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Truck pancakes, maybe?

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As seen on Break.com

`A Welsh-speaking Elvis tribute act has been left all shook up after receiving death threats — because he is bald.

Geraint Benney said he got the warnings from extreme Elvis fans who claimed he was showing disrespect to The King.

The 34-year-old of Aberdare, South Wales, said one fan had even threatened to shoot him.’

‘The Coolest 8 Year old in the world talks about Bill O’Reilly and Religion.’

Also, Bill O’Reilly responds.

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`Marijuana is not a “gateway” drug that predicts or eventually leads to substance abuse, suggests a 12-year University of Pittsburgh study. Moreover, the study’s findings call into question the long-held belief that has shaped prevention efforts and governmental policy for six decades and caused many a parent to panic upon discovering a bag of pot in their child’s bedroom.

The Pitt researchers tracked 214 boys beginning at ages 10-12, all of whom eventually used either legal or illegal drugs. When the boys reached age 22, they were categorized into three groups: those who used only alcohol or tobacco, those who started with alcohol and tobacco and then used marijuana (gateway sequence) and those who used marijuana prior to alcohol or tobacco (reverse sequence).

Nearly a quarter of the study population who used both legal and illegal drugs at some point – 28 boys – exhibited the reverse pattern of using marijuana prior to alcohol or tobacco, and those individuals were no more likely to develop a substance use disorder than those who followed the traditional succession of alcohol and tobacco before illegal drugs, according to the study, which appears in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.’

This is from some Japanese TV show. People are selected randomly from a group to do unpleasant things, which are quite hilarious to watch. From `The Slapping Machine’ to ‘Bad Smell Air’, it’s all great. They’re doing it all in a library though, so the people who don’t get picked are struggling very hard not to laugh lest the librarian shush them.

Japanese TV is some of the best TV in the world. This is hilarious. :)

(23.3meg Flash video)

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These people take your RSS feed and turn it into a shockwave widget thingy that you can apparently drag from your browser to your desktop if you install their software. [shrug] Looks something like this:

`God is real. And he’s unbelievable.’

Links to lots of TV shows, cartoons and anime.

‘A crazy lowrider competition sees a rim fly off and take out some unlucky dude’

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`When pigs fly, indeed. Kevin Pugh, 20, of Cedar Bluff, has been fined $279 for tossing a pig over the counter at the Holiday Inn Express in West Point on Nov. 12. Pugh pleaded guilty Tuesday in city court to a charge of disturbing the peace.

West Point Police Lt. Danny McCaskill has said Pugh didn’t know the employees of the hotel. There was no evidence intoxication was a factor.

No one was hurt, including the pig, officers said.

“This was the silliest thing I’ve ever seen,” McCaskill said. [..]

McCaskill said there have been four late-night incidents involving animal-tossing at West Point businesses. Twice a pig was tossed and two of the incidents involved possums.’

`Carjacked at knifepoint while pumping gas, a 75-year-old woman didn’t give in without a fight. Mary Gean Smyth opened the door of her sport utility vehicle and doused the assailant in gas.

“I’m sure he was burning like mad,” Smyth said of the Tuesday carjacking. “I mean, I drowned him right in the face.”

Police caught up to Smyth’s GMC Denali Envoy at a restaurant and arrested 52-year-old John Clay Stricker Jr., a transient with an address in the North Texas town of Lake Kiowa, Tyler police spokesman Don Martin said.

Smyth said police told her the suspect had apparently taken a shower because he had a bag with fuel-soaked clothes and a bar of soap, the Tyler Morning Telegraph reported in its Wednesday editions.’

The look on the dads face when the kid kicks his mum in the face is absolutely hilarious.

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`A thief used a hook and line not to snag fish, but to remove bags of cash from a bank’s night deposit box, police said.

Police would not say how much money they believe was taken, but think the thief made off with 11 deposit bags, Bloomington police Sgt. David Drake said. [..]

Authorities found the deposit box had been damaged, with one of the metal security pieces sheared off.

“It would’ve taken a lot of force to take that off,” Drake said.

Next to the piece of broken metal, police found a dowel rod with fishing line and a hook.

Drake said authorities believe whoever broke into the deposit box dangled the hook and line into the box and fished out the deposit bags, one by one.’

`A decade after warning Australia was being swamped by Asians, right-wing firebrand Pauline Hanson has voiced concerns about Muslims and says diseased Africans should be barred from the country. [..]

Ms Hanson said she was concerned by the ease with which people were able to gain Australian citizenship, especially Muslims and Africans.

“We’re bringing in people from south Africa at the moment, there’s a huge amount coming into Australia, who have diseases, they’ve got AIDS,” Ms Hanson told AAP.

“They are of no benefit to this country whatsoever, they’ll never be able to work.

“And what my main concern is, is the diseases that they’re bringing in and yet no-one is saying or doing anything about it.”‘

‘A South Carolina man is accused of driving a float in a local Christmas parade while intoxicated. Police in the City of Anderson arrested 42-year-old David Allen Rodgers Saturday after Rodgers passed another float along the parade route then sped past the parade finish line and ran a red light. The float was for a local dance studio and was full of adults and children, including his daughter. According to police, Rodgers he had an open container of alcohol in the truck used to pull the float. He now faces more than three-dozen charges, including DUI, kidnapping and assaulting an officer.’

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‘An elderly man died Wednesday (12.6.2006) after an armored vehicle ran over him at an Independence Day parade in southern Finland, officials said. The man, who was not named, was fatally injured by the armored car and taken to hospital by ambulance. No other details were immediately available.’

.. it looks like he just walks out in front of it. [shrug]

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`Staff at an Irish riding school were forced to postpone festivities after Gus the camel chomped his way through 200 mince pies and several cans of Guinness intended for their Christmas party.

Gus, starring in the riding school’s Santa’s Magical Animal Kingdom show, helped himself to the feast while staff were getting changed for the party. [..]

The 11-year-old camel, originally from Morocco, cracked open six cans of Ireland’s famous stout with his teeth after the door to his stall was left open.’

`Mary Cheney, the gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, is pregnant, the vice president’s office said on Wednesday.

Mary Cheney, 37, and her longtime partner are expecting their first child.

“The Vice President and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild,” said Megan McGinn, a spokeswoman for the vice president.

She declined to provide further details. The Washington Post said the baby was due in late spring.’

Seems to be more a matter of luck that stupidity in some cases. Still, funny. :)

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`Saying “ho, ho, ho” is practically a Christmas miracle, given the job woes that shopping mall and store Santas face each day, according to a survey released on Monday. [..]

A third of all Santas reported having been wet on by a child, the survey said.

Nearly 90 percent of Santas said children pull their beard every day to see if it’s real, and nearly half said children try to pull their glasses off every day as well, it said.’

Doesn’t look like he wants to come down. :)

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‘German sex educators plan to launch a spray-on condom tailor-made for all sizes.

Jan Vinzenz Krause from the Institute for Condom Consultancy, a Singen-based practice that offers advice on condom use, said the product aimed to help people enjoy better and safer sex lives.

“We’re trying to develop the perfect condom for men that’s suited to every size of penis,” he said. “We’re very serious.”

Krause’s team (spraykondom.de) is developing a type of spray can into which the man inserts his penis first. At the push of a button it is then coated in a rubber condom.’

There’s also a news video, showing people playing with condoms and dildos in a science lab, basically. :)

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`NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.

“These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars,” said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, Washington. [..]

Today’s announcement is the first to reveal newly deposited material apparently carried by fluids after earlier imaging of the same gullies. The two sites are inside craters in the Terra Sirenum and the Centauri Montes regions of southern Mars. ‘

`Oprah Winfrey has morphed into a middle-aged white woman, says 50 Cent, and “caters” to their needs more than she does her black sisters.

The loose-tongued rapper accuses Oprah of being an Oreo – black outside, white inside – in an interview in the January issue of Elle (via Page Six), saying that the Queen of All Media “started out with black women’s views but has been catering to middle-aged white American women for so long that she’s become one herself.” [..]’

‘Depending on how long you’ve been visiting Break and if you ever played World Of Warcraft, this will either be the funniest video you’ve seen in a long time or will leave you scratching your head.’

Followup to Leeroy!.

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`Sheila Kearns had a Christmas tree delivered to her home on Sunday. She says she thought she’d been pricked by pine needles when she reached into the tree while decorating it. But the next morning, she found a bat hanging upside down in her home.

It turns out that the Christmas tree farm Kearns bought from keeps bats around for pest control and that one unwittingly hitched a ride to her home.’

`A train in Germany was brought to a shuddering halt when a soccer ball flew from a nearby pitch and disabled the locomotive’s brakes, police said on Tuesday.

“The ball directly hit the brake pipe between the locomotive and the first wagon and undid it, leading to a loss of pressure,” said a spokesman for police in the western city of Muenster. “This caused the train to brake automatically.”‘