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Selleck Waterfall Sandwich Why the Interwebs were created. So people could share this:  (via) posted by Brendan | 4:52 PM | permanent link
Jay vs. Conan: All You Need To Know Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of stories concerning NBC's bungled handling of their two night-time talk show hosts. Of everything I've read or seen, this Taiwanese CGI news cartoon does the best of summing everything up. posted by Brendan | 11:18 PM | permanent link
Batman's Christmas Adventure A 1977 holiday album starred DC Comics three biggest heroes - Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. I listened to the Batman & Robin adventure where they take on Rudy The Red-Nosed Hitman. After you've enjoyed this suspense filled Christmas adventure starring the Caped Crusaders, consider some of these discussion questions/observations: Why do Batman and Robin fight crime wearing tap shoes? Labels: Batman, Christmas, oddities posted by Brendan | 5:37 PM | permanent link
What the Hell Was Going On in the 70's? Apparently they liked having their 10-year-old kids emptying dishwashers blindfolded in their underwear.  Did nobody back then think there was something wrong or creepy about this ad? [via] Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 11:39 PM | permanent link
What a Woman Won't Do For Her Man How did this conversation start? "Honey, I want you to hold this piece of glass in front of your face while I aim and shot a rifle at your nose." Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 5:39 PM | permanent link
This Isn't a Joke I wonder how many of these things have been sold? "Being a big guy has it's advantages, and it's disadvantages - I can't reach around my massive ass cheeks to wipe my own butt. So I bought this stick to help me out" Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 8:16 AM | permanent link
I Don't Think I like 'Turgs' Either The word "moist" showed up in today's Monty and it wasn't used in a flattering way.  More evidence that I am in the right in thinking "moist" is a horrible, horrible sounding word. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 4:51 PM | permanent link
I'm Not the Only One A few months back I remember getting side-tracked in a meeting at work talking about how much I hated the word "moist." Blaah! Moist is how you describe the space in-between the folds of belly fat on a obese guy sitting in the sun on a 90-degree day. Ugh! The guys I was talking with found a good laugh in my vehement denunciation of the word's existence and continued usage, but nobody would join or admit to the same sort of repulsion to the word. But now I've learned (via an essay by Ben Zimmer of the Visual Thesaurus) that there are others out there like me. In fact, there is even a Facebook group for "Moist" haters - "I HATE the word Moist!". Many people feel quite strongly about moist � there's even a Facebook group called called "I HATE the word MOIST!" with more than 300 members. One Facebooker calls moist "possibly the worst word in the English dictionary," while another says, "I despise the sick, repugnant word!" It's hard to top the aversion felt for moist, but some other Visual Thesaurus "least favorites" can provoke similar reactions: panty/panties, vomit, ointment, and slacks.So I'm not alone in my hatred of the word. Maybe I'll search out the Facebook group and join up. And I have to admit, the word "ointment" is sorta creepy sounding too. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 12:57 PM | permanent link Pirates and Presidents I really would like to know the story around this photo.  Labels: oddities, pirates, Politics posted by Brendan | 12:47 PM | permanent link
5 Things I Think Dude�s got a lousy taste in baseball teams, but he knows how to add some great taste to a plain ole can of beans.  I�m guessing vanilla. Smooth and simple, and he works with just about anything. None the less, I think I�m going to find solace in his breakdown of the Blackhawks � Red Wings match-up while watching Game 2 tonight. Not just because of his shared dislike for the Red Wings, but because of the great illustration he did.  An excerpt: # I got to high school when PCs were becoming ubiquitous.  (Shudder) That�s just creepy � and I don�t think "creepy" was what their marketing team was going for. Labels: 5 Things I Think, Chicago Blackhawks, oddities posted by Brendan | 12:59 PM | permanent link
God Bless the Japanese All the American and Canadian comedians working round the clock for a week couldn't accidentally produce something like this. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 10:51 PM | permanent link
I'll Continue to Chew My Food, Thanks David Edwards has invented inhalable chocolate.  He calls it Le Whiff, and he was able to develop it thanks to work he has done on creating inhalable insulin and an inhalable TB vaccination.According to the story in the Chicago Tribune, Edwards developed a modified inhaler that delivers a thin layer of chocolate particles - too large to enter the lungs - that coat the inside of your mouth with the taste of chocolate. That's all fine and kooky-weird in a fun way, but this was what I thought was just plain goofy from the story: "We believe really strongly that there's a whole new way of eating�by aerosol," Edwards, 48, said in a phone interview from Paris. "The big picture here is that for thousands of years we've eaten with our hands or, more recently, with chopsticks and forks and things. We're sort of moving on. People have been whiffing [my product] here in Paris for the past few months."I have a hard time believing that the next logical step in eating evolution is to get food into our bodies by spraying it out of a can (cheez whiz and whip cream aside). I understand stumping for your new invention/product, but claiming that we're ready to move beyond forks and spoons to a spray can is taking it a tad too far. Dial it down a notch there. posted by Brendan | 1:28 PM | permanent link
Finally, Someone Understands  I�ve been ranting about how disgusting dudes wearing sandals are for years and always get quizzical looks from people when they hear my arguments against male sandal wearing. Now I can tell them I�m not the only one who is disgusted by the sight of a man in sandals, there�s also a talking . . . .duck . . . . inna online . . . . comic . . . that shares my . . . . Ah, damn, people are still gonna look at me funny when I talk about this, aren�t they? Labels: comic strips, oddities, Rant posted by Brendan | 12:34 PM | permanent link
5 Things I Think And if none of them are named McKillip, why don't they explain the origin of the name on their website? I'm curious. That�s just not right. Aaaaah!  Trop50, the 50% less sugar orange juice "beverage" from Tropicana, may be the worst tasting liquid I have ever ingested that wasn�t intended for medicinal purposes.I'm not sure if I'll be able to forgive Heather for bringing that into our house. I think she received this sorry excuse for a drink for free from the store. Who is this product for? The sugar and calories from your orange juice isn't going to kill you. Cut the sugar and calories out from someplace else. Ugh. My tongue hurts just thinking about Trop50. Starting this May, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be screening each of the 10 Best Picture nominees from 1939 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of what is probably Hollywood�s greatest year. Ten great pieces of film making, plus animated shorts from 1939 and chapters of Universal�s Buck Rogers serial from that year as well, all up on the big screen. And the series ticket is only $25 � that�s $2.50 per movie! That would be a fantastic ten weeks. But then I realize that�s only one reason for being in California and I can always come up with five or ten reasons to stay in the Midwest. Labels: 5 Things I Think, Chicago, classic movies, Family, oddities, Rant posted by Brendan | 1:08 PM | permanent link
Mow the Law This is the UK TV commercial for the Wilkinson Sword Quattro for Women Bikini razor. It will never air on TV in America because of either 1) America's prudish hyper-sensitivity to anything remotely sexual in nature or 2) Britian's off-kilter sense of humor.  My guess is #1And I love that British sense of humor posted by Brendan | 4:22 PM | permanent link
Crystal Head Vodka I can't tell if Dan Aykroyd is crazy or a fantastic huckster. And make sure you check out the Crystal Head Vodka website Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 1:41 PM | permanent link
This Is Why You're Fat I first stumbled upon This Is Why You're Fat, a blog dedicated to crazy food combinations, a few months back and meant to write about it but never did. When it popped up again on Boing Boing and I saw some of the new additions I knew I had to make a mention here. I could spend hours contemplating the sometimes grotesque but always interesting food combinations people put together for their own consumption. This isn't scientific, but it looks like about 90% of the new edible concoctions involve some form of meat (usually pork) and about 25% involve deep frying something. One of the more ingenious additions to the site was the Meat Cake.  Meatloaf with potatoes and ketchup for icing. Hmmmm. posted by Brendan | 4:53 PM | permanent link
Two Angry Camels in a Car Sometimes driving with my kids in the car feels like this: posted by Brendan | 10:20 PM | permanent link
That's a Mean Frisbee Thrower I don't know what movie this is from (at least I assume it's from a movie), but it might be just about one of the greatest2 minutes of cinema ever produced. [via ExtraLife] posted by Brendan | 8:56 AM | permanent link
Killing Time on a Sunday Afternoon In case you're looking for ideas, the Boston Globe has got your covered.  Now I just need to find me a ping-pong ball. posted by Brendan | 1:47 PM | permanent link
Apocalypse Now? Saw this ad while traveling on the interwebs today.  Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin hosting a New Year's Eve show? It must be end of days. Originally I was going to question the sanity of the CNN producer who thought this pairing was a good idea. But then when I went trolling around the CNN website to see if I could learn anything about this New Year's Eve odd couple I got the impression that Cooper and Griffin have done this hosting gig before. Together. On TV. For everyone to watch. So not only have Cooper and Griffin hosted a New Year's Eve countdown show from Times Square in NYC before, but enough people liked what they saw that CNN keeps bringing the two of them back. Now I have to watch. posted by Brendan | 12:39 PM | permanent link
Sell The Florida Time-Share Now If Russian professor Igor Panarin is correct, by the end of 2010 the Unites States will be no more. For years Panarin has been predicting that economic and social issues will drive the United States into a civil war that will leave the Union fractured into six separate sections, with Alaska (conveniently) reverting back to Russian rule. But nobody's been listening to him - until now. In light of the growing global economic recession and the challenges facing the United States, his theory has grabbed a foot-hold with the media - especially the Russian media. Apparently the U.S. is even less popular in Russia than we ever were back when the Soviet Union called the shots. Panarin predicts "that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in." Here's what the new map will look like.  I guess President-elect Obama's job is going to be even harder than we all expected. posted by Brendan | 10:16 AM | permanent link
U.S. Dollar Finally Good for Something With the U.S. economy as weak as it is right now, it�s refreshing to see that the U.S. dollar can still do something for us. �Paper money contains high traces of cocaine, regardless of whether or not the paper money came into direct contact with the drug. And U.S. bills take the top spot, covered in the greatest amount of the illegal powder, while Spanish notes are the most highly contaminated in Europe, a new study finds.�Maybe if we grind it up and snort it, we will forget about the credit crisis, housing crisis, unemployment, rising food prices, rising fuel costs, etc. posted by Brendan | 11:41 PM | permanent link
Better Living with the B&J Supersquad "Feel my quad" What I love about these spots - yes, there are more - is how the guy playing Batman perfectly mocks Christian Bale's poor man's Dirty Harry gravely Batman voice from the movies. posted by Brendan | 9:30 AM | permanent link
Suprise Me With Rice? I don't know what the same-old/same-old was for husbands back in the 1960's, but if my wife is talking about surprising me with something unexpected it better be something more than rice.  Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:27 PM | permanent link
What Do They Do To The Animals They Hate? Let me get this straight. The folks in Huacho, Lima love their guinea pigs so much they hold a festival for them every year. First they dress them up in little outfits.  They they fry them up to eat.  No. I don't think I'll ever make sense of that. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 11:17 PM | permanent link
Hmmmm . . . Bacon Floss  Yes, it exists. posted by Brendan | 10:17 PM | permanent link
Baman Piderman I don't know what it is or why they did it, but it sure is funny. Labels: Animation, Batman, oddities posted by Brendan | 9:02 PM | permanent link
You Keep Your Paperclips in WHAT? I can think of one product designer who will be turned away by St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.  Yes, this actually being made and sold. Labels: Indiana Jones, oddities posted by Brendan | 11:05 AM | permanent link
Enema Monument? I would like to meet the guy who stood up in front of the board of directors at the Mashuk Akva-Term Sanatorium and said, �You know what this place needs? A giant bronze enema syringe being held up by three naked babies!�  AP caption for the image: In this Wednesday, June 18, 2008 hand out photo, nurses are seen, posing near a monument to enemas at Mashuk Akva-Term Sanatorium in the town of Zheleznovodsk, Russian Caucasus Mountains region. Alexander Kharchenko, director of the Russian spa says the world's first monument to enema treatments has been unveiled at the spa in the southern city of Zheleznovodsk. The bronze syringe bulb, weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels.(AP Photo/Mashuk Akva-Term Sanatorium, HO) Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 11:00 PM | permanent link
Batman Notices Everything One of the things that I think is so great about Batman - he notices everything  [via] Labels: Batman, Comics, DC, oddities posted by Brendan | 1:38 PM | permanent link No Wonder My Dad�s Generation Turned Out So Goofy Look at what a bunch of them were reading: The New Saint Joseph Baltimore Catechism  Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 8:24 AM | permanent link
But Can They Make Your Lower Intestines?  I know that if you are going to call yourself Balloon Guys Entertainment you have to demonstrate mastery of your art, but this is just a little too weird. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:49 PM | permanent link
That a Boy, George!  [via] Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:12 PM | permanent link
The Hidden Tribe This blows my mind. Survival International released photos they took of a tribe of Indians living in the Amazon River basin area that have never had contact with the outside world. In the photos where the tribesmen can be seen, they are almost always aiming bows and arrows up at the aircraft that was being used to photograph them with.  It is hard to fathom that in a worldwide civilization so heavily connected and exploited that there can be pockets of people who have no idea that a whole other sort of civilization exists outside of their own. And on a similar note, can you explain to me how a woman can live in your house for a year and you not know it? According to an AP news report, a homeless woman in Japan snuck into a man�s house almost a year ago and proceeded to live/sleep in his closet. And the dude knew nothing about it. Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.She was sleeping in his closet and he never found her? Unbelievable. And she was showering and everything in his house while he was away. posted by Brendan | 8:27 AM | permanent link
Why Isn�t There An Emergency Alert System For Things Like This? Found in the Chicago Tribune: Several lanes of Interstate Highway 80 were shut down for hours overnight after a truck hauling Oreos crashed into a median, spilling tons of the chocolate cookies across the highway, police said.Hmmm. . . Oreos . . . posted by Brendan | 9:10 PM | permanent link
The Kika Lounge I don't know what it is exactly, but I've decided to make my kids watch it every day. It will be my own little psychology experiment. [via] Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 11:34 PM | permanent link
"Dick" Tracy  As a kid I was a fan of Dick Tracy. Loved reading it. Of course that was back when Max Allan Collins had taken over the writing chores from series creator Chester Gould. Collins and artist Rick Fletcher told some fantastic Dick Tracy stories. Now the strip is written and illustrated by Dick Locher. Maybe Locher can win a Pulitzer for his editorial cartooning, but his Dick Tracy comics are for crap � both story and artwork.However, The Comic Curmudgeon featured today�s Dick Tracy strip in its daily roasting of everything bad about newspaper comic strips and I this final panel made me laugh out loud. And don�t bother asking what Dick Tracy is doing in the panel that I inlcuded in this post. Anything you can imagine will be infinitely more entertaining than anything Locher has written in the last two years. posted by Brendan | 9:27 PM | permanent link
What Made Him Think That Was a Good Idea Man Shooting Hole Through Wall Kills Wife DEEPWATER, Mo. -- Officials are trying to decide whether to file charges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite TV system in the bedroom of their home.I feel horrible for the husband and the deceased wife but you�ve gotta wonder what sort of guy thought pulling out his handgun was the right choice in trying to punch a hole in the wall. Are there people that devoid of common sense? I don�t care if you�ve personally evacuated the town, using a gun to shoot a hole in your bedroom wall so you can install a satellite TV system is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:27 PM | permanent link
Marketing Geniuses I'm sure this couple saw business jump four-fold once this gem was posted to YouTube to showcase their mad video movie making skills. posted by Brendan | 10:18 PM | permanent link
In Which an Old Tool is Rediscovered Many, many moons ago I took on my first real painting job. I was re-painting a bedroom in Heather's and my first house in Cleveland in order to transform it into the nursery for Ian. I had painted before while working in college for the Wheaton Park District, and I vaguely recall doing some painting for my dad at his townhouse in Winfield. But this nursery project was my first painting job on my own without adult supervision and direction. I bought the requisite brushes and rollers, paint trays and drop clothes. It�s been a long time but I�m sure I picked up a few rolls of painters tape or masking tape. I also bought an edging pad for doing a nice line where the wall meets the ceiling. I had never used one, but had always seen that sort of paint applicator in amongst my parents� painting supplies so I assumed it was something I needed. With all my supplies and tools assembled, I went about painting the room. Ultimately it wasn�t my best home project, but in the process I learned a lot about how to successfully repaint a room. Since then I think my redecoration projects have gone much more smoothly and with better results. One of the key lessons I walked out of that first project with was that I would never � ever � use a edging pad again to cut in along the wall/ceiling line. I had been completely disgusted with how that portion of the wall had turned out. Starting with the next painting project, and with all subsequent projects, I taught myself to get creative with tape on the ceiling and a steady hand with a two-inch brush to cut my wall/ceiling line. It wasn�t perfect, but I liked the results a lot better than what I ended up with in the nursery. Flash forward to about a year ago. I can�t help but notice the smooth, crisp, wall/ceiling paint lines in the rooms my dad has recently redecorated in his townhome. I enquire with him about his technique � assuming to hear about some magical tape or specialized brush. Nope. He used an edging pad. The same type of painting pad that I had sworn off years ago. I grumbled in disgust as I begin to reconsider the oaths of hatred I had pledged to the edging pad back in the spring of 1999.  Then this past weekend I was scheduled to tackle the task of re-painting the bedroom that Emma and Zoe share. They requested a �rainbow room�, which Heather and the girls have agreed will be four different colors � one color for each wall. So not only would I be faced with painting a clean line between ceiling and wall, but I would need to get a clean line where two walls meet.I knew that taping and hand-brushing would never result in the painted line that I wanted, so based on seeing what my father had been able to do in his own house, I caved in and bought the Ace Supreme Trimline Edger. Painting the ceiling was easier and smoother than I had experienced in the past and priming the four walls went faster than any paint job I can recall, but the revelation of what I had been missing the past years dawned on me when I started in with the first color. A smooth line, a thick coat of paint evening applied; it was heaven. I think it cut my painting time, per wall, nearly in half. It was amazing. No more taping ceilings, no more up and down the ladder with a brush, and not more scraggily lines where the wall and ceiling meet. I don�t know what went wrong back in Ian�s nursery. Was it the paint? My technique? The inconsistencies of walls in a house built in 1945? Who knows? But I know I can work the edger great in my house now, and don�t plan to give it up. I am so mad that I missed out on using this tool all these years. And yes, I did just write a blog entry on the joys of using a paint edger. And you read it. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 7:31 PM | permanent link Dude, That Van Rocks! For reasons that I cannot understand, a dude in Akron, OH is selling his SWEET custom van. Seriously, look at that paint job. How could anyone part with that?  Make sure to click through to the eBay auction to flip through some of the other trippin� interior photos. Labels: Fun, oddities, Star Wars posted by Brendan | 7:27 PM | permanent link
Pie Nut Update  Following up on a story I shared last week concerning Chicago Cubs' outfielder Felix Pie and his . . . um, groin problem.Apparently young Felix's testicle was not able to untwist itself. Therefore Felix had to go under the knife for some corrective surgery. The Chicagoist untangles the whole story for us, with probably more details than I needed to know. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come for the Cubs. Labels: Chicago Cubs, oddities posted by Brendan | 10:05 PM | permanent link
At Least You Might Die Smiling Last week when I wrote about the Big MacChicken I partially excused the gut-twisting disgustingness of the sandwich to the misguided culinary zeal of a guy with too much time on his hands. Dude just doesn't know better. He doesn't have a refined palette. He doesn't understand what foods should and should not be combined, and certainly might not understand what should and should not be put into a human stomach.  But then I read about the Lady's Brunch Burger.It's a hamburger, bacon and a fried egg slipped between what looks like two Krispy Kreme donuts. Wow. A challenge for the most fortified of cast-iron stomach, to be sure. Unlike the Big MacChicken, I think this item might stand a chance of tasting good. . . just maybe. You might have to break it up and eat it in sections. I can't get my head around eating a sandwich that uses donuts for the "bread" part. Considering the assembled parts, I assumed it was the creation of a bored and/or drunk college student. But when I read further I learned that this belly bomb was put together by a woman who got her start running her own catering service and built that business up into a cooking empire which includes cook books, cooking products, magazines, and TV shows.  Yes. The Lady's Brunch Burger comes from the kitchen of Ms. Paula Dean. I've seen some of Paula's shows on the Food Network. I know she loves her butter and her creme. But I think putting a fried egg, bacon, and burger between to glazed donuts might be taking things a bit too far. That, or she may be trying to kill us. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:43 PM | permanent link
Big MacChicken  This is almost too disgusting to even comprehend. I can't believe somebody thought this was a good idea - and then actually enjoyed the eating experience.Dude took a Big Mac and three McChicken sandwiches and made his own, uniquely disturbing, sandwich. And he liked eating it: With the first bite I found myself going through a crunchy/juicy layer after layer and the texture was to die for. Everything just worked. Clouds split as a bright ray of sunshine beamed down to my table. The elderly couple a few tables over started playing a harp as a unicorn walked by during my second bite. I was in heaven for a few seconds then the guilt hit me. Was I really doing this? 4 sandwiches at once? I had to stop. There was no way I could finish this monster.Of course, later he talks about his body tried to stage a revolt against the "food" he sent into his stomach. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 12:55 PM | permanent link
There's a Joke Here, I Just Haven't Thought of It Yet Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eyeRead the detail. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:41 AM | permanent link
Garfield Sans Garfield This has been turning up on a number of different blogs I read. The more I look at them, the more disturbing they become. The Garfield Minus Garfield blog is taking Garfield comics, erasing said cat, and posting the results.  Just taking Garfield's comments out of the strip actually made the strip amusing. Removing the cat all together and the result is a depressing look at a lonely, sad little man. posted by Brendan | 9:02 AM | permanent link
Oh No, They Didn't! Oh yes, they did. The Spongebob Squarepants Musical Rectal Thermometer  Technically, the therometer is labeled for "oral, underarm or rectal use", but do you really want the Spongebob theme song playing from your child's ass when they are sick? Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:24 AM | permanent link
What Might Have Been Back in 1998 Jason Geyer was working in product design when Pepsi approached the company he worked for about pitching ideas for promotional merchandise the cola company could roll out along with the upcoming release of The Phantom Menace. Geyer and his team came up with some bizarre and inspired items - but I don't think any of them were chosen. Some of the pitch artwork survived, and he's posted them in his blog over at ActionFigureInsider.com. I can't believe Pepsi passed up the opportunity to dump thousands of Jabba the Hut Beanbags or the AT-AT Chair Caddies on the market.
Take a look at all the ideas. posted by Brendan | 1:08 PM | permanent link
Encouraging Thought for the Day Look at what the kids at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research are saying in a recently released report: Marriage: It's Only Going to Get WorseI'm sure Heather will be able to provide five or six reasons why this study has no bearing on our marriage. I hate it when she does that. [story via: LiveScience] Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 4:22 PM | permanent link
The Exhaust Burger Mankind's pursuit of knowledge and mastery of the world has led us here. - to the Exhaust Burger.  Though you can't get one for yourself - yet. It was created by a team for Designboom's "Dining in 2015" design competition. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 4:51 PM | permanent link
Farmer's Daughter It was an actual humor comic book series from the mid-1950's.  I saw it here today and the premise and the art made me laugh.posted by Brendan | 10:17 PM | permanent link
Get Firefox It's old and kinda stupid, but it makes me laugh. Especially the Internet Explorer icon. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 2:24 PM | permanent link
I Hope He Got a Reduced Rate When I saw the headline, I couldn't let this one go without commenting. WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees. Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.Who do you think requested the divorce? Him, after learning that his wife worked as a prostitute? Her, after learning her husband of 14 years was frequenting brothels? I think these two should stick together. Look at everything they have in common. He likes prostitutes, she is one. Seems like a match made in heaven to me. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 12:23 PM | permanent link
Keeping the Christmas Spirit Alive and Well I'm not an expert theologian, but I'm pretty sure behavior like this will make the Baby Jesus cry. BETHLEHEM, West Bank - Robed Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests went at each other with brooms and stones inside the Church of the Nativity on Thursday as long-standing rivalries erupted in violence during holiday cleaning.And it's probably a good thing the Catholics weren't there. The Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests might have done fine with the brooms they were using to clean, but I just know the Catholics would have produced a knife or two. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 12:11 PM | permanent link
Shatner vs Shatner vs Shatner Most online polls I stumble across on websites and blogs are silly and pointless. But this poll from one of my new favorite blogs, ExtraLife, finally poses a question that deserves to be answered. Who would win in a fight: Captain Kirk Shatner, TJ Hooker Shatner, or Boston Legal Shatner?  Go make your voice heard. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:52 AM | permanent link
The 1980's Were Bad In So Many Ways [via] Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 10:26 PM | permanent link I Want a Pair The only Christmas gift I need this year:  That's niiiiice. [via] Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 1:13 PM | permanent link
A Salute To Our American Indians To help us prepare for Thanksgiving, Polite Dissent provides a snappy little PSA from 1961 that ran in a number of DC Comics publications. Click the snippet below to enjoy the full PSA.  Wow. Different times. posted by Brendan | 1:08 PM | permanent link
Those Crazy Kids at Reuters I love the subversive genius of combining the photo of deli meat being sliced with the story about a guy having his wanker chopped by his wife.  Read the story. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:23 AM | permanent link
So Where Are The Flying Cars? Based on this magazine ad from 1973, telephone technology had obviously surpassed anything imagined in the 20th century. So if tech was so bleeding edge thirty-plus years ago, why am I still driving my car to the train station?  [via]Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 12:54 PM | permanent link
Reasons to Avoid Wisconsin #43 Two drunk dudes figure out how they can both drive a truck at the same time while a third drunk guy sits in the back. Marshfield News-Herald Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 4:49 PM | permanent link
Go Get 'Em Tiger!  Chew on that, Wertham. Labels: Batman, Comics, oddities posted by Brendan | 12:42 PM | permanent link
Visual You Probably Don't Want at This Time in the Morning Or any time, probably. I loved the headline though. British dwarf's penis gets stuck to hooverIf you want more details, read the full story. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 9:04 AM | permanent link
One of Those Days  Ever have one of those days where you have to keep going to the bathroom, over and over and over and over - even though you aren't drinking?I hate those days. I'm having one today. It makes getting work done a whole lot more difficult. At least if I was drinking beer all day the continual trips to the bathroom would make sense. Multiple trips to the potty while sober isn't a whole lot of fun. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 2:33 PM | permanent link
Your Superhero Questions Answered Question #56: Is it difficult for superheroes to use the bathroom in those goofy pajamas they insist on jumping around in when they fight crime? Answer: It's really not as challenging as you would think. You just need to make sure you've got someone watching your back.  [via] Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 1:00 PM | permanent link
Stormtroopers In Love Not sure what to make of it, but I think it's fantastic. Red and Jonny are are married artists who live in Ontario, Canada. They like to take pictures of themselves running around in Stormtrooper helmets. Wild stuff.  I also really like this photo - from their Country Stormtrooper set. posted by Brendan | 3:59 PM | permanent link Your F@#K Yeah! Moment of the Week This is almost as good as the Grandpa who killed a leopard with his bare hands - almost. CHESHIRE, Conn. - A woman killed a raccoon with her bare hands Thursday when the animal attacked a young boy. Officials with Cheshire animal control say the woman was walking in the woods around 11 a.m. with a group of children when the animal bit the 5-year-old son of a friend. Labels: oddities posted by Brendan | 11:29 AM | permanent link
Comic Strip You Make the Call Which version of the comic strip is funnier? The original Blondie comic from yesterday. . .  Or this re-mixed version from Issac Cates that includes an edited third panel that matches up with where Issac, myself and a lot of other readers thought the creators of this strip were going based on how Elmo and Blondie are positioned, their dialogue, Elmo's finger, etc. in panels #1 and #2. I think the second one is funnier. Crude? Sure. But it makes more sense then "dirt." What kid wants dirt in their room? posted by Brendan | 12:42 PM | permanent link |
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