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A page to document all the fun, interesting, silly, unusual, shocking and downright weird things that make Davis what it is.

Click here if you're actually looking for the comic book store Bizarro World.

People

See Town Characters

• Preachers with Signs
• Garage People
• Hoopies

Groups

• Beard Liberation Front
• California Aggie Marching Band-Uh
• Campus Crusade for Chaos and Confusion
• Cults
• Flashmobs a.k.a. Sheeple
• Friends Urging Campus Kindness
• Joke Fraternities
• Milk and Cookies
• Nontheist Church of St. Christopher Discordian
• Students for an Orwellian Society

Signs and Art

• Arroyo Park UFO
• Baby on a Spike Bike
• Bum, Bum, You've Been Here Before
• Butterfly Pillar
• Cactuar Sign
• Cheshire Cat Discharge
• Concrete Canoe
• Covell Greenbelt Dog Sculptures
• Emma Goldman Institute for Anarchist Studies
• Frog Signs

Stories and News

• $5000 Pita
• America's Weirdest City
• Bette Davis Incident
• The Blasters Band Banned, Pardoned Decades Later

Places

Restaurants

• Delta of Venus
• The Hotdogger

Residences

• Baggins End
• The Bomb Shelter
• Dam Haus
• Gilmore 5
• Human Powered Housing Project

Shopping

• Monitor Graveyard

Buildings and Structures

• The Flying Carousel of the Delta Breeze
• Social Sciences and Humanities Building, aka "The Death Star"
• Stevenson Bridge
• Toad Tunnel

Streets

• Beau Vine Lane
• Hobbit-themed Streets

Etc.

• 1st Street Topiary
• 3 T's
• Big Kids Park
• California National Primate Research Center
• California Raptor Center
• Spooky Places and ensuing Paranormal Activity
• New Zealand Consulate
• Places to Hide

Mysterious or Mystical

• Bahá'í Grove
• Bike Church
• Buried Treasure
• Causeway Message Rocks
• Tabatha the Titan aka the corpse flower
• Davis Cemetery Labyrinth
• Elmendorf Beast
• The Orgasmatron

Everyday Phenomena

• People being surprised by Bats
• Lots and lots of bicycling
• Seeing a double-decker bus, the Red Wagon Car or any of Davis' other unique vehicles drive past
• In winter, the presence of the Freshman Stripe
• Essence of Davis
• Perpetual Puddles
• Collecting Police Department Trading Cards

Bicycle-Related

• Bike Jousting
• inevitably getting stuck in a Bike Circle
• People getting BUIs (as opposed to DUIs)
• Burning Bike Festival
• Bike Polo
• Bike Sculptures
• The Bike Collective!

Media

• KDVS
• Davis Community Television
• Newsweak

Education

• Experimental College
• Davis People's Free School

Events

• April Fool's Day, 2006
• Bank Robberies
• Break the Record Night
• Whole Earth Festival
• Picnic Day (especially the Doxie Derby and the Fistulated Cow)
• The annual Butterflies for Beer contest
• Conservative Coming Out Day
• Critical Mass
• Hamster Ball Races
• Pig Day
• International Dadaism Month
• Epic Quad Battle, 2, 3, and 4

UCD Classes

• Classic UC Davis Courses

UCD Traditions

• 40 ounce Meal Plan
• Aggie Pack antics at UCD sporting events
• Cow Tipping Not really a tradition, but more of a rumor of one
• Pajamarino

Aggie Band-Uh Traditions

• Band-Uh Sushi Challenge
• The Bossy Cow Cow chant

Bizarro Davis Of The Past

• Dixie the Dinosaur
• Lamargate and Pizzagate
• Paul Moller's Flying Machines
• Tank Rush

Other

• Conehead Dance Extravaganza
• Power Kites
• UFO citings

Wacky Wiki Pages

• 4 or more at UCD
• Buying Souls
• Conversations on bathroom walls
• District de Crozet
• Extreme Food Eating Challenges
• Hats
• Hot Sauce
• Magic Items of Davis