Those dangerous choir students! What were they thinking buying Father’s Day presents in England? But these days, who knows which students will snap? A few years back I saw a High School Freshman’s student handbook, and it was 60+ pages long. It dictated hair length, style and color and even vague forbiddings of “unusual or […]
Wow, like how bad does it have to be to close a hospital?
Spider plague closes Australian hospital
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | www.sfgate.com
A tiny Australian hospital is closing temporarily because of an infestation of poisonous spiders.
The Baralaba Multi Purpose Health Service will close for 24 hours starting Thursday morning so officials can fumigate the […]
It’s not an easy or exact science to fly with balloons. American men seem to be the best at it, based on the flights of Kent Couch and lawn chair flight pioneer Larry Walters. Click those links for great posts in balloon chair avionics.
The most recent attempt to fly with balloons seems to […]
How wonderful it is to be a human today. We can hurtle humans into the black void of space but when things go awry, superstitions abound. Since space travel is relatively new in human endeavors, I think old maritime superstitions are often reached for. How truly awesome that people can return from space in a […]
Usually one hears of this sort of thing in Africa or India, but as the astute reader will note, this Bulgarian didn’t MARRY the goat, merely traded his wife for her. I’m sure many people who’ve been thru the heart break of divorce wish they could have worked things out so easily…
Stoil Panayotov, exchanged his […]
“If you like get a butter knife in your head, don’t yank it out”
-Tyler Hemmert
Luckily the knife embedded in his head did not penetrate his skull. Tyler Hemmert not only survived his ordeal, but his sense of humor and good cheer remained intact. The still photos of Tyler and his injury are an incomplete picture […]
“Things happen when you drink.” Well said.
Drunk Russian sleeps off stabbing
www.telegraph.co.uk | By Natalie Paris | Last Updated: 11:59am BST 18/04/2008
A Russian man was struggling to remember a night of heavy drinking after waking to find a knife in his back.
Vodka drinker Yuri Lyalin, 53, was woken by his wife the next morning with not […]
The headline given this story by the BBC makes one wonder if the Bishop got cozy in the sack with the vicar or fired him. This BBC show about this guy is “The Vicar of Dribbley.” Ha ha ha. Holy Man indeed.
‘Spitting vicar’ sacked by bishop
news.bbc.co.uk | 10 April 2008
A Church of England […]
This frozen baby mammoth is the best preserved specimen ever found and docs have been able to view her intact internal organs. How dog gone cool is this story? ((hardy har)) I expect in, oh, about 3 years we’ll see a tv special on public tv about this sweet lil baby mammothsicle.
Can prehistoric mammoths now […]
These dudes were serious beetle fans. I’m familiar with smuggling exotic birds, but I’d never heard of bug smuggling before.
Australia Nabs Two for Smuggling Beetles
www.javno.com/en | April 10, 2008
Investigators said the beetles were believed to be native species which cannot be exported without a permit.
Two men from the United States have been arrested and […]
I guess the video game dudes were sitting around brainstorming on the next big game and were like, ‘Madden , we need a new Madden.’ And voila! They came up with Lagerfeld. I wonder if his character uses a folding fan like Karl does? Seriously, are they reaching out to the hitherto untapped gay, german, […]