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Lemur 04:53 10-30-2009
Coyotes Kill, Eat Indie Music Waif



Two coyotes attacked a promising young musician as she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries.

The victim was identified as Taylor Mitchell, 19, a singer-songwriter from Toronto who was touring to promote her new album on the East Coast. [...]

Wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft said coyote attacks are extremely rare because the animals are usually shy.

Bancroft, a retired biologist with Nova Scotia's Department of Natural Resources, said it's possible the coyotes thought Mitchell was a deer or other prey.

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Lemur 18:48 10-30-2009
Fruit Bat Fellatio



New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has been seen in juvenile animals before, this is the first time it has been observed in adult animals. [...]

Prepare to enter the fascinating world of fruit bat fellatio. Though it has been observed previously in bonobos (both heterosexually and homosexually), this behavior generally has been confined to juvenile animals, the authors of the new study note. [...]

Read the whole paper: Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time (Warning: Contains some graphic descriptions.)

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Lemur 16:23 10-31-2009
Thousands line up for last Big Mac in Iceland

REYKJAVIK - Thousands of Icelanders lined up at McDonald's restaurants to order their last Big Macs before the U.S. fast-food chain abandons the crisis-hit island at midnight Saturday due to soaring costs.

The world's largest fast-food company said earlier this week that all three of its restaurants in Iceland, operated by franchisee Jon Ogmundsson, would shut down October 31. [...]

At lunchtime Friday the outlet's parking lot was full and staff inside were working furiously to keep up with the soaring demand.

"It's my last chance for a while to have a real Big Mac," Siggi, a 28-year old salesman waiting in line, told Reuters.

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Viking 10:55 11-01-2009
Metro is taking over, however, so they aren't left with ice cream and mineral water only, just yet.

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Samurai Waki 11:35 11-01-2009
Originally Posted by Viking:
Metro is taking over, however, so they aren't left with ice cream and mineral water only, just yet.
How come fast food servers in Iceland don't look like typical sweaty, matted hair, thick framed eyeglass wearing, pock-faced, mouth-breathers like we have in the US? It's blasphemy!

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CountArach 03:51 11-02-2009
Man sues deodorant company after failing to pull women
A LUCKLESS romeo has sued cosmetics firm Lynx after he failed to land a girlfriend during seven years of using their products.

Indian Vaibhav Bedi, 26, is seeking £50,000 from parent company Unilever for the "depression and psychological damage" caused by the lack of any Lynx effect.

Court officials in New Delhi have accepted dozens of half-used body washes, shampoos, anti-perspirants and hair gels for forensic tests.

Lynx - marketed as Axe in India - is famous for its saucy ads showing barely clothed women throwing themselves at men.

Vaibhav said in his court petition: "The company cheated me because in its advertisements, it says women will be attracted to you if you use Axe. I used it for seven years but no girl came to me."

Unilever refused to comment on the case.

But India's leading compensation lawyer Ram Jethmalani said: "There is no data to substantiate the supposition that unattractive and unintelligent men don't attract women.

"In fact, some of the bestlooking women have been known to marry and date absolutely ghoulish guys.

"I'd suggest the firm settle this issue out of court."


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InsaneApache 12:20 11-02-2009
Perhaps he'd have had better luck if he'd washed with soap, cleaned his teeth and combed his hair.

I never used deodorant when I was a younger guy and I pulled faster than a campanologist at St. Pauls.

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Fisherking 19:05 11-03-2009
Originally Posted by CountArach:
Man sues deodorant company after failing to pull women
A LUCKLESS romeo has sued cosmetics firm Lynx after he failed to land a girlfriend during seven years of using their products.

Indian Vaibhav Bedi, 26, is seeking £50,000 from parent company Unilever for the "depression and psychological damage" caused by the lack of any Lynx effect.

Court officials in New Delhi have accepted dozens of half-used body washes, shampoos, anti-perspirants and hair gels for forensic tests.

Lynx - marketed as Axe in India - is famous for its saucy ads showing barely clothed women throwing themselves at men.

Vaibhav said in his court petition: "The company cheated me because in its advertisements, it says women will be attracted to you if you use Axe. I used it for seven years but no girl came to me."

Unilever refused to comment on the case.

But India's leading compensation lawyer Ram Jethmalani said: "There is no data to substantiate the supposition that unattractive and unintelligent men don't attract women.

"In fact, some of the bestlooking women have been known to marry and date absolutely ghoulish guys.

"I'd suggest the firm settle this issue out of court."

Is this the Lemur effect?

http://www.fakingnews.com/2009/10/un...-man-sues-axe/

Check your sources!




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Samurai Waki 02:19 11-04-2009
I think Lemur should push for using "The Lemur Effect" in some kind of scientific or social quagmire, I don't care what it is; but I'd like to hear someone say "Gentleman, what we have here is a terrifying example of the Lemur Effect."

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Vladimir 13:53 11-04-2009
Has anyone started a Wiki on it yet?

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Hosakawa Tito 16:01 11-04-2009
Proof that chewing tobacco can be good for you.

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Gregoshi 16:20 11-04-2009
Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito:
Proof that chewing tobacco can be good for you.
The Skoals weren't hot enough to keep the fire going.

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Fisherking 18:59 11-04-2009
I wonder how big the sucker was?

Nothing like keeping 70 gallons of snoose in your living room...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 


Madison officials say a disgruntled ex-wife tried to burn her former husband’s home down, but the flames were extinguished by the contents of a melting spittoon.





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Lemur 22:26 11-04-2009
Originally Posted by Wakizashi:
I think Lemur should push for using "The Lemur Effect" in some kind of scientific or social quagmire, I don't care what it is; but I'd like to hear someone say "Gentleman, what we have here is a terrifying example of the Lemur Effect."
Clearly what needs to happen is a proper formulation of what the Lemur Effect is. A codification, if you will. Something along these lines:

"If a hundred monkeys on a hundred typewriters will eventually type out Shakespeare, then a single lemur on a single keyboard will duplicate your post."

Or something along those lines. It needs to be formulated as a law.

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Viking 22:35 11-04-2009
Seems Google prefers the other term; though a search was to little help when it came to explaning it.



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InsaneApache 13:49 11-05-2009
Burgers for FAT football players!



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Hosakawa Tito 16:11 11-05-2009
Originally Posted by InsaneApache:
Burgers for FAT football players!

Who you calling Phat. They should adopt Ron's colors too, wig, face paint, and dem big ol' clod kickin' shoes. I might even start watching soccer if they do that.

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drone 17:36 11-05-2009
Originally Posted by InsaneApache:
Burgers for FAT football players!

Who ate all the pies?

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Fragony 14:07 11-07-2009
Too awesome and eye-specialist called IC Notting

http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven....html#comments

call an ambulance this is going wrong

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Rhyfelwyr 17:38 11-07-2009
Never mind Disneyland, I want to go to Auschwitz!

"One in 20 schoolchildren thought Adolf Hitler was a coach of the German football team, a survey said.

And one in six youngsters said they thought Auschwitz was a Second World War theme park while one in 20 said the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war. "


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Louis VI the Fat 14:11 11-08-2009
Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr:
One in 20 schoolchildren thought Adolf Hitler was a coach of the German football team, a survey said.
Probably Hungarian, Dutch or French then.

[That one's for all you footy historians]

Originally Posted by :
And one in six youngsters said they thought Auschwitz was a Second World War theme park while one in 20 said the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war. "[/I]
There's no business like shoahbusiness.

More seriously, I blame modern museums and heritagr sites for that. In a bid to make them more 'relevant' for youngsters, how many ambitious museum directors have not blurred the line between theme park and historical site / museum? They are choke full of multimedia displays that make you wonder why they didn't just put up a website so the kids could've just stayed at home. And interactive displays. And full of Disneyfication too. Meanwhile, themefication has crossed from the theme park to urban projects, malls, and museums. Especially in America, the line between historical site and theme park has become very thin indeed.

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Fragony 14:44 11-08-2009
'Probably Hungarian, Dutch or French then. "

Can you please keep us out of that, we can point out all your major city's, we know how they make us rich starting from the age of 6. At which point we can also recite the Kamasutra.

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Hosakawa Tito 01:42 11-10-2009
Boyfriend charged in shooting. Maybe he did it maybe not, but it's beyond a reasonable doubt that he needs fashion advice.

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Gregoshi 02:50 11-10-2009
Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito:
Boyfriend charged in shooting. Maybe he did it maybe not, but it's beyond a reasonable doubt that he needs fashion advice.
Princess Leia or Mickey Mouse? And in what looks like a hospital gown? The domestic dispute was probably over "Your aren't leaving the house looking like that!"

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Hosakawa Tito 22:41 11-10-2009
Fiddling around. Some Humans will do it for World Series tickets so I guess we've regressed a little.

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Gregoshi 23:47 11-10-2009
Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito:
Fiddling around. Some Humans will do it for World Series tickets so I guess we've regressed a little.
That's one way to end up with crabs.

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Crazed Rabbit 07:21 11-11-2009
Local British Government Councils fear the masses might be too stupid, and so ban the use of latin terms, so as to not trouble any idiots.

CR
(Yes, it's old, but I think unposted here)

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InsaneApache 14:50 11-11-2009
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit:
Local British Government Councils fear the masses might be too stupid, and so ban the use of latin terms, so as to not trouble any idiots.

CR
(Yes, it's old, but I think unposted here)
That's just quid pro quo for a bona fide council.

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Louis VI the Fat 13:08 11-12-2009


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InsaneApache 14:30 11-12-2009
Even without my glasses on I can tell that's photoshopped.

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