(submitted by KG) BBC NEWS | South Asia | India’s rent-a-guest wedding agents India’s rent-a-guest wedding agents Indian couple getting married An agency has been set up in the Indian state of Rajasthan to rent out wedding guests for couples keen to boost numbers at their marriage. In Rajasthan weddings are huge family events –…
Category: Oddities
other odd stuff
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Aborigine 'Alco' slur is avoided
(submitted by KG) BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Aborigine ‘Alco’ slur is avoided Aborigine ‘Alco’ slur is avoided Australian police working in Aboriginal communities have withdrawn new uniforms after they appeared to poke fun at many Aborigines’ problems with alcohol. New South Wales police ordered 50 green vests for Aboriginal Community Liaison Officers – known…
Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore – New York Times
“William Shakespeare, in keeping with traditions of Elizabethan drama, peppered his plays with profanity and celebrated the vulgar as well as the sublime.” Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore By NATALIE ANGIER Published: September 20, 2005 Incensed by what it sees as a virtual pandemic of verbal vulgarity issuing from the diverse likes of Howard…
granma.cu -Cuba's success in minimising loss of life during Hurricane Michelle
granma.cu -Cuba’s success in minimising loss of life during Hurricane Michelle Cuba’s success in minimising loss of life during Hurricane Michelle The Guardian (London) – Socialism and storms: Cuba’s success in minimising loss of life during Hurricane Michelle highlights the social dimension of coping with natural disasters Ben Wisner Hurricane Michelle was a category 3…
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Millennium Goals: Down the pan?
WHY TOILETS MATTER A child dies every 15 seconds from diarrhoeal disease, attributable mainly to poor water supply and/or sanitation 443 million schooldays are lost each year from diarrhoeal disease Failure to meet the MDG on water and sanitation is costing poor countries US$84bn per year 36% of Africans have access to an adequate toilet…
Funk's Fukn mighty Dodge convertible beach car.
(Conrad found this and pointed it out to Kate who remembered it and pointed it out to me and now I would probably buy the damn thing but I sort of hate working on cars and can’t really afford such a cool beast as this….cd) The mighty Dodge convertible beach car. – $300 Reply to:…
Fugitive in Armored Car Theft Gives Up After 12 Years – New York Times
(I love armored car robbery stories…the fascinating part of this one is what happened to her accomplice Mr. Solis…is this simply part of a plan they hatched together? Does he still have the child? How did they get out of the U.S. and how did she get back in? What happened to the money?…fascinating fukn…
Static Man!
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical…
Burning Man Photo Gallery
Burning Man Photo Gallery…awesome photos… Adobe Web Photo Gallery
My New Editor and Typist
(Imagine my surprise when I got home and went to take a bath and found these two in it…maybe I should of started this letter Dear Fukn Us, oh well, too late now…actually these are the two girls I hired to type my latest book, they don’t speak english and neither of them can type,…