Category Archives: Weird

weenie wannabe

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Copycat dog attempts to follow Russet's lead, falls short by something like 400m.

Dog safe after 50ft cliff plunge

Jasper

Jasper had been chasing rabbits when he fell near Newquay

A dog had to be rescued by a lifeguard after falling down a 50ft cliff in Cornwall while chasing rabbits.Jasper, a whippet-spaniel cross, went missing on Thursday while walking with his owners, Clifford and Joan Day from Worcestershire, at Pentire Point.

Summa Calaghan, an RNLI lifeguard at Crantock, went paddling out on her rescue board to check the bottom of the cliffs for signs of Jasper.

She found him shivering in a cove on a rocky ledge.

'Great job'

Clifford Day said "He went charging past us like a rocket and just didn't come back.

"After looking for him for about an hour, we thought that was it, we wouldn't see him again."

Two-year-old Jasper had been missing for about two hours when Ms Calaghan went out on her board to look for him.

After searching the bottom of the cliffs for some time she eventually found him two metres above the water on a ledge.

Ms Calaghan said: "I couldn't get the board close enough, so I left it on a rock whilst I approached him.

"I thought he might have broken his legs, but then he tried to run away so I knew he wasn't badly injured."

She then paddled out with Jasper to Rodney McDonald, an RNLI lifeguard at Restormel, who was waiting in the inshore rescue boat about 30 metres out from the cliffs.

Jasper was then reunited with his grateful owners.

Mr Day said: "He is doing remarkably well after his ordeal. He had a few cuts and scrapes but is back to his usual self.

"Summa's persistence saved his life, she really did a great job."

Happy Mornings!

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You know, sometimes I suspect there’s a factory somewhere in Korea or maybe Guam, stuffed with people hastily making retro-style ads and uploading them to YouTube so the companies for which they work get credit for having been transgressive in the Seventies. This is one of those times.

Tell me these aren’t Seventies haircuts. And tell me that isn’t an  Eighties style URL. So, tell me what this ridonkulous Folgers commercial actually means…if anything.

BTW Folgers actually sux. It makes Maxwell House look like Cafe Artigiano.

useless facts: perfect for looking as if you’re actually working!

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Via Fark. A collection of 371 useless facts and, surprisingly, the ones I've bothered to verify (ie the ones I know off the top of my head) are actually correct!

  1. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
  2. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
  3. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!) [actually raincoaster can keep her right eye open. It's a long story]
  4. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
  5. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  6. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
  7. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

Well okay, Mr. Rogers is dead. But it's not like he was defrocked or anything. Or even decardiganed.

John Malcovich has Bird Flu

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Apparently the latest dance craze combines the spastic idiocy of the Chicken Dance with the heartfelt celebration of morbidity which is the Tarantella. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the time is ripe for a dance that makes the Lambada look tasteful, the Pogo graceful. And it has achieved its highest expression here, in the half-scale crawlspace inhabited by this freakish, almost subhuman performer. UPdate: video removed or something. Replaced with your common or garden variety of Jamaican bird flu dance.

Sploid has an update:

A dance craze sweeping the Ivory Coast has onlookers baffled.

“It’s like a chicken with Parkinson’s disease trying to dance to hip-hop,” said one person who saw it.

Dancers stretch out their arms, bend them at the wrists, and then start trembling and twitching … to hip-hop. It’s called the bird flu dance, perhaps due to the fact that avian flu tends to set in when birds engage in strenuous activities such as dancing to African hip-hop.

The man who invented the dance, DJ Lewis, said that he was trying to lighten the mood after the H5N1 strain of bird flu turned up in his country.

“I created the dance to bring happiness to the hearts of Africans and to chase away fear — the fear of eating chicken,” he said.

“If we kill all our chickens and poultry, our cousins in the village will become poor. So I created the bird flu dance to put joy back into our hearts.”

Kottke.org has diligently traced “the Jamaican strain of the bird flu dance” (Watch a video set to unlistenable music! [nowhere near as much fun as this vid]), but thus far nobody has been able to find video of the Ivory Coast version.

Thundering Fundraiser

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The Shebeen Club
Presents

 Who: Al Mader, Spoken Word Phenom and One-Man WonderBand! What: Thundering Fundraiser for T Paul Ste. Marie!  When: 7-10 pm Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 (3rd Tuesday ea month)
Meet & Mingle 7-7:30
Listen & Learn 7:30-8
Poetry Slam Dancing and other Tipsy Cultural Mashups 8-10 Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall  Why: Because Vancouver’s proudly homegrown talent regularly beats the best in the world. Because that talent grew in an environment pioneered by T Paul, founder of Thundering Word Heard. And because T Paul recently suffered a brain aneurysm and needs a helping hand rent-wise, there being little in the way of pensions and sick leave for Entrepreneurs of the Word, Spoken or Otherwise. How (much)? $15 before June 16th, $20 thereafter, includes dinnerAll profits for the evening will be donated to the T Paul fund.Instead of our usual door prizes, we will do a T Paul 50/50 draw. 

Info & tix: lorrainedotmurphyatgmaildotcom

 New Format: Our new, lower admission price includes your choice of bangers and mash or vegetarian pasta, plus a glass of beer or wine.  

Bio: Al Mader is a vocalist and washtub bassist for the (one-man) Minimalist Jug Band, and has scuffed around the country for many years.

If Lou Reed passed out on the grave of Johnny Cash and dreamt of Jack Kerouac the soundtrack to his dream might sound vaguely like Al.

He’s shared stages with the likes of Nick Cave, They Might Be Giants and The Cowboy Junkies.T Paul says he started Thundering Word Heard with the idea that he wanted to create a place where both music and spoken word could come together and be given a place that was their own. And he has done just that. After three years the room is still full every Sunday night even on a long weekend. It takes a lot of time, commitment and a big heart to keep putting on something like this every single week. But it has paid off. Thundering Word continues to be a great success and T Paul’s reputation as a host and organizer continues to grow as well.    “ I have my hands in a million and one things that all seem to have the center in that hub Thundering Word Heard.”