A fruit company in Panama has sent its first shipment of 120 square watermelons to New York. A company official says the melons are not genetically modified. Instead, they’re grown inside cube-shaped glass boxes. They’ll cost about $75.
Source: NPR News
Women behaving promiscuously are causing the earth to shake, according to cleric, as Ahmadinejad predicts Tehran quake.
A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.
Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
Source: The Guardian – UK
While women have quickly snapped into the increasing lines of shapewear, trebling sales in the past decade according to the market research NPD Group, Gavin Jones realized men wanted more than a male girdle or “mirdle” to trim the beer gut if they were to upgrade from their boxers or cotton briefs with fancy waistband.
In partnership with an American friend and former investment banker Corie Chung, Jones spent about a year and about $1.4 million of his own money researching and developing a new product line that was more mainstream than the compression wear around and came with health benefits.
Source: Reuters
David Hrobowski makes furniture out of popsicle sticks — thousands of them, glued together one by one to construct spiraling 3-foot-tall table legs, lampshades finished in the most improbable fringe. The 56-year-old antiques dealer calls them “riffsticks” — each stick like a short melodic note repeated over and over.
Source: LA Times.
34-year-old Bryan Berg placed the final card on today in what was the second time he’s broken the Guinness World Record for the largest house of freestanding playing cards.
He built China’s Venetian Macao Resort Hotel our of 218,792 cards.
The three by ten-and-a-half meter structure took 44 days to complete, and used 4,051 decks of cards. And no adhesives of any kind were used.
(March 7) – At least six women in New Jersey who hoped to plump up their backsides have ended up hospitalized with infections, after a bogus doctor injected their derrieres with a mixture of silicone, petroleum jelly and, perhaps most hazardous, household caulk.
New Jersey health officials said the dangerous mixture had seriously damaging effects.
“What we’ve been hearing from the hospitals is that these women are presented with deep tissue infections and skin infections,” New Jersey Health Department epidemiologist Dr. Tina Tan told the New York Post. “Abscesses form in some cases.”
According to the Post report, health officials in New Jersey have warned New York authorities about the phony doctor, who could face criminal charges of practicing medicine without a license. The person reportedly “treated” women from hospitals in New Jersey.
Not only did the women suffer health setbacks in their attempt to gain shapely bottoms, the botched butt enhancements allegedly left them disfigured. A hospital source told the Post their backsides are so cratered and lumpy, they resemble “moonscapes.”
More than 5,000 people turned up at the Sydney Opera House today to get naked in the name of art.
Braving an early morning chill they shed their clothes, abandoned any embarrassment, and posed naked for renowned American nudist photographer Spencer Tunick.
People came in all shapes and sizes and one heavily pregnant woman even postponed the birth of her twins so she could take part.
Read more: Source
A prominent Ukrainian woman arrived at an airport near Paris, and was driving into the city when her car got stuck in traffic. A thief seized the opportunity to pull open the car door and make off with the lady’s handbag. She told the BBC that her purse contained jewels, rings and earrings worth more than $6 million.
February 16, 2010 Source: NPR News
Looming over the southbound lanes of Interstate 35 in Wyoming, Minn., is a grinning portrait of former President George W. Bush, asking “Miss me yet?”
At a time when President Obama’s approval ratings are cratering, the billboard appeared stealthily about a month ago.
“It was put up by a group of small business owners — who want to stay anonymous –because they felt Washington wasn’t listening,” said Mary McNamara, a spokeswoman for the company that owns the billboard. “They felt like it was a good way to get their message out.”
For the past two days, images of the billboard have raged virally across the Internet, with a Google search resulting in more than 100 million hits Tuesday.
You could blow a week’s pay on fresh lobster, a bottle of bubbly and a quiet table with a waiter named Jean-Pierre to impress your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day.
Or . . . you could surprise her with your, ah, thrift and willingness to stand out from the crowd by taking her out for the Valentine’s special at your neighborhood White Castle, where, just for this occasion, they’re offering a candlelit dinner, with tableside service and flowers.
They’ve done this before. Some people even dress up and rent a limo, says Jamie Richardson, a White Castle spokesman.
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