Weird Universe Archive

June 2010

June 23, 2010

What’s good for baby

While we're on the subject of what's good and/or bad for baby let me make this offering.

If you're not old enough to remember Blatz Beer (sold to Pabst in '59) then you, most likely, could walk before the age of six but, I'll bet you we had a happier childhood.

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Posted By: Expat47 - Wed Jun 23, 2010 - Comments (5)
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Fear Sells


Here's a creepy old ad. Why doesn't the thermos come with a nipple then?

Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 23, 2010 - Comments (3)
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June 22, 2010

Professor Music’s Not-At-All-Weird Link

Happy Birthday, patty

Posted By: Professor Music - Tue Jun 22, 2010 - Comments (7)
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Can’t Do Anything Right?  You Are Not Alone

If you stay up late all the time, like I do, chances are you've seen some of the infomercials that this video is based upon. I'm willing to bet you feel better about yourself after you've watched this.




Posted By: Nethie - Tue Jun 22, 2010 - Comments (6)
Category: Disasters, Domestic, Entertainment, Humor, Pop Culture, Television, Advertising, Goofs and Screw-ups

June 21, 2010

Professor Music’s Weird Link (Singular)

More fun than "A Question in Parliament", Professor Music Proudly Presents:

The case of the disappearing teaspoons

Posted By: Professor Music - Mon Jun 21, 2010 - Comments (4)
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A Mother’s Love

Kim Mordue of Llanelli, Wales lost her son, he died after taking the drug GHB. The grieving mother decided on a very different way of memorializing him. Lloyd, the son, was cremated then his mother had his ashes mixed with tattoo ink and had three tattoos put on her back. The artwork was done by her husband, Lloyd's father, Dave the owner of a tattoo parlor. Kim says, " I've put Lloyd back where he started -- he's in my body again". Somehow both disquieting and touching at the same time.

Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 21, 2010 - Comments (6)
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Follies of the Mad Men #110

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[From Life magazine for June 8 1942.]

1) I have never seen another Schlitz ad with a bear.

2) Bears were not a Schlitz mascot.

3) The text of the ad makes no mention of the bear.

WHAT IS THIS BEAR DOING HERE?

Was there a famous trained bear circa 1942 that Schlitz wanted to associate themselves with? Do bears in the wild have a particular fondness for Schlitz? What university does this bear teach at?

So many questions from one little ad.....

Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 21, 2010 - Comments (8)
Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Products, Education, 1940s, Alcohol

News of the Weird / Pro Edition (June 21, 2010)

News of the Weird/Pro Edition
You're Still Not Cynical Enough

Prime Cuts of Underreported News from Last Week, Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
June 21, 2010
(datelines June 12-June 19) (links correct as of June 21)

New Medication Surcharge, Plus Condiment Crimes, Clown Therapy, and a Real "Killer App"

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Can't Possibly Be True: Not only do your taxes make possible free, expensive medical care for uninsured humps who wake up every morning with no plans except to do unhealthful things all day, and not only do your taxes pay for their free, expensive meds so they'll be a little less likely to wind up back in the hospital for more free, expensive care, but now your taxes may go to set up a rewards program so that forgetful or obstinate humps who don't take their free, expensive meds get a "financial incentive" to take them. Yes, it's come to this: In test projects now, we're paying these humps $10 to $100 a day just to remember to take their meds. And you know what? It's probably a good deal for us taxpayers. New York Times

We're Lucky Terrorist Jihadists Are So Clumsy: In the same week as Somalia's al-Qaeda-lookalike organization might have finally jumped the shark by ordering all good Muslims not to watch the evil World Cup, The Atlantic published an essay on how undeservedly strange it is that we Americans seem petrified by jihadists despite evidence that they're more likely to blow themselves up than us (well, that is, after they've sated themselves with computer porn, which they consume in abundance). Mohammad Atta might have been the last competent holy warrior. BBC News /// The Atlantic

The Week in Phraseology: political urinal mints . . . penis-recognition algorithm . . . charity groin wax. WZVN-TV (Fort Myers, Fla.) /// Popular Science /// SWNS.com

Barry Scheck's Road to the Holy Grail, One More Time: A retired Texas judge, assigned to decide the fate of an inch-long strand of hair from the scene of a 1989 murder, ordered DNA testing on it, and if it comes back with someone's besides Claude Jones's, it will become official (though still on a technicality): Texas will have wrongly executed someone (in that Gov. George W. Bush dispensed with Mr. Jones a decade ago). (It's still a "technicality" because it will not establish Jones's actual innocence, but, without that strand of hair, Jones would have been legally ineligible for the death penalty even if he had done the murder.) Associated Press via Cleveland.com

♫ Don't Know Much About Science Books ♪ . . .: (1) Israeli researchers say they've shown that making batteries out of potatoes is quite cost-efficient for less-developed countries. (2) A Peruvian artist said he could re-engineer an historic glacier in that country just by painting the nearby mountains white. (Bonus: It sorta makes sense!) (3) Whale poop, released along the ocean's surface, causes absorption, by plankton, et al, of about twice as much carbon as whales release, themselves. Haaretz (Tel Aviv) /// BBC News /// Discovery.com



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Posted By: Chuck - Mon Jun 21, 2010 - Comments (6)
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June 20, 2010

Classical Mario

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Mario on violin. Pretty cool!

Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 20, 2010 - Comments (5)
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