Weird, bizzare, funny or otherwise interesting things that don’t belong in any other catagories.
When a group of thieves ran up to a jewelry store and started smashing the windows with sledgehammers, most people sat back and watched…except an older woman named Ann Timson. Timson ran at the men and started wailing on them with her purse until they rode off on their scooters. Learn more about seniors who could kick your ass in this Cracked article.
This week I got to check out the food, fun and frivolity that is the San Diego Fair and here is the result. While I didn’t eat any wacky doodle foods (just fried calamari and a cinnamon roll), I did document all the craziness.
This was the one booth that did tempt me, being as how I am a huge cheese fan and macaroni and cheese in a cup sounded great, as did deep-fried cheese curds.
Last year, this booth made all kinds of waves with their deep-fried butter and chocolate-covered bacon, and this year they stepped up their disgusting fatty food game with deep-fried bacon and chocolate covered corn dogs.
While I didn’t get any of the crazy food, my friend did try the chocolate-covered corn dog and the result was surprisingly boring. According to him, the melty chocolate covering completely covered up the flavor of the corn dog. I had some of the chocolate-covered bacon last year and I have to admit, it suffered from the same problem -mostly because the bacon slice was so thin it would be hard to taste without a chocolate covering.
This is the most famous of the food booths, featuring deep-fried Girl Scout cookies and deep-fried Kool Aid.
They’re so popular that they actually have two connected kitchen trucks.
One of the fair’s longest-running food stands, this barbeque joint serves up killer smoked ribs and grilled chicken for the greatest prices of any fair booths.
Inside the wood-working room was this sexy wood bikini.
There was also this incredible replica of every wand from the Harry Potter movie series. A geek’s dream.
All in all, a great time was had by everyone and I highly recommend anyone in the area stop by and enjoy yourself.
Update: It occurred to me that this video from Charlotte’s web was a suiting addition to the post.
It goes without saying that there were a lot of USSR residents who longed to escape to live in a democracy, but few of them were so determined as to jump off a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean and swim their way to freedom. Read about this amazing escape and more in this great Cracked article.
They say a true artist is never limited by his canvas. If that’s the case, then these guys definitely meet the qualifications.
There’s something so delightfully wrong about replacing a baby and it’s mother or father’s heads in a photo. See more here.
This wedding proposal that was actually created by the company that puts out Borderlands is so ultimately geeky and cute that it made me tear up the first time I saw it. For more awesomely nerdy proposals, check out the 8 I wrote up for Neatorama and the 12 recently featured on Oddee. If you’ve ever wanted to ask a gamer, blogger, or any other type of geek to marry you, there are some great ideas in there too.
It’s hard not to love these amazing pictures of older folks reflecting on their younger selves in the mirror.
Did you know Jackie Chan had eye widening surgery or that Rita Hayworth was once a Mexican dancer named Margarita Carmen Cansino? Learn more about celebrity ethnic makeovers in this Cracked article.
There are a number of great balloon artists, many of which are included here, but I absolutely adore this one by Mark Verge.
When a corgi’s owners decided to adopt two ducklings as pets, they certainly didn’t expect the ducklings to treat the corgi like it was their parents…but they sure did and the results are simply precious.