MetaFilter posts tagged with novelty

Beelzebub has some music set aside for you

JHarris — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:35:17 -0800

The Kleptones put together a version of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody stitched together from 33 different cover versions. Synthesizers, computer-generated voices, acoustic guitar, accordion, Weird Al, Star Trek.... (Direct MP3 link) Via Monkey Goggles's "Novelty Songs for the iPod Age", which has several more awesome songs, such as an immensely happy song whistled and beat out by postal workers at the University of Ghana, and a song composed of elements determined in a poll to be those least popular among listeners.

Is that a comically big thing in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

cortex — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:21:48 -0800

Comically Large Things is a blog about things that are so dang big you could fit everything at Smallist [previously] in any given entry. For example: nose! [via Projects and our own jbickers]

The ultimate weenie roaster

Burhanistan — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:23:08 -0800

The Ultimate Weenie Roaster (maybe NSFW if your boss is a total prude) is a customizable hot dog holder that ensures that your, um, weiner gets proper heat distribution or something. Although it looks like you really need two to tango.

A colourful entrance is half the work.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:56:52 -0800

Fancy high-tech crowd control beams? Nah. Silly String is what our troops really need.

With a baton in one hand and a pistol in the other

Astro Zombie — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:51:04 -0800

I know it's YouTube. But Spike Jones ^ must be seen as well as heard.

Nashville Singer's Career Immortalized by Blind Man's Penis

jonp72 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:25:12 -0800

Ramsey Kearney was a teenage country music prodigy nicknamed the Dixie Farmboy, a rockabilly singer with the Jimmie Martin Combo, a songwriter for Brenda Lee, and a producer of the most cloying Elvis tribute single ever recorded. Kearney would have almost no connection to alternative music whatsoever until John Trubee, a notorious crank phone caller and sideman for Zoogz Rift, found an ad in the back of the Midnight Globe tabloid from Kearney's Nashco Records label, a song-poem company offering to put his words to music for a small fee. Trubee sent his own disturbing LSD-fueled lyrics to Nashco, but to his surprise, Nashco accepted the lyrics after taking a $79.95 fee from Trubee. Kearney tweaked the lyrics slightly in order to avoid a lawsuit from Stevie Wonder, but the end product was the cult classic novelty song, Blind Man's Penis. (more inside)

Snap! Oh no she di'int!

Ricky_gr10 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:18:27 -0800

Anderson Cooper Gives me a Boner (Via).

Rodney Dangerfield's lost legacy.

Astro Zombie — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:03:19 -0800

Simply mad about the boy. I've learned my lesson from these gay-themed novelty records from the Sixties. I'd rather fight than swish.

Wall Of Stain

AMWKE — Thu, 19 May 2005 13:46:18 -0800

Wall of Stain Fascinating pictures representing the truest form of Americana.

Something fishy?

thomascrown — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:37:45 -0800

Singaporean scientists genetically modify zebra fish to detect water pollutants by turning fluorescent. An American company realizes there's a consumer market for novelty glow-in-the-dark fish, and starts selling the US's first genetically modified pet. While the FDA, which oversees GM animals, 'finds no reason to regulate', California's Fish and Game Commission bans sales in the state over ethical concenrns, and a coalition of watchdog groups files suit to support a national ban.

A year later, GloFish are still on sale, and California's reconsidering its sales block. With the first GM pet quietly swimming into homes, and others (like hypo-allergenic cats) close behind, are we ready for a designer pet invasion?

Spiky Bras! Wheee!

E_B_A — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:35:12 -0800

Do you like boobs? Do you like spikes? How about boobs that look like blowfish? Spiky Bras is an innovative concept, to say the least. Bras (and other, related underthings) covered with spikes. Why not? Give people the impression you have 300, 400 nipples! But why stop there? They have feathery bras and flowery bras and men's underpants that talk (ie. "I'm a horny 'lil devil!"). This may seem crass and juvenile but nothing is as cool as the glowing cactus that now tops my Christmas list. The site is relatively SWF, that is, if you think looking at pictures of boobs stuffed in bras covered with what looks like white, plastic Hershey's kisses is safe for your workplace.

The Hoosier Hot Shot Show

mwhybark — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:29:00 -0800

Are you ready, Hezzie? I have a complicated family history that allows be to be simultaneously from Washington state and Indiana. Over the last few years my tastes have migrated toward post-rock and traditional music played with a certain frantic desperation. Somehow, I knew that Indiana was a crossroads for these styles of music - but somehow, I missed out on the Hoosier Hot Shots, apparent popularizers of the beloved washboard!

French horns, wee?

mathowie — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 16:39:00 -0800

This (windows media) movie taken from a French variety show is pretty cool/kooky/amazing. It's a guy wearing a suit covered in small horns, all honking different keys, and he can play the classics by jumping around and hiting the right notes.

tomplus2 — Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:53:51 -0800

Truck-nutz? Can it get any more crude, I mean 'red', than this? (here, another brand and lots of pics - click on mugshots). Who in their right mind would hang these under thier bumper?