Here Lies Helene and Yvette and Fido and Spot |
To circumnavigate a French law which bans the burial of animals in human cemeteries, in 1977 Helene Lavanent and Yvette Soltane booked themselves graves in a pet cemetery so that they could be buried ...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:40:00 GMT |
The Nightengale With The Pet Owl |
Florence Nightengale was a hypochondriac who lived to the ripe old age of ninety complaining every day that she was an invalid. To her death she refused to believe in the existence of bacteria, and sh...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:34:00 GMT |
The Pickled Empress & The Innocent Victim |
The Russian Empress Catherine I was so permanently inebriated that she was once too soused to realize that anything had happened when she survived an assassination attempt. She was reviewing a Guards ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:36:00 GMT |
I bet you didn't know that... |
Dr. Harvey Kellogg intended his first breakfast cereal to be a cure for masturbation.Dr. Klaus Martens designed the "Dr. Martens" boots in the 1940s as a comfort aid for elderly German women with foot...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:50:00 GMT |
King Louis & The Great Swine Organ |
When King Louis XI of France, noted for his odd sense of humor and bizarre whims, once demanded to be entertained by "a chorus of swine voices", opportunity knocked for the Abbot of Baigne - France's ...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:09:00 GMT |
Was he the cream filling or the nut? |
In accordance with his last wish, in 1973 a Swedish confectionary salesman by the name of Roland Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.
Posted by on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:36:00 GMT |
The Sudsy Judge |
In 1992 Pennsylvanian judge Charles Guyer was sacked after a hidden video camera recorded him offering a novel form of plea-bargaining; he offered convicted men lighter sentences if they allowed him t...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:28:00 GMT |
Goodbye Santa |
An Icelandic funeral parlor was fined in 1993 after the bereaved family of Henri Labonte complained to local authorities that the deceased had been dressed for his December 26th funeral in a Santa Cla...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:41:00 GMT |
Five Fun Saints! |
And don't tell me for one saucy little second you don't want to be one. Well, here are some fantastic methods for achieving that ultimate glow (even better than the Hi-Pro Glow or Mop 'n Glo, by the w...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:06:00 GMT |
10 Hanging Offenses in 19th Century Britain |
Boy, were they touchy across the pond in Ye Olden Times! Believe it or don't, but committing any of the following could get you dancing at the end of a rope without music in merry ole' England in the ...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:01:00 GMT |
