Forget the Nobel prize, it’s boring and far too political. I prefer the Ignobles….here are this years winners… Now, it seems that I have the hiccups…I suppose the Bush Butt Plug is a cure for them too…. cd WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Research into stinky feet, a study on the sound of fingernails on a blackboard…
Category: Oddities
other odd stuff
Man recites pi to 100,000 places
My initial response to this is Wow! My secondary response is How? My final response is Why? cd TOKYO – A Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to 100,000 decimal places from memory on Wednesday, setting what he claims to be a new world record. Akira Haraguchi, 60, needed more than 16 hours to recite…
Drink called Cocaine has Mayor of NY pissed
In the words of Rick James…”Cocaine, it’s a hell of a drug…” NEW YORK (Reuters) – A canned energy drink called “Cocaine” being sold in New York grocery stores has infuriated the city’s mayor who says its brand name celebrates the use of a dangerous drug. “I think that the bottlers ought to have their…
4 More Years…
A spokesman at the Guinness Book of World Records said that 14-year-old Nepalese boy Khagendra Thapa Magar(C), seen here in April 2006 sitting on his mother’s lap in Baglung, Nepal, must wait four years before he can be assessed for his claim as smallest man.
Friars fleece their flock….
God helps those who help themselves. I once thought of becoming a man of God, but it seemed far too dishonest. As a kid, I watched the Jim Baker scandal and said to myself…if I want money and chicks I need to either go into religion, politics, or media. As it stands now, I am…
Wealthy Iranians embrace plastic surgery
The surgeon doing the nose job on the guy featured in this article has done 30,000 nose jobs. ALL the plastic surgeons in Britain combined last year did 7,000 nose jobs. (I don’t know how that compares to LA.) In any event, that’s way more concern-for-personal-appearance and disposable income than I gave Iran credit for….
Ethnic games tainted by cross-dressing cheats
Don’t you hate it when perfectly good ethnic games get spoiled by crossdressing cheats? When I was in Southwest China, in a fit of morality, I decided not to go to the Chinese Ethnic Themepark. My anarchist Chinese friends described it as an Ethnic Disneyland, much like The Polynesian Cultural Center here in Hawaii run…
EWWWW! Long fingernails make record.
I’m sure this woman’s fingernails are very nice, but they gross me out. I always think of the guy in Guinness Book and the homeless guy here in Kailua ‘Mango Man’ who has nails about a foot long…gross. cd LONDON (Reuters) – Lee Redmond soaks hers in olive oil. Aaron Studham lathers his in hairspray….
Today is Equinox…what does that mean?
DENVER-Many people know that on the equinox, every location on Earth is supposed to get 12 hours of daylight. In fact, the term “equinox” means “equal night,” signifying that the period of night should equal the period of daytime, and since the day is 24 hours long, we should have 12 hours of each. This…
Urine….er that is…revenge is sweet.
I can only imagine the satisfaction he must of felt as he watched them drink his piss. I have known what it is like to detest the people I work with. It’s a fair lesson, it may be that if you are an asshole, urine more danger of being the butt of someone’s joke than…