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Guns Don’t Kill People
But I can't say the same for these doctors.Guns, Doctors and all around weirdness in one place!
Posted By: Nethie - Wed Sep 15, 2010 -
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Category: Death, Entertainment, Guns, Hospitals, Humor, Medicine, Video, Violence, Goofs and Screw-ups
Weird Animals - Och Aye The Roo!
Of course, this won’t be news to one member of Britain’s thriving rod-fishing community, who this week caught a piranha in his local pond (Guardian).
Another place you might not expect to see exotic creatures is on your lunch menu, but that didn’t stop one restaurant owner in Mesa, AZ from putting “lion burgers” on the menu to celebrate soccer’s World Cup. Cameron Selogie of the Il Vinaio makes his “mane course” with genuine lion meat imported from South Africa, earning him the ire of local animal rights groups and several death threats, but not a reprimand from health officials. According to an FDA spokesman serving lion meat is perfectly legal, as long as it’s not roar (Scotsman).
Slightly luckier than the lions, one cat who has fallen on his feet is Oscar, a housecat from the Isle of Jersey in the UK, widely billed as the “bionic cat” after successfully receiving two artificial hind legs to replace the ones he lost in an altercation with a combine harvester (BBC News).
You might think pitting a rodent like mammal against a 12 tonne Triceratops makes for an equally one-sided match up, but evidence emerged recently that our primitive ancestors occasionally feasted upon dinosaurs. Seventy-five million year old “gnaw marks” of a kind characteristic of early mammals, and belonging to a creature not much bigger than a squirrel, have been found on the fossil bones both of Tricerotops and the crocodile-like predator Champsosaurus (LiveScience).
Sadly today the nearest we get to dinosaur flesh is turkey or chicken, but not all birds were prized solely for their meat. The huia bird of New Zealand for example, was once used to make the feathered head-dresses of Maori chiefs, until predation from accidentally introduced species drove it to extinction around 1907. But if the bird has gone its feathers have not, and one recently became the most expensive feather ever when it sold at auction for NZ$8000, i.e. $4000 American (Telegraph).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded - Mon Jun 28, 2010 -
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Category: Aliens, Animals, Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Creatures, Cryptozoology, Food, Overpriced Merchandise, Pets, Cats, Rants, Warnings, Jeremiads, Prophecies and Cassandra-like Figures, Science, Violence, 1980s
Altergott + Hernandez = Greatness
While we wait for our banner-artist Rick Altergott to finish his concluding installment of RAISIN PIE, we will have to content ourselves with these great covers he did for two Gilbert Hernandez graphic novels. I just finished reading both of them, and they are of course superb.
The third one, due out at the end of this year, seems to lack the distinction of Altergott cover imagery, but will no doubt repay your attentions as well.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 30, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Comics, Sexuality, Violence, Weird Universe, Books
Amphibious Assault
Posted By: Nethie - Thu May 06, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Crime, Violence, Goofs and Screw-ups
Follies of the Mad Men #91
Choking your wife equals nicer shirts in the future.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 04, 2010 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Violence, Husbands, Wives, 1940s
Mikky and Me
Mikky and Me from Adam Neale on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 03, 2010 -
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Category: Violence, Elderly, Husbands, Wives, Cartoons
Follies of the Mad Men #74
[From Good Housekeeping for December 1949.]
"Subliminal" is not the precise word I want here. Not when the coded message is in big red letters.
"Subtextual?" "Off-topic?" "Suggestive?"
In any case, promoting the maxim "husbands beat wives" in a women's magazine was one way of keeping the girls in line, I guess.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 25, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Marriage, Food, Violence, Husbands, Wives, 1940s
Chainsaw Maid
Kind of like Gumby meets Shaun of the Dead. Rated CG for claymation gore.
Posted By: mdb777 - Fri Sep 25, 2009 -
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Category: Video, Violence
Stranger Slaps Toddler
In a Walmart in Stone Mountain, Georgia a complete stranger goes up to the mother of a crying toddler and said, "If you don't shut the baby up, I will shut her up for you." Usually this is an empty threat made out of annoyance, but this time the threat was real. The man, 61 year old Roger Stephens, ended up slapping the little girl in the face several times. The man was later arrested for "first-degree cruelty to children", but not before telling the mother "See, I told you I would shut her up." The man later apologized, but I think that the damage has already been done. CNN
Posted By: mdb777 - Thu Sep 03, 2009 -
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Category: Crime, Stupidity, Violence, Babies and Toddlers
When Geese Attack!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 21, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Violence
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