Category Archives: Weird

bride of Barbaro!

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Y’all remember Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, right? The sesamoid snapper whose recovery outlook is reported by the media entirely in terms of degree of “eye twinkle” he gets when the mares are around. I tell ya, it’s worse than being Brad Pitt.

Or Tom Cruise.

In any case, at the risk of diverting myself from a lucrative career as a blogger to an unproductive one of hypothetical horse matchmaking, I suggest that we introduce the poor gimp to this mare:

Sweet Nothing

Equine amputee puts her best foot forward
Plucky horse thrives after customized artificial limb replaces hind leg

If cats do indeed have nine lives, Sweet Nothing is living proof that horses have at least three.

Saved first from the slaughterhouse, then from a devastating leg injury that veterinarians said called for euthanasia, the small bay mare is now one of a handful of horses in the world to sport a customized prosthetic limb after her bad hind leg was amputated below the hock.

The best part? In true Canadian fashion, her new artificial hoof is made from a hockey puck. Who knew Red Green was such a talented vet?

what not to wear…on a date with Darren Sherman

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Everybody remember the hapless Darren Sherman of How Not to JDate? And, of course, who could forget the moving soundtrack to the undoubtably already-in-pre-production musical?Remember when Nirvana said that the Weird Al parody meant that they’d really made it? Well, in the wardrobe equivalent of Weird Al immortalization, you can now wear the unofficial Darren and Joanne Date From Hell t-shirt.

Getcha Darren and Joanne t-shirts heyah!

Thanks to Arnell Boone in the comments section, and of course to PR Differently for breaking the story in the first place.

he’s a regular guy now!

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A bizarre little Nutrigrain ad from the Eighties.
I don’t know what they put in those bars, but I’ll have what he’s having!

today in Midwestern Octopus news

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Ohio Octopus

It’s not every day a mild-mannered MidWesterner catches a six-foot Pacific Octopus in the Ohio River, but it was Monday. Via Sploid.

“I thought, ‘This guy’s got to be drunk,’ ” Putt Where Waldo issaid. But “we looked at it and that’s what it was.”

The octopus might take the prize for weird discoveries at the falls, where park crews and visitors have found crocodiles and piranha-like tropical fish over the years — animals probably kept as pets and released by owners into the river and onto river banks.

If the Calamari Wrestler ever finds out who killed his cousin, the slime will fly!

Here’s a handy-dandy map of Ohio, just so you can wrap your head around how very far our Octopoid masters have learned to portage:

Octopus in Ohio Outrage!

Blackzilla

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