Thursday, March 11, 2004
Quote of the day, today in history: Mar 11 1993 "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans." (Bill Clinton, quoted in USA Today)
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Pets are People Too.
A church in Connecticut is giving Holy Communion to pets and offering them special worship services.
St Francis Episcopal Church in Stamford is offering pets special doggy and kitty worship services and giving them holy Communion during said services. This initiative is brought on because of a fall in human church attendance numbers.
Always thinking outside the box, eh?
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Menudo is Back
In a blow to music lovers everywhere, the all-prepubescent boy band Menudo is holding an international star search so they can go back on the road. There will be an open audition in New York this summer for boys aged 10 - 14. They will have a wholesome, contemporary hib/urban/Latin crossover sound per Menudo Entertainment LLC.
I believe earplugs can be obtained cheaply at Home Depot.
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover...
A 60 year old German man called out the cops for a full search for his 39 year old wife when he thought she had sleepwalked out of their home and might be in danger. We're talking a FULL search, complete with helicopters and hounds! Turns out she wasn't sleepwalking. She was found at her friend's house, where she had decided to stay since she was leaving her husband.
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Here's ANOTHER Restaurant to mark off your five-star list...
While a photo worker was developing film at a North Carolina CVS pharmacy, a couple of shots spurred a phone call to authorities. Were they dirty pictures? Nope. They were very clean. They were pictures of two Wendy's restaurant employees taking turns using the large sink there as a bathtub. When or why they took their bathies in the kitchen at work is, as yet, unknown.
Health officials say it's okay, since the sink has been sanitized. Ick.
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A New FlashGame? Better Than Penguins!
Tulane University receives over 100 cadavers per year, donated by people who want to live on through science and education. It only uses, however, about 40 to 50 cadavers. What to do with the remainder of the remains? Why not give them to the Army to blow up on land mines?
Cadaver broker National Anatomical Service (NAS) of Staten Island, N.Y., is no longer servicing Tulane as of last month. The broker was only doing his job: hooking up buyers and sellers. And the Army needs to be able to blow up bodies to be sure that, well, they either do or do not blow up when wearing (for example) special boots or something. It's better than using the living, don't ya think?)
NAS has actually started turning down contracts with the Army, as the work was exceptionally labor intensive. Not only did they have to pick up the bodies in New Orleans and transport them (with escorts) to several locations throughout Texas, they ALSO had to pick up the shreds post-test, cremate them, and then return them to the university.
When body donors sign up to donate their corpses, they sign that the cadaver can be used for educational and research purposes. So the Army actions, while not as sterile as having medical students learn about the large intestines, fall completely within the realm of the agreement.
Michael Meyer, a medical ethics from California, disagrees. Says Meyer,"How would you feel if your mother's body was donated to science . . . and she ends up being thrown on a land mine? This is not only ghoulish, but it's also ethically reprehensible."
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Pets are People Too.
A church in Connecticut is giving Holy Communion to pets and offering them special worship services.
St Francis Episcopal Church in Stamford is offering pets special doggy and kitty worship services and giving them holy Communion during said services. This initiative is brought on because of a fall in human church attendance numbers.
Always thinking outside the box, eh?
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Menudo is Back
In a blow to music lovers everywhere, the all-prepubescent boy band Menudo is holding an international star search so they can go back on the road. There will be an open audition in New York this summer for boys aged 10 - 14. They will have a wholesome, contemporary hib/urban/Latin crossover sound per Menudo Entertainment LLC.
I believe earplugs can be obtained cheaply at Home Depot.
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover...
A 60 year old German man called out the cops for a full search for his 39 year old wife when he thought she had sleepwalked out of their home and might be in danger. We're talking a FULL search, complete with helicopters and hounds! Turns out she wasn't sleepwalking. She was found at her friend's house, where she had decided to stay since she was leaving her husband.
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Here's ANOTHER Restaurant to mark off your five-star list...
While a photo worker was developing film at a North Carolina CVS pharmacy, a couple of shots spurred a phone call to authorities. Were they dirty pictures? Nope. They were very clean. They were pictures of two Wendy's restaurant employees taking turns using the large sink there as a bathtub. When or why they took their bathies in the kitchen at work is, as yet, unknown.
Health officials say it's okay, since the sink has been sanitized. Ick.
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A New FlashGame? Better Than Penguins!
Tulane University receives over 100 cadavers per year, donated by people who want to live on through science and education. It only uses, however, about 40 to 50 cadavers. What to do with the remainder of the remains? Why not give them to the Army to blow up on land mines?
Cadaver broker National Anatomical Service (NAS) of Staten Island, N.Y., is no longer servicing Tulane as of last month. The broker was only doing his job: hooking up buyers and sellers. And the Army needs to be able to blow up bodies to be sure that, well, they either do or do not blow up when wearing (for example) special boots or something. It's better than using the living, don't ya think?)
NAS has actually started turning down contracts with the Army, as the work was exceptionally labor intensive. Not only did they have to pick up the bodies in New Orleans and transport them (with escorts) to several locations throughout Texas, they ALSO had to pick up the shreds post-test, cremate them, and then return them to the university.
When body donors sign up to donate their corpses, they sign that the cadaver can be used for educational and research purposes. So the Army actions, while not as sterile as having medical students learn about the large intestines, fall completely within the realm of the agreement.
Michael Meyer, a medical ethics from California, disagrees. Says Meyer,"How would you feel if your mother's body was donated to science . . . and she ends up being thrown on a land mine? This is not only ghoulish, but it's also ethically reprehensible."
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