Weird Universe Archive

December 2018

December 16, 2018

Name That List, #53

What is this a list of? The answer is below in extended.

  • Arbor
  • Bran
  • Cayenne
  • Cookie
  • Copper
  • Coyote
  • Fable
  • Hardy
  • Hawthorne
  • Kahlo
  • Oak
  • Napoleon
  • Peaches
  • Red
  • Rocket
  • Rosetta
  • Sequoia
  • Tamari
  • Toto
  • Trigger
  • Venice
  • Yanni
  • Zenith
  • Zeppelin



More in extended >>

Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 16, 2018 - Comments (5)
Category: Name That List

Live Burros From Spencer Gifts

Why oh why did Spencer Gifts ever discontinue this item? My entire Xmas shopping for many people would have been accomplished with one order!



Source.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 16, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, 1950s

December 15, 2018

Reezig

The idea of my feet enjoying an energy drink sounds too much like something out of a Clive Barker horror story.





Source

Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 15, 2018 - Comments (2)
Category: Advertising

Commercials from 1979



The concerns of forty years ago seem idyllic by comparison to the present.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 15, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Advertising, 1970s, Nostalgia

December 14, 2018

Trapped in grease vent

Weird news aficionados will be familiar with the phenomenon of would-be burglars trying to gain access to buildings by climbing down chimneys or vents, only to get stuck.

The latest example of this comes from Alameda County, California, where a man got trapped for two days in the grease vent of a vacant Chinese food restaurant. Rescuers arrived in response to reports of a faint voice calling for help.

On its Facebook page, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office has provided pics of the rescue.





Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 14, 2018 - Comments (0)
Category: Stupid Criminals

I’ve Never Wronged an Onion

Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 14, 2018 - Comments (0)
Category: Music, 1920s, Eyes and Vision

December 13, 2018

Drunken Walking

drunken walking is beginning to get the attention it merits. The problem appears so intractable that federal Department of Transportation officials have allocated $370,000 this year to study how and why this type of accident occurs.

Actually, although it sounds odd to study the problem of drunken walking, I wouldn't want to trivialize the problem. There was a case just recently here in San Diego of a young college student who decided the quickest way home from the bar was to walk across I-8. She didn't make it.

Tallahassee Democrat - Jan 1, 1994

Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 13, 2018 - Comments (0)
Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants, Weird Studies and Guides, 1990s

Stanisław Szukalski



Stanisław Szukalski was a painter and sculptor who also developed the pseudoscientific historical theory of Zermatism, positing that all human culture was derived from a post-deluge Easter Island and that mankind was locked in an eternal struggle with the Sons of the Yeti. He illustrated this theory in his works.


Article source.

Artist's homepage.




Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 13, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Art, Avant Garde, Outsider Art, War, Documentaries, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Europe, Twentieth Century

December 12, 2018

Double-Back Shorts

Fashion brand R13 has introduced shorts that kind of look like two pairs of clothes have gotten stuck together in the dryer. Price: $565.



Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 12, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Fashion, Denim, Overpriced Merchandise

Russian Version of Mary Poppins

Why rush to a crowded theater and pay fifteen dollars to see the new MARY POPPINS, when you can sit at home and watch the Russian version for free?

Unfortunately, embedding not permitted, so you must make the far journey to YouTube.

Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 12, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Movies, Fantasy, 1980s, Russia

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