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Ten Worst Toys 2008

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Stock up now on Xmas gifts for the rugrats you dislike the most! The official Killer Toys of 2008.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Nov 24, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (23)
Category: Death, Toys

Ted Williams Estate Auction

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Of course you recall the baseball great, Ted Williams. Decapitated after death and head frozen, once the family quit squabbling in public...?

Well, now many of his possessions are up for sale at auction, including, ironically, a number of severed animal-head trophies. And also some fine "space alien" paintings and drawings by daughter Claudia, like the one at right.

Check out an article and photo gallery here.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Nov 23, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Category: Art, Celebrities, Death, Eccentrics, Collectors, Historical Figure

The Bad Sleep Well

We've been alerted to the serial killer in Japan who's taking revenge for corporate fraud, as described in this article in today's NY TIMES. But what no one seems to have noticed is that we've already seen this scenario in a film. THE BAD SLEEP WELL is one of Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces, and details how a man whose father was killed by corrupt businessmen exacts his revenge. Here's the excellent trailer.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Sat Nov 22, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Category: Business, Crime, Death, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Movies, Foreign Customs, 1960's, Asia

Survival Playing Cards

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Surely any game of "Go Fish" would be livened up by using these playing cards and contemplating your imminent death by snakebite or hypothermia.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Nov 17, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (19)
Category: Death, Games, Nature

Summum

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Most Supreme Court cases are as dry as a particle-board sandwich. But not the one you can read about here. That's because this case involves a genuine wackjob cult named Summum, which believes, amongst other things, in sacred mummification of pets.

A visit to their site will be time well spent.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Nov 13, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (17)
Category: Animals, Business, Products, Death, Eccentrics, Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Pets, Religion, Lawsuits, Myths and Fairytales

Shannon Ethridge

Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Nov 11, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (29)
Category: Death, Religion, Sexuality, Video

Wrong-way Trucks

I have no idea where this scene was filmed, nor what it means.

But it is certainly weird.


Une bizarrerie autoroutière
Uploaded by noriko75
Posted By: Paul | Date: Mon Nov 03, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (12)
Category: Cars, Death, Destruction, Foreign Customs

Don Dixon’s “Praying Mantis”

Talk of bugs that eat their mates automatically reminded me of Don Dixon's one hit, the great "Praying Mantis." If you click here, you should be able to hear the song for free. Warning for those at work or in a quiet zone of some sort: it will start playing automatically.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Category: Death, Insects, Music, Sexuality

Live and Let Live

Continuing our series of weird auto-safety films, we now examine one told completely through the medium of toys. This looks like it was a lot of fun for the creators to make.

Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Oct 23, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (6)
Category: Cars, Death, Education, Toys, Documentaries, 1940's

Follies of the Mad Men #39

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[From Life magazine for April 23 1971.]

The other day, watching that commercial of Lucky Strike cigarettes square-dancing, I speculated on how one could distinguish female from male cigarettes. Twenty years after that commercial, Madison Avenue had the answer! Female cigarettes are "pretty" and have decorative floral emblems on the filters!

Wasn't it wonderful that "women's lib" allowed tobacco companies to sell more cigarettes to a previously under-served population?
Posted By: Paul | Date: Sun Oct 19, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (9)
Category: Addictions, Business, Advertising, Death, Fads, Gender, Women, 1970's
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