Believe it, or not! Weird news and other Oddities

[SySnootles]

Well, I for one am not at all surprised at this. Whenever the couple was seen in public, the strain in their relationship was always very apparent. Frankly I think it's about time for Barbie to move in to a more independant lifestyle, and Ken to finally come out of the closet. I mean really... we are in the 21st Century. Let the man finally be himself!

Catie



When I'm 130 years old, I want a pill that makes me so happy and so unself-conscious and so randy I'm willing to make love to my fuzzy bed slippers on my front lawn and yodel at the same time. -- Scott Adams from Dilbert and the way of the Weasel

[Tempest Duer]

Amen to that! Poor bastard, having to date Barbie for all those years...



One of my friends has a mint-condition Magic Earring Ken that she's going to sell for a fortune when he finally comes out.

Willow: Hey Buff. One more thing. Buffy: Yeah? Willow: I’m gay. Buffy: Okay, Will. Xander owes me ten bucks.

~Remember to Breathe by Yellow Crayon

[WiccansIllusion]

Apparently their also introducing Blaine, the Australian Boogie Boarder...maybe Ken will go for him? hehe

..this song is my anthem and it makes up my ideals and who I am... cause we pay for the stupid things we've done..if we ever use common sense it comes pretty cheap...Tegan and Sarah

[xita]

From Yahoo



illboards Target Christian Porn Addicts

       

Thu Feb 12, 2:21 PM ET





By BOBBY ROSS JR., Associated Press Writer



DALLAS - Chocolates are always nice, and a diamond necklace would be delightful. But a Dallas-based ministry thinks it has a better idea for Valentine's Day (news - web sites).



"Her gift for Valentines? Stop looking at porn," proclaim billboards put up by NetAccountability, a nonprofit software company that aims to help Christians confront the "secret sin" of pornography.



If national surveys are any indication, it is a personal battle waged by millions of Christians.



Almost 18 percent of people who called themselves born-again Christians admitted visiting Internet porn sites, according to a 2000 survey of 1,031 adults by the evangelical group Focus on the Family. In a 2002 Pastors.com survey, more than 50 percent of responding pastors reported viewing pornography in the previous year.



"It's definitely the church's dirty little secret," said Mike Foster, co-founder of the anti-porn site XXXChurch.com, which hosts online support groups for Christians trying to kick the habit.



NetAccountability co-founders Brandon Cotter and Scott Covington, both in their early 30s, left jobs in the technology field to start the ministry 2 1/2 years ago.



Since then, NetAccountability has sold more than 5,000 copies of software the pair developed that lets a partner monitor the Web sites visited by the recovering porn user. The software sells for $49 a year.



The billboards have been going up in Dallas over the past few days.



"I've seen pornography impact guys all around me," Cotter said. "I've seen it tear up marriages, guys losing their jobs, all over the board. In a lot of cases, they were Christian guys going to church, with otherwise `normal lives.'"



Bernie Anderson, a pastor at Seventh-Day Adventist churches in the Dallas area, said an addiction to sexually explicit images threatened his marriage and his ministry.



"It was like a double life," said Anderson, 33.



For 20 years, he found himself drawn to pornographic Web sites, movies and magazines, he said. He would get up at night, telling his wife he needed to study, and would surf the Internet for porn. Later, he would spend hours accessing porn sites from the computer in his church office.



"You go take a shower, clean up and say you'll never do it again. Yet the next day, you fall right back into it," he said.



Last summer, the guilt and shame finally became too much for him to bear, he said. The father of three confessed his compulsion to a pastor friend and enrolled in an exhaustive five-day workshop offered by a Christian counselor.



Anderson learned how his habit kept him from true intimacy in his relationship with his wife, he said. Recently, he celebrated "100 days sober" from porn, he said.



He said: "The most powerful thing about it is that it's a secret. Nobody knows but you, so you're just kind of fighting yourself."

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"Hard work often pays off after time but laziness always pays off now!"

[Tempest Duer]

*blink blink* There's nothing wrong with porn if used responsibly, but it can become an addiction, and it can ruin your life. It really is an issue when it costs money. Which of course all the good stuff does.



I think it would be kind of cool if Ken and Blaine hooked up. He seriously needs a boyfriend.

Willow: Hey Buff. One more thing. Buffy: Yeah? Willow: I’m gay. Buffy: Okay, Will. Xander owes me ten bucks.

~Remember to Breathe by Yellow Crayon

[urnofosiris]

This is oddly amusing, you have to try it to believe it:



If you sit in a chair and lift up your right foot and move it in a clockwise circle and then use your right hand to write the number 6 in the air your foot will start moving counter clockwise.

[BytrSuite]

That is so funny Garfield. Weird, lol.

________
"...the sharks got smarter."

[Sassette]

One, I can't believe I tried that.



Two, I can't believe it turned out to be true.



Funky.



-Sass

[Tempest Duer]

That's funky. I'll take your word for it.

Willow: Hey Buff. One more thing. Buffy: Yeah? Willow: I’m gay. Buffy: Okay, Will. Xander owes me ten bucks.

~Remember to Breathe by Yellow Crayon

[WiccansIllusion]

HOLLAND, Mich. (Feb. 2) - Tacking Jr. or II onto a boy's name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son.



Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.



Version 2.0 was born Tuesday at Holland Community Hospital, and the proud parents took him home Friday.



''I wanted to find something different to name him besides Jon Blake,'' Cusack, who is self-employed with Westshore Design and Cusack Music, told The Holland Sentinel.



He said he had the idea for a few months, and spent the better part of that time persuading his wife to go along.



Jamie Cusack said she didn't concede until the week before the birth. She said she had ''picked out the theme of the baby's room and done other things. I decided to let Jon have this.''



After 2.0's birth, the Cusacks sent out an electronic birth announcement.



''I wrote in the birth announcement e-mail stuff, like there's a lot of features from version 1.0 with additional features from Jamie,'' Jon Cusack said.

..this song is my anthem and it makes up my ideals and who I am... cause we pay for the stupid things we've done..if we ever use common sense it comes pretty cheap...Tegan and Sarah

[angelofinsanity]

ah yes. welcome to the age of the nerds. (no offence to nerds)

see, this is what happens when fathers have too much time on their hands.

[sprhrgrl]

That's kind of creepy, the version 2.0 bit. Because it's like he's the same version only with bug fixed?



Regarding Barbie and Ken - it's interesting because they never even got married. They left Barbie single *dreaming* about weddings to sell all those wedding dresses. She and Ken were never a confirmed thing past dating. So when everyone's talking about their "divorce..."



I've decided that Blaine is cute and that it's exciting that Barbie's expanding her sights to include transboys.

Sweetie, I'm a fag. I been there. - Tara (Dead Things shooting script)

[xita]

From Yahoo

New Internet technology not to be sniffed at

       

Wed Feb 18, 7:11 PM ET



LONDON (AFP) - Internet users in Britain might soon be able to spice up their e-mails with an added whiff of a well-chosen scent, according to a report.



A British Internet service provider plans to market a "scent dome", which would plug into customers' computers much like a printer, The Times said.



Inside the device would be 20 disposable pockets of different scents, which could be combined -- much like the coloured ink cartridges on a printer -- to make up to 60 identifiable different smells, the newspaper reported.



These would be released by electronic signals sent along a broadband Internet line.



As well as garnishing e-mails to loved ones with a burst of a favourite perfume, users could also let themselves be alerted to incoming mail by the waft of baking bread or coffee.



Telewest Broadband, the company involved, is testing the scent pods and hopes to make them available for around 200 pounds (300 euros, 380 dollars), the paper added.

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"Hard work often pays off after time but laziness always pays off now!"

[Tempest Duer]

So Puck, you're convinced that Blaine's a transboy? Well, I haven't seen him yet, so I can't really form an opinion...

Willow: Hey Buff. One more thing. Buffy: Yeah? Willow: I’m gay. Buffy: Okay, Will. Xander owes me ten bucks.

~Remember to Breathe by Yellow Crayon

[angelofinsanity]

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Crook caught via blood lines

March 7, 2004

The Sun-Herald



A Brazilian crook shot himself in the foot while trying to burgle a bar, then left a trail of blood that led police straight to his home, police said.



Police in the town of Petropolis in the mountains near Rio de Janeiro said they arrested Carlos Henrique Auad, 29, at his home about a hundred metres from the bar.



Police said Auad had broken into the bar several days earlier and had stolen a television set. He broke into the bar through the roof a second time, but fell down and accidentally shot himself in the right foot, police said.



He left without stealing anything and went straight home failing to notice the blood track in the darkness.



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the real article can be found on: www.smh.com.au/articles/2...01166.html



i donno, i just thought this is exceedingly silly for someone/anyone to do. who'd rob a bar anyways? what happened to banks?!

[bulldog tidnab]

EW! just just.... ewww....



From Yahoo

Wouldn't You Like to Meet This Guy?

Fri Mar 5, 8:47 AM ET



BERLIN - A German court rejected a legal bid on Friday by an unemployed man who wanted the state to provide him with free pornography and trips to brothels because his wife is in Thailand.



The court in the southern town of Ansbach ruled that social services did not extend to satisfying the 43-year-old's sexual needs after he attempted to sue his local welfare office because it had refused to finance his appetite for prostitutes and porn.



"He wanted them to pay for four trips to the brothel a month, eight porn films a month, plus condoms," said court spokesman Peter Burgdorf. "He also wanted some sort of appliance for self-gratification to use when watching porn."



The man had earlier asked the Foreign Ministry to fly his wife back from her native Thailand, to which she had returned in 2002, saying that he could not afford the ticket.



"He said he needed the services to keep himself fit and healthy because his wife wasn't available," said Burgdorf. "Now he's planning to contest the decision in the court of appeal."

"Think sexy! Think kinky, not weird. Weird implies there's medication in her past... or present. Kinky means she's got a grip on her fetishes." - Kim Ficera

[drlloyd11]

quote



DALLAS - Chocolates are always nice, and a diamond necklace would be delightful. But a Dallas-based ministry thinks it has a better idea for Valentine's Day (news - web sites).



"Her gift for Valentines? Stop looking at porn," proclaim billboards put up by NetAccountability, a nonprofit software company that aims to help Christians confront the "secret sin" of pornography.



-end quote



uhh... yeah ok...

check out their commercial staring "pete the anti-porn puppet"

www.xxxchurch.com/patrol/commercial.asp



Nope.. not making it up...

Edited by: drlloyd11 at: 3/6/04 7:46 pm

[urnofosiris]

Quote:

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"He wanted them to pay for four trips to the brothel a month, eight porn films a month, plus condoms," said court spokesman Peter Burgdorf. "He also wanted some sort of appliance for self-gratification to use when watching porn."

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If he has the energy to visit prostitutes, watch porn and sue the welfare office, he might also be able to find a job so he can pay for that shit himself. That aside, is there something wrong with his hands that he can´t do it himself.



Anyway, a friend send me this mail. I tried it and the results were very interesting:

Quote:

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This mail has got something to do with the mysterious inner workings of the brain. You have got to try this, it´s really bizarre.



Have you ever wondered whether your brain functions normally or whether it is just a tad different?

Alright.......

Take this test seriously, it should only take about a minute. Follow the instructions and answer the questions as quickly as possible. So.......

You will have to do several calculations without use of paper or a calculator. Just leave the answer to each sum for what it is and scroll down, but don´t scroll down until you have thought of the answer. You´ll be amazed by the results!

Now it is time to scroll down.... (not too fast in case you miss something)











We start!











How much is...





























5+6







































3+56





































89+2





































12+53





































75+26











































25+52































63+32













































Ok so these are just silly calculations. This is the real test.







Keep going!









































123+5













































QUICK! NAME A TOOL AND A COLOR, SAY IT OUT LOUD!

















Keep scrolling.





















and scrolling.

























and scrolling...























You were thinking about a red hammer weren´t you?







If you weren´t you belong to the 2 % of people who´s brain sometimes makes different connections, 98% of the people answer "Red Hammer" if they take this test without cheating.

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I thought "Hammer" and "Red". I am thoroughly disappointed to have such a common brain.

[BytrSuite]

lol, Garfield, these damn things you post always work, but I must admit I started skipping the calculations and by the time I got to the "this is the real test," I was annoyed. So, that may have influenced the hammer bit.

________
"...the sharks got smarter."

[urnofosiris]

I think that is probably why it works.

[Karmah]

lol ok well red hammer was preferable to hoe green

I am blaming the post on the guy wanting the government to provide his ummm....

She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright. Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

~ by Byron ~

[xita]

I got blue hammer So almost, pretty good.

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"Hard work often pays off after time but laziness always pays off now!"

[Shinnen]

heh xita... i got blue hammer too... so we have a semi commom brain ?

CheerZ

Shinnen



She's the most amazing girl in the whole world. She's the only girl who makes my heart beat faster and slower at the same time. When I'm not with her, I'm not living. I'm not existing until I can hold her in my arms again.

[drlloyd11]

I said silver hacksaw... dammit..watching autopsy again.

[urnofosiris]

lol Brad, remind me not to piss you off.

[hot monkey luv 66]

*raises hand*

i got a blue hammer too! but it took me a second to think about the question. i have no idea why. and i said, 'hammer first, then blue. is that weird?



*puts hand back down, realizing no one else's hand is up*

[justin]

I got red calculator (well actually it was calculator red)



red because it's my facourite colour and calculator because I'd just been doing a load of mental arithmatic.



I'm not sure what that says about my brain and I think I'm happier not knowing.

Postel's Prescription: Be generous in what you accept, rigorous in what you emit.

[oneyedchicklet]

I said Green Hammer.

This had me cracking up when I read it. Did she actually think a cashier in Walmart could make the change?

$1 million bill

Also, I heard about this on the news and at work today, we did the bloodwork for the monkeys.

Monkeys



Love to All,

Barb

Now serving Bitter, party of one. Your table is ready.

[The Partisan]

Blue wrench...but it may be because the board has a blue background and I was subtly influenced.

[Tempest Duer]

I also got blue wrench...

Willow: Hey Buff. One more thing. Buffy: Yeah? Willow: I’m gay. Buffy: Okay, Will. Xander owes me ten bucks.

~Remember to Breathe by Yellow Crayon