Prehistoric Product Development Focus Group Examines the “Wheel” Concept

Posted by John Farrier in Video Clips on October 23, 2011 at 11:26 am


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Yes, it’s round, which doesn’t sell well with male customers, but we can make it work! We just have to pitch it the right way. Click on the link to submit your own design idea, and then watch it be brutally rejected.

Link (warning: auto-sound) -via Miss Cellania

Previously: The Stop Sign, If It Were Designed by Committee

 
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Humans on Display at the Zoo

Posted by John Farrier in Everything Else on November 29, 2009 at 10:47 am

The zoo of Warsaw, Poland, has a pair of prehistoric humans (or actors depicting them) on display over the weekend:

Organiser Maria Mastalerz says the weeklong “performance” aims to attract interest in a play, “Caveman,” showing in the Polish capital. But she says it also carries a message that humans today are not all that different from their prehistoric ancestors.

Dressed in furs and animal skins, the young woman and man smoked a fish over a fire Friday, poking it with a stick, or stared from behind bars at startled zoo visitors.

Video at the link.

Link via Stuff | Photo: AP

 
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Flintstones Wedding

Posted by Miss Cellania in Comics & Cartoons on August 25, 2009 at 9:06 pm

Two couples from Norfolk, England got married in a double wedding dressed as characters from the TV show The Flintstones!

Andrea and Simon Bean, aka Fred and Wilma Flinstone, and Richard and Jill Noble, aka Barney and Betty Rubble, celebrated their double wedding at Weston Park Golf Club on Saturday by taking a quick trip to the next door dinosaur park for some spectacular wedding photographs sure to raise eyebrows on any mantelpiece.

With 165 guests dressed as cavemen and women, two best men dressed as dinosaurs, and a spectacular tiered wedding rock cake, both Wilma and Betty entered the ceremony to the traditional organ sound of Wagner’s Bridal March.

However, this was quickly replaced by an organ version of The Flintstones theme tune.

All of the participants had been married before and felt no need for a tradition wedding. In lieu of gifts, the couples received donations for the Children’s Liver Disease Foundation. Link -via Arbroath

(image credit: James Bass)

 
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Misconceptions About Neanderthals

Posted by Miss Cellania in Science & Tech on June 24, 2009 at 9:47 am


Thanks to movies and a series of insurance ads, we tend to think of the extinct hominids known as Neanderthals as hairy, stooped, club-wielding caveman. Modern science knows a lot more about Neanderthals now, but the old stereotypes persist. You may be surprised at how like us the Neanderthals really were. Link -via Unique Daily

(image credit: Reconstruction by Kennis & Kennis/Photograph by Joe McNally, National Geographic)

 
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