Weird Universe Archive
March 2010
March 11, 2010
Anna Nicole
February 17, 2011 an opera about Anna Nicole's life will debut at the Royal Opera House in the UK. It was co-written by one of the creators of Jerry Springer The Opera. Wait, there was a Jerry Springer opera?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7414740/Anna-Nicole-Smiths-life-to-be-turned-into-opera.html
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 11, 2010 -
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Car Keys
A car covered completely in computer keyboard keys, sounds cool doesn't it? Looks cool too! There's not alot of information about the car. It was spotted and photographed in California.
http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/the-ultimate-geek-car/
updated with smaller picture
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The Trembling Veil of Bones
I can't find any info on when the full-length version of this cartoon will debut, but the trailer sure looks weird enough to intrigue me!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 11, 2010 -
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Category: Surrealism, Cartoons
March 10, 2010
It’s Not Good To Be A British Patient
Belinda Waite, 21, of Bampton, England had a rough 9 months leading up to February 6th of this year. She was in and out of the hospital with diagnoses of irritable bowel syndrome and gout. Finally, on the 6th of last month, doctors told her she was 3 months pregnant. They sent her home telling her to make an appointment for a prenatal check up. Just 3 hours later she was brought back to the hospital by her husband where she gave birth to an 8 pound 4 ounce baby girl, Louise. Can't get them all right I guess.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/03/10/Its-pregnancy-not-gout-woman-shocked/UPI-64531268265526/
picture from yahoo images
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 10, 2010 -
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God Made Me Do It
Does God, in His infinite wisdom, convince people to get rid of their car insurance? Does He encourage cannibalism? Does the God of more than six billion people actually have time to root for the Minnesota Vikings?
According to some, yes. How do they know? God told them. Luckily, God also told Marc Hartzman to write this book, a collection of the most shocking, absurd, and hilarious things people have ever claimed God asked them to do, and to present them for your pure reading enjoyment.
Including:
* The man that God told to perform surgery on himself
* God's generous offer to miraculously fill his believer's gas tank
* The fateful day God (assumedly feeling nostalgic for his teen years) asked a man to TP a police station
* The woman God instructed to direct traffic—topless
* And, sadly, many more
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 10, 2010 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Religion, Books
Window Cleaner Amuck
Remember when Daffy Duck got erased by a giant pencil? I'm sure that's the real explanation of what happened to this fellow.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 10, 2010 -
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Category: Death, Cartoons, Europe
March 9, 2010
Chocolate Fuel
Lola is visiting M.I.T. from the University of Warwick in the U.K. as an honored guest at M.I.T.'s energy conference. She's not there as a speaker but as an exhibit. That's because Lola is a specially designed formula 3 car. Her special design allows her to run on the waste from chocolate factories and other plant based oils. This isn't a slow little hybrid putting along either, with a top speed of 135 MPH Lola can go from 0 to 60 MPH in 2.5 seconds. Not bad, I wish I ran that good on chocolate too!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100309/od_nm/us_car_chocolate
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 09, 2010 -
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Last Date
The future "Mr. Bewitched" commits teen-i-cide!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 09, 2010 -
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Category: Accidents, Motor Vehicles, Teenagers, 1940s
Weird 2.0 (3-9-2010)
Weird 2.0Spawn of News of the Weird / Pro Edition
March 9, 2010
(datelines February 27-March 6) (links correct as of March 9)
Evidently, it's big news 8½ years after 9-11 that a respected Muslim cleric has issued a fatwa condemning suicide bombing, backed by 600 pages of Quranic scholarship. Nonetheless, everybody knows that the most important basis for fatwas remains not murder, but insults! CNN
Twenty-three super-principled members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted (23-22) to officially condemn Turkey. It's not for anything anyone alive did. The country is being smited because the 23 have concluded that, based on their study of history, the Ottoman Empire committed "genocide" in 1915-1923 and that it's up to the U.S. House of Representatives not to let them, whoever they were, get away with it. Agence France-Presse via Google News
America has done a creditable job at reducing manmade pollutants over the last 40 years, but it is falling way behind on one: farm animal manure. In the old days, small farms could recycle their manure over their own fields. Now, megafarms produce megapoop but don't have megafields to spread it on. The government tries to set standards, but the way this works is that the megafarms' lobbyists object, using "the small family farms" as their human shield against further regulation. Washington Post
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Posted By: Chuck - Tue Mar 09, 2010 -
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March 8, 2010
News of the Weird / Pro Edition (March 8, 2010)
News of the Weird/Pro Edition"You're Still Not Cynical Enough"
Exceptionally Inexplicable Dispatches from Last Week
March 8, 2010
(datelines February 27-March 6) (links correct as of March 8)
The Cheese Whiz, Plus Howling Women, Time-Delay Quadruplets, and Perhaps Too Much Mons News
His Media Instincts Better Than His Dishes?
A-List New York City chef Daniel Angerer stepped up the buzz by acknowledging that, yes, he is preparing cheese from his nursing wife's breast milk. It's open-source, though: He published the recipe, and offered aspiring cordon bleus some of the couple's "back-up" milk that their 8-week-old won't be able to get to. "[W]hoever wants to try it is welcome." New York magazine
Know Your Prophets
(1) The omniscient Sean David Morton, who has "called ALL [ed: his capitaliz.] the highs and lows of the [stock] market giving EXACT DATES [his capitaliz.] for rises and crashes over the last 14 years," was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He didn't call any of that, even though he was supposedly trained in "remote viewing" by monks in Nepal. However, he did manage to lighten investors' bank balances by about $6 million. (2) More measured is Lenny Dykstra [ed.: yep, the baseball player], who debuted his yearly investment service ($999). He acknowledges that he's not a registered advisor, but says "his proven track record has caught the attention of many." (3) Minister "Calypso Louie" Farrakhan resurfaced, reminding his Nation of Islam that he has helped them over the years by uniquely recognizing warning signs like the earthquake in Chile, which currently portends trouble for President Obama. "The word 'prophet' is too cheap a word. I am a light in the midst of darkness. It ain't ego; it's my love for you." New York Times /// Wall Street Journal /// Associated Press via Salon.com /// YouTube [Farrakhan sings calypso]
The Staff of Life
Sarah Burge, 49, is well-known in Britain as the recipient of more than 100 invasive cosmetic procedures (cost: at least £500,000 [$750,000], which should surely render her perfect by now). Not wanting to be a hypocrite, she acceded to her daughter's cries of vanity, by administering her Botox at age 15. Hannah is now 16 and still deathly afraid that, without "B," she'd "get that frozen-face look" when she's older. Daily Mail [includes before and after photos of Mom]
Two Things You Didn't Expect
(1) Afghanistan has a National Environmental Protection Agency. (2) Last week, it moved to save the endangered large-billed red warbler and 13 other critters, running its "save the" list up to 48. Scientific American
Your Periodic Roundup of "Intelligent Design"
(1) Deepak Paswaan, 7, in Bihar, India, is looking for (a) a qualified surgical team and (b) a little health-care reform to pay for it, to remove the parasitic twin he was born with. (There's a Not Safe For Stomachs, all-eight-limbs photo.) (2) A woman in England had triplets, arriving two years after the birth of her first daughter, and doctors determined that all four had come from the same egg. Time-delay quads! (3) And it says here that this little fella was born without pores, creating predictable problems plus skin resembling fish scales. Daily Telegraph (London) via Fox News /// BBC News /// Daily Telegraph (London)
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Posted By: Chuck - Mon Mar 08, 2010 -
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