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Some folks think it's a really good composite job of a model plane and pilot. I see no exhaust, even on the underside, for a piston engine, so maybe. It's worth a look anyway.
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sorry, check the O-club yesterday, it's a fake. A well-done fake, but still.....
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A vicar attended hospital with a potato stuck up his bottom - and claimed it got there after he fell on to the vegetable while naked. "You fell onto a potato while naked?"
"Yes."
"Raw or cooked?"
"Raw."
"White or red?"
"White."
The clergyman, in his 50s, told nurses he had been hanging curtains when he fell backwards on to his kitchen table. "Hanging curtains, were you?"
"Yes."
"In your window?"
"Yes."
"With no clothes on?"
"Yes."
"And you fell?"
"Yes. Backwards."
"And you landed on the potato?"
"Yes."
"And the potato at that point entered your bunghole?"
"Yes."
"Longways or sideways?"
"Longways."
He happened to be nude at the time of the mishap, said the vicar, who insisted he had not been playing a sex game. "You weren't playing a sex game?"
"No, no! Certainly not!"
The vicar had to undergo a delicate operation to extract the vegetable, one of a range of odd items medics in Sheffield have had to remove from people's backsides or genitals. "Another one, Dr. Bung!"
"Put him over there with the coke bottle and the artillery shell."
Others include a can of deodorant, a cucumber, a Russian doll -- and a carnation. "Red, pink or white?"
Speaking of the vicar, A & E nurse Trudi Watson, of Sheffield's Northern General Hospital, said: "He explained to me, quite sincerely, he had been hanging curtains naked in the kitchen when he fell backwards on to the kitchen table and on to a potato. But it's not for me to question his story." "No matter how unlikely..."
"He had to undergo surgery to have it removed." "Lard!... Shoehorn!... Pliers!"
"Aaaaiiiieeee!"
She advised anyone tempted to use such objects in sex games to think again. "It can be very dangerous and potentially life-threatening," she said. "If you get a potato stuck in there and it starts to sprout, it's curtains!"
"Surgery can lead to infection, nasty scarring, and it could possibly end up with the person having to use a colostomy bag as a result." "You could be mistaken for an unsuccessful shaheed. Think of the harm to your reputation!"
A hospital trust spokeswoman in Sheffield said: "Like all busy hospitals we do see some unusual accidents. But our staff deal with them in a discreet, professional and kind way." "And as soon as you're out of sight we laugh our asses off! Those of us who don't have potatoes in them, anyway!"
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The eyes of Texas taters are upon up in you....
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Hahahahahaha!
snorp.... teh Bishop is in town today... but lawz, now I can't go. I can only throw this facade up for a few hours at a time.... and now BOOM!
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Let me get this straight. He claims he was not playing sex games in the privacy of his house but was standing on a ladder/stool naked in front of the window while hanging curtains? Near the table full of food? I think that's actually worse.
The vicar should be run out of town and out of the church for bringing shame and mocking upon them. So sayith the shepard, so sayith the flock.
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Years ago, a US medical journal started a rather dry compilation of emergency room statistics reported from around America.
Among the statistics emergency rooms had reported that year, one dozen men had reported "slipping in the shower and landing on a lemon." Well, a minor ha-ha.
Then the next year, the statistics indicated that one dozen men had reported "slipping in the shower and landing on a lemon." Well, what an amusing coincidence.
But then, the third year, it happened again. Exactly one dozen men. Suddenly what had been funny became a top reportable item. Emergency rooms around the country were on alert for any men who had reported that type of accident.
There was even some suggestion that spread bets were being taken. But when the numbers were tallied that year, only ten men had suffered that fate. The streak was broken.
A octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp. Staff believe that the octopus called Otto had been annoyed by the bright light shining into his aquarium and had discovered he could extinguish it by climbing onto the rim of his tank and squirting a jet of water in its direction.
That's one smart octopus ...
The short-circuit had baffled electricians as well as staff at the Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany, who decided to take shifts sleeping on the floor to find out what caused the mysterious blackouts.
A spokesman said: "It was a serious matter because it shorted the electricity supply to the whole aquarium that threatened the lives of the other animals when water pumps ceased to work.
"It was on the third night that we found out that the octopus Otto was responsible for the chaos.
"We knew that he was bored as the aquarium is closed for winter, and at two feet, seven inches Otto had discovered he was big enough to swing onto the edge of his tank and shoot out a the 2000 Watt spot light above him with a carefully directed jet of water."
Director Elfriede Kummer who witnessed the act said: "We've put the light a bit higher now so he shouldn't be able to reach it. But Otto is constantly craving for attention and always comes up with new stunts so we have realised we will have to keep more careful eye on him - and also perhaps give him a few more toys to play with.
"Once we saw him juggling the hermit crabs in his tank, another time he threw stones against the glass damaging it. And from time to time he completely re-arranges his tank to make it suit his own taste better - much to the distress of his fellow tank inhabitants."
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It don't take too much high IQ's to see what you're doing to me
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
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Octopus are really clever- one in the Vancouver Aquarium would climb out of it's tank, cross the floor, into another tank, snack on the rightful occupants, then back home and be innocently snoozing when staff arrived in the morning.
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Since others have vouched for the intelligence of octopi, I will note the derring-do here of another sea creature.
My mom worked for a major aquarium 30 years ago. I would sometimes meet her at work, during off hours; and I got to look at the creatures when half the city wasn't gawking at them. They were all especially active at quiet times.
Two lobsters occupied a large tank. The larger one had laid claim to 90% of the space, including a rock shelter at the bottom. The smaller one perched on top of the rock pile, at the far right side. During quiet hours, the small one would tease the large one. He would put one claw or one antenna over the invisible line. The big boy galumphed out of his shelter and chased the little one backward up the rock pile. Two minutes later the little one would try it again. He must have enjoyed this game tremendously.
Hollywood starlet Eva Mendes blasted fellow Latino actress Salma Hayek for stealing her favorite baby name, press reported Saturday.
The 34-year-old actress said she was shocked when she found out that her pal Hayek, 42, had called her daughter Valentina Paloma, born September 2007. "Salma took my baby name. Valentina Paloma. I was like, 'Salma, you took my baby name!' And she's all, 'What are your other ones so that I don't take them," Mendes was quoted in Latina magazine as saying.
Mendes, however, insisted that despite the baby row she still has immense respect for the Mexican actress. "I think if there's anybody in this field that I look up to it's her. She has really done it the right way and I respect her completely. I just saw her speak, and she's the most inspirational speaker. You never want her to leave the stage," the magazine said.
Mendes, who does not have any children of her own, is in a long-term relationship with producer George Augusto.
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First this reminds me of George Costanza being upset that someone else stole his idea "seven" and/or "soda" for a baby name. Or something like that.
Second, they are both beautiful but Selma did a fawning portrait of a communist painter so I have to default to Eva on principle.
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rjschwarz, I find your logic compelling and your argument impeccable. However, I must defer to Ms. Hayek's even more compelling hip-to-waist ratio, also her impeccable decollatage. Just sayin'. ;-)
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We need a pay per view oil wrestling match to settle this once and for all.
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rent the Dusk To Dawn DVD and tell me if you've seen a more compelling strip dance (except the end, of course)...plus, Tito And
The Tarantula's rocks
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My mother named me JohnQC. The neighbor complained that she wanted that name for her off-spring.
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I agree Selma was wonderful in Dusk Till Dawn but I can't see her without the Frida Unibrow in my mind and the damaged moral compass that goes with the Frida love.
DAMMAM: A bride, while being photographed with her friends at a wedding hall in Al-Ahsa, was left embarrassed and injured when the canopy over her bridal couch crashed on top of her, spoiling her gear. The girls relatives were not as much upset by the disturbance it caused as they were by the forebodings portended by the break and the bleeding bride at the start of her married life. The girl was taken to a nearby hospital only after prayers were offered to ward off evil spirits and protect against the evil eye. The party continued once the girl returned, Al-Madinah newspaper reported.
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The last king of Italy was unlucky enough to be suspected of being a "mal occhio", an evil eye, after a train bridge he had christened collapsed with loss of life. Even Mussolini refused to meet with him after that.
At least 14 people died and five others fell ill after drinking toxic alcohol in various parts of Bogra and Kalai upazila of Joypurhat in last two days.
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how did I know, before I clicked, that this would be a Bangladesh story?
They are phrases that are repeated ad nauseam and are taken as bona fide English, but councils have now overturned the status quo by banning staff from using Latin terms, which they claim are elitist and discriminatory. Local authorities have ordered employees to stop using the words and phrases on documents and when communicating with members of the public and to rely on wordier alternatives instead.
The ban has infuriated classical scholars who say it is diluting the world's richest language and is the "linguistic equivalent of ethnic cleansing".
i.e., linguistic genocide ...
Bournemouth Council, which has the Latin motto Pulchritudo et Salubritas, meaning beauty and health, has listed 19 terms it no longer considers acceptable for use. This includes bona fide, eg (exempli gratia), prima facie, ad lib or ad libitum, etc or et cetera, ie or id est, inter alia, NB or nota bene, per, per se, pro rata, quid pro quo, vis-a-vis, vice versa and even via.
Its list of more verbose alternatives, includes "for this special purpose", in place of ad hoc and "existing condition" or "state of things", instead of status quo.
In instructions to staff, the council said: "Not everyone knows Latin. Many readers do not have English as their first language so using Latin can be particularly difficult."
It's no more difficult to use Latin as an English speaker than as an Urdu speaker. This isn't speaking or writing Latin, it's using a few convenient phrases.
The details of banned words have emerged in documents obtained from councils by the Sunday Telegraph under The Freedom of Information Act. Of other local authorities to prohibit the use of Latin, Salisbury Council has asked staff to avoid the phrases ad hoc, ergo and QED (quod erat demonstrandum), while Fife Council has also banned ad hoc as well as ex officio.
Professor Mary Beard, a professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge said: "This is absolute bonkers and the linguistic equivalent of ethnic cleansing. English is and always has been a language full of foreign words. It has never been an ethnically pure language."
Dr Peter Jones, co-founder of the charity Friends of Classics said "This sort of thing sends out the message that language is about nothing more than the communication of very basic information in the manner of a railway timetable.
"But it is about much more than that. The great strength of English is that it has a massive infusion of Latin. We have a very rich lexicon with almost two sets of words for everything.
"To try and wipe out the richness does a great disservice to the language. It demeans it. I am all for immigrants raising their sights not lowering them. Plain English and Latin phrasing are not diametrically opposed concepts."
Henry Mount the author of the bestselling book Amo, Amos, Amat and All That, a lighthearted guide to the language, said: "Latin words and phrases can often sum up thoughts and ideas more often that the alternatives which are put forward. They are tremendously useful, quicker and nicer sounding.
"They are also English words. You will find etc or et cetera in an English dictionary complete with its explanation."
However, the Plain English Campaign has congratulated the councils for introducing the bans. Marie Clair, its spokesman, said: "If you look at the diversity of all our communities you have got people for whom English is a second language. They might mistake eg for egg and little things like that can confuse people.
Then again, they could learn English, i.e., use it properly ...
"At the same time it is important to remember that the national literacy level is about 12 years old and the vast majority of people hardly ever use these terms.
Since your pals have dumbed down the schools, etc ...
"It is far better to use words people understand. Often people in power are using the words because they want to feel self important. It is not right that voters should suffer because of some official's ego."
Because that would upset the status quo ...
Several councils, including Aberdeenshire, and Blackburn and Darwen, have also prohibited the use of the French phrase in lieu, while many local authorities have drawn up lists of English words, which cannot be used as they are considered politically incorrect.
Orwell was a bona fide seer ...
Amber Valley Council, in Derbyshire, has told staff it is no longer acceptable to use language "that portrays once sex as subordinate to the other". Staff have been instructed to say "synthetic" rather than "man made", "lay person" instead of "lay man", "people in general" in place of "man in the street", "one person show" rather than "one man show" and "ancestors" instead of "forefathers".
Broadland Council, in Norfolk, has banned "housewife" and replaced it with "homemaker" and asked staff to refer to "staffing" rather than "manning" levels. Several councils including Blyth Valley and Weymouth have banned the phrase disabled toilet and disabled parking because they imply that the facilities themselves are disabled. They have renamed them accessible.
Accessible to whom?
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In a related development, the Broadland Council also mandated that all council staff will henceforth refer to other staffers not as "colleagues" or "co-workers", but as "droogs."
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Completely ad hominem I'd say. The Aberdonians (Scots) will likely revolt. To little to late however. The cause is lost, Albion (old England) is in rigor mortis.
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If this bothers you, try teaching middle school and high school students to use even a modicum of "proper" English in their speech and writing. It is frequently a massive gesture in futility.
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This wouldn't be an issue if they all switched to Arabic.
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E pluribus unum.
Oops.
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sounds like vigorous inaction on the part of the Councils, to me. Common practice amongst the genre. After all, most don't have the foggiest notion on how to run anything so they amuse themselves by playing silly games. Actually, they sound like they may be confusing themselves with French with their ban on foreign words. Merci!
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Steve, according to a really cool website called "Latin insults," "Screw you and the horse you rode in on" can translate as either "Te futueo et caballum tuum" or "Te futueo et equum tuum."*
Why not send these idiots both versions and let them choose? ;-p
*No, I didn't translate it myself. Latin class was nearly 50 years ago, and Mrs. Griggs never taught us cool stuff like that anyway.
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Gawd, I love the 'burg. It's such a fountain of information. Thanks, Barbara!
A Muslim chef employed by the Metropolitan Police is launching a discrimination claim after he was asked to cook pork sausages and bacon. Hasanali Khoja is accusing the force of religious discrimination after it refused to guarantee in his contract that he would be excused from handling pork products.
The case is the latest in a series of discrimination rows which have engulfed the force, contributing to the resignation of Sir Ian Blair as commissioner last month as well as the suspension in September of Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, Britain's most senior Muslim officer, who claims he has suffered racial discrimination.
Mr Khoja is being supported by the National Black Police Association, which has urged potential recruits not to join the Met, because of "racism" within the force.
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Maybe, they should have offered to do an honor killing for him or just offered a 8 year old bride.
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Actually all the Koran says is that the flesh of swine is forbidden to eat. It also exempts the faithful if there is nothing else available.
No one is forcing him to eat anything.
"Forbidden to you for food are: carrion, blood, the flesh of swine and that on... But if any is forced by hunger, with no inclination to transgression, God is indeed oft-forgiving most merciful
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I assume that he will get away with it. Sigh. When will they ever learn?
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Mr. Khoja also sits on a Food Standards Agency advisory committee on Muslim issues.
Hasanali: The Food Standards Agency advisory committee on Muslim issues meeting will now come to order. Please set your pagers and phones to vibrate Achmed please read the minutes from our last meeting.
Achmed : First the committee, once again, voted unanimously that cooking pork sausages and bacon is strictly forbidden and therefore is considered religious discrimination. We then had a majority consensus that the paper placemats at McDonalds restaurants had offensive cartoons and therefore is also considered religious discrimination. After that, we all agreed that the billboards for Famous Daves Ribs have offensive cartoons of a pig in a chef hat and is really considered religious discrimination. After that, the committee voted to advise solicitor Khalid Sofi to begin immediate proceedings for a lawsuit and bring an end to this awful humiliation. And finally, the committee couldnt agree on the question that if one breaks wind shortly after lunch if one has to wash his feet and genitals before prayer... or just his feet.
Hasanali: Hmmm yes Achmed that is a perplexing one perhaps further prayer is needed on that issue. Anything else? Nope? Allrighty then go in peace.
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The problem's not the cooking, now is it? Assimilation works both ways. Drawing a line in the sand at pork sausages while giving way to Sharia throughout large swaths of territory doesn't exactly make sense.
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The beauty is that if they had not given him that job he could have sued them for not giving him a job based on his religion. Doesn't matter what the Koran says, it matters what they say their religion tells them (which is notoriously flexible these days).
It's a beautiful move and I expect the Metropolitian police to be on a vegan diet within a year when they realize they have been checkmated by multiculturalism.
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Seems to me that preparing food for the infidels is giving them aid and comfort and therefore, quite unislamic. Never mind the fact that the pig, as Homer says, is a wonderful, magical animal.
The elections supervisor in Pascoe County, Fla., says a request for naked polling place at a local nudist colony is probably a publicity stunt. Brian Corley told the St. Petersburg Times that while there was a request submitted by the management at the Caliente Resort, it was made far too late for anything to be done in time for this week's presidential election. "I think they're just doing some marketing hype," Corley chuckled.
The Times said Sunday that the clothing-optional crowd at Caliente has to get dressed and venture a couple of miles up U.S. 41 to cast their ballots at an existing polling place. A county commissioner reminded voters who don't want to venture out of their friendly confines could apply for absentee ballots.
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As far as conspiracy theories go, this one is pretty boring; by the way, according to that guy, the story supposedly originate from the FSB, and from a commenter, the source is a cuban press agency... I don't know, but in the coming years, supposing things don't spiral out of hand re-the world situation, the West, the USA, etc, etc..., historians will look at the whole "truth" movement, the whole "NWO" idea (on how our ennemies actually are our Elites, which is certainly true in more than one way, but not like THAT, if you understand what I'm saying), and they will find out that this was all in the same old tired but higly effective "disinformation" mold, from the same old people, using the same methods, the same agents of influnece, the same useful or willing idiots,...
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Thanks anon5089! That video is one of the most informative anyone will ever see. I urge everyone to see it and pay close attention from minute 15 and onwards.
The West is definitely in the Destabilization phase, though the process will be longer than the 2-5 years envisioned, even with a Marxist Obama at the helm. The societies based on personal freedom and responsibility have been under sustained siege for at least 100 years by the forces of Totalitarianism. It's ironic the source of that attack is now a parasitic segment of it's own population.
That Soviet Communism collapsed in 1989 was not inevitable, but the product of naivety and mismanagement by Gorbachev. One thing I note to folks is look at maps from 1945, 1955, 1965, 1975, and 1985. In each decade, more of the world was controlled by Communist forces than the decade previous. It was a sustained 40 year retreat by the forces of freedom. There were lots of losses, a few ties, and a rare victory.
That Americans may elect as President a Marxist Manchurian Candidate, trained from childhood and worked all adulthood in Marxism to destroy the Democratic system that has provided so much and given us so many freedoms, is infuriating beyond words.
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An Iranian man has filed for divorce and asked a court to protect him from his hefty wife, saying she lays into him every night when he gets home from work, the Etemad newspaper reported on Saturday.
"Every night when I get home my wife, who is tall and strong, hits me," the paper quoted the man, identified only by his first name Behrouz, as telling the family court in Tehran. "I am a cleaner at a hotel and get home late at night. But my wife thinks I do other things after work."
Behrouz, who is slightly built, said he no longer wanted to go home and pleaded for the court to save him from his wife, Etemad said. The judge has now summoned the wife to appear before the court before he gives a final ruling in the case.
Rights activists have long campaigned for changes to Iran's family law which is deemed discriminatory against women in matters of divorce and child custody. Men's refusal to pay maintenance, drug addiction and physical abuse are among the more common reasons for divorce in the Islamic republic.
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There's plenty of guys in the same situation here, unfortunately. I hope he is granted the relief he needs from her.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp. Staff believe that the octopus called Otto had been annoyed by the bright light shining into his aquarium and had discovered he could extinguish it by climbing onto the rim of his tank and squirting a jet of water in its direction.
Hollywood starlet Eva Mendes blasted fellow Latino actress Salma Hayek for stealing her favorite baby name, press reported Saturday. 
At least 14 people died and five others fell ill after drinking toxic alcohol in various parts of Bogra and Kalai upazila of Joypurhat in last two days.
