Month: September 2003

  • breatharian

    noun. A person who attempts to get all their nutritional needs from the air.

    Example Citation:







    "'Breatharians' emulate ascetic saints who 'got all the nutrition they needed from the air,' Rhio explains. 'I've met some people who are trying to be doing it. They're doing it occasionally, but they're not at 100 per cent. Yet.'"
    —"'Live' food devotees shun cooking," The Toronto Star, January 28, 1998

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  •  Ananova: 




    Customer 'drinks petrol from pumps'

    Staff at the station in Halle had to call police who then took the 30-year-old Ethiopian man to hospital.


    "He opted for unleaded and drank 0.14 litres."









  • okay... how many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?


    give up?


    FISH!


     From  MyKi_Whatzerface 

  • Disney Animates Dalí's Flick 


    In 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, in one of cinema's oddest collaborations, teamed up on a short film called Destino. But Disney's studio ran into financial trouble and put the unfinished film on the shelf.


    Destino will likely be shown in theaters next year before a Disney feature film . . .


    "I have come to Hollywood and am in touch with the three great American surrealists -- the Marx Brothers, Cecil B. DeMille and Walt Disney," Dali wrote.







  •  Ananova: 




    Pet kangaroo hailed for saving farmer

    A partially blind kangaroo has been hailed a hero after helping to rescue a farmer who suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a falling branch.


    The pet kangaroo discovered the farmer lying unconscious in a field and alerted relatives . . .

  • 676 YEARS AGO TODAY


    Sep 22 1327


    The deposed King Edward II of England is murdered with a red-hot poker shoved up his rectum -- a gruesome punishment reserved strictly for homosexuals. Edward's wife Isabella had the King's lover, Hugh le Despenser Younger, executed the previous year.














  • Saddam in secret talks with US: Report
    Sunday, 21 September , 2003, 12:49
    London: Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has been in secret negotiations with US forces in Iraq for the past nine days, a British tabloid newspaper claimed today.

    According to the Sunday Mirror report, Saddam is demanding safe passage to the former Soviet republic of Belarus in exchange for information on weapons of mass destruction . . . 

  • Joke of the day:

    A little kid asks his father, "Daddy, is God a man or a woman?"

    "Both son. God is both."

    After a while the kid comes again and asks, "Daddy, is God black or white?"

    "Both son, both."

    The child returns a few minutes later and says, "Daddy, is Michael Jackson God?"


    From musicis4fools







  • Caucasian Club still mired in paperwork



    CONTRA COSTA TIMES



    Freedom High School officials say they will not make any decision on a proposed Caucasian Club until freshman Lisa McClelland meets necessary application requirements . . .


    Lisa said she hopes her club, like the Black Student Union and Latinos Unidos on campus, is seen as a haven for those who don't fit into such categories.




  • Ohio man jailed in obscene journal case is released while the state appeals

    Associated Press

    Last update: 20 September 2003







    COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A man imprisoned for writing fictitious stories of child torture and molestation has been released from jail two months after an appeals court threw out his child pornography conviction.


    Dalton, 24, is believed to be the first person in the United States successfully prosecuted for child pornography for writings rather than images.


     

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