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10 Weird Movie Titles
This is the short list of weird movie titles. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964) Horror | Music | Musical Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does … Continue reading →
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Personal Names
The following is a list of people who have received media attention because of their weird name, or are otherwise widely recognized as having names that are unusual. This list includes both names given at birth, and people who have … Continue reading →
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Ethnic Slurs
The following is a list of weird ethnic slurs (ethnophaulisms) that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnicity or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or … Continue reading →
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Political Parties
This is a list of political parties that have been created for various frivolous purposes: parody, joke, hoax, etc. Australia Deadly Serious Party (defunct) Imperial British Conservative Party (see also: Cecil G. Murgatroyd) Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party (defunct) Party! … Continue reading →
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Awards
These are not, always, actual awards; but merely ironic, weird and funny awards. The Bald Archy. The Bald Archy is an Australian art prize, a parody of the Archibald Prize, an important portraiture award. It usually includes cartoons or humorous … Continue reading →
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Traffic Tickets
This is the list of the most unusual, superlative and odd traffic tickets. Did you recently get one? Share with us, please. The fastest speeding ticket in the world allegedly occurred in May 2003 in Texas. It was supposedly 242 mph … Continue reading →
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eBay Listings
Many weird items have been listed for sale on auction website eBay. Some sold while other auctions were stopped by eBay because the listing breached their policies. Please feel free to add any weird eBay listing that you stumble upon. … Continue reading →
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010 |
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Charlie, a Chimpanzee in a South African zoo who became addicted to cigarettes, has died at the age of 52, exceeding the average lifespan of a captive chimpanzee by twelve years. After a video of Charlie puffing on cigarettes discarded by visitors appeared on the Internet, the animal and the zoo gained international attention and some visitors threw him additional cigarettes. |
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Friday, 08 October 2010 |
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 Russian lawmakers on Tuesday gave their backing to a bill that would ban advertisements by witches, sorcerers and psychic healers.
The bill was passed by the lower house of parliament in an initial reading.
Russian newspapers are full of adverts for all manner of urban witches and wizards, and an Internet search for Magicheskie Uslugi (Magical Services) brings up a vast number of websites offering to satisfy every conceivable human desire - for a price.
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Friday, 03 September 2010 |
A school in Melbourne, Australia has experienced a backlash from the public for changing the last line of Marion Sinclair's iconic Australian folk song Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree from "Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra, gay your life must be" to "fun your life must be".
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
 A man dressed as the Star Wars antagonist Darth Vader robbed a bank in Setauket, New York. The robber was dressed in a character themed mask and blue cape. Armed with a hand gun, the robber stole an undetermined amount of cash from the Chase bank branch.
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Sunday, 20 June 2010 |
What is believed to be the world's oldest leather shoe, over 5,500 year old, has been found in a cave in Armenia by a team of archaeologists.
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Monday, 26 April 2010 |
Anke Anusic, age 44, and her mother Gitta, age 66, were arrested at Liverpool John Lennon Airport last Saturday for attempting to smuggle the body of their deceased 91-year-old relative, "Willi" Curt Jaran, on a flight to Berlin, Germany.
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Monday, 29 March 2010 |
 A prank by three young kitchen staff at Hungry Jack's fast food restaurant in the Central-Western New South Wales city of Bathurst went wrong when two customers required medical treatment after eating burgers they had laced with multi-purpose cleaner.
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010 |
 25-year-old man David Striegl was knocked unconscious by a kangaroo on the Mount Ainslie nature reserve in the Australian capital Canberra on Thursday. He received cuts and bruises and a black eye after being scratched and hit by the kangaroo. Mount Ainslie is located near the centre of the Australian capital, with Australia's parliament houses designed to be viewed from the top of the mountain.
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Monday, 15 February 2010 |
The police of the republic of Khakassia (Russia's Siberia), are investigating the death of a married couple. Investigators found the couple’s two-year-old son next to the dead bodies. The kid was playing next to the corpses on the second day after the tragedy.
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
A man who was formerly a mayor of a village in Lancashire, England has been jailed for two years after being found guilty after admitting four charges of burglary.
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
Drivers in the Russian capital, Moscow, were given an unexpected show courtesy of a 30-by-20 foot electronic highway billboard when an explicit pornographic video was played for nearly twenty minutes in place of the paid advertisement clips that are usually shown. The incident happened near the entrance into Serpukovskiy tunnel on Sadovoe Ring Road, about 2 kilometers south of the Kremlin.
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
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A man from London, England has been sentenced to three years in prison after killing his wife by hitting her in the head with a television remote control. The trial was held in the Old Bailey, a famous court in London. |
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
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This Tuesday, at a wholesale auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, a 512-pound bluefin tuna was sold for over sixteen-million yen ($177,000 USD). The great fish was bought and then shared by the owners of a local sushi restaurant and a Hong Kong-based dining establishment. This tuna is the most expensive fish sold on record since 2001, when a 440-pound tuna was sold for over twenty-million ($220,000) at the very same market. |
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
 A duck named Edwina, believed to be the oldest recorded living duck in the United Kingdom, has died at the age of 22. The mallard was first discovered by Ian Knight and Christine Christopher in a lake near their residence in the market town of Ringwood in Hampshire, England. Edwina, as she was later called, had been attacked by her family and abandoned by her own mother. |
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 |
 A chemistry student from the northern Ukrainian city of Konotop was killed when a stick of chewing gum exploded in his mouth, Ukrainian media reported on Tuesday.
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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It was a night out that college students Leslie Pope and John Wagner will long remember. Not only did they get awful service, they got handcuffed and arrested. |
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
 Sasha Pekhtelev, a 13-year-old boy weighing 180 kilos (396.8 lbs), was delivered to a hospital in the city of Volgograd on Friday afternoon. The boy began to suffocate and had swollen legs: he could not get up from his bed for seven days. |
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