FUNBOY OF THE WEEK – RANDY CANDY!

“HELL IS EMPTY, THE DEVILS ARE RIGHT HERE!”

THE WORLD’S MOST BIZARRE ANIMALS!

Mike, the Headless Chicken: Lived for 18 months with its head cut off

Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 – March 1947) was a Wyandotte rooster (cockerel) that lived for 18 months after its head had been cut off. Thought by many to be a hoax, the bird was taken by its owner to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish its authenticity.

On Monday September 10, 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorado, had his mother-in-law around for supper and was sent out to the yard by his wife to bring back a chicken. Olsen failed to completely decapitate the five-and-a-half month old bird named Mike. The axe missed the jugular vein, leaving one ear and most of the brain stem intact. Once his fame had been established, Mike began a career of touring sideshows in the company of such other creatures as a two-headed calf. He was also photographed for dozens of magazines and papers, featuring in Time and Life magazines. Olsen drew criticism from some for keeping the headless chicken alive. In March 1947, at a motel in Phoenix on a stopover while traveling back home from tour, Mike started choking in the middle of the night. As the Olsens had inadvertently left their feeding and cleaning syringes at the sideshow the day before, they were unable to save Mike.

Oscar, the cat: predicted the impending death of terminally ill patients

Oscar was adopted as a kitten from an animal shelter and grew up in the third-floor dementia unit at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The unit treats people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses, most of whom are in the end stage of their illnesses (where death is imminent) and are generally unaware of their surroundings.

After about six months, the staff noticed that Oscar, just like the doctors and nurses, would make his own rounds. Oscar would sniff and observe patients, then curl up to sleep with certain ones. What surprised the staff was that the patients with whom Oscar would sleep would generally die within two to four hours after Oscar’s arrival. One of the first cases involved a patient who had a blood clot in her leg that was ice cold at the time. Oscar wrapped his body around her leg and stayed until the woman died. In another instance, the doctor had made a determination of impending death based on the patient’s condition, while Oscar simply walked away, causing the doctor to believe that Oscar’s streak (12 at the time) had ended. However, it would be later discovered that the doctor’s prognosis was simply 10 hours too early – Oscar later visited the patient, who died two hours later.

Oscar’s accuracy (currently standing at more than 25 reported instances) led the staff to institute a new and unusual protocol – once he is discovered sleeping with a patient, staff will call family members to notify them of the patient’s (expected) impending death.

Most of the time the patient’s family has no issue with Oscar being present at the time of death; on those occasions when he is removed from the room at the family’s request, he is known to pace back and forth in front of the door and meow in protest. When present, Oscar will stay by the patient until he or she takes their last earthly breath – after which Oscar will sit up, look around, then depart the room so quietly that one barely notices.

Abilities aside, what makes his “last hour” companionship more puzzling is that Oscar is described by Dr. David Dosa as “not a cat that’s friendly to [living] people.” One example of this was described in his NEJM article. When an elderly woman with a walker passed him by during his rounds, Oscar “[let] out a gentle hiss, a rattlesnake-like warning that [said] ‘leave me alone.’”

Tillamook Cheddarm, the dog: world’s most successful animal painter

Tillamook Cheddar is a Jack Russell Terrier from Brooklyn, New York. Widely regarded as the world’s preeminent canine artist, she has already had seventeen solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. Tillie is eight years old.

In July 2005 the artist gave birth to six healthy puppies. One of her sons, Doc Chinook Strongheart Cheddar, continues to live with her. Thus far, Doc has not followed his mother in her artistic forays. Her first official biography, Portrait of the Dog as a Young Artist by F. Bowman Hastie III, is published by Sasquatch Books (2006).

The artist’s primary process is a dynamic color transfer technique. In preparation for each of Tillie’s works, her assistants assemble a touch-sensitive recording device by affixing pigment-coated vellum to a sheet of lithograph paper backed by mat board. The artist takes the prepared “canvas” in her mouth and brings it to her workspace. Working on the outside surface, she applies pressure with teeth and claws in a methodic ritual marked by dramatic shifts in tempo and intensity. The resultant sharp and sweeping intersecting lines complement the artist’s delicate paw prints and subtle tongue impressions, composing an expressionistic image that is revealed on the paper beneath when she is finished. She works with shocking intensity, sometimes to the point of destroying her creations.

Alex, the parrot: ould count to six, identify colors and even express frustration

Alex (1976 – September 6, 2007) was an African Grey Parrot and the subject of a thirty-year (1977-2007) experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard and Brandeis University. Pepperberg bought Alex in a regular pet shop when he was about one year old. The name Alex is actually an acronym for Avian Learning EXperiment.

Before Pepperberg’s work with Alex, it was widely believed in the scientific community that birds were not intelligent and could only use words by mimicking, but Alex’s accomplishments indicated that birds may be able to reason on a basic level and use words creatively. Pepperberg wrote that Alex’s intelligence was on a par with that of dolphins and great apes. She also reported that Alex had the intelligence of a five-year-old human and had not reached his full potential by the time he died. She said that the bird had the emotional level of a human two-year-old at the time of his death.

Alex’s death came as a complete surprise; the average life span for African grey parrots is fifty years. He had appeared healthy the day before, and was found dead in the morning. According to a press release issued by the Alex Foundation, “Alex was found to be in good health at his most recent annual physical about two weeks [before his death]. According to the vet who conducted the necropsy, there was no obvious cause of death.” According to Pepperberg, Alex’s loss will not halt the research but will be a large setback. The lab has two other birds, but their skills do not approach Alex’s.

On October 4, 2007 The Alex Foundation posted the Pathology results: “Alex died quickly. He had a sudden, unexpected catastrophic event associated with arterosclerosis (“hardening of the arteries”). It was either a fatal arrhythmia, heart attack or stroke, which caused him to die suddenly with no suffering. There was no way to predict his demise. All of his tests, including his cholesterol level and asper levels, came back normal earlier that week. His death could not be connected to his current diet or his age; our veterinarian said that she has seen similar events in young (<10 year old) birds on healthy diets. Most likely, genetics or the same kind of low-level (impossible to detect in birds as yet) inflammatory disease that is related to heart disease in humans was responsible.”

Washoe, the chimpanzee: knew sign language

Washoe (around September of 1965 – October 30, 2007) was a chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn American Sign Language. She also passed on her knowledge to three other chimpanzees, Loulis, Tatu and Dar. As part of a research experiment on animal language acquisition, Washoe developed a modest ability to communicate with humans using ASL. She was named for Washoe County, Nevada, where she was raised and taught to use ASL. Washoe had lived at Central Washington University since 1980; on October 31, 2007, officials from the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute on the CWU campus announced that she had died the previous day.

Oliver, the “Humanzee”: a human-chimp hybrid

Oliver was acquired as a young animal (around 2 years old) in the early 1970s by trainers Frank and Janet Berger. Supposedly, the chimpanzee had been caught in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire). Some physical and behavioral evidence led the Bergers to believe Oliver was a creature other than a chimpanzee, perhaps a human-chimp hybrid: Oliver possesses a flatter face than his fellow chimpanzees (as his front teeth were removed young, he did not develop an exaggerated prognathus jaw); Oliver was habitually bipedal (before being struck with arthritis), never walking on his knuckles like his chimpanzee peers; and Oliver may have preferred human females over chimpanzee females. During a recent Discovery Channel special, Janet Berger herself claimed that Oliver was becoming attracted to her when he reached the age of 16. He mounted her and tried to mate with her. After he tried it several times it became apparent that Oliver was a threat to Janet, and had to be sold. Still, Oliver was not the clownish performer his chimp peers were, and other chimps avoided him. Some people claim he did not possess a typical odor common to chimpanzees.

Cacareco, the Rhino: won Sao Paulo’s council elections with 100,000 votes

from www.oddee.com
Cacareco, a rhinoceros at the São Paulo zoo, was a candidate for the 1958 city council elections with the intention of protesting against political corruption. Electoral officials, of course, did not accept Cacareco’s candidacy, but he eventually won 100,000 votes, more than any other party in that same election (which was also marked by rampant absenteeism).

BIZARRE CLIP! – I DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS IS!

THE WORLD’S MOST BIZARRE PHOTOSHOP MISTAKES EVER!

Need an extra hand?

Nice stomach on the “Before” picture

World’s smallest waist – Maxim Mexico

The model apparently had a stroke during her shoot (right eye)

The only cereal that makes you white

Yeah, nice legs

No head. From Sports Illustrated

At 4 am, somewhere, a designer who needs Photoshop training wakes up and utters “OMG! I forgot to put her finger back in”

Is she’s about to devour her friend?

Madonna’s Microcephalic issue

So what’s wrong with this girl’s arm?

Ok, how many hands do you actually have Lady Guineviere?

THE WORLD’S MOST BIZARRE YEARBOOK PICS & PORTRAITS!

Lil John in 1989

DUMB YOUTUBE VIDEO CALLED IMAGINARY JUMP ROPE – WTF IS THIS ALL ABOUT? (from RANDY CANDY)

THE WORLD’S MOST BIZARRE MUGSHOTS OF ALL TIME! – THEY LOOK LIKE EMPLOYEES AT www.apmllc.com!

20 Most Bizarre Mugshots ever

Dion Milam: Murder

Anna Clifford: erratic driving

Matthew Gibeault: Possession of Drug Paraphernalia

Denise Dean: multitude of charges

Curtis Lichter: Burglary

Elijah Payne: Assault with a Deadly Weapon and Kidnapping

Trevor Newbauer: Disorderly Conduct

Mary Reaves: Obtaining Property with a Worthless Check

Robert McDonald: Theft

Jon Paul Matterson: Driving Under the Influence

Elaine Vengen: Trespassing

Rosa Judith Vazquez: Battery and Criminal Mischief

Carlton Davis: Theft

Susan Creecy: Sexual Battery on a Victim Under 12

Deborah Smith: Theft

from www.oddee.com

WORLD’S MOST BIZARRE THINGS IN JAPAN! (from www.oddee.com)

A Solar-powered Bra!
It can generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone or an iPod!

Diet water

Indoor Beach

Spaghetti fan

This is how you sleep on the metr

Pet Friendly Car

Nintendo Tattoo

A sumo wrestler shopping for a mouse

Square watermelons

Head me some paper roll!

MODERN DAY X-MEN! (from www.oddee.com)

Published on 11/27/2007

With so many superhero movies around, such as Spiderman or Hulk, we are used to see people with special abilities in fiction.
But people with amazing abilities actually do exist in real life; here’s a list of 10 of the most amazing of these people!

The Incredible Brain (Daniel Tammet)

Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted
with a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and
natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood
epilepsy.
Experiencing numbers as colors or sensations is a well-documented form
of synesthesia, but the detail and specificity of Tammet’s mental
imagery of numbers is unique. In his mind, he says, each number up to
10,000 has its own unique shape and feel, that he can “see” results of
calculations as landscapes, and that he can “sense” whether a number is
prime or composite. He has described his visual image of 289 as
particularly ugly, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful.
Tammet not only verbally describes these visions, but also creates
artwork, particularly watercolor paintings, such as his painting of Pi.

Tammet holds the European record for memorising and recounting
pi to 22,514 digits in just over five hours. He also speaks a variety
of languages including English, French, Finnish, German, Spanish,
Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto. He
particularly likes Estonian, because it is rich in vowels. Tammet is
creating a new language called Mänti.
Tammet is capable of learning new languages very quickly. To prove this
for the Channel Five documentary, Tammet was challenged to learn
Icelandic in one week. Seven days later he appeared on Icelandic
television conversing in Icelandic, with his Icelandic language
instructor saying it was “not human.”

The Boy with Sonar Vision (Ben Underwood)

Ben
Underwoodtaught is blind, both of his eyes were removed (cancer) when
he was 3. Yet, he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle, and lives a
quite normal life. He taught himself to use echo location to navigate
around the world. With no guide-dogs, he doesn’t even need hands: he
uses sound. Ben makes a short click sound that bounces back from
objects. Amazingly, his ears pick up the ecos to let him know where the
objects are. He’s the only person in the world who sees using nothing
but eco location, like a sonar or a dolphin.

The Rubberboy (Daniel Browning Smith)

Five time Guiness Record holder, The Rubberboy
is the most flexible man alive and the most famous contortionist.
He has been in many professional basketball or baseball games and on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN’s Sports Center, Oprah Winfrey,
Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Cirque du Soleil, Best Damn Sports Show
Period, The Discovery Channel, Men in Black 2, HBO’s Carnivale, and
CSI: NY and American got a talent.
He dislocates his arms to crawl through an unstrung tennis racquet. He
performs contortion handstands and unique acrobatics.

Mister Eat-it-All (Michel Lotito)

Michel
Lotito (born 1950) is a French entertainer, famous as the consumer of
undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-it-all).
Lotito’s performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and
so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller
items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The aircraft took
roughly two years to be ‘eaten’ from 1978 to 1980. He began eating
unusual material while a child and has been performing publicly since
1966.
Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even
after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When
performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding
it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water
during the ‘meal’. He apparently possesses a stomach and intestine with
walls of twice the expected thickness, and his digestive acids are,
allegedly, unusually powerful, allowing him to digest a certain portion
of his metallic meals. Watch the Video at YouTube.

King Tooth (Rathakrishnan Velu)

On August 30, 2007, the eve of Malaysia’s 50th Independence Day,
Rathakrishnan Velu (or Raja Gigi, as he is known locally) broke his own
world record for pulling train with his teeth, this time with 6 coaches
attached weighing 297.1 tons over a distance of 2.8 metres at the Old
Kuala Lumpur Railway Station. Raja Gigi, from Tampin in Malaysia
learned a technique of concentrating his powers to any part of his body
from an Indian guru at a young age of 14.

The Magnetic Man (Liew Thow Lin)

Liew
Thow Lin, a 70-year-old retired contractor in Malaysia, recently made
news for pulling a car twenty meters along a level surface by means of
an iron chain hooked to an iron plate on his midriff. He says that he
discovered he had the amazing ability to make objects stick
“magnetically” to his skin, and now he’s added car-pulling to his
repertoire. After reading an article about a family in Taiwan who
possessed such power, he says he took several iron objects and put them
on his abdomen, and to his surprise, all the objects including an iron,
stuck on his skin and didn’t fall down. Since this “gift” is also
present in three of his sons and two grandchildren, he figures it’s
hereditary.

The Man who doesn’t Sleep (Thai Ngoc)

Sixty-four-year-old
Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after
getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep
during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. “I don’t know
whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I’m still
healthy and can farm normally like others,” Ngoc said. Proving his
health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district
said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to
return home every day. His wife said, “My husband used to sleep well,
but these days, even liquor cannot put him down.” She said when Ngoc
went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean
bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function. Ngoc
currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with
farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children
live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work or
guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months
of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish.

The Torture King (Tim Cridland)

Tim Cridland doesn’t seem to feel pain like the rest of people. He
astounded everyone by pushing needles into his arms without flinching
and he now performs a terrifying act for audiences all over America.
Scientific tests have shown that Tim can tolerate much higher levels of
pain than are humanly possible. He explains that, by using mind over
matter, he is able to push skewers through his body and put up with
extreme heat and cold unharmed – but to do this safely he has
extensively studied human anatomy, because puncturing an artery could
be fatal.

The Lion Whisperer (Kevin Richardson)

Animal
behaviourist Kevin Richardson says he relies on instinct to win the
hearts and form an intimate bond with the big cats. He can spend the
night curled up with them without the slightest fear of being attacked.
His magic works not only work for lions but other animals such as
cheetahs, leopards and even hyenas do not hold a threat against him.
Lions are his favourites and its a wonder how he can play, carress,
cuddle with them whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through thick
steel. Its a dangerous job but to Kevin, its more of a passion for him.

The Eye-Popping Man (Claudio Pinto)

Claudio
Pinto can pop both of his eyes 4 cm (about 1 and a half inch) or 95%
out of their sockets. He’s now aiming (poppin’?) for a world record.
Mr Pinto has undergone various tests and doctors say they have never
seen or heard of a person who can pop the eyes as much as him. Mr
Pinto, from Belo Horizonte, said: “It is a pretty easy way to make
money. “I can pop my eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from
God, I feel blessed.”

THE WORLD’S MOST BIZARRE PHOBIAS! (from www.oddee.com)

Papaphobia: fear of the Pope

Regarded as one of the most benevolent and wonderful individuals in the world, millions flock to him, hoping for his blessing… except for those who suffer “Papaphobia”: an abnormal or persistent pathological fear of the pope or the papacy. Symptoms can include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread. And it might not be only about the pope himself; a person with papaphobia may also be fearful of the Roman Catholic Church, so keep that popemobil away from them!

Arachibutyrophobia: fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

Say what? You heard it. Eating a peanut butter sandwich is challenging for people with aracibutyrophobia, as they will freak out if the butter sticks to their mouth.

Trichophobia: fear of loose hairs

If there’s a hair in your soup you’re fine, but if you see them everywhere, you might be suffering Trichophobia. From Greek Thrix (hair) and phobia (fear), it’s the morbid disgust or fear caused by the sight of loose hairs on clothing or elsewhere.

Nomophobia: fear of being out of mobile phone contact

How do you feel when your phone has no network coverage? Can you turn off your mobile for a whole day? Whether you have run out of credit or battery, lose your phone or are in an area with no reception, being phoneless can bring on a panicky symptom in our 24/7 culture, described as “Nomophobia”.

Ephebiphobia: fear of teenagers

First coined as the “fear and loathing of teenagers,” today the phenomenon is recognized as the “inaccurate, exaggerated and sensational characterization of young people” in a variety of settings around the world. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg has attributed the generation gap and the “increasing segregation of youth from adults in American society” to “adult estrangement and fear of youth.” Fear of youth and their rejection is often disguised in a permissive attitude toward them.

Scopophobia: fear of being looked at

Feeling an intense and irrational fear of being looked at or stared at, Scopophobics tend to avoid large public places such as shopping malls and other large gatherings of people. Even simple tasks like driving a car can be very difficult, as the sufferer will experience an acute sense of fear and uneasiness as they irrationally perceive others are staring at them, either from the cars beside them, or from the cars in front or back of them in their rear-view mirrors.

Spectrophobia: fear of mirrors

This kind of specific phobia involves a morbid fear of mirrors and the dread of seeing one’s own reflection. Psychoanalyst Sandor Ferenczi attributed it in one case to two main causes: fear of self-knowledge and flight from exhibitionism.

Phagophobia: fear of swallowing

In milder cases a phagophobe eats only soft and liquid foods, and its fear is expressed in various swallowing complaints without any apparent physical reason detectable by physical inspection and laboratory analyses. Phagophobia may lead to (and be confused with) fear of eating, and the subsequent malnutrition and weight loss.

Vomitophobia: fear of vomiting

Vomitophobia is the irrational fear of vomiting, being around others who are vomiting, and/or the vomit itself. In worst case scenarios, people with this particular phobia tend to avoid eating out, socializing and going to parties. They may hardly eat at all and that’s why many are often diagnosed as anorexic, but not bulimic as this illness involves being overweight or at a healthy weight.

Triskaidekaphobia: fear of the number 13

One of the most common fears, but still senseless, even Adolf Hitler was triskaidekaphobic. There a specific fear of Friday the 13th as well, called paraskavedekatriaphobia. Tetraphobia is the fear of the number 4, more popular in China, Japan, and Korea.