Death
Buddhist relic
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 26, 2008 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Death, Fads, History, Historical Figure, Human Marvels, Religion, War, Foreign Customs, 1960s
The South Will Collect Its Pensions Again!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 25, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Obituaries, History, Historical Figure, Hollywood, Literature, Books, Regionalism, War, Cartoons, Marriage
Follies of the Mad Men #14
This illustration, by the way, comes from the great Abner Dean.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 22, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Insurance, Death, Explosives, Pets, Dogs, Stupidity
Standing Tall At His Funeral
The accompanying video is classic. If you didn't know he was dead, you'd think he was just a guy chilling in the corner.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 18, 2008 -
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Category: Death
The Virtual Museum of Car Crashes
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 18, 2008 -
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Category: Crime, Death, Performance Art, Cars
Head Out on the Highway
Can it possibly be that the 1993 movie titled THE PROGRAM is still exerting its malign influence, causing dumb-ass teens to lie down on the center stripe of highways, as described in this fifteen-year-old article from The New York Times?
What makes me think so? An identical fresh incident from my own home state, as recounted in this article.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 12, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Fads, Hollywood, Movies, Travel, 1990s, Cars
Cursed Movies
Do we have a new movie curse in the works?
Read about famous past incidents of doomed films here and here and here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 11, 2008 -
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Category: Celebrities, Death, Entertainment, Hollywood, Movies
World’s Oldest Joke Discovered!
Archaeologists have just discovered the world's oldest joke, as ably pointed out in today's Weird News picks by Minister Chuck.But I can't resist adding that I hope they never dig up this one.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 02, 2008 -
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Category: Death, History, Archaeology, Humor, Comedians, Jokes, Television
Skel-A-Mingos
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 01, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Products
Follies of the Mad Men #7
Sniffles = Death.
Not the most subtle or believable of Madison Avenue appeals. Sure, in that pre-antibiotic age, pneumonia was deadly. But I can't imagine that the proportion of cold-sufferers who contracted pneumonia--at least among the affluent audience for Fortune--was any higher then than it is today. In other words, miniscule.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 31, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Insurance, Death, Family, Hygiene, Medicine, Couples
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