Sunday, November 30, 2008
And in Britain: Flip-Flops and Toilet Training...
Drunken female revellers in the British coastal resort of Torbay, Devon, will be given flip-flops to wear in place of high heels to protect themselves from injury. The initiative is part of a police program that has also seen officers “order drunken men who urinate in the street to mop up their own...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
And in Japan: Providing Men with Feminine Support...
Cross-dressers are turning to an online lingerie seller to buy brassieres specifically designed for men. “Wishroom” has already sold 300 of them – available in black, white, and pink – to men who want to wear something that offers a modicum of support but also makes them feel feminine. “We’ve been...
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Friday, November 28, 2008
And in Newfoundland: Break-up as Election Strategy...
As Liberals continue to lick their wounds from the last election, Newfoundland MP Scott Simms returned with the largest margin of victory of any Liberal, getting 70.3 per cent of ballots. “I got the pity vote,” he joked. “My girlfriend left me four days before the election.” (MacLean’s, Dec 8, 2008...
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
And to our Americans: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
let us be thankful gratitude rewards itself and pleases the gods © jack bremer
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
And in Spain: Blocking Sound with Holes...
Anyone kept awake by a neighbour’s television may be surprised to learn that a few holes drilled through a wall could lower the volume on sound. Francisco Meseguer of the Polytecnic University of Valencia in Spain and his colleagues placed a series of 20-centimeter thick aluminum plates in a tank of...
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Monday, November 24, 2008
And in Paris: Perfect Endings...
Last week, experts in the human posterior gathered in their quest for the world’s most beautiful bum. More than 11,200 well-reared individuals submitted photos for consideration in the competition, sponsored by an underwear manufacturer. The gruelling selection process saw 45 finalists strut their...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
And Also in the US: Insurance Execs Gone Wild...
Last week the US treasury announced it would double the taxpayer-funded bailout for troubled American insurer AIG. It has now committed an incredible US$152 billion – likely the largest-ever government rescue of a private firm. But that same week, instead of lying low and soberly reflecting on how...
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
And in the US: Hitting Pedestrians? Just Part of the Job...
Bus driver David Justka’s union is fighting his dismissal from a US transit authority. [There is no information on which transit authority fired him, but wherever it was, that town is a lot safer now.] In 2000 he struck and injured a pedestrian. Then, in 2005, his bus hit and killed a surgeon on a...
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Friday, November 21, 2008
And in France: A New Tongue Tracker...
Scientists have come up with a device that may revolutionize speech research: high tech dentures that capture minute details of tongue movement in unprecedented detail. “The tongue, like other human tissues, is a flabby body,” say’s Christophe Jeannin of the Institut de la Communication Parlee....
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
And in Ontario: Driver gets Icing Penalty on Hockey Rink...
Bystanders were appalled by a 34-year old woman’s driving last weekend in Kingsville, ON. They claimed the woman, who was steering a Zamboni [for our Americans, and others from the warmer parts of the world, that’s an ice-making machine, but not for your cocktails] on the ice of the local hockey...
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