Dutch pranksters in Amsterdam have dumped dozens of the tiny two-seater cars into the city’s waterways.
The old VW bugs floated. Are these cars smart enough to do that?
Category Archives: Weird
You Want Fries With That, Capice?
Fast food spokespersons/icons as goodfellas. The original B&W sketch has some extra commentary/backstory
Of the bosses, Sanders has been around the longest, but he is by no means the most powerful of the five families. He’s old, Southern money and old school, the latter of which has made him somewhat outdated, however it’s the former that’s kept him secured. In actuality it’s the new blood, McDonald’s mob family, that’s become the more dominating in recent years, partly because of his zeal and entourage of equally unorthodox, but extremely loyal, gangsters (such as hitman Grimace).
Along these lines, I’ve long suspected that Winnie “the Pooh” was actually a mafioso, shaking down the other characters for honey. It would go a long way toward explaining rabbit’s nervousness (much like the undertaker in The Godfather) whenever he’s around.
Run, Run, Run …
… as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!
You can dissect him, though, as paradoxical as that is.
(Big version of main picture)
There’s also a gummi bear dissected in the digital gallery.
The Only Way to Travel
Feed Me, Seymour!
Carnivorous Clock eats bugs, begins doomsday countdown
This prototype time-piece from UK-based designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau traps insects on flypaper stretched across its roller system before depositing them into a vat of bacteria. The ensuing chemical reaction, or “digestion,” is transformed into power that keeps the rollers rollin’ and the LCD clock ablaze.
So when the machines become sentient, they will already be carnivorous. All we can do now to compound the problem is to make sure they have a taste for human flesh.
Smile. People Will Think You're Up to Something.
As if It Needed to, Virginia Bans Smiles at the DMV
DMV officials say the smile ban is for a good cause. The agency would like to develop a facial recognition system that could compare customers’ photographs over time to prevent fraud and identity theft. “The technology works best when the images are similar,” said DMV spokeswoman Pam Goheen. “To prepare for the possibility of future security enhancements, we’re asking customers to maintain a neutral expression.”
People smile for their driver’s license photos? I have four different photo IDs handy, and I’m not smiling in any of them. The last time I got a photo taken for a passport, the guy operating the camera asked if I wanted it taken again, before he printed it out. My face was centered and my eyes were open, so my response was, “It’s a passport photo” (i.e. not a portrait). He replied that he had a lot of customers ask for a re-shoot because they felt the photo wasn’t very flattering. At which point I would say: I refer my honourable friend to the reply that I gave some moments ago (British Parliament. C-Span. Catch the fever.)
The fraud mentioned above is duplicate licenses — they match your photo with those already in the system. And your name and address, I presume, if they are attempting to eliminate identity theft.
Making it Up as You Go Along
fact unchecked is billed as A daily dose of misinformation, fact unchecked is the after dinner breath-mint to the information saturation buffet. Any similarity to actual truth is coincidental, unintentional, and gravely unfortunate.
With amazing tidbits like
The song “Louie Louie” is an adaptation of a lesser-known Robert Frost poem “And There Went Louis.”
and
Residents of Quito, Ecuador are five times as likely to experience vertigo than the average South American citizen.
Littering … and Creating a Nuisance
On July 11, 1979, the space station Skylab re-entered the atmosphere, broke up and rained down over Western Australia and the Indian Ocean. (Ah, yes, I remember going to a Skylab-is-falling party) The Shire of Esperance fined NASA $400 for littering.
ALMOST 30 years after fining NASA for littering the local area with debris from abandoned space station Skylab, the Shire of Esperance has received a $US400 cheque. American radio station Highway Radio paid the fine on NASA’s behalf, raising the funds on variety breakfast program Barker and Barley in the Morning.
Curiously, Not From The Onion
Cruise Ship Hero Fought Off Pirates With Deck Chair
Wyn Rowlands was celebrating his 62nd birthday with a dream cruise onboard the MSC Melody near the Seychelle Islands when he spotted armed pirates in a speedboat trying to clamber on to the vessel.
Quick-thinking Wyn, a retired engineer from Bangor-on-Dee, picked up a deck-chair and flung it down at the gang before raising the alarm.
In unrelated news, the TSA has outlawed deck chairs and strollers from airplane flights, if they are larger than a 3 oz bottle.