Europe
More France Gall
WU-vies have no one to blame for this post except fellow reader John Armstrong, who practically dared us in a comment to put this sappy song up!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 12, 2010 -
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Category: Candy, Reader Recommendation, 1960s, Europe
Eurovision 1965
Time to make fun of the Eurovision contest again. Here's the winner from 1965.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 12, 2010 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Music, 1960s, Europe
Bodyspasm
Ah, those wacky Dutch rockers.... More Bodyspasm here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 10, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Outsider Art, Performance Art, Body, Stomach, Music, Europe
Authentic Bus Jump
Reader Frank has good evidence that our earlier clip of a bus jump was staged by a business. But here's an authentic one.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 23, 2010 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Reader Recommendation, Europe
Bus Jumper
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 22, 2010 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Europe
Horse in a Hamster Bubble
Fast-forward to the 1:30 mark.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 18, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Entertainment, Europe
Bad Boys Blue
Well, at least the "bad" part was accurate in the name of the group Bad Boys Blue.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 11, 2010 -
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Category: Music, 1980s, Europe
Tales of the Riverbank
No hamsters were harmed in the making of TALES OF THE RIVERBANK--or were they?!?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 09, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Television, 1970s, Europe
Floram Marchand
Floram Marchand: The Great Water Spouter
In the summer of 1650, a Frenchman named Floram Marchand was brought
over from Tours to London, who professed to be able to 'turn water into
wine, and at his vomit render not only the tincture, but the strength
and smell of several wines, and several waters.' Here - the trick and
its cause being utterly unknown - he seems for a time to have gulled
and astonished the public to no small extent, and to his great profit.
Before, however, the whole mystery was cleared up by two friends of
Marchand, who had probably not received the share of the profits to
which they thought themselves entitled. Their somewhat circumstantial
account runs as follows.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 07, 2010 -
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Category: Entertainment, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Body Fluids, Europe, Seventeenth Century, Alcohol
Soft Machine
Soft Machine was certainly one of the weirder bands of a weird era.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 19, 2009 -
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Category: Music, Surrealism, 1960s, 1970s, Europe
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