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Banana-Wolverine. Of course! Captured at this week’s New York Comic-Con, this banana Wolverine costume might be considered just slightly inaccurate.
First appearing in 2006, the New York City Comic-Con has been held as the East Coast version of the annual San Diego Comic-Con. Though the two annual events are not affiliated with each other.
2. Being Hit By A Canonball That Was Fired As A Salute To You – John Kendrick (1794) 3. Drowning In A Flood Of Beer (Or Being Injured In A Beer Flood) (Or Getting Alcohol Poisoning In A Beer Flood) – London Beer Flood (1814) 4. Sticking A Piece Of Whale Bone Through Your Urinary Tract To Clear A Blockage – Gouverneur Morris (1816) 5. Swinging A Baseball Bat So Hard That It Ruptures Your Bladder – Jim Creighton (1862) 6. Accidentally Shooting Yourself In Court While Demonstrating To A Jury How Your Client’s Alleged Victim Might Have Accidentally Shot Himself – Clement Vallandigham (1871) 7. Being Poisoned, Shot In The Head, Shot Three More Times, Bludgeoned, Castrated, And Then Thrown Into A River Only For The Cause Of Death To Be Drowning – Grigori Rasputin (1916) 8. Being Crushed Or Drowned By Molasses – Boston Molasses Disaster (1919) 9. Being Hit By A Pitch – Ray Chapman (1920) 10. Being Bit By A Monkey – Alexander I Of Greece (1920) 11. Having Your Costume Set Ablaze By An Errant Disposed Match – Martha Mansfield (1923) 12. Having Your Racecar’s Drive Chain Snap And Decapitate You – J. G. Parry-Thomas (1927) 13. Having Your Long Scarf Get Caught In The Wheel Of The Car You Are Riding In, Thus Breaking Your Neck – Isadora Duncan (1927) 14. Committing Suicide In Prison Using A Bomb Made Out Of Playing Cards That Had A Flammable Chemical In Their Red Ink – William Kogut (1930) 15. Falling Down A Chimney Into The Furnace After Mistaking The Chimney For A Balcony – Sirkka Sari (1939) 16. Having A Stroke After Reading A Negative Premature Obituary Of Yourself – Marcus Garvey (1940) 17. Accidentally Torpedoing Your Own Ship – HMS Trinidad (1942) and the USS Tang (1944) 18. Being Crushed By Giant Stacks Of Newspapers, Books, And Other Large Items That You Have Been Hoarding – Langley Collyer (1947) 19. Crashing Your Racecar When A Bird Flies Into Your Face – Alan Stacey (1960) 20. Having A Surfboard On Your Convertible Hit Another Car, Spin Around, And Break Your Neck – Worth Bingham (1966) 21. Being Electrocuted Onstage By A Live Microphone – Leslie Harvey (1972) 22. Drinking Yourself To Death With Carrot Juice – Basil Brown (1974) 23. Being Crushed To Death Between A Moving Wall And A Stationary Wall In A Disneyland Ride – Deborah Gail Stone (1974) 24. Laughing Yourself To Death Watching The Goodies – Alex Mitchell (1975) 25. Being Poisoned By A Modified Umbrella – Georgi Markov (1978) 26. Being Struck By A Flying Model Lawnmower At A New York Jets Halftime Show – John Bowen (1979) 27. Achieving A High Score In The Video Game Berserk – Jeff Dailey (1981), Peter Burkowski (1982) (Both boys were young and healthy but died of heart attacks after getting high scores.) 28. Choking On An Eye Drop Bottle Cap – Tennessee Williams (1983) 29. Getting Hit In The Balls By A Tennis Ball – Dick Wertheim (1983) 30. Being Crushed By Several 25-Pound Boxes Of Quarters When Braking Suddenly, While Driving A Brinks Truck – Hrand Arakelian (1986) 31. Throwing Yourself Through A Window Trying To Illustrate That The Glass Is Unbreakable (In Fairness The Glass Didn’t Break, But Popped Out Of The Window Frame) – Gary Hoy (1993) 32. Handcuffing Yourself To A Tree In A Remote Forest And Throwing The Key Out Of Reach – Richard Sumner (2002) 33. Playing Starcraft For Too Long – Lee Seung Seop (2005) 34. Winning A Bet That You Could Have Continuous Sex With Two Women For 12 Hours Straight – Sergey Tuganov (2009) 35. Being Crushed In Your Car By A Rolling Bale Of Hay – Mike Edwards (2010) 36. Riding Your Segway Off Of A Cliff – Jimi Heselden (2010)(Owner Of The Segway Motorized Scooter Company) from buzzfeed.com  Doug Engle/Staff photographer, ocala.com From www.ocala.com Once and for all, people, it’s an ice cream cone. The owners of Ice Cream Family Corner and Sandwiches at the busy intersection of South Pine Avenue and Southwest 17th Street say their two-month-old business is getting creamed because passers-by have mistaken their white-hooded ice cream cone mascot for a KKK protester. Co-owner Jose Cantres says rumors are swirling on Facebook about the exact nature of the little vanilla cone, and employees heard through word of mouth that potential customers have steered clear of the shop to avoid the character. Liza Diaz, who manages the store for Cantres and co-owner Jesus Diaz, said an employee at the bank where she does business told her a co-worker was so frightened by the white dollop patrolling the street corner that she called her husband crying and refused to drive through the intersection. “One (customer) told me, ‘I had to think twice before coming in here because I thought it was KKK,’ ” Diaz said. Interestingly, Diaz, who is from Puerto Rico, had never heard of the KKK before this controversy. She can’t even quite get her tongue around the name, referring to the white supremacist group as the “Ku Ku Klan” without a hint of irony or sarcasm. Close up, the costume looks nothing like the white-hooded Klan garb that evokes such strong emotions. Its fluffy white top, flecked with colored sprinkles, curls slightly at its peak, and it sits atop a brown waffle cone. But the costume tends to sag around the wearer’s shoulders, and the waffle cone is mostly obscured by the sign the mascot holds in front of him. So to a motorist who gets only a glance cruising past at 40 mph, it can — and apparently does — look like a menacing Klansman. Although this corner location has been a graveyard for eateries over the years, mostly because getting into and out of the parking lot can be tricky, Liza Diaz believes the costume is to blame for the rocky road the shop finds itself on. The clientele, she said, melted away right after the mascot hit the street. Indeed, just before lunch Monday, there wasn’t a soul in the store except for a handful of employees. Through it all, the partners have managed to maintain their good humor. The little ice cream cone no longer beckons to passers-by, and the owners have expanded their offerings — which already include Boars Head sandwiches, flan and what they call “the best Cuban” sandwich in town — to include Spanish cuisine. “We’re a friendly environment, family-oriented,” Liza Diaz said. “We’re not (racist). We’re very friendly, very religious.” This has to be the longest tongue in the world. If it’s not, I don’t want to see what is. |
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