You have to wonder how the hell she learned about this talent, but it’s pretty clear that if she hadn’t we wouldn’t be able to watch he bizarre facial expressions after the jump.
You have to wonder how the hell she learned about this talent, but it’s pretty clear that if she hadn’t we wouldn’t be able to watch he bizarre facial expressions after the jump.
These pears, which are shaped like babies, were reportedly spotted at a Sam’s Club in Beijing. When a journalist from MIC went to investigate, the store’s staff apparently said they were sold out and didn’t know when they’d be getting more.
Strange as they are, there appears to be a point to molded baby pears:
Experts say the pears look like mythical ginseng fruits of Chinese folklore. In the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, the fruit is shaped like a young human head, and it takes ten thousand years to ripen. The individual who takes a bite can then live for another 47,000 years.
So, is Sam’s Club the key to eternal life? I always suspected it was Costco.
(via Kotaku)
For people who take beer way, way too seriously, there’s Beertone, a detailed reference guide that catalogs 202 Swiss beers by their color:
The bright beers will start the guide ending with the dark ones. Each Beer will be presented with picture, description and of course its color Information, RGB, CMYK, Web, SRM( that’s the beer color scale). We are shooting each beer, bottle and the beer itself in a glass.
I’d imagine this would be useful if you want your walls to look like beer, or if you want to compare it to your own urine to see if your favorite ale retained its color on its trip through your body. Whatever the case, the powers that be plan on expanding future versions to include beers from around the world. Pre-orders are now being accepted here.
(via CM)
You may remember Carlton Drought as the subject for the best beer commercial of 2012. If so, you won’t be surprised to learn that the company’s print ads are no less creative.
In order to promote Carlton Dry, the beer’s manufacturer engaged Clemenger BBDO of Melbourne, Australia, who came up with ads that show a guy wearing a shirt made of toast and another with someone wearing a cardboard snorkel in a sea of handi-wipes. Although there’s no commentary on the beer’s taste, the message is pretty clear that this stuff will f*ck you up… which is 100% of the reason people drink beer in the first place.
See an additional pic after the jump.
In a move that could have disastrous consequences for the hungry and ignorant, Minneapolis-based Carmichael Collective have made over urinal cakes so they look like mini versions of the type eaten at birthday parties and weddings. There doesn’t seem to be any details about potential availability, so your dreams of pissing out a candle may have to wait.
Marvel at additional pics after the jump.
As the story goes, this gem was found buried in a commercial break for a 1992 airing of a Swedish version of TMNT (though the horse head masks are a modern creation by Archie McPhee).
Check out the hilarious video after the jump.
YouTuber “mattv2099″ decided to subject his Glock to what he calls the “ultimate torture test”, which included submerging the gun in maple syrup, Jell-O, raw eggs, and vanilla pudding. How did it fare? Check out the series of videos after the jump to find out. Warning: Graphic pancake massacre footage.
If you’ve always wanted to peer inside of Ronald McDonald, you now have the chance thanks to this “Super-Sized” figure that was recently added to the stream of weird crap coming out of Japan. For roughly $116, you can own a transparent, neckless clown with glow in the dark innards that apparently serves no purpose other than to baffle you with its existence – and possibly serve as the origin of someone’s Coulrophobia.
Product Page: ($115 IS via Technabob)
If the Twinkie is somehow unable to find a buyer and fades into the annals of junk food history, one example will remain as a testament to the preservative-packed power of 20th century sweets.
In 1976 a science teacher from Maine named Roger Bennatti took a student’s leftover Twinkie from lunch and set it on top of the intercom box in his classroom. It sat there undisturbed for the next 28 years, until Bennatti finally retired from teaching in 2004. Rather than tossing it out, Bennatti put the middle-aged Twinkie in a fancy glass case and passed it along to another younger teacher at the school, Libby Rosemeier. Luckily Rosemeier knows all about the history of the famous Twinkie, because she just happens to have been one of Bennatti’s students in that 1976 science class.
As impressive as this is, it still has a long, long way to go to equal the age of Minnesota’s 1911 cinnamon spice cake.
(New York Times, via Treehugger)
