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Category: Humor • News of the Weird
Posted on: August 22, 2007 8:21 AM, by Orac
This has nothing to do with science, but this has to be the best headline ever:
British dwarf's penis gets stuck to hoover
Original story here.
Even better, the dwarf in question goes by the stage name Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf. I don't think there's anything to add here.
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Comments
As an Edinburgh resident, I have to point out that as Fringe shows go, that's not particularly unusual...
Posted by: Dunc | August 22, 2007 9:36 AM
Meh. Possibly made up to publicise the Circus' show in Edinburgh this year - they were apparently emailing the media with offers of interviews with the performer in question well before the story hit the wires.
Posted by: Joe | August 22, 2007 9:39 AM
Even so, that doesn't mean it isn't a great headline...
Posted by: Orac | August 22, 2007 9:42 AM
Sucks for the little guy.
"It was the most embarrassing moment of my life when I got wheeled into a packed AE with a vacuum attached to me,"
Right, because the circus act as rehearsed was quite dignified.
Captain Dan: "I'm not Happy."
Reporter: "Well which one are you then?"
Captain Dan: (mumbles)"Changin' my name to Dirt Devil"
Posted by: notmercury | August 22, 2007 9:56 AM
Personally, I preferred the headline on The Register: "Dwarf superglues todger to hoover".
Posted by: Dunc | August 22, 2007 10:53 AM
It sounds like something out of an AliG show to me...
(see this clip)
Posted by: Tlazolteotl | August 23, 2007 1:54 PM
A friend of mine alerted me to another good headline: "Inebriated Psychopath Masturbates in Sauna".
Posted by: Martin R | August 24, 2007 5:03 AM