Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Today in History: December 28, 1908 An earthquake in Messina, Sicily kills 160,000. Nearly all of the city is destroyed. Countless art treasures are destroyed, as well as the Cathedral Annunziata dei Catalani.
Just thought that was rather interesting in light of the whole earthquake/tsunami thing going on right now. Hmm.
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Link of the Day, courtesy of Lord Mutter: washing of the cat: http://www.corprew.org/idealog/index.php/archives/2004_12_27/instructions
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Look out below!
So the big thing used to be Dick Clark dropping his large pendulous balls each New Year's Eve. As thrilling as that is/was (hello, Regis in 2004/2005), Pennsylvania seems to be developing a case of dropsy itself.
Observe all the stuff PA folks will be tossing December 31:
Blain: dropping a wooden cow
Cleona: dropping a pretzel
Dillsburg: dropping a pickle
Duncannon: dropping a sled
Elizabethtown: dropping a gargantuan M&M
Falmouth: dropping a stuffed goat
Harrisburg: dropping a big strawberry
Hummelstown: dropping a lollipop
Lancaster: got it backwards - they will be erecting a red rose
Lebanon: dropping a 7½-foot-long, 120 lb bologna
Liverpool: dropping a canal boat.
Manheim: also confused, will raise an orb
Mechanicsburg: dropping a wrench
Middletown: dropping a ball
New Bloomfield: dropping a huckleberry
Newville: dropping a big spring
Red Lion: erecting a cigar
Shippensburg: dropping an anchor
York: dropping a big white rose into a vase
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Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
Homosexuality is running rampant in the penguin areas of Japanese aquariums! A research group led by a professor at Rikkyo University (Tokyo) discovered that there were 20 gay couplings at 16 major aquariums and zoos, and has concluded that - much like prison - this is likely due to the difficulty of finding partners of the opposite sex. Horny little penguins faced with an imbalance betwixt male and female options apparently throw penguin mores and norms to the wind and happily mount whomever, wherever.
Keisuke Ueda, who led the research, states that he doesn't know whether or not there is a similar rate of homosexuality in penguins in the wild because "telling the sexes apart is tough."
Hmm.
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Russian Lawyer Privatizes Earth’s Clouds, Plans to Sue for Property Damage
Vladimir Osipov from Yeisk has assumed ownership of all of the clouds in the air above the earth and now is going to protect them. He has sent out his official notarized document declaring said ownership to the governments of 150 countries along with a warning.
Now that he owns them, he plans to sue anybody who pollutes the atmosphere and/or damages said clouds for property damage.
I wonder if he owns the chemtrails too?
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Butt Readings Now Showing on TV
Now THIS is a TV show not to miss. The late night talk show La Cosa Nostra on Spanish-language channel 41 (WJAN-TV) has enlisted the talents of Professor Jose Miranda, rumpologist.
On-air, folks get to bare their buttocks and have their cheeks checked for their fortune. Professor Miranda says that reading the butt is just as prophetic as reading the palm or the eyes or whatever. He was introduced to psychic reading of the posterior by none other than Sylvester Stallone's mom at a psychic convention. She too reads butts, and even has a website dedicated to the practice.
The left cheek is the cheek of the future, and the right cheek is the cheek of the present.
I can only presume that that which is between the two cheeks indicates the recent past.
Ahem.
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Just thought that was rather interesting in light of the whole earthquake/tsunami thing going on right now. Hmm.
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Link of the Day, courtesy of Lord Mutter: washing of the cat: http://www.corprew.org/idealog/index.php/archives/2004_12_27/instructions
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Look out below!
So the big thing used to be Dick Clark dropping his large pendulous balls each New Year's Eve. As thrilling as that is/was (hello, Regis in 2004/2005), Pennsylvania seems to be developing a case of dropsy itself.
Observe all the stuff PA folks will be tossing December 31:
Blain: dropping a wooden cow
Cleona: dropping a pretzel
Dillsburg: dropping a pickle
Duncannon: dropping a sled
Elizabethtown: dropping a gargantuan M&M
Falmouth: dropping a stuffed goat
Harrisburg: dropping a big strawberry
Hummelstown: dropping a lollipop
Lancaster: got it backwards - they will be erecting a red rose
Lebanon: dropping a 7½-foot-long, 120 lb bologna
Liverpool: dropping a canal boat.
Manheim: also confused, will raise an orb
Mechanicsburg: dropping a wrench
Middletown: dropping a ball
New Bloomfield: dropping a huckleberry
Newville: dropping a big spring
Red Lion: erecting a cigar
Shippensburg: dropping an anchor
York: dropping a big white rose into a vase
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Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
Homosexuality is running rampant in the penguin areas of Japanese aquariums! A research group led by a professor at Rikkyo University (Tokyo) discovered that there were 20 gay couplings at 16 major aquariums and zoos, and has concluded that - much like prison - this is likely due to the difficulty of finding partners of the opposite sex. Horny little penguins faced with an imbalance betwixt male and female options apparently throw penguin mores and norms to the wind and happily mount whomever, wherever.
Keisuke Ueda, who led the research, states that he doesn't know whether or not there is a similar rate of homosexuality in penguins in the wild because "telling the sexes apart is tough."
Hmm.
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Russian Lawyer Privatizes Earth’s Clouds, Plans to Sue for Property Damage
Vladimir Osipov from Yeisk has assumed ownership of all of the clouds in the air above the earth and now is going to protect them. He has sent out his official notarized document declaring said ownership to the governments of 150 countries along with a warning.
Now that he owns them, he plans to sue anybody who pollutes the atmosphere and/or damages said clouds for property damage.
I wonder if he owns the chemtrails too?
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Butt Readings Now Showing on TV
Now THIS is a TV show not to miss. The late night talk show La Cosa Nostra on Spanish-language channel 41 (WJAN-TV) has enlisted the talents of Professor Jose Miranda, rumpologist.
On-air, folks get to bare their buttocks and have their cheeks checked for their fortune. Professor Miranda says that reading the butt is just as prophetic as reading the palm or the eyes or whatever. He was introduced to psychic reading of the posterior by none other than Sylvester Stallone's mom at a psychic convention. She too reads butts, and even has a website dedicated to the practice.
The left cheek is the cheek of the future, and the right cheek is the cheek of the present.
I can only presume that that which is between the two cheeks indicates the recent past.
Ahem.
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