Dec
12
Chan Marshall - simply The Greatest <3
Lauren Alexandra
I'm Lauren. I like noodles and jazz. I ski sometimes. I'm happiest under the stars.
Dec
11
Life’s a bitch…. but it’s not so bad really.
SOME UNUSUAL DEATHS THROUGHOUT MODERN HISTORY
- 1816 - Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman, died after he stuck a whale bone up his penis in an attempt relieve a blockage.
- 1912 - Franz Reichelt, tailor, fell to his death off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower while testing his invention, the overcoat parachute. It was his first ever attempt with the parachute.
- 1930 - William Kogut, an inmate on death row at San Quentin, committed suicide with a pipe bomb created from several packs of playing cards and the hollow leg from his cot. At the time, the red ink in playing cards contained flammable nitrocellulose, which when wet can create an explosive mixture. Kogut used the heater in his cell to activate the bomb
- 1951 - Prof. Malcolm H. Soule, scientist, killed himself with an injection of snake venom and morphine after being fired from heading the department of bacteriology at the University of Michigan.
- 1954 - Simone Mareuil, a french actress, probably best known as the girl in Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou, suffered from deep depression and doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire.
- 1974 - Basil Brown, a 48-year-old freakishly health conscious British man consumed over ten gallons of carrot juice in a day. Resulting in a severe overdose of vitamin A and acute liver failure. He died ten days later.
- 1978 - Kurt Godel, a Austrian/American mathematican starved to death after his wife died. He refused to eat any food that was not prepared by her.
- 1987 - Franco Brun, a 22-year-old prisoner at Toronto East Detention Centre, in Toronto, Ontario, choked to death after attempting to swallow a Gideon’s Bible.
- 1993 - Garry Hoy, a 38-year-old lawyer in Toronto, Ontario, fell to his death on July 9, 1993, after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in an attempt to prove to a group of visitors that the glass was “unbreakable.” The glass did not break, but popped out of the window frame
- 1994 - Jeremy Brenno, a young golfer, threw his club to the ground in a fit of rage after having a bad shot. The club snapped and bits of it bounced back and pierced his heart
- 2001 - Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, from Germany, paid a man named Armin Meiwes to stab and partially eat him. Brandes had actually stated in his will that he wished to die from being stabbed and eaten.
- 2002 - Richard Sumner, a British man suffering from Schizophrenia, went deep into a forest in Wales and handcuffed himself to a tree and died of exposure and starvation. His skeleton was not found for more than three years afterwards.
- 2005 - Lee Seung Seop, a young Korean man, played the videogame StarCraft for 50 hours straight. He collapsed of fatigue and died.
- 2008 - Gerald Mellin, a U.K. businessman, committed suicide to get back at his wife for leaving him, by tying one end of a rope around his neck and the other to a tree. He then got into his Aston Martin DB7 and drove down a main road in Swansea until the rope decapitated him. He sent a ‘suicide text’ to his wife which simply said ‘Congratulations xxx’.
- 2008 - Nordin Montong, 32, a janitor at the Singapore Zoo, committed suicide by entering an enclosure containing white tigers and provoking them with brooms and a pail until they mauled him to death.
- 2008 - David Phyall, a resident in Southampton, UK, protested against his home being demolished by cutting off his own head with a chain saw.
- 2009 - Jonathan Campos committed suicide by stuffing toilet paper down his mouth until he asphyxiated.
- 2009 - Sergey Tuganov bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them for two hours. He managed it but died several hours later from a severe heart attack because he had actually ingested an entire bottle of Viagra beforehand.
Dec
9
Question of the day
If a crocodile steals a child and promises its return if the father can correctly guess what the crocodile will do, how should the crocodile respond in the case that the father guesses that the child will not be returned?
Dec
8
A CUTE PICTURE OF THE DAY
Nov
26
Ingenious Quote of the Week
“Lack of sleep can cause sleepiness.”
- a packet of energy boost pills in Boots, 2011.
Nov
21
The most famous Check Mate in Chess history.
Nov
20
Cannot wait for Christmas and New Year. I will be doing a lot of carving. And no, it won’t be the Turkey kind of carving…
Ben’s photography of the Northern Lights from our trip to Norway.
Nov
6
I love taking photographs. Apparently, so does Jim Marshall … and he’s a hell of a lot better at it than me!
Nov
4
“If you got it today, you won’t want it tomorrow,
‘cause you won’t need it,
‘cause as a matter of fact,
as we discovered in the train,
tomorrow never happens.
- It’s all the same fucking day man!”
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