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Five Mysterious Skulls

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:59:20 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: www.cultcase.com

The Horned Skull

Clip Source: www.cultcase.com

Pennsylvania in the 1880s

human skulls were unearthed

were anatomically correct, except for the anomaly of their projections

Starchild Skull

found in a mine tunnel, 100 miles Southwest of Chihuahua

“fibers” in the bone of the skull and a reddish residue, neither of which are known or recorded to exist prior to the discovery

Peruvian Skulls

originate from Peru

Similar skulls have been excavated in Mexico

Suggestions that the skulls were altered by a process of binding the skull in infancy

have been rejected

Robert Connolly Discoveries

was researching the paper “In Search of Ancient Wisdom" when he came across these intriguing skulls

Bulgarian Skull

discovered in 2001, the Rodopi Mountains, Bulgaria

Tags: skulls, human, mysterious

Blackbeard (S9 Biography)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:05:58 GMT

clipped by: revenantdm
clipper's remarks: The Scourge of the Spanish Main and the last Great Pirate of the Age of Sail (Jean LaFitte was a smuggler) Blackbeard's life is shrouded in myth and legend and facts about him are verd hard to verify 300 years later.
Edward Teach or possibly Thatch, was famous for several things that are documented and reek of the strange and as Kenneth Hite says, High Weirdness.
He would drink a mixture of gunpowder and rum set aflame... Talk about a Belch you do not want to be around.
He tied "slow matches" (used for lighting cannons) into his hair and beard so there would be a wreath of smoke around his head.
He shot his best friend and first mate, Israel Hands in the knee, crippling him for life just a day before his death at Okecroake Island off NC. When Israel asked why, Teach said he was saving his life! (Knew about his own death? Planned it himself?)
Weirdest Fact: Held Charleston, SC hostage for several weeks until his ransom was paid - a box of Native herbs and Tobacco...

See what I

Clip Source: www.s9.com

Blackbeard(orig. Edward Teach)

Born: 1675 AD

Died: 1718 AD, at 42 years of age.

Nationality: English
Categories: Adventurers, Felon, Terrorist

Blackbeard

1675 – Born- November 23rd, in Bristol, England. Edward Teach better known as Blackbeard was a notorious English pirate who had a short reign of terror in the Caribbean Sea.

1716 – He served as a pirate under Benjamin Hornigold who retired in 1717, taking advantage of an amnesty extended to privateers by the British government.

1718 – His best known vessel was the Queen Anne's Revenge, which is believed by some to have run aground near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina and died this year.

Tags: biography, blackbeard, pirate, bio, weird, s9, buccaneer

20 Great Mark Twain Quotes Pt 1 (1-6)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:54:45 GMT

clipped by: revenantdm
clipper's remarks: Come on! It;s Mark Twain, you cant paraphrase Twain!

Clip Source: listverse.com

20 Great Mark Twain Quotes

“I am not AN American,” Sam Clemens once quipped. “I am THE American.”

Here is a collection of twenty of his greatest quotations

1. Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

2. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

3. The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

4. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn’t any. But this wrongs the jackass.

5. There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him–early.

6. There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he less savage than the other savages.

Tags: mark twain, quotes, quips, witty, funny, social commentary, great

Top 10 Bizarre Coffins

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:50:05 GMT

clipped by: revenantdm
clipper's remarks: Yes I have been addicted to lists since I was given my first copy of the Book of Lists.... and last month, I bought the newest version of the Book of Lists which has not been written and published in 15 years... This one caught my Discerning Reaper Eye Socket!

Clip Source: listverse.com

Top 10 Bizarre Coffins

Here are ten bizarre coffins for those who like to, well, “die” on the wild side!

A Perfect Eggsecution

If You’re Not Chicken…

Stop Wining!

High as a Kite

Perhaps the coffin was designed for a person that liked kite flying

The UFC

why not choose a UFC - Unidentified Flying Coffin

Jaws of Death

who would get buried in this? A fisherman? A mafia godfather?

Not One For the Vampires

his coffin perhaps indicates that the person was good at something at least

One For the Vampires?

Perhaps it was made for a vampire child who hadn’t been taught not to run with wooden stakes

Pine Away Pineapple

hope that the person who ordered this coffin just grew them for a living

Rock And Roll Lives! Well, Maybe Not

Decca records, when they refused to sign the Beatles, said that

the guitar was on its way out

To be replaced by what exactly? The stylophone?

Perhaps Rolf Harris can have one made in that particular shape when he climbs his very own stairway to heaven!

Tags: coffins, caskets, death, remains, burial, funny, lists, list

10 Weirdest U.S. Museums

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:51:11 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Interesting information with links to each museum site...

Clip Source: www.wackyarchives.com

The 10 Weirdest U.S. Museums

1. First created in 1927 to help adults that wanted to quit smoking,

dispensers grew to such a number that they needed their own museum - the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia in Burlingame, CA

2. The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices or “Quackery Hall of Fame

Prostate Gland Warmer (a 4.25 inch probe with a blue light bulb at the end)

3. The Glore psychiatric museum in St. Joseph, Missouri

The National Museum of Health and Medicine located in Washington DC

pieces of Abraham Lincoln’s skull and the bullet that killed him

5. Devil’s Rope Museum located in McLean, Texas

a demonstration on how to make a barbed wire,

Museum of Bad Art located in Dedham Square, Massachusetts

Helendale, California lies the Exotic World Museum or the Burlesque Hall of Fame

The International UFO Museum & Research Center

9. “Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum

10. The Circus World is America’s Circus Museum located in Baraboo, Wisconsin

formerly

“Mother of Circuses,”

Tags: museum, odd, bizarre, collection, us

Draw 1 to get 1

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:48:34 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Draw a sketch, submit and receive someone else's sketch in return. You get to see how it was drawn, as well. Fun!

I received a much better sketch than I submitted. I wonder who will see my man fishing?

Clip Source: www.sketchswap.com

Tags: draw, art, swap, fun, sharing

Looking for a new brand of T.P.? Here's one (NSFW)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:33:48 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: A new (for me anyhow) brand of toilet paper that is all about truth in marketing. Err, it's hard to explain, but the clip gives a reasonable summary.

Clip Source: www.shitbegone.com

ShitBegone toilet paper is a quality product that exemplifies your attitude and approach to life.

Part journey of discovery, part assertion of responsibility, part embrace of life, ShitBegone expresses hope and belief that a better world is possible.

ShitBegone is 100% recycled paper. Our rolls are 2-ply, 500-sheet, and individually wrapped.

For best results, ShitBegone (as all toilet paper) should be used folded, not crumpled. Folding toilet paper instead of crumpling it makes it feel softer, and saves paper too. Here at ShitBegone, we don't mind if you use less toilet paper— in fact, we'd prefer it. Just as long as you use ShitBegone.

That gets to the deeper philosophy behind ShitBegone. ShitBegone is truth in marketing. We sell unembossed paper because it's a better value. Our 100% recycled, unembossed paper is cheaper, easier, and more efficient to make— and just as good to use as even the most expensive, heavily marketed, 100% virgin fiber competitor.

Tags: weird, product, toilet

Parallel Universes - BBC documentary - Part 1 -5

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:41:14 GMT

clipped by: einbar

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us. In fact, our gravity is just a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Parallel Universes - BBC documentary - Part 1

Parallel Universes - BBC documentary - Part 2

Parallel Universes - BBC documentary - Part 3

Parallel Universes - BBC documentary - Part 4

Parallel Universes - BBC documentary - Part 5

How Tattoos Work

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:51:15 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: The tattoo machine has remained relatively unchanged since its invention by Samuel O'Reilly in the late 1800s. O'Reilly based his design on the autographic printer, an engraving machine invented by Thomas Edison. Edison created the printer to engrave hard surfaces. O’Reilly modified Edison’s machine by changing the tube system and modifying its rotary-driven electromagnetic oscillating unit to enable the machine to drive the needle.

Clip Source: health.howstuffworks.com

How Tattoos Work

Not too long ago, most Americans associated tattoos with sailors, bikers and sideshow artists. But tattoos have become more popular in recent years, and the people who get them are as diverse as the styles and designs they choose. And some people who would never think of tattooing pictures or symbols onto their bodies use permanent makeup -- a type of tattoo -- to emphasize their eyes and lips.

In this article, we'll look at how the tattoo process works and examine the safety and legal issues surrounding it.

Artists create tattoos by injecting ink into a person's skin. To do this, they use an electrically powered tattoo machine that resembles (and sounds like) a dental drill. The machine moves a solid needle up and down to puncture the skin between 50 and 3,000 times per minute. The needle penetrates the skin by about a millimeter and deposits a drop of insoluble ink into the skin with each puncture.

Tags: how, tattoos, work

George Carlin Has Died

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:06:43 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.etonline.com

George Carlin Has Died

ET breaks the news that comedian George Carlin has died from heart failure. The man who made famous the "seven words you can never say on television" passed away at 5:55 p.m. Sunday at Saint John's Hospital in Santa Monica, his longtime publicist said. He was 71.

Carlin has more than 20 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, numerous TV and movie roles, and three best-selling books to his credit. Last year, he celebrated his 50th year in show business, and he had just finished his last HBO special in March, "It's Bad for Ya."

Carlin, who has had several heart attacks and a history of cardiac issues, went into the hospital this afternoon after complaining of heart problems.

Tags: george carlin, died, comedy

learn to conduct an autopsy!

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:24:14 GMT

clipped by: boozich
clipper's remarks: bizarre stuff - flash based but still...

Clip Source: www.webupon.com

This website is definitely not for the faint hearted or for those who do not like the sight of a little blood. It is a step by step guide to what happens during an autopsy procedure. Watch with glee or your heart in your mouth as the first incisions are made and the bodily organs removed. A superb guide to what goes on in the autopsy room, but don't blame me if your dinner makes a reappearance!

Autopsy

The Graffiti Creator

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:58:38 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.graffiticreator.net

The Graffiti Creator

Tags: graffiti, creator

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:24:35 GMT

clipped by: tylava9

Clip Source: www.collegeafterhours.com

body painting

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:18:47 GMT

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Clip Source: mrstarstuff.stumbleupon.com

George Orwell

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:59:36 GMT

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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

Tags: quote quotes