“Popular in the 1950s, Miss Tissue Head offered a kitschy alternative to a plain ol’ tissue box.”
Miss Tissue Head is available from teenagedopeslave.com
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Miss Tissue Head
“Popular in the 1950s, Miss Tissue Head offered a kitschy alternative to a plain ol’ tissue box.”
Miss Tissue Head is available from teenagedopeslave.com
Barbara Windsor Won’t Carry On
Barbara Windsor as Nurse Sandra May in Carry On Doctor (1967)
According to The Sun, Barbara Windsor has revealed she will NEVER take part in another Carry On film.
Babs, 68, who plays Queen Vic landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, just accepted the “Best Soap” award for EastEnders at the British Soap Awards.
Disappointed Carry On fans will have to make do with the Barbara Windsor action figure.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Make Your Own Dung Jars
Looking for a fun home science experiment? Make your own dung jar!
Watch as Pilobolus, a beautiful, jewel-like fungus develops in a few days on lumps of horse manure.
Be sure to keep a record of your dung jar.
e.g. Day One: I began my dung jar using a "horse apple" fresh from the horse today. I placed it in a pint jar on some paper towel with just enough water to wet the towel. Manure is green-black.
Laurence Fishburne aka Cowboy Curtis
Before he was John Brassel in Mission Impossible III. Before he was Dr. Larabee in Akeelah and the Bee. Before he was Morpheus in The Matrix. Before he was Othello. Before he was Jason 'Furious' Styles in Boyz N the Hood.
Laurence Fishburne was…
COWBOY CURTIS on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse!
During his stint on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Fishburne was credited as “Larry Fishburne.”
Through Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Fishburne met production assistant John Singleton, who would later direct him in his breakthrough part as Cuba Gooding Jr's father in "Boyz N the Hood."
Watch a video clip of Cowboy Curtis where Pee-wee convinces him that vacuuming is fun.
Note: Stay tuned for more Pee-wee Herman-related postings on Infomaniac in future. Fellow Canadian blogger D. Prince and I are both passionate Pee-wee fans and I plan to amuse her from time to time with Pee-wee postings. And if any of you like Pee-wee too, please jump in and leave a comment.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Heists of the Week
Roller Coaster Stolen
Thieves in Bischofsheim, Germany, stole a 20-tonne roller coaster from a car park, where it was in a truck that was taking it to a nearby amusement park.
Officer Martin Gruber said, "We've no idea what the thieves could possibly want with it, and are appealing to the public for help. The last thing we want is for amateurs to try putting it together."
Sod it!
Thieves stole a California homeowner’s entire front yard including grass, bushes and sprinklers.
A suspect was arrested and the landscaping was returned to the victim.
Thieves in Bischofsheim, Germany, stole a 20-tonne roller coaster from a car park, where it was in a truck that was taking it to a nearby amusement park.
Officer Martin Gruber said, "We've no idea what the thieves could possibly want with it, and are appealing to the public for help. The last thing we want is for amateurs to try putting it together."
Sod it!
Thieves stole a California homeowner’s entire front yard including grass, bushes and sprinklers.
A suspect was arrested and the landscaping was returned to the victim.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Naked Yoga
With nude yoga all the rage these days, you might want to invest in these Yoga Mat Cleaning Wipes. Clean your mat...Calm your mind!
Fawlty Towers: “The Germans” Sketch
I’ve just added a link to Fawlty Towers “The Germans” sketch in my “Don’t Mention the War” posting. Or just click here to see it.
Friday, May 19, 2006
The Ministry of Silly Walks
It’s… a video clip of The Ministry of Silly Walks sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
John Cleese: The Minister of Silly Walks
Don’t Mention the War
Goose-stepping ist verboten
English football fans planning to attend the World Cup in Germany have been warned that provocative behavior like making Nazi salutes or goose-stepping in public will be punished.
In "The Germans” episode of Fawlty Towers, Basil Fawlty (played by John Cleese) instructs his hotel staff to be on their best behaviour for their German guests. Yet Basil loses his composure and screams, “Don’t mention the War!” as he goose-steps around the room.
In an effort to encourage a World Cup free from xenophobia and bigotry, John Cleese, going by the moniker The First Eleven, has recorded a football song called “Don’t Mention the War.”
The ditty contains such catchy lines as They might have bombed our chip shop 60 years ago, But a billion pints of lager later, here we go.
More on Cleese's World Cup peace bid from the Times.
Update: Here’s a video clip of Fawlty Towers “The Germans” sketch.
Naked Rambler
The Naked Rambler is back in the news.
Stephen Gough was arrested at Edinburgh Airport when he came off a flight. Gough boarded the flight fully clothed but emerged naked from the airplane toilets and refused to put his clothes back on. Full story from the BBC.
Gough first made news when he walked the length of Great Britain from Land’s End to John O’Groats, naked. He has been arrested and incarcerated on several occasions.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Female Merit Badges
Mary Yaeger’s embroidered female merit badges illustrate feminine rites of passage including pregnancy, breast exam, pelvic exam, and inserting a tampon.
Cramps
Today is the Happiest Day of the Year
Put on a happy face
Today, May 18, is the happiest day of the year according to happiness expert Dr Cliff Arnall from Cardiff University.
It’s spring, the days are sunnier and longer and there is a holiday soon.
Last year, this same expert deemed June 24th as the happiest day by working out the following equation:
O + (N x S) + Cpm/T + He.
O = outdoors and outdoor activity
N = nature
S = social interaction
Cpm = childhood summers and positive memories
T = temperature
He = holidays and looking forward to time off.
Irish Strip Poker Battle in the Buff
Ireland may play host to the world's biggest strip poker tournament.
If Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has its way, the contest will take place at a secret venue in Dublin this summer as they try to earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
A survey uncovered that more than 50 per cent of online poker players enjoy playing in the nude. So Paddy Power decided it was the perfect way to take Ireland’s mind off not being at the 2006 World Cup.
A spokesman said, “We’re going to bring this record home to where it belongs, Ireland. We may have missed out on the World Cup finals this year but we’re going to go down in history this summer as the finest naked poker players on the planet!”
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
How Scottish Are You?
The aim of the game “How Scottish Are You?” is to match six avatars representing various parts of Scotland to the correct parts of a map.
Via [World Cup Blog]
Lonely Irish Surfers and Randy Brummies
According to Google Trends, "lonely" is the word entered most frequently by Internet users in Dublin, Ireland. Residents of Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand followed a close second and third.
“Porn” was searched for most often by people from Birmingham, England with Manchester close at their heels.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Penile Portraitist Update
Monday, May 15, 2006
Builder’s Bum / Plumber’s Crack
Could this be the end for builder’s bum?
Underwear designers at Jockey have invented a cotton-spandex mix designed with “revolutionary 8 way stretch capabilities” to stay put on the body and eliminate that cheeky glimpse known as “builder’s bum” or “plumber’s crack.”
3D Innovations sell for £10 in the UK and $14 in the US. They’re available from Debenhams stores, figleaves.com and jockey.com
And if the new undies don’t work, there’s always Plumbers Butt Caulk.
Just say no to crack!
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