Kickin’ It With The Kitties

A few months ago, an inspired couple went digging through their old photographs to find just one that didn't involve alcohol. Unfortunately it seemed that all of their trips down memory lane included mass quantities of beer (and what's wrong with that?). But those types of photos can make a negative statement when posted on social sites like Facebook and when found by employers, or even worse, mom and dad. The quick fix? Replace all of the beer with cats. Yes, cats. And thus, Boozecats was born! So kick back with a tall, frosty Himalayan and enjoy the weirdness.

Posted By: Nethie - Thu Dec 10, 2009 - Comments (8)
Category: Animals, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Cats

Gum Is Bad For You

A young man studying chemistry at the Ukraine Polytechnic Institute made a costly mistake. He was studying in his room at his parents house when they heard a loud popping sound. Upon checking they found him dead, the bottom of his jaw blown off. It seems the student was in the habit of dipping his chewing gum in citric acid. That would have been fine, except there were packets of both citric acid and an unidentified explosive present. Apparently he dipped his gum in the wrong one. Ouch!!
http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/chemistry-student-killed-by-exploding-chewing-gum/story-e6frflri-1225808518676

Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 09, 2009 - Comments (2)
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Follies of the Mad Men #78

Now that the coffee tastes better and hubby will drink it, wifey can add the poison this idiot so richly deserves.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 09, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Crime, Domestic, Marriage, Food, 1960s

Discovery Channel and Weird Universe Mashup

What happens when you are cruising the internet and find an invitation to put together your own video to some music?

Just a few of the WU images with the "boom da yada" music shows we live in a world full of variety!!



Here's the Discovery commercial.



Click on it to see other versions!!

Posted By: gdanea - Tue Dec 08, 2009 - Comments (4)
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art

News of the Weird / Pro Edition (12-7-2009 Extra)

News of the Weird/Pro Edition (Extra)
December 7, 2009

Editor's Note

Correction: Yesterday's post of the 12-7-2009 Pro Edition mistakenly reported that a "U.S. Congressman" was the source of demanding a U.S. consular official's resignation in the matter of the illegal Paraguayan immigrant. He is, rather, a Paraguayan congressman (which makes his inclusion in the story not very interesting).

Still More Things to Worry About

Christmas in Los Angeles: The clothing store Madison on Robertson Blvd. has a nativity scene in the window, but it's L.A., so Mary is a scantily-dressed babe, Jesus is resting in a spot barely an inch from where he originally emerged, and the Three Wise Men are hunks. KTLA-TV

What to do about a government child-abuse reporting system that's grown too large? The Florida Dept. of Children and Families has "quietly," according to a Miami Herald investigation, ignored "thousands" of the tips to its child-abuse hotline. Besides, they say, more than half of the calls we ignored did not deserve investigation. (They're correct. Only about 25% of the "thousands" rejected, should not have been, according to a follow-up study. But that group includes at least one death: A 1-year-old was beaten to death after three faxes to the hotline were ignored. Bonus: The three faxes were sent by the kid's parents' domestic-court judge.) Miami Herald

Organizers of San Francisco's summertime Folsom Street Fair (a carnival gathering of gay-pride celebrants, including flamers) offered a solution to complaints about open sex acts in the street—just set up a "sex tent" for the flamers to use. One city legislator said he'd consider the suggestion. San Francisco Chronicle

It says here that Ramchandra Das, 53, has just finished the arduous task of breaking through part of a mountain in India's Bihar state to free up enough room to drive vehicles through. He's been working on the project for 14 years, using only hand tools, and the purpose was just to be able to park in front of his home instead of parking on the other side of the ridge and walking home. Herald Sun (Melbourne)



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Posted By: Chuck - Tue Dec 08, 2009 - Comments (4)
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Roly Poly

In this era of rampant childhood obesity, shouldn't we just give in and celebrate fat kids? Here's our new theme song.

Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 08, 2009 - Comments (4)
Category: Food, Music, Obesity

Eye Dildo

No, it's not a phone application. The eye dildo has a camera and headlights and hooks up to the tv. Then you play find the g-spot!
http://www.eyedildo.com/eyedildo.html

Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 07, 2009 - Comments (13)
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Another Optical Illusion

These kind of optical illusions fascinate me, and I have no clue how they work. Some of the speculation on YouTube is quite funny.



I like the explanations offered here at WU. At least they seem plausible -- who can make up the best sounding explanation?

Posted By: gdanea - Mon Dec 07, 2009 - Comments (6)
Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions

Spam Solution

Alex has established a method of allowing quick deletes of spam, and I cleaned up a couple of dozen this morning. Faithful WU-vies should see fewer annoying comments. Thanks for your patience!

Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 07, 2009 - Comments (5)
Category: Weird Universe, Alex, Comments, Paul

News of the Weird / Pro Edition (12-7-2009)

News of the Weird/Pro Edition
December 7, 2009
(bewildering and/or outrageous news from November 28-December 5)

Weekly Gold

Capitalism is eternal, even in Somalia, where a "stock market" for investing in the pirate industry might be the only thing in that anarchic country that actually works. People bring their venture capital (including guns and pirate accessories), lay it down among the 72 companies on the big board, and cash out their tickets if their ship comes in. In fact, befitting this era, there even seems to be a Bubble! As the exchange has grown, pirates' ransoms have doubled, to about $4 million per ship. One savvy Somalian says he's made $75,000 in just 38 days in the market. Reuters

Denver, Colo., UFO enthusiast Jeff Peckman is back in the news, having gathered enough signatures for a city ballot question next year on whether to establish an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission, to develop protocols for "diplomatic contact" when the ETs land. In 2008, Peckman famously staged a news conference, having promised to release a smoking-gun video of an ET visit, but he produced only ridicule. (Also last week, Britain's Ministry of Defense closed its UFO unit after 50 years, and in Mesa, Ariz., the school district's information technology officer resigned after inadvertently overwhelming the district's computer system by installing a personal copy of a software program that networks computers searching the skies for alien radio transmissions.) Los Angeles Times /// Bad Astronomy blog [2008 press conference] /// The Independent (London) /// East Valley Tribune (Mesa)

Safety First in Britain (continued): In an episode begging to be Pythoned, inspectors from the government's Health and Safety Executive (in Fleet Street jargon, Elf & Safety Executive) thoroughly examined a bowling alley and expressed alarm that bowlers might injure themselves if they walked down the lanes and tried to knock over the pins by hand. Inspectors suggested, among other safety improvements, shields to block access to lanes except for doggy-door-like space on the floor to roll the balls. (Also, town managers in Poole, England, installed a super-safe Christmas "tree" that was actually a giant metal cone covered in astroturf. It won't fall over on top of anyone, and there are no needles to get stuck in people's eyes or decorations to be hung using dangerous stepladders.) Daily Mail /// The Times

A University of Montreal professor, intending to measure the specific effects of pornography on men, had to scrap the study because he couldn't find any non-users for his control group. Not a one, he said. "Guys who do not watch pornography do not exist." Montreal Gazette

A group of civic activists will start running L.A. Gang Tours in January, through South Los Angeles and Watts ($65 a ticket) and has been negotiating with Crips, Bloods, Florencia 13, and 18th Street gangs to give the buses a pass when they roll through the 'hoods. They'll peddle merchandise, too, but not the T-shirt originally proposed, where the promoters would pay kids to blast the tourists with water pistols and then sell them shirts that read "I Got Shot in South-Central." Los Angeles Times



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Posted By: Chuck - Mon Dec 07, 2009 - Comments (6)
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