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Ladies love: Full suit of bacon

By Raffael Agustus Smickles • May 25th, 2008 • Category: Style

We don’t know how this one would work. But the photo suggests the lady likes it. The wearer looks confident. Rasta.



Americans that interfere with birds, feathered ones

By Raffael Agustus Smickles • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

What if this were serious? “When a group of fellow orniphiles sat down in a sweaty boardroom outside LaCrosse, Wisconsin in August of 2004, they didn’t know their little “perversion” would soon become a tri-statewide movement.”



Werewolf Boy!

By Raffael Agustus Smickles • May 20th, 2008 • Category: The Feed

An 11-year-old boy whose face and body are covered with hair is baffling medical experts.



Indian baby dropping

By Raffael Agustus Smickles • May 1st, 2008 • Category: The Feed

Muslims in western India have been observing a bizarre ritual - they’ve been throwing their young children off a tall building to improve their health.



Soviet theme park introduces ‘Gulag tourism’

By Raffael Agustus Smickles • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: The Feed

Mickey Mouse, roller coasters, and cotton candy typify the average theme park. But in one Lithuanian town, those amenities are exchanged for belt whippings and some good old fashioned KGB interrogation.



Man sees ‘mark,’ cuts off hand

By Raffael Agustus Smickles • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: The Feed

HAYDEN, Idaho (AP) — A man who believed he bore the biblical “mark of the beast” used a circular saw to cut off one hand, then he cooked it in the microwave and called 911, authorities said.
The man, in his mid-20s, was calm when Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies arrived Saturday. He was in protective custody […]