For 30 years, Liu Fei of China has been pulling snakes through his nose, sometimes two at once.
The sluggish economy hasn't been good for industries like construction or manufacturing, but bad times are actually good for weirdness.
So says Edward Meyer, the head archivist for Ripley's Entertainment,http://www.ripleys.com/who is in charge of purchasing the bizarre items featured in Ripley museums -- otherwise known as "Odditoriums" -- around the world.
"We're recession-proof," Meyer told the Huffington Post. "We're actually helped by it. People are always looking for a laugh."
You'd think it would be unbelievably hard to amaze Meyer, a guy whose office in Pensacola, Fla., includes a real shrunken head, a giant spider made of scissors, and a letter from a guy in Hong Kong who sent him his belly button lint.
But it still happens, he insists, as he discovered while working on the latest Ripley book, "Download The Weird."
