Oddities and Humor

I hope the new owner appreciates him more than Roy's family.

http://www.cbc.ca/vinylcafe/shows.php?vShowID=1355
If your interested in the story as told by Stuart Maclean, I believe it's archived on iTunes under the July 3rd episode of the Vinyl Cafe.

VINELAND, N.J. — Authorities say a New Jersey woman told them she was carjacked to cover up the fact that her car crashed because she was having sex.

The 23-year-old had initially told police she got lost on Sunday and asked a man for directions. Police say she told them the man pulled her out of the car at gunpoint and threw her to the ground.

Police say she later admitted she picked up a man and let him drive, and the car crashed into a tree while they were engaged in a sex act. Officers say the car had been set on fire.

The woman is accused of filing a false police report. She has refused to identify the man.

mebbe they should enquire at area hospitals for a guy with an injured penis?

that's a story her grandkids won't ever hear about...

A week has passed, and still no stink from Lois the corpse flower at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Staffers have now cut a small hole in the flower and put rotting apples and bananas nearby in a bid to induce the bloom.

To induce it to bloom? How would that work?

I wish I knew.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Will Smith is about to play a "Legend" of Biblical proportions.

The "I Am Legend" actor will play the title role in "The Legend of Cain," based on the Biblical story of brothers Cain and Abel, the star's rep reportedly confirmed to Entertainment Weekly.

Like "I Am Legend," however, the upcoming film will incorporate "a vampiric twist," according to Deadline. In the Bible, Cain kills his brother, Abel, and is marked by God and sent to wander th earth -- a more villainous role than Will's usual heroic parts.

The star's own Overbrook Entertainment will produce the film.

The fire situation described below took place very near my home. All day long, the traffic has rerouted past my neighborhood. It took my wife over two hours to make what is normally a 45 minute round trip to Tomball today.

A Tomball paint warehouse burned for nearly 16 hours Saturday.

Several callers reported flames shooting from American Coatings, a painting manufacturer in the 10600 block of Mahaffey Road, around 2:40 a.m., said Dean Hensley, an arson investigator with the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office.

"We're still out here. It's still burning," Hensley said, adding that the building is approximately the size of two football fields.

About a dozen agencies responded to the blaze, including the Klein, Ponderosa, Cy-Fair, Magnolia, Rose Hill, Houston and Cypress Creek fire departments as well as Harris County hazmat and emergency management officials.

No one has been injured. A person of interest, arrested on unrelated charges, is being questioned.

Interesting oddities, edgar. Too bad about the fire, buddy.

I guess Will Smith will reflect the "mark of Cain" as being a vampire.

Moko



Hundreds of mourners Friday marked the death of a teenage bottlenose dolphin who won hearts and sometimes annoyed New Zealand swimmers and surfers with his boisterous antics.
Moko's body, placed in a blue coffin bedecked with flowers, was carried through a seaside town.
After a ceremony that drew more than 400 admirers, his casket was loaded on a charter boat that toured his favorite bays. He was buried privately on Matakana Island, where his carcass was found one week ago.
For three years, Moko was a familiar sight around the beaches of New Zealand's eastern coastal city of Gisborne, where he swam among beach-goers and stole balls and surf boards. He received worldwide fame in 2008, when he guided two stranded pygmy sperm whales back to deep waters.
Not everyone was charmed, though. Moko was known for pushing surfers out to sea, even leaving one woman stranded on a buoy when he stole her board. He also overturned kayakers and water skiers.
Moko's body was found a week ago on a beach on Matakana Island. The cause of death has not been determined, but post mortems have ruled out deliberate violence or a boat collision.
Initially, indigenous Maori contested the right to determine how and where Moko should be buried. They agreed after negotiations with New Zealand's Ministry of Conservation to lay him to rest on Matakana.

I would have enjoyed that dolphin - but only from a distance.

He was beaches as bro. Heaps beached.

Poor beached dude!! No water and no plankton!!


Kind of wished they spoke with closed caption to appease my accent illiterate ears.

Is a bucket of water too much to ask?

Its plinkton.

Aaaaah! Seems to make moore since now!

I'm assuming that plinkton has more vitamin c in it than plankton, non?

A search of plinkton brings one to that same video.

Dear lord, these guys are deadly serious!!
http://www.koolaidmaninsecondlife.com/
An all too serious and high brow intellectual interview where the one being interviewed is depicted as the Kool-Aid Man walking around in the online computer world of Second Life.

Viewer beware. It gets a tad spicy for an online video (it after takes place in the infamous world of Second Life). I found it by following a link on a video game culture article at the nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/theater/16video.html?ref=television

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's top Islamic body says it may forbid followers from drinking the world's most expensive coffee — extracted from the dung of a civet cat — over concerns it is unclean.

Kopi Luwak is made from hard beans that have been eaten by the nocturnal critters and then fermented in their stomachs before being pooped out and roasted. It's highly prized for its smooth flavor and bitterless aftertaste, sometimes fetching well over $200 a pound online.

Maruf Amien, acting head of the powerful Ulema Council, said a ruling on whether Muslims should be banned from drinking the brew could be made as early as Tuesday. He said the key issue is whether or not the coffee is clean.

"God willing it will be an easy decision," said Amien. "If the farmers clean the beans before they are grinded, they are halal, or legitimate, and there won't be a problem."

Kopi Luwak is produced on several Indonesian islands, spanning from Sumatra in the west to Sulawesi in the east, but it also can be found under different names elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Only 1,000 pounds are said to be produced annually worldwide.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation. The influential Ulema Council often issues fatwas, or edicts, including several controversial rulings against smoking and yoga. Its edicts are not legally binding, but many devout Muslim abide by them.