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Post by Philemon on Jan 10, 2005 9:57:10 GMT -5
HÉ !! I just bought the St-Lawrence river AND the Atlantic ocean ...
I'll never go without salt and water after this ... !!
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Post by Philemon on Jan 10, 2005 9:57:44 GMT -5
And FISH !! Lots and lots of FISH !!!
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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 13, 2005 17:04:42 GMT -5
Oh thank Christ you brought this board back Maarts! Some of those articles are the funniest! This is one of the boards I miss the most from the old site! Keep up the good work!
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Post by maarts on Jan 14, 2005 6:31:43 GMT -5
Just goes to show what entrepreneurism brings you!
I remember this story about two Yemeni men, suing NASA for landing on Mars, claiming that they had inherit the planet from their ancestors...wonder what happened to the lawsuit?
And thanks Scott! I'll keep on trying!
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Post by maarts on Jan 14, 2005 6:37:31 GMT -5
Bevis Lake butt of the joke
Someone at the US Census Bureau may have been watching too much MTV.
Bevis Lake, a 2.3-hectare lake about 40 kilometres north-east of Seattle, Washington, is now appearing in the bureau's records with a different name: Butthead Lake.
A 1990s MTV cartoon show featured Beavis and Butt-Head, a pair of slacker teenagers who watch music videos and make bad jokes. The pair also had their own 1996 movie: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.
Ken Brown, a land surveyor with the state Department of Natural Resources, said it wasn't unusual for out-of-the-way places to have different names because of variations in county, state or other official records.
But in this case, "someone is playing a joke, I think," he said.
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Post by maarts on Jan 14, 2005 6:40:51 GMT -5
A load of old rubbish
Frankfurt: An official responsible for keeping the streets of Frankfurt clean has admitted inadvertently sending a municipal sculpture to an incinerator after mistaking it for garbage.
Looking like a giant piece of yellow origami, the sculpture was one of 10 dotted around the city by artist Michael Beutler on a commission from the city art society. All were made of plastic sheeting normally used by builders to box concrete.
Peter Postleb, who heads a team of rapid-reaction refuse busters, said the shapes had been jumbled up by the wind and he thought it was the debris from a shanty used by poor migrant construction workers.
Mr Postleb was reprimanded by the Mayor, Petra Roth, but Beutler and city art officials said they were not surprised, since the installation had only been made of temporary materials and was set to be removed after January 16.
Two other pieces have disappeared without explanation. Beutler said from Berlin, where he now lives: "It's part of life".
Mr Postleb said his team had last year nearly removed two other odd sculptures: a car completely filled with sand and a bathtub tied with a leash to a tree.
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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 14, 2005 18:38:17 GMT -5
Ahhhh, art for art's sake you think??!! Not sure about that one *scratches head* Still you're talking to someone whose hometown mall has two giant metal balls in the middle of it...  |
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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 14, 2005 18:38:54 GMT -5
Butthead lake certainly does sound interesting though... just imagine the road sign for such a lake and how many college frat - boy photos would be taken in front of it... :-)
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Post by maarts on Jan 16, 2005 5:19:51 GMT -5
Shell-shockedFollowing the online auction of a grilled sandwich allegedly bearing an image of the Virgin Mary, a bar manager in Switzerland says he wants to sell a Christ-like oyster shell. Matteo Brandi, who runs a bar in the western Swiss village of Roche, told a Swiss newspaper he came across the shell while he was opening a batch of oysters just over two years ago. "When I tried to toss one of them away, it stuck to my hand. It wouldn't slip off my palm. Like He was calling me," Mr Brandi said. The 38-year-old Italian, who says he is a devout Roman Catholic, is convinced the Picasso-like forms on the outside of the craggy oyster shell - held the right way up - represent the face of Christ. The oyster, which had sat on the bar's stereo after its appearance in December 2002, is now being kept in a bank. Brandi said he had seen the light after a Florida woman auctioned off a grilled cheese sandwich to an online casino last November for $US28,000 ($37,000). "Today I have become conscious of its value," he said. "This piece is unique. It is the work of nature. It is neither grilled nor cooked. I shall try my luck over the internet." Mr Brandi said he was waiting for offers, and was also thinking of telling the Vatican. "They might be interested in it for the museum."  The oyster shell which is said to resemble the face of Jesus Christ. Funny...could've sworn that face on the shell looked remarkably more like Poseidon but hey, if Jesus sells better via eBay....
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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 16, 2005 5:35:10 GMT -5
That's one freaky shell! Still, any number of gods / religious figures could really be said to be resembled in the shell... perhaps there could be some theological debate over this peculiar shell... |
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Post by Philemon on Jan 16, 2005 9:00:06 GMT -5
The World is my oyster ...
Shuck it to me ... !!
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Post by rockkid on Jan 16, 2005 10:52:56 GMT -5
LOL Miss Carne.
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Post by maarts on Jan 18, 2005 6:16:31 GMT -5
Ghoul of a tale
A Polish woman, who harboured a grudge against her husband's employer, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for terrorising the boss by making ghostly sounds at his castle-like estate.
The 42-year-old woman, whose name was not released, was convicted on nuisance charges after she allegedly spent weeks masquerading as a ghost and making mysterious noises, Austrian television reported.
Police captured the woman on videotape after the jittery owner, who employed the suspect's husband, begged authorities in the alpine province of South Tyrol to solve the mystery.
The haunted owner had complained of hearing footsteps in the hallways and slamming doors late at night at the estate near Austria's southern border with Italy.
It was unclear why the woman had become angry.
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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 18, 2005 18:13:13 GMT -5
She must have made a particularly effective ghoulish voice... the guy must have been genuinely scared... either that or he was very, very limited mentally... |
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Post by maarts on Jan 19, 2005 7:03:24 GMT -5
Prize idiot
New Zealand police tricked a thief who stole a mobile phone into giving them his name and address by telling him he had won a prize.
The Press newspaper said the 27-year-old man stole the $A1200 phone from a Christchurch shop and then went to another store in the same retail chain to buy the SIM card needed to operate it.
When the retailer discovered the phone had been stolen, police called the SIM card number and told the man his purchase had won a prize but his name and address were needed so it could be mailed to him.
The arrested man will appear in court charged with theft.
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