August 10 2007
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posted by Ana Samways at 11:20 am
Auckland’s funky new auction house Art + Object is hosting their inaugural 20th century popular culture auction tomorrow, Saturday 11 August. Items going under the hammer include film, band and tourism posters, musical instruments (including a rare carved Fender guitar) and records, and a dedicated fan’s collection of backstage passes. They also have jukeboxes, a range of retail neon, rare toys and retro Kiwiana. Catalogue via PDF here.
41 Money facts that will blow you away: Only one in every 14 Americans would murder someone for ten million bucks. “What’s really strange about this is, the statistics remain the same whether it’s ten million dollars all the way down to three million. For three million bucks, most of us would do the same horrible things we would do for ten million. But, guess what? Few of us would do these things for a “measly” two million.” Read more here. Fascinating.
It doesn’t matter where you live, if you’re up to no good, YouTube will get ya: A West Coast rugby league player has been banned from the game for eight matches after he was sin-binned for punching and kicking an opposing player. The fracas was uploaded to YouTube and embedded on stuff.co.nz after The Christchurch Press newspaper reported it. Runanga loose forward Matthew Sweeney has been suspended for the rest of the 2007 season and early part of the 2008.
New dumb invention: the Baby Cage (right).
New tall guy: Leonid Stadnyk has now officially become the world’s tallest man, standing at a towering 8ft 5ins in tall.
The 16 Ugliest Men In The History Of Rock ‘n’ Roll in no particular order.
The fear of clowns is called Coulrophobia: This woman keeps her stuffed toy “Parsley” close by as she comes face to face with her fear…
August 13th, 2007 at 9:39 am
All clowns are evil and should die.
Baby Cage is actually less ridiculous when you compare it to some of the other inventions on that site. My favourite, the Big Hair Hat.
August 13th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I’ll agree that clowns are irritating, but this lady needs to grow up. That stuffed toy of hers is creepier than the clown!