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A Little Light Weirdness - 3
Someone else who may be meeting with an "accident" pretty soon is Ginger the kune-kune pig, who is not in pensioner Anne Moon's best books after swallowing her $2500 dollar diamond engagement ring right off her hand. Mrs. Moon, who had gone to pet the pig just prior to the impromptu a-la-main meal, immediately alerted the pig's owner, farmer Paul Caygill, and hopes to be reunited with the ring given to her 30 years ago once nature takes its course (Fox News).
And while Anne Moon is left hanging around dumb animals, in the Norwegian town of Helgoysund, it is the dumb animals that are hanging around. For it is there that a ram managed to get its horns entangled in one of the town's overhead electric cables, before losing its footing, astonishing onlookers as it subsequently abseiled down the hill towards the next pole. Locals suspect that this may have been caused by an over rambitious attempt to reach the ewes in a lower field, and after the ram was eventually towed back to higher ground and released unharmed, he was allowed access by way of compensation for his ordeal (Daily Mail).
Still on the subject of dumb animals, that is presumably what one Parisian store is hoping to attract with its latest creation, a fusball table populated entirely by Barbies. The "Barbie Foot", by French "concept-store" Colette, uses 22 of the ubiquitous dolls, in contrasting uniforms of pink and white in its limited edition table football game, which it hopes to sell for 10,000 euros, that is $14,000, each (Guardian).
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Posted By: Dumbfounded - Wed Aug 12, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Crime, Death, Exercise and Fitness, Furniture, Government, Law, Television, Goofs and Screw-ups
Dolloping Doubloons - Creator of Captain Pugwash Dies.
Ryan's most famous creation, the eponymous, bumbling, pirate and his equally inept crew (with the exception of the ever resourceful cabin-boy) were a staple of British children's television in the 50s and 60s, and even returned to UK screens for a brief revival in the late 90s. But it is for a quite different reason that most people will remember the series. Sometime in the 1970s, when the TV program had been off-air for nearly a decade, the urban rumour started that the characters had all been given double-entendre names. Pugwash's crew, it was claimed, had included characters called "Master Bates", "Seaman Staines" and "Roger the cabin-boy". In reality, the crew of The Black Pig, Pugwash's ship, were Master Mate, Barnabas and Willy, along with the cabin-boy, Tom. The legend became so well accepted that it was carelessly repeated as fact by both the Sunday Correspondent and Guardian newspapers, leading Ryan to sue, successfully, both papers for libel in 1991 (Obituary - Guardian).
The animation style used in Pugwash, as well as his other programs, Mary, Mungo and Midge, and Sir Prancelot, was unusual in that it was not done using stop-frame photography but by making articulated paper figures that could be moved like puppets in real-time.
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Sat Jul 25, 2009 -
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Category: Death, Obituaries, Television, Lawsuits, Cartoons
Got Milk?
Let's have a vote. Is this commercial supposed make you thirsty for milk, or make you laugh milk out of your nose?
Posted By: fyshstyxx - Fri Jul 17, 2009 -
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Category: Food, Television, Asia
Follies of the Mad Men #70
Well, folks, here it is: the last FOLLIES OF THE MAD MEN for the foreseeable future, and my last regular post after one year's worth of nearly two per day. I didn't quite achieve two FOLLIES per week over that year, but close.
In any case, read the convoluted logic here about how your choice of TV reflects your sexual prowess.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 07, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Sexuality, Television, 1970s
SelectaVision
Once upon a time, before laser-read discs, there was SelectaVision: movie discs that were interpreted by a mechanical stylus, just like vinyl records.Read about the technology here.
And there are plenty of players and discs for sale cheap on eBay, if you want to go retro!
The first four minutes of the video below show lots of period films offered in the medium. Starting at the four-minute mark, you see the player and how it works.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 28, 2009 -
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Category: Movies, Technology, Television, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
LazyTown
This song appears to derive from the the Icelandic kids show LAZYTOWN. Man, those are some creepy characters.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 14, 2009 -
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Category: Music, Television, Children, Europe
Japanese Game Shows
It is no secret that Japan has some of the strangest game shows, but the combination of costumes, tasks, and punishment in this show is beyond explanation.
Posted By: fyshstyxx - Sun Jun 14, 2009 -
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Category: Games, Insects and Spiders, Television, Video, Asia
Penis Power
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 13, 2009 -
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Category: Body, Genitals, Sexuality, Television, Men, Women
The Treadmill Challenge
Weirdness from the world of Japanese game shows:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 11, 2009 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Games, Television, Asia
The New People
A TV series about plane-crash survivors on a weird island? Must be Lost, right?Well, not in 1969. Back then, it was THE NEW PEOPLE.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 10, 2009 -
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Category: Fads, Pop Culture, Television, 1960s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
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