Weird Universe Archive
October 2010
October 7, 2010
Another Freaky Bilboard
As you can imagine, NOBODY has a problem with this bilboard near an area high school.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 07, 2010 -
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Dusty’s Trail
Generally regarded as a contender for Worst TV Show Ever, this short-lived series exactly mapped Gilligan's Island onto the Wild West.
Watch as much of this episode as you can.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 07, 2010 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Regionalism, ShowBiz, Television, 1970s
October 6, 2010
Umbra
Umbra (HD - 2010) from Malcolm Sutherland on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 06, 2010 -
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Category: Aliens, Surrealism, Cartoons
October 5, 2010
Sounds Fishy
There are horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and wildlife poachers but fish scoopers? Apparently so, as Sunburst Trout Farm discovered the loss of 600 pounds of trout from one of their ponds. Local fish markets have been told to be on the look out for the stolen fish. Wonder if they are branded for identification?
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 05, 2010 -
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Bug
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 05, 2010 -
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Category: Horror, Insects and Spiders, Movies, 1970s
News of the Weird / Pro Edition, Part II (October 5, 2010)
News of the Weird/Pro EditionYou're Still Not Cynical Enough
Prime Cuts of Underreported News from Last Week, Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
October 5, 2010
(datelines September 25-October 2) (links correct as of October 4)
Weird 2.0
"To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle"—George Orwell
"That's close enough for government work"—unknown
"Nero Fiddles While Rome Burns"—Rome Daily Inquirer, 7-18-64A.D.
You say you want to keep costs down but you also wouldn't mind it if Medicare spent $93,000 on a designer drug that would keep you (a cancer patient) alive for four more months? Associated Press via Google News
"f 25 percent were slashed from arts funding," said British artist Mark Wallinger, "the loss would be immeasurable." [Well, literally true, but the benefit to UK society of any particular arts budget is equally "immeasurable."] Wallinger's taken to re-creating a famous work but with "25%" of it defaced. BBC News
The federal No Child Left Behind program requires progress in each school. The problem now in Massachusetts is that some of the schools already graded out at 98 or 99, and it's almost impossible to improve on that. Consequently: No progress, and they're on the caca list! Boston Globe
For everyone sick of taxes, look at it this way. If your income was $34,000, and you paid $5,400 in federal tax, you paid, for example, $11.20 for the FBI, $192 for the military payroll, $28 for NASA, and so forth. No, taxes don't come a la carte, but maybe this project of the Third Way think tank will enrich the discourse. NPR
In America, we complain about the banks, but in Westbourne, England . . action! Fed up that Barclays (and other banks) resolutely failed to come through in any of his attempts to borrow money, Cameron Hope and some pals bricked up the front door of a Barclays branch. Since no money is getting out, no customers should get in. Daily Mail
Busted! Atheists rudely outscored people of faith on a knowledge test of rudimentary religion. However, people of faith continue to have faith that there are more important things to know than facts about religion. New York Times
A couple hundred FBI agents are being investigated for cheating on a mandatory test on national security and foreign intelligence procedures. Open book? Yes, that was OK. During-test consulting with colleagues? Not OK. Instructors teaching students only the exact test questions and answers? Not OK. (Bonus: Fidelity. Bravery.
Posted By: Chuck - Tue Oct 05, 2010 -
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October 4, 2010
Fake Language Song
Although the lyrics sound like a variety of languages, it's all gibberish.
YouTube identifies the performer as Arihiro Fujimura.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 04, 2010 -
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Category: Languages, Music, Comedians, Parody, Asia
News of the Weird / Pro Edition (October 4, 2010)
News of the Weird/Pro EditionYou're Still Not Cynical Enough
Prime Cuts of Underreported News from Last Week, Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
October 4, 2010
(datelines September 25-October 2) (links correct as of October 4)
Brain Surgeons Frolicking, Plus Gypsy Rights and Dowsing for Mugabe
★ ★ ★ ★!
Who Thinks These Things Up? Brain surgery is always a hassle for doctors, what with having to remove the top of the skull and set it aside while they operate. Wouldn't it be simpler to get into the brain via . . your eye socket? Aiiggggghhhhhh! Actually, it was foregone that they'd come up with this . . after a previous short cut to the brain through the nose! Unhhhhhhh! [ed.: They're just playing with us, aren't they?] Science Daily
Watch Jane Watch Squirrels, for 2,000 Hours: We know (famously) that male Cape ground squirrels masturbate. Researcher Jane Waterman wanted more. Went to Namibia, put in 2,000 hours, concluded that they did not yank it for typical reasons (e.g., excessive horniness, or to push fresh sperm to front of the queue). After thinking long and hard, she hypothesizes that they do it mainly to clean the organ from potential STDs. DiscoverMagazine.com
Backyard Etiquette: Two service workers in suburban St. Louis got a dressing down because they nonchalantly grabbed a roll of toilet paper and took a dump beside a shed in the back yard of the customer, who was aghast. Their supervisor apologized, but the dumpers' nonchalance was startling, i.e., is this normal for yard workers? (Bonus: Austin Purifoy, 19, got probation in Las Cruces, N.Mex., for using a car's interior as a crapper and then expressed shock when caught by the car's owner, i.e., you mean, he said, this is not Desiree's car?) (Double Bonus: Reporter Ashley Meeks apparently was not the least bit curious why it might be normal to poop in one's girlfriend's car.) KSDK-TV (St. Louis) /// Las Cruces Sun-News
Who Says California Isn't Governable? True, the pitiful legislature can't pass a budget, and soon, literally, the state'll be out of money (IOUs for salaries!), but the senators and Assembly members recently brought to vote: (1) naming a cusswords-free week, (2) voting a "Motorcycle Awareness Month," and (3) banning non-California cows from California promotional materials. One senator's big, big issue: For God's sake, we need to change the state rock (a "big" issue guaranteed to make absolutely no Californian's life better). Wall Street Journal
The Continued Attempt to Make British Society Perfect: The Equality Act, expanding the good and the righteous, now includes such things as rights for gypsies, atheists, and vegans, plus the right to sue a company any time you're offended while on company property, plus special fire-department attention to poor neighborhoods on account of their property's probably being less sturdy than rich people's property. (Bonus: The council in the London borough of Barnet has officially discouraged mother-in-law jokes and other expressions of disrespect for seniors and parents.) Daily Mail /// Daily Telegraph
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Posted By: Chuck - Mon Oct 04, 2010 -
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October 3, 2010
Adoption, Not Just For Humans
Come see the most adorable slide show ever!
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 03, 2010 -
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October 2, 2010
Can You Believe This?
I know these people chose not to pay but this seems more like extortion than public service fees.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 02, 2010 -
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