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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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Missouri town re-elects deceased mayor |
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 |
The town of Winfield, Missouri in the United States has re-elected its incumbent mayor for a third term nearly a month after his death. Mayor Harry Stonebraker died of a heart attack on March 11, yet came out on top over opponent Alderman Bernie Panther, with 90% of the vote.
The ballots had been printed and absentee voting was already underway by the time of Stonebraker's death. County Clerk Elaine Luck commented that Stonebraker was quite popular, especially after his efforts to help the town evacuate during last year's flooding.
Just nine years ago, the state of Missouri posthumously elected one of its US Senators, when Democratic challenger Mel Carnahan defeated incumbent John Ashcroft, a Republican, after dying several weeks before the election in a plane crash.
"I figured he'd win because he seemed to get even more popular after he died, just like Carnahan," Luck said.
Luck said an interim mayor would be appointed to serve until a special election in April 2010 can be held and whose winner would fill out the remainder of the two-year term. Information from: Wikinews, http://www.wikinews.org |
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