Thursday, March 5, 2009
And in Britain: Lunch Breaks Come Before Broken Backs...
Robert Chambers, a British paramedic, was filling his ambulance at a gas station last Boxing Day when he was asked to help a man who’d broken his back during a fox hunt. Chambers declined, stating that he was on his lunch break. The Health Professions Council’s tribunal examined the case and decided...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
And in Saudi Arabia: Saudi Scholar Nixes Biofuels as Un-Islamic…
In an amusingly self-serving ruling, Muhammad an-Najimi, a Saudi member of the prestigious Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, issued a tentative personal opinion (less binding than a fatwa ) to Muslims that filling the gas tank with biofuels is sinful: "I warn Saudis...
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
And in Russia: Nuclear Bombshells on Parade...
Aiming to burnish its image, the Russian nuclear industry has announced its sixth annual beauty pageant. “Miss Atom 2009” brings together the industry’s female employees, who sprawl over car hoods and strut in bikinis in front of cooling towers. “We want to show the general public that the nuclear...
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Friday, February 27, 2009
And in Georgia: Tapping the Hidden Power of Hamsters...
Scientists have unlocked the electrical potential of hamsters running on treadmills. Thanks to tiny jackets they wear, scampering hamsters deliver kinetic energy over wires, creating electricity. The hamsters aren’t going to light up a city yet: one rodent, Campbell ’s Dwarf, produced just one-20 th...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
And in India: Milk Isn’t the Only Bovine Health Drink...
The cow protection department of India’s Hindu nationalist group Rashtria Swayamsevak Sangh is proposing a new fizzy health drink, Cow Water, which they sugest can cure liver disease and even cancer. The drink is essentially distilled from cow urine, mixed with herbs. A spokesman says the drink...
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Monday, February 23, 2009
And in Florida: Alligator Wrestling Calls for Respect, Among Other Things..
Marco Zeno, 21, has been crowned Best Alligator Wrestler in the World after a Feb 7 event in Seminole, FL, when he took down an unnamed three-metre [10ft] alligator in two metres of water. Among Zeno’s rivals was a plumber who used to sleep with his girlfriend’s caiman. Rules were simple: excessive...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
And in Sweden: Feigned Insanity...
Swedish art student Anna Odell faked insanity so well she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. First she convinced police that she was suicidal by appearing to dive off a bridge. At the hospital, eight staff had to restrain her while she kicked, screamed and spat. When she revealed that she was...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
And in the Netherlands: Higher Learning Must Accept Stinky Feet...
After a 10-year battle, Dutch university student Teunis Tenbrook has won the right to attend lectures. A decade ago, Tenbook was expelled from Erasmus University because of his unbearably smelly feet. Professors and students alike demanded that he not attend class owing to the smell and even the...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
To All My Blogit Friends...
Thank you very much for your kind comments and good wishes on the occasion of my current illness. I am definitely over the hump, and in retrospect I am somewhat embarrassed for even having mentioned it, knowing what some of you have to live with. Mine is just a temporary, if rather unpleasant case...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
And at Naut's: An Enforced Hiatus in the Distribution of Tidbits...
Informed sources have revealed that there may be a hiatus in the dissemination of Tidbits, as well as in the distribution of Comments. (Ontario, Feb 12, 2009) 'Informed sources' be damned! I'm just sick...
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