Museums Of The Absurd

Eichhörnchen · 05-09-15, 04:47 AM

Aktung just sent me a picture of a museum of SPAM. I told him I've already seen both a museum of CANDLES and a museum of PENCILS, by all that's holy.

Have you ever emerged from such a place wondering "WHY?" and, if so, what was it a museum of and where can we go see it?

Platapus · 05-09-15, 04:52 AM

I love those types of museums. I wish there where more of them where I live.

Eichhörnchen · 05-09-15, 05:00 AM

Why not start one yourself then? I'm sure we could think of something. How about a museum of jam jars, or maybe famous peoples' nose-hairs? Probably already been done...

Tango589 · 05-09-15, 05:18 AM

Me and the wife went here:

This was good for a laugh, cheap to enter, and even more fun after a visit to a good coffee shop!

Eichhörnchen · 05-09-15, 05:25 AM

You'd have a job keeping out of trouble in Holland. Why do so many of their words look like naughty words in English? You go out looking for a newsagents and the sign over the shop door says something like "Gobbler-Shoop". Do you go in or not?

Tango589 · 05-09-15, 05:34 AM

It depends on who's behind the counter.

Oh hell yes!

Oh hell no!

Wolferz · 05-09-15, 05:56 AM

Museum of squirrels and moose...

It might have a rocky start but you'll soon be flying high with a Bullwinkle in your eye

STEED · 05-09-15, 06:25 AM

I think we in the UK have a museum of lawn mowers the old ones you had to push to cut the grass...Oh some people here are scratching their heads.

This..

Jimbuna · 05-09-15, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Tango589

Me and the wife went here:

This was good for a laugh, cheap to enter, and even more fun after a visit to a good coffee shop!

Snap

Herr-Berbunch · 05-09-15, 06:53 AM

Hey!

I've been to the pencil museum in Keswick, it was a wet Wednesday afternoon and it passed the time. How many others here can claim to have seen the world's largest pencil (I suspect Jim has seen it)?

(Although Cars of the Stars and the James Bond museum were better, but they disbanded a few years ago.)

Dowly · 05-09-15, 07:08 AM

Well.. there's that museum in Italy that I hear is full of crap...
http://magazine.good.is/articles/mus...rda-sht-museum

Jimbuna · 05-09-15, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I've been to the pencil museum in Keswick, it was a wet Wednesday afternoon and it passed the time. How many others here can claim to have seen the world's largest pencil (I suspect Jim has seen it)?

Rgr that

How about the mustard museum in Wisconsin?

http://mustardmuseum.com/

Eichhörnchen · 05-09-15, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I've been to the pencil museum in Keswick

Did you get in for nothing when you told them your name is HB?

Catfish · 05-09-15, 08:35 AM

The button museum:
http://www.knopfundknopf.com/museum/index1.html

Seems they want to found it:
http://museumoftheabsurd.blogspot.de/

Aktungbby · 05-09-15, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolferz

Museum of squirrels and moose...

It might have a rocky start but you'll soon be flying high with a Bullwinkle in your eye

CLOSE! There was Dudley Do-Rights Emporium in Hollywood

alas no longer open; but the statue has been restored and has been on display on the Sunset Strip and the Jay Ward Legacy Exhibit...about as good as it's gonna get...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/paley-center-hosts-jay-ward-legacy-exhibit-restored-rock-bullwinkle-statue-unveiled-20141007

05-09-15, 04:47 AM	#1
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,472 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Museums Of The Absurd Aktung just sent me a picture of a museum of SPAM. I told him I've already seen both a museum of CANDLES and a museum of PENCILS, by all that's holy. Have you ever emerged from such a place wondering "WHY?" and, if so, what was it a museum of and where can we go see it? __________________

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,399 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I love those types of museums. I wish there where more of them where I live. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,472 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Why not start one yourself then? I'm sure we could think of something. How about a museum of jam jars, or maybe famous peoples' nose-hairs? Probably already been done... __________________

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Tango589 Still crazy as ever! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 3,377 Downloads: 180 Uploads: 1	Me and the wife went here: Sexmuseum Amsterdam Venustempel This was good for a laugh, cheap to enter, and even more fun after a visit to a good coffee shop! __________________ Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way...

05-09-15, 05:25 AM	#5
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,472 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	You'd have a job keeping out of trouble in Holland. Why do so many of their words look like naughty words in English? You go out looking for a newsagents and the sign over the shop door says something like "Gobbler-Shoop". Do you go in or not? __________________

05-09-15, 05:34 AM	#6
Tango589 Still crazy as ever! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 3,377 Downloads: 180 Uploads: 1	It depends on who's behind the counter. Oh hell yes! Oh hell no! __________________ Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way...

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Wolferz Navy Seal Join Date: May 2007 Location: On a mighty quest for the Stick of Truth Posts: 5,963 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Why not? Museum of squirrels and moose... It might have a rocky start but you'll soon be flying high with a Bullwinkle in your eye __________________ Tomorrow never comes

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STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	I think we in the UK have a museum of lawn mowers the old ones you had to push to cut the grass...Oh some people here are scratching their heads. This.. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

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Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	Hey! I've been to the pencil museum in Keswick, it was a wet Wednesday afternoon and it passed the time. How many others here can claim to have seen the world's largest pencil (I suspect Jim has seen it)? (Although Cars of the Stars and the James Bond museum were better, but they disbanded a few years ago.) __________________

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Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,055 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Well.. there's that museum in Italy that I hear is full of crap... http://magazine.good.is/articles/mus...rda-sht-museum

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Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,804 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	The button museum: http://www.knopfundknopf.com/museum/index1.html Seems they want to found it: http://museumoftheabsurd.blogspot.de/ __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.