in various settings: playing poker, riding horses, dancing in a "topless girlie show," etc.Morbidanatomy.com has more info. Or check out the video below of the gallery.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 10, 2009 -
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Category: Death
Shark Petting
Shark petting? Shark feeding!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 06, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Museums, Nature, Children
The Most Evil Device Ever?
Posted By: Nethie - Thu May 21, 2009 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Crime, Death, Inventions, More Things To Worry About
Dead Weird
In what can only be described as going beyond the spirit of friendly competition, undertaker David Wood stole the keys from a business rival's hearse, when the vehicle was - how you say - "occupied". The funeral of Patricia Thorburn was immediately disrupted as the car she had requested to be carried in, a 1968 Rolls Royce Phantom, was too heavy to push. Finally the car's owner, funeral director Joel Kerr, resorted to tearing out the walnut dashboard and hot-wiring the engine (BBC News).Also in the UK, life-long bike fan Stuart McIntyre got his last wish in April, when friends built him a special "side-car hearse" so that he could take his final journey in the manner he had taken so many previous ones (Craven Herald).
Apparently, bike hearses are all the rage right now. Jay Howard of "Hometown Hearse" in Battle Creek has also recently added one to his line-up (WZZM13).
In fact, hearses seem to be so popular nowadays some people can't wait for the inevitable to take a ride in one. Certainly Sammy Townsley of Perthshire in Scotland was in a bit of a hurry, having stolen the hearse in the early morning hours, Townsley lost control of the car at high speed minutes later and crashed it into a telegraph pole (Perthshire Advertiser).
Finally, if you're up that way, the Montreal "Musée de Château Dufresne" is hosting an exhibition on the subject of death, funerals and their accoutrements; surely the perfect family day out. Called Celebrating the Dead: A Living Heritage, the exhibition is there till the end of August (Château Dufresne).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu May 14, 2009 -
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Category: Boredom, Death, Museums, Stupid Criminals
Beware the Worm Lizard!
Every day the news brings me reports of some horrible locale outside my safe and beloved New England, where people are subject to floods, volcanoes, earthquakes--and "worm lizards"...?!?Yes, it's not bad enough that the poor citizens of a certain region in Brazil have to battle flooding, they also have to contend with the evil Worm Lizard!
You can read about their troubles here. The key sentence:
Like 218,000 others across a swath of northern Brazil three times the size of Alaska, the neighbors have fled the worst rainfall and flooding in decades, braving newly formed rivers teeming with anacondas, alligators and legless reptiles known as "worm lizards" whose bite is excruciating.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 10, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Destruction, Disasters, Horror, South America, Natural Wonders, Weather
Your Daily Loser & Jury Duty for May 9th
Your Daily Loser - Where's the best place to teach someone to drive? A smooth, flat stretch of road without a lot of cars would be nice, right? And nevermind if that stretch of road has planes taking off and landing on it... they'll be sure to get out of the way. The son of the airport's manager decided to give his girlfriend a driving lesson. On the runway. His father has since been suspended. The Story.Jury Duty - And you thought Post-It Notes were harmless... truth is, they are accessories to evil. Walter Healey of Troy, New York, used his Post-Its to record the social security numbers of the thousands of people he planned to abuse for his identity theft scheme. It's bad enough that Healey worked for the state's Tax Department. But I guess that was just good training for his future misconduct. The Story. // The Mugshot. (Healey's in the middle.)
Posted By: Nethie - Sat May 09, 2009 -
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Category: Death, Your Daily Jury Duty, Your Daily Loser, Goofs and Screw-ups
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