"Curiouser and curiouser..."

I was reminded of this* the other day. I just love the 10-in-1 multi gardening tool and the duster slippers for cats. Fantastic.

More ridiculousness here too...

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In other news, some bloke in Greece has created a record breaking kebab. I was a bit disappointed when I looked it up. I thought he was making something more like this.

Not that I actually like kebabs anyway. I was just amused by the idea of a huge pitta bread for some reason...



*Warning. Loud and abominable music. Apparently.

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Put what where? 2,000 years of bizarre sex advice
Tight corsets cause nymphomania, orgasms can kill and wasps are a turn-on. John Naish looks at the top sex tips over the ages...

Mating. Reproduction. Nothing is more crucial to humanity’s survival, so it would be logical to expect us to have got it sussed early in our evolution. But since the start of civilisation, the fundamentals of human sex — where to put it, how and when — have been absurdly confused by a parade of moralists, pundits and visionaries all claiming to know the magic secrets and only too happy to pass them on at a very reasonable price.

Just as every generation thinks that it invented sex, we also think we invented lovemaking manuals, or at least based them on a few prototypes such as the Kamasutra and Marie Stopes’s 1918 Married Love. But today’s maelstrom of books, videos and DVDs has a far richer, more twisted heritage than that.

( Article: blah blah blah. )

( Take me straight to the filth! )

Put What Where? Over 2,000 Years of Bizarre Sex Advice, by John Naish (HarperElement £9.99)
Linky.

*Whitby, anyone? Explains a lot really...

"Tick tick tick... Boom!"

Read this. All of it. It's got EVERYTHING. Mad inventors, rock stars*, secret passages, robots, Bond-style invention labs, Indiana Jones type stone age gadgetry AND Evil Dead sounding caves of time. Just when you think it's all getting a bit dull they mention something else utterly bonkers.

*Well, Brian Eno