Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions
First Ever Monster Truck Backflip
The USA cannot pass any useful laws or put its citizens to work. But we can spin giant polluting machinery in the air.
World’s Biggest Omelette--1932 Version
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Mar 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, 1930's
Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, 1930's
Gay News Today

And what about those silly gay people who want to serve in the military? Surprisingly, a recent CBS News poll asking about Obama's wish to repeal the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, finds that a majority of the public support allowing openly gay men and women to serve. But what's even more surprising is that the same poll doesn't want homosexuals to serve. I suppose the poll was worded badly. Or maybe the people who answered that poll still think gay means 'having or showing a merry, lively mood'. In that case, who wouldn't want a bunch of merry old souls in the military?
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Posted By: Nethie | Date: Fri Feb 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Body, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Crime, Domestic, Government, Law, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Africa, Europe
Category: Body, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Crime, Domestic, Government, Law, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Africa, Europe
Women Can’t Jump

Posted By: Nethie | Date: Fri Feb 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Ceremonies, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Games, Sports, World Records
Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Ceremonies, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Games, Sports, World Records
Eurovision 1965
Time to make fun of the Eurovision contest again. Here's the winner from 1965.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Feb 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Music, 1960's, Europe
Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Music, 1960's, Europe
Another Helping of Food Related Weirdness – 6 (and a bit)

Of course this is just another string for the bow of the world’s greatest all around superfood, bacon. And it’s not the only new talent to come to light, bacon also makes you smarter. At least it does if your mother ate it. Scientists from the University of North Carolina are claiming the micronutrient choline, which is abundant in pork products, is vital in helping foetal brain development (Telegraph).
Clearly then, the British are not eating enough bacon. Not only do they have to put up with a reputation for being lousy lovers but in a recent study for the UK’s National Farmers Union, 26% of under-16s polled said that bacon came from sheep, and 29% thought that oats grew on trees (Daily Mail).
So it is perhaps a small consolation that an English sparkling wine trounced traditional French champagnes to be crowned Champion of Worldwide Sparkling Wines in an annual competition held by Italian wine magazine Euposia. Nyetimber's Classic Cuvée 2003 beat off entries from Bollinger and Louis Roederer in a blind tasting, despite costing less than £30 per bottle (Telegraph).
Also sure to win awards is the newest attraction in Beijing, China. The “World Chocolate Wonderland” is a 20000 square metre theme park devoted to the food and boasts life-size replicas of terracotta warriors, a BMW and a basketball player caught mid-leap, all made of chocolate. The centrepiece must be an array of chocolate fountains that endlessly propel 1.5 tonnes of melted chocolate in all directions. The park is open to April, but plans to reopen next January with all new exhibits (Movie Channel).
Perhaps they’d like to bid for the chocolate and sweet reproduction of a statue of Lenin currently on display in Bucharest, Romania? The statue, which stands on the plinth that once held the real thing, is to be auctioned off to raise money for a museum of statuary from the country’s Nazi and Communist past, with “pride” of place going to a 62 foot granite bust of Lenin (Daily Express).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded | Date: Mon Feb 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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Category: Agriculture, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Eccentrics, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Family, Food, Candy, Nutrition, Government, Officials, Health, Statues, Monuments and Memorials
Category: Agriculture, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Eccentrics, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Family, Food, Candy, Nutrition, Government, Officials, Health, Statues, Monuments and Memorials
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 | Date: Mon Dec 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions
Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions
Weird Shorts

An 81 year-old Australian took a wrong turn when driving to collect the morning paper, ending up on a major highway. Nine hours and four hundred miles later, he finally stopped and asked for directions. Eric Steward later rejected offers of a satnav device saying he’d only been lost once before, from 1997 to 2001 (Reuters).
The British Government has produced a sex guide for pensioners. The guide examines the benefits of a healthy sex-life, suggests the safe positions for the frailer retirees, and explains how to use Viagra and practise safe sex (STV).
Santa Claus will have a slightly easier job of it this year as the US Postal Service has axed its seasonal practice of forwarding letters to Santa to North Pole, Alaska, where dozens of volunteers help answer them, after one volunteer recognised another as a listed sex offender (CNews).
A new exhibition at the National Socialism Documentation Centre in Cologne, Germany is revealing how the Nazi Party tried to “de-Christianise” Christmas. It documents how many carols still sung in Germany today were rewritten without their previous religious imagery, and includes a display of Nazi designed Christmas decorations from that period in the shape of swastikas, grenades and Iron Crosses (Telegraph).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded | Date: Fri Nov 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Category: Accidents, Goofs and Screw-ups, Babies, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Exercise and Fitness, Odd Names, Stupid Criminals, Postal Services, Cars
Category: Accidents, Goofs and Screw-ups, Babies, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Exercise and Fitness, Odd Names, Stupid Criminals, Postal Services, Cars
Sumo Suit Olympics
The good news is now anyone can be a Sumo, and maybe you could compete in the Sumo Suit Olympics.I think the skinny legs really compliment the look.
Posted By: gdanea | Date: Tue Sep 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions
Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions
A Little Light Weirdness - 5

Or perhaps this is simply proof that Scottish universities have got the jump on their transatlantic counterparts? In a move nearly, but not quite, totally unlike Jurassic Park, Professor Hans Larsson of McGill University in Montreal has announced that he hopes to de-evolve chickens back into their dinosaur ancestors. Larsson stressed that he is not aiming to recreate whole dinosaurs at this time, but by switching on or off certain genes in chick embryos he hopes to induce atavistic dinosaur anatomy in the full grown animals (AFP).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded | Date: Wed Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Category: Animals, Ceremonies, Weddings, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Cryptozoology, Fictional Monsters, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Geography and Maps, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Nature, Science, Experiments, Surrealism
Category: Animals, Ceremonies, Weddings, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Cryptozoology, Fictional Monsters, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Geography and Maps, Inebriation and Intoxicants, Nature, Science, Experiments, Surrealism

Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Stupidity, Subcultures, Trucks