SKIRMISHER

“When I was 16 or 17, my family asked me what I wanted to be, and I said a clown. And they laughed and said, ‘No, really, what?’…
I hope I die clowning. I just hope there are no kids around when it happens.”
– Toby Klauenberg, upon winning the Bronze Clown Shoe award, considered clowning’s highest […]

He has evolved numerous times on screen and in comic books. But, like men’s nipples, I still can’t figure out what’s his useless cape is for. And speaking of nipples – how can one forget George Clooney’s rendition of the Caped Crusader?

Sam Bloomfield [above] and the recently minted Mr In God We Trust would make a pretty couple.
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…nobody knows who the faceless figures, who often appear as motionless couples are, or why they are turning up at high profile events.
Theories include the possibilities that they are  limelight-seeking pranksters, performance artists or that they are at the centre of a viral marketing campaign for an as-yet unknown product of forthcoming horror film.
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In 1952, airplane designer and test pilot Albert Clark Reed suddenly left his job and family. He would soon be found working under a different name as a stable hand at Hollywood Park. He could never explain why.
This is his balls-retracting story.

A way-too-cool Hagener (a Tjos warrior/tribesman from Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea), sporting a nose piercing that his fellow tribesmen and BFFs (best friends forever) only describe as “soooo out there.”
From French photographer Eric Lafforque’s collection.
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{Mad: Bizarre foot-binding in China}

This is Jeffrey Barrier. Using a cellphone camera, he took photos of a naked woman at a tanning salon, then hid the phone in his anus in a bid to thwart police.
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{Mad: The toe licker}

Like millions of sweethearts across the globe, Wall Winther has found true love. Her husband, in his prime, was a stalwart of immense stature, a domineering presence who was feared throughout his homeland and infamous the world over. Events haven’t been too kind to his physical state, but the couple’s love remains strong. You might […]