Archive for the ‘Interesting Stuff’ Category

Why?

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Why is it that:

1) Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

2) At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.

3) One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

4) You’ve never quite sure whether it’s ok to eat green crisps.

5) Everyone who grew up in the 80’s has entered the digits 55378008 into a calculator.

6) Reading when you’re drunk is horrible.

7) Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you feel really manly.

8) You’re never quite sure whether it’s against the law or not to have a fire in your back garden.

9) Nobody ever dares make cup-a-soup in a bowl.

10) You never know where to look when eating a banana.

11) Its impossible to describe the smell of a wet cat.

12) Prodding a fire with a stick makes you feel manly.

13) Rummaging in an overgrown garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.

14) You always feel a bit scared when stroking horses.

15) Everyone always remembers the day a dog ran into your school.

16) The most embarrassing thing you can do as schoolchild is to call your teacher ‘mum’ or ‘dad’.

17) The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity.

18) Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

19) Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee flushed half way through and then raced against the flush.

20) Old women with mobile phones look wrong!

21) Its impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.

22) Driving through a tunnel makes you feel excited.

23) You never ever run out of salt.

24) Old ladies can eat more than you think.

25) You can’t respect a man who carries a dog.

26) There’s no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when you’ve got your hand or head stuck in something.

27) No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

28) Despite constant warning, you have never met anybody who has had their arm broken by a swan.

29) The most painful household incident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

30) People who don’t drive slam car doors too hard.

31) You’ve turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with.

32) Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

33) Bricks are horrible to carry.

34) In every plate of chips there is a bad chip.

Creative Tattoo

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Creative Tattoo

Awards For Crazy Law Suits

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Stella Awards

Time once again to review the winners of the Annual “Stella Awards.” The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald’s (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the Most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States. Here are this year’s winners:

5th Place (tie):

Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas , was Awarded $80,000. By a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle Tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the Verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson’s son.

5th Place (tie):

19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000. And medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was Someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his Neighbor’s’ hubcaps.

5th Place (tie):

Terrence Dickson of Bristol , Pennsylvania , Was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the Garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the Automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn’t re-enter the House because the door connecting the house and garage locked when He pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson Found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on A case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued The homeowner’s insurance claiming the situation caused him undue Mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my Opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place !

4th Place :

Jerry Williams of Little Rock , Arkansas , was Awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the Buttocks by his next door neighbor’s beagle. The beagle was on a Chain in its owner’s fenced yard. The award was less than sought Because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little Provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence Into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

3rd Place :

A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on Soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on The floor because Ms Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 Seconds earlier during an argument.

2nd Place :

Kara Walton of Claymont , Delaware , successfully Sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from The Bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the Window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000. And dental expenses.

1st Place :

This year’s runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski Of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU Football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise Control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the Back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the Freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for Not advising her in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually Do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000. Plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this Suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.

The Latest Bra Innovation

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

The Latest Bra

Where is Tasmania?

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Now you know…

Aussie Map

Build Stone Henge In Your Backyard!

Monday, October 16th, 2006
ThisMancanMoveAnything
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Ultimate Domino Effect

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006


Easy Way to Peel a Potato

Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Cool/Easy way of peeling a potato
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The Red Folder

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Its Red so that you know where to find it in emergencies…

The Red Folder

Use the Red Folder wisely…

The Red Folder

The Red Folder

Are we all Monkeys?

Sunday, September 17th, 2006
What we are
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Packaged Ice Product

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

It’s now even easier to sell Ice to an Eskimo…

Popgadget has a good summary.

Ice Rocks Product

Image sourced from the product’s website.

Fainting Stiff Goats

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006


Water Powered Bike… More Free Energy?

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Bring on the Energy Revolution!

Steorn Creates Free Energy?

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Cool… that means I won't need to charge my mobile or laptop anymore ;-)

Wow, this is creating a bit of buzz at the moment. Sean McCarthy (CEO of Steorn Ltd) has recently been interviewed by Fox News also. 

However, if it is a hoax just to demonstrate the power of Internet as a media and marketing platform… then that would be really annoying… back to charging my mobile using a wall power socket ;-)

Face In The Sand

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

From a sand castle competition… 

Face In The Sand

Bloody Big Pig!

Sunday, August 6th, 2006
This Pig that was caught 300 klms south of Katherine (North Queensland, Australia).
 
They only caught it because their dogs were going missing and they finally figured it out… it was eating their dogs!

Big Pig

Lions In The Shade

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Imagine this…

You are a South African bush pilot. You fly in some critical medical
supplies, enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital.

It's a stifling 100 degrees in the shade and you're eager to get back up to
the cool, high blue yonder.

On the way back to your plane, you discover that the only bit of shade,
within 10 miles, has become very popular . . . You start calculating the
distance to the plane door . And wonder . .

  "Do I feel lucky today?"

 Lions In The Shade

Tiger Piglets?

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set
of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the
pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny
size, they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly
started to decline in health, although physically she was fine.
The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the
tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if
the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she
would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the
depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right
age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians
decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo
environment.

Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a
different species. The only orphans" that could be found quickly,
were a litter of weaner pigs.

The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and
placed the babies around the mother tiger…

Tiger Piglets

Tiger Piglets

 Tiger Piglets

 Tiger Piglets

A New Born Kitten with 2 Faces

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Two Faced Kitten
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inflatable space station

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

excellent!  now this is innovative, and great to see someone actually making progress toward further space endeavors. A space station that is inflatable and easily scalable may be what is needed to begin building larger and more affordable public space stations.

alternate energy and design

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

wind mills that blend into the landscape… we definitely need more of this kind of inovation and forward thinking if we're ever expected to sustain the human race past the next one hundred years, as Steven Hawkings question eludes to on Yahoo! Answers .