A 1950’s sex education recording, The Marriage Union (mp3)
[ via Accordion Guy ]
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The name is Lane, Loser Lane.
…in 1958, a New York City father named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner… Three years later, the Lanes had another baby boy, their seventh and last child. For reasons that no one can quite pin down today, Robert decided to name this boy Loser. Robert wasn’t unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick out of the name’s bookend effect. First a Winner, now a Loser. But if Winner Lane could hardly be expected to fail, could Loser Lane possibly succeed?
PostSecret collects postcards with peoples’ “secrets”. Depressing and yet car-crash fascinating, like distilled droplets of LJ.
Here’s an odd juxtposition that happened while browsing yesterday. I was enjoying a bunch of rpg.net threads, starting here: RPGnet Forums – Wraeththu out this week. The topic of these is the game they all like to snicker at, Wraeththu, an apparent Fantasy Heartbreaker (a Forge coinage for an attempt to write a game that was D&D, only better) crossed with a fanfic bible for Storm Constantine’s Wraeththu trilogy. A source of much sniggering is the characters you get to play, the eponymous Wraeththu, which are (squick warning here) a posthuman race of gay hermaphrodites with sexual organs resembling sea anemonae (the rpg.net folks have nicknamed these flower penises
). That ejaculate acid.
So I turn back to my bloglines subscriptions, and find a new Carl Zimmer article has gone up in The Loom, titled Love Darts in the Backyard. It’s all about hermaphroditic garden slugs, and why they shoot boney arrows into each other before having (straight?) hermaphroditic sex.
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Wikipedia again – cruel and unusual
Speaking of the Wikipedia, for some reason I never got around to posting the link to its page of Wikipedia:Unusual articles. Lots of wonderful stuff, it looks like, although I admit that last time I looked at it, I never got past the Boston Molasses Disaster.
If this was an LJ meme, I’d say something like: post the link to the Unusual Articles page, and five links from it.
Because, it’s just cruel and unusual to make your friends pick just five from a list that includes things like:
- Crushing by elephant – An unusual form of capital punishment used throughout history.
- Football War – A 6 day war fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 over a game of football (soccer).
- Le Pétomane – A French entertainer famous in Victorian times for breaking wind at will.
- Dord – An English word which never existed, but was listed in Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition from 1935 to 1939.
- Acetylseryltyrosylserylisol…serine – An actual name for a chemical that is 1185 letters long. (this one’s for shiffer!)
And more.