Games
The Treadmill Challenge
Weirdness from the world of Japanese game shows:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 11, 2009 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Games, Television, Asia
Human Hamster Balls
All future arguments on WU shall be settled by TRIAL VIA GIANT HUMAN HAMSTER SPHERES! Participants may purchase spheres here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 09, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Games, Toys
The Big Snit
Personally, I would happily watch a TV show titled "Sawing for Teens."
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 02, 2009 -
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Category: Death, Destruction, Disasters, Domestic, Marriage, Games, War, 1980s, North America
8-Bit Weapon
Video game music as full-length songs? Yes, it's a whole weird subculture.Here are two examples from the group 8-Bit Weapon.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 01, 2009 -
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Category: Games, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Music
The King of Kong
Surely there's not a lot of things weirder than obsessive videogame world-record competitions...
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 29, 2009 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Eccentrics, Games, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Documentaries, 1980s
Survival Playing Cards
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 17, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Games, Nature
The Chance to Lose
Every safe-driving video would be improved by the addition of a giant Chuck-a-luck cage such as we find here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 16, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Games, Documentaries, Cars
Anti-Plumber’s-Butt Shirts
The Duluth Trading Company specializes in unique "longtail" shirts that help alleviate the problem and social ill of "Plumber's Crack." They've obviously invested much thought in the matter, as you can see from this schematic of the problem. But useful and practical as such shirts may be, there's simply no excuse for Plumber's Butt Playing Cards.More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 05, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Products, Fashion, Games, Tradesmen, Manual Laborers, and Skilled Workers, Public Indecency
Babies On Parade
How did this fabulous event ever come to cease?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 30, 2008 -
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Category: Babies, Games, Parades and Festivals, Regionalism, 1950s
The 10th Victim
This article in today's NEW YORK TIMES tells us about "Street Wars," a game played in urban environments by players determined to "kill" each other. Several precedents for this game are cited in the article, but the writer misses the most important and primal one: A 1953 story by famed and beloved SF writer Robert Sheckley, titled "The Seventh Victim."The story was later filmed as THE 10TH VICTIM. Its most famous scene: Ursula Andress using guns concealed in her bra, as seen in the second clip below.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 27, 2008 -
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Category: Explosives, Games, Roleplayers and Re-enactors, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Guns, Literature, Science Fiction, Movies, Sexuality, Sex Symbols, War, Weapons, 1950s, 1960s, Women, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
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