The editors at Andrews McMeel Syndication continue a tradition started by pioneering weird news purveyor Chuck Shepherd, presenting the best bizarre news gathered from around the world.
Gladiators would agree to lend their names to be used on the Roman version of billboards, or they would directly endorse products to the masses before their fights. It's one of the earliest versions of marketing in history. The filmmakers behind Gladiator tried to make the film as ...
The book is set in and around a museum in a tourist trap town in the southern US. This museum is what would have been called a “cabinet of curiosities” back in the day, which is to say it combines natural history displays with a bit of a freak show aspect to spice things up. Th...
The names Crete and Cherith are clearly alike and both appear to relate to the verb כרת (karat), to round up and cut off. In 17th century England the term "Jew" was likewise indicative of an entire social class, namely the class of people that had, for whatever reason, ...
It is called "criadillas" in Spain but has different names in other Latin countries. The criadillas are the testicles of the pig. They are sliced first and then cooked with garlic and parsley, better if they are barbecued. If you don´t know what you are eating, the taste is ...
This is another one of those lake names that is just a funny word to say. I've fished this lake pictured a few times, and whenever I've told people about it, they always chuckle. I'd guess it could easily be named after the chub fish, but most people would chuckle because of the...
An Italian right-wing party is offering 1,500 euros ($1,930) to parents who name their babies after wartime fascist dictator Benito Mussolini or his wife Rachele, saying their names are under threat. Nov. 26, 2008 80 Entertainment & Arts Disgruntled 8-year-old boy crashes teacher’s ...
The Falls(1980)– Absurdist mockumentary about the 92 survivors of the Violent Unexplained Event whose names begin with “Fall” Fantasia(1940)– Dinos, demons and hippos illustrate the classical music canon in Walt Disney’s weirdest classic ...
instead of close to where it appears. There are some foibles in the typesetting that may be surreal and distorting artistic invocations of the disorienting Mythos – or just layout errors. And the constant internal cross-referencing and paranoid exercises in apophenia, where names and places and ...
But before I go on, an interruption: Names will be flying around here like bats at sunset. A lot of the actors have the same names, which any fiction writer can tell you is a bad idea. If you can keep them all straight, I admire you. If you can’t, don’t worry. Just keep ...