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Tuesday, August 05th, 2008 | Author: Adium

As of lately I tend to live in starbucks, which has its pros and cons like everything else. Since nowadays an Internet connection is required in order to obtain a job I am left with little other options.

Tired of sitting in front of the computer and wanting to stretch my legs I decided to give my father a call and walk around the store a bit.  This starbucks is rather small and only has four tables which are rarely ever all taken.  There are about 4 more outside as well.

In the middle of writing a forum post I walked outside and made my call.  In the middle of the call I noticed this one person walk over to my computer and start staring at it.  At first I thought he was inspecting the screen as it does tend to catch some eyes.  After more than a minute I knew this guy could be doing nothing more than reading what was left open on the screen, I walked in still on the phone and closed the laptop.  They guy gives me a dirty look, asks me is my screen is cracked, and I ignore him then walk back outside to finish my call.  A minute or two later he leaves and in passing says “Goodbye weirdo”.

If I had been on the phone with anyone but my father I probably would of jumped this guys case as I already was in a touchy mood from him reading whatever was on my screen.  A forum post is basically public information but that fact that someone thinks that they can just stop and stare at a foreign screen then insult the person who takes offense too it just puzzles me.

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Saturday, August 26th, 2006 | Author: Adium

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with…

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great kings from history!
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
Hearts - Charlemagne

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.

Question - This is the only food that doesn’t spoil. What is this? Answer - Honey

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

“Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the english language.

If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.

If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

Scientists in Australia’s Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.

Strange-but-true The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the fourty-eight poorest nations.

The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!!!!

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Sunday, June 11th, 2006 | Author: Adium

I saw this add on another site and thought it too be a rather unusual approach.

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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 | Author: Adium

I saw this the other day while going to work. He was walking slower than me but same path I was going right along the side of the road. I didn’t suspect anything until I got up next to him to pass and looked down. Startled me so much I nearly jumped right into oncoming traffic. I was so freaked out I just about started running. (Then I figured I had to take a picture so coaxed it into a driveway).

I don’t know what happened to it, or if it was in any pain. But if you can’t tell from the picture (I am warning you, you may not want to look) the dog is literally missing half its face. Its kind of hard to see that I mean it when I say “literally” cause of the long hair, but I wasn’t about to move it out of the way to get a good Kodak moment.

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The skin/fur on the right side of its face has been scrapped off exposing its teeth and making it seem rather intimidating when you’re looking at him. His nose is completely gone except for half of his left nostril, the top row of teeth on the entire side that I could see were missing, and his fur was all knotted and dirty like he had lived on the streets for a while. Because of the long hair I couldn’t tell if he was missing an eye or not, but the way he was walking straight along the side of the road without wandering into traffic I could tell he did have at least one working eye. Despite all this he actually seemed rather friendly considering I got right in his face to take his picture (I passed at the opportunity to pet him). He kind of posed for me; I just wish I had my real camera and not just the one on my phone. It’s been a couple days now and I haven’t seen the dog again. I have been keeping a close eye out for him curious if he is still alive or where he came from. I almost feel sad for him, but what can I do? Kill him with my pocket knife right there on the street? It’s not like Korea has a game warden I can call either.

If I find out more on this guy I will post more.

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Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 | Author: Adium

Ever want a:
A crunchy all beef taco, slathered in nacho cheese, lettuce, tomato, and our special southwestern sauce.
Wrap it in a soft flour tortilla, with a layer of refried beans
Wrap that in a corn tortilla, with a middle layer of monterey jack cheese
Wrap that in a deep fried gordita shell, smear on a layer of special guacamolito sauce
Bake it in a corn husk, filled with pico de gallo
Wrap that in an authentic Parisian crepe filled with egg, gruyere, merguez sausage, and portabello mushrooms
Wrap that in a Chicago-style deep-dish meat lovers’ pizza
Roll it up in a blueberry pancake, dip it in batter, deep-fry it until it’s golden brown
Serve it in a commemorative tote bag filled with spicy vegetarian chili.

Well someone did, and they made the damn thing. (http://blog.myspace.com/drewsloan) Looks like it would be quite the work out to make it…, then again you could always say you did! I think I would get too hungry and impatient making the damn thing. Not too mention one would cost around $50.

Hmmm…, anyone game?!?!

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