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POPS12 Hilarious Tombstones
Another list from Oddee.com. The people who put this site together have a definite eye for the strange and unusual... Obviously, there should be some Rules about Dying: 1. If you know you are dying and have a name that will cause people to laugh and have their pics taken with your stone, change your name! 2. If you have a Wife AND a Mistress, make sure there is no way they will ever be able to pay you back. 3. Leaving A Funny Epitaph is good, leaving a tombstone that will label you DUMBASS is not so good. 4. If you want to leave a in a hilarious, yet tragic death: go for the hilarious. You will be remembered longer and liked more. 5. If you really want to stand out as a memorable person in the memorial sort of way, hire a poet to write a fitting epitaph and then die in the way specified.. 6. Most of all, remember this: Paybacks are a B*TCH, So treat your heirs or at least the person who will arrange for your final monument well, if not YOU too, can have a marker like the
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POPSGod is Bipolar? Wow, that explains a lot... Funny as hell but apparently Rev. Jurgens who has a Psychology degree as well as a Doctorate of Divinity has found abundant proof. Make me happy to know God and I have something in common but it is more a scary thing to think one day he may just get upset enough to sweep the Universe away from a temper tantrum... We will follow this story and update as regularly as news becomes available. So far God has not commented and no one seems to be answering the Dial-A-Prayer number...
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POPSToday's Topic: What's Weird in the Wikis Another interesting Blog Site I found while perusing the Net.. The "Paul Is Dead" rumors go all the way back to the latter 60's and for a while was a huge phenomenon focusing around the "demise" of the left-handed Beetle. Some of the clues and hints that the Beetle's were supposedly sending in their album art and song lyrics are still quoted today...
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POPSThe SECRET Warehouse from Indiana Jones with contents I use a similar concept in a role playing game. This was a HUGE list and hard to pare down to 1000 characters and have to skip some hilarious items like: Two strange electronic devices, found with a set of identifcation for "Commander Pavel Chekov, Starfleet." A heave metal box, 75cm on a side, painted in military green. Each side has the words, "This side towards enemy" printed on it. (Nuclear claymore mine) The "magic gun" that fired the "magic bullet" that killed JFK A large stone tablet, reconstructed from pieces, with writing on it. It is Hebrew and has Commandments 11 through 17 Microscope slide labelled "Turin Shroud section No. 325", with piece of material reading "Made In Korea" in tiny letters Snake Plisken's death certificate A searchlight with the sillouette of a bat on it and Universal Solvent (we think) (bring your own container) (hurry) (never mind...) A great and funny list
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POPSBennigan's, Steak & Ale Files For Bankruptcy Protection Usually, I do not cover business news, I mean, where is the weird and strange in that? Yet everyday I go from site to site looking for inspiration for my writing and if I find it warrants it, or maybe does not but I like it anyway, I clip it. This was sent to me by a friend in Dallas and it made me start wondering... My Muse can go bonkers at times and give me ideas that seem even to wild for me, but heck, let's give it a try. Here are roughly two fairly successful restaurants. Seems that "success" does not always add up to Moola. After the expenses are paid there will not be enough left to pay 49 creditors... well, that is weird, why not almost 50 creditors? Could there be a "secret creditor?" My Muse giggles creepily as she whispers in my ear that Faust & Co. do not normally collect for services owed in a legal court... and that is when my brain went screaming into the night! I guess, much like certain rare species, Muses are better off if you never, ever feed them after midnigh
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POPSSupercontinent Pangea Gets Climate Rethink From Discovery... Topic interested me as it has been some time since any rethinking of the Ancient Past stagnated after the Kahoutek Comet hit Earth and resulting global cooling killed off the dinosaurs. The Paleozoic Age is history's most diverse zoological period other than modern times. Learning more of this ancient past helps us understand the cycle of life and death that wipes out upwards of 92% of Earth species when the cycle occurs. The relative time-frame is every 50 million years o0r so.. The last one? The destruction caused by Kahoutek was roughly 65 million years ago. To Say the Least, We are Overdue...
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POPSExplorers, Daredevils & Record Setters of the 30's The Twenties and Thirties have always been an area of interest to me. The Roaring Twenties, where we drank Bathtub Gin and danced the Charleston. Speakeasies everywhere! (One reporter did an experiment in 25 different US Cities where he timed how long it would take to be able to buy illegal liquor. Shortest time was 21 seconds. Longest was 3 hours and 19 minutes. That must have been a "Dry County.") America was in love with the "new" vogue and any fads it could find. Just a few examples: phone booth stuffing (25 college students at University of Chicago), Marathon Dancing, Flagpole Sitting, Racecar Driving, Monopoly, the :"Talkies," Radio Programs, Coney Island, Daredevil Flying, Long-Distance Swimming, Harry Houdini, Solo Flights, Self-Made Millionaires, the Gangster (especially Al Capone who courted the media), Exploring the Unknown, and Political Radical Causes! History is amazing!
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POPSOld Creepy Ads The Person at Weirdomatic.com really knows his thing.... and some people say I wrote the book on weird! A great posting by the fellow and one I am happy to share with all of you.
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POPSWeird Hotels The author of Weirdomatic.com may think they are weird but I LOVE THEM! OK, all but the Coffins in Japan. I read too many cyberpunk novels in the 80s! The Mayan Pyramid is only in the planning stages but it is due to open in 2010... My favorite without a doubt is the Beckham Canyon Cavern Hotel...
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POPSBlackbeard (S9 Biography) The Scourge of the Spanish Main and the last Great Pirate of the Age of Sail (Jean LaFitte was a smuggler) Blackbeard's life is shrouded in myth and legend and facts about him are verd hard to verify 300 years later. Edward Teach or possibly Thatch, was famous for several things that are documented and reek of the strange and as Kenneth Hite says, High Weirdness. He would drink a mixture of gunpowder and rum set aflame... Talk about a Belch you do not want to be around. He tied "slow matches" (used for lighting cannons) into his hair and beard so there would be a wreath of smoke around his head. He shot his best friend and first mate, Israel Hands in the knee, crippling him for life just a day before his death at Okecroake Island off NC. When Israel asked why, Teach said he was saving his life! (Knew about his own death? Planned it himself?) Weirdest Fact: Held Charleston, SC hostage for several weeks until his ransom was paid - a box of Native herbs and Tobacco... See what I
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POPSThe Mythic History of the Werewolf As usual I tend to gravitate my clipping towards the strange, unusual, or just highly weird. The Graeco-Roman myths have always been a favorite of mine but there were some facts here I did not even know of. The ways of becoming a werewolf, yes... but that at least TWO of the most important gods of the ancient Greeks were worshiped as Wolf-Gods was new to me.
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POPSProper grounding is strongly recommended Hey you, the NASA commander in the fish bowl! Don't scrape your feet along in the dust as you walk... you can get shocked! ... Oh, yes, and no swimming until an hour after you have ate.
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POPSMystery Of Infamous 'New England Dark Day' Solved By Tree Rings Damn, there goes another great "mystery!" This is one of the better researched and annotated mysteries as the article says of what people recorded of animal behavior and that Gen. George Washington commented on it in his journal. Tree ring dating is helping us understand many strange atmospheric events. Listen the trees are "talking."
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POPSIlluminates of Thanateros (IOT) Occasionally I will find a listing of a "secret society" that has an interesting ancestry of precursors (Austin Osman Spare) but loses something in the translation... i.e. basing their imagery on Michael Moorcock and the Order of Templar Orientis seems to be rather contraindicative. OTO was originally the Egyptian Rites of Freemasonry started originally by Giovanni Balsamo (Cagliostro) and taken over and reworkd by Aleister Crowley. Fits my definition of a curiosity.
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POPSTHE ANOMALIST I found this site while perusing lynn's links. please forgive typos and punvtuation as i am recovering from carpal tunnel surgery on lft hand early on Friday. I am rt handed but i have a left hand usually making 7 out of 10 key strokes. Hunt & peck is not easy for me and they still have to operate on rt hand. Please bear with me but I found this site to be extremely in my range of collecting curiosities and high weirdness as Kenneth Hite calls it and if you have never had the luxury you should take a look at his live journal site. http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com/ I gurantee you will come to love his wonderful take on all things conspiratorial, Fortean, high weirdness, and secret history. it fuels my Muse for days at a time. i really do wish i could have done the Anomalist justice but give it a look, you may be surprised!
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POPSThe Legacy of Charles Fort Many people over the space of 5000 yrs of human civilization have claimed to be prophets, messiahs, holy men or the Illuminated as compared to the rest of us "mere" normals. Some have claimed to be masters of the Black Arts (Aleister Crowley, et al) and some have claimed to be immortal or possessing long lives (Comte de Saint-Germain, Cagliostro, John Dee) or incredible psychic awareness (Edgar Cayce, Uri Gellar, Madame Blavatsky) but as far as I know only one man made his life out of collecting facts that were witnessed by many and researched diligently by him that still astound us. You have seen the kinds of things I am talking about on the X-Files or read of it in the Tabloids, but this man never took it as more than a wonderful reach that man's scientific knowledge was far from complete. Charles Fort only collected curiosities as I do. He was my inspiration. This is his legacy.
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POPSThe Web's Greatest Links Page Part II (Weblogs) I am still getting used to make links work or not on the clipper so if there is any confusion it is on my part. I wanted to add the disclaimer on the end as I have not had the slightest bit of time to examine even a tenth of what I clipped. Some may bee dead links and some may be a lot better if they were dead links. Proceed with your own caution.
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POPSThe Web's Greatest Links Page Part I (Websites) I saw someone just post the name and the url but none of the sites that it links to, I thought I could do it a little more justice. These are not even a miniscule accounting of the Websites that this page links to. Truly something for everybody. The second part is web blogs...
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POPS15 Wackiedt Classified Ads OK. Sometimes things hit a little close to home. For example the Time Travel ad. I grew up in Oak View, CA and in 1976 three men robbed the Wells Fargo bank there at the time. One was found within a day, a second was found dead of exposure within two weeks and the last was never seen again. Sure I am paranoid, Bit what if...
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POPSList Universe's Top 10 Unsolved Mysteries Excellent primer on many of the more well known mysteries like the Shroud, the Black Dahlia, Mary Celeste and Jack the Ripper. The less well-known mysteries like the Babushka Lady, the Voynich Manuscript, The Taos Hum, The Zodiac Killer and the Comte de Sainte-Germaine are informative in a few short paragraphs and I suggest those interested to use this as a stepping stone into their own search for the weird, unusual, bizarre and truly unsolved mysteries.
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POPSSteampunk: Re-Imagining the Past This article talks about a 28 minute film that is done in what is known as Steampunk Fiction. What is Steampunk? Alternate Earth Sci-Fi with a focus on technology of now and the future and even the imagination if Steam-power had remained the operating force behind all mechanics and electronics...
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POPSNYC's Forgotten Subway Though the story does not go into deeper detail if you go a few levels deeper than the pneumatic tube is, you will find a 19th Century luxury station beneath Upper Manhattan. This station and the trains that were driven through it were built by the Highest of High Society Members.. The Vanderbilts, the Astors, the Rockerfellers, and so on.. It was their own private train and station for their trips to Central Park and the exclusive shopping and banking centers. It was decommissioned only a few short months later as the coal burning engines of the day caused too much pollution underground for the blue bloods breathing.
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POPSEncounter With the Lizard Man? The Clip really only touches on the first part of the tale, afterwards an Apache woman who had grew up in the area explained of her own experiences with the Lizard Man of San Luis Valley.
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