Top Items About Absurdity
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Images | Loch Ness Marathon | In April 2002, Lloyd Scott earned a place in the record books by "running" the London marathon in five days, eight hours and 29 minutes... wearing a 150lb diving suit. In November 2002, Scott attempted to break his record at the New York Marathon, pausing several times -- for example, to enjoy a hot dog. | root | 102 | |
| Jokes | Mark Bowden: Islamic Logic | While researching a book about the hostage crisis in Iran in 1979 (when students stormed the U.S. embassy in... | Anonymous | 120 | |
| Anecdotes | Idaho Republicans Propose Napoleon Dynamite Bill | Shortly after the release of Napoleon Dynamite (2004), two Idaho Republicans, Larry C. Bradford and Max C. | root | 119 | |
| Jokes | Edwin Booth: Evening at the Improv | While performing a duel scene in a play one day, Edwin Booth, whose character was supposed to fall down and die, was... | Anonymous | 87 | |
| Jokes | monk's vow of silence | A guy joins a monastery and takes a vow of silence: he’s allowed to say two words every seven years. After the first... | root | 82 | |
| Images | Jaguar Sweater | ... | root | 72 | |
| Anecdotes | Gypsy Gita | Actress Louise Ashby once visited the famed masseuse Gypsy Gita (who once toured with the Rockettes and was often... | Anonymous | 71 | |
| Anecdotes | Caspar Weinblooper | While attending a briefing on NATO nuclear planning in Luxembourg in March 1985, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger... | Anonymous | 69 | |
| Anecdotes | Fab Three? | In 1989, George Harrison rejected Paul McCartney`s latest proposal for a Beatles reunion. "As far as I`m concerned," he... | Anonymous | 69 | |
| Trivia | The most absurd laws in Britain | Dying in parliament is an offence and is also by far the most absurd law in Britain, according to a 2007 poll of 3,931... | Tuner | 66 |
