Archive for the 'Oddity' Category

New Jersey Man Is Aattacked By Bear Over Salami Sandwich–Yahoo headline, July 4, 2009

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

What I saw…
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Image: (bear) via myopera.com; (paper hat) esnarf.com; (man) 3.bp.blogspot.com via feeathon.com;  (deli) via paulsfinest.com

The story.

The real surprise is that someone found a mailbox.

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Kitten dropped, discovered in Boston city mailbox
AP

Tue Jun 16, 9:19 pm ET
BOSTON – Officials said a two-pound, eight-week-old kitten was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston and later found unharmed among envelopes and packages. According to the MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center, the kitten they’re calling “Postina” likely was stuffed Friday through a […]

Little Miss Muffett…

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

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Image: (Hue) enjoytravelbietnam.com;(Kurds at r & l) Michael Kamber for The New York Times; (Kurds, center) eldib.files.wordpress.com;

Georgia Men Claim Hairy, Frozen Corpse Is Bigfoot–AP headline

Friday, August 15th, 2008

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(Kimberly White/Reuters)

First, don’t these guys know their country was just at war?
Second, don’t they realize that wearing hats which state:

(Kimberly White/Reuters)
“Best Trackers In The World
Bigfoottracker.com”
may leave more than a few people skeptical.
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Bigfoot stored in a 1955 Amana Sasquatch Ice King Deep Freeze

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By MALIA WOLLAN, Associated Press Writer
August 15, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bigfoot […]

As is often the case, the gentleman is not the first to travel via furniture.

Monday, July 7th, 2008

During the 1950s, the United States Air Force ran countless upper atmospheric tests. Testing showed that television stars generally possessed the physical and psychological traits best suited for these formidable experiments. The Nation owes a debt of gratitude to these men and women pioneers.

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Kent Couch leaves his gas station in Bend, Ore., on Saturday, […]

While this year’s entry may be more aesthetically pleasing, his last year’s entry was as big as all outdoors.

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

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(AP Photo/Cheez-It, Ray Stubblebine)
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(Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
That was now…
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This is then…

More Grim Moments in Marketing…

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Why in heaven’s name did they want the tribute in life-size?

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The Post-Crescent, Michael P. King
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This is not the first time a company has employed a national treasure as a means of advertising its products.
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In the Spring, 2005 a public relations team […]

Why the hiatus?

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

A personal deadline has forced me to concentrate on the retro-fitting of Lock #7A if I am to maintain the Caldorian project to renovate the Martian Canals.  As this project is both necessary and time-sensitive, I shall have to limit posts in the near future.

The following two posts may require a strong stomach and even stronger sense of the absurd.

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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Boolah-Boolah

Patapsco Jack sent this and I have no comment…

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Man sentenced over wombat rape claim
Posted Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:13pm AEDT
Updated Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:22pm AEDT
A New Zealand man has been sentenced to community service after telling police he had been raped by a wombat and the experience had caused him to start speaking “Australian”.
Arthur Cradock, a 48-year-old orchard worker from Motueka on […]

Think about this Ernie Kovacs’ “Strangely Believe It.”

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

1790–1862
10th President of the United States
In office
April 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845
Vice President(s) none
Preceded by William Henry Harrison
Succeeded by James K. Polk
Children
By Letitia Christian Tyler
Mary Tyler (1815-48); Robert Tyler (1816-77); John Tyler (1819-96); Letitia Tyler (1821-1907); Elizabeth Tyler (1823-50); Anne Contesse […]