Dan Donnelly was Ireland’s first bare-knuckled boxing champion. He became a legend in 1815 when he defeated British heavyweight George Cooper, breaking George’s jaw in a no-holds barred brawl. Fans literalling kept the ground he walked on as souvenirs.
Donnelly’s mummified right arm (he was a righty) is now in New York City where […]
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Legendary Boxer’s Arm Arrives in New York, Alone
Published by August 27th, 2006 in Weird News. 3 CommentsRussian Mathematician Solves 100 Yr. Old Problem But May Decline $1 Million Award
Published by August 22nd, 2006 in Awards, Education and Weird News.ABC News International reported today that Grigory Perelman, a noted Russian mathematician, had proven the Poincare Conjecture, a math theory that had stumped others for 100 years, but would probably not accept the $1 milllion prize to be offered by Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Perelman was also awarded the prestigious Fields […]
Holy Loophole! A misplaced comma in a supposed iron-clad contract allowed Aliant Inc. to cancel its contract with Rogers Communications Inc., costing Rogers $2.13 million. Rogers thought it had a guaranteed 5 year deal with Aliant to string cable lines across utility poles in the Maritimes without a price increase, that is, until some […]
Unconventional Ads: Barf Bags and Eggshells
Published by July 25th, 2006 in Advertising and Weird News. 3 CommentsCNN reports that US Airways intends to sell advertising on its air sickness bags. Certainly, if someone is upchucking on a plane, I want to see it. But if you’re the hurlee, I think your looking inside the bag. Hey, wait a minute—room for two ads—one on the outside, one on […]
Talking Urinal Ads
Published by July 25th, 2006 in Advertising, Technology and Weird News. 1 CommentUrinal ads are the latest unconventional ads. These can also talk—no kidding. Men have but two places to look when at the crowded urinal—straight ahead or down. Posters at eye level are not new. Now this captive audience will face and strangely interact with these unusual ads. Sensors activate the ads. […]
This extremely rare two-toned lobster was caught in Steuben, Maine by fisherman Alan Robinson. The odds of catching it is about 1 in 50-100 million. About the same odds as landing a rent stabilized apartment in Manhattan.
Source: BangorNews.com.
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Ronald McDonald to Remove Mouth from Urinal
Published by July 16th, 2006 in Advertising, Retail and Weird News.We have covered urinals before. Who hasn’t?. See NYC Pay Toilets: Pit Stops for a Pittance & Do You Swash.
But when we saw these we said, “whoa now big fella”. Because of objections by an American tourist, a Dutch McDonalds is removing this mouth from the men’s bathroom. {Thanks to caffeinegoddess […]
Death Defying Architecture
Published by July 10th, 2006 in Cool Buildings, Residential Real Estate and Weird News.Deciding not to die, artist-architect-poets Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, have designed residential housing they say “boosts immunity and increases longevity“. The architecture is clearly infuenced by the Dada anti-art & cultural movement of the early 20th century. The above complex is located in Mitaka, Japan. […]
What Did The Government Do With Francis Scott Key’s House?
Published by July 4th, 2006 in Weird News. 2 Comments
Oh! say can you see Francis Scott Key’s house? No you can’t. It seems the home of this brave man is dispersed o’er the land of the free.
The author of the Star Spangled Banner owned a house which stood on M Street NW in Washington D.C. […]
Cathouse Opens In Manhattan Retail Storefront
Published by June 23rd, 2006 in Retail and Weird News.
Taking a page from the Amsterdam red light district where prostitutes openly display their wares in windows, Jo, Belle, Molly & Bambi are strutting their stuff in a New York retail storefront, in plain view of surprised onlookers, many of them tourists.
Behind the full length glass windows is a colorful apartment interior, aptly named the […]
