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Electrocution
Flickr user Bre Pettis has posted a photoset: 30 Ways to Die of Electrocution.Watch out for those Christmas trees!
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 26, 2008 -
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Category: Death
Cemeteries in Parking Lots
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 15, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Real Estate
Follies of the Mad Men #50
At one time, during either the seventies or the eighties, I believe, this campaign was ubiquitous. I would run across OJ and his boots in every issue of Playboy I intended to cut up for collages, whereupon I would promptly rip out the page intact and mail it to a friend. That's why I had to find a scan on eBay, for this post, and can't tell you the exact provenance of the advertisement.
Of course, today we laugh because of OJ's appearance. "So that's how he was able to escape so fast after the murders! He deployed his third leg!"
But consider the campaign even without OJ.
First you get the off-color allusion to "third leg = penis." Then you get the Addams-Family-style associations of "Our boots are worn by mutants and freaks."
Brilliant!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 10, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Celebrities, Death, Fashion, Shoes, Law, Lawsuits, Sports, Scary Criminals, Stupid Criminals, 1970s, 1980s
Santa Claus is Dead
Hate to break the news to everyone, but Santa Claus died on December 23, 1985 of congestive heart failure. Santa was born in 1927 with the name Leroy Scholtz. He grew up to become the most dedicated mall Santa of all time. He liked the job so much that in 1980 he legally changed his name to Santa C. Claus. FindaDeath.com has a copy of his 1985 death certificate.Rudolph the Reindeer is also dead. He died of shock in 2005 when two F-16s from the Danish Air Force flew overhead. I assure you, this is a true story.
Along similar lines, I like this 1993 headline from the Dallas Morning News: "Funeral home inviting kids to come visit Santa." The article explains that the funeral home director, Dan Hiett, came up with the idea of inviting kids to sit on Santa's lap in the foyer of the funeral home because "Not every child has the opportunity to go to the mall."
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 09, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Holidays
Franz Reichelt
On February 4, 1912 Franz Reichelt fell to his death from the Eiffel Tower. From Wikipedia:Reichelt, known as the flying tailor, designed an overcoat to fly or float its wearer gently to the ground like the modern parachute. To demonstrate his invention he made a jump of 60 meters from the first deck of the Eiffel Tower, at that time the tallest man-made structure in the world. The parachute failed and Reichelt fell to his death. The jump was recorded by the cameras of the gathered press.
Now check out the video:
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 08, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Inventions
Knitted Dissections
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 05, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Crafts, Death, Science
World’s Most Dangerous Road
For those who did not get enough excitement with the "King's Path" post, here is the Yungas Road.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 30, 2008 -
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Category: Death, South America, Cars
Ten Worst Toys 2008
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 24, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Toys
Ted Williams Estate Auction
Well, now many of his possessions are up for sale at auction, including, ironically, a number of severed animal-head trophies. And also some fine "space alien" paintings and drawings by daughter Claudia, like the one at right.
Check out an article and photo gallery here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 23, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Celebrities, Death, Eccentrics, Collectors, Historical Figure
The Bad Sleep Well
We've been alerted to the serial killer in Japan who's taking revenge for corporate fraud, as described in this article in today's NY TIMES. But what no one seems to have noticed is that we've already seen this scenario in a film. THE BAD SLEEP WELL is one of Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces, and details how a man whose father was killed by corrupt businessmen exacts his revenge. Here's the excellent trailer.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 22, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Crime, Death, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Movies, Foreign Customs, 1960s, Asia
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