May 11th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Can’t leave it behind …
Di Yerbury, retired vice Chancellor of Australia’s Macquarie University is battling with her successor over her past spending habits.
Her successor was so incensed that she seized 1000 pieces of art that Yerbury had tried to take with her as she left.
Yerbury states that many of the works she tried to remove were her own personal property that she had on display. The art work included a painting of a womans derrière that she said she posed for 31 years earlier, and this past February she even offered to have the then-wife of the painter testify that the posterior is indeed Yerbury’s.
In another turn of events …
A former pastor and Southern Baptist leader, Lonnie Latham, who had for years preached against homosexuality, was arrested outside a hotel in Oklahoma city in 2006. He was charged with soliciting a lewd encounter with a man. Rather than apologize, Latham demanded a trial to proclaim is constitutional right to engage in consensual sex with an adult male. In March he was acquitted.
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November 4th, 2006 at 5:00 am
No, I don’t mean that they can’t sing. I mean they can’t sing in the shower. One of Australia’s largest power suppliers suggested that Australians should stop singing and daydreaming in the shower because they are wasting hot water.
Apparently the average Aussie showers for seven minutes according to a survey conducted by Energy Australia. A spokesman for the company said that shower time is being taken up by activities such as shaving, singing, day dreaming, playing with toys, and brushing teeth. He suggests that Aussies could do a number of those activities over the sink. Yes but singing over the sink just isn’t the same as singing in the shower now is it?
Half-a-million shower timers have been sent to families in the country’s biggest city Sydney and surrounding areas to remind them to be more energy efficient.
What do you do while you are in the shower, dare I ask?
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September 26th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Speaking of outlandish! You simply must visit my renter!
The Paranormal blog. It’s a hauntingly good read!
Reserved Parking:
A judge in New Port Richey, Fla., who found a car in his reserved parking space, parked behind it and ordered the driver to stay in his courtroom until he was ready to call it a day and go home. “There’s two perks to the job,” Circuit Judge Stanley Mills told the St. Petersburg Times. “I have my own bathroom, and I have my own parking spot, and you’re not going to get to use either.”
The 26-year-old woman who had parked in the space said she misinterpreted the “reserved” sign, thinking it just meant the parking was reserved for those going to the courthouse.
Odd News:
“Shooting Reported at Firing Range,” an August story on mischief at Shooter’s Choice, in The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C.
“Hong Kong Man Found Being Eaten Alive by Maggots,” an August story in The Sydney Morning Herald about a 67-year-old man who was discovered just in time and is recovering.
Raised by Dogs
A recent documentary produced for Australia’s Channel 4, and described in a story in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, caught up with a Ukrainian woman, now 23, who had been “forgotten” by her mother and father and raised by dogs until discovered at age 8.
Oxana Malaya, one of about 100 known feral children, has the tested mental age of 6, stilted speech and an uncoordinated gait, and still buries any gifts she receives and runs into the woods when she is upset.
For the camera, Malaya showed she can still bark, run on all fours, pant with her tongue out, and dry herself off by shaking.
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