Pets
Ruth Grace Moulon, RIP
Ruthie the Duck Girl was a New Orleans character famed for her pet ducks. You can read her history at the intriguing site known as ECCENTRIC NEW ORLEANS, and then read her LOS ANGELES TIMES obituary here.
A documentary was made about her, and shown on WYES TV, but I can't find any online video of it.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 16, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Celebrities, Death, Obituaries, Eccentrics, Pets, Regionalism
The Natural History of the Chicken
Reader Big Gary recommends this documentary as pretty bizarre. It's in six parts on YouTube, the first of which we present here:
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 11, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Movies, Documentaries, Pets, Surrealism, Reader Recommendation
Harvey Comics
Take the two page strip to the right for instance, from an old digest-reprint of some Casper stuff. To parse it is to risk madness.
Is Nightmare indeed a mare, ie, female? if not, and even if so, is that the gayest hairdo ever, on horse or human? Why does a forest gnome like to hang out with a ghost horse? Why is playing human cowboys popular among the gnomes? Likewise riding an airplane. And finally, how demented does a ghost horse have to be, to stick planks up its butt and into its chest, and then purr like a cat, all in an effort to emulate a mechanical device so as to placate a gnome?
How I miss Harvey Comics! Thank goodness Dark Horse is reprinting some.....
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 09, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Comics, Pop Art, Surrealism, Body Modifications, Drugs, Entertainment, Flight, Games, History, Inventions, Pets, Writers, Cartoons, Hair Styling
Giant Spider Roams Streets of Liverpool!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 07, 2008 -
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Category: Aliens, Art, Performance Art, Entertainment, Horror, Inventions, Parades and Festivals, Pets, Technology, Toys, Foreign Customs, Science Fiction
Do pets make you snore?
A recent study published in the journal Respiratory Research found a correlation between growing up with dogs and snoring as an adult. The authors found the correlation after giving a questionnaire about snoring frequency to 16,190 randomly selected men and women. The other factor associated with habitual adult snoring was growing up in a large family. The authors conclude:Their theory sounds rather unlikely. After all, correlation does not equal causation. I grew up with a dog, and I don't snore. But then, my family wasn't very large either. (Thanks to KT Jayne!)
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 02, 2008 -
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Category: Pets, Dogs, Science
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
Dakota Joe
Seriously, though, shouldn't Spielberg & Lucas be suing the pants off these guys?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 28, 2008 -
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Category: Education, Hollywood, Law, Lawsuits, Movies, Pets, Dogs, Religion
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