Tetherd Cow Ahead

From our New Zealand correspondent. All the moos fit to print here on The Cow

[thanks J.]

Another contender for The Unusual Thing?

For many years now I’ve been carrying around this postcard in my collection of strange curios. The woman on the front is Madge Crichton, an actress of the early 20th Century, who, on a cursory Google search, seems to have been more famous for her appearance on postcards than much else. There’s another photo of Madge at this page – [Link]

Madge is not the reason I’ve kept the postcard though – this is what’s written on the back:

Dear Eileen,

Mick said he did not mean to frighten you he told me what he had it for.

He wants to go over to Burwood next Saturday night but I cannot go over till Saturday week.

I got a lot to tell you when I see you about Ethel

12/10/08 Mary

Now I don’t know about you, but I really want to know more about Mick, Eileen, Ethel and Mary, and particularly about the frightening thing that Mick had. Speculations welcome…

One year ago today my beautiful wife Kate passed from this place.

…when our laughter ends,
And hearts and bodies, brown as white,
Are dust about the doors of friends,
Or scent ablowing down the night,
Then, oh! then, the wise agree,
Comes our immortality.~ Rupert Brooke – Tiare Tahiti

Rest in peace sweetheart.

Some scultptures that couldn’t exist in the Real World. See the whole collection at my digital image gallery – Link

Category: Art

On a whim, I typed “unusual thing” into Google and got this page on a site called Russia Makes It Funny – Link

Women’s panties with alarm appear soon

An unusual thing was invented by Serbian Slavomir Adamovic. Ladies panties with an alarm will appear soon. As it is well-known, sexual abuse against women is rather frequent in offices. The invention will emit loud peeps every time its owner is pinched at her butt.

The inventor hopes, such unexpected sounds will cool sexually concerned men in the office and will make office a safer place, free from sexual terror. Slavomir Adamovic says, the panties peep because of a micro chip embedded into underwear and emits sounds when being pressed, or when areas close to the underwear are pressed.

What can I say? Slavomir, you’re a genius.

A contender for The Unusual Thing that Landon Flanagan’s father and sister have in beta?

Spam Observations #6

Mr Leu Shan contacted me today, with this request:

I am Mr.Leu Shan,we are a group of business men who deal on import and export raw materials into canada,america and europe. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers in the canada,america and europe as well as making payments through you to us.

I infer from this that Mr Leu Shan is trying to run his mail-order Fancy Dress business whilst coping with a Multiple Personality Disorder. You’ve got to hand it to him – that can’t be easy.

Some curious Victorian Valentine’s Day missives to remind us that cynicism and indeed Valentine’s Day itself aren’t inventions of the 20th or 21st Century – Link

(But hey, send me flowers if you want to!)

Spam Observations #5

Nurse Myra forwarded this plea which she received from Bryanna:

I am looking for someone who can fulfill my high and hard drive.
- Bryanna Muggubnqtr

We are of the opinion that this is not so much a soliciting of sexual favours as a request for some help from the IT department.

Or maybe Bryanna is a Technosexual – Link