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‘Boris Johnson look-a-like’ jailed for theft in Yorkshire
Boris Johnson ‘look-a-like’ Jason Watson has been jailed. Unless Jason is running the country and the Prime Minister is now giving her Majesty no end of pleasure for the next ten months…? N...
Where Satan Shops: Cathy Don’t Go To The Supermarket Today, a 1980s Christian pop video
In the 1980s, Heaven’s Magic were begging Cathy not to go to the supermarket. The Devil was waiting there for her with his ‘666’ scanner. The song was produced by a Christian religious move...
Snapshots of a trip to Michigan’s prehistoric world
Opened in 1963 and shut for good in 2002, old parts of Prehistoric World can still be seen in Irish Hills, Michigan. Some of the fibreglass dinosaurs, caveman. and this gigantic ape can still be ...
Florida man tries to run on water to New York
Turn left out of Mimi, Florida for New York City. Turn right for Cuba. Reza Baluchi planned to turn right and run to New York in a floating wheel. He never arrived, beaching 30 from his starting ...
Artist adds smiles to female prisoners and victims of Khmer Rouge genocide
Deeps fakes, fake news and now adding to the list of repurposed media (aka ‘your truth’) are happy victims of genocide and smiling female prisoners. Vice has apologized for its profile of ar...
Rocky Horror Picture Show plays to empty house for 54 weeks
You can watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show every Saturday night at Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon. But for the past 54 weeks, the cinema’s Covid-enforced closure has meant no-one b...
The Brains Trust Bandits: Gun Assault criminals caught on CTV refused to wear Covid-19 masks
In America, such the bolshiness in refusing to wear a mask to stop the spread of off Covid-19, that one alleged criminal let his slip from his face. So here he is on CCTV, wearing his mark as a c...
Nuns sell convent, ‘buy £60,000 Mercedes, some racehorses’ and escape to new chateau in south of France
In 1990, 8 nuns of the Poor Sisters of Clara sold their convent in Flanders, Belgium, allegedly bought a £600,000 Mercedes car, some racehorses and disappeared to a new chateau in the south of F...
Musical Knives from the Renaissance
If you didn’t know the tune at a Renaissance dinner party sing-along, you could read the lyrics and music score etched on your fish knife. Maya Corry, of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge , ...
Uri-Ka! 14 tugs boats witness spoon bender Geller using mind power to move Ever Given from Suez Canal trap
We’ve yet to see the state of the cutlery aboard the Ever Given, but Israeli spoon bender Uri Geller says he played a part in moving the massive ship that was blocking the Suez Canal. “Keep...
Guns and weed in America: Adam Vannoy is coming to a town near you
“I can’t stop thinking about this,” says Shannon Watts of self-described firearms enthusiast, Adam Vannoy, 40. “Just days after the Boulder mass shooting, a Denver man was pulled over in ...
‘Hefty Girls Wanted For Police Force’ – the Metropolitan Police seeks ‘fairly good looking’ female officers
London’s Metropolitan Police Force was looking for “Hefty Girls”. “They Must Be Hefty.” They “must never marry or their career with end”. And they must be “fairly good looking”....
Posho birth announcement: Triptych Alabama Bliss is among us
In the Times Births column today, the announcement that Triptych Alabama Bliss is born to Olivia and Hugo Von Halle. Tripe / Trip is sister to Hieronymus (English: Jerome) and Dionysus. Spotter...
Video: motorcyclist accidentally somersaults onto car roof at speed
The motorcyclist seems ok. That’s him sat on the roof of the car he’s just careened into. No sunroof open, so no crash landing on the car driver’s head. Spotter: Jason Weisberger
Amber Says : Facebook scammer uninvited to potato salad BBQ
The message asked Amber Jacobs for $50 to fix a flat tyre. “Hello it is your neighbor with some car trouble can you assist me.” Amber replied: “What type of neighbor would I be if I didn’...
Woman upsets bear using toilet in woods
Do bears shit in the woods? Yes, but only if the toilet is vacant. And even then they watch out because in Alaska one woman didn’t notice the cubicle was occupied. She “jumped up and scream...
Nominative determinism: Mr Slaughter becomes new head of Western Australia’s largest beef processor
In Nominative Determinism News, Ted Slaughter has been appointed the new chief executive officer for Harvest Road Group – Western Australia’s largest beef processor. Image: Interior of a co...
The Better Babies Bureau
The Better Baby Bureau was created by Woman’s Home Companion in 1913. Children were scored according to mental and physical criteria: > Organizers of Better Babies shows varied in the...
William Charles Flynn: Breeding the perfect child through eugenics – 1915
This photograph shows William Charles Flynn, a winner of perfect “eugenic baby” contests in the early 20th Century. The Spokesman-Review , of Mar 27, 1915, reports that Flynn, 37 months old...
Winner of the 2021 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest
Escape the pandemic by stapping on an aqualung and diving into the oceans. its gorgeous down there. The winners of the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2021 . The winning entry was ‘Sharks...
‘Queen Bitch’ Margaret Marilyn DeAdder’s obituary is the best read of 2021
Margaret Marilyn DeAdder (1942-2021), of New Brunswick, Canada, loved coupons, bitchiness and menace on the roads. Her obituary is choice: > Margaret Marilyn DeAdder, professional clipper�...
Bad Car Ma: Car thief threatens to call police on victim whose child he also kidnapped
To Beaverton, Oregon, where a car thief is lecturing a mother on child care. Our hero accidentally kidnapped the woman’s child when he nicked her car. Insider has more: > He soon realized...
Why my baby sleeps wherever and whenever they want – a beyond parody parenting guide
> With all due respect, wtf pic.twitter.com/YnyaIhZWkx > — Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) January > 17, 2021 > As Jess Brammar (@jessbrammar ) : “Just got the baby out of his c...
Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed (1828) – a statesman’s naked keepsake
In 1828, American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 – December 28, 1853) gave a miniature portrait of her naked breast to US Statesman and would-be President (he tried and failed three t...
Hacker demands ransom to release BDSM victim from Chastity Cage
“Your cock is mine now,” a hacker told one of their victims. But the BDSM enthusiast can get his penis back by paying a fee. Pay up and the hacker will disengage the lock on his chastity cage...