Via Reuters (Robert Basler):
…if it’s August, it’s just about Oktoberfest over there in Germany. Isn’t this about the time they show some cute chick with those huge – watcha-call ‘ems?
They say it’s the “world’s biggest beer festival,” which I guess means they’ve never been to the Indianapolis 500.
While I’ve never been to Oktoberfest in Germany, I have been to the Indy 500 multiple times. From Oktoberfest events here in the States I’d say that the Indy 500 (all three weeks of festivities) might be bigger, but the beer at Oktoberfest would probably be better. There are too many folks here drinking things like Old Milwaukee & Pabst Blue Ribbon.
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Via Reuters (Robert Basler):
I’ve gone on the “Live with saggy naked people diet.”
It’s easy. You just live for a few weeks in a resort for “naturists,” which is what wrinkly naked people call themselves these days, and you go where they go.
Hungry? Just bike on over to the food counter and stand behind one of them while they order. Your appetite will be gone for hours.
Think you’ll just stop by the drug store for some candy? Once you see those people flipping through the magazines you will not only never eat candy again, you’ll probably never read magazines again, either!
Funny stuff.
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Via the Telegraph:
The bus stop, in front of the Benrath Senior Centre in the western city of Düsseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop, with one small difference: buses never stop there.
The idea emerged after the centre was forced to rely on police to retrieve patients who wanted to return to their homes and families but had forgotten that in many cases neither existed any longer.
Now that’s what I call thinking outside of the box. I like it!
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Via the Daily Mail:
Most parents like to pull out all the stops to make a child’s 16th birthday as memorable as possible.
But having a female stripper surprise your son in front of his teacher in class would not feature on many wish-lists.
…But – thanks to what has been put down as a booking error – a female stripper turned up in place of the gorilla-suited man the unnamed mother had apparently asked for.
The stripper, who arrived on cue halfway through the lesson, first walked the birthday boy around the classroom on all fours.
Then, gyrating to the sounds of Britney Spears, she spanked him before stripping down to her bra and knickers and insisting the “naughty” schoolboy rub cream all over her body.
At that point, the teacher – who had not been told what the surprise would entail – called an immediate end to the show.
Wow.
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Via China Daily:
Fish that are supposed to clear people’s skin by eating off the dead layers bit a man’s private parts after he stepped in the water naked at a hot spring club in Dalian, Liaoning province.
The man, who had visited the spa for a “special water treatment”, sat in the water for half an hour without realizing the special fish were nibbling on his special parts instead of the dead skin.
And remind me why I’m not planning a trip to China. But to be fair, I’ve heard of this “treatment” in the States as well (without the nudity).
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Via Channel 6 in Indy
GARY, Ind. — Church leaders visiting a former funeral home they recently bought in a tax sale stumbled upon a gruesome discovery — four unidentified bodies that had been left behind, perhaps for years, in the vacant building.
Lake County Coroner David J. Pastrick described the situation as “unbelievable.”
Leaders of the Northlake Church of Christ called authorities after finding a body bag on a table Sunday.
Pastrick and his staff investigated and found one body in the bag, another in a corrugated burial box and two in caskets.
“They are unidentifiable,” Pastrick said Tuesday of the remains.
Pastrick said the bodies may have been in the former Serenity Gardens Funeral Home since 2006, when the Indiana State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Services revoked the business license for owner Darryl Cammack.
Read the rest of the story.
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Via Channel 6 in Indy
GARY, Ind. — Church leaders visiting a former funeral home they recently bought in a tax sale stumbled upon a gruesome discovery — four unidentified bodies that had been left behind, perhaps for years, in the vacant building.
Lake County Coroner David J. Pastrick described the situation as “unbelievable.”
Leaders of the Northlake Church of Christ called authorities after finding a body bag on a table Sunday.
Pastrick and his staff investigated and found one body in the bag, another in a corrugated burial box and two in caskets.
“They are unidentifiable,” Pastrick said Tuesday of the remains.
Pastrick said the bodies may have been in the former Serenity Gardens Funeral Home since 2006, when the Indiana State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Services revoked the business license for owner Darryl Cammack.
Read the rest of the story.
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Via Yahoo!:
Researchers in Texas are trying an unusual approach to combat fire ants — deploying parasitic flies that turn the pesky and economically costly insects into zombies whose heads fall off.
Read full story.
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Madison County, Indiana — Jerry Hugh Guffey, 53, is charged with murder in the death of John Collier, 78. Guffey claims to have “beheaded” Collier and stole his car because “he apparently viewed (Collier as) a romantic rival.” (Guffey’s wife filed for divorce last week.) This is just insane on numerous levels I won’t go into. Hopefully they’ll lock Mr. Guffey up for good this time (he has six previous convictions from what I saw listed).
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Via Reuters…
The tower’s tilt of about four metres off the vertical has remained stable in recent years, after a big engineering project that ended in 2001 corrected its lean by about 40 centimetres from where it was in 1990 when the project began.
“Now we can say that the tower can rest easy for at least 300 years.”
So how many years does the Grand Canyon have left?
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