Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests
11 Year Old Wins Award for Rode Dog App
Stories like this make me optimistic for the future. If an 11 year old can beat professional app developers (and her mother!), I can't wait to see what's next!!
This is Victoria Walker and her mother. The idea is to have the cell phone bark when your friends are texting and driving.
Story can be found here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/victoria-walker-rode-dog_n_1897464.html
Saving lives and ending texting and driving. That's a great idea.
She won $20,000.00 for first place.
Posted By: gdanea - Wed Sep 19, 2012 -
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The Wellingborough Carnival
The town of Wellingborough, UK, has been holding a carnival for over 100 years. The old affairs certainly featured things that look weird to us today. Here's a photo album to peruse.
And the Wellingborough Carnival home page reveals this year's affair is on July 7th! Plenty of time to make your plans to attend!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 22, 2012 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Holidays, Parades and Festivals, Weird Theory, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Europe
Miss Lobster
I'm not sure what's going on in these pictures, except that there appears to be a woman competing in a lobster-themed beauty pageant. Or is it crab-themed? And that looks like a Mr. Lobster in the bottom picture. via West Visayas State University
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 10, 2012 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests
Cinderella Penguin
The tale of a glass flipper.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 25, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Family, Myths and Fairytales, Cartoons, Shoes, Parody
Some Unusual Beauty Pageants
- Miss Cicciona: open only to women who weigh more than 220 pounds.
- Miss Beautiful Morals: Held in Saudi Arabia. All contestants are completely covered by black robes and veils.
- Miss Penitentiary: For beauties behind bars.
- Miss Landmine Survivor: You have to pay a pretty steep price to be eligible to enter.
- Miss UFO: Sometime in the 1950s. Exact date unknown. Winner pictured below.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 31, 2012 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues
Embalmer Merit Badge
Well, it doesn't actually come from the Boy Scouts, but it's similar. Purchase yours here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 27, 2011 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Body Modifications, Death
Intelligent Bacteria Orchestra
HONF | Intelligent Bacteria Orchestra from Christoph Müller-Girod on Vimeo.
Why do all these award-winning art installations remind me of what I and my thirteen-year-old buddies used to do with Dad's Super-8 movie camera?
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 02, 2011 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art
Charity Erotic Awards
"The Erotic Awards honour the Stars in the Erotic Universe. Grayson Perry described us in The Times as 'the good people in a gloriously mucky business'. Whilst other awards concentrate on the commercial sex industry, we select artists and pioneers with unique talents, people who are ground-breakers, pioneers and innovators."
You can see a list of finalists for the 2010 awards at the site. Perhaps you would care check out the trailer for one of the contenders, HONEY BUNNY, a still from which graces our post above this text.
Needless to say, everything is rather NSFW.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 28, 2010 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Sexuality
les fêtes étranges
Posted By: Nethie - Sun Oct 10, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Customs, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Magazines, Parades and Festivals
A Murder Of… Budgies?
On the eve of the prestigious Cornwall Budgerigar Show, the aviary of Andrew Pooley, one of South England's top budgie breeders, was broken into and 21 of his best birds were stolen. Worse still, several birds were badly injured and one, reigning "best of breed" title holder Penmead Pride, had been killed. Stamped on by the callous intruders.
Because their distinctive markings would be instantly recognised among the close-knit budgie fancying community, the score of stolen budgies are unlikely to ever make another show appearance. And that might suit the culprit just fine, if his intention was to eliminate the competition by fair means or (can't resist, sorry) fowl. Pooley had left the shed unlocked briefly when he ran an errand to the nearby town of Camelford from his home in Delabole in Cornwall, and only noticed something was wrong at 9.45 that evening, when he came to make a final check on his prized birds and was - in an suitably Harrissian moment - startled by the silence of the budgies. Police are still investigating whether this is the work of a competitor but Mr. Pooley is in no doubt.
"The person or people who did this must have known exactly which ones to take because they only targeted my show team," he told reporters (Daily Mail).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Thu Sep 09, 2010 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Boredom, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Crime, Hobbies and DIY, Obsessions
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