Archive | April, 2009

Playboy models losing hourglass figures

30 Apr

Ok, so this is an old story, but it’s still worth noting as I’m sure today the trend continues. No mention is made of the other trends among sex workers and nude models, hairless-ness and rampant plastic surgery. The combined effect of which emulates the smooth, bleached curves of a plastic Barbie doll.

(Insert anti-labiaplasty rant here, or as I once heard a young man refer to them, “those things that stick out and down” of what Red Foxx called the “tomahawk wound.”)

Warning, there’s a naked lady photo after the jump.

Study: Playboy models losing hourglass figures
Friday, December 20, 2002 Posted: 11:38 AM EST (1638 GMT)

LONDON, England –A study of almost 50 years of Playboy centrefolds has revealed that the characteristic differences between men and women are becoming less pronounced.

Researchers at universities in Canada and Austria compared height, weight, bust, waist and hip measurements of 577 models from issues of the adult magazine dating from 1953 to 2001 and found they had become less shapely and more androgynous.

The findings, published in the latest edition of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), conclude that the trends were at odds with claims that centrefolds’ body shapes were still more “hourglass” than “stick insects.”

In the 1950s, for example, Marilyn Monroe epitomised the ideal woman with a voluptuous hourglass figure of 37-23-36.

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Psychic Finds Chihuahua Blown Away at Flea Market

29 Apr

Now this, this is news. Not only is it news, it would make a beautiful childrens’ book, country song, or surrealist painting.

Dorothy, left, and Lavern Utley of Rochester Hills, Mich. hold their dog, Tinker Bell Monday, April 27, 2009 in Waterford Township, Mich. Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind on Saturday picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Mark Hicks)

Holly Township psychic reunites wind-blown chihuahua with her grateful owners
Posted by Jill Blondin | The Flint Journal April 28, 2009 16:59PM

HOLLY TOWNSHIP, Michigan — She just had a feeling, as psychics often do, that the tiny lost dog was alive and well and wandering on higher ground.

Lavern and Dorothy Utley of Rochester believe that feeling, from Holly Townshp resident “Lorrie the Pet Psychic,” reunited them with Tinker Bell. Their six-pound chihuahua had been missing since Saturday when a 70-mph wind picked her up at a flea market in Waterford Township and literally blew her away. Her owners, both 72, were devastated after volunteers combed the area only to come up empty-handed.
AP PhotoDorothy, left, and Lavern Utley of Rochester Hills, Michigan hold their dog, Tinker Bell Monday, April 27, 2009 in Waterford Township, Mich. Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind on Saturday picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight.

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Fox Freed From Fence

28 Apr

Another odd incident down under.

Squeeze: This poor fox got stuck in an East Malvern backyard and had to be freed with a shovel - very carefully and from a distance.

Squeeze: This poor fox got stuck in an East Malvern backyard and had to be freed with a shovel - very carefully and from a distance.

Man frees trapped fox in East Malvern

www.news.com.au  |  Megan McNaught  |  March 26, 2009 12:00am

ANTHONY Distasio thought it was a joke when a jogger knocked on his door at 6.30am and told him a fox was stuck in his fence.

“I had to ask whether it was April Fools Day,” the East Malvern man said.

Then he put two and two together. His children’s pet rabbits were loose in the back yard, so a fox could well be on the prowl.

The fox appeared to have been trapped for several hours, because it had gnawed the top off several fence pickets.

“It had got itself well and truly stuck and it wasn’t happy about it,” Mr Distasio said.

“It was very snarly and was biting at anyone that went near it.”

Mr Distasio said he knew foxes were vermin, but he didn’t want to sign its death warrant. He grabbed a shovel and, from a safe distance, prised it off the fence.

“It kept trying to bite us, but once we got the panel off it took off,” he said.

“Hopefully, after that experience it won’t want to come back, but we will be locking our rabbits up from now on.”

RSPCA chief Dr Hugh Wirth said foxes were more common in suburban areas than most people realised. “Research has shown that there are five foxes every square kilometre in Melbourne,” he said.

“They are more common here than in London.”

Mr Wirth said foxes in urban areas had a ready food supply, thanks to dog owners who left meaty bites outside.

They also eat small pets and native animals such as possums, as well as ducks and geese.

“Until people start disposing of their rubbish better and addressing the way they feed their pets, this problem with foxes is only going to get worse,” he said.

“It should be up to councils to provide pest control, but they won’t take responsibility.”

The De-Baptism Debate

27 Apr

At first this may sound like a flaky idea but when you read further it makes sense for someone with those beliefs. The idea of “original sin” and limbo is well, weird, convoluted and mid-evil. Conversely the idea of wanting your church community to welcome and bless your child makes sense if you are a person of faith.

Mr Hunt sums up his position as follows:

“ I reject all its creeds and other such superstitions, in particular the perfidious belief that any baby needs to be cleansed of original sin….”
John Hunt

Atheists call for ‘debaptism’
By Robert Pigott, Religious Affairs correspondent  |  2009/03/14 00:17:51 GMT  |  BBC NEWS MMIX

John Hunt was baptised in the parish church of St Jude with St Aidan in Thornton Heath in south-east London. But 50 years later he stands outside and regards its brick facade without much affection.

Mr Hunt was then sent to Sunday school in west London and later to confirmation classes, but he decided early on that he had no place in what he felt was a hypocritical organisation.

He recalls that his mother had to get lunch ready early for him to attend the classes.

“One Sunday I came back home and said ‘Mum, you needn’t get lunch early next Sunday because I’m not going to the class any more’. And she decided not to argue.”

Now Mr Hunt has become the pioneer in a rejuvenated campaign for a way of cancelling baptisms given to children too young to decide for themselves whether they wanted this formal initiation into Christianity.

However, baptism is proving a difficult thing to undo.

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UK Kid Catches Weird South American Fish

24 Apr
What an amazing weird ugly fish! Releasing large aquarium bound fish into the wild may seem humane but if it’s a non native species it can have disastrous results.

Foreign friend: This armoured suckermouth catfish, pictured on a fence post, was found by angler Shaun Brown at the Grand Union canal near Leicester

Pictured: The bizarre South American armoured fish found in a Leicestershire canal
www.dailymail.co.uk  |   27th March 2009

As an ambitious young angler you are always looking for a catch to impress your friends.

If you can land one that scares them too, well that’s a bonus.

Shaun Brown, 14, managed to hook this ugly-looking creature from the less than exotic surroundings of the Grand Union Canal in Leicestershire.

With its prehistoric armour-like scales it looks like the mechanical Terror Fish that used to pursue Troy Tempest in the Sixties puppet show, Stingray.

In fact, it is a tropical fish that would normally be found in Central America.

Shawn pulled the 10in specimen from the canal at Wigston.

anima
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Little Old Lady Loses Control of Scooter For Five Miles

23 Apr

Five miles is a long way to go on any sort of vehicle. I hope the video link works, its very charming.

Link to Video on BBC

Runaway scooter carries off woman
BBC NEWS  |  2009/04/03

An 87-year-old Cornish woman was rescued by police five miles from home when her mobility scooter sped off out of control.

Eileen Bishop, from Perranporth, and her husband Anthony were on their way to church when, he said, she “disappeared off the radar”.

Officers later found her heading along the A3075 towards Newquay.

A police community support officer (PCSO) rode the scooter back and said it appeared to be working correctly.

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Adult Film Pioneer Marilyn Chambers Found Dead at 56

22 Apr

Marilyn Chambers was a former Ivory Snow soap box model who starred in the in the first XXX film to be widely released, Behind the Green Door. She could never shake the shadow cast by the XXX umbrella though she had a variety of performance talents. As of this writing autopsy results were inconclusive. Condolences to her family.

Interracial porn pioneer Marilyn Chambers dead at 56
www.vancouversun.com  |  April 15, 2009

Marilyn Chambers, who created a sensation when she starred in the X-rated movie Behind the Green Door, died Sunday at her Los Angeles home.

The 56-year-old former porn star’s real name is Marilyn Ann Taylor, began her onscreen career as an Ivory Snow detergent model.

She was found dead Sunday evening. The L.A. County coroner is examining the cause of death, but a spokesman said foul play is not suspected.

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Irish Nightclub Cancels Crucifixion

21 Apr

Don’t let the date of this article fool you. I checked, this event was really planned. Recently I was reminded that one good Friday many moons ago at a West Philly show featuring the band More Fiends a mock fight went down between “David Koresh” and “Jesus H. Christ.” A huge wooden cross was also brought into the basement venue and revelers were encouraged to shoulder the burden if they liked.


Controversial crucifixion plans axed by nightclub
Wednesday April 01 2009  |  www.newrossstandard.ie

WEXFORD NIGHTCLUB The Music Factory has cancelled a controversial plan to stage a dance floor re-enactment of Christ on the cross over the Easter weekend.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the venue’s co-owner Peter May said ‘It is with regret that we will not be going ahead with the planned theatrical production of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday’.

The decision was made following discussions with Church representatives, he said, and was based on the fact that the Music Factory does not wish to ‘offend any sector of the church or public’.

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Natural Lithophones

20 Apr

Actual footage of natural lithophones in action. The resonance has been attributed to their high iron content. If you do not think these have a pleasant, unusual, ringing tone, go out and hit a rock with a hammer for comparison.

Butt Blown Out of Lenin Statue

18 Apr

This is one of my favorite April Fool’s Day pranks. At first I though the story was the hoax, but it’s the bombing that’s the prank in this case. How wonderful, some jolly pranksters essentially told Lenin to “blow it out his ass.”

Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue
Story from BBC NEWS  |  09/04/01

One of Russia’s most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.

The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin’s coat.

No-one was hurt in the attack, the motive for which was unknown.

The statue, outside the Finland Station, marks the Bolshevik leader’s return from exile in April 1917.

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South Africa’s Bionic Frog

17 Apr

At first glance this sounds like a crazy, stupid rash idea. Considering the owner of the frog works as a conservationist and the frog is 25 years old and is a threatened species, it seems like a better idea. Hey-it’s not my money-why not? Lets all pause and be glad we don’t have a cloaca.

Photo: MILLER/MACLEAN

Photo: MILLER/MACLEAN

After x-ray of worlds first false frog leg. Photo: MILLER/MACLEAN

'After' x-ray of world's first false frog leg. Photo: MILLER/MACLEAN

Lame frog gets his leg back in world first operation
Brullie has become the first frog in the world to be fitted with a false leg.
telegraph.co.uk  |  31 Mar 2009

The giant bullfrog had his shattered lower leg bone replaced with an inch-long metal pole during a painstaking two hour operation.

The lame amphibian went under the vet’s knife after being bitten by a dog.

Owner Anne Mearns, 62, said: “People think I’m mad to care so much about a frog but I couldn’t bear to see him in so much pain.

“Frogs are famous for their legs, so the thought of Brullie being left lame broke my heart. I knew without surgery he would never move again, so I to rushed to the vet and begged him to operate.

“The vet was more used to saving cats and dogs and couldn’t understand why I was so worried about a frog, but he eventually agreed.

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Men’s Pants Stolen While Swimming

16 Apr

Leaving one’s clothes on the beach while swimming is always a leap of faith.

Look closely and you can see the men with no pants.

Look closely and you can see the men with no pants.

Men report pants stolen while they swam in ocean
thesunnews.com  |  Tonya Root  |  Apr. 15, 2009

Two North Carolina men told police someone stole their pants after they left them on the beach to go for a swim in the ocean, according to a police report.

The men, ages 20 and 25, said they left their jeans at 5:30 p.m. Sunday on the beach in the 500 block of Ocean Boulevard to go for a swim in the ocean, police said. When the men returned 30 minutes later, they said their clothing was gone.

Inside their pants pockets were their wallets, identification, credit cards and cell phone, according to the report.

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