Turning Trees Into Art Artist, Peter Cook, created this living garden chair, grown via the ‘Pooktre’ method. Pooktre art, or Tree Shaping, is the practice of training living trees, and other woody plants, into artistic shapes and useful structures. Anyone Can Learn Anyone can learn Pooktre, however don’t expect to create your first masterpiece over night. The piece on the …
Scumbag Backpacks In a risky marketing move, Blind Chic’s released its Scumbag backpack, and it has been an awesome hit with skateboarders! And, with a name like Scumbag, it had better be awesome! Plenty Of Room Constructed from durable olive green waxed cotton canvas, it offers plenty of room for goodies in its light blue lined interior, and its way …
Be More Green With many stores now charging for plastic bags, and with the environmental push for people to be more green, bringing your own eco friendly bag when you go shopping is the way to go. But, what happens if you are out shopping, and a disaster happens? The Perfect Shopping Bag Well fear not! We’ve found the perfect …
True or False? A scientific study, supposedly predicting that the naturally blonde-haired segment of the human population (blondes) will die out within the next few centuries, by the World Health Organization, found that natural blonds are very likely become extinct within two hundred years. According to the WHO study, the last natural blond will likely be born in Finland during …
Do you prefer paper or plastic? You go to the bank, withdraw ten new Canadian one hundred dollar bills, and later leave your purse in your car. It’s hot enough to be bootcamp for Hell, so when go to fill up with gas on the way home, and pay for it, you pull out a worthless, melted glob of plastic …
Indian Athletes Just Don’t Stand A Chance In 1912, Harold Anson Bruce, coach of the undefeated Caucasian Lafayette College track team, had a team so good that other schools refused to even compete against them. Desperate to find some competitors and after hearing rumors that a coach, “Pop” Warner, at the Carlisle Indian School had a contingent, Bruce invited the …
Was The Stanley Cup Left In A Snowbank? Hockey’s Ultimate Prize Donated by the Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley, in 1892, the Stanley Cup has the names of every team (and almost all of the players) who have won it engraved upon it. Now hailed as the holy grail of hockey, the Stanley Cup has had some pretty wild …
The Bloody Truth It’s well known that the band ‘KISS’ created their characters based as much on comic book superheroes as from their music. So, it was only natural for them to one day star in their very own comic book. Not one to miss a lucrative money making opportunity, Marvel Comics issued the first ‘Super Special’ KISS comic book …
Take Your Kids To The Creepiest Zoo In The World – Gaza’s Khan Younis Zoo So, what do you do when you are very good person, who is caught in a very bad situation with a bunch of really rare and exotic animals? Well, a visit to the Khan Younis (South Forest Park) Zoo in the Gaza strip will give you …
Solid Diamond Ring If you want to buy your girl a diamond ring and I mean a REAL diamond ring, you’d better start saving now. Presenting the world’s first diamond ring that’s made entirely out of a single diamond rock. It is simply brilliant in every sense of the word. No Silver, Gold Or Platinum Used There’s not a trace …
Will’s Thoughts – Dang Potholes! Happy pothole season! Yep, it’s that time of year again and everyone around here has a story about a monstrous paved black hole in the road that they or a relative almost lost their life in. Our potholes are truly legendary and yet, as much as people complain about them, they do serve a purpose …
We were noticing a small leak from the toilet yesterday, so we are fixing it before it gets to be a major reno. I should mention that the hubby is repairing it, as I am not allowed to be around him when there are issues of a “plumbing” nature. I hear him in the kitchen rummaging through my baking cupboard. …
Guardian Angel Ghost Story… This story was told to me by a good friend of mine, and I have no reason to suppose that it’s not true. My pal, Mick, stays in Enfield, London. His wife started to have the same dream, night after night. In her dream, she was walking through a part of a town that she’d never …
Religious students failed an exam for not helping a beggar. This story is based upon a real study of religious students that was conducted for a social psychology class at Princeton University during 1970. In order to study the influence that variables can have on compassion, seminary students were asked to take part in a study on religious education and …
True or False? The points of the maple leaf on the Canadian flag represent the provinces and territories. In the years since the adoption of the current Canadian flag, many claim that the number of points (11) on the maple leaf it features have special significance, such as; representing each of the Canadian provinces and territories (one for each of …