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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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Oldest duck in UK dies at age 22 |
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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.
Ian helped the duck to recover its health and, after a failed attempt to release the creature back into the wild, the duck was adopted as a family pet. She was originally given the male name Edward; however, when — to the shock of Christopher and Knight - it was discovered that she had the ability to lay eggs, her name was changed to Edwina. Some of the habits of the duck included drinking tea and swimming in a sink.
The creature gained popularity upon her 22nd birthday when the British Trust for Ornithology rendered Edwina the oldest recorded mallard in the United Kingdom. The Trust said that the oldest recorded age for a creature of that type in the wild in the country was 20 years and 5 months.
Edwina died peacefully on Monday inside her pen. Ian Knight commented, "She hadn't been well over Christmas. Her legs were a bit wobbly and we were concerned that she wasn't her normal self. We had been planning to take her to the vet's when we discovered that she had passed away. It might sound silly to some people but 22 years is a long time to have a pet and we are heartbroken to have lost Edwina." Knight also explained that "[s]he had become a bit of a celebrity and, after we appeared on television on her 22nd birthday, someone recognised me at Palma Airport in Majorca." Information from: Wikinews, http://www.wikinews.org Images: Daily Echo "Farewell to Edwina the duck, 22". |
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