New York, June 21, 2007 – Ripley’s Believe It or Not invited a collection of oddballs to the grand opening of its Times Square Odditorium. Seriously, in this crowd, Kelly Osbourne’s pink hair was not the least bit odd; the guy who is remaking his face into that of a cat – complete with holes for whiskers and sharpened teeth – now that was….freaky. Jalisa Thompson, whose real eyes are bugged out in the photo at left, was one of the least-likely-to-cause-you-to lose-your-lunch circus freaks at the party.

The red carpet of “hot coals” turned out to be some smoking things meant to look like coals lying benignly to one side of a real red carpet, so Carmen Electra and Jenny McCarthy did not actually burn their shoes on anything. Partying with the members of Mini Kiss – a tribute to the heavy makeup band Kiss comprised of Little People – Carmen said, “I think it’s great to have a museum, a place like this, to go and actually celebrate people and their diversities.”