Daily Drivel

Today In History: May 6 1937 Zeppelin Hindenberg explodes at Lakehurst NJ, leaving 36 dead and others seriously burned. Official cause of the explosion is listed as "St. Elmo's Fire," although it probably also involved the flammable silver paint the Germans used to coat the thing. -dailyrotten

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Link of the Day: http://www.nopantsday.com/ Incumbent Chief MidAtlantic Correspondent and Lord of All Else Mutter reminded me in the nick of time about this important day...feel free to learn more about it!

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Driver fined for 'having a face like a moron'

--straight from ananova

A Romanian traffic cop has been demoted after he fined a driver for "having a face like a moron and being a big monkey".

Marius Vlasceanu pulled over Gheorghe Tosa as he drove through Craiova in Romania, local daily Jurnalul National reported.

But Tosa failed to see the funny side as Vlasceanu fined him £22 and handed him a ticket explaining the reason for the fine was "having a face like a moron and being a big monkey".

Head of the Romanian police Dan Fatuloiu said Vlasceanu, who claimed he had handed out the fine as a joke, had been demoted for "inappropriate behaviour and defaming the police force".

He has now been given a desk job in a remote village.

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From Glenn Broadway Buff McMillen, in an attempt to regain his previous position, we have the following:

Absent husband returns home ... as a eunuch

New Delhi resident Nabiullah, an unemployed father of two, had a tiff with his wife. He ran away, not to be seen by family for 2 years.

Well, Nabiullah has come home and boy has he changed!

Nabiullah decided while he was away, to get himself castrated and become a singing, dancing, eunuch! Highly successful he was, and more comfortable to no longer be "suffocated in [his] body as a man."

As stylish as he was with his bright red lipstick, his wife was less than thrilled. She has now filed for divorce, stating "I cannot live with this eunuch and subject myself and my children to social ridicule."

I guess it's back to the song and dance for you, Nabiullah!

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Broadway Buff McMillen desperately continues his attempts to redeem himself via this tidbit as well:

Mark McGowan Strikes Again

Mark McGowan, who has appeared in the missive numerous times for his wonderful political protests, is back in the news!

Mark's latest activity? He's planning to kiss the lips of a photo of Tony Blair 100,000 times in a mere 8 hours. Says Mark (between kisses): ""I notice he has been getting a lot of abuse, and I just wanted to show him some affection today, and 100,000 kisses seemed like a lot....I just thought being prime minister cannot be easy. Maybe it would be nice if at least one person showed him support."

He's planning his kisses in 50-peck bursts, with tiny breaks to rest his jaws and apply lip balm. As many have said under different circumstances, Mark proclaims: "So long as I can keep using my Vaseline I'll be all right."

Mark, in case you don't recall, is the dude who wandered around London for 11 miles with a 27lb turkey strapped to his head to persuade fat people to cut down on their food intake. He also rolled himself down the streets for about 4 miles singing We Wish You a Merry Christmas in an attempt to get better treatment for office workers, pushed a peanut across town with is nose to bring awareness to student debt and (my personal favorite) sitting in a bath of baked beans for two weeks with sausages strapped to his head in support of breakfast.

Edited to add on 5/6/05: As of this writing I do not have confirmation of his success or lack thereof in this latest attempt at glory.

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Courtesy of David I am NOT a Hippie Nemeth...

Extreme RPS

Takashi Hashiyama had 4 really cool paintings that he wanted auctioned off, but he just couldn't decide whether to go with Christie's or Sotheby's auction house to do the deed. So, as is apparently rather common in Japanese power circles, he had the heads of the two auction houses battle it out for the privilege. With a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors.

In the RPS Match of the Century, Christie's chose Scissors. Sotheby's chose paper.

And thus is was that Christie's cut through Sotheby's and scored most mightily by auctioning off the 4 paintings for $17.8 million dollars.

It is approximated that Christie's took in anywhere from a 10 - 17% commission on the sale.

Sweet.