Strange But True Category
Weird, offbeat and bizarre news from around the world. Funny, strange & odd news stories that make you wince, laugh and fear for humanity.
An Atlas Of Mortality In Britain
THE Grim Reaper’s road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain…
The Grim Reaper’s road map is essential reading for academics and students of social medicine, sociology of health and illness, and epidemiology.
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Posted: 20th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Caution: Door Opens In Braille
Posted: 20th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Arrested For Sex With A Car Wash
WASH. Blow. Wax.
To Swan Creek Township, where a man is residing at the Saginaw County Jail, Michigan, for “receiving sexual favors from a vacuum” at a Thomas Township car wash.
Favours? Was the vacuum a willful participant in this perversion? Does it do it only for the tokens? Is it a perversion – are vacuum cleaners all pining for human contact of a more carnal sort. Is Henry giving you eye?
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Posted: 19th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
When A Blt Is Not A BLT
THE BLT…
Posted: 19th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
The Modern Artists Want Your Meat
OLD MR Anorak has instructed his workers to create a new art collection: But It Is Art. The Anorak exhibition will focus on the very best in the world of art…
This week: Meat After Meat Joy, at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York City.
Meat After Meat Joy brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work… in order to investigate the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body. Meat combines flesh, skin, muscle, organs, blood – each with its own relationship to the body, yet meat’s only reference to the body is as a once-upon-a-time living biological thing.
Meat combines nail, hoof, eyelid and burger…
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Posted: 18th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
How Weak Is Your Bladder?
NEED to go? You spend your penny, you take your chances..
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Posted: 18th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (28)
The Sabatier Centro Turbo: It’s The Shaving War Stupid
WHEN Old Mr Anorak shaves, he just pulls forward his ears and ups the power and “power shaves”.
Wilkinson Sword are bringing out the new Ventotto in an aim to say one step ahead of the much-anticipated and feared Gillette Otto.
There is talk of Sabatier getting in to the mail grooming market with the Cento, a six-foot high phallus to modern manhood that requires the shaver to stand in the “Sheath Zone” while the blade shears him of every scrap of body hair.
The Cento Turbo promises to do the job of the fasted back, crack and sack man in the comfort of your own home.
Shaving is in an arms race.
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Posted: 18th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Keep One Step Ahead Of The Misery
KEEP ahead of misery…
Spotter: Raj Karia
Posted: 18th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Cigarettes Are Good For Your Chest
RAO Jiacang uses cigarette packets to cover the hole in this chest following heart surgery.
See how his heart beats… (not for everyone)
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Posted: 17th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Space Smells Of Fried Steak, Hot Metal And Paris Hilton
SPACE smells of fried steak and hit metal.
Steven Pierce is a smellologist addressing pupils at Moorside High School, Manchester.
“We have already produced the smell of steak, but hot metal is more difficult.”
The Sun solicits the views of Sir Patrick Moore, who tells us that “nothingness cannot really have a smell.”
We commend to Sir Patrick’s attention Paris Hilton, who has a number of signature scents on the market…
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Posted: 17th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Judge Rules That God Has No Fixed Abode
TO NEBRASKA, where news is that it’s still there, for now:
A judge has thrown out a Nebraska state legislator’s lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn’t properly served due to his unlisted home address.
Whose house? God’s house.
State Sen. Ernie Chambers filed the lawsuit last year seeking a permanent injunction against God. He said God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents in Omaha, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.”
But no. Got moves in mysterious way, much like the judiciary:
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Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Police Log: Daughter And Grandson Cook Granny On Thanksgiving Barbecue
POLICE Log: Anorak’s Look At Crime In The News…
“Two suspected of burning their relative’s remains in barbecue, stealing checks,” says the news from the US of A.
Anorak investigates:
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Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Exorcising Your Colon
“THIS is the first testimonial that I have ever taken the time to write, and it is the least that I can do to repay you for saving my life!”
Not, not us. It’s Colonix – the intestinal plunger in a box…
I have been using your product since April 1, 2005 and I am absolutely horrified at the results!!!
You might be too.
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Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Man Killed By Parents’ Headstone
TO remember in our prayers:
A 77-year-old man died in an accident at the Saint-Gregoire cemetery in Buckingham Monday evening.
Local police said the man had gone to work on his parents’ headstone.
“It appears he moved the stone and was digging a hole around the foundation when the concrete block fell on his back,” said Const. Isabelle Poirier.
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Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
A Free Knife With Every Box Of Cereal
YOU’VE knifed your T-shirt. You’ve knifed your Anorak. Hey, you’ve even knifed your kebab.
Now you can knife your milk.
And with the new strawberry flavour, you can watch the milk turn a satisfying blood red…
Spotter: Brighton Belle
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Posted: 15th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Tombstone For Sale
Posted: 15th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Getting A Teenager To Clean The Toilet With The Bible
MY teeanger just will nto clean the toilet. What can I do? Let the Good Lord show you the way:
Whether your teenager is 13 or 19, they really need to learn how to clean the bathroom. After all, pretty soon they’ll be grown and on their own. Cleaning the bathroom is something they need to learn how to do. Here are a few tips on how to encourage your teen to clean the bathroom…
A suggestion:
Quote from the Bible.
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Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (11)
Islam Is The Light, And Poos Like A Real Baby
ARE you thinking it? People in Kansas are thinking it.
Very soon dolls the world over will be thinking it. “Islam is the light,” says the Fisher-Price Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo.
Fisher-Price assures shoppers that the doll is a doll made of plastic and not a Muslim dwarf. Although, they too are among us…
Old Mr Anorak was once 2ft 6inches tall.
Posted: 14th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (10)
Boy Caught On Postman Pat’s Nose: Gary Glitter At Large
TO Northampton where a child is sat on Postman Pat’s reassuring lap.
No, no, gentle reader… Granted, Gary Glitter is at large, and, yes, he has taken to disguising his high hair beneath a bald wig and his tall heels in brogues. But this is not such a tale.
Although the child is in anger.
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Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Shot By Oven
POLICE Log: Anorak’s Look At Crime In The News…
Oven Stoves In Woman
SEKIU, Wash. – A woman said she was shot in the leg by her stove. Cory Davis told the Peninsula Daily News she had just stoked her cast-iron heating stove Sunday when she heard a loud bang and was struck in her left calf.
What happened?
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Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (8)
Not In My Back Yard: WWF Conservationist Cuts Down Trees And Flies
CONSERVATIONISTS. They prowl the planet by (see below), minibus and boat to tell you what to do. And when they get home, as the Sydney Morning Herald notes:
THE wife of a convener of the Australian Conservation Foundation is being charged with the alleged removal of 150 trees on the couple’s Blue Mountains property.
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Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Learn English As I Give Spanish What You Mean
“LEARN as you learned the Spanish and I gave in English everything what you mean”…
Posted: 12th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (7)
The Funniest Thing To Come Out Of Germany Since A Panza Tank
IT’S not that Germans have no sense of humour. It’s that Germans have a different sense of humour to the British, the Americans and to any other people that rely on subtleties, wit, self-deprecation, irony and word play.
Old Mr Anorak maintains that the Germans killed so many Jews because they thought they were laughing at them. They weren’t – they were laughing at themselves. Had the Germans only joined in everyone would have been happy.
It’s not all bad. Germans can also laugh long and loud at the Austrians. And for that alone they should be admired. If the Germans can make a sitcom about the Swiss and their sense of civic pride we may yet laugh with them.
This is all by way of an introduction to German pop star Ramma Damma, aka Ulli Hopper. Thirty-five years ago he married a pineapple.
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Posted: 11th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Police Log: Little Shop Of Stolen Goods
POLICE Log: Anorak’s Look At Crime In The News…
An infamous shop sign blamed for blighting a town has been painted over to clean up its deprived image. It read “Rhyl’s biggest receiver of stolen goods” and has been the source of many complaints in the Denbighshire seaside resort.
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Posted: 11th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Boob Market
Behold, the Boob Market.
Posted: 10th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
