Entries from Foolish Questions tagged with 'Weird and Wonderful'
Fried Beer
Well, I guess I should devote a few spare words to the laetsts food craze sweeping the Intratubes - Fried Beer. Frankly, I'm disappointed. Yes, I know that I have, in the past espoused the fervent belief, backed up by...
Infamous Final Words
So a few days ago, at the kitchen table, Mary and I entered into a discussion about last words. Specifically, things people say just before they suffer a tragic and yet terribly ignominious death. The ones we all conjure in...
More Engineering Fun
I thought I'd continue with the engineering theme for a while, because they say 'write about what you know' and also 'a penny saved is a penny earned', and lets not forget 'never pat a burning dog'*. To these we...
Pico Dwelling
All hail engineers! We rule! We're also a strange people, what with our insistence on measuring stuff, calculating weight distributions, and all that graphing. And don't get me started on Electrical Engineers. But we do have our good points. For...
Truly, Deeply, Madly Bad Ideas
Deep from the depths of American product promotion ideas come a new and horrifying twist on that perennial breakfast icon - the Poptart. Now, to be honest the humble poptart really isn't the worst idea for a breakfast food that...
Marmite Shocker
Marmite stocks have fallen. Marmite prices have risen. Disaster stalks outside your door. Is it locked? Are you prepared? Can you be prepared for a potential disaster of this magnitude? Can anyone? Are there any more mock terror questions I...
Why Engineers Make Bad Mid-Wives
Via Boing Boing, comes an interesting flash-back to those halcyon days of yore when engineers were men, and nothing but men, and completely clueless about how things like physiology, and biology, and human interaction actually work. Not that that would...
National Ice Cream Month
Did you know there was a National Ice Cream Month? Neither did I. I suppose there's a National day, week, or month for pretty much everything nowadays. Especially, things or services that can be exchanged for cash. But as it...
The Past as the Far Future
For the holidays, which wow, are long past, I received besides the usual four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (it's in my contract), an unspecified amount of coal futures, some string, and a book. Specifically a book of...
The End of History As We Know It?
You know, part of the fun of this blog is searching for, and writing about, things that are strange, unusual, and sometimes beyond the pale. Occasionally, you find something that is not just beyond the pale, but beyond the ken...
Wine Enthusiast
Not the magazine. This! Now this is just awesome. How many times have you sat there and lamented the fact that you had to keep getting up and go refill your wine glass? True, it's probably due to the fact...
Austen Days
It's that time of the year again. The time I dread, well, a little, though not nearly as much as say, Tax Day for instance, or Annual Check-Up Day, or Scrubbing Tile and Grout Day, not to mention Colonoscopy Day...
Our Woodland Fiends
I was going to title this Under Siege - but that has already been used in a semi-crappy movie (and it's semi-crappy only because it has Tommy Lee Jones in it, otherwise it would be full-on crappy). Besides, now it's...
Canned!
Oh good, another post about canned food. But this time it concerns awesomely bad ideas for canned food, so different. Okay, maybe not that different, but in the present example there's also a whiff of fraud and a slight taint...
Meditations on Cheese!
Or the semblance of cheese. We were talking over lunch about the upcoming trip to Europe and I mentioned that for the life of me I couldn't really think of any famous German cheeses. French, English, and Italian - yes,...
Sandwich of Doom
It's hard to believe that even KFC could top itself in the category of 'Things That WILL Almost Certainly Kill You If You Eat Them' after the KFC Bowl o' Fatty Starch Starch. But they have. And with little...
Bicycling in Style
Along with the recent discovery of Chap magazine and the mounting suspicion that I had been stolen from the manorial estate in East Sussex while still a babe and deposited with uncouth colonials in that most ghastly of all...
The Chap
Mary has alerted me to the existence of the Chap, a magazine of exquisite taste and refinement that I've been looking for all my life. Well, in actuality I've been looking to acquire exquisite taste and refinement for all...
Men Are Shallow, Women Need To Deal
Recently, my wife, love of my life, vastly more intelligent in all things that actually count, said to me, " I don't understand men." This is an amazing statement. I mean - what's not to understand? Men are shallow....
Early Birds, Worms, You Know The Parable
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This Is Why You're Fat
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Death Wishes
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Hi! Missed me?
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FDGD, The Big Day
As a reminder, previously we'd written about Frozen Dead Guy Days both here and here. On our second, and regrettably last day at Frozen Dead Guy Days, we drove back up to Nederland to take in all the major...
Frozen Dead Guy Days, The Champagne Tour
At the thrilling conclusion to our last chapter about the glittering celebration that is Frozen Dead Guy Days, we recounted our attendance at the Ice Blue Ball. Besides checking out the locals and visitors who were vying for the...
OMGawd
Via, Jaunted, there comes a report on something so revolutionary, so earth shaking that I'm almost at a loss for words. Or I would be I didn't have this handy on-line thesaurus. It seems a minor league team...
Star Trek Fans are the Funnest Peoples
The New York Times today had an article on people (ok, men) who build replicas of the command chair that Captain Kirk sat in on the original Star Trek series. This pleases me in so many ways. I love...
Frozen Dead Guy Days
Frozen Dead Guy Days, or as the cognoscenti refer to it, FDGD, is a celebration about Nederland, Colorado's most famous resident. Actually, I'm not at all sure if he qualifies as a resident. See, he's dead. Dead and frozen....
Weekend Plans
Well, we're off shortly to attend the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival in Nederland, CO. I'm not going to explain about it right now, as I expect to have lots of good stuffs to write about later. It promises...
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