Category: weird stuff

Tweets and video about a man who lives in a Boeing 727

I can’t believe this really happened

I had to read Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy in high school. I thought it was terrible and full of implausible plot developments.

I wrote a paper in school parodying it. In the book, a character is stung by an adder and dies at a very convenient moment. In my paper, I had someone get hit by a meteorite which I thought was equally plausible. I wrote that people were more concerned about getting the blood off the meteorite than they were about the victim.

Yesterday, I read that someone really did get hit by a meteorite.

One other note on the book. In Thomas McGuane’s The Bushwhacked Piano, there’s a character named Egdon Heath. Hardy’s book is set in Egdon Heath. I have always wondered if this was because McGuane loved Hardy or hated him.

John Bobbitt is back in the news

Anyone who was around in 1993 remembers the Bobbitts. See the YouTube video below if you don’t know this incredibly bizarre story. Now John Bobbit is back.

The best Bobbitt joke I remember was:

Q: What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbitt?

A: Are you going to eat that.

I remember watching CNN during a week when President Clinton was attending an economic summit in Europe. CNN led the broadcast with a routine day in the Bobbitt trial instead of the much more important summit. I thought “What does the rest of the world think of our priorities?”

Tweet and YouTube videos on the Dancing Plague of 1518

I had not know about the Dancing plague of 1518 until I saw this tweet