News of the Weird

[Husar]

Yeah yeah yeah, look at the cute cephalopod, he's so adorable. Don't these people know what they are dealing with? Just wait til he jury rigs a .45 and an aqua lung (? air-o-gill?) out of bits of children's toys and shoots his way out to report back to his octosquid masters.

Also nice picture Lemur.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Whilst this is clearly a sad case, with some disturbing implications for the British justice system, I can't get past the wonderful opportunity of having a mother-in-law whose name is actually Traute.

When police officers arrived at the home of Traute Maxfield, Weddell’s mother-in-law, in nearby Gustard Wood to break the news that he had killed himself, they found Mrs Maxfield’s body.

[InsaneApache]

I can't get past the wonderful opportunity of having a mother-in-law whose name is actually Traute.

Sounds a little fishy to me.

[Geoffrey S]

The most amusing Photoshop I've seen in '08. Only one element in this picture from Georgia has been altered -- can you spot it? (It's like Where's Waldo for Half-Life 2 fans.)

Nice. Saw this one too:

[TB666]

Man that source engine has really improved.

[seireikhaan]

Whilst this is clearly a sad case, with some disturbing implications for the British justice system, I can't get past the wonderful opportunity of having a mother-in-law whose name is actually Traute.

Believe it or not, at my school, there's a family who's last name is actually Trout. The eldest son stated that his parents had apparently considered naming him "rainbow", to go along with his last name. Alas, they decided not.(coincidentally, "rainbow" would have been a very appropriate name for him, given his 'demeanor' if you know what I mean)

[woad&fangs]

In my town a person with the last name of Outhouse married a person with the last name of Krapp.

[CountArach]

Dinosaurs Had Teen Pregnancies: Study

Dinosaurs reached sexual maturity long before they were fully grown, becoming pregnant in their early adolescence, a study has found.

Researchers have identified tell-tale signs of pregnancy in fossils from three young female dinosaurs, aged eight, 10 and 18.

[Xiahou]

Twins separated at birth meet and get married. Oops!

Twins separated at birth met and married

Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:50pm EST

LONDON - A couple discovered after they had married that they were twins who had been split up at birth and adopted by separate families, according to a member of Britain's House of Lords.

British peer David Alton recounted the story to parliament last month to support his argument that artificially conceived children should be told who their biological parents are.

Alton said he had heard the story of the separated twins from a High Court judge who had dealt with the case.

"This did not involve in vitro fertilization: It involved the normal birth of twins who were separated at birth and adopted by separate parents," said Alton, an independent member of the Lords. "They were never told that they were twins."

"They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation," he said.

"I suspect that it will be a matter of litigation in the future if we do not make information of this kind available to children who have been donor-conceived," he said.

Alton could not immediately be reached for comment and no further information was available about the twins or where they were from.

"I think it's a very tragic story for the people involved," said Pam Hodgkins, head of a group that helps adults affected by adoption.

"It is a lesson that we need to learn and apply to the situation of donor-conceived children," she told Sky News.

"Whilst ... nowadays it would be most unusual for siblings to be separated ... the risk of secrecy affecting the lives of people born as a result of egg and sperm donation is exactly the same as the risks that have affected adopted people in the past," she said.

That one's most likely fake. Good work on almost every major news outlet propagating it without a second thought, though.

[Banquo's Ghost]

That one's most likely fake. Good work on almost every major news outlet propagating it without a second thought, though.

Now that's the Weirdest News of the week. Xiahou reads the Guardian.

[sapi]

Now that's the Weirdest News of the week. Xiahou reads the Guardian.

[Fragony]

ehhhhh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...e_id=1770&ct=5

[FactionHeir]

Playboy plays club

[Fragony]

Jawohl herr Kohl. This is in the weird because it's germany.

http://www.bild.t-online.de/BILD/new...o=3533340.html

And soz it's in german but the former President of Germany has lost his absolute undenying unquestionable faith in the undisputed blessings of the multicultural society(lest their be no doubt). Peculiar.

[Vladimir]

Buck Naked.

[FactionHeir]

RIAA promotes Pirate Bay in their press conference

[Geoffrey S]

Goth banned from bus for 'walking' his fiancee on a leash

Miss Maltby said she came up with the idea to wear a dog lead, and said previous boyfriends had called her a "wierdo" when she suggested it.

The couple said they "loved each other to pieces" and the use of the lead was a "sign of trust".

Mr Graves said: "She's very animal like, she's kind of like a pet, as well as a partner."

He said he "does everything" for his girlfriend, including laying out clothes for her, feeding her and cleaning their house.

He said: "You wouldn't expect your cat or dog to do the washing up or cleaning round the house."

[sapi]

RIAA promotes Pirate Bay in their press conference

Content looks ripped off TF, but still,

[Fragony]

Absolutily adorable!!!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Husar]

Awww, cuuuute!

[Vladimir]

Little muslim little muslim let me in!

Not by the hair of my chinni chin chin.

[Fragony]

I don't get it what's so bad about building a house with something other then sand and donkey-[beep] how could that be offensive.

England is so very very lost, but nothing playing the imperial march for Saudi King won't fix right no yes maybe hopefully?

Dhimmi's

[Gregoshi]

It's high time PETA stepped in to fight against this pig discrimination. The mud-slinging has to stop. I've got the perfect anti-"pig discrimination" campaign slogan: "Have you hogged a pig today?" Pigs of the world, unite!

[Fragony]

Way to go porkchops

[Gregoshi]

Thanks Fragony, now I'm hungry and not a porkchop in the house.

[Fragony]

Blame the pinko's

[Louis VI the Fat]

Absolutily adorable!!!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

That picture is called 'UnknownCrusty'. It isn't. That is a Megalograptus ohioensis.

It looks fake. Rather, it looks real, but I have this nagging hunch that it is fake since our crusty friend has been extinct for 450 million years.

Don't ask me why I know this sort of stuff.

[Lemur]

It's from a show called called Chased by Sea Monsters. The FX are really good, very high production values. I watched it with my little boy lemur, and he loved it.

Here's a BBC article about the show, including this shot:

[Fragony]

It's horrible. There is something about the mechanical nature of lower organisms it feeds

[Vladimir]

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?n...d=180486&rfi=6.

Maybe the non believers are non-Hawkeye fans and the Great Satan is the fighting Illini.