December 2010
21 posts
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Apostrophe Protection Society →
The Apostrophe Protection Society is a UK society that has “the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much abused punctuation mark”.
November 2010
29 posts
“The leading cause of insanity among the male patients was masturbation,...”
– Athens Lunatic Asylum
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False bus stops →
In Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany, some nursing homes build false, imitation bus stops for their patients who are suffering from dementia. Some of these bus stops are even fitted with outdated advertisements and timetables — 30 years outdated.
The patients will sit at the bus stop waiting for a bus to take them to their imagined destination. After some time the nursing staff comes to...
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“Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the song was placed on...”
– Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via notemily)
The Hum →
The Hum is a generic name for a series of phenomena involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming noise not audible to all people. Hums have been reported in various geographical locations.
The Hum is most often described as sounding somewhat like a distant idling diesel engine. Typically, the Hum is difficult to detect with microphones, and its source and nature are hard to...
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Alien abduction insurance →
Alien abduction insurance is an insurance policy issued against alien abduction. The insurance policy is redeemed if the insured person is abducted by aliens.
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List of people who have claimed to be Jesus →
This is a list of notable people who have made statements claiming to be Jesus of Nazareth or the Second Coming of Christ in some form.
Fictional elephants →
Bloop →
The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.
The NOAA does not believe its origin is human, such as a submarine or bomb, or familiar geological events such as volcanoes or earthquakes. It was several times louder than the...
Jedi Census Phenomenon →
A phenomenon in which 390,000 British citizens listed their religion as Jedi Knight on a 2001 census form, which made Jedi Knight the fourth-largest religion in England and Wales.
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Bibliomania →
Bibliomania is an obsessive–compulsive disorder involving the collecting or hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged.
Other abnormal behaviours involving books include book-eating (bibliophagy), compulsive book-stealing (bibliokleptomania), and book-burying (bibliotaphy).
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Compassionate Investigational New Drug program →
The Compassionate Investigational New Drug program, is a program allowing a limited number of patients to use National Institute on Drug Abuse-provided medical marijuana grown at the University of Mississippi.
There are only seven surviving patients who were grandfathered into the program, which is not accepting new patients. Each participant has been receiving up to nine ounces of marijuana per...
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McDonald's products (international) →
Egypt: McFalafel sandwich
Hong Kong: Pasta Soups with Sausage or Chicken (on the breakfast menu)
Indonesia: McRice, a small mound of steamed, plain rice
Greece: Spring rolls
Mexico: The Flaming Hot Doritos Quarter Pounder, a Quarter Pounder burger with a layer of Flaming Hot Doritos and a layer of guacamole
Parasite single →
Parasite single is a Japanese term for a single person who lives with their parents until their late twenties or early thirties in order to enjoy a carefree and comfortable life. In English, the expression “sponge” or “basement dweller” may sometimes be used. The expression is mainly used in reference to Japanese society, but similar phenomena can also be found in other...
Brompton cocktail →
Brompton cocktail is an elixir meant for use as a pain suppressant, and dosed for prophylaxis. Made from morphine or heroin, cocaine, gin, and sometimes with Thorazine to counteract nausea, it was given to terminally-ill individuals (especially cancer patients) to relieve pain and promote sociability near death.
A common formulation included “a variable amount of morphine, 10 mg of...
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occono asked: Do you personally edit Wikipedia?
Jonathan Lee Riches →
Jonathan Lee Riches is a prisoner known for the many lawsuits he has filed in various United States district courts.
Some of Riches’ defendants are not even people or potentially suable. These include “Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party” and the “13 tribes of Israel”. One lawsuit, which includes George Bush, also includes another 783 defendants that...
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Coin Coalition →
The Coin Coalition is an organization supporting the elimination of pennies and dollar bills from U.S. currency. It is funded by vending machine companies, video arcade owners, and the soft drink industry, who all have an interest in eliminating maintenance costs associated with dollar bill validators.
Although copper miners and other interest groups backed the Coin Coalition on this issue, they...
wtfjeselle asked: I find it humorous that your tumblr theme is so elegant while you have a post on "Rat Man." Good times.
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Rat Man →
“Rat Man” was the nickname given by Sigmund Freud to a patient. The nickname derives from the fact that one of the patient’s symptoms was an obsessive fantasy concerning two people close to him, in which a pot of rats was fastened to their buttocks to gnaw into the anus.
Fart Proudly →
“Fart Proudly” (also called “A Letter To A Royal Academy”, also called “To the Royal Academy of Farting”) is the popular name of a “notorious essay” about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin circa 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France.
The essay goes on to discuss the way different foods affect the odor of...
Entombed animals →
Entombed animals are animals reportedly found alive after being encased in solid rock (and sometimes coal or wood) for an indeterminate amount of time. The accounts usually involve frogs or toads. The reputed phenomenon, sometimes called “toad in the hole”, has been dismissed by mainstream science.