Category Archives: Weird News Crazy Videos and Conspiracy

Crazy videos, bizarre stories, strange photos, and conspiracies from around the globe.

Creepy Old Man Mask

When it comes to creepily life-like silicone senior citizen masks, SPFX has the market cornered. They also have an old lady lask, an inbred mask, and an assortment of monster masks. They’ll cost you though. Expect to pay $800 or more!

(via TDW)

Worker dead at desk for five days

Moral of the story? Don’t work too hard. Nobody notices anyway.

Worker dead at desk for five days
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Jon Hamm is basically Fabio

I never noticed this before. Wow.
Jon Hamm is basically Fabio
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Nope, it’s just Chuck Testa

Chuck Testa is a master at taxidermy. He is the owner of Ojai Valley Taxidermy and has a new TV commercial that is brilliant and funny. I’d let this guy handle my hunting kill. Enjoy!


(via Tastefully Offensive)

Random Duck Duck news

1. “Happy 9/11” Drawing Gets Restaurant Employee Fired (Read story)

Happy September 11th
2. IKEA introduces MANLAND for retail-weary men to hang out in while their wives shop. See it here.
3. Did you know that girls have more taste buds than boys do? Or that hippo sweat is red? And who knew that gorillas burp when they’re happy? Get more than 300 Weird But True kid-friendly facts with the new interactive app from National Geographic Kids!
4. Old folks are good fun. Webcam 101 for Seniors….

5. I just found out that if you press a number while watching a YouTube video, such as 4, you jump ahead 40%. Thanks for the tip Bag of Nothing.
6. Guns N’ Roses will tour this fall with a Minneapolis play on the Sunday, November 13, 2011. I will continue my ban on attending any rock concerts until the band fully reunites with at least Axl, Slash and Duff. I may be waiting a long time.

The last meals of executed criminals

Every prisoner waiting to be executed is granted a last meal. Prisoners waiting to die choose their last meal for different reasons. Some choose from past memories, while others feast on what they crave at the moment. Such fascinating details surrounding the final hours before being put to death are a matter of public record and are the inspiration for this series of photographs by photographer Jonathon Kambouris titled “The Last Meals Project.” Look at them all here. (via)

The Last Meals ProjectThe Last Meals Project

What part of NSFW didn’t you understand?

What part of NSFW didn't you understand?

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Meanwhile, 14 millions Americans clinging to hope

Joe Biden and John Boehner on tape talking to each other before Obama’s big jobs speech. Does this look like a congress that is concerned about the gravity of 14 million out-of-work Americans?

Duck Duck Goose or Duck Duck Gray Duck?

Duck Duck Gray Duck

Oh fer Pete’s sake! This childhood game has created some debate here and on this blog in the past. So I figured I’d try to set the record straight. As Minnesotans, we know that the rest of country is backwards with this game. But let’s find out how backwards with a poll of our own. Meanwhile, I’ll kick back and think of rules for the adult version of this game I want to create – “Duck Duck Grey Goose.”

What do you say? Duck Duck Goose or Duck Duck Gray Duck?

More random Duck Duck stuff

Dan Wilson/ Star Tribune photo by Jeff Wheeler

Dan Wilson/ Star Tribune photo by Jeff Wheeler

1. Minnesotans are a quietly proud bunch when it comes to our local celebrities. Songwriter-singer Dan Wilson (Semisonic) cowrote the Adele piano ballad “Someone Like You,” and is enjoying it’s No. 1 status. He writes a lot in case you didn’t know and won a grammy for co-writing the Dixie Chicks’ “Not Ready To Make Nice.” (story)
2. This is why I don’t heroize. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to arrange a sex party during the March on Washington? (ABC News)
3. In case you haven’t heard, there was a homicide on 9/11 in NYC that remains unsolved to this day. I suppose the events of that day created the ultimate diversion for getting away with murder. (story)
4. Unreality Magazine published a gallery of celebs without eyebrows to demonstrate how having eyebrows helps us not look like escaped mental patients.
5. This picture pretty much sums up how I feel about politicians right now.
politicians
6. An honest letter to New Yorkers from a kid that “didn’t really care” about 9/11. (via McSweeneys)
7. Turn game night on its head with these awesome games from the mental_floss store. There are great educational games for the kids available too.