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Entries Tagged as 'This is Weird'

Dubious Honors

March 4th, 2005 · No Comments

I need to remember not to wear my Order of the Golden Fleece when I show up for my trial, lest I confuse the Austrians, who remain confused as Michael Jackson sports Viennese honor.

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Tags: Austria · General · This is Weird · Vienna

The Toilevator

December 6th, 2004 · No Comments

For no reason at all other than elevating the content quality of this website to what some may call “the next level”: The Toilevator.

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BisonPro

June 28th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Are you in the market for BisonPro? I can’t quite afford it yet, so I may wait ‘til they release it with an Open Source license. Then I’ll re-write it in PHP and host it on Halfass Hosting, charging a monthly fee. I’ll be the first in the new BSP (Buffalo Service [...]

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Tags: Atlanta · Food and Cooking · This is Weird

Kinderguard

March 13th, 2004 · 1 Comment

My wife and I hit a consignment sale at a local church just to see if there might be some crucial, insane baby product we haven’t yet purchased or received as a gift for our upcoming chitlin.
We didn’t find anything, but for $0.10 I got this package of vintage Kinderguard brand cabinet latches. [...]

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Tags: Funny! · Photos and Photography · This is Weird

Thumb Sucker

March 5th, 2004 · No Comments

If Hindus can sue McDonald’s for injesting non-vegetarian fries, I wonder what the penalty will wind up being for negligent accidental cannibalism ?

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There Can Only Be One Logical Explanation…

December 1st, 2003 · No Comments

A Vodou believer pours hot pepper-spiced homemade alcohol on her genital area, one of the key rituals during Gede, a Vodou holiday dedicated to Baron Samdi and the Gede family of spirits of the dead, while other believers, one clutching a miniature coffin, look on in the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 1, [...]

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Ping Pong Action Flick

August 1st, 2003 · 1 Comment

The coolest kung fu ballet ping pong thingy ever

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Canadian Security

April 29th, 2003 · 3 Comments

Spotted on Yahoo! News Today:

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Early Riser

April 22nd, 2003 · 1 Comment

So when one wakes up at 3:30 AM, one tends to watch some terrible TV. First, I have a complaint. How come 30% of DirecTV’s programming is ads for DirecTV? I already have the service, and am paying for it, so why do I need ads for it?
Do you remember Ricky (oops, [...]

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Tan, Don’t Burn

April 17th, 2003 · No Comments

space: 1999

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"Don’t Deblouse My Dumplings!"

April 16th, 2003 · 1 Comment

That’s the coolest spam subject heading that I have received so far today.

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Reflection Tuning

April 3rd, 2003 · 2 Comments

I was getting a haircut at the Great Clips, and the woman who was about to perform the job was showing me to my chair. Large, flat mirrors hung from the ceiling in front of each row of chairs. How many rows of chairs there were depended upon whether or not you [...]

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Self-Sustaining Economy?

March 17th, 2003 · No Comments

A Los Angeles business person had established a near-prefect, self-sustaining economic system that managed to also do some good for the community at large.
Of course, the government had to put a stop to it.

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Geddy v Genesis

March 14th, 2003 · 3 Comments

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Economic Genius (Vienna School)

March 7th, 2003 · No Comments

I just found a very well-designed Flash application that provides either expansive or pithy interactive, real-time financial information about everything. I cannot tell you how important this is. Check it out. (via Nick Denton)

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