Episode #110

(airdate: Wednesday, March 15, 2000)

Corset Woman

Move over Scarlett O'Hara! Extreme corseting has made its way back into fashion. We'll meet a young woman with a 15 inch waist and a man whose waist is only 18 inches!
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Odd Couple

New Yorkers Fred Kahl and his wife Kiva Kahl are truly an odd couple with a mission - proving that ancient art forms like sword swallowing and fire eating aren'tillusions or magic tricks. Fred will swallow an endoscopic camera with a small light source and then he'll swallow live cockroaches! Next, he'll stand in front of a flouroscopic machine, which is a moving x-ray and swallow a sword!

 

Fastest Brain

Bob Gray, a.k.a. "Backwards Bob," can write backwards and upside with both hands simultaneously on 4 quadrants. He is also the only person who can speak backwards phonetically. Check out Bob's website at www.memoryedge.com.

 

Baby Signing

There is a doctor teaching babies as young as 3 months old to use sign language to communicate everything from "I'm hungry" to "I want to go outside."

Seat King

Barney Smith has dedicated the last 30 years decorating toilet seats and lining the walls of his garage with well over 500 of the unusual masterpieces. His creations include everything from a tribute to the Challenger crew to momentos of vacations to his latest depicting Pokemon.

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