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April Fool Day - Top Memorable Pranks and Hoaxes

2008-05-11T21:59:25-08:00

Mentioned here with Top 10 most memorable April Fool Day 2008 Pranks & Hoaxes.

1. Placed a pair of pants and shoes inside the only toilet stall in a men’s room to make it appear someone was using the stall. It sat there for hours until someone called security to check if the person had died.

2. Sent a fake love note to a co-worker from another co-worker.

3. All the women in office individually spoke to the president, confiding that she is pregnant. By noon, he ‘knew’ that all of his female workers were pregnant and he could not tell anyone because each asked for confidentially.

4. Called the electric company, used a co-worker’s name and told them he was moving so the electricity got turned off at the co-worker’s house.

5. Filled the vending soda machine with cans of beer.

6. Rigged the boss’ chair to drop suddenly during a staff meeting.

7. Placed a sign on the restroom door that read, “The company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources.”

8. Paged a co-worker over the loud speaker claiming the CEO was looking for him. The worker went into the CEOs office and the CEO didn’t know who he was or why he was there.

9. Shrink-wrapped everything in a co-worker’s cubicle.

10. Put a ‘house for sale’ ad in the newspaper regarding a co-worker’s home

http://www.worldamazingrecords.com

The Roslyn Hoax

2008-05-01T09:02:41-08:00

No, not Rosslyn as in Rosslyn Chapel, but Roslyn as in Roslyn of Whitechapel. Roslyn D’Onston Stephenson.
The coincidence in the adopted name of Robert Donston Stephenson, Jack the Ripper suspect, and the chapel of Davinci Code fame seems to have spawned a copycat hoax. Call it the Donston Hoax if you want.
What is the “Donston Hoax”? Is it his candidacy as a Ripper suspect or is it something to do with the Davinci Code? Look at the similarities. The Ripper story shares a prostitute named Mary, a secret “Royal” child, and an artist with a code, its own “Rosslyn” with one S, and a BBC documentary in the early 70s. Is there some connection?

Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab

2008-05-10T05:33:34-08:00

The piece was actually a living jacket crafted from mouse embryonic stem cells, fed nutrients through tubes. But after five weeks, it grew too large for its containment flask and had to be killed.

http://gizmodo.com/388469/mouse-jacket-grown-euthanized-in-museum-lab

This is Bizarre!

Omaha man uses steak knife to perform self-tracheotomy

2008-05-10T08:29:35-08:00

Think of all the money he saved!
Man that would take some stones to do that.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080509/D90HQA681.html

Omaha man uses steak knife to perform self-tracheotomy

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - An Omaha man struggling to breathe used a steak knife to perform an at-home tracheotomy. Steve Wilder said he thought he was going to die when he awoke one night last week and couldn’t breath.

Wilder said he didn’t call 911 because he didn’t think help would arrive in time. So, the 55-year-old says, he got a steak knife from the kitchen and made a small hole in his throat, allowing air to gush in.

Wilder suffered from throat cancer and related breathing problems several years ago. About that time, he had an episode where he couldn’t breath because his air passages swelled shut. He said that’s what happened this time around.

Doctors don’t expect Wilder to suffer any adverse affects from the tracheotomy once it’s healed.

US and Russian Naval Forces Face Off

2008-05-09T12:31:52-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7391893.stm

From Cold War to cold meats… sailors from the US and Russian navies have tested their culinary skills in a sandwich-making competition.

The contest was held during a visit by the US destroyer Stethem to the eastern Russian port of Vladivostok to mark Victory Day. Officers also joined in.

A Russian cook took the prize for best-tasting sandwich while an American came top for most original presentation.

Sandwiches topped with cucumber sails were among the Russian offerings.

The ingredients included peppers, smoked ham, lettuce, cheese, mayonnaise, olives, cherry tomatoes and gherkins.

The US winner in the individual contest got a bottle of vodka, and presented his Russian rivals with USS Stethem caps and sweatshirts in return, the BBC’s Dmitry Klimov reports.

Earlier, the Russians had laid on a traditional welcome for the Americans, with vodka and appetisers such as bliny (buckwheat pancakes) with smoked salmon and pickled green tomatoes.

Yet a traditional Russian restaurant is hard to find in Vladivostok, where Chinese and Japanese restaurants are much more common.

The crew of the Stethem were taking part in a military parade in Vladivostok for Victory Day, which marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.

STEAMPUNK AND STEAMPUNKED (this is for Boo)!

2008-05-09T04:50:20-08:00

STEAMPUNK

Steampunk Moves Between 2 Worlds
Robert Wright for The New York Times

“MEET Showtime,” said Giovanni James, a musician, magician and inventor of sorts, introducing his prized dove, who occupies a spacious cage in Mr. James’s apartment in Midtown Manhattan. Showtime is integral to Mr. James’s magic act and to his décor, a sepia-tone universe straight out of the gaslight era.

The structured clothing of the steampunk movement.

The lead singer of a neovaudevillian performance troupe called the James Gang, Mr. James has assembled his universe from oddly assorted props and castoffs: a gramophone with a crank and velvet turntable, an old wooden icebox and a wardrobe rack made from brass pipes that were ballet bars in a previous incarnation.

Yes, he owns a flat-screen television, but he has modified it with a burlap frame. He uses an iPhone, but it is encased in burnished brass. Even his clothing — an unlikely fusion of current and neo-Edwardian pieces (polo shirt, gentleman’s waistcoat, paisley bow tie), not unlike those he plans to sell this summer at his own Manhattan haberdashery — is an expression of his keenly romantic worldview.

It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines. First appearing in the late 1980s and early ’90s, steampunk has picked up momentum in recent months, making a transition from what used to be mainly a literary taste to a Web-propagated way of life. ............................ARTICLE CONTINUES

STEAMPUNK VIDEO

More pictures of things steampunked:
http://steampunkworkshop.com/node?page=1
http://steampunkworkshop.com/node?page=2
http://steampunkworkshop.com/node?page=3

Perfect husband

2008-05-09T13:40:05-08:00

Several men are in the locker room of a golf club. A cell phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands-free speaker- function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen.

MAN: “Hello”
WOMAN: “Honey, it’s me. Are you at the club?”
MAN: “Yes.”
WOMAN: “I’m at the mall now and found this beautiful leather coat. It’s only $1,000. Is it OK if I buy it?”
MAN: “Sure, go ahead if you like it that much.”
WOMAN: “I also stopped by the Mercedes dealership and saw the new 2007 models. I saw one I really liked.”
MAN: “How much?”
WOMAN: “$65,000.”
MAN: “OK, but for that price I want it with all the options.”
WOMAN: “Great! Oh, and one more thing. The house we wanted last year is back on the market. They’re asking $950,000.”
MAN: “Well, then go ahead and give them an offer, but just offer $900,000.”
WOMAN: “OK. I’ll see you later! I love you!”
MAN: “Bye, I love you, too.”

The man hangs up. The other men in the locker room are looking at him in astonishment.

Then he smiles and asks: “Anyone know whose phone this is?”

“Some domestic bird species able to adapt to ongoing climate change!” says BBC.

2008-05-09T08:20:33-08:00

Only they didn’t quite put it like that:

BBC News -
Great tits cope well with warming

At least one of Britain’s birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food. Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars. Writing in the journal Science, they point out that the same birds in the Netherlands have not managed to adjust. Understanding why some species in some places are affected more than others by climatic shifts is vital, they say.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) commented that other species are likely to fare much worse than great tits as temperatures rise.

[More here...]

Well it’s nice to know great tits won’t need extensive support in future. Perhaps we’ll be fortunate enough to see more of them flapping about in the air in the summer season.

No information yet on how global warming will affect cocks and wagtails.

Yes, I’ve tried Perfect Water from Quixtar / Amway

2008-03-27T09:17:26-08:00

I just read an entire forum on Perfect Water and only ONE person claimed to have actually drank the water. Does anybody else find this odd?
As an IBO allow me to give you my opinion: Oh wait… I don’t have one! Why is that? Because I’ve NEVER TRIED perfect water. (it’s not available until April)
How could I possibly give you an opinion on something I’ve never tried?

So, how about a forum for people who have actually tried Perfect Water and can offer their experiences.

IBO’s, this is not a place to advertise products!!!!! (personal experiences with perfect water only)

Skeptics, find an IBO, spend $1.99, (or talk them into a free sample) and give us your opinion.

If you drank perfect water and “were able to leap tall buildings in a single bound” then we want to hear from you.

If perfect water caused you to puke and go to the emergency room, then we want to hear from you.

If you couldn’t tell the difference between perfect water and tap water, then we want to hear from you.

If you have never tried perfect water, but would like to speculate on what you think may or may not be true concerning this product, then start another forum called:
Opinions and rhetoric but no real personal experience to draw from.

I think that’s fair

One other thing: This is not a forum to talk about how Quixtar or Amway has changed your life and made you a better person. On that same token nor is it a forum to talk about your bad experiences with either business. This is to discuss one product: Perfect Water

Thank you for your cooperation!

Pregnant Woman Sees Jesus Image in Ultrasound

2008-05-05T08:59:26-08:00

More Jesus images.
But, lets be honest here. You wouldnt have to look very long at ultrasound images to see ANYTHING you want. There’s so much random noise with the picture it’s worse than clouds or smoke for ‘seeing what you want to see’.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353230,00.html

Pregnant Woman Sees Jesus Image in Ultrasound

When an Ohio woman looked at an ultrasound she expected to see a developing fetus.

Instead, she saw what she believes to be an image of Jesus Christ, MyFox Cleveland reported on its Web site.

Monet Sledge, from Lorain, Ohio, got an ultrasound in preparation for her first baby and was shocked when she saw what appeared to be an image of Christ on the Cross, the Web site reported.

Click here to discuss this story.

She showed the image to her sister, a mother of four, to get her opinion. “I was expecting to see little body parts,” Sledge’s sister Tequoia Smith told MyFox Cleveland. “Like a face, arms and legs.”

But she too believes saw Jesus on the cross.

“As soon as I saw it I was like oh my gosh.”

“People say maybe my baby is gonna be blessed and maybe it is a good sign,” said mother-to-be Sledge. “I don’t know, I’ve done wrong in my life, maybe he’s forgiven me early.”

Doctors say the baby is perfectly healthy and due Aug. 12.