Wha? News of the Weird

[Mugsy]

Carolinian, so Lombard St. is normally all wind-y and twisty like that? Is it for traffic or just a nice little promenade for strolling? The aerial pic is awesome, and I've never played Candyland in my life.

[Carolinian]

Lombard Street is very steep, so the street was designed with a series of hairpin curves so cars could go down it (it's one way). It's called the crookedest street in the world. Wikipedia. Google images. I've only seen it in pictures. I can't begin to imagine living there. Think of how crowded and noisy it must be.

[Deleted]

I've walked down the staircase visible on the left side of this picture. The photo is kind of deceptive: There was hardly any car traffic when I was there--certainly not the number of cars shown in the picture. I would call it more of a landmark than a real through street.

[PearlySweetcake]

Part of the awesome car-chase scene in What's Up, Doc? was filmed on Lombard. And there are Bigwheel races down Lombard every Easter Sunday.

[WitchyPoo]

Damn, I miss San Francisco sometimes.

[dwanollah]

We lived two blocks from there! We used to drive down it to get home (but not on, say, a Saturday afternoon). Those pix are AWESOME!

[borborygmus]

What body part did they remove the first time??!

[smockery]

From the article:

He said: "We are unable to comment on individual cases. However, we would like to apologise if Mr Wattson felt dissatisfied with the care he received at GWH.

Dissatisfied? I don't think that would even begin to cover it.

[GirlyGhoul]

I don't know if this counts as "weird", but it is pretty awesome. Gorilla Fangrrls swooning over a poster of a Hunky Monkey!!

I love that one of them clutched his picture to her chest... and then ate it! ;D


(edited because I want my links BLUE damnit!)

[Deleted]

Ten million years of evolution separate us, and yet gorillas aren't so different after all.