I think the people at PETA are as crazy as a loon and as dumb as a dodo bird. If they honestly expect us to clam up and not use "anti-animal" phrases, they're beating a dead horse.
PETA: Stop saying 'bring home the bacon,' 'kill two birds with one stone' and other common 'anti-animal' phrases
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/...nimal-phrases/
While this news is discouraging, I still hold out hope that tic-tac-toe, arm wrestling and Pokémon GO will someday be included in the Summer Olympics.
Olympic leaders cool to the idea of adding video games to their Games
Los Angeles Times, Dec 8 2018 12:55 PM
How far will Olympic leaders go to attract a younger audience? For now, at least, they seem to be drawing the line at video games. Not long after expressing interest in e-sports, representatives of the Olympic movement issued a statement today explaining that "a discussion about the inclusion is premature." Their decision emerged from a major summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, where attendees expressed numerous concerns. They found some games too violent to be compatible with Olympic values and worried that the industry is too fragmented to accommodate an international governing body. They also balked at referring to video games as a "sport."
https://www.latimes.com/sports/sport...208-story.html
Some drivers think they can avoid paying tolls by covering part of their license plate to fool the toll road cameras. This schmuck may have fooled the camera -- but he didn't fool a highway patrolman.
CHP nabs motorist who hatched plan to avoid tolls using sticker from chicken wing package
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...220-story.html
He's traveling only one to two miles an hour. It would have more sense for this Frenchman to try to float across the Seine, the Loire, the Meuse or the Dardogne -- but, hey, I wish him good luck. He just might make it all the way across the Atlantic.
Frenchman attempting to float across the Atlantic -- in a barrel
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/27/europ...ntl/index.html
Awww -- he can spend New Year's Eve with his new wife. How sweet.
Tokyo man marries computer-generated hologram
CNN, Dec 29 2018 12:19 PM
Akihiko Kondo doesn't have the air of a rebel. This year, however, the bespectacled school administrator bucked conventional norms. He married a hologram. Kondo's November wedding to cyber celebrity Hatsune Miku -- which is not legally recognized -- provoked mixed reactions in Japan and abroad. Some were dumbfounded by his choice of a three-dimensional laser image over a human. Others congratulated him. But the 35-year-old, whose spartan home on the outskirts of Tokyo is dotted with plush Miku dolls and paraphernalia, doesn't care what others think. He simply did what made him happy.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/28/healt...ntl/index.html
Remember Dead Skunk, the 1973 hit by Loudon Wainwright III? One line says, "Got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon." Yeah, that's the song. You remember it now? And you know the old saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction"?
Man drags dead raccoon into San Francisco McDonald's, forcing restaurant to close
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...110-story.html
Crew members said passengers were complaining about this man's body order. The man believes he was kicked off the plane because he was Jewish. He is wrong -- unless he can find evidence that no Gentiles with body odor have ever been kicked off a plane.
Michigan family booted from American Airlines flight over 'body odor' but they say anti-Semitism to blame
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...125-story.html
I wonder if the judge cited the bed bugs for contempt of court.
Bed bugs falling off lawyer's clothing forces Oklahoma courthouse to close
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/be...ose/ar-BBTffBY
Florida. Of course. I've heard of the Tong Wars. This woman was engaging in a tongue war.
Florida city commissioner resigns following complaints she licked men's faces, groped them
NBC News, Feb 7 2019 10:50 AM
The city commissioner of a small beach town in Florida has resigned after being censured amid complaints she allegedly licked her male co-workers' faces and groped them during meetings and events. Nancy Oakley, who served as Madeira Beach city commissioner from 2007 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2019, submitted her letter of resignation Tuesday. The Florida Commission on Ethics found that Oakley violated the state's ethics code by "misusing her position by exhibiting inappropriate behavior toward city staff."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...-men-s-n968791
Sometimes I wonder if Florida residents know their state is notorious for weird news stories. Based on this Miami Herald headline.......yes, they are.
Maternity photo shows mom-to-be posing with gator, shotgun and beer. Because Florida.
Photo goes viral after Lindsey and Jonathan Tuttle pose with a baby alligator, shotgun, case of Bud Light and state flag in Tampa.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/sta...226032995.html
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