News of the Weird

[Louis VI the Fat]

Sheesh you got some sauce posting that!

Quite. Somebody ought to give Greg curry about that.

[InsaneApache]

Shami try better at the kebab puns?

[Louis VI the Fat]

What puns? All I'm saying is it's a pita that so much kebab was lost.

[InsaneApache]

Indeed. It causes a chilli to run up ones spine. Although I actually quite raita some of the puns.

[gaelic cowboy]

Hmm I doner about you but I like the puns too.

[gaelic cowboy]

Internet Fuhrer-y over house that looks like Hitler

The elderly owner of an end-of-terrace house in Wales has been left bewildered by an internet joke that his house looks like Hitler.

Hundreds of thousands of people have viewed or shared the link to a photograph of the house in Swansea after it was published on Twitter, the social networking site.

The slanted roof was said to resemble the Hitler fringe, the door lintel was the moustache and the small top windows were seen as the dictator’s piercing eyes.

The joke took off when it was tweeted by Jimmy Carr, the comedian, but the owner of the house in Port Tenant, Swansea, a man in his 70s, said he had never even heard of Twitter.

The tweet was first posted by Charli Dickenson, 22, a youth worker, who spotted the bizarre similarity as she drove past.

“I walk past the house all the time, but I had never noticed the Hitler likeness before,” said Miss Dickenson. “But then, at the weekend, I was in the car with my boyfriend and we were stuck in traffic and I just said to him, 'That house looks like Hitler.’ We both laughed. I took a picture and posted it on Twitter.

“It was picked up by Jimmy Carr. Now everyone is talking about it!”

A neighbour, Lyn Thomas, 25, said: “I can see a resemblance now. I’ve lived here for two years but have never noticed anything before. I don’t know why it would be designed in such a way. It is uncanny.”

Another neighbour said: “People are joking that the house is the third on the Reich and that we live on the Western Front. You have to see the funny side of life sometimes.”

[InsaneApache]

I saw on a blog a comment that went something like this.....

Imagine going up to Hitler and saying to him, "Hey, you know what? You look just like a corner house in south Wales".

[gaelic cowboy]

I wonder if the house is on Godwin Lane

[Lemur]

Maybe this is more News of the Ironic, but still:

President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.

The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.

[Gregoshi]

Internet Fuhrer-y over house that looks like Hitler

I don't think it has enough lebensraum.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Does size matter? Tale of the tape, gentlemen. Read 'em and weep.

Oh la la Louis you're a savage, but Andres got you by a skooch.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I wonder if the house is on Godwin Lane

Number 88 no doubt.



Speaking of which:

How do you get two whales in a PanzerJaeger? You follow the M4.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Does size matter? Tale of the tape, gentlemen. Read 'em and weep.

Oh la la Louis you're a savage, but Andres got you by a skooch.

Hah! Pretty much the largest this side of Africa!

Disappointingly, I'm below the national average, I only manage 15.5 inch.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Then it is only fair the women get their chart, too: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/25/world_maps/

[Tellos Athenaios]

Disappointingly, I'm below the national average, I only manage 15.5 inch.

Nice try, but a bit obvious for a Frenchman.

[Gregoshi]

Does size matter? Tale of the tape, gentlemen. Read 'em and weep.

Does this make the census takers tally wackers? Does the winning country get an erected monument?

You know, you'd think the Poles should have won.

[Banquo's Ghost]

I see the Belgians can no longer be counted amongst we wee nations.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Does this make the census takers tally wackers? Does the winning country get an erected monument?

You know, you'd think the Poles should have won.

I see the Belgians can no longer be counted amongst we wee nations.

Hehehe, nicely done. I needed that laugh it's been an emotionally draining week.

[Tellos Athenaios]

From Arkansas

Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill on Wednesday that bans students from wearing clothing that exposes "underwear, buttocks or the breast of a female."
(...)
Florida is considering a bill similar to the Arkansas law. In that state, the NAACP has denounced the bill and said it unfairly targets black males.

[Gregoshi]

From Arkansas

Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill on Wednesday that bans students from wearing clothing that exposes "underwear, buttocks or the breast of a female."
...the NAACP has denounced the bill and said it unfairly targets black males.

Black males wear clothing that exposes the breast of females? That's ingenious if you ask me.

The schools in these states just need to issue Bible belts to the students.

[Samurai Waki]

Naked soldier sandbags Car Thief

[Ronin]

Conservative Christians slam fantasy church service in Romsey

"There are some that aren't very happy about it, especially because it just sort of happened out of the blue," a parishioner said.

Other church leaders said it was blasphemous and could encourage witchcraft and supernatural ideas.

"I don't have a problem with people enjoying sci-fi, but church isn't the place to encourage escapism and fancy dress," Mentone Baptist minister Murray Campbell said.

Sometimes the jokes write them selfs. :P

[Husar]

I don't think Baptists have fantasy dresses like the Catholics do, Ronin,

you may want to reflect on your criticism of all things christian.

The rest of it is somewhat ironic though, if you believe that christianity is a supernatural idea and pure escapism.

[Ronin]

I don't think Baptists have fantasy dresses like the Catholics do, Ronin,

you may want to reflect on your criticism of all things christian.

The rest of it is somewhat ironic though, if you believe that christianity is a supernatural idea and pure escapism.

the text says "fancy" dress and not fantasy dress....any church I have ever seen in the occidental world is an example for the first..the sunday morning service is normally a day were people take care in their appearance and how their neighbors will see them.

and is the "supernatural" nature of religion something that you want to put into question?...it pretty much fits the dictionary definition, as something that is by definition out of "scientific understanding or the laws of nature"

the escapism part is a matter o opinion.

[Lemur]

Man contracts STD via mosquito, give it to wife

Back in 2008, U.S. biologist Brian Foy and his partner Kevin Kobylinski were researching malaria by harvesting mosquitoes from the west African village of Bandafassi. During their expedition the researchers were bitten quite often. Five days after their return on August 24th, both men had a rash around their trunk along with extreme fatigue, headaches and painfully swollen joints. Foy was even experiencing painful urination.

"My wife wasn't happy with what happened afterwards," Foy explains.

On September 3rd, Foy's wife took ill with similar symptoms. She had extreme headaches, hypersensitivity to light and severe muscle pains. However, their four children remained unaffected.

A mosquito-based infection was the suspected cause but how Foy's wife contracted the pathogen remained a mystery. It not only stumped the two scientists, but many laboratories including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose lab for insect-borne diseases which is near where Foy lives in Fort Collins. A year later the mystery pathogen was deduced over a few rounds of beers--which usually leads to STDs--on a return trip to Senegalr. Both researchers had become infected with Zika.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Zika being the local bicycle, perchance?

Pretty impressive that the fellow could sell "the first ever case of insect-borne STD, honest" to both his wife and the scientific community.

[Ronin]

Zika being the local bicycle, perchance?

Pretty impressive that the fellow could sell "the first ever case of insect-borne STD, honest" to both his wife and the scientific community.

"admit nothing deny everything and make counter-accusations"

the man has elevated it into a science....literally! :P

[Shaka_Khan]

From Arkansas

Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill on Wednesday that bans students from wearing clothing that exposes "underwear, buttocks or the breast of a female."
(...)
Florida is considering a bill similar to the Arkansas law. In that state, the NAACP has denounced the bill and said it unfairly targets black males.

I laughed at how I was thinking about sexy woman fashion and then men with saggy pants came out of the blue.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Fun with guns!
http://www.chicoer.com/rss/ci_17800371

Dad turns down son's music with shotgun

By ROB YOUNG-Appeal-Democrat
Posted: 04/08/2011 12:23:40 AM PDT

LOMA RICA — A Yuba County man who allegedly blew out his son's stereo speaker with a shotgun after complaining about loud music won't be charged, according to the Yuba County District Attorney's Office.

Also, there are some bars in Knoxville you shouldn't try to rob:

KNOXVILLE — Police this morning expect to charge a 20-year-old man with attempted robbery after he recovers from the beating administered by his targeted victims.

Shane Cunningham was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment for a head wound after the 2:38 a.m. incident at Kat’s on the River, 1317 Island Home Ave., according to Knoxville Police Department Sgt. Andrew Boatman.

Boatman said an investigation revealed Cunningham "entered the bar and brandished a handgun while demanding money from the bartender and from several patrons."

As Cunningham held the gun threateningly on a couple of women, a man snuck up behind him and whacked him on the head, Boatman said. Several other patrons then joined in to subdue the armed man.

"The suspect was bound with duct tape and was held until police arrived," Boatman said.

Police determined the weapon Cunningham used was a pellet gun, the sergeant said.

More details as they develop online and in Saturday’s News Sentinel.

CR

[Cute Wolf]

Does size matter? Tale of the tape, gentlemen. Read 'em and weep.

Oh la la Louis you're a savage, but Andres got you by a skooch.

dammit, it looks like I'm still more Chinese than Dutch according to that!