Thoughts 16 Dec 2006 11:07 am
News of the weird and just plain dumb
A group of Pagans in Albemarle County, Va., was recently given permission to advertise their multi-cultural holiday program to public school children – and they have the Rev. Jerry Falwell to thank for it.
The good Reverand got the school board to allow the distribution of religious fliers on school grounds, this is refered to as the backpack mail system.
So this pagan group decided to use the same system and could not be denied.
(Ata boy, Jerry.)
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POLICE have been asked to protect Australia’s largest mosque next weekend because of concerns that a bikini march staged to coincide with the anniversary of the Cronulla riots may get out of control.
The organiser, Melbourne grandmother Christine Hawkins, has asked women nationally to dress in bikinis and colourful beachwear and rally outside large mosques to show their disgust at comments by leading Muslim cleric, Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly, who likened women to “uncovered meat”.
Many Muslim women suggested joining the march in their hijabs and burqas to voice their outrage at comments made by Senator Bronwyn Bishop and Prime Minister John Howard about the way they dress.
>>In this next holy war, we won’t have reporting and commentary by Wolf Blitzer, instead all the up to the minute, hard hitting, frontline reporting will be provided by the fashion editors of Vogue.
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Ziggy Stardust, an African grey parrot in England, blew the cover on its mistress’ love affair by blurting out imitations of her amorous exchanges in front of her companion. The latter, named Chris, realised something was up when the bird started repeating the name “Gary” and the phrase “I love you Gary.”
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A man in the US state of New Mexico got more than he bargained for when he decided to throw a live mouse he had caught in his home onto a fire burning outside. With sparks in its fur, the unfortunate rodent scurried to take refuge by a wall of the wood-frame house, which then caught fire and burned down.
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Slava, a resident of the city of Bavlov, Tatar Autonomous Republic, was visiting an apartment of his lady friend one day. He was about to charm the woman into a quickie when the doorbell rang. Slava had to flee the apartment by jumping out the window. Much to his amazement, he landed on a robber who just relieved his victim of a mink hat.
The mugger ran away, Slava got the muggers hat, the muggers victim got her hat back, and Slava and the woman he was seeing parted ways.
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A man in the city Serpukhov, Moscow region, also took a leap to escape the consequences of a date that went wrong. The man was in his paramour’s apartment when the doorbell rang. It was the woman’s husband who showed up earlier than expected. The lover boy named Nikolai was smart enough to jump out the window of a three-story apartment building.
Nikolai landed on his ground feet first but he could not get up after the fall. Nikolai, an employee with the Ministry of Emergency Situations, reckoned that he had a fracture. He called an ambulance that took him to hospital.
(Note to self, next time, cheat with someone who has ground floor apartment.)