Authentic Bus Jump

Reader Frank has good evidence that our earlier clip of a bus jump was staged by a business. But here's an authentic one.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 23, 2010 - Comments (2)
Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Reader Recommendation, Europe

Bus Jumper

Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 22, 2010 - Comments (8)
Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Europe

Horse in a Hamster Bubble

Fast-forward to the 1:30 mark.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 18, 2010 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Entertainment, Europe

Bad Boys Blue

Well, at least the "bad" part was accurate in the name of the group Bad Boys Blue.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 11, 2010 - Comments (1)
Category: Music, 1980s, Europe

Tales of the Riverbank

No hamsters were harmed in the making of TALES OF THE RIVERBANK--or were they?!?

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 09, 2010 - Comments (1)
Category: Animals, Television, 1970s, Europe

Floram Marchand

As magic tricks go, the "I can vomit wine" claim has died a deserved death. One imagines that neither David Copperfield, nor even Penn & Teller, will be reviving the spectacle of Floram Marchand any time soon.

Floram Marchand: The Great Water Spouter

In the summer of 1650, a Frenchman named Floram Marchand was brought
over from Tours to London, who professed to be able to 'turn water into
wine, and at his vomit render not only the tincture, but the strength
and smell of several wines, and several waters.' Here - the trick and
its cause being utterly unknown - he seems for a time to have gulled
and astonished the public to no small extent, and to his great profit.
Before, however, the whole mystery was cleared up by two friends of
Marchand, who had probably not received the share of the profits to
which they thought themselves entitled. Their somewhat circumstantial
account runs as follows.



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Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 07, 2010 - Comments (5)
Category: Entertainment, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Body Fluids, Europe, Seventeenth Century, Alcohol

Soft Machine

Soft Machine was certainly one of the weirder bands of a weird era.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 19, 2009 - Comments (5)
Category: Music, Surrealism, 1960s, 1970s, Europe

Rotating Kitchen

Artist Zeger Reyers recently set up this installation at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in Germany as part of the Eating the Universe exhibit. The kitchen will be rotating until February 2010. Today and Tomorrow

rotating kitchen from Zeger Reyers on Vimeo.

Posted By: mdb777 - Sat Dec 05, 2009 - Comments (4)
Category: Art, Video, Europe

The End of McDonald’s! (In Iceland)

It's hard to imagine that a company as world renown as McDonald's would have to close any of its stores, but the current state of the global economy is forcing Jon Gardar Ogmundsson, the franchise owner of the three branches in Iceland, to do just that. The country of Iceland is on the brink of bankruptcy and costs of importing anything, let alone the packaging, meat, vegetables and cheese for each store has doubled. Some of the population won't be sad to see the golden arches come down. But from the time of the announcement that a Big Mac will soon be impossible to buy, the three stores have seen a boom in business, with lines reaching out the doors. You can read the Yahoo News article here, but I recommend CNN's humorous Blog by Neil Curry here.

Posted By: Nethie - Sat Oct 31, 2009 - Comments (7)
Category: Food, Restaurants, Europe

Wheelie Bin Stickers

I'm very confused. A dead baby is found in a recycling center. That's happened before. But then the authorities issue "wheelie bin stickers" as a response. Did they look like this?

Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 21, 2009 - Comments (6)
Category: Death, Babies and Toddlers, Foreign Customs, Europe