Offbeat Museums
Some people are just pack rats; keeping anything they think might have some use in the future or for which they have an emotional attachment. Taken to extreme, this becomes hoarding.
But if you’re only mildly nutty, you might turn your hoarding impulse into a means of fleecing a buck off your fellow man. How does this work? Well just turn your collection of useless crap into a Museum!
Here are some of the stupidest, quirkiest, or creepiest museums:
Ken "Bananister" Bannister created the Banana Museum almost 40 years ago. We're wondering what banana-induced childhood trauma inspired this.
Like a side order of cancer with your museum experience? Well you might not actually get cancer from visiting the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, or superpowers, but you will get to see movies of awesome explosions.
We're not sure why, but Independence, MO is home to a museum dedicated to jewelry made out of human hair.
Wow a museum about teleph *Zzzzz... zzzzzz* *hack* *cough* uhh, sorry, fell asleep.
So if you're the wife of a deposed dictator, known only for your extravagant waste of public money on your shoe collection, what do you do to make a quick buck when you're no longer allowed to suckle at the public teat? Easy! Create a museum to display the 3000 pairs of shoes you bought on the taxpayer's dime. This was Imelda Marcos' retirement plan.
This museum is popular with bachelors and college students all over the world. Because if you run out of money for actual food, there's always Ramen! Even better, admittance is free. Of course, you need to get to Osaka Japan first.
And the winner of the 2010 Most Pointless Museum is this place, dedicated to miniatures of "the world's biggest" things.
Lara Crap: Fridge Raider
Some people should just stick to playing video games, instead of trying to live them.
'scuse me, just going for a quick puke; back in a minute.
Once Congress sees this pic of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, all bets are off.
You know what's truly "Fail" (besides this image)? Stamping "FAIL" on something thinking you're making a contribution to humor.
I think this lass is the victim of a translation error. The "Boob Raider" thing was a joke.
O.E. Kenobi takes a break from kicking back some malt liquor to mack on the ladies.
We're going to guess Female, but these days, who the hell knows?
This isn't a costume. It's his work uniform at Bubba's Termite and Pest Control.
This version of Lara Croft is from the a rejected, early plot line where she goes undercover into the dangerous world of women's figure skating.
So the other day, we were all discussing the merits of the ancient Spartans throwing babies off of cliffs. Now it all makes sense...
Meh, could be worse. But she's totally going to limp-wrist that if she pulls the trigger.
KILL IT WITH FIRE
Yes mommy, I do really want to be Lara Croft for Halloween this year and not a Princess. Please don't beat me again.
Facebook is a Dude
May 12th, 1 PM CST: The moment when Facebook became sentient.
And apparently it’s been rifling through your private image galleries.
The Kama Sutra of Sports
Can you feel the love tonight? We’re pretty sure Elton John would totally approve of the following displays of unintentional affection.
Ok, that last one’s just wrong. Intentionally wrong.
Illegal Immigrant Ingenuity
Ever since there have been borders, there have been people looking to cross them without permission. Whether it’s dodging communists at the Berlin Wall or evading ICE at the Rio Grande river, some people have gone to great lengths to out of one country and into another. Here is a photographic tribute to their ingenuity.
Actually, we’re totally lying. If these folks were truly ingenious, we wouldn’t have photographs of them in the first place.
It’s Prom Season!
Which is why anyone with a lick of common sense is staying indoors for the next few weeks.
The Magnificent Sport of Goose Pulling
Ahh, the good old days. When men were men, women were women, and lemonade was waiting for you after a hard day’s work plowing the field or rustling some cattle. It was a simpler time, when Sundays were for Church, but Saturdays were for competitively ripping the heads off of birds.
So yeah, the “good old days” were anything but. Life was much harder, and people were much more cruel. We’ve since evolved, as a race, past the point where we’d even consider participating in a sport where you had to run/ride/jump/etc towards an animal dangling by its feet and attempt to yank its head off.
Right?
Of course not.
All that’s missing is one of these “athletes”, breathless and with bloody goose head in hand, looking at the camera to exclaim “Welcome to my world, the world of Red Bull”.
Lord Jesus Christ, Hit and Run Victim
When 20-year-old Brittany Cantarella got behind the wheel of her car on a Tuesday morning in Western Massachusetts, running over the son of God probably wasn’t on her list of things to do. Then again, neither was paying attention to people in the crosswalks between her and her destination.
Police responding to the scene, upon examining the victim’s identification, noted that his legal name was “Lord Jesus Christ”. The man was taken to the hospital for minor facial injuries. At this time there has been no word on any miraculous recovery, or any forgiveness of the driver; she was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
Monkey Butlers for Disabled Soldiers
Wounded Afghanistan veteran Tim Jeffers is assisted by his trained monkey, Webster. The monkeys are donated to disabled troops by a charity.
“He leaps into action at the point of a laser pen and can fetch on command” said Jeffers. ”Webster can operate a remote, get objects from a high shelf and open jars of peanut butter…”
Wouldn’t it just be easier to have the monkeys do the fighting in the first place?
Real Life Modern Warfare “Bling”
Upon raiding a major drug lord’s house in Jalisco, Mexican authorities discovered a cache of over 30 weapons including gold plated and diamond-studded handguns and assault rifles.
Of course, aside from the WTFactor involved in this story, you’ll only really get the joke if you’ve played Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2. Then again, who hasn’t?
