November 2, 2013

  • Handbasket Saturday

    Your Daily Assault with a Mackerel

    Swedish police are investigating an assault case involving a mackerel (LINK).  According to the police report, a man was sound asleep in his apartment when a woman came in and stole food from his refrigerator and 2000 kronor, or about $310.  Then, not content with the food and money, she grabbed a whole mackerel and started slapping the sleeping Swede in the face with it.

    A spokesperson for the Nyköping police said they did not yet know how exactly the fish-wielding woman got into the apartment late at night, but they're pretty sure the man and woman know each other.

    Mackerel (Scomber scrombrus) on White Background

     

    Your Daily Yahoo Best Answer

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    Your Daily Et·y·mol·o·gy

    The health care debate turned into a fierce donnybrook when . . . wait, who is Donny?  And why does he brook all this violence?

    This word is very old.  In 1204, King John gave a licence to hold an annual fair in Ireland.  Donnybrook was once a village on the high road out of Dublin, but it is now one of Dublin’s suburbs.

    (LINK) The annual fair became a gathering-place for horse dealers, fortune-tellers, beggars, wrestlers, dancers, fiddlers, and the sellers of every kind of food and drink.  It was renowned in Ireland and beyond for its rowdiness and noise, and particularly for the whiskey-fuelled fighting that went on after dark.  In a 19th century account, “The only principle of the traditionary Irishman on his visit to Donnybrook Fair was, ‘Wherever you see a head, hit it’.”  The usual weapon was a stick of oak or blackthorn that Irishmen called a shillelagh.  The legend was that visitors to Donnybrook fair would rather fight than eat.

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    Your Daily Idiot from Florida

    Florida_a_hole

     

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Comments (6)

  • Austin Tx uses the motto "keep Austin weird" as a tourism device. Apparently, it works.

    I would click on "ambivalent" were it available.

    • Without Austin, Texas would be completely neanderthal.
      (No offense -- I know about voter ID laws, contraception laws, Ted Cruz, capital punishment, and so forth.)

  • well you have to understand Sweden. They just legalized public masturbation as long as the act isn't AIMED at someone.

    • I detect a gender bias in this Swedish law. Because a woman could never be charged with aiming her masturbation at someone . . . unless she ejaculates, but even then, who would bring charges? Not me.

  • I'm rarely missing the "REC" and/or "Like" buttons...except when I read YOUR posts! :-D
    I hope weirdness never dies...if it does I'll have to die with it!
    HUGS!!!

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