The most weird or stupid news story you heard today. - Page 40

DaemonSeid · #**586** 05-27-2010, 09:13 AM

THIS IS SO STUPID, IT'S DUMB.

And yes...there is a reason why I didn't post this here and you know why

christiangirl · #**587** 05-31-2010, 07:13 PM

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl,244600

I don't feel like pasting so in a nutshell: A little homeless boy in NY said Chad85 was his fave NFL player. He was part of Children Mending Hearts where he got to make a wish. His wish was to go to football camp, which was granted by Deion Sanders. Just to give him and extra special something, Chad85 gave him a jersey, met him in person, and had the crowd sing happy birthday to him (it was little kid's b-day).

While all of that was very touching....wouldn't offering something to him and his mother that pertains to THEIR HOMELESSNESS be even more touching? A jersey and a ticket to football camp are extremely touching, but COME ON. If you're going to go above and beyond, meeting his more immediate needs would have made just as good publicity.

33girl · #**588** 05-31-2010, 07:14 PM

Ummmm....we are talking a guy who changed his name to a number. He's a complete idiot.

christiangirl · #**589** 05-31-2010, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

If I were in labor while driving and the baby was coming, my first instinct would be to pull over, not put on the cruise control...but that's just me.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/minneapo...wheel-20000300

That leads to a vid about the oil spill for some reason.

I knew what story you were talking about and, yes, that was nuts.

Drolefille · #**590** 05-31-2010, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl,244600

I don't feel like pasting so in a nutshell: A little homeless boy in NY said Chad85 was his fave NFL player. He was part of Children Mending Hearts where he got to make a wish. His wish was to go to football camp, which was granted by Deion Sanders. Just to give him and extra special something, Chad85 gave him a jersey, met him in person, and had the crowd sing happy birthday to him (it was little kid's b-day).

While all of that was very touching....wouldn't offering something to him and his mother that pertains to THEIR HOMELESSNESS be even more touching? A jersey and a ticket to football camp are extremely touching, but COME ON. If you're going to go above and beyond, meeting his more immediate needs would have made just as good publicity.

Honestly, I disagree. That kid didn't wish for a home for him and his mom and it's about him. Without knowing the reasons for his and his mother's homelessness, we can't say how easy it would be to fix them. Chad gave him the jersey as a separate thing after getting a letter from the kid and showed up at the fundraiser for the foundation not at the kid's house.

At-risk kid gets incredibly special experience. Awesome. Doesn't mean he's not also getting other help, but this story is about his wish, not about his life.

BabyPiNK_FL · #**591** 05-31-2010, 09:48 PM

I too thought it'd have been nice if someone had thrown in a house. Meeting a guy for a day...great. A house when you're homeless has still got to be a bigger self-esteem booster.

Drolefille · #**592** 05-31-2010, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

I too thought it'd have been nice if someone had thrown in a house. Meeting a guy for a day...great. A house when you're homeless has still got to be a bigger self-esteem booster.

But if you can't afford a mortgage or rent, or property taxes, or utilities, a house is useless. Kind of like the Extreme Home Makeover families who had to sell their homes to pay the property taxes.

It looks like the nonprofit foundation works on things like that, the wish is supposed to be pure fun. We wouldn't expect the Make a Wish kids to get a funeral plot along with their Disney world trip, would we?

Drolefille · #**593** 06-16-2010, 04:38 PM

Source

Georgia candidate for governor says sex with mules, watermelon behind him

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When you're a reporter, you occasionally have to ask uncomfortable questions of someone. In this case, I landed an interview with the Georgia Creator's Rights Party candidate for governor, Neal Horsley, who is running on the secessionist platform. During the course of my research, I stumbled upon the fact that Horsley had screwed a mule. (Horsely originally fessed up in an Esquire article, which was picked up by Alan Colmes.) At that point, the campaign, the crusade, everything else kind of takes a backseat to the fact that he screwed a mule.

Quote:

NH: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."

AC: "I'm not so sure that that is so."

NH: "You didn't grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?"

AC: "Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?"

NH: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality... Welcome to domestic life on the farm..."

Colmes said he thought there were a lot of people in the audience who grew up on farms, are living on farms now, raising kids on farms and "and I don't think they are dating Elsie right now. You know what I'm saying?"

Horsley said, "You experiment with anything that moves when you are growing up sexually. You're naive. You know better than that... If it's warm and it's damp and it vibrates you might in fact have sex with it."

Quote:

"We're talking about the mule now?"

Yes, he says. The mule.

"A small mule?" I ask.

"No, a full grown mule," he says. "She loved me, though."

We both laugh, but I'm still trying to figure out the logistics. How big is this thing? The size of a horse, he says.

"All I had to do was give her an ear of corn." He laughs again. "She was a [prostitute] mule."

"How did you reach?"

"I don't know... I stood on something. The kicker is, as soon as I was done she pissed all over me. It was embarrassing. I never told anyone that before."

That's right, my friends. This is an Underground exclusive.

Not only that, but Horsley has had sex with men. He was in the Air Force, it was a cold night, yadda, yadda, yadda, he had sex with him, ahem, the way he did the mule. "It was gross," he says.

Really? He hadn't described the mule that way.

"I've [screwed] a watermelon," he says. And that's just for starters. He's had sex with just about everything it's physically possible to have sex with, and some that isn't. "How many times have I masturbated in my life?" he asks. Now he's 65 and orgasm-free for two years (his wife finally divorced him -- too much "drama", she said). "The bottom line is, I never treated it as if it were not a sin."

ETA: this guy is a militant anti-abortionist and is the guy who hosts the Nuremberg files, the list of names and addresses of doctors who perform abortions online. More about him at the wiki

PiKA2001 · #**594** 06-16-2010, 05:18 PM

It almost sounds like he was being coy about the mule. I listen to Alan Colmes( didn't hear this one though) and I swear some of the guests/callers of his are just putting on an act. Alan even says so himself, it's all about the ratings.

Drolefille · #**595** 06-16-2010, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by PiKA2001

It almost sounds like he was being coy about the mule. I listen to Alan Colmes( didn't hear this one though) and I swear some of the guests/callers of his are just putting on an act. Alan even says so himself, it's all about the ratings.

He was, kind of, then there's the follow up interview, the current one.

Coy no longer.

The guy's a nut, and his party is just as bad, but man...
You'll note that the sex he had with another man, that was gross, but sex with a mule he didn't seem to have a problem with.

DaemonSeid · #**596** 06-17-2010, 01:04 PM

Menawhile, these guys tried to sell weed online for an iPad

christiangirl · #**597** 06-18-2010, 03:26 PM

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...g-large-estate

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When Ms. Posner died in March at age 67, Conchita and two other dogs inherited the right to live in her seven-bedroom, $8.3 million Miami Beach mansion, their comfort ensured by a $3 million trust fund.

The canines weren't the only ones who benefited from Ms. Posner's munificence. Seven of her bodyguards, housekeepers and other personal aides were left a total of $26 million under her will, and some also were allowed to live, rent-free, in the mansion to care for the dogs.

Now, in an attempt to revoke the will, Ms. Posner's only living child, Bret Carr, has filed a lawsuit against a bevy of his mother's former staff members and advisers alleging a dark intrigue. Household aides, he claims, drugged his sick mother with pain medications and conspired to steal her assets by inducing her to change her will and trust arrangements in 2008. Others, including his mother's trust attorney, he alleges, used their influence to bend her wishes. Mr. Carr, who was bequeathed a relatively paltry $1 million in his mother's will, makes the claims in a lawsuit filed last week in probate court in Miami-Dade County.

Wooooow. She either really loved those dogs or really hated her son. Or both.

Drolefille · #**598** 06-18-2010, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...g-large-estate

Wooooow. She either really loved those dogs or really hated her son. Or both.

Man if I hated my kids I'd screw with them too. But I'd probably just try and spend it all before I went.

BabyPiNK_FL · #**599** 06-18-2010, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home...g-large-estate

Wooooow. She either really loved those dogs or really hated her son. Or both.

I really get the feeling he didn't care what was going on in her house before he got shafted. Her will is valid and she didn't like you. All 20-odd staff members are not running a conspiracy. Apparently they took very good care of your mom and so she is returning the favor. Deal with it.

knight_shadow · #**600** 06-26-2010, 02:34 PM

LONDON (AFP) – A cat which lost both back paws after a traumatic accident involving a combine harvester has regained a spring in its step after being fitted with prosthetic limbs.

In a groundbreaking surgery carried out by Noel Fitzpatrick, a Surrey-based veterinary surgeon, the custom-made implants "peg" the ankle to Oscar's foot and mimic the way in which deer antler bone grows through skin.

The prosthetic legs, called intraosseous transcutaneous amputation prosthetics (Itaps) were developed by a team from University College London, led by Professor Gordon Blunn.

link

There is a picture with the article. I saw another story that used the term "faux paws" in its headline