WHO? WHAT? WOW!
The week in weird
HAIR RAISIN’
Well, we guess it works for her.
A young Russian fashion blogger has rocketed to social media fame (or micro-celebrity as academics call it) after images of her bizarre eyebrows went viral.
Okay, Anzhelika Protodyakonova was born with the bushy brows but now she’s embracing them. While riding a bus she noted people were staring (we can’t understand why) and one woman even snapped a photo of them.
Soon, she was known as “Bushy Angie”.
But embarrassment soon turned to buckets of rubles — especially when she made the bulging brows bigger.
Now, she has 10s of thousands of followers on Instagram and makes boffo bucks from beauty advertisers.
MUNCHKIN MELANCHOLY
The pint-sized partier who led the Wizard of Oz’s
Munchkins in merriment has gone to the Emerald City in the sky.
Jerry Maren, 98, the last living Munchkin, died a week or so ago at a San Diego nursing home. His last years were reportedly plagued by dementia.
You remember Jerry. He was the big cheese of the Lollipop Guild who welcomed Dorothy Gale to the Land of Oz after she obliterated the Wicked Witch of the East with a house. He made a hand print at the TCL Chinese Theatre in 2013.
“It means everything to me,” Maren said. “Especially with my friends nearby.”
Maren long denied the Munchkins big appetite for booze and bawdy antics.
INVENTION GIVES PAWS — AND AN EGO BOOST
Gregg Miller wasn’t barking up the wrong tree when he invented Neuticles.
What’s that?
Neuticles are silicone male implants for canines of the rougher sex to replace their cherished testicles after being neutered. The South Carolina inventor says his creation allows the po-faced pooches to keep their masculine look.
Miller tells CNBC he was inspired after his bloodhound puppy picked up the scent of a female dog and vanished. He didn’t want to lose the dog again but wanted his hound to maintain his natural look.
Working with a vet, Miller came up with Neuticles and it’s made him a millionaire. His only woe was that the hard plastic made a “clunking sound” when the dog moved.
“That was an issue that we endured for three years until some genius, God bless him wherever he was, invented solid silicone,” Miller said.
Since then, he has sold more than 500,000 Neuticles.
And now, he has Neuticles for cats, horses and bulls.