After 250,000 miles (400,000 km), most cars are on the brink of death.
Irv Gordon has passed this limit ten times over:
Irv has clocked 2,600,000 miles on his 1966 Volvo 1800S.
This is the equivalent of driving to the Moon . . . ten times.
(via Tina)
Alternate Title: “Noooooooo!”
Finding mice in hotdogs is no real surprise.
But a mouse in a hotdog bun . . .
(via Julie, Breitbart TV)
Yes, you heard me right.
Mike.
Chicken.
Headless.
(image: Wikimedia Commons)
In the 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen cut the head off of “Mike” the chicken. However, Olsen managed to strike the chicken at the base of the head – mostly decapitating it – but leaving part of the bird’s brain in tact. Remarkably, the headless chicken still walked about, made pecking motions, flapped its wings, and survived for 18 months (Olsen fed it with an eyedropper into its “neckhole”). Olsen toured the country with “Headless Mike” and they even made an appearance in Life Magazine. The town of Fruita, Colorado (Mike’s hometown) now proudly displays a headless chicken statue in his honor.
Wikipedia link
Legends of America link
Mike The Headless Chicken (Official Site) link
Meaning “Goat Sucker” in Spanish, the Chupacabra is a mysterious creature that haunts the American Southwest, Central America, and the Caribbean; according to reports, it has a penchant for drinking the blood of livestock.
Last week the town of Cuero, Texas got yet another “Chupacabra” visitation (Scientific American link):
Last year, Cuero resident Phylis Canion found a dead “Chupacabra” on her property [below left] – DNA testing of this specimen at UC Davis identified the maternal DNA of a Coyote (Canis latrans) and the paternal DNA of a Mexican Grey Wolf (Canis lupus baieyi), but the grey hairless appearance of the creature cannot be easily explained by either lineage (KVUE News link).
(left photo: Associated Press)
Blogadilla Mutant Research Facility Results:
The above two examples of “Chupacabra” look remarkably like a native Mexican breed of dog known as the Xoloitzcuintli (sho-lo-eetz-kwin-tlee) [above right]. This Precolombian Mesoamerican breed (known by the Aztecs and ancient Maya) is medium sized, most often hairless, and with skin ranging from pink to blue-grey to black. This breed still exists in northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
A feral population around the town of Cuero, Texas could have easily interbred with other wild canids – such as Coyotes and Mexican Grey Wolves – to produce these ugly Xoloitzcuintli mixes. The short front legs of the top example can be explained by any number of natural processes such as inbreeding, hybridization, natural variation, or poor interpretation of the video footage.
The Second Great Mystery of Cuero, Texas: This guy’s haircut.
A nearly six-foot-long Black Headed Python appeared in the toilet of a 10th floor apartment in Darwin, Australia.
The likeliest explanation: it is a pet that escaped through sewer pipes.
The second likeliest explanation: someone pooped a python.
[Note: Though this story has all the sound and smell of an urban legend, I can attest that it is completely true: this story happened to me and the wedding photos are mine.]
The wedding photographer went rogue and did unrequested art experiments on my wedding photos: he made all of the photos glowing white and blue. Everything looked sickly and bright, like our wedding took place near aboveground nuclear testing.
Trying to be polite, I requested several reprints that captured the actual colors of the event and that didn’t look like we were arc welding. I also requested a disc of all of the raw digital photos, in the event he decided to f*% up the reprints as well.
Weeks later I get the disc and only about half the photos are on it. And the disc contained extra photos: The last 60 photos on the disc were of a young woman. Naked. And she was not at the wedding. And the photographer was in some of these photos, too. He was also naked. And in several of the photos, his *&^%$ was in her *@#$%.
And though the marriage ended in sorrow and I don’t care what color the photos are anymore, this is still a good story and it needed to be posted for the sake of posterity.
These are actual photos (edited).
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