News of the Weird

[Jim Cobb]

shitty.

[derickw]

shitty.

:rimshot:

[Jim Cobb]

i\'ll be here all week

[Spacey]

LONDON - Teacher Dave Barclay flew thousands of miles across the Atlantic to Wales to attend his friend\'s wedding, only to discover he was a year early.

Barclay, 34, was told about the wedding earlier in the year and assumed it was to take place in 2007.

It was only when he had flown into Cardiff from Toronto, Canada, and rang the bridegroom seeking details of the venue that he discovered the wedding was in 2008.

"I am a year early -- yeah, my mates are loving it, aren\'t they," he told BBC Radio Wales.

The groom, Dave Best, had emailed his friend at the start of the year.

"He just said July the 6th and I assumed it was this year because if you tell the guy July 6th, they\'re going to think it\'s this year," Barclay said.

Barclay, who has been teaching in Toronto for three years spent 500 pounds ($1,015) on his premature flight.

"At least it\'s assured me a mention in the speech next year," he added.

Premature Flight

Not sure if I would laugh, be pissed or ask for a refund from the groom.  Perhaps all of the above.

[Spacey]

- A lottery winner doubled his share of the jackpot to nearly 1 million pounds after he mistakenly bought two lucky tickets for the same draw, organizers Camelot said Wednesday.

Derek Ladner, 57, from Cornwall, and his wife Dawn, 60, won with their usual numbers in the mid-week draw, sharing the 2.4 million pounds jackpot with four other tickets.

A week later, he found a second identical ticket in his wallet and realized he had absent-mindedly entered twice.

Their double-share of the jackpot is worth just under a million pounds.

The pair have handed in their notice at work and are taking a break to decide how to spend their windfall.

"It\'s beginning to sink in," Ladner told a news conference. "We are going on holiday first...and then think about what we are going to do for the rest of our lives."

[derickw]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/ventcover.asp


Dispute between neighbors - true story

A city councilman in Utah, Mark Easton, had a beautiful view of the east
mountains, until a new neighbor purchased the lot below his house and built
a new home.

The new home was 18 inches higher than the ordinances would allow, so Mark
Easton , mad about his lost view, went to the city to make sure they
enforced the lower roof line ordinance. The new neighbor had to drop the
roof line, at great expense.

Recently, Mark Easton called the city, and informed them that his new
neighbor had installed some vents on the side of his home. Mark didn\'t like
the look of these vents and asked the city to investigate. When they went to
Mark\'s home to see the vent view, this is what they found...

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[SlimPickens]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/ventcover.asp


Dispute between neighbors - true story

A city councilman in Utah, Mark Easton, had a beautiful view of the east
mountains, until a new neighbor purchased the lot below his house and built
a new home.

The new home was 18 inches higher than the ordinances would allow, so Mark
Easton , mad about his lost view, went to the city to make sure they
enforced the lower roof line ordinance. The new neighbor had to drop the
roof line, at great expense.

Recently, Mark Easton called the city, and informed them that his new
neighbor had installed some vents on the side of his home. Mark didn\'t like
the look of these vents and asked the city to investigate. When they went to
Mark\'s home to see the vent view, this is what they found...

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Mark Easton sounds like a douche and his neighbor is my new hero.

[derickw]

i thought the same thing. it\'s not like he doesn\'t have a nice freak\'n view everywhere else.

[Spacey]

thats great!

[Spacey]

BEIJING - A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@," claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said Thursday.

The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke characters to represent words.

"The whole world uses it to write e-mail, and translated into Chinese it means \'love him\'," the father explained, according to the deputy chief of the State Language Commission Li Yuming.

While "@" is familiar to Chinese e-mail users, they often use the English word "at" to sound it out -- which with a drawn out "T" sounds something like "ai ta," or "love him," to Mandarin speakers.

Li told a news conference on the state of the language that the name was an extreme example of people\'s increasingly adventurous approach to Chinese, as commercialization and the Internet break down conventions.

Another couple tried to give their child a name that rendered into English sounds like "King Osrina."

Li did not say if officials accepted the "@" name. But earlier this year the government announced a ban on names using Arabic numerals, foreign languages and symbols that do not belong to Chinese minority languages.

Sixty million Chinese faced the problem that their names use ancient characters so obscure that computers cannot recognize them and even fluent speakers were left scratching their heads, said Li, according to a transcript of the briefing on the government Web site (http://www.gov.cn).

One of them was the former Premier Zhu Rongji, whose name had a rare "rong" character that gave newspaper editors headaches.

Bou Named @

[bellbottomtear]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/ventcover.asp


Dispute between neighbors - true story

A city councilman in Utah, Mark Easton, had a beautiful view of the east
mountains, until a new neighbor purchased the lot below his house and built
a new home.

The new home was 18 inches higher than the ordinances would allow, so Mark
Easton , mad about his lost view, went to the city to make sure they
enforced the lower roof line ordinance. The new neighbor had to drop the
roof line, at great expense.

Recently, Mark Easton called the city, and informed them that his new
neighbor had installed some vents on the side of his home. Mark didn\'t like
the look of these vents and asked the city to investigate. When they went to
Mark\'s home to see the vent view, this is what they found...

http://imageshack.us">http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7341/middlefingershutters3td8.png" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>
Shot at 2007-08-03
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Shot at 2007-08-03

Mark Easton sounds like a douche and his neighbor is my new hero.

I would absalutely NOT like Mark!"DOUCHE"   the vents and his neighbor :yay:

[FrankZappa]

Nebraska state senator sues God
LINCOLN, Neb. - The defendant in a state senator\'s lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He\'s everywhere.
 
State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another lawsuit he considers frivolous, Chambers says he\'s trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody.

Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused "widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth\'s inhabitants."

The Omaha senator, who skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often criticizes Christians, also says God has caused "fearsome floods ... horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes."

He\'s seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty.

Chambers said the lawsuit was triggered by a federal suit filed against a judge who recently barred words such as "rape" and "victim" from a sexual assault trial.

The accuser in the criminal case, Tory Bowen, sued Lancaster District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront, claiming that he violated her free speech rights.

Chambers said Bowen\'s lawsuit is inappropriate because the Nebraska Supreme Court has already considered the case and federal courts follow the decisions of state supreme courts on state matters.

"This lawsuit having been filed and being of such questionable merit creates a circumstance where my lawsuit is appropriately filed," Chambers said. "People might call it frivolous but if they read it they\'ll see there are very serious issues I have raised."

U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf, in an order last week, expressed doubts about whether Bowen\'s lawsuit "has any legal basis whatsoever" and said sanctions may be imposed against Bowen and her attorneys if they fail to show cause for the lawsuit.

The Associated Press usually does not identify accusers in sex-assault cases, but Bowen has allowed her name to be used publicly because of the issue over the judge\'s language restrictions.

Cheuvront declared a mistrial in the sexual assault trial in July, saying pretrial publicity made it impossible to gather enough impartial jurors.

source

[Spacey]

Its about time someone stood up against this "God" and held him accountable for his actions.

[Lexington]

f dat, God is my boy

[Spacey]

f dat, God is my boy

God is nothing more than a massive black hole in the middle of the universe sucking in anything thats comes within its path, eventually, he will explode and create more life.

He does not like to be called a boy!