can’t mess with fate
jeezuz. chills.
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An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident.
Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31.’
It said that Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.
not a close shave
A man who tore the wig off a telegenic Taiwan legislator last year was sentenced to five months in jail for depriving the MP of his freedom to look good, a court spokesman said Tuesday.
The Taipei District Court sentenced Huang Yung-tien, 50, to jail for snatching the toupee off the head of ruling Nationalist Party lawmaker Chiu Yi. Chiu has become a household name for his media-friendly offensives against the political opposition.
“The judge thought Chiu Yi had the freedom to wear what he wanted, and Chiu felt the wig made him look prettier,” court spokesman Huang Chin-ming said. “The judge thinks that to remove it intentionally was to take away that right.”
lil limerick
if i were a calvinist’s son
if i were to marry,
i would marry a calvinist’s daughter,
more than anybody.
cause she might burn and
i will burn and
we can burn together.
in the fiery depths of hell,
burning till forever.
life for sale
A RESTAURANT manager who wrongfully restrained a Thai sex worker, who subsequently fell to her death from the ninth-floor parapet, was given the maximum fine of $500 on Thursday…
Mr Christopher Bridges said his client had moved out of the flat to stay in a rented room. He said Anthony had paid $5,000 to the woman’s husband as a sign of his deep regret and remorse over the whole incident.
Anthony could have been jailed for up to one month and fined.
WHAT?! $500?!?!?!?!?!?! and deep regret yeah, $5,000?!?!?!?!?!
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ex-microsoft boss tries his hand at troubleshooting
title aside, i am all for and applaud bill gates doing his bit to save the world!
LONG BEACH, California (AFP) – Microsoft founder turned disease-battling philanthropist Bill Gates loosed mosquitoes at an elite Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference to make a point about the deadly sting of malaria.
“Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,” Gates said while opening a jar onstage at a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.
“I brought some. Here I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
As he has in travels on behalf of his eponymous charitable foundation, Gates detailed the strides made in dealing with malaria in affluent countries and the need to fight the disease in impoverished nations.
“There is more money put into baldness drugs than into malaria,” Gates quipped, triggering laughter. “Now, baldness is a terrible thing and rich men are afflicted. That is why that priority has been set.”
broadcast thyself
VATICAN CITY – Puffs of smoke, speeches in Latin and multipage encyclicals have all been used by the Vatican to communicate with the faithful. Now the pope is trying to broaden his audience by joining the wannabe musicians, college pranksters and water-skiing squirrels on YouTube. In his inaugural YouTube foray Friday, Pope Benedict XVI welcomed viewers to this “great family that knows no borders” and said he hoped they would “feel involved in this great dialogue of truth.”
“Today is a day that writes a new page in history for the Holy See,” Vatican Radio said in describing the launch of the site, http://www.youtube.com/vatican
wow.
contemporary postcolonial mambo song
Well Jo’anna she runs a country
She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don’t care about the rest at all
She’s got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo’anna see
How everybody could a live as one
(Chorus:)
Gimme hope, Jo’anna
Hope, Jo’anna
Gimme hope, Jo’anna
‘Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo’anna
Hope, Jo’anna
Hope before the morning come
I hear she make all the golden money
To buy new weapons, any shape of guns
While every mother in black Soweto fears
The killing of another son
Sneakin’ across all the neighbours’ borders
Now and again having little fun
She doesn’t care if the fun and games she play
Is dang’rous to ev’ryone
(Chorus)
She’s got supporters in high up places
Who turn their heads to the city sun
Jo’anna give them the fancy money
Oh to tempt anyone who’d come
She even knows how to swing opinion
In every magazine and the journals
For every bad move that this Jo’anna makes
They got a good explanation
(Chorus)
Even the preacher who works for Jesus
The Archbishop who’s a peaceful man
Together say that the freedom fighters
Will overcome the very strong
I wanna know if you’re blind Jo’anna
If you wanna hear the sound of drums
Can’t you see that the tide is turning
Oh don’t make me wait till the morning come
(Chorus)
oh hello dave, nice to meet you, i am talula does the hula
A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.
Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.
Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.
Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter “and tragically, Violence,” he said.
New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
- from yahoo news
talula does the hula! LOL!
they had sex WHERE?
an italian couple who were caught having sex in a church confessional box while morning Mass was being read have repented and made peace with the local bishop.
they were detained by police earlier this month after they had made love in the confessional box in the cathedral in northern Cesena, and cautioned for obscene acts in public and disturbing a religious function.
last week the bishop celebrated a “Mass of reparation” in the cathedral where the confessional box incident took place to make up for the sacrilege.
mann, talk about kinky!
deal or no deal?
“I’m thrilled to be on deal or no deal with you tonight. come to think of it, i’m thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings these days”
“Howie (gameshow host), i don’t know if you are free to come to washington anytime soon but i have to reach an agreement with congress on the federal budget. how’d you like to host a 3 trillion dollar deal or no deal?”
- george w. bush
(irregardless, the contestant was an ex-army captain who served in iraq, who cites bush as his hero and volunteered to serve in iraq in his second and third tours. bush had a nice personal message for him thanking him for his brave service. nice touch, george.)
oh my god!
“High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments,” Israeli researcher Benny Shanon claimed in a study published this week.
“Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the “burning bush,” suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances.”
“The Bible says people see sounds, and that is a clasic phenomenon,” he said citing the example of religious ceremonies in the Amazon in which drugs are used that induce people to “see music.”
He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil’s Amazon forest in 1991. “I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations,” Shanon said.
story from yahoo
obama (ba)racks up 10th win in a row…
…in the states of wisconsin and hawaii!
i’m not sure why i’ve been meaning to use that lousy-ass pun for very long.
say what?
“OK, now here’s the deal. If ya’ll don’t vote for Hillary, I ain’t leavin’ (Virginia),” said Bill Clinton as he loudly downed a pulled pork barbeque sandwich, hush puppies, slaw and a jumbo iced tea in under 45 seconds AND addressed the Virginia crowd.
“I’m not kidding,” he said. “I love this place; I can stay here a long, long time. LOTS to do here. Golf. Fish. Sit beside your wives at church. Buddy, I would LOVE it. I live in New York now, man, you know how long it’s been since I hung my underwear out on the clothesline to dry? Oh, yeah, I hang ‘em high, too, so the whole neighborhood can get a good look.”
……(later in the day)……
showing up in a sleeveless undershirt, gym shorts and flip flops, carrying a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, Bill Clinton said he was shopping for a house. “I’m fixin’ to get me one uh them biguns up in a fancy neighborhood,” President Bill said just before belching loudly. “It’s gotta have a giant front yard, though. I need somewhere to put all the spare parts to my 1969 Camaro.”
no, i could not have possibly made that up. hmmmmmmmmmmm………………
did you know..
..that the upcoming CNY ushers in the year of the EARTH rat? and there are other rats as well, like water, wood, fire and metal. the next rat year in 2020 will be the ‘metal rat’.
ditto for the rest. i used to think the 12 animals were just that.
..also, there’s a vietnamese zodiac and the rabbit’s not in it? apparently it’s replaced with the cat. how can!
the phantom of manhattan..
(by frederick forsyth) ..is really a sequel to phantom of the opera!
in fact in early last year composer-extraordinaire andrew llyod webber had announced that he was working on the musical adaptation of the phantom of manhattan.
(somehow to me “phantom of manhattan” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as the original)
but if the daily mail (newspaper) is to be believed, and i am not commenting on its credibility in case i get sued in case anyone at all reads this, a somewhat strange mishap has put the production of the new musical on hold. seems like lloyd webber’s cat (a very rare turkish breed) had one day climbed onto his really really expensive digital piano and deleted the entire score! attempts to recover it have been in vain.
i remember the first phantom of the opera play i went to. it wasn’t that long ago really. but the romance, grandoise and excitement still remains lurid till this day, especially when the soundtrack’s playing on my ipod. every note resonates, stirs imagination; its corresponding images i gathered from my far-away seat at the esplanade display themselves like a long filmstrip of still photographs, except with more life, more light and more love.
you have a new friend request
shame on you, all you people who don’t have a facebook account. it’s the latest ‘in’ thing, it’s the new friendster and it is everything you need to be cool! if you haven’t an account, it’s not too late to get one still. and once you’re there, you would definitely wanna do nothing else before you join the hottest group that’s on facebook.
Let’s not assassinate Bilawal Bhutto because he’s hot, ok?
go figure!
