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Category Archives: oddities
“Flying’s easy, Rocky”
Christmas is coming…
And this is the perfect gift for the guy who has everything. Except a pacemaker, that is.
Gah
Mental note: Never go to Australia
Caught… um… red handed
From Schoolboys took Viagra at lunch…
The Sun newspaper quoted a source at the school as saying: “By the time the afternoon lessons began, there was no hiding what they had done.”
Just a jump to the left…
Oh, yes. This is exactly the sort of positive association we want people to have with American culture.
A call to (short) arms!
Stop the madness! A University of Florida study shows that salaries are heavily biased towards tall people. On average, each inch of height is worth an extra $789 per year. $789!!! That means that my husband has nearly $10000 more earning potential than I do, based ENTIRELY ON HIS HEIGHT.
I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part. Does anybody have access to a 1964 Lincoln Continental?
Nifty online news archive
British Pathe Film Archive has 3500 hours of video and 12 million still images covering news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. If you aren’t sure where to start, check out the Top 20 most downloaded clips.
Child’s play
Kids try out classic games like Pong, Donkey Kong, and Tetris. Kind of depressing.
Kirk: What is this? [Picks up and twists the paddle controller] Am I controlling the volume?
Writing 101
Sterling sentence construction from Hazing Claiming Younger Victims…
Stevens, of Sayville, N.Y., has spent most of the 25 years since her son, Chuck Stenzel, died in a sports fraternity hazing fighting to bring an end to the practice.
How many times did you have to read that before it made sense?