Archive for the ‘Kooky’ Category

Wow. A Lizzie Convention. Weeee. No really, that’s cool, don’t you think? I wonder why the queen didn’t show up. That was a might rude don’t you think?

The world’s most famous Elizabeth didn’t show, but about 400 others did.

The northern Illinois community of Elizabeth tried Saturday to set a world record for the largest Gathering of Elizabeths. Women with Elizabeth in any part of their name were allowed in; one participant has Elizabeth as a last name.

Next week, I am looking forward to reading about the Harold convention being held in Harold Square in New York City. Woot!

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How disturbing is this?

A fifth human foot has washed ashore in southwestern B.C., and this time it’s a left one.

Police say two people out for a walk spotted a left foot floating in water off Westham Island on Monday morning. Four other feet have washed up on shorelines along islands in B.C. in the last year; all have been right feet wearing socks and shoes.

Const. Sharlene Brooks of the Delta Police said officials are working with the BC Coroner’s office to see if this foot is linked to any other partial remains recovered in the province.

I had no idea that sharks found feet a little bit too crunchy to eat. What else could it be?

The RCMP has said there’s no evidence the feet were severed or removed from the victims’ legs by force.

No evidence they were removed by force? You mean feet just fall off of people in the Great White North? How disturbing is that? I hope they find the cause of this before it starts spreading south.

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It always amazes me how resourceful people become when they are faced with a crisis. As a guy, I don’t think I would ever have thought to attach my underwear to an overhead cable as a signal for help. Then again, I probably would have landed on my fat head and not survived the fall anyway.

An American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as a signal, police in southern Germany said Monday.

Berchtesgaden police officer Lorenz Rasp said that he helped lift 24-year-old Jessica Bruinsma of Colorado state to safety by helicopter on Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a cable used to move timber down the mountain.

And to think that there was once a time when women wanted to burn their bras. What would those women do if they were ever trapped in the Bavarian Alps? That’s right, the story would not have as happy of an ending, that’s for sure.

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Oh. My. Gawd. The poor pooch. I guess it’s going to have to get used to, you know, regular dog food. $2 million won’t last as long as that dog thinks it will.

A New York judge has dramatically reduced the $12 million trust fund the late Leona Helmsley left to her ill-tempered pooch, Trouble.

Surrogate Judge Renee Roth has signed off on a deal that gives $10 million to charity, leaving 9-year-old Trouble with a measly $2 million, The New York Post reported Monday.

What happens if the dog needs more money? Can it come back later and get more money or is it simply off to the shelter for that pooch?

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If they hold an election and no one shows up to vote, who wins? Oh sure, it sounds like all of the candidates were running unopposed, but seriously, if no one received a vote, does anyone still win? I didn’t think you could win with a 0.

Pillsbury Mayor Darrel Brudevold said voter turnout in the city’s primary election usually is fairly high.

“I dare say a half-dozen people usually make it to the polls,” he said. That represents about a quarter of the residents in the Barnes County farming community in southeastern North Dakota.

But, on June 10, no-one showed up. Not even those on the ballot.

I wonder if anyone demanded a recount?

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I can’t say because I don’t think I would ever be getting a tattoo, but I don’t think I would want t0 be #415 or so after the tattoo artist had been up for 24 hours.

Oliver Peck may be seeing the number 13 in his dreams.

From midnight Thursday to midnight Friday, Peck completed 415 tattoos, applying the unlucky number 13 to scores of arms, legs, ankles, backs, thighs and even some rear ends.

Peck claimed a mention in the Guinness Book of Records for drawing the most tattoos in a 24-hour period.

He was awarded the honor by Guinness adjudicator Danny Girton Jr., according to a report on The Dallas Morning News Web site Saturday.

I wonder if his penmanship stayed the same or if some of the later tattoos had a totally different look to them?

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If everybody knows everybody, and there are only 125 people stationed at the base. Why do they need 16,500 “anonymously available” condoms?

One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year’s supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported on Monday.

Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them.

The base only has a skeleton staff through the long winter.

16,500 condoms for 125 people. Wow. That allows each person to have sex 132 times over the course of three months. Ninety days. Those stationed at the McMurdo base average more sex than most people in the “real” world.

The question is, can you really find someone you want to have sex with in Antarctica?

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Imagine walking around with two 20 pound bowling balls strapped to your chest.

Who says porn stars lack amb­ition? Maxi Mounds has made a huge name for herself – by having the largest breast implants in the world.

Her 36MMM bust – each weighing 9kg (20lbs) – finally made it into the record books years after she learned there was a category for natural breasts.

‘I contacted Guinness World Records and asked if they had a category for implants, but they said no, so I let it go,’ she said.

‘Then they asked me if I was interested as they were creating a category. Eventually they told me I won.’

That has to be painful. How does she put her shoes on?

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They shot the bear? Don’t they know that the Polar Bear is almost extinct (or not) due to global warming (or not)?

Icelandic authorities said they were forced to shoot a polar bear found wandering on the island in order to protect the public after a plan to anaesthetize the animal was abandoned.

The bear, an adult male weighing around 250 kg (500 lbs), was presumed to have swum to shore from drifting ice. The last time a polar bear came ashore in Iceland was in 1988.

Where is PETA? Why haven’t they launched an attack on Reykjavik? Get with the program people, an innocent polar bear lost it’s life!!!

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A ribbon cutting for a toilet?

Mount Rainier National Park is holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday to activate a new bio toilet at Cougar Rock Campground.

The $70,000 toilet was donated by Groundwork Mishima, a group that promotes volunteerism at Mount Fuji, which has a “sister mountain” relationship with the park. The toilet was installed with the help of students from the Japanese Volunteers-in-Parks Association.

The toilet uses cedar chips and natural composting to operate with little water or odor.

Heavy snow has delayed the opening of the campground itself until June 13.

Watch out, no matter how much it cost, I bet your ass will stick to the seat if you’re not careful.

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