News of the Weird

[derickw]

^^^^ wow that\'s a lot of DONGS!!!  :duck:

[Me!]

not too hard to figure out, it\' s not like it\'s the first time someone got raped in prison

[FrankZappa]

Chocolate-smelling \'Got Milk?\' Displays at Bus Shelters Draw Protests
By Alice Z. Cuneo

Published: December 06, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) -- A new "Got Milk?" ad campaign that gives off the scent of chocolate chip cookies around bus shelters here has caused a reaction among those with allergies, with diabetes -- and even without food.

Special-interest groups representing the homeless, the obese, diabetics and citizens who just don\'t like scents have succeeded in scuttling an outdoor campaign from California Milk Processor Board involving some new scent technology. The Metropolitan Transit Commission yesterday ordered the scent strips removed.

\'San Francisco story\'
"This is such a San Francisco story," said Jeff Goodby, co-chairman, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, the milk board\'s ad agency. "It could have gone either way: We celebrate the hippy nostalgia of cookies in the oven, or we excoriate the possible effects on select health minorities. It\'s 2006. We went the latter way," he wrote in an e-mail, adding: "I guess The City has once again made herself safe for bus shelters that smell like urine and vomit instead."

The project involved five downtown bus shelters that carried a stark black ad with the words "Got Milk?" on it. Hidden around the shelter were the carefully placed scent strips set for optimal downwind distribution. The subliminal scent was to entice those waiting for the bus to smell the cookies and think about having a cookie and a glass of milk. The campaign kicked off with distribution of cookies and milk around the bus shelters during the day.

But before it officially launched, publicity generated by the milk board\'s public-relations shop resulted in a story in the San Francisco Chronicle. ***** Ireland, a milk-board spokeswoman, said the story got the attention of a number of activist groups, which initiated a letter-writing campaign. Some said the campaign "was cruel to the homeless because they have no food," Ms. Ireland said.

Several complaints
Diane Rovai, systems-change coordinator for the Independent Living Resource Center, San Francisco, said several complaints to her office led her to e-mail city officials once news of the campaign was out. "We have no problem with chocolate chip cookies," she said. "Our function is to make the world a more accessible place for people" with disabilities, from those in wheelchairs to people with chemical sensitivities such as allergies and asthma, she said.

Ms. Ireland noted the scent strips contained "flavor-based oils found in many of the foods we eat today." Mr. Goodby said the strips did not contain distasteful chemicals.

Ms. Ireland said the board isn\'t giving up on using the nose for marketing, and is considering moving the campaign to another city. "We\'ve begun a dialogue on using scent in outdoor" advertising, she said.

But a number of San Francisco residents hope the conversation is over. Sara Linnie Slocum said the campaign was "insulting" and that it was ludicrous to think a passenger who inhaled a chocolate-cookie scent would get on a bus, go home and drink a glass of milk.

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"I guess The City has once again made herself safe for bus shelters that smell like urine and vomit instead."  

[derickw]

^^^^ they could have just licked the scent strips......

"the blueberries taste like blueberries and the snozberries taste like snozberries......."

what the hell is a snozberry anyways

[Stephengencs]

what the hell is a snozberry anyways

I will never tell.....i think you are in cahoots with Slugworth.....

[derickw]

Wisconsin hunter bags deer with 7 legs

Thu Dec 14, 10:12 PM ET

FOND DU LAC, Wis. - Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. "It was definitely a freak of nature," Lisko said. "I guess it\'s a real rarity."
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He said he slowed down as the buck and two does ran across the driveway Nov. 22, but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.

When he looked at the animal, he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs. Later, he found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.

"It\'s a pretty weird deer," he said, describing the extra legs as resembling "crab pinchers."

"It kind of gives you the creeps when you look at it," he said, but he thought he saw the appendages moving, as if they were functional, before the deer was hit.

Warden Doug Bilgo of the state Department of Natural Resources came to Lisko\'s property near Mud Lake in the town of Osceola to tag the deer.

"I have never seen anything like that in all the years that I\'ve been working as a game warden and being a hunter myself," Bilgo said. "It wasn\'t anything grotesque or ugly or anything. It was just unusual that it would have those little appendages growing out like that."

Bilgo took photos and sent information on the animal to DNR wildlife managers.

John Hoffman of Eden Meat Market skinned the deer for Lisko, who wasn\'t going to waste the venison from the animal.

"And by the way, I did eat it," Lisko said. "It was tasty."

:rooster: :no: :vomit2:

[Todd]

[FreeSpirit]

http://www.doubleapenny.com/index.html

So far, this guy\'s up to $20.48

If you double a penny every day, how long before you reach a million dollars?

Here\'s the deal: I have one penny, a very shiny, clean penny. Anyone who wants to have their photo here can double it for me by adding one more penny(email me), and i\'ll come over, take a few photos, and post them on the site. And then the next person who wants their photo here can double the two pennies I have to four, and so on. It takes a penny doubled 27 times to reach a million dollars. When the stakes get high and we reach a few hundered or a few thousand dollars, is anyone going to be willing to double it? Who knows. Maybe Bill Gates or Donald Trump wants to have their photo featured here. Maybe not. Or maybe some large corporation wants to advertise on this site. I really don\'t know. But it\'s an interesting experiment. So anyhow, onto the age old question. How long before you can double a penny to a million dollars? Lets find out.

[jocelyn]

Ha ha is that question really "age old?"

How old does something have to be before it is "age old?"

[davepeck]

How old does something have to be before it is "age old?"

ask todd.

[Mamalakabubadaya]

ask todd.

[Todd]

:point: ask todd.

:lol: I would have no idea, because I\'m yet to get there!! (but I may be close)

[FreeSpirit]

Jimi Hendrix Gets Canned
Mon Jan 29, 1:03 PM

The Jimi Hendrix experience will soon come in a bottle.

A Los Angeles-area beverage company has obtained licensing rights to the rock legend\'s name and image to market a new line of nonalcoholic energy drinks called the Liquid Experience.

The drink line\'s name is, of course, a reference to Hendrix\'s 1967 breakthrough album, Are You Experienced? The product is slated to debut in April.

As a product of the pre-Red Bull era, the late "Purple Haze" singer might seem an unlikely selection for the role of energy drink pitchman. However, Beverage Concepts, the company behind the Liquid Experience, vowed that the line would compliment the musician\'s lingering mystique.

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"Beverage Concepts is committed to providing in our beverage line the same level of excitement, undefined coolness, rock \'n\' roll feel and unprecedented taste that is synonymous with the Jimi Hendrix image," Beverage Concepts CEO Josh Glass said in a presentation at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California, earlier this month.

Glass told E! Online that he found Hendrix to be the "perfect selection" to serve as the inspiration for the venture, based on the musician\'s ability to transcend social boundaries and unite people from all backgrounds during his lifetime.

"Jimi is such a powerful image," Glass said Monday. "He really changed history."

He said he hoped the Liquid Experience would act as a tool to educate a new generation about the Hendrix legacy, adding that a portion of the proceeds from beverage sales will be donated to an as-yet unnamed charitable foundation.

"What we are looking to impress upon the world is that by using Jimi\'s legendary status and ability to unify people, we can continue this even though Jimi is no longer with us," Glass said.

"There is a direct relationship here that can be positive."

After releasing the initial line of energy drinks, Glass said the company plans to launch lines of Hendrix-inspired herbal tea and vitamin-infused water.

Though the Hendrix family has voiced support for the beverage venture, some fans have expressed dismay over what they perceive to be the ongoing commercialization of the rock legend by Authentic Hendrix, the Seattle-based company that controls use of his name and image.

In the years since Hendrix\'s death in 1970, Authentic Hendrix, has authorized products ranging from Hendrix-brand air fresheners to a diaper cover reading "Are You Experienced?" across the rear.

Additional items stocked by the Authentic Hendrix online store include official Hendrix lava lamps, Christmas tree ornaments, cell phone covers and an array of coffee mugs and water bottles.

That Authentic Hendrix has donated some of the proceeds from past licensing deals to causes including the United Negro College Fund serves as little consolation to the late rocker\'s most dedicated fans.

"To see his image and the beautiful feelings it has created during my lifetime cheapened by base advertising is very disappointing to me," Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea told the Los Angeles Times last week.

[Stephengencs]

"To see his image and the beautiful feelings it has created during my lifetime cheapened by base advertising is very disappointing to me," Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea told the Los Angeles Times last week."

definitely a sad day however with all the crap music in the popular arena, hopefully just the image and association of "hendrixized merch" will help steer some kids to his music and all that was that scene in rock and roll history.....

[skalnbyc]

hopefully just the image and association of "hendrixized merch" will help steer some kids to his music and all that was that scene in rock and roll history.....

Dude, I work with a girl who hasn\'t had any exposure to music outside of hiphop.  Not even a little rock or 80\'s pop.  As F.Waht would say, "Sad Really".