News of the Weird

[InsaneApache]

Let's see him wriggle out of that one.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Heres one. Its not so weird but what they heck its interesting.

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Justis Richert, 21, of Knoxville, Tenn., poses in her pink car in Knoxville on May 19, with a Tennessee Highway Patrol speeding ticket she got for allegedly driving 92 mph in a 70 mph zone. Richert's blog, written under her porn star screen name "Barbie Cummings," includes a report that she avoided a drug charge by performing oral sex on a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer.
Michael Patrick: AP

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Hope he isnt or should i say wasnt married

[Hosakawa Tito]

Bringing home the bacon.

[Crazed Rabbit]

That's one darn big pig:


CR

[Lemur]

Brain-eating zombies invade Apple Store. Very funny, actually (especially if you love zombies).

[Lemur]

No sooner did I begin my daily News of the Weird scan, than I found this. I can't think of an appropriate way to sum it up, so I'll just let the article speak for itself.

Crying Over Spilled Semen

Why women who don't use condoms feel happier.

By:Tiffany Kary

The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful-and potentially addictive-mood-altering chemicals.

Study author Gordon G. Gallup, Ph.D., a psychologist at the State University of New York in Albany, also found that women who routinely had intercourse without condoms became increasingly depressed as more time elapsed since their last sexual encounter. There was no such correlation for women whose partners regularly used condoms.

Gallup's survey of 293 college women also found that those who did not use condoms were most likely to initiate sex and to seek out new partners as soon as a relationship ended. "These women are more vulnerable to the rebound effect, which suggests that there is a chemical dependency," says Gallup.

Semen contains hormones including testosterone, estrogen, prolactin, luteinizing hormone and prostaglandins, and some of these are absorbed through the walls of the vagina and are known to elevate mood.

Gallup controlled for variables including method of contraception, frequency of sexual intercourse, as well as the women's perception of their relationship. He concedes that women who regularly have sex without condoms might share personality traits that make them less susceptible to depression. But the behavior most often associated with non-condom users is sexual risk-taking, and studies have found no correlation between high-risk sexual behavior and lower rates of depression.

Gallup's study, which he deems "the first serious attempt to investigate the effect of semen chemistry on women," titillated the public and rankled some academics upon publication in Archives of Sexual Behavior. Gallup says he has since replicated the findings with a sample of 700 women and will examine whether "semen withdrawal" places women at an increased risk for depression when they are premenstrual, menopausal or have just given birth, as many women abstain from sex during these periods.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Brain-eating zombies invade Apple Store. Very funny, actually (especially if you love zombies).

Hunting for brains, eh? They must have left unsatisfied.

CR

[Lemur]

Hunting for brains, eh? They must have left unsatisfied.

Surely you could have worked a pun in there somewhere. You know, something about how instead of brains all they found was bad apples.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful-and potentially addictive-mood-altering chemicals.

So then are they going to make a semen pill? Think of all the lives it could save. Hey maybe I can supply those natural girls who want every thing organic and fresh

[Banquo's Ghost]

Brain-eating zombies invade Apple Store. Very funny, actually (especially if you love zombies).

And here I though zombies were an exclusively Windows problem.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Surely you could have worked a pun in there somewhere. You know, something about how instead of brains all they found was bad apples.

We can't all be Gregoshis', you know. Besides, I thought it a pithy remark about Apple stores.

But just for you;
Looks like they could have used a firewall at that store.

CR

First post as Senior member! Woohoo! I remember, back in the good old days, when the tavern was one forum and we had to use 25kb modems both ways in the snow...

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

we had to use 25kb modems both ways in the snow...

I was doing that as little as two years ago.

[Marshal Murat]

The Zombies prefer Apples, they got more usable memory.

[InsaneApache]

I think that you guys have got to the core of the problem, noticeably without making the pips squeak!

Trust me to peel away the skin of a debate, so that I can get my teeth into the pippin that awaits.

EDIT: Congrats madbunny....:o)

[Lemur]

Hearty congratulations to the crazy rabbit for a well-deserved seniority.

What's weirding me out is that I posted two stories within minutes of each other, and it's the zombies in the apple store that everyone's responding to. Perhaps the other subject is too delicate? Too blue? Or maybe it's that the zombie story has a nice graphic?

I'm not sure what to make of it. I would think that news of the anti-depressive power of your manly fluids would be, well, news you can use. "Hi baby, I think I have the cure to your depression right here ..."

-edit-

Perhaps if I add a snazzy graphic for the Psychology Today story?

[Gregoshi]

Besides, I thought it a pithy remark about Apple stores.

CR, I thought your comment was pretty darn funny. In fact, the more I've been thinking about over the past few hours, the funnier it gets. Congrats on your Seniorship too!

[FactionHeir]

When elephants are hungry...

NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) -- An elephant in eastern India has sparked complaints from motorists who accuse it of blocking traffic and refusing to allow vehicles to pass unless drivers give it food, a newspaper has reported.

The Hindustan Times said Monday the elephant was scouting for food on a highway in the eastern state of Orissa, forcing motorists to roll down their windows and get out of the car.

"The tusker then inserts its trunk inside the vehicle and sniffs for food," local resident Prabodh Mohanty, who has come across the elephant twice, was quoted as saying.

"If you are carrying vegetables and banana inside your vehicle, then it will gulp them and allow you to go."

If a commuter does not wind down his window or resists opening the vehicle door, the elephant stands in front of the car until the driver allows him to carry out his routine inspection.

Forestry officials told the newspaper that the elephant is old and is therefore looking for easy food.

"So far, it has not harmed anybody," said Sirish Mohanty, a forest ranger working in the state.

"We are telling commuters regularly not to tease the elephant. But if people don't heed to our advice and harass the tusker, then it can retaliate."

Elephants are a protected and endangered species in India, which has nearly half of the world's 60,000 Asian elephants.

But conservationists say its population has fallen rapidly in recent years because of loss of habitat as a result of human encroachment into forest areas.

As for Lemur's story, that makes quite a bit of sense given the evolutionary aspect of it. Intercourse is an evolutionary expensive process that generally exists and is performed for the sake of procreation. When a condom is used, then only the expensive process is left with no chance of reproducing, therefore inducing some form of depression, as the woman is giving something but not receiving something back and from an evolutionary aspect feels inferior (women select for the best mates, to obtain good genes and the better women get the better genes and that kinda stuff, so if you get nothing, you know where you stand)
As for being more promiscuous after breaking up without usage, its a mechanism of self-defense, because if you bear a child from another man in a new relationship, in most animal species you condemn yourself to death. In human relationships either that or break-up if found out. Therefore they have more intercourse to increase the chacnes of the child being the new partner's so they don't get left standing in the rain with nothing.

[Marshal Murat]

The Polish Fight against Homosexuality

Falwell lives again!

[cegorach]

Hopefully she will be sacked, but I doubt it - many officials from recent 'resource pool' have only one virtue - loyalty towards the right-wing morons and their 'reserve bench' is extremely short.

Amazing how 3% large party can gain such a great attention...

The most embarrassing government in our history I guess.

[English assassin]

The spokesperson for children's rights in Poland, Ewa Sowinska, singled out Tinky Winky, the purple character with a triangular aerial on his head.

Surely she is missing the point here? She is worried that exposure to Tinky Winky may make children grow up gay. But isn't it more of a problem that they might grow up purple, with a triangular aerial on their heads?

Mind you when I was growing up I used to watch Thomas the tank Engine and it never did me any harm. Oops, must dash, I've got the 11.23 to pull and I am nearly out of coal. Peeep.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Mind you when I was growing up I used to watch Thomas the tank Engine and it never did me any harm. Oops, must dash, I've got the 11.23 to pull and I am nearly out of coal. Peeep.

I was exposed to Pogle's Wood at an early age, and my impressionable mind was exposed to the idea that wisdom could only be found in the provision of a glass of claret to a suitably ancient personage.

Since this was my exact experience with my own father, I have continued to subscribe to this truth to this very day.

[InsaneApache]

Pogle's Wood, I'd forgotten all about that. Still it's weird that you remember it.

Banks are always charging fees. Even, apparently, to people who are trying to rob them.

Christopher Emmorey, 23, discovered that the hard way when he walked into the Royal Bank on George Street March 22 demanding that the teller give him $5,000 and telling her he had a gun in his pocket.

The fiscally responsible teller told Emmorey she could only give him $200, and told Emmorey there would be a $5 transaction fee because Emmorey was not a client at the bank.

http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.c...0News&classif=

[Louis VI the Fat]

Teletubbies? Thomas the tank Engine? Pogle's Wood?

Tsk...

When I was a wee lad I used to watch Apostrophes from Bernard Pivot, critique littéraire français.

[cegorach]

Surely she is missing the point here? She is worried that exposure to Tinky Winky may make children grow up gay. But isn't it more of a problem that they might grow up purple, with a triangular aerial on their heads?

Mind you when I was growing up I used to watch Thomas the tank Engine and it never did me any harm. Oops, must dash, I've got the 11.23 to pull and I am nearly out of coal. Peeep.

She is a laughing stock already for a looong time, but the 'toobies' joke will persecute her for the rest of her life and (much shorter) political presence.

For last2-3 days all media in Poland of any kind, all satirical blogs and most of the forums are full about 'gay fairy tale theory' jokes involving so many childerns' tales that I think if it were for her we would be all gay already.

[Banquo's Ghost]

When I was a wee lad I used to watch Apostrophes from Bernard Pivot, critique littéraire français.

Crikey, whose idea was it to make him a Senior Member?

(BTW, congratulations Louis - and to Xiahou, Crazed Rabbit and Andres. Well deserved all. )

[Banquo's Ghost]

Cleanliness really is next to godliness.

Cleanliness caused death of 'Dettol Man'

By Nigel Bunyan
Last Updated: 2:13am BST 29/05/2007

A recluse died because his phobia for cleanliness drove him to using large quantities of antiseptic.

Jacques Niemand, 42, became so well known for his obsession that children living near his flat in Didsbury, Manchester, nicknamed him the ''Dettol Man''.

A pathologist told an inquest in the city that it was impossible to tell whether Mr Niemand had resorted to drinking the fluid or else had gradually been overpowered by its poisonous fumes.

The net result was that he had an inadequate supply of oxygen to his vital organs.

The inquest heard he habitually placed buckets of Dettol around his flat. Bottles of the product littered the rooms, while a further 100 containers had been packed inside a suitcase.

Mr Niemand's sister, Ruth Bain, said her brother had suffered from an obsessive cleaning disorder for a number of years. He had not seen his GP since 1992 because he feared the prospect of being detained under the Mental Health Act. "He didn't want any help and was scared of receiving it," she said.

Mrs Bain said she tended to stay away from the flat because she found the smell of antiseptic overpowering.

Several police officers who searched the premises last July, in the days after Mr Niemand's death, had to go off sick with aches and pains.

A pathologist, Dr Lorna McWilliam, said it was difficult to say whether his exposure to Dettol had been through ingestion or inhalation.

She added: "I cannot be sure his death arose through using an excessive amount at one time, but I suspect there must be an element of that."

The Manchester coroner, Leonard Gorodkin, recorded a verdict of misadventure.

He described it as "a most unusual kind of death", and added: "We do not know if death occurred quickly or over a period of time".

Mr Gorodkin disagreed with Mrs Bain's fear that her brother had wanted to end his life.

"If that had been the case the level of chlorate in his body would have been much higher," he said.

He suggested that since Mr Niemand knew workmen were due to begin improvements to his flat on the day he died he may have wanted to make himself particularly clean.

Last night the makers of Dettol, Reckitt Benkiser, were unavailable for comment.

Sad. I imagine he underestimated dettol it would take on his body.

[Gregoshi]

Nice one BG. My theory is that he kicked a bucket in his flat.

[Lemur]

It's one of those old man-in-underwear-wrestles-leopard stories ...

Man Clad in Underwear Pins Leopard

By ARON HELLER
The Associated Press
Monday, May 28, 2007; 10:45 PM

JERUSALEM -- A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.

"This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," said 49-year-old Arthur Du Mosch, a nature guide. "I don't know why I did it. I wasn't thinking, I just acted."

Raviv Shapira, who heads the southern district of the Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority, said a half dozen leopards have been spotted recently near Du Mosch's small community of Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev desert in southern Israel, although they rarely threaten humans.

Shapira said it was probably food that lured the big cat. Leopards living near humans are usually too old to hunt in the wild and resort to chasing down domestic dogs and cats for food, he added.

Du Mosch's pet cat was in the bed with him at the time, along with his young daughter who had been frightened by a mosquito in her own room.

Shapira said the leopard was very weak when park rangers arrived at Du Mosch's home after the surprise late-night visit. He said nature officials would likely release it back into the wild.

Du Mosch said he probably would not have been able to control the big cat were it in better health. As a nature guide, he said, he was familiar with animals and did his best to hold down the leopard without harming it. He said he took it all in stride, "but the kids were excited."

[FactionHeir]

Creationist Musem opens.
English
German

Some people never give up...

[Banquo's Ghost]

Du Mosch's pet cat was in the bed with him at the time, along with his young daughter who had been frightened by a mosquito in her own room.[/ex]

That part had me laughing out loud. Bet she never goes back to dad for safety again!