Oddities and Humor

Man uses shotgun to remove wart from his finger

(I didn't want to use the word 'idiot' that is in the original headline because, who knows, maybe the wart was really bothering him and he was at his wit's end?)

Future Darwin Award winner....

The Arabian Oryx is a great achievement. Hope they can do the same for many other species out there.

The stupidity involved makes that story almost unbelievable.

I agree, edgar.

Love this thread, incidentally.



June 19, 2011
You're cruising a certain rural road northeast of Eustis. You round a curve and there it is, staring straight ahead: a 6-foot head.



You are driving drunk.

Have been beamed up and tele-transported to Mexico.
Accidentally detoured into the luau at Walt Disney World.

The correct choice is probably none of the above.

Meet Umpy Goomba, an Olmec head.

Umpy is a replica of the colossal statues produced by the indigenous people of the southern Gulf coast of Mexico who are considered by some anthropologists as the "mother culture" of Mayans and Aztecs.

The Olmecs, whose culture thrived 1,200 years before the birth of Christ, designed and built complicated water and drainage systems, developed a calendar that would be used by the Mayans and crafted luxury items, such as mirrors from hematite.

Today, they're known for the heads they carved of their leaders and left for posterity. Just not in rural Lake County.

Umpy's story starts with a fellow who graduated from Eustis High in 1974 and ended up penning poetry and mystery novels on a 300-year-old Mexican hacienda without electricity, south of the Yucatan city of Merida.

Eustis is a city in Lake County, Florida, United States. The population was 15,106 at the 2000 census. The Census Bureau estimated the population in 2008 to be 19,129. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Had he kept carving, he might have come up with a giant marble, instead. Hmmm.

I'm not sure if this is the Onion's own doing but someone has a campaign to get the Onion a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
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What happened to your link? Well, I will look it up for myself.

Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress from The Seven Year Itch sold for a whopping $4.6 million at a Beverly Hills auction Saturday night, according to CNN.

The pleated halter dress -- the one seen in the movie billowing upward above a subway grate -- was expected to go for $2 million. In addition to the $4.6 million winning bid, the buyer will pay another $1 million in commission

Thanks Edgar for the heads up. I copied the wrong link after the fact:

The interesting thing about that scene is the reflex movement of her hands. It's a puritan icon. I bet it makes Cher laugh.

Isn't it odd that this game has not become more popular worldwide, pity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzivRetelE

I had heard of hurling. This is the first time I actually learned what it is.

Great game. I used to play it before helmets became compulsory,
it was serious business. I had many a thick ear and fingers broken twice.
It's a lot safer now and better regulated.
Like I said I cant understand why it isn't more popular worldwide. I know
it's played in the States and the UK but mostly within the Irish community.
Maybe with better marketing.....?

People are territorial. A football fan is going to look down on another sport. (A general observation. Of course, some will try anything.)

True I suppose, I like most sports, the faster they are the better.
Never liked cricket though, it used to go on for days but since they
started the one day games I've grown to like it.
I love Aussie rules and American football.
One game I cant stand watching is badminton, yet! I love to play it.
I've actually gone off watching soccer because of all the cheating
and bad refereeing, the game is ruined and corrupt to boot. Shame.

It turns me off in soccer (or any other sport) when a player feigns injury, hoping for a penalty.
Used to be, I was an avid boxing fan, but too many fights smelled of corruption and I gave it up.

You can always tell the socialists. When they're selling they're moaning about the price and when they're buying they're moaning about the price.

They do a bit of feigning to get them all a bit of a rest. They are working lads and what self-respecting working lad wouldn't welcome a minute or two's respite in the hurly burley of a fast moving football game lasting 90+ lung and leg sapping minutes. And nobody is going to let go an opportunity to have the ref tell one of one's opponents off. That's a bonus to the rest. And a chance to take on some fluid containing whatever they have these days for the modern athlete who is, after 60 minutes, near the limits of his physical and mental capacities. Despite them being trained to the minute, if it's a big game, which most of them are since Saint Rupert Murdoch took over. Week after gruelling week on the training grounds with the army of groupies jumping up and down to peep over the fence and which it is the manager's job to protect them from.

And they are not always hoping for a penalty because these events often take place outside the penalty area.

Being a good socialist ed wants these working lads running themselves silly so that his entertainment isn't interrupted and when he's putting you a new roof on at some scandalously exhorbitant price he suddenly finds he needs to go to the builder's merchants and stops off at the pub. An hour or two later he arrives back, too late to get the extension ladder out it now being 4.30 pm, full of tale about the queue at the builder's merchants which both excuses him and lets his punter know how busy the trade is and how lucky they are to have found him at all at such short notice.

They are all like that are socialists. When a footballer rolls over in agony we know that the TV people will make the interregnum interesting. Playing the tackle over in slow motion from three or four differents angles while experts dispute about it. Those who bet on the number of yellow cards are on the edge of their seats watching the ref's hand-movements. Will it be a red? Or just a bollocking. There's lots going on. Then the ball is kicked back to the goalkeeper of the side of the injured player in a friendly way, usually, and off we go again. The legs feel a bit better and the lungs are only smouldering.

You're a hard taskmaster ed. And if there wasn't some feigning you wouldn't have anything to say about it. Which would be a shame really.

And they don't always feign either.