SIDELINES...

VAGINA REHOMING

The world’s only vagina museum is seeking a new home after Camden Lock Market, London, where it is currently based, decided not to renew its lease, opting to let the space to a clothes shop instead. The museum, founded in 2017 as a response to the famed Iceland Phallological Museum ( FT135:26, 277:22), is the “world’s first bricks-and-mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynæ anatomy.” boingboing.net, 4 Aug 2021.

SPAMHENGE

Matthew Richardson, 45, of Leeds calls himself “Hengemaster” after making more than 350 replicas of Stonehenge from food and household objects. The materials he has used to construct his henges include cheese, spam and jelly. Metro, 1 July 2021

CTHULHU LIVES!

Fishers in South Korea’s South Gyeongsang province were about to throw back an octopus they had caught when they realised it had 32 tentacles instead of the usual eight. The extra limbs were growing out of its original ones like branches from a tree. Octopuses can grow multiple tentacles when they are injured if “overgeneration” occurs during healing. The record for extra tentacles is held by an octopus caught in Japan in 1998 which had 96 limbs, and an 85-legged one was recorded in 1957. Sun, 25 June 2021.

RUBBER RETRIBUTION

A quick-thinking assistant in a sex shop in Novokuznetsk, Russia, foiled a robbery with an item from the store’s own stock. When a masked thief pulled a knife on her and demanded the contents of the till, she grabbed a massive 18inch (46cm) double-ended rubber dildo from under the counter and thrashed the robber with it until he fled. dailymail.co.uk, 27 July 2021.