Funny and Interesting Stuff in the News

[Tovor]

We already have the Crazy and Disturbing Things in the News thread, but what about things not crazy or disturbing, that don't fall into those categories? We need such a thread. The public needs it, the worlds needs it. For the sake of all mankind...this is the first thread of its kind ever created on any message board on any website on any internetz anywhere ever, by me, that is.

For all things funny and/or interesting...




Man, it would be fun to work at Lucasfilm, aye?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonniegrrl/sets/72157594416073184/

[Tovor]

Circumcision Shown to Slow Spread of HIV in Africa



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121301155_pf.html





Scroll down. The doctor's name is Decock! :lol:








In Rakai, Uganda, among 4,996 men, 22 of those who were circumcised and 43 of those who weren't contracted HIV, a difference of 48 percent. In Kisumu, Kenya, among 2,784 men, 22 of those who were circumcised and 47 of those who weren't contracted HIV, for a difference of 53 percent.
The protection was less than reported by the South African study, which estimated that circumcised men lowered their risk by about 60 percent, but higher than that provided by most potential vaccines under development.
But if the procedure was offered widely in countries with high rates of HIV, it might prevent "many tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of infections over time," said Kevin De ****, director of HIV/AIDS for the World Health Organization, speaking on the conference call.

[Javen]

Howcome when you use Decock it doesn't censor it. But in the article it does? Now that's funny...

[Horse_Head]

In the article it's 2 words instead of one.

[Tovor]

^ I know. I put it together as one word so that it wouldn't be censored. :wink:

[Cydon]

We already have the Crazy and Disturbing Things in the News thread, but what about things not crazy or disturbing, that don't fall into those categories? We need such a thread. The public needs it, the worlds needs it. For the sake of all mankind...this is the first thread of its kind ever created on any message board on any website on any internetz anywhere ever, by me, that is.

For all things funny and/or interesting...




Man, it would be fun to work at Lucasfilm, aye?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonniegrrl/sets/72157594416073184/
Hey! Shes an administrator at the OSW Forums.

[Tovor]

Time magazine's Person of the Year: You
By LARRY McSHANE, Associated Press Writer
Sun Dec 17, 5:10 AM ET

NEW YORK - Congratulations! You are the Time magazine "Person of the Year."

The annual honor for 2006 went to each and every one of us, as Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals — citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it. The winners this year were anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web.

"If you choose an individual, you have to justify how that person affected millions of people," said Richard Stengel, who took over as Time's managing editor earlier this year. "But if you choose millions of people, you don't have to justify it to anyone."

The magazine did cite 26 "People Who Mattered," from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to Pope Benedict XVI to the troika of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

And Stengel said if the magazine had decided to go with an individual, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the likely choice. "It just felt to me a little off selecting him," Stengel said.

The 2006 "Person of the Year" package hits newsstands Monday. The cover shows a white keyboard with a mirror for a computer screen where buyers can see their reflection.

It was not the first time the magazine went away from naming an actual person for its "Person of the Year." In 1966, the 25-and-under generation was cited; in 1975, American women were named; and in 1982, the computer was chosen.

"I always love it when it's a person — and it is a person, not a computer or something like that," Stengel said. "We just felt there wasn't a single person who embodied this phenomenon."

Last year's winners were Bill and Melinda Gates and rock star Bono, who were cited for their charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.


"If you choose an individual, you have to justify how that person affected millions of people," said Richard Stengel, who took over as Time's managing editor earlier this year. "But if you choose millions of people, you don't have to justify it to anyone."
Sounds like Time is getting lazy, eh?


But regardless, I thank you for this recognition and award. I do deserve it*. It's about time. Yes, Time.




* And you too.

[Saranac]

Congratulations Tover you have just broken the record previously held by Obi-Wan, of most pointless posts in the forum's history. Congratulations, really...I'm actually proud of you.

[empire21]

Congratulations Tover you have just broken the record previously held by Obi-Wan, of most pointless posts in the forum's history. Congratulations, really...I'm actually proud of you.

Seriously, saranac. I can't imagine i'm the only one becoming tired of your failed attempts of humor at Tovor. Give it a rest already.

[Tovor]

Seriously, saranac. I can't imagine i'm the only one becoming tired of your failed attempts of humor at Tovor. Give it a rest already.
They say some men drive fancy cars to try to overcome their shortcomings. He may not be driving a fancy car, but maybe his attempts to rank on me are to overcome some shortcoming of his own.




BTW, I gave him a positive rep the other day, and labelled it a "pity rep" since his posts weren't getting any on their own. :lol:

[Saranac]

Seriously, saranac. I can't imagine i'm the only one becoming tired of your failed attempts of humor at Tovor. Give it a rest already.

Please stay out of the conversation if you don't even know what I'm talking about. I wasn't even trying to be funny, it's just the truth. Some people just don't enjoy Tover's posting. His posts mirror those of a former member, Obi-Wan, who also use to post illogical rambling. Cheers!:santa:

[Justin]

Please stay out of the conversation if you don't even know what I'm talking about. I wasn't even trying to be funny, it's just the truth. Some people just don't enjoy Tover's posting. His posts mirror those of a former member, Obi-Wan, who also use to post illogical rambling. Cheers!:santa:

That's enough of that please.

[huttslime]

Isn't this the same thread as the Crazy and disturbing news thread?

[Horse_Head]

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10582606/detail.html
:P

[Tovor]

In an epic war of man vs. bees, a couple of guys go ballistic against a colony of bees, and the swingset turns into a war zone.

Some foul language posted. Click the link only if you're a big boy or girl.


http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2243176 (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2243176)

[Jedi Master Harrison]

^ There are some nutcases out there. And that's just you Tovor. :lol: :tease:

[Justin]

In an epic war of man vs. bees, a couple of guys go ballistic against a colony of bees, and the swingset turns into a war zone.

Some foul language posted. Click the link only if you're a big boy or girl.


http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2243176 (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2243176)
That's cruel.

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Things from the news that made me laugh:

DUI Suspect Stops to Help at Police Checkpoint

BERLIN (Dec. 29) - German police arrested a man for drunk driving after he mistook a police spot check for a breakdown and stopped to help.

Officers inspecting a car by the roadside suspected the 37-year-old passing motorist was under the influence of alcohol when he lurched from his vehicle to offer assistance, police in the northwestern town of Bremen said Friday.

"Obviously his optical assessment of the situation as he drove past was that this was a vehicle breakdown," the police said in a statement.

The man was arrested and banned from driving.

Classy. But not as good as this:

BERLIN (Dec. 29) - A thirsty German sold his 6-year-old stepdaughter's pet beagle to the owner of a bar to pay for beer, the Bild newspaper reported Friday.

The unemployed man offered to take the dog for a walk and then stopped at a bar where he convinced the owner to buy the 3-year-old dog for 40 euros, or $53.

The man spent the proceeds quenching his thirst for beer. The bar owner has now returned the dog to its owner.

:cheers: :lol:

[Tovor]

I find this extremely fascinating. That ancient cultures, including the Roman empire, may have explored the North and South American continents hundreds, and thousands of years before Columbus supposedly "discovered" America.

http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/publications/exploration/chapterfive.htm

It is a long article so I'll only quote part of it. It's definately worth the time to read it in full, though.


Inscriptions and carvings, supposed Phoenician or not, are almost always so brief and usually so questionable as to be unacceptable as dependable evidence of the presence of early explorers. No inscription of any Old World language in the New World, before 1492, is accepted by the majority of scholars today. Indeed, to give credence to any such inscription is, in the eyes of some, evidence of being ignorant. http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/publications/exploration/btns/note.gif(1) (http://javascript<b></b>:) Yet, some inscriptions, some stories, are fun to consider. They lead to interesting stories, whether one particular interpretation is taken as true nor not.


North of the Red River, in Oklahoma, a bewildering array of short inscriptions has been found. Many stones examined by Gloria Farley of Heavener are thought to bear traces of Phoenicians or Libyans who visited and perhaps settled the land more than two thousand years ago. http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/publications/exploration/btns/note.gif(3) (http://javascript<b></b>:) Such thinking is again the belief of very few people.
Whether these Mediterranean peoples might have been near the Red River at that time is absolutely unknown. If they were there, what they were doing is not strange at all: exploring and planting colonies as they did on unknown African shores. Some of the inscriptions have been deciphered as Punic, the language of the Cadiz Phoenicians; and Ogham, a script of the European Celts; or Libyan boundary markers. If found elsewhere in the world, they would cause no raised eyebrows. Since related items include Carthaginian coins, a carved female figure identified as the Phoenician goddess Tanit, and a transcription of Pharoah Akhenaten’s Hymn to the Sun—and since these items relate to the history of two thousand and more years ago—eyebrows are raised indeed, most of them skeptically.
Yet the items do not appear to be part of a recently lost collection and are at least interesting, although there is no further evidence of authenticity. http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/publications/exploration/btns/note.gif(4) (http://javascript<b></b>:) Most scholars dismiss the finds as a hoax or as terribly misguided readings of unknown marks on rocks. The most liberal theories hold that these eastern Mediterranean peoples voyaged across the Atlantic, entered the Gulf of Mexico, and made their way up the Mississippi and Red rivers. The most conservative opinions are that the marks are those of recent settlers or accidental scratchings and that the translators of the marks are simply fools.
And marks can be misread.

[huttslime]

Classy. But not as good as this:

BERLIN (Dec. 29) - A thirsty German sold his 6-year-old stepdaughter's pet beagle to the owner of a bar to pay for beer, the Bild newspaper reported Friday.

The unemployed man offered to take the dog for a walk and then stopped at a bar where he convinced the owner to buy the 3-year-old dog for 40 euros, or $53.

The man spent the proceeds quenching his thirst for beer. The bar owner has now returned the dog to its owner.

I like that.

[Tovor]

Hey Blizzee, have you thought about Ebaying yourself? This couple has:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/01/colorado.snow.sale.ap/index.html

[Tovor]

So what are the battledroids to do now that the Seperatists have been defeated? Why, get jobs on Earth as bartenders.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/start.html?pg=14

[Tovor]

This needs no setup. Just watch it. It is very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XliOko5xrr0&eurl=

[huttslime]

This needs no setup. Just watch it. It is very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XliOko5xrr0&eurl=

Is that real or just animation?

[Tovor]

It would suck to be him. Thank God he has two of them, aye?

Lizard to Lose *****, but he Has Backup:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16810866/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16810866/)

What kind of sick world do we live in where the cure for a woody is to slice it off?

Waidaminute..."pen1s" is a censored word? That's a little extreme, me thinks.


All I can add to this is that it's a good thing for empire21 that he isn't a lizard, or "Woody" would be Stumpy.

[sharyntyre]

What kind of sick world do we live in where the cure for a woody is to slice it off?

I guess I need to keep my disfunction on the DL :wink:

[Jedi Master Harrison]

It would suck to be him. Thank God he has two of them, aye?

Lizard to Lose *****, but he Has Backup:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16810866/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16810866/)

What kind of sick world do we live in where the cure for a woody is to slice it off?

Waidaminute..."pen1s" is a censored word? That's a little extreme, me thinks.


All I can add to this is that it's a good thing for empire21 that he isn't a lizard, or "Woody" would be Stumpy.

So here I am, Sunday lunchtime, munching a sausage sandwich (I'm not kidding) and viewing the latest posts here. The one thing I did not need to be considering at this time was the 'nis of an Iguana (or Empire for that matter)! Week long? Hmmmm, use for that I could have. :yoda:

Now I'm thinking why do they need two and so I may have to google it - but I want to enjoy my lunch! :blink:

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Bring me a beer!

http://video.uk.msn.com/v/en-gb/v.htm?g=D924E71B-507E-492F-B5B3-5326B6572728&f=&fg

[Tovor]

Kid's name...
You just can't make this shyte up. :confused:

http://www.newbabynews.net/hospitals/stf33/public/stf33birthannouncement.pl?babyID=h33-440

[empire21]

I'm thinking that kid is going to grow up with problems. :blink:

[Tovor]

Bring me a beer!

http://video.uk.msn.com/v/en-gb/v.htm?g=D924E71B-507E-492F-B5B3-5326B6572728&f=&fg
Funny, reading this. Rocky 4 is on and Paulie had that talking robot serving him, and right after that, I clicked your link.

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Comedy is all about timing my friend. I'm here all week! :wink:

[Tovor]

I'm thinking that kid is going to grow up with problems. :blink:
Well, he'll be content as long as they pour the milk and keep him in a bowl. Though too much milk for too long and he's bound to get soggy.


I don't even know if it was a boy or girl, didn't even read that part.

[Tovor]

Comedy is all about timing my friend. I'm here all week! :wink:
:victory:

[Blizzard]

I don't even know if it was a boy or girl, didn't even read that part.He's wearing blue.

Moms notice those things. (Besides it saying BOY right at the top.)

[Tovor]

This is some cwaaaaazzzy ish right here. I wonder what Borat would think about using women as furniture and ornaments?

http://www.vidmax.com/index.php/videos/view/1204

[Tovor]

The theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs has been around for a long time, but it's finally been proven: Chickens evolved from T-Rexes.


Genes Show T. Rex Related to Chickens
By Jeanna Bryner

(April 13) - An adolescent female Tyrannosaurus rex died 68 million years ago, but its bones still contain intact soft tissue, including the oldest preserved proteins ever found, scientists say. And a comparison of the protein’s chemical structure to a slew of other species showed an evolutionary link between T. rex and chickens, bolstering the idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

The collagen proteins were found hidden inside the leg bone of the T. rex fossil, according to two studies published in the April 13 issue of the journal Science. Collagen is the main ingredient of connective tissue in animals and is found in cartilage, ligaments, tendons, hooves, bones and teeth. It yields gelatin and glue when boiled in water.

“I mean can you imagine pulling a bone out the ground after 68 million years and then getting intact protein sequences?” said John Asara of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, lead author of one of the studies. “That’s just mind boggling how much preservation there is in these bones.”

The previous record holder for the oldest protein tissue belonged to collagen found in a 100,000- to 300,000-year-old mammoth bone.

The new finding will be viewed skeptically, admitted one of the researchers involved in the two studies. “It’s very, very, very controversial because most people have gone on record saying there’s an absolute time limit to anything that’s protein or DNA,” said Mary Schweitzer, a molecular paleontologist at North Carolina State University

For the rest of the article:
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/genes-show-t-rex-related-to-chickens/20070412165109990001 (http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/genes-show-t-rex-related-to-chickens/20070412165109990001)


So if you ever go back in time & managed to eat a T-Rex, and someone asks you what it tastes like, you can say, "Tastes Like Chicken."

[Horse_Head]

http://lbgp.com/series_information.php
DAVE MIRRA WINS THE 31ST ANNUAL TOYOTA PRO/CELEBRITY RACE

Polesitter Dave Mirra took the lead at the green flag and -- with a little help from George Lucas and Annamarie Dean! -- held on to win the 31st Annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race today.

Mirra, the professional BMX rider who has notched 14 medals at the X Games, led tennis great Martina Navratilova and actor Joshua Morrow with one lap remaining when Lucas and Dean collided going into Turn One, with both cars ending up in the tire barriers. The debris field and car damage resulted in a yellow, then red, flag and the race ultimately ended because of time constraints at 8 official laps.

Neither Lucas nor Dean was injured in the collision.

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series star Mike Skinner was close to making it a real battle before the Lucas/Dean collision. Starting 20 seconds behind the celebrities with fellow pros Bucky Lasek and Scott Kelley, Skinner had roared into fourth place afrer only five laps, and was right on Morrow's bumper when the race was halted.

Tustin Toyota general manager RJ Romero finished fifth overall and fourth in the celebrity ranks. The official results of the 31st Annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race:

(c - celebrity, p - pro)

1. Dave Mirra (c) ---
2. Martina Navarilova (c) +7.402 seconds
3. Joshua Morrow (c) +17.097
4. Mike Skinner (p) +29.346
5. RJ Romero (c) +41.543
6. Bucky Lasek (p) +44.087
7. Scott Kelley (p) +46.613
8. Emily Procter (c) +51.431
9. Kelly Hu (c) +51.638
10.John Salley (c) +58.201
11.Aisha Tyler (c) +58.746
12.Jerry Westlund (c) +59.713
13.Kathryn Morris (c) +1:10.845
14.Robin Quivers (c) +1:22.300
15.Annamarie Dean (c) -1 lap
16.Geoge Lucas (c) +0.519 <---
17.Kendra Willkinson (c) - 4 laps
I only saw the crash on the news but it was a wicked one... you can see pix of George and his car in the Picture Palace thread :bye:

[Tovor]

Okaaaaaay, how effin' kewl is this? :w00t:

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/05/rem_koolhaas_de.html

[empire21]

Sweet Jebus!

[Tovor]

You can say that again.

[Tovor]

Amazing. A TV screen you can wear on your tee shirt.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=457670&in_page_id=1965

[Tovor]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05272007/business/buy_a_pal_a_pint___wherever_business_steve_viuker. htm

Buy your friend a drink, long distance.

[Jedi Master Harrison]

^ Don't get any ideas people, I'm as tight as a Scotsman! :nahnah:

[Salacious Crumb]

^ Don't get any ideas people, I'm as tight as a Scotsman! :nahnah:

Yeah that's true. You owe DR and me a drink for West Ham staying in the Premiership!

I can just see DR and myself relaxing in 'Bounce Deuce' in New York, watching the 19 42" Plasma TV's.

Still I know what you'll do :wink: You will send our drinks to 'Senor S****ey's' in Columbus Avenue. DR will have a 's****arita' - their product name not mine - and you'll tell them to give me a t-shirt with 'I'm a top S****a'.....probably!

:shots:

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Seems you know me too well already! :wink:

[Tovor]

What's wrong with Smith or Jones? :scratchchin:


93 million Wangs


BEIJING (AFP) - With more than a billion people now sharing just 100 surnames, Chinese authorities are considering a landmark move to try to end the confusion, state media reported Tuesday.


Current Chinese law states that children are only allowed take the surname from either their mother or father, but the lack of variety means there are now 93 million people in China with the family name Wang.

In a country of around 1.3 billion people, about 85 percent share only 100 surnames, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Ministry of Public Security in April and published in the China Daily newspaper on Tuesday.

The survey found 92 million people shared the surname Li, while 88 million were called Zhang. A further seven surnames -- including Chen, Zhou and Lin -- are held by at least 20 million Chinese.

Another report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences found at least 100,000 people share China's most popular name, Wang Tao.

Under a new draft regulation released by the ministry of public security, parents will be able to combine their surnames for their children, a move that could open up 1.28 million new possibilities, the China Daily reported.

For instance, a father named Zhou and mother named Zhu could choose to call their child either Zhou, Zhu, Zhouzhu or Zhuzhou, the report added.

Guan Xihua, a household registration officer with the Beijing public security bureau, said the lack of variety caused trouble in daily life and the new regulation would slash repetition.

Du Roufu, from the academy, said combined surnames had already become popular with younger couples even though such combinations were not strictly permitted by law.

The draft also allows ethnic minorities to register some letters and characters among new names, but bans any foreign letters.

Du said the move for ethnic minorities would encourage them to use traditional surnames and avoid the practice of taking Han Chinese surnames, which reduces the variety of names and harms their cultural heritage.

[Tovor]

Interesting. Almost as cool as crop circles.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1923524.ece?from=rss

[empire21]

^ That's just pathetic! :rolleyes:

*Goes to advertised site*

[Tovor]

^ Been there, done that. :devil:

[Tovor]

Sadly, that little angel Connie did not win (she did make it to the end though) Britain's You've Got Talent (the original UK version of American Idol, begun before Simon brought the show across the pond to us). The winner has got a hella powerful and emotion-filled voice, I'll say that. Hard to believe he sells mobile phones for a living.

Makes it through the semi-finals to go to the next round, gets a round of applause from everyone, including Simon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sha2E_OOMas&NR=1

Sings another song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Pv-0vpxSc&mode=related&search=

Info about him and his dreams, and his final song of the competition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzRJqe1X-o&mode=related&search=

And the winner is announced...and he sings an encore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJi--Tr_UCM&mode=related&search=

[Tovor]

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=baseline align=left width="100%">"We hope the police learn a lesson and respect the rights of women to go topless"</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

Manhattan Artist Accepts $29G Settlement From City After Topless Stroll
Sunday , June 17, 2007


A Manhattan artist arrested by police when she went on a topless stroll two years ago has accepted a $29,000 settlement from the city, her lawyer says.

Jill Coccaro, 27, was charged briefly with indecent exposure despite a 1992 state appeals court ruling that concluded women had the right to be topless if men were allowed to take off their shirts.

Coccaro, who now goes by the name Phoenix Feeley, bared her breasts on Aug. 4, 2005.

Feeley remained in custody for 12 hours before she was told prosecutors were not going to pursue charges.

Her attorney, Jeffrey Rothman, told the Daily News for its Sunday editions that his client won the civil rights settlement from the city, which did not admit or deny wrongdoing.

"We hope the police learn a lesson and respect the rights of women to go topless," Rothman said.

Feeley told the New York Post for its Sunday editions that she was not treated well after her arrest. She claimed in an October lawsuit that a police officer yanked her out of a patrol car by her hair and police took her to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.

She told the newspaper she had gone bare-breasted after running the 2004 city marathon without police bothering her.

"I've always just felt that was something natural," Feeley said of going topless. "I've kind of always done it out of practicality."

The city settled on June 4.

"I felt like I deserved it," Feeley said.


:wtg: x 36,000

[Tovor]

How cool is this?

World’s Most Exclusive Hotel Has Just One Room (http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/worlds-most-exclusive-hotel-has-just-one-room)


http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...-just-one-room (http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/worlds-most-exclusive-hotel-has-just-one-room)



http://media.techeblog.com/images/exclusive_1.jpg
Designed by Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, the Everland Hotel in Germany is claimed to be the world’s most exclusive, boasting just one full-sized room and a bathroom. Continue reading for more pictures (http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/worlds-most-exclusive-hotel-has-just-one-room#).

http://media.techeblog.com/images/exclusive_8.jpg

[Javen]

Come on...that's an RV without wheels.

[Tovor]

Come on...that's an RV without wheels.
You mean a redneck hotel.

[Tovor]

Tallest building in the world. Pretty damn cool if you ask me. I just hope no one flies a plane into it.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/05/burj-dubai-now-highest-building-in.html

[Tovor]

Wierd and interesting images and ads.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/07/cool-ads-part-6.html

[JediKeri]

Sadly, that little angel Connie did not win (she did make it to the end though) Britain's You've Got Talent (the original UK version of American Idol, begun before Simon brought the show across the pond to us). The winner has got a hella powerful and emotion-filled voice, I'll say that. Hard to believe he sells mobile phones for a living.

Makes it through the semi-finals to go to the next round, gets a round of applause from everyone, including Simon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sha2E_OOMas&NR=1

Sings another song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Pv-0vpxSc&mode=related&search=

Info about him and his dreams, and his final song of the competition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzRJqe1X-o&mode=related&search=

And the winner is announced...and he sings an encore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJi--Tr_UCM&mode=related&search=


Connie was cuter! She should have won!

[empire21]

What an idiot! :lol:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070708/ap_on_fe_st/odd_leafy_robber

[Master_Kinnon]

Robbing a bank dressed as a tree...classic. Wonder if I'd get served at the shops dressed like that.

[Tovor]

New hope for women with big bellies and no boobs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6283444.stm

[Tovor]

What an idiot! :lol:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070708/ap_on_fe_st/odd_leafy_robber

I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that his idiocy has deep roots.



What do you call it when a man dressed as a tree has a small weewee?

A woodpecker.

[Master_Kinnon]

New hope for women with big bellies and no boobs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6283444.stm

Certainly would be an interesting use of a lunch hour. New to the market, test tube implants.

[Raganork8]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_re_us/flying_lawn_chair

Um...ok!

[Master_Kinnon]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_re_us/flying_lawn_chair

Um...ok!

Lol, saves on petrol I suppose.

[Raganork8]

Lol, saves on petrol I suppose.


We need it over here...

I wish I had done it my life is so boring :(

[Master_Kinnon]

Then do something interesting and outrageous and we can add you to this thread.

[Raganork8]

"Boy jumps out window bounces to Glasgow"

Sound good?:)

[Raganork8]

better yet

"Teenager attacks Toby Mcguire demands 11 dollars"

[Master_Kinnon]

Either of the above. Or maybe you could bounce to Glasgow and we'll track Tobey McGuire down together. He REALLY irritates the bits off of me.

[Raganork8]

haha, it's a deal!

Here's a funny article

Sprint/Nextel is giving customers the ax for asking for TOO much customer service
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071000400.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071000400.html)

[Master_Kinnon]

haha, it's a deal!

Here's a funny article

Sprint/Nextel is giving customers the ax for asking for TOO much customer service
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071000400.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071000400.html)

Hmmm now that's a company that care, lol.

Down with Tobey McGuire!

[Raganork8]

I used to have A nextel and My ex still has one everytime i call him i get

"Please hold the nextel subsriber you're trying to reach is located..."

so I can understand why a lot of people call customer service.

[Master_Kinnon]

Lol sounds like a pain. I have a good phone network so it's all good.

[Raganork8]

I aviod all issues by not having a phone.

[Master_Kinnon]

Wish that was an option for me.

[Raganork8]

it always is ;-)

[Master_Kinnon]

Not because of my work, otherwise I'd seriously consider it!

[Raganork8]

AHH

In that case...

[Master_Kinnon]

Like I said, I have a good phone network, so can't complain about that.

[Raganork8]

Well, that's refreshing to hear.

On the news I heard about this dating website for married people...

it's called ug ashleymadison it was an odd story but interesting.

[Master_Kinnon]

Hmm....sounds....odd.

[Zedekk]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19694083/?gt1=10150

[empire21]

That's just crazy! :blink:

[Tovor]

I'd be so tempted to glide by on a hang glider with a slingshot and a handful of thumbtacks.

[Tovor]

Check it out. People coming out of pubs see lights in the sky. Surprising?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=470579&in_page_id=1770

[Tovor]

Arabs surf Israeli porn sites
Adar Shalev, ynetnews.com
08.22.07

Owners of Israeli sex sites report high percentage of entries from Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The hit: Clips starring female soldiers and Mossad women

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict apparently does not disturb and even encourages Arab internet users from consuming kosher Hebrew porn. Operators of a number of porn sites report that between two and 10% of their users arrive from Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority. Some websites even go as far as offering services in Arabic.

http://www.homestead.com/prosites-prs/saudi_internet_cafe.jpg

Nir Shahar, who manages the Israeli porn website, 'Ratuv' (wet), said that his company produced porn movies that have typical Israeli themes featuring female soldiers, female Mossad agents and policewomen.

It turns out there is a high demand for such content even in countries that are defined as "enemy sates." The most popular video clip among Arabs, "Code name: Deep investigation," is described as "a parody dealing with the Vanunu affair with agents investigating the affair using erotic means."

In the past several months we see an increase in traffic from countries that have no diplomatic ties with Israel including Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt," Shahar said.

Due to the demand, Shahar added an Arabic version of the site. "We received many thank you messages from Arab surfers. Many of whom asked if the female soldiers really serve in the IDF," he said.

"We get hundreds of hits from surfers that live in countries where porn is prohibited," said Gil Naftali owner and operator of another Hebrew sex site, SexV. "We don't have an Arabic version because users log in to watch photos and video clips that require no explanations."

According to site statistics, last month there were over 2,000 hits from Riad, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The average time a Saudi surfer spends on SexV is 17:23 minutes.

Data also shows that 10 percent of the visitors to the most popular sex site in Israel, Domina, are Arabic speakers. "That is because we offer content in their language," said Tzahi who operates the site.

Nothing seems to stop the porn-consuming Saudi, not even technical difficulties: "In many places Israel is blocked, at times the entire suffix ".co.il" is blocked. Users connect through proxy servers and reach us that way," he said.

The motive behind these initiatives is purely economical, and by means the desire to connect people through the international language of porn.

"Israeli and Arab surfers do not communicate on the website. Ideology? No, it's purely business," Tzahi laughed. "Porn will not bring about peace but at least we get some money out of our enemies' pockets."

So wait...kosher porn? Obviously, all the male porn stars are circumcized, and the hot dogs are Hebrew National.

[Tovor]

Halle Berry, at 41, is finally pregnant. Obidobi unavailable for comment. :scratchchin:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070906/people-halle-berry/

[JackBauer24]

So wait...kosher porn? Obviously, all the male porn stars are circumcized, and the hot dogs are Hebrew National.

Can you imagine the wet burka videos? HOT!

[JackBauer24]

Ooh, I could SO get behind this:

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A Russian province is today holding a Conception Day in an effort to boost flagging birth rates.
September 12 is officially called Family Contact Day in the Ulyanovsk province, reports The Sun.
The day is about "encouraging procreation" and was the brainchild of the governor Sergei Morozov.
The event is timed precisely nine months ahead of Russia's next year's Constitution Day so that mothers "ideally should give birth on June 12", said a spokeswoman for the administration.
Prizes ranging from a television to a Russian-made all-terrain vehicle will be given out to people who give birth on June 12.
A series of concerts and exhibitions are being organised to promote family values and employers are being encouraged to grant a discretionary day off, said the spokeswoman.
But local human rights activist Alexander Bragin complained: "We've already sunk to the level where the governor is ordering us on what day to conceive a child and on what day to give birth."

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2504821.html?menu=news.quirkies

[Zedekk]

^ that's just very wrong

[JackBauer24]

You'd think the prizes would include diapers and the like.

[Tovor]

They are complaining about sagging birth rates? They should adopt babies from their neighbors the Chinese, who have more than enough to go around. Besides, haven't we enough problem with overpopulation, that we don't need a whole nation urging its people to bop and pop more often?

[JackBauer24]

Hell, I don't care about overpopulation. If a country is telling its people to have sex, I wanna move there. It's better than this country and the insanely stupid abstinence-only policies.

[Tovor]

There was a small plane crash on the side of Interstate 95 two weeks ago, near where I work. Amazingly, not only were no people on the ground hurt, but the solo pilot, though badly hurt, survived...and not only survived, but was left sitting dazed in his seat literally out in the open, as the rest of the plane was shredded away around him.

[JediKeri]

There was a small plane crash on the side of Interstate 95 two weeks ago, near where I work. Amazingly, not only were no people on the ground hurt, but the solo pilot, though badly hurt, survived...and not only survived, but was left sitting dazed in his seat literally out in the open, as the rest of the plane was shredded away around him.


That is one reason I believe in angels.:innocent:

[Zedekk]

There was a small plane crash on the side of Interstate 95 two weeks ago, near where I work. Amazingly, not only were no people on the ground hurt, but the solo pilot, though badly hurt, survived...and not only survived, but was left sitting dazed in his seat literally out in the open, as the rest of the plane was shredded away around him.
That is freakin' awesome!!!

[Tovor]

How strangely ironic that in the Month of the Boob...er, Breast Cancer Awareness month, I should come across this article and realize that I already had saved the perfect complimentary photo image.

This situation is so strange that it's funny, and funny enough for me to post it and follow it with my own photo commentary. Read on...


Woman told to ditch bra to enter court

Underwire supports of garment had set off alarm at federal facility

Click for full story. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21144171/?GT1=10450?)
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Sources/sourceAP.gif Updated: 3:41 a.m. ET Oct 5, 2007


COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Security guards refused to allow a woman into a federal courthouse until she removed a bra that triggered a metal detector. Lori Plato said she and her husband, Owen Plato, were stunned when U.S. Marshals Service (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21144171/?GT1=10450?) employees asked her to remove her bra after the underwire supports set off the alarm.
"I asked if I could go into the bathroom because they didn't have a privacy screen and no women security officers were available," Plato said Wednesday. "They said, 'No.' I wasn't carrying a shank in my bra. If it's so dangerous, why did they give it back and let me put it on?"
Patrick McDonald, the U.S. Marshal in Boise, said appropriate security protocols were followed in the Sept. 20 matter, and guards suggested she simply remove the bra in her car outside, or find a restaurant bathroom. "She's inflating it," McDonald said. "All of a sudden she just took it off. It wasn't anything we wanted to happen and it wasn't anything we asked for her to do. She did it so fast."
Plato, of Bonners Ferry, said she was parked on a busy street and wasn't familiar with downtown Coeur d'Alene businesses. So her husband held up his coat to shield her from the rest of the people in the courthouse lobby while she removed her bra underneath her shirt.
Not generally a security threat
Generally, McDonald said, undergarments aren't considered a danger to security. "I don't think they're considered a weapon, really, the last time I looked," he said.




Honestly, I don't think McDonald knows what he's talking about. Ta ta's have been weaponized by the terrible terrorists, to be used as T1ts of Terror. Bush sent the army to the wrong terror state when he invaded Iraq; I wouldn't be surprised if the trail of the t1ts of terror were totally trafficked from Tehran.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b324/Tovor/WMTWeapons.jpg

[Darth Massacrus]

they have found the purpose of the appendix:



http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/05/appendix.purpose.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

[Zedekk]

Finally!:happydance:we know what its for!!!

[Tovor]

Haunted swingset in Argentina playground. Unattended swings move for days before suddenly stopping.

Okay, my first thought was, well duh, the wind is blowing, no wonder the swings are moving by themselves. But when one swing began swinging back and forth quickly while the other two continue moving relatively slowly, and continues moving faster and higher, I knew there had to either be a scientific explaination or else acceptance of the paranormal.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22651563-13762,00.html


'Haunted' swing keeps rocking

By staff writers
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<!-- END Story Toolbar --><!-- Lead Content Panel -->AN out-of-control playground swing has spooked families and police in Argentina.

The swing rocks back and forwards without being touched - and anxious parents have decided the playground must be haunted.
Watch the YouTube video of the swing below:

YouTube - Hamaca Firmat


In an attempt to explain the swing's mysterious movement, police called in physics professors. But even they have been unable to explain the why the swing keeps moving.

Residents claim the middle swing in a playground in the north-eastern town of Firmat can keep moving continuously for ten days before suddenly coming to a halt.
Teacher Maria de Silva Agustina said one child had nicknamed the area the "Blair Witch Playground".
"We believe it is haunted," she said.















And wouldn't you know it, science delivers an explaination after all.
YouTube - Firmat Haunted Swing Explanation: Resonance/Vortex Shedding

[kopernikuz]

I agree there is a normal explanation for this... but the "scientific" video explanation does not explain why the wind does not affect the other two swings in the same or similar ways... they do not go crazy and never swing more than what we see here. What's up with that?

EDIT: OMG... just a minute after I posted this our local news teased a segment coming after the commercial about this SWING! lol... that was freakier than the fact that it swings on its own. :P

[Tovor]

I asked myself that too. I thought maybe it was due to differences in the chain's, roughness of the metal part where the chains swing from, or something similar to that. :scratchchin:

[Tovor]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21689083/?GT1=10547 (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21689083/?GT1=10547)

How cool is this?


Dolphins save surfer from becoming shark’s bait

A pod of bottlenose dolphins helped protect the severely injured boarder

By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
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Nov. 8: Todd Endris was surfing when he was bitten by a 12- to 15-foot shark, but thanks to a couple of Flippers and a friend he survived. TODAY anchor Meredith Vieira reports.



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Surfer Todd Endris needed a miracle. The shark — a monster great white that came out of nowhere — had hit him three times, peeling the skin off his back and mauling his right leg to the bone.
That’s when a pod of bottlenose dolphins intervened, forming a protective ring around Endris, allowing him to get to shore, where quick first aid provided by a friend saved his life.
“Truly a miracle,” Endris told TODAY’s Natalie Morales on Thursday.

The attack occurred on Tuesday, Aug. 28, just before 11 a.m. at Marina State Park off Monterey, Calif., where the 24-year-old owner of Monterey Aquarium Services had gone with friends for a day of the sport they love. Nearly four months later, Endris, who is still undergoing physical therapy to repair muscle damage suffered during the attack, is back in the water and on his board in the same spot where he almost lost his life.
“[It] came out of nowhere. There’s no warning at all.


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The shark, estimated at 12 to 15 feet long, hit him first as Endris was sitting on his surfboard, but couldn’t get its monster jaws around both surfer and surfboard. “The second time, he came down and clamped on my torso — sandwiched my board and my torso in his mouth,” Endris said.
That attack shredded his back, literally peeling the skin back, he said, “like a banana peel.” But because Endris’ stomach was pressed to the surfboard, his intestines and internal organs were protected.
The third time, the shark tried to swallow Endris’ right leg, and he said that was actually a good thing, because the shark’s grip anchored him while he kicked the beast in the head and snout with his left leg until it let go.
The dolphins, which had been cavorting in the surf all along, showed up then. They circled him, keeping the shark at bay, and enabled Endris to get back on his board and catch a wave to the shore.

Our finned friends
No one knows why dolphins protect humans, but stories of the marine mammals rescuing humans go back to ancient Greece, according to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
A year ago in New Zealand, the group reports, four lifeguards were saved from sharks in the same way Endris was — by dolphins forming a protective ring.
Though horribly wounded, Endris said he didn’t think he was going to die. “Actually, it never crossed my mind,” he told Morales.
It did, though, cross the minds of others on the beach, including some lifeguards who told his friend, Brian Simpson, that Endris wasn’t going to make it.
Simpson is an X-ray technician in a hospital trauma center, and he’d seen badly injured people before. He had seen Endris coming in and knew he was hurt.
“I was expecting him to have leg injuries,” he told Morales. “It was a lot worse than I was expecting.”

Blood was pumping out of the leg, which had been bitten to the bone, and Endris, who lost half his blood, was ashen white. To stop the blood loss, Simpson used his surf leash as a tourniquet, which probably saved his life.
“Thanks to this guy,” Endris said, referring to Simpson, who sat next to him in the TODAY studio, “once I got to the beach, he was calming me down and keeping me from losing more blood by telling me to slow my breathing and really just be calm. They wouldn’t let me look at my wounds at all, which really helped.

A medivac helicopter took him to a hospital, where a surgeon had to first figure out what went where before putting him back together.
“It was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle,” Endris said.
Six weeks later, he was well enough to go surfing again, and the place he went was back to Marina State Park. It wasn’t easy to go back in the water.
“You really have to face your fears,” he told Morales. “I’m a surfer at heart, and that’s not something I can give up real easily. It was hard. But it was something you have to do.”
The shark went on its way, protected inside the waters of the park, which is a marine wildlife refuge. Endris wouldn’t want it any other way.
“I wouldn’t want to go after the shark anyway,” he said. “We’re in his realm, not the other way around.”

International Shark Attack Research Foundation: (http://isarf.org/) Learn more about the organization and their work to prevent shark attacks by visiting this site. (http://isarf.org/)

[Orandhite]

That is AWESOME! I :like: dolphins. :yes:

[Tovor]

^ Me too.

Oddly enough though, is how they have been misnamed for so many years and I don't know if anyone knows how that started. But "dolphins" are not dolphins at all, they are porpoises. A dolphin is actually a fish, not a mammal, and when I first moved to Florida and found "dolphin" on a seafood menu I was highly upset. But the fish below is what a dolphin actually is:

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/BlueMarlin/dolphinfish.JPG

[Tovor]

This isn't really funny, it's ridiculous.

if the Golden Opulence Sundae was not lavish enough for your palate...



New York's $25,000 dessert sets Guinness record
Wed Nov 7, 2007 2:59pm EST
Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A day after New York City came up with a $1,000 bagel, a local restaurateur unveiled a $25,000 chocolate sundae on Wednesday, setting a Guinness world record for the most expensive dessert.

Stephen Bruce, owner of Serendipity 3, partnered with luxury jeweler Euphoria New York to create the "Frrozen Haute Chocolate," a blend of 28 cocoas, including 14 of the most expensive and exotic from around the globe.

http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20071107&t=2&i=2142456&w=&r=2007-11-07T195930Z_01_N07536792_RTRUKOP_0_PICTURE2

The dessert, spelled with two Rs, is infused with 5 grams (0.2 ounces) of edible 23-karat gold and served in a goblet lined with edible gold. At the base of the goblet is an 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of white diamonds.

The sundae is topped with whipped cream covered with more gold and a side of La Madeline au Truffle from Knipschildt Chocolatier, which sells for $2,600 a pound.
It is eaten with a gold spoon decorated with white and chocolate-colored diamonds, which can also be taken home.

"It took us a long time to experiment with all the ingredients and flavors, and more than three months were needed just to design the golden spoon," Bruce told Reuters.

Four years ago, Bruce unveiled a $1,000 ice cream sundae called Golden Opulence, a staple on his menu and a favorite with rock stars, socialites and other celebrities.

Both desserts are sold only with advance orders. Bruce said he has received inquiries about his latest creation, mostly from Europeans planning to visit New York.

"I wouldn't be surprised if soon we get a call from a Middle Eastern prince or Shah willing to give something sweet to his many wives on his next trip to the city," Bruce said.

On Tuesday, New York chef Frank Tujague of The Westin New York hotel at Times Square unveiled the $1,000 bagel, topped with white truffle cream cheese and goji berry infused Riesling jelly with golden leaves. Sales will help raise funds for culinary school scholarships.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0753679220071107?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=22&sp=true
"edible 23 karat gold"? How about leave the precious metals out of the recipe and lower the price?

How ridiculously rich do you have to be before eating in a cold dish what some people see as a yearly salary becomes trivial to you?

[Zedekk]

some thong jokes

[Tovor]

Up, up, and away! Or can we say, "look, it's Batman!" Let's hope his project has an amazingly successful grand finish and not a Wile E. Coyote finale.

Flying humans, hoping to land with no chute<!-- /kicker & headline --><!-- subhead --><!-- /subhead --><!-- byline -->
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And his dream, strange as it sounds, is not unique. Around the globe, Corliss said, at least a half-dozen groups — in France, South Africa, New Zealand, Russia and the United States — have the same goal in mind.

Although nobody is waving a flag, it is a quest that has evoked the spirit of nations' pursuits of Everest and the North and South poles.

"All of this is technically possible," said Jean Potvin, a physics professor at Saint Louis University and skydiver who performs parachute research for the Army. But he acknowledged a problem: "The thing I'm not sure of is your margins in terms of safety, or likelihood to crash."

Loïc Jean-Albert of France, better known as Flying Dude in a popular YouTube video, put it more bluntly: "You might do it well one time and try another time and crash and die."

The landing, as one might expect, poses the biggest hurdle, and each group has a different approach. Most will speak in only the vaguest terms out of fear that someone will steal their plans.

Corliss will wear nothing more than a wing suit, an invention that, aeronautically speaking, is more flying squirrel than bird or plane.

He plans to land on a specially-designed runway of his own design. It will borrow from the principles of Nordic ski jumping and will cost about $2 million, which explains why he is so much more vocal than the others about his quest...


Click here for the rest:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/10/sports/10flying.php?page=1
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Click here for the video of his test jump:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid959009704/bclid979307711/bctid1338937071

[Horse_Head]

Poor Eddiie...
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-watermain11dec11,0,3425179.story?track=mostviewed-storylevel

At least he's on tour and didn't have to wade through the mud this morning.

[Jedi Master Harrison]

^ I'm sure he can afford to sort it out!

[Blizzard]

Paris Hilton Saves an Oompa-Loompa

AOL
(Dec. 11) -- Paris Hilton has been called many things, but as far as we know "Oompa-Loompa humanitarian" hasn't been one. That's not true anymore, however.

The heiress found herself in the middle of a freak nightclub accident when a Miami crowd rushed toward the stage, trampling an entertainer dressed as an infamous Oompa-Loompa character from the "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" movie. One Oompa-Loompa performer, Robin Sherwood, suffered a badly cut leg during the incident.

In a bizarre twist, Hilton actually knows Sherwood, and has fought to get Sherwood a kidney transplant in the past.

According to clubgoers, when Sherwood was injured, Hilton rushed to Sherwood's side and wouldn't leave until an ambulance came.

"Paris Hilton stayed with him until an ambulance came to take care of him," a Cameo nightclub source said. "Paris was great, she was there until he was turned over to the medical technicians."

Mike Heller, who booked the event, added that Hilton was "very concerned with his health. She didn't leave until she knew that he was okay."

Sherwood received stitches for his injury and was released shortly after.

[Orandhite]

I am speechless.

[Tovor]

It just goes to show that no matter how big some famous people get, they still remember the little people in their life.

[Horse_Head]

Everyone can use a little Oompa-Loompa lovin'...

[JackBauer24]

Funniest article title ever:

<H1>IKE 'BEATS' TINA TO DEATH




Reuters


December 13, 2007 -- LOS ANGELES - Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike Turner, who rose to fame in the 1950s and became a star performing with his ex-wife, Tina Turner, has died at age 76, said an official with the performer's management company.
</H1>http://www.nypost.com/seven/12132007/news/nationalnews/ike_beats_tina_to_death_79527.htm

[Jedi Master Harrison]

It's sooooo wrong, but :rofl: anyway!

[Horse_Head]

Those wacky journalists... :P

[DblDwn]

I'm not the least bit surprised, it makes sense if you look at her and think about it for like a nanosecond, but it did catch me off guard this morning to hear that Jodie Foster came out of the closet. As recent as this is I'm surprised that there isn't more media coverage of it.

[kopernikuz]

I saw a little bit of coverage on it... but it has never really been a secret, as she's been with her partner for some 15 years I think, lol... they're raising her kids together. She just never felt the need to make a big show out of it, and why should she, you know? I've always respected that about her. Her sexuality was never a news event... it's just who she is. She's always turned down pleas from the gay and lesbian community to go public and politicize it, and she's always declined.

She thanked her partner publicly during some award or something I think and that's what sparked her mentioning it. But even then, she didn't try and make some big deal out of it.

What's always amazed me is that the paparazzi has never really made a big deal out of it, considering they're almost always seen together. They just seem to have allowed her privacy on it... it's her business. Kind of cool.

[Zedekk]

I'm not the least bit surprised, it makes sense if you look at her and think about it for like a nanosecond, but it did catch me off guard this morning to hear that Jodie Foster came out of the closet. As recent as this is I'm surprised that there isn't more media coverage of it.
Funny thing is I was thinking to my self the other day: Jodi Foster is a total lesbian! This was after thinking about the movies she has been in and the roles shes played.

[Horse_Head]

^ And how she won't sleep with you. :P :rofl:

[RollaFett]

^ :rofl:

[Tovor]

That's not news to me. I thought it was already known. I mean, I have only vague memories but I think it was discussed in an interview many years ago. She does a solid job, like Robert DeNiro, of keeping her private life out of the public eye and the papperazzi, but I think that she once portrayed a lesbian in a movie (I can't remember which one, or if at all) and afterward she talked about it in an interview somewhere about how much the role meant to her because of her own orientation.

But again, it is vague to me and I may be wrong about that.

[Darth Massacrus]

Just for the Holidays: Christmas card arrives 93 years late

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/14/long.lost.card.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

[Jedi Master Harrison]

^^ Maybe you just dreamt it - the dream ended with you 'turning' her. :nahnah:

[Tovor]

^^ Maybe you just dreamt it - the dream ended with you 'turning' her. :nahnah:
No, I think the dream would have ended with me turning her AND her girlfriend on to me. :yes:

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Amen brother! :w00t:

[Master Magnus]

Not exactly funny, but interesting... Lakota Indians withdraws from treaties from the United States and have declared independence for parts of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming (Lakota country): AFP article (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA)

[Tovor]

Not exactly funny, but interesting... Lakota Indians withdraws from treaties from the United States and have declared independence for parts of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming (Lakota country): AFP article (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA)
I hope this doesn't turn ugly. They have to know that they're not facing Custer again.

[Zedekk]

Not exactly funny, but interesting... Lakota Indians withdraws from treaties from the United States and have declared independence for parts of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming (Lakota country): AFP article (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA)
Thats cool.

[Darth Massacrus]

Thats cool.

I heard about it by smoke signal. The confirming telegraph came in just a few hours ago....

Was it their plan to secede when everyone would be distracted by the Spears pregnancy?

[Zedekk]

I heard about it by smoke signal. The confirming telegraph came in just a few hours ago....

Was it their plan to secede when everyone would be distracted by the Spears pregnancy?
If they succeed then something good will come of the "pregnancy heard round the world"

[kopernikuz]

If they succeed then something good will come of the "pregnancy heard round the world"What good will come of it? Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of the atrocities and tragic way Native American's were treated during this country's inception... but I can't see how trying to divide the country and secede now could possibly be good for anyone involved. Maybe I'm just missing the benefits here.

[Master Magnus]

What good will come of it? Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of the atrocities and tragic way Native American's were treated during this country's inception... but I can't see how trying to divide the country and secede now could possibly be good for anyone involved. Maybe I'm just missing the benefits here.
Well, from what I've been able to gather, the five persons which made up the delegation do not represent the Lakota nation. In fact, the leader of the delegation lost an election (http://www.indianz.com/News/2005/006908.asp) in 2005.

[Krogenar]

What good will come of it? Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of the atrocities and tragic way Native American's were treated during this country's inception... but I can't see how trying to divide the country and secede now could possibly be good for anyone involved. Maybe I'm just missing the benefits here.

Well, Kope, it would give us another chance to put down an Injun revolt, right? There's always that upside. Plus, it's funny.

[Horse_Head]

The Biggest Celebrity Paydays Of 2007
http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/12/17/hollywood-celebrity-media-biz-media_cz_kn_1217celebpaydays.html?feed=rss_busines s

[Zedekk]

^ that certainly is interesting, but I ain't laughin' :hmmm:

[Tovor]

Nor am I. I'm simply stunned. How much does he have already from all amassed SW fortunes?

[Horse_Head]

More than enough... :rolleyes:

[goodwije]

You'd think he could afford better shirts?

[empire21]

You'd think he could afford better shirts?

I don't know, that is a pretty classy shirt. :P

[Jedi Master Harrison]

^ I've seen you in far worse for sure! :wink:

[Zedekk]

:giveup:

[Blizzard]

First Baby of the Year in El Paso - born to Star Wars fans!
(http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_7858083)

[Zedekk]

^ :lol: Lucas, Anakin, and now they have a Leia.

[Horse_Head]

Cool! :D

[Talcy]

Not sure if this should be classed as funny, but...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7181246.stm

Weekend at Bernie's!

[Slick]

^ :lol:

http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2008/01/thief_trips_stabs_self_with_st.html

This made my day.

[kopernikuz]

Not sure if this should be classed as funny, but...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7181246.stm

Weekend at Bernie's!
Yeah... I had the same debate with myself and ended up posting this in Serious and Disturbing yesterday instead, lol. What a couple of morons.

[Horse_Head]

Buy yourself a couple of Tatas...
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/tata-nano-the-worlds-cheapest-car/?hp

[Darth Massacrus]

FBI wiretaps cut off by phone companies because FBI wasn't paying it's phone bills:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/10/fbi.unpaid.phone.bills.ap/index.html

[Jedi Master Harrison]

^ Genius! :laughing:

[Orandhite]

That fool with the hunting knives made me :chortle:.

[Krogenar]

Code Pink: "This is not Cuba!" (http://buriedplanet.com/?p=534)

:w00t:

[Horse_Head]

Bank Robbery Suspects Crash SUV After Pursuit
Suspects Throw Wads Of Cash Out The Window

http://cbs2.com/carchase/SUV.Crash.Pursuit.2.635383.html

You have to watch the video...

[JediKeri]

Smile, your on Candid camera!

Sheesh, like the courts won't use that tape.

[Tovor]

Bank Robbery Suspects Crash SUV After Pursuit
Suspects Throw Wads Of Cash Out The Window

http://cbs2.com/carchase/SUV.Crash.Pursuit.2.635383.html

You have to watch the video...
Throwing money into the road to elicit crowd reaction and slow his pursuers, worked for Jame Bond in Octopussy, but not for those fools.

[JediKeri]

You see that's the problem with idiots like those. Reality isn't the movies.

[JackBauer24]

From Ananova.com:

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="80%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=bottom><BIG>Jedi church planned for Wales</BIG></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Two Star Wars-loving brothers are planning to set up a Jedi church in Wales.
Barney and Daniel Jones want fellow devotees to be able to join them on Anglesey, reports the BBC.
Barney, 26 - or Master Jonba Hehol - and Daniel, 21 - Master Morda Hehol - head the UK Church of the Jedi.
They say their services will include sermons on The Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques.
Hairdresser Barney said: "As children we always watched the Star Wars films anyway. We noticed that there were a couple of sites on the internet, Jedi church sites.
"We printed off a couple of sermons and did a sermon in our house for a couple of friends one night."
Barney and his musician brother Daniel, from Holyhead, help run four websites devoted to the development of the "faith".
"My brother and I will wear the Jedi robes, the dark brown robes... the congregation would be in black. Really to bring a sense of unity to the meetings," said Barney.
Although the current members are all men, women are not excluded, as Barney points out: "Princess Leia helped them out a lot."
However, any congregation member drawn to the dark side of the Force, embodied in the film by Darth Vader, would be advised they are following the wrong path and could face expulsion.

[Darth Massacrus]

Paris Hilton praises Britney Spears as a great parent:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/23/people.parishilton.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

This is the last endorsement I would ever want to get...

[JediKeri]

I double dog dare ya!

Two boys with tounges frozen to flag pole.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22858883/

[ForceFlow]

From Ananova.com:


that is where fandom reaches sick obsession XD

[Darth Massacrus]

'dead' man struggles to prove otherwise:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/od_nm/dead_odd_dc;_ylt=Aoikj2edeotD9W3dG5eJGHXtiBIF

[Zedekk]

I knew it! It would take a Sith to bring down the man of steel:lol:

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/superman-vs1.htm

[Zedekk]

YouTube - Star Wars Music Video

[Tovor]

LOL at Mr. Spock, and all of Vader's "Bummina!"

[Master Magnus]

I visited Pravda's site, the well-known Russian newspaper which was the mouthpiece of the Communist Party during the Soviet era and it left me with giggles: It's basically the Russian version of the National Enquirer. Just look at these stories:

Gates to the future become reality this spring (http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/22-02-2008/104194-gates_future-0) (about time travel becoming a reality in a few months' time)

Russian scientists contact nether world (http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/19-02-2008/104119-nether_world-0) (I wonder if they got hold of Qui-Gon Jinn :scratchchin: )

Boriska, boy from Mars (http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12257_Martian.html) (I hope he had a good journey here...)

U.S. scientists unveil NASA’s secrets about cities on the Moon and microbes on Mars (http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/31-10-2007/99895-moon-0) ("microbes"? I thought Boriska was a boy...)

And lastly...

Sexual contacts with aliens occur frequently (http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/378/13623_aliens.html) (it's none of my business)

[JackBauer24]

Sexual contacts with aliens occur frequently (http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/378/13623_aliens.html) (it's none of my business)

Hmm...I guess that explains how Zed is not a virgin.

[Tovor]

Hmm...I guess that explains how Zed is not a virgin.
:laughing:

[Tovor]

Idiots. :lol:



http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/mar/13/2-boys-accused-trying-rob-2-workers-inside-psl-pol/

PORT ST. LUCIE — A spectacular case of poor criminal planning played out late Wednesday afternoon inside the western regional police station.
A couple of boys, ages 12 and 14, tried to rob two employees behind a protective window, demanding cash, before being handcuffed at gunpoint by about a half dozen officers.
"They were either very brazen or very dumb, but I think the latter," Officer Robert Vega, police spokesman, said Thursday.
The incident happened about 4:30 p.m. at the Rosser Boulevard station after the boys, one dressed in blue and the other red, walked through the glass doors. The 12-year-old sauntered to the records counter and then proceeded to another counter where he picked up a phone to talk to a service aide behind a protective window, demanding her money.
"Not only did he pick up the phone and say, 'Put your hands up and give me your money,' he had his hand in his jacket insinuating that he had a gun," Vega said.
The boys each face an attempted armed robbery charge.
Although only the 12-year-old demanded money, the other boy also is being charged in connection with the incident because he "knew what was going to happen," Vega said.
"He was a willing participant in the entire event," Vega said.
The 14-year-old also faces a violation of probation charge.
Both kids are being held at the St. Lucie Regional Juvenile Detention Center on Bell Avenue in Fort Pierce, Vega said.

[Blizzard]

A lot of idiots live in Port St. Lucie... my sister lives there.

[Tovor]

A lot of idiots live in Port St. Lucie... my sister lives there.
:laughing: Surely you don't mean her, now do you? :P

[Tovor]

It is not at all uncommon down here in south Florida for alligators to wander out of canels and wind up in people's swimming pools or backyards. But when I heard through the grapevine at work that a 10 foot long gator was strolling down 441 (aka State Road 7) and stopping traffic, I thought it may be an April Fool's Day joke. Interestingly enough, it wasn't a joke at all. Here's the story:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-401gatornabbed,0,338400.story

[Horse_Head]

A lot of idiots live in Port St. Lucie... my sister lives there.
Doesn't Rob live down there too? :rockon:

[Tovor]

Doesn't Rob live down there too? :rockon:
Rob aka Jar Jar? He lives in Tampa, I'm pretty sure. That's the opposite coast.

[Darth Darthy]

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
The producer of Stormtrooper armor originally used in the first Star Wars movie is sued by Lucasfilm for selling replicas. He claims they are his design or something. Either way, he's gonna lose.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7337005.stm

[Tovor]

Gary Busey snorts cocaine off of his Bi.tch.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/the-craziest-th.html

[Horse_Head]

^ Nasty!

[JackBauer24]

And that is surprising? This is Gary Busey we're talking about!

[JackBauer24]

From Ananova.com (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2807559.html?menu=news.quirkies)

Cat poo coffee £50 a cup

:blink:

[Tovor]

It is believed to be the most expensive cup of coffee in the world, reports the Daily Telegraph.
...
...
Customers will be relieved to know that workers wash the dung away from the beans before sale.

I don't care how good it tastes. There is something inheritantly wrong with both of those statements.

[Tovor]

Colonoscopy reveals live worm in person's intestines.

Click here for video. Can you say ewwwwwwww?

http://content.nejm.org/content/vol358/issue14/images/data/e16/DC1/NEJM_Jang_e16v1.shtml

[JackBauer24]

^ I think I'll pass.

[Tovor]

Chicken. :nahnah:

[Tovor]

Not funny, but definately interesting stuff in the news. Quite a meaty topic to address, food for thought, no doubt. There is a lot at stake, and that's no bull.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/invitro_meat

[Darth Massacrus]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/19/london.stink/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail


LONDON, England (CNN) -- A foul smell permeating London and parts of England over the past two days is due to farmers on the European continent spreading manure in their fields, forecasters and British farmers said Saturday.
<!--startclickprintexclude--> <!-- PURGE: /2008/WORLD/europe/04/19/london.stink/art.london.afp.gi.jpg --><!-- KEEP --><!----><!--===========IMAGE============-->http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/WORLD/europe/04/19/london.stink/art.london.afp.gi.jpg<!--===========/IMAGE===========--><!--===========CAPTION==========-->Experts say the inescapable farmland smell permeating London will stick around for a couple of days.<!--===========/CAPTION=========-->


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<!-- /PURGE: /2008/WORLD/europe/04/19/london.stink/art.london.afp.gi.jpg --> <!--endclickprintexclude--> The agricultural odor is inescapable in central London and smells vaguely of farmland or even garbage.
Forecasters said a stiff breeze from the east is carrying the smell across the North Sea from Belgium, the Netherlands and even Germany. They said the smell is likely to hang around through the weekend as the easterly wind continues.
"You can't say it's going to smell for two days, but the wind is coming in from the same direction," said Chris Almond, a forecaster with the Met Office, Britain's weather service.
"It's not really until Monday, Tuesday that we'll see a change in the wind direction, with a more marked improvement in air quality."
He said the smell had probably been stagnating in those countries for a few days, resulting in a more pungent aroma once the winds brought it to England.
The National Farmers' Union blamed the smell on the muck-spreading by Dutch farmers, who it said are banned from the practice in the winter and are now spreading it "en masse."
Although the smell may be unusual, the phenomenon of European air spilling its contents over England is not, forecasters have said.
"We quite often get pollution in the form of haze coming over when we've got these winds from [an] easterly direction, particularly when the winds are coming off the near-continent," he said.
Almond said the smell is in much of central and eastern England, and has reached as far west as Devon, on the southwestern tip of England, where his office is located.
London newspapers reported the smell on their front pages Friday afternoon, with one paper branding it "Le Stink."
The farmers' union used the odor to make its case against a similar winter ban proposed on muck-spreading in Britain.
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<!--endclickprintexclude--> "This is what happens when farmers are forced to empty their slurry store all in one go at the same time instead of being able to apply it little and often during the winter," spokesman Anthony Gibson said.
<!--startclickprintexclude--> "While we are obviously very sorry for any unpleasantness caused to people living in the South East, we are grateful to the Dutch farmers for laying on such a pungent demonstration of what could happen every spring here in the UK if the government presses ahead with its ill-conceived proposal to implement a blanket ban on winter slurry spreading across most or all of the country."

Sounds like some really sh!tty news...

[Talcy]

Not sure how this deserves it's own thread. Maybe the UK thread or UK News thread?

[Raganork8]

This reminds me


the same thing happened in NYC but it wasn't such a bad smell it smelled like Syrup...

They still haven't figured that out

[Krogenar]

This reminds me


the same thing happened in NYC but it wasn't such a bad smell it smelled like Syrup...

They still haven't figured that out

Yeah, I remember that. Not the smell, but the story. I think the cabbies were just spreading syrup on their hairy backs. That's my theory, anyway. It may have just been that very strong winds had blown the 'New Jersey' smell over into Manhattan.

[Raganork8]

It may have just been that very strong winds had blown the 'New Jersey' smell over into Manhattan.

No cause it smelled good...

[Darth Massacrus]

Yeah, I remember that. Not the smell, but the story. I think the cabbies were just spreading syrup on their hairy backs. That's my theory, anyway. It may have just been that very strong winds had blown the 'New Jersey' smell over into Manhattan.

I'd like to see RollaFett's response to that:wink:.

[Sargoth]

Perhaps it was just "Burrito Night" at JMH's place?

[James]

Only where I come from, this kind of thing would happen :D

People Different From Us

James Bowring, 45, told a court in Balmoral, New Zealand, in February that he wants to reconcile with his son, Jacob, 18, despite James' recent conviction for trying to run Jacob over in his car at 50 mph (after making a U-turn and jumping a curb to get at him). James admitted he was upset at Jacob for calling him a "pedophile," following James' having wooed and won over Jacob's 18-year-old girlfriend and gotten her pregnant. (James admitted that just before making that U-turn, he had dropped off a 14-year-old girl he was giving a ride to.) Subsequently, a judge sentenced James to five months' home detention in the bus he lives in with the pregnant girlfriend.

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Perhaps it was just "Burrito Night" at JMH's palace?

LMAO! Things like that have been known! :rofl:

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Not so much news as just a funny, but I'll sure be getting one!

YouTube - Wii Fit

[JackBauer24]

You know what's really sad? My mom put a copy of WiiFit on hold at Best Buy. :doh:

[Zedekk]

.....
I don't know if I should laugh or cry, so confused am I.
:confused:

[Master Magnus]

This is really, really extraordinary. The scientific advancements are truly stunning (I certainly hope it's not a hoax :P):

BBC: The man who regrew a finger (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7354458.stm)

[Solo]

This is scary. Mankind in 21st century seems to be going backwards in evolution.

[JackBauer24]

Well, I know John Wayne Bobbitt is praying that's true.

[Sargoth]

Best... Headline... Ever! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7390109.stm)

[JackBauer24]

^ LOL! I'm not even gonna read the article. I know it's gonna be a disappointment compared to the headline.

[Blizzard]

Beware of Darth Vader when he drinks! (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355268,00.html) :vader:

[JackBauer24]

^ Wow, JMH really had a wild time on his vacation, huh?

[Horse_Head]

Beware of Darth Vader when he drinks! (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355268,00.html) :vader:
More like "when he drinks 2.5 gallons of wine" :P

[Tovor]

What do you all think about this form of advertising? Attractive, or tacky and annoying? As a concept in the movie it was interesting and stylish, but IMO in the real world, it would be overdone, overwhelming, and disturbing. Coral Springs, Florida, the town 2 towns from mine, has a rule restricting businesses from having too many signs in their windows/on their property, to cut down on the cluttered, overadvertised appearance of other towns. My feeling is that this idea could/would take those descriptions into overkill.

http://gizmodo.com/387785/la-real-estate-mogul-plans-to-light-up-your-life-with-blade-runner-inspired-billboards

Apparently they already have it in Shanghai. www.craphound.com

[Tovor]

Incredibly impressive. 'nuff said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352439,00.html

[Horse_Head]

We have animated billboards here but not quite like what they're talking about.

[Horse_Head]

Like this one...
YouTube - Animated LCD Billboard - National Blvd - Los Angeles, CA

[Tovor]

We've got a few like that here too. To be honest, I don't mind them. It's just the building sized ones that I'd likely cringe over.

Cool beans...did you film that just to make that post? :ok:

[Horse_Head]

Nope... I shot that back in October and never posted it. If you look closely you can see that they are advertising Beowulf. And we have tons of those all over town now.

[Tovor]

Ah, I see. :)

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

Okay, while the actual subject isn't funny... this headline was just too funny not to share when I saw it on Yahoo! Mail. Read the blue headline next to Kennedy's picture:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a125/JoeHarrison/abrain.jpg


:laughing::laughing::laughing:

[Horse_Head]

I think the second one is funnier... quit picking on the tresurey! :P

[Tovor]

^^ He's got to have one hell of a brain. You see the size of his melon?

[Tovor]

I can see it now, Empire, JMH, Orandhite, Flo Fett, and Rolla line up for astronaut school...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080527/sc_afp/japanrussiaspacebiologyoffbeatdrinksapporo

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Nice! :cool:

[Tovor]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1101209.ece

WHAT would Chewbacca say? Hollywood legend Carrie Fisher reveals she got up close with Harrison Ford while filming the iconic Star Wars movies.

The 51-year-old actress is still best known for impressing millions of teenage boys with her buns as Princess Leia.

Now, after decades of rumours, she finally spills the beans on her relationship with ever-hunky Harrison, 63, who played Han Solo.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00477/snf2925har180_477709a.jpg
Harrison Ford ... as Han Solo

She tells Justin Lee Collins in new C4 show Bring Back . . . Star Wars: “I went on the film saying ‘I’m going to have an affair’, like it was a kiwi, an exotic fruit — because I’d never had one!”

She adds: “I had a crush on Harrison for sure. Harrison is great fun when he’s had a few drinks.”

Shaking her head and saying: “I’m going to get in so much trouble,” she adds: “Once I left the room and came back and he was in the closet not wearing a lot of clothes.”

Asked about reports of intergalactic battles between Harrison and co-star Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, Carrie says: “Harrison wouldn’t have a competition with Mark — it’s an uneven competition. He’d win, it would be mean to have a competition!”

Carrie, now a successful screenwriter, confesses there was “some jealousy” from Mark over Harrison’s huge success.

She adds: “Harrison had this enormous career by the second or third film, that was tough for Mark. He was like, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen — it’s the adventures of Luke Skywalker’.”

She also reveals that during the first flick in 1977, director George Lucas made her cover her boobs with GAFFER TAPE.

She says: “I had to tape them down, because there’s no underwear in space. George knows that for a fact.”

Memorably, Carrie was made to wear a skimpy gold bikini as she was held hostage by Jabba The Hutt in Return Of The Jedi in 1983.
And she laughs: “George has it — he wears it all the time.
“That bikini didn’t move, so you could see all the way to Florida!”

[Horse_Head]

Swell... I fixed the "Hans" typo and took out the ad... in case you were wondering.

[Tovor]

I didn't wonder unt