In the news today

[NeilBerry]

Today being April 1, I heard there were some interesting news stories appearing on TV and on crawlers.

What was the most "interesting" news story you heard today?

[oldschool]

From Car and Driver.com: With all the corprate restructuring at GM, Toyota claimed the Oldsmobile name from under GM's nose.

[NeilBerry]

True, I tell you. These are true.

1. A new pay-per-view funeral service scheme is being
launched today. The Daily Mail says the scheme at
Southampton Crematorium allows mourners to grieve from
home by watching proceedings online.

2. A turtle is addicted to nicotine. He became
addicted after picking up the smouldering butts in his
owner's garden, in Kouqian, China, and sulks if he
doesn't get his fix. The Daily Express, which picked
up the story from Chinese news agency Xinhua, includes
a gob-smacking picture of the turtle doing a rather
good impression of Dot Cotton.

3. The menopause is caused by the age-old battle
between wives and mothers-in-law, reports the Times.
As long as 50,000 to 300,000 years ago, competition
for food in a family unit was a battle won by the
younger women who fed their offspring, which led to
the older women losing their ability to breed. With
food hard to find, mothers-in-law tended to help rear
the grandchildren rather than have more children
themselves.

4. An injection that allows women bigger and better
orgasms by increasing the size of the mysterious
G-spot is being launched in the UK, says the Sun. The
£800 collagen jab takes less than half-an-hour and is
given under local anaesthetic.

5. School desks and chairs are to be enlarged to meet
the needs of the UK's ever-heavier schoolchildren,
reports the Express. On average British children are a
centimetre taller than they were 10 years ago, and
there are more obese youngsters, so desks supplied to
UK schools will reflect this.

6. Wind turbines or solar panels built by UK companies
anywhere in the world could count towards Britain's
renewable energy targets under controversial
government proposals, according to the Financial
Times.

7. You will soon be able to have a tattoo on your
teeth, reports the Sun. Steve Heward, the dentist who
started the craze in the US plans to set up in
Britain.

8. The traditional Chinese martial art T'ai Chi can
help control diabetes, reports the Daily Mail.
Apparently, researchers have found the flowing
movements and deep breathing involved can result in a
fall in blood sugar levels.

9. A thief walked out of a busy Norwegian aquarium
with a crocodile that was over two feet long, says the
Independent.

10. Drinkers have been banned from calling barmaids
"love". An outraged Daily Star says new discrimination
laws mean landlords that allow punters to chat up
staff could be hauled before a tribunal and face
unlimited fines.

[vger]

True, I tell you. These are true.


You have too much time on your hands. :D
Fun reading.

[troy velazquez]

Regarding #7.. This could really take off in Britain. I can even tell you which tattoo will be the most popular. Picture this... the tattoo will be of a tooth.......actual size....in the color white. Rare in the UK indeed. :)

[gcassidy]

A bit late, but whatever.

On April 1, a radio story reported that Entertainment Tonight's website had a story that a sequil to "Titanic" was in the works, with the original stars, Leonardo DeCaprio and whoever the actress was.

But wait, you say. Didn't he die at the end of the movie? Well, the story had him being frozen into an iceburg in the cold water, and being thawed out later to be reunited with his true love.

I didn't believe it even before I remembered it was 4/1.

[vger]

Regarding #7.. This could really take off in Britain. I can even tell you which tattoo will be the most popular. Picture this... the tattoo will be of a tooth.......actual size....in the color white. Rare in the UK indeed. :)


To quote a wise man.
"That's funny there I don't care who you are." :haha: