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Mittwoch, 7. November 2012

VOL 1162 - Nov 07, 2012 - Top 25 Country Songs

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Strange Coincidences:

Mark Twain was born in 1835 on the day Halley's Comet made it's once every 75 year appearance.....he died in 1910 on the day the comet reappeared.

In 1883, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a book , The Arthur Gordon Pym of Naugatuck.....in the book, four men adrift in a boat, kill and eat the cabin boy, Richard Parker.......40 years later, four men adrift in a boat kill and eat the cabin boy, named Richard Parker, to survive...

--The sun is precisely 395 times larger than the moon, and is precisely 395 times farther away from the earth than the moon.

The two appear Precisely the same size when seen from earth because of the precise ratio of the distances

20 Year Intervals of Presidential Deaths

1840: William Henry Harrison (died in office)

1860: Abraham Lincoln (assassinated)

1880: James A. Garfield (assassinated)

1900: William McKinley (assassinated)

1920: Warren G. Harding (died in office)

1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (dies in office)

1960: John F. Kennedy (assassinated)

1980: Ronald Reagan (survived assassination attempt)

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Today's Featured Humor : -) - Top 25 Country Songs

TOP 25 COUNTRY SONGS

25. Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye.
24. Her Teeth Was Stained, But Her Heart Were Pure.
23. How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?
22. I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling.
21. I Just Bought A Car From A Guy That Stole My Girl, But The Car Don't Run So I Figure We're Even.
20. I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You.
19. I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well.
18. I Still Miss You, Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better.
17. I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dog Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win.
16. I'll Marry You Tomorrow But Let's Honeymoon Tonight.
15. I'm So Miserable Without You, It's Like Having You Here
14. I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lyin' On My Back and Cryin' Over You.
13. If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You.
12. If I Had Shot You When I Wanted To, I'd Be Out By Now.
11. Mama Get A Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head).
10. My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love You.
9. My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend And I Sure Do Miss Him.
8. Please Bypass This Heart.
7. She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger.
6. You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat.
5. You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly.
4. If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me.
3. She's Actin' Single and I'm Drinkin' Doubles.
2. She's Looking Better After Every Beer.

And the Number 1 Country and Western song of all Time is...

1. I Haven't Gone To Bed With Any Ugly Women But I've Sure Woke Up

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'My First Time' - Strange Poem - http://www.strangezoo.com/content/item/127890.html

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Samstag, 3. November 2012

VOL 1161 - Nov 04, 2012 - Strange Epitaphs From Near And Far Twice

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http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/news_6569.html STRANGE SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING - IS THIS REALLY A SPORT?

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Strange Business Quotes:

I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. [Jerome K. Jerome]

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. [Edwin H. Stuart]

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. [William Lloyd George]

The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. [Hubert H. Humphrey]

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. [Don Marquis]

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. [Dwight D. Eisenhower]

To lead the people, walk behind them. [Lao-Tzu]

A jury [in America very often] consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. [Robert Frost]

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Today's Featured Humor : -) -

Strange Epitaphs From Near And Far

1. Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: Here lies Johnny Yeast Pardon me For not rising.

2. Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery: Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake Stepped on the gas Instead of the brake.

3. In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: Here lays Butch, We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger, But slow on the draw.

4. A lawyer's epitaph in England: Sir John Strange Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange.

5. Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont: I was somebody. Who, is no business Of yours.

6. Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in the cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: Here lies Lester Moore Four slugs from a .44 No Les No More.

7. In a Georgia cemetery: "I told you I was sick!"

8. John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery: Reader if cash thou art In want of any Dig 4 feet deep And thou wilt find a Penny.

9. On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia: She always said her feet were killing her but nobody believed her.

10. In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: On the 22nd of June - Jonathan Fiddle - Went out of tune.

11. Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont has an epitaph that sounds like something from a Three Stooges movie: Here lies the body of our Anna Done to death by a banana It wasn't the fruit that laid her low But the skin of the thing that made her go.

12. More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England: Gone away Owin' more Than he could pay.

13. Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood: In Memory of Beza Wood Departed this life Nov. 2, 1837 Aged 45 yrs. Here lies one Wood Enclosed in wood One Wood Within another. The outer wood Is very good: We cannot praise The other.

14. On a grave from the 1880's in Nantucket, Massachusetts: Under the sod and under the trees Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. He is not here, there's only the pod: Pease shelled out and went to God.

15. The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a consumer tip: Who was fatally burned March 21, 1870 by the explosion of a lamp filled with "R.E. Danforth's Non-Explosive Burning Fluid"

16. Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: Born 1903 - Died 1942 Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was.

17. In a cemetary in England: Remember man, as you walk by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so shall you be, Remember this and follow me. - To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: To follow you I'll not consent, Until I know which way you went.

18. On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: Here lies Ezekial Aikle Age 102 The Good Die Young.

19. In a London, England cemetery: Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid But died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767

20. A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery: Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803 His comely young widow, aged 23, has many qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted.

21. In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: The children of Israel wanted bread And the Lord sent them manna, Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna.

22. In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: Here lies an Atheist All dressed up And no place to go.

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Humor for the Week Elderly Nursing Home Resident Dies in Water Filled Ditch After Rolling Down the Hill During Fire Drill - http://www.strangeracer.com/content/item/185654.html

Who Was Our First President?..............WRONG! -
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Freitag, 2. November 2012

[b3ta] "No longer available on Ceefax"

This Week:
* RAP - Hip-hop BBC News
* ROMNOBAMA - Cassetteboy + presidential candidates
* MARIO LOW SCORE - a new way to play

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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
Making waves that's what. In culture.

>> Rap the BBC News <<
"I built a thing to rap the BBC News,
automatically," writes Shardcore. Blimey, this
is extremely funny, but also the future of
all news, as it simultaneously delivers the
information and yet makes it utterly
incomprehensible. A massive win for news as
disorientating wallpaper - we think Shardcore
should be the next director-general of the BBC.
http://bit.ly/RrLlZx

>> NSFW Imgur fun <<
Davidbrophy writes, "Ever wondered what filth
people have uploaded to imgur? I know you can
click the 'random' button, but that's SLOW. I
made this to speed up my gutter-mining."
Blimey. We've spent a good 10 mins watching
this and it's mostly jokes, porn, cars,
technology, sport, nerdy fiction and computer
games. Basically, the whole world is like Zoo
or Nuts magazine - bit depressing, really.
http://3z.bz/

>> Cassetteboy vs Obama vs Romney <<
"Here's a new video what we done for a new
YouTube comedy channel," writes cassetteboy.
"Watch it now while it's still topical."
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Cassetteboy_vs_Obama_vs_Romney

>> Turkish Downton Abbey <<
Few among you probably know that ITV's popular
period drama is simply a shoddy remake of 1970s
Middle-Eastern soap favourite 'Donton Abbey'.
"Another year, another Turkish TV knockoff,"
laments Christopher Poole.
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sitcom, you know. You can also win artwork
signed by the cast. Get playing, you sods.
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: QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Dressing Up

We asked you for your dressing up stories,
secretly hoping for pictures. We got pictures:
http://b3ta.com/questions/dressingup/

* TOO FAR? - "Bored in telesales office on a
Friday afternoon, I challenged my colleagues to
think of a really good, really scary costume
idea for the Halloween party that night. Jill
from Accounts suggested I dress as a
frightening clown, maybe with specks of blood
on my face. "Oooh, scary,"said Diane in Sales,
"I hate clowns." Pete from Marketing suggested
I dress entirely in black and attach flat panel
speakers to my front and a head-mounted
microphone, meaning my every word would be
disconcertingly amplified. Interesting, freaky,
everyone liked the idea. Then Chris from
Purchasing, a quiet lad, loudly filled with
middle-aged women, quiet accountants and
unassuming receptionists: "A baby. A baby
covered in spunk." The room went quiet.
Everyone pretended to be busy. A sob escaped
from Janine in HR. So that was my costume."
(burningdog)

* WERTHERS - "A couple of years back, our RAF
base bar, Castaways, had a "School Disco"
night. Cue lots of burly RAF types and one or
two actual females squeezed into schoolgirl
uniforms. I'd had to go straight from my day
shift in my normal clothes. So I got our admin
bloke to nip across to the NAAFI for some
Werthers whilst I made a quick trip to our tech
workshop and got me a brown, dirty-mac,
storesman coat. I then got a beer and stood
outside the doorway. Yup, I went to the school
disco as a nonce." (stuj)

* MONOLITH - "At an End of the World-themed
Hogmanay party, here's me dressed as the
monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey"
(sarahahaha)
http://i.imgur.com/pSl4P.jpg

>> This Week - WATER AND BOATS <<
Are you a wizened, old sea-crone who hates land
lubbers? A sexually ambiguous pirate who gets
all the ladies? Or just been on a pedalo once?
Tell us all your sea-faring boat stories:
http://b3ta.com/questions/waterboatsfloats/

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: AMAZON TAT
Get your Savile outfit here

Although only an utter cunt would think it's
funny to pretend to be the most prolific child
molester of all time, it's worth having a quick
look for the reviews. As per usual.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0096PVYO6/b3ta-21

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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates

>> Child abuse and light entertainment <<
Got 30 mins? Some wonderful background on a
paedophile-friendly Establishment. If the
government falls over this stuff, let's hope the
entire state isn't replaced with a few vouchers
run by corporations eh?
http://bit.ly/VQkBr8

>> Halloween or Williamsburg? <<
For the uninitiated, Williamsburg is the US
version of London's vibrant Shoreditch scene.
That is to say, it's over-full of vile,
cavorting hipsters. This tumblr points out it's
difficult to tell the difference between that
any Halloween.
http://halloweenorwilliamsburg.com

>> Apple products poster <<
Seeing them all together it reminds us of kids
going through football cards, "got, got, got,
got, want." Remember: Every time you have the
urge to buy Apple products, buy shares in them
instead. Well, that used to be true, until the
iPhone 5 made the stock market do a big
collective meh. Personally we think you're
better off investing in Foxxconn, then you win
no matter if Android of Apple win the phone
race. And the thought of all those tiny,
Chinese hands working for pennies is
stimulating wank bank material.
http://bit.ly/ts59tH

>> Latest game ever? <<
The Fool's Errand was an 80s era Mac puzzle
game by Cliff Johnson, once rated as "Best
Retro Game Ever" by GamesTM magazine. The
follow-up has been over 10 years coming - and
why are we telling you? Well, the list of
excuses on the Wikipedia page is both tragic
and hilarious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool_and_His_Money

>> Radio fail <<
BBC Radio Uslter reads out Jimmy Savile joke
live on air by mistake. Joyous. Please, b3tans,
dedicate you lives to getting radio DJs to read
out rude things unawares.
http://bit.ly/THOngp

>> David Icke review <<
James Ward (best known for running the 'Boring'
event) attended the recent, horrendously long
David Icke rally at Wembley and has written up
his mildly pisstakey, but ultimately fair,
experiences here. BTW: We once attempted to
interview Icke for B3ta. He initially agreed
but, after we sent him about 50 crowd-sourced
questions about lizards, he went strangely
silent. Oh well.
http://bit.ly/Sd4sFY

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can get 300 new members this will cover enough
wages to get a legal officer to "co-ordinate our
crack-team of volunteer lawyers, perform
thorough legal research, and create new case law
to actively prevent potential threats to civil
liberties."

Please join now.
http://bit.ly/Uo5nmy

Or read about ORG before you join here:
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

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: VIDEO SCHMIDEO
Net version of the Harry Hill clip show could be
called 'You've Been Flamed'

>> Lowest score to complete Mario? <<
This chap does an astounding 600 points. Love
the idea of competing to score badly - an
entirely new way of getting enjoyment from
games you've already played to death.
http://bit.ly/TJ0Dxk

>> Worst ad ever? <<
Low production values bring us joy - it shows
the (inept) human in the machine - and sets up
narratives in our head: was this produced by
the boss's friend's mate for $150?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk27bj86DXc

>> Joss Whedon endorses Mitt Romney <<
And has Joss lost weight? Less hoarding cans
Joss - more eating them. Nah. Joss, your new
look suits you, you should do more front of
camera stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TiXUF9xbTo

>> The Specials vs. The Wu-Tang Clan <<
Always had a soft spot for The Specials' A
Message To You Rudy; the great brass and the
wonderful lyric - Rudy being short for "rude
boy" - basically saying "young men, sort
yourself out, acting all gangster and shit will
lead you only to a life of hell." To cut that
with a similar rap from the Wu-Tang? Wonderful.
http://bit.ly/U3em2a

>> Helicopter helps remote-controlled plane <<
Helping some folks get their little plane back.
What lovely chap.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Wot_nice_guys

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: FUNNY NAME CORNER
Still not funny, you punishing shits

* BMW DEALER - if this guy gets any business off
this link we demand our 10%. Oh, it doesn't work
like that? Piss.
http://bit.ly/PqRp6m

* COME TOGETHER FOR JESUS - we always thought
that 13 blokes, no women disciple thing was a
bit suspicious.
http://www.cum.co.za

* SAVILE'S FAVORITE SCHOOL?
http://www.sexeys.somerset.sch.uk/

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: FRIDAY GAME
Typing Karaoke

Love web projects that manage to pitch the
entire concept in the title - where you can
guess how the whole thing will play out in the
time it takes to load.
http://www.typingkaraoke.com/

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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Challenge results: Unlikely Brand Crossovers

Last week we wanted stuff like Wilkinson Sword
Crisps, Harpic Liqueur & Persil Flat Screen TVs.

Your favourites included:

* WKD TOILET DUCK - we have a personal product
idea of making 'Toilet Swan' for people with
posh bogs. (Fresh Water Mole)
http://b3ta.com/board/10871056

* INSTAGRAM WATER FILTER - did you see the
Instagram US hurricane pics on Twitter? Most odd
- death and destruction made slightly twee.
Oddly distancing. (Monkeon)
http://b3ta.com/board/10873606

* OXO RUBIK'S CUBE - this would sell, a nice
little bit of design to have lurking in your
man pit. (chumpers's cat)
http://b3ta.com/board/10871534

All these images, and the highest as voted by
you can be found here:
http://b3ta.com/challenge/brands/

>> New challenge: spiders <<
Spiders. Whenever someone on the news says of
a policy that "the markets won't like it",
replace the word "market" with "spiders".
Alternatively, photoshop some spiders here:
http://b3ta.com/challenge/spiders/popular/

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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.

* 'FOR THE WIN' SKETCH SHOW PILOT - Big Face
writes, "It may not show much luck in this game,
but here's another whole ill-fated sketch show
pilot I wroted and directed and do a bit in. It
got repeated on BBC Three, so it's online for a
while. I'm really proud of it and hate the fact
they rejected it." Boo BBC, you really should
give Big Face a show - we've met him and he'd be
very good on chat shows. You are missing a star.
http://bbc.in/LURU7W

* B3TA ANCIENT HISTORY FROM 2002/3 - Mike
Trinder writes, "Digging around my desk I found
a CD titled 'B3ta Slideshow 5' - this is the
slideshow that accompanied the B3ta party in a
tiny upstairs bar in central London in 2003.
Much nostalgia and shoddy Photoshop work within."
http://www.chthonicionic.net/b3ta/2003/index.htm

* KICKSTARTER IAIN BANKS MOVIE - B3tan Rob Lees
Jones last week asked you to help fund his film
- you've donated nearly $5k which means we're
about a quarter of the way there. You can do it!
Give Jones a hand and he promises to give a
cameo to your Ginger Fuhrer, so at least you'll
be financing an opportunity for him to make an
utter fool of himself.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/119205258/piece

* HUMAN BLACK PUDDING - lumpytuna writes, "My
lovely lecturer, Beagles, from back when I was a
grubby art student, used to make blood puddings
with his platonic art-partner Ramsay's and his
blood. He told me that a number of audience
members would hang back at the end of the
performances and ask to try a bite of their body
sausages and it left him feeling ever so
slightly violated that they'd want to. Blarg."
http://bit.ly/SgBNiX

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Make something cool and tell us about it. If
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Things we'd really like to see include

* MANAGING YOUR AGEING WITHOUT ANXIETY -
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makes old pictures fatter and greyer - so we
don't feel sad looking through old photos.

* SPECIAL ROBOTS THAT DEAL WITH SHIT - the
shitbot will change nappies, clean the bog and
also remove dog muck from the streets.

* DISCUSSIONS - "Despite the fact that the
internet keeps getting faster, we don't seem to
be using it less," writes B3tan williamgoddard.

Send contributions via the mail form.
http://www.b3ta.com/mailus/

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Image challenge by Fraser Lewry.
Mike Trinder is QOTW bloke.
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Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2012

VOL 1160 - Oct 31, 2012 - Your Strange Halloween HorrorScope

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HALLOWEEN 2012 SPECIAL

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Strange Halloween Dictionary

Bobbing Apples: What happens when you leave your bra off while running.

Boogieman: Guy who passes time at a stoplight picking his nose.

Coffin: What you do when you get a piece of popcorn stuck in your throat.

Frankenstein: Hot dog and a mug of beer.

Full moon: What your repairman reveals when he bends over to fix your fridge.

Goblin: How you eat the Snickers bars you got for Halloween.

Invisible Man: What a guy becomes when there's housework to be done. Also, see "Mr. Hyde."

Jack O' Lantern: An Irish Pumpkin.

Jack the Ripper: What Jack does to his lottery tickets after losing each week.

Mummy: Who kisses the boo-boo after you scrape your knee.

Pumpkin Patch: What a pumpkin wears when trying to quit smoking.

Skeleton: Any supermodel.

Vampire Bat: What Dracula hits a baseball with.

Witch: See "Mother-in-Law."

Zombie: What you look like before that first cup of morning coffee.
Strange Halloween Quotes:

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween… -- Unknown

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
William Shakespeare, Witches in Macbeth

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Today's Featured Humor : -) - - Your Halloween HorrorScope

HORRORSCOPES

Ascaryus (Jan 20-Feb 18): This Halloween looks to be a scary one for you. But before you go around crying, "Ooooh, I want my mummy! I want my mummy!" think about this: You want more lovin', right? Well, if you run around like a scaredycat, you will, to quoth the raven, "Neverscore."

Pieces (Feb 19-Mar 20): Vampires are evil, hypnotic people who will emerge in the night and drain you. Sounds like someone I used to date. You need to be careful because you may have closed the metaphoric coffin lid on a relationship, only to find that this person will rise from the graveyard of your heart to worm their way back into your life. One word of advice from "Buffy The Vampire Slayer": A vampire can only come in if you invite them.

Scaries (Mar 21-Apr 19): You've got to pick up every stitch this Halloween because, unless I miss my guess, it must be the Season of the Witch. If only every holiday could be commemorated with a bad Donovan song. Wouldn't it be great, on Thanksgiving, to sit around the table, giving thanks for the bounty we are to receive by singing a rousing round of "Mellow Yellow"? That is truly the most horrifying thought you can be faced with this Halloween.

Tarot (Apr 20-May 20): Sure, you ladies have been looking for some lovin'. But you don't want to go for just any Tom Dick and Harry. And heaven forfend you go for any Jack you find, especially when that Jack is some hollow-headed grinning gap-toothed idiot. But then again, despite his weird exterior, if you look inside, you'll see a flame burning bright. This might be the season of the witch, but if you try not to act so witchy and look past the odd exterior, you'll find hidden depths in the ugliest places.

OnlyOneEye (May 21- Jun 20): Horror is in the eye of the beholder, whether that eye be bloodshot and yellow, peering at you from the shadows of the night, or whether the eye is a horrible dismembered giant radioactive eye. What is truly scary? A werewolf? A werewolf is not so much a horrible half-man half-beast as a chronic undershaver. A headless horseman is just the victim of a particularly bad hair day. In much the same way, you can find the brighter side of anything that comes your way, no matter how horrific or annoying.

Dancer (Jun 21-Jul 22): Scary is relative, and we don't just mean your crazy relatives who threaten to come visit for six weeks, but rather the idea that whereas a movie with monsters made out of cardboard boxes and paper mache may have been the scariest thing you'd ever seen when you were eight, it now looks like crap. You must get over your initial fears of a new project or relationship; although it seems insurmountable now, if you stick with it, you will eventually be able to overcome it.

Tao (Jul 23-Aug 22): Frankenstein's monster was, of course, made out of the parts of a couple dozen other people, which must have been hell when it came to custody hearings. Nothing's more awkward at a family reunion than having one-tenth of Cousin Harry show up at the buffet. You, too, feel like you're being pulled in twenty different directions, but you'll soon receive the jolt you'll need to get on your feet again.

Vertigo (Aug 23-Sep 22): Pity the poor skeleton who wanders around on Halloween, looking so unfashionable in all-white a full two months after Memorial Day. Of course, he can't help it, and he is actually successful in the love department; after all, he is "ribbed" for her pleasure. This week you'll find that you attract more flies with honey than even dead zombie flesh, and being inherently nice to the opposite sex will make them flock to you like vultures to a skeleton.

Webra (Sep 23-Oct 22): Zombies are pretty well-known for trying to suck the brains out of people's heads. As was every high school algebra teacher I ever had. Coincidence? Considering that those people were always pale on the point of being green, had trouble communicating more than moans and incoherent screams, and had awkward, stumbling walks down the hallway, I think it's lucky I escaped without some horrible "Night of the Living Dead scenario." You escape a horrific fate worse than death , if you can steer clear of boring people at parties.

Scareio (Oct 23-Nov 21): You think you're being slick, but the truth is that you're like a ghost; people can see through you, and all the noise you're making is more effective scaring small children and dogs than actually doing anything. It's time to leave your old haunts and take care of that grave matter that's all your vault.

Sekeltarious (Nov 22-Dec 21): Boo! Scared ya!

Capricandycorn (Dec 22-Jan 19): You're in the zone this week! The Twilight Zone, that is, and it's going to be a creepy thrill ride with an incredibly ironic twist at the end that serves as a commentary on our mixed-up Cold War nuclear society. Don't let the creepy situations you get yourself into this week get you skittish. Let them get you Skittles; why not go Trick-or-Treating? It's fun to dress up, get given stuff, and not have to give ten percent to a big guy named Huggy Bear. And Halloween candy doesn't count as calories!

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STRANGE AUTO ACCIDENTS - FARM DRIVEWAY PROVIDES NATURAL LAUNCH RAMP FOR HIGH SPEED CAR TO FLY INTO ROOF OF BARN! - BAD DRIVERS - http://www.strangevehicles.com/content/item/185607.html

OLDE STARS - HALLOWEEN PINUPS - http://www.strangeoldepictures.com/content/item/179378.html

RACHAEL RAY'S GOT JUNK IN THE TRUNK! BABY'S GOT BACK! - http://www.strangepersons.com/content/item/185670.html

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Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012

VOL 1159 - Oct 28, 2012 - Children's Strange Thoughts on the Sea

Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2012

VOL 1158 - Oct 24, 2012 - Top 10 Strange Divorces

Twice weekly E-letter - StrangeCosmos.com - This Week's Feature:

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OCTOBER SPECIALS

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STRANGE LONG PICTURE SERIES - WEIRDNESS FROM AROUND THE WORLD!

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STRANGE " MOVIE THEME" COSTUMED DOGS - FROM SILENCE OF THE LAMBS TO STARWARS AND PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

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Strange Quotes About Life's Little Mysteries:

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
--Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stone, December 2, 1976.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. - Carole Burnett

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery. - Mickey Dolenz, 1996

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on. - Ru Paul

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen. - Dolly Parton

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own? - -Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Today's Featured Humor : -) - Top 10 Strange Divorces!

10 Divorce Stories you won't believe

The Man who divorced his wife for being 'too shy' to consummate their marriage... after a year!

A Tainan court granted a man's request for divorce because his wife was "too shy" to consummate their marriage, after a year! The man surnamed Chen, a 38-year-old teacher from Tainan County was introduced to a woman surnamed Lin, 29, also a teacher, by a matchmaker.

After the couple dated for three months, they got married, but Lin refused to consummate the marriage. On the wedding night, Lin slept fully dressed and wrapped with a quilt. When Chen tried to sleep with her she pushed him away shouting: "You are ridiculous!", and returned to her mother's home the day next.

Through the matchmaker's mediation, Lin signed a contract agreeing to consummate the marriage but only for the purpose of procreation, and demanded to sleep separately. However, she did not live up to the pledge, cause Chen filed for divorce. Lin contested the divorce, claiming that she refused to consummate the marriage on the wedding night because she was too tired and was ill. But the judge said it was strange for Lin to refuse to consummate the marriage for one year, so he granted the divorce and ruled that Lin must compensate Chen NT$300,000 for buying an apartment, giving Lin's family a dowry and losing face because she did not consummate the marriage.

The Woman who requested divorce because her husband tried to sneak one look at her face after 30 years of marriage.

A Saudi woman asked for divorce in 2008 because her husband tried to sneak one look at her face after 30 years of marriage. A Saudi Arabian man lived with his wife for 30 years without setting eyes on her face. His 50-year-old wife followed the tradition of her native village near the south-western city of Khamis Mushayt and kept her features veiled at all times.

One night the husband was overcome by curiosity and tried to lift his wife's veil as she slept to take a look at her face. It was an error he is unlikely to be given a chance to repeat for his outraged wife woke up during his sneak peek and decided to demand a divorce.

The betrayed wife said her husband apologized and promised never to do it again, but she insisted she wanted a divorce. It may seem odd, but cases of Saudi husbands with wives forever shrouded in mystery are not uncommon.

The Woman who got divorced after her parrot started repeating "Divorce" and "Be Patient."

In 2001, a Chinese woman launched divorce proceedings against her husband after the family's pet mynah bird reportedly spilled the beans on his marital indiscretions. According to the Xinmin Evening News, the woman first suspected something was amiss when the bird began repeating words apparently picked up from her husband's secret telephone calls to his lover after she returned from a month-long visit to her parents. She said words such as "divorce", "I love you", and "be patient" had become an increasingly frequent feature of the feathered telltale's idle twitterings.

She took her case -- along with the bird -- to a local law office for consultation, hoping it would testify in court against her husband; lawyers however told her they were not optimistic that the bird's testimony would sway the court. The wife filed for divorce but, for some bizarre reason, evidence from a bird was apparently not admissible in Chinese courts.

The 81-year-old husband who got caught with his mistress after 60 years

An 83-year-old German woman, divorced her 81-year-old husband after 60 years of marriage because he was caught having sex with his mistress at work. Georg Meister met his lover, 30 years younger, at work. The affair was exposed when they forgot to pull the curtains while having a 'quickie' in one of the center's offices. His wife Ruth who was told about her husband's antics threw him out of their home and he moved in with his younger lover who lives just two doors down the road. The divorce court heard the couple had met over 60 years ago as Allied bombs fell on Bonn and have since raised three children together.

The Wife who divorced her man for cleaning too much

In April 2009, a German woman divorced her husband because she was "fed up" with him cleaning everything all the time. The wife got through 15 years of marriage putting up with the man's penchant for doing household chores, tidying up and rearranging the furniture, but she ran out of patience when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall at their home when it got dirty.

The Husband who dumped his lady over lie about her age.

A woman surnamed Luo, who lied about her age, was dumped by her husband after 10 years of marriage in Shanglin County, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Luo, who was 30 when husband-to-be Cen asked her to marry him, told him she was just 24. In 2007, Cen filed for divorce after realizing he had been duped and the court granted his wish.

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Sonntag, 21. Oktober 2012

VOL 1157 - Oct 21, 2012 - 10 Strange Common Sayings - How They Originated

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Strange Common Saying - how they originated

1. Scot Free

Many people think that this saying refers to Scottish people being tight with money - hence something being free, but in fact the word "scot" is an old Norse word which means "payment" - specifically a payment made to a landlord or sheriff. So this phrase - while meaning what most people think it means, has no connection to the Scottish people - it just means to get off without having to pay.

2 Fit as a Fiddle

This is another phrase where a single word has confused people - "fit" in the context of this saying does not mean "healthy" which is a 19th century definition. Its original meaning was "suitable" - and it is still used in that context in the sentence "fit for a king". As fit as a fiddle means "as appropriate as can be" - not "in excellent health". The first use of the phrase, incidentally, was in the 16th century and it was originally "as right as a fiddle".

3 Another Thing Coming

Common Saying: If you think that, you have another thing coming

This is a complete aberration of the original phrase because of the sound of English. The correct phrase is "if you think that, you have another think coming" - in other words, "what you think is wrong so think again". Because the "k" in "think" often ends up silent when saying "think coming" people have changed the phrase over time. Of course, "another thing coming" makes no sense at all. To illustrate how global this error is, when you google "another thing coming" it returns 139,000 results; when you google "another think coming" it returns a mere 39,000 results.

4 Eat Humble Pie

This phrase means "to be humble in apologizing for something." I was slightly reluctant to put it on the list because it actually does mean what people think it means, but there is still a misconception here; people think that this phrase means to eat a pie made of humbleness but it actually means to eat a pie made with umble (pictured above). Umble is an old English word for offal - the bits of the animal seldom eaten today (sadly). It was a pie that was normally eaten by the poor as the finer cuts of meat were left for the rich only. "To eat a humble pie" is an example of metanalysis (words being broken down into parts or meanings that differ from the original) as it sounds just like "to eat an umble pie". Other examples of this in English are "an apron" which used to be "a napron".

5 Rule of Thumb

People commonly think that this saying is a reference to a law allowing a man to beat his wife as long as he uses a rod no thicker than his thumb. It is, of course, completely untrue. There is no record of any judge in Britain ever making a ruling like this - or any lawmaker passing a law. The phrase actually refers to doing something by estimates - rather than using an exact measure.

6 On Tender Hooks

This phrase is very commonly misspelt. First off, what exactly is a tender hook? It doesn't seem logical does it? Well - that is because it isn't. The phrase is actually "on tenterhooks". A tenter was a medieval tool used for making cloth - the tenterhooks (pictured above) were small hooks to which the fabric would be stretched in the manufacturing process. To be on tenterhooks means to be left hanging - or to be in a state of suspense.

7 Take a Raincheck

This phrase is usually meant to mean "I won't do it now but I will later". This is the commonly accepted meaning (and has been for a long time) so it is now considered to be correct. It is included here merely out of interest because its original meaning was slightly different. Initially, a raincheck was offered to people who had tickets to a baseball game that was rained out - they would offered a "raincheck" which was a ticket for a game at a later date to make up for the missed game. This eventually found its way into shopping jargon in general where a raincheck was an offer to sell an out-of-stock good when it arrived back in stock. The meaning has eventually broadened to a point that it is not an offer any longer but a response.

8 Free Reign

This is a spelling error that leads to a misunderstanding - though the meanings remain the same fundamentally. Many people presume this phrase to mean that a person given free reign, has the "royal" power to do anything they want. In fact, the correct phrase is "free rein" and it comes from the days before cars when horses were used as our main mode of transport. When navigating a steep or winding path, one would relax the reins so that the horse could pick the safest path as he was more likely to do a better job than the rider.

9 Wreck Havoc

Havoc means chaos - and to wreck something is to put it into a state of chaos. So why would you make chaos out of chaos? You wouldn't. What you might do is wreak havoc though - because "to wreak" means "to cause to happen". The two words are pronounced differently - wreck sounds like "rek" while "wreak" sounds like "reek". It is a small - but common, error.

10. Beg the Question

Let's face it - 99% of people reading this list will not know the correct meaning of "beg the question", but that implies that the mistaken meaning should really be considered correct through common usage - so let us not fight about right or wrong - I will just state the facts: "to beg the question" does not mean "to raise the question". Originally the phrase was "to begge the question" and it appeared in English around the 1580s. It is a reference to a question (or phrase) which implies the truth of the thing it is trying to prove. Confusing? Okay - here is an example: "why does England have fewer trees per acre than any other country in Europe?" This is a "begged question" - the person asking is implying that England has fewer trees - when in fact, it may not. Another example is "he must be telling the truth because he never lies". Decartes was begging the question when he said "I think, therefore I am". Oh - and for those of you who are used to using the term in the wrong
way, consider using "prompt the question" as a correct alternative.

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