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Funny Pictures - November 2009

Great Racing Horses

November 30th 2009 20:14

Greatest Racing Horses of All Time!

Race horses can perform against the odds, achieve amazing feats and inspire a nation during dark times. These champion thoroughbreds not only enter racing halls of fame, but have statues built in their honour and films made about their lives. Here are four of the greatest racing horses who ever lived. Images and information sourced from Life.com. Read about more of the great champions here.

Phar Lap

Foaled in New Zealand in 1926 and trained in raced in Australia, Phar Lap (pictured here in 1929 with Jim Pike up) was one of the greatest runners of all-time, dominating Australian racing for his entire career until a sudden illness killed him. Some evidence suggests he succumbed to arsenic poisoning (perhaps ordered by gangsters who bet against him before his final race), but no conclusive cause of death has ever been determined.

Secretariat Wins the Derby

Jockey Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat during the 99th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. on May 5, 1973. Secretariat went on to win the Preakness and, in one of the greatest athletic performances ever witnessed, won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, securing the Triple Crown. Secretariat has the greatest winning percentage of any horse, and his records in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes still stand today.

Seabiscuit After Winning the Santa Anita Handicap, 1940

Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many US citizens during the Great Depression.

Red Rum

The wonderful Irish runner Red Rum was foaled in 1965 and became one of the most popular horses in the storied history of British racing. He died in 1995 and was buried at the post at Aintree Racecourse (Merseyside, Liverpool). The epitaph on his marker reads: "Respect this place / this hallowed ground / a legend here / his rest has found / his feet would fly / our spirits soar / he earned our love for evermore."

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World's Scariest Foods

November 27th 2009 11:53

Kopi Luwak

What it is: The world's most expensive coffee. Main ingredient: weasel poop

Where it's served: Japan, the United States, and southeast Asia

Americans and Japanese seem to be particularly enamored of anything difficult or expensive to produce. And both cultures love big-eyed furry critters with little button noses. No surprise, then, that Kopi Luwak is prized in both countries: It's made from coffee berries eaten, partially digested, and then pooped out by adorable Asian palm civets—and priced at $120 per pound. Where do we line up? (You can purchase your very own pooped-out coffee beans on Amazon.com, in fact.) To be fair, the coffee beans do not go directly from civet butt to your coffee grinder: After having been defecated by the cute little mammals, the beans are cleaned and lightly roasted. So in that sense, both consumers and the civet can feel…relieved.

Haggis

What it is: Sheep heart, lungs, and liver, seasoned and encased in sheep stomach, then boiled

Where it's served: Scotland…and at annual Robert Burns parties everywhere on January 25, once everybody's had enough Scotch

As Burns wrote in his 1786 poem "Address to a Haggis," "Old Scotland wants no watery ware that slops in bowls …Give us a haggis!" One wonders, however, whether the venerable bard ever actually consumed haggis while not ragingly drunk. Watery? Check, thanks to the preparation method of boiling for three hours. Sloppy? Double-check. When sliced open, a cooked haggis spills forth its (literal) guts in what can be an alarmingly gloppy fashion—an effect Burns himself describes memorably in the same poem: "His knife sees rustic Labour sharpen, and cut you up with practiced skill, trenching your gushing entrails bright." If gushing entrails in a bowl are your pleasure, you're in good company, at least as far as Mr. Burns and his fellow Scotsmen are concerned.

Tarantula

What it is: Whole, palm-sized spiders, stir-fried with spice

Where it's served: Cambodia

When something is described as crunchy on the outside and gooey on the inside, generally speaking, you really, really want cheese to be involved. But tarantula aficionados, of which there are many, swear that the texture of a deep-fried tarantula is its most mouthwatering characteristic. The legs, like furry potato chips, are pleasingly crisp and tend to absorb whatever seasonings go into the pan with the spider. Bite into the body, and your succulent reward is a mouthful of something not unlike a hot fish eyeball. While the tarantula started its culinary history as survival food (each spider contains a fair amount of protein), tarantulas are now sold as much for shock value as for nutritional value, offered up by the heap on platters to tourists to eat on a dare.

Fugu

What it is: A type of puffer fish poisonous enough to cause violent, swift death

Where it's served: Japan

Fugu is so dangerous that chefs who prepare it in restaurants must be specially trained, licensed, and certified. There are no prerequisites, however, for eating the stuff, and some diners pay in the range of $400 for a four-course meal of fugu. Fugu's cachet in Japan is a little difficult to understand, considering that a) it can kill you so effectively you almost think it wants to kill you, and b) it tastes exactly like rubber bands. Fugu is only available from October through March, and the classic fugu presentation is fugu-sashi, in which the wildly poisonous flesh is sliced paper-thin and arranged in the shape of a chrysanthemum, with grated radish and sauce for dipping. When radish is the least horrible thing on your plate, you know you ordered the wrong thing.

Rocky Mountain Oysters

What it is: Bull testicles

Where it's served: Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana

Late summer is, apparently, the harvest season for bull testicles: You can get a freshly reaped and deep-fried pair (or quartet) at the annual Testicle Festival (or Testy Festy) in Clinton, Montana, typically held the first weekend of August. As in the rest of Montana, at the Testy Festy, only the strong survive: Besides the obligatory Rocky Mountain oyster eating contest, there's bullcrap bingo (involving a large bingo board where the recently fed cattle roam), a greased pig–wrestling competition, and multiple wet T-shirt contests. At a three-ring biker circus like this, the oysters themselves are almost an afterthought—an afterthought that tastes like chicken…with veins.

*Pictures and information sourced from concierge.com here.

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Stuffed Animals

November 25th 2009 02:41

The art of stuffing animals or "taxidermy" has been around for a very long time. However in recent years the art form has improved in both realism and quality. Taxidermists are also experimenting with different animals and new poses to make creatures seem more life like.

Fox and Duckling as best of friends

Fearsome Cougar

Gnawing Beaver

Polar Bears to greet you in Quebec City

The Dancing Rat

*Images sourced from Woman's Day.

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Quotes from Glenn Quagmire

November 23rd 2009 01:27

SloshSpot presents:

The Timeless Wisdom of Quagmire

Glenn Quagmire from the Family Guy is by far one of the most perverted but popular TV characters.
Known for his deviant sexual behaviour, he can find innuendo in any situation and has given audiences some of the most memorable and quoted one liners of today.
Below is a selection of his best, see the full set here.

quagmire soundboard. tear up my carpet Lois

Glenn Quagmire quotes - random kindness. Scank at the gas station. This itches.

Family Guy Quagmire. Mom! I like where this is going..

Drunken clam, where they don't ask for proof of age and neither do I

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Amazing Car Accidents

November 20th 2009 01:48

Car accidents are no laughing matter.
Sometimes you have to ask, how did these accidents happen, and how did anybody survive??

*Images sourced from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Kids And Energy Drinks

November 18th 2009 01:41

This is why energy drinks should not be served at children's parties.
Parents, you have been warned....

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Things You Need To Stop Tweeting About

November 16th 2009 01:20

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Wal-Mart People

November 13th 2009 07:10

The people you find in Walmart....
Think you've seen it all, what about these?

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There, I Fixed it!

November 11th 2009 01:57

From the crazy to the downright dangerous, it's amazing what some people will risk to save a little time and money. Despite the dangers these "quick fix" solutions occur so often there's an entire websight devoted to this sort of behaviour. See a sample below:

There I Fixed It - Supermarket Trolley Bike

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Strange and Unusual Animals

November 9th 2009 01:38

I never cease to be amazed by the weird and wonderful creatures that live on planet earth. They can be found on the bottom of the oceans, in far away rain forests, or even in our own homes! See below a small selection of such animals. Sourced from HuffingtonPost here.

The aye-aye is a rodent-looking lemur found in Madagascar.

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Anatomy of a Homie

November 6th 2009 01:50

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Are Movies Getting Better Or Worse?

November 4th 2009 01:27

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) contains an incredibly large collection of movies and all things related to them, this includes ratings out of 10 given to each film based on the perceived quality by viewers.
Nathaniel Johnston thought an interesting experiment for his blog would be to look at the average rating of movies released from 1950 to today to see if the general public believe that movie quality is improving or not.
There are of course a few criteria each film must meet, such as being theatrically released (not straight to TV) and at least 1000 votes recorded. The IMBD has over 10,000 movies that meet these criteria

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Politician and Celebrity Sex Scandal Survival Guide

November 2nd 2009 20:49

When a new sex scandal breaks, all the perpetrator needs to know is how to handle the first 7 days after the news hit the headlines. Below is a typical timeline...

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