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A Compelling Argument For Blue Laws, Protection Against Satan [Newspaper Archives]
HEADLINE: Wilmington blue laws help block Satan’s progress Wilmington Morning Star: Friday May 18th, 1984 [Google News Archives]
Sasquatch Unjustly Co-Opted By Hand-Wringing Earth Day Propoganda
Cryptomundo is rightly ticked off by the name dropping of Sasquatch on the new “Adventure’s of Bobby Bigfoot” website designed to teach kids about sustainability and green living. See, we leave a carbon footprint, Bigfoot has a big...
Military Throws Hat Over The Wall For Flying Car
Want to know one way to not get blown up by Improvised Explosive Devices? Fly around in a totally sweet flying car! The Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has cleared the Transformer (TX) program for takeoff. If it flies, by 2015...
When Is A Sheep-Pig Not a Sheep-Pig?
When the cuddly little bugger is not actually a hybrid between the two animals but rather an (adorably) hairy version of a regular ol’ hog. That hasn’t stopped some media outlets from referring to the beast as a half-breed between the two...
Yup, Humans Totally Banged Neanderthals
Talk about a morning after… You roll over and realize that exhilarating night of grunting, running and grunting had led to you totally doing it with a Neanderthal. What scandal! What ever will the neighbors think? Archaic humans such as...
Sadly, Your Brain Is Going To Remain Lazy No Matter How Hard You Train It
From Scientific American. The largest trial to date of “brain-training” computer games suggests that people who use the software to boost their mental skills are likely to be disappointed. The study, a collaboration between British...
Top Secret Air Force Space Plane Launches, Conspiracy Theorists Start Your Engines!
A space plane designed to demonstrate the sustainability of a reusable, military-operated vehicle designed to orbit the earth will launch soon from Cape Canaveral, Florida. What happens after that is not of your GD business. But whether...
Pine Trees, Calls To Satan, Salesman: 10 Sure Fire Olde Tyme Wart Cures
Walk it Off – an abridged compendium of ye olde folk remedies and archaic antidotes culled from UCLA’s Archive of American Folk Medicine Today’s ailment: WARTS Old MacDonald had a Wart Fetish You will need: 1 Farmer Instructions: Have...
Pravda Covers The Icelandic Volcano The Only Way It Knows How
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Australians Say They’ve Spotted Crop Circle Equivalent In Weather Radar
Even good old fashioned crop circles are getting totally pwned in the digital age. Corn-stopping shapes are totally old and busted, mysterious digital radar patterns are the new hotness in Australia. THEY are the digital-age equivalent of...
Bob Saget Is On The Hunt For Bigfoot
Bob Saget is shooting a new show for A&E entitled Strange Days where he hunts down the strangest elements of our society, including Bigfoot, which was the episode he was shooting last week. “Bob Saget’s Strange Days” delves into weird,...
Hobbit Fight Breaks Out At Anthropology Conference
New controversial new research suggests that a separate “hobbit” hominid evolved on an Indonesian island after migrating from Africa more than one million years ago. Apparently they had the “There” part down. “And Back Again”? Not so much....
Sexy Lady Clothing Revealed As Cause Of Recent Earthquakes By Cleric
That explains a lot. “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by...
Oklahoma Town Barely Manages To Call Mangy Raccoon A Cryptid
You know, you see enough bizarre animals and after a while it probably just gets tiresome calling them all proof positive of urban legends. Just ask Adair, Oklahoma. They went and found themselves a mangey raccoon and try as some locals...
Near Death Experiences Linked To (Boring) Depravation Of Oxygen
The magical Monet-esqe dreamscape where your soul mingles with the realm beyond, only for your Grandmother to pause her game of bridge with your pee wee football coach so she can tell you that your time on earth isn’t over, after all who...
Monkey Police On The Patrol In Thailand
If this isn’t the coolest picture ever taken, I don’t know what is. Santisuk Phromdao is a pig-tailed macaque monkey from Sai Buri district, Patttani province, southern Thailand. Although only five years old, Santisuk patrols the streets...
Astronauts Could Build Base On The Moon Out Of Lunar Dust
Hey space fans, don’t be blue that Mean Ol’ Obama said we aren’t sending men to the moon anytime soon. Because once we get there… our pad is going to be totally sick thanks to a new 3-D printing technology that could turn boring lunar dust...
New Zealand Cameraman Gets Mugged By Octopus
No one expects to Sget their camera stolen by an octopus. Which makes it the perfect crime… [Stuff.co.nz via Pharyngula]
Your Brain Can’t Tell Up From Down Inside Your Mouth
Ever pointed out which tooth is killing you to the dentist, only for the smug dong to give you a wide-eyed glance, then shoot a bemused look at the hygienist, then give you a patronizing “suuuuuuuure it’s the back right molar” whilst...
Family Gets More Crowded, Evidence Of New Human Relative Found
From Stone Pages.com. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig recently announced that analysis of DNA from a tiny fragment of bone from the Denisova Cave in the Siberian Altai Mountains indicates...