Archived Most Bizarre Fact:
An out of date page with dead links I keep up only because so many people
keep coming to it for the Marilyn Manson reference. It's the Jerry Falwell
story that's the timeless classic though.
The sniper cam has been down for a long time and Vladi is still selling
bits of Nova Scotia off the web but at a new address. You'll excuse me if
I don't keep that link updated. - The Management
You've got to be kidding, Part I
It must have started out benignly enough: put a museum on the site of one
of this century's more horrible tragedies. You can imagine that there
would
be a desire on the part of the American public to see the place where
Lee Harvey Oswald was purported to have shot President John F. Kennedy,
and it seems only natural that a museum would have been built on the
infamous sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository overlooking Dealey
Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Providing a chronicle of the place and time
could be seen as an act of redemption even, a way of making sense of the
chaos that one event created.
Then of course would have come the gift shop, a way for the museum
to recoup its operating costs and to satisfy the demand for
souvenirs. People would have been interested in learning more
and no doubt ways were discussed to meet the needs of people
who couldn't get to Dallas, but wanted to be a part of things.
A web site would have been a natural development.
Then someone said, "let's put up a SniperCam" and
someone else added "and get a sponsor for it!" and they
did. Of course they didn't call it a
SniperCam
though.
That would have been in questionable taste.
You've got to be kidding, Part II
I'll be the first to admit it. Nova Scotia is a great place to
live. We have more scenic beauty here than most places and
the Atlantic Ocean is good to us, keeping us cool in summer and
warm in winter. It's only natural that people overseas would
be interested in living here.
But that's not quite what
Vladi Private Islands is selling from their site in Germany.
They're selling people islands, right off the internet. Private
islands which you can have all to yourself. Like this one,
Strawberry Island, off our coast. 98 lush unspoiled acres for a mere
$950,000 Cdn. Plus, as Vladi says, we're politically stable
and questions of ownership can be clearly regulated on a
legal basis. I'll just bet they can be.
No Thanks,
I'm Trying To Cut Down....
Just when you think you've heard it all Dept: Shock rocker Marilyn
Manson admitted on the December 30th [2001] episode of ABC's Politically Incorrect to
giving sea monkeys to people to snort. More accurately referred to as
brine shrimp, sea monkeys can exist in a dehydrated egg state for months
at a time without ill effect and are sold in quantity in this
"powder" form.
"I've given 'em to people as drugs. And it's messed them up." He explained, adding,
"I said, `Look, it's gonna grow inside your brain, you're gonna experience
it,' and they said, `Sure.' "
"Antichrist Here, Jewish"
says Falwell
Speaking at a conference on evangelism in Tennessee, Rev. Jerry Falwell,
founder of the now-defunct Moral Majority, announced that he believes
that the Antichrist is probably alive today and is a male Jew. The Antichrist,
according to one interpretation of the Christian Bible,
is the embodiment of evil destined to be defeated by the second coming of Christ,
Falwell, who believes that the second coming of Christ will probably occur within the
next ten years, said, "Is he alive and here today? Probably. Because
when he appears during the Tribulation period he will be a full-grown
counterfeit of Christ. Of course he'll be Jewish. Of course he'll pretend to
be Christ. And if in fact the Lord is coming soon, and he'll be an adult
at the presentation of himself, he must be alive somewhere today."
"This is part of what I call millennial madness," said
Rabbi James Rudin, Director of Inter-Religious Affairs for the American
Jewish Committee in New York. "To single out any one man and
particularly to identify him as Jewish plays into some latent and
historical anti-Semitism from the past."
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