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Apryl · 05-06-2006, 10:50 PM

Okay.

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled human corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported

This would be so fucked up haha.

Shivercide · 05-07-2006, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Apryl

This would be so fucked up haha.

EEK. First I'd be pissed beyond belief. Then I'd admit myself to the nearest hospital before my body decides to throw up all of its internal organs.

etherealme · 05-10-2006, 02:59 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060510/...dangered_flies

Ghetto Fabalus · 05-10-2006, 08:49 PM

Does this guy sound familiar LadyJo? <3. *knows you ride the subway*

NEW YORK - A 23-year-old with a foot fetish has admitted he tried to kiss, fondle and lick the legs and toes of more than 70 women on the New York subway over the last three years, prosecutors said Wednesday.

In a handwritten confession to police released by the Manhattan district attorney's office, Joseph Weir said his aim was "to make them laugh and smile and open to talk to me."

Weir, who was arrested late last week after attacking a woman on a subway in lower Manhattan, is charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and unlawful imprisonment — the latter charge referring to his habit of grabbing his victims' legs and not letting go.

He faces up to a year in jail if convicted and has been released on $6,000 bail until a court hearing on June 26.

In a rambling confession peppered with grammatical errors, Weir, who lives in Brooklyn, detailed how he accosted the women while riding the subways between Manhattan and the borough of Queens.

"I get on my knees, bow, grab their feet, kiss them. I grab their hand and tell them 'You're so beautiful. I'm not worthy,'" he wrote. "I do not give me real name. If they ask I will tell them my name is Anthony, Jason or Careem."

Weir said his motivation was to get to know the women, but he recalled that often they would move away when he tried to "taste and touch them."

"Some women had kick(ed) me and screamed," he wrote. "I've done this to about 70 women, mostly black*."

Prosecutors said dozens of women had started to come forward to identify Weir, who told detectives in his confession that he lived with his parents and two sisters.

"I am currently unemployed," he wrote, adding that he had been fired from his previous job with a sightseeing company.

In his confession, Weir apologized to his victims, saying: "I don't mean to hurt no body and I am sorry."

*I love how he picked black New York women, of all the lovely ladies he had to choose from. And he wonders why he got his ass beat.

**Miles D** · 05-13-2006, 01:03 PM

18 yr old punk rock girl gets an MBA!

Story:

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Originally Posted by MSNBC

Punk rock prodigy earns MBA at 18
‘I have been in college for so long,’ says Pennsylvania teenager

Updated: 11:44 a.m. ET May 13, 2006

PITTSBURGH - Jessica Meeker is not your average MBA. She’s a black-clad, punk rock fanatic whose hair has seen more colors than the average rainbow.

She’s also 18, and on Saturday, she will be the youngest student ever to receive an MBA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, school officials said.

She’s not caught up in being a prodigy, though.

“It just feels so good to finally be done,” Meeker said Friday. “I have been in college for so long.”

At age 12, Meeker became the youngest student to enroll at Pennsylvania State University and, at 16, she was the youngest to earn a bachelor’s degree there, majoring in psychology.

Being a young teenager at a huge university wasn’t easy.

“I was a little kid,” she said. “Everyone was like, ‘What’s she doing here?”’

But Meeker eventually thrived, enjoying coffee shops and dorm life with her older peers.

Frank Meeker, 49, and Leigh Meeker, 46, always knew their daughter was smart — she could spell at 18 months. In first grade, after repeatedly complaining that she was bored, she was given an IQ test and scored in the 99.7 percentile, her mother said.

Meeker’s parents took her out of public school system and taught her at their home in Bellefonte, in the state’s center, about 10 miles north of Penn State’s main campus.

Leigh said she is proud of her daughter, though watching her grow up has been bittersweet.

“She’s going to get her own place and not be our little girl anymore,” Leigh said. “She’s an adult now, and she’s going to go out on her own.”

What next?
What Meeker will move on to, however, is an open question.

She said she’s considering getting a doctorate in psychology. She hasn’t received any job offers.

The director of the MBA program, Krish Krishnan, predicted Meeker would be successful at a company with younger management and an unorthodox style or at a firm that targets its products to teens.

“She knows her accounting, finance, marketing and business law,” Krishnan said. “And she has a mind-set and direct connect to those kind of businesses.”

Meeker joked that she would rather work someplace like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.

“I’m addicted to sugar and Mountain Dew, and everyone tells me you should work in something you like,” she said.

Rock on, biotch! Rock on!

Nemo · 05-13-2006, 08:16 PM

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She’s also 18, and on Saturday, she will be the youngest student ever to receive an MBA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, school officials said.

Her secret?:

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She’s a black-clad, punk rock fanatic whose hair has seen more colors than the average rainbow.

From age 12.

*Dawn* · 05-14-2006, 01:17 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060512/...e_st/dog_radio

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BANGKOK, Thailand - A Thai entrepreneur has launched an Internet radio station to put dogs in a better mood.

Anupan Boonchuen, director of a dog grooming school, said he launched Dog Radio Thailand this week because he has seen music improve the mood of dogs he grooms.

During classes, he turns on music for the dogs because "the music puts the dogs in a good mood and they're more willing to let the groomers handle them," he said.

The programming on dogradiothailand.com mainly comprises Thai pop music, but Boonchuen plans to expand offerings in which the disc jockey will "talk to the dogs in Thai," and the canine listener will be encouraged to respond.

"At 9 a.m., we may have a dog greeting show, in which we'll repeat 'sawasdee' ('hello') over and over... If we say 'sawasdee,' in some houses, the dog may lift both paws in response. In some houses, the dog may lift only one paw. It depends on how the dog was trained," Anupan said.

He said, "If we play a slow song, we may have the DJ howl... because dogs howl, too, when they hear sad sounds."

www.dogradiothailand.com (click on the big dog picture in the middle of the page to listen)

etherealme · 05-14-2006, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by *Dawn*

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060512/...e_st/dog_radio

www.dogradiothailand.com (click on the big dog picture in the middle of the page to listen)

*Imagines DJ's howling at auditions* You sir no good howl!
*falls off couch laughing*
*ouch*

Well they have the baby cable channel now. All sorts of silly stuff, including babies making faces that are supposed to stimulate the watching babies into making the same faces. In my vast experience with babies making faces, they are gonna do it whether or not a TV channel full of the lil' darlings are mugging to the camera.

.Parents can just as easily entertain and educate their babies without some stupid TV channel!

What's next? Pay per-view dog porn?We are really in trouble when they make the doggie entertainment cable channel, aren't we? *imagines dogs tuning into watch other dogs hump each other in a game show like atmosphere*

Cfw828 · 05-14-2006, 11:41 PM

Speaking of DJ's...if you haven't heard this one...you may be shocked at the idiocy....

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_130182035.html

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DJ Fired After Making Remarks About 4-Year-Old
Clear Channel: Transcribed Remarks 'Wholly Unacceptable'

(AP) NEW YORK Hip-hop disc jockey Star, half the radio duo that hosts the syndicated "Star & Buc Wild Morning Show," was fired Wednesday over racial and sexual remarks he made about a rival's wife and 4-year-old daughter.

Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, worked for Clear Channel Radio's Power 105.1 FM before losing his job when his on-air comments about DJ Envy and his family drew protests from a City Council member and other elected officials.

Clear Channel, the nation's largest radio station owner, said it found his statements "wholly unacceptable."

"As of late this afternoon, he is no longer with Power 105.1 or Clear Channel Radio," New York market manager Rob Williams said in a statement. "We sincerely apologize to those who may have been offended by his remarks."

Councilman John Liu and the rival DJ's wife, Gia Casey, appeared at City Hall on Wednesday to denounce Torain's remarks.

"He threatened to molest my little baby girl," Casey said.

In the comments, made between May 3 and Monday, Torain offered $500 to any listener who could provide information about the rival DJ's 4-year-old daughter's school and used racial slurs when talking about his wife, who is part Asian.

"I will come for your kids," Torain said, according to transcribed excerpts provided by Liu's office. "I finally got the information on his slant-eyed, whore wife."

Torain called the couple's child a "little half a lo mein eater" and said he wanted to "do an R. Kelly on your seed, on your little baby girl. I would like to tinkle on her," according to the excerpts.

The comments apparently were referring to videotapes showing a man bearing a striking resemblance to singer R. Kelly having sex with someone who appeared to be an underage girl and then urinating on her.

Casey told Liu's office she is parts Chinese, Jamaican and Scottish.

Liu, a Queens Democrat, is the first Asian Pacific American to be elected in the city, according to the City Council's Web site. He has supported many Asian causes.

Torain and his half brother, Timothy Joseph, or Buc Wild, hosted Hot 97's morning drive time show beginning in 2000 and joined Clear Channel Radio in March 2004. They began working at Power 105 in January 2005.

Torain, through his manager, Wyatt Cheek, declined to comment.

Clear Channel is a unit of Clear Channel Communications Inc.

(© 2006 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

His comments, if you listen to them on that first website were enough to get him arrested.

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May 13, 10:55 AM EDT
Disc Jockey Out on Bail After Rant Arrest

NEW YORK (AP) -- A syndicated hip-hop disc jockey arrested after making on-air racial and sexual rants about a rival radio personality's wife and young child has been released on bail.

DJ Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after a broadcast on Power 105.1 FM.

Transcripts show he hurled racist insults, threatened to sexually abuse the 4-year-old daughter of his rival, Hot 97's DJ Envy, and offered $500 for information about where she went to school.

"I will come for your kids," Torain said, according to a transcript provided by New York Councilman John C. Liu.

Torain was arraigned after 11 p.m. Friday and posted $2,000 bail within an hour, authorities said.

Police originally had indicated he also would be charged with harassment, but prosecutors decided against it for now, district attorney's spokeswoman Barbara Thompson said.

Torain's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said his client's conduct was inappropriate but not criminal, and was "never intended to frighten the family."

Torain - along with his brother Timothy Joseph, known as Buc Wild - was the host of Clear Channel Radio's syndicated morning show on Power 105. The company fired Torain after city officials complained. Their show aired in markets including Philadelphia, Miami and Richmond, Va.

**Miles D** · 05-15-2006, 12:07 PM

*Jaw Drops*

That is terrible, Chris!

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My article: forget gas prices above $3 / a gallon... SUV SALES SOAR!!

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Originally Posted by Newsweek

Griping About Gas Prices ... in a New SUV
Crisis? What crisis? Fuel use rises, Escalade sales soar.

By Keith Naughton
Newsweek
May 22, 2006 issue - With all the histrionics about rising gas prices coming out of Washington these days, SUVs must be an endangered species in our nation's capital, right? Well, not exactly. At Capitol Cadillac, just inside the Beltway, SUVs are flying off the lot. Last week, former White House chief of staff Andy Card dropped by to pick up a new SRX, Caddy's midsize SUV, says dealer Daniel Jobe. But Jobe's hottest seller, by far, is the newly redesigned chrome-encrusted Cadillac Escalade, an incredible hulk that gets 13mpg in the city. "My biggest problem is not gas prices," says Jobe, "it's getting enough of these trucks."

Grousing about gas prices has become our new national pastime. As it turns out, we're griping while we guzzle. Since Katrina gave us our first $3 pump prices last fall, gasoline consumption in this country has actually risen, confounding the energy experts who recall how much we throttled back on our gas usage following the '70s oil shocks. Where are we burning all this gas? In big, powerful cruisers. One in four new models today comes equipped with a gas-thirsty V-8 engine—which is unchanged from last summer, before gas prices spiked, according to new data from J.D. Power. And some of the best-selling rides on the road today are GM's trio of beefy new SUVs—the Chevy Tahoe, the GMC Yukon and that blingy 'Slade, which saw its sales surge 127 percent last month. Meanwhile, last year's "it" car, the hybrid, is becoming a harder sell. Sure, dealers are still selling out of the Prius, but sales of the Honda Accord hybrid plunged 69 percent last month and Ford had to resort to a zero percent financing deal to jump-start its Escape hybrid. For all their megawatt buzz, hybrids still account for just 1 percent of U.S. auto sales and are outsold by SUVs 23-1. "Not a lot of people are jumping up to pay $3,000 extra for a hybrid," says Memphis Toyota dealer Kent Ritchey. "For $3,000, you can buy a lot of gas."

Detroit once thought $3 gas would be our ultimate pain threshold, forcing us to finally give up the keys to our big rigs. But it turns out our oil addiction is harder to kick than anyone expected. Although pump prices have nearly doubled in the last three years, we're driving more than ever. Today's cars average 12,190 miles on the road annually, up 24 percent from 1980, according to federal statistics. And the models we buy now have more horsepower and heft than those of a generation ago, which explains why gas mileage is headed in reverse. Today's new cars and SUVs average just 21mpg, down from 22.1mpg in 1987. When it comes to paying up at the pump, Americans have proved they can rationalize just about anything. "When prices are lower in June," says energy analyst Tom Kloza, "people will brag, 'I got my gas for only $2.75'." Now Detroit is recalibrating its threshold. The new CW: "Prices have to get to $4 and maybe even higher—and stay there for at least a year—before we'll see a substantial shift in what we drive," says J.D. Power's Tom Libby.

Those spikes and swoons at the pump have conditioned drivers to expect that a better deal is always coming soon, energy experts say. "Folks still think if they hold their breath long enough, we'll get back to $1.50 a gallon," says Ken Goldstein, economist for the Conference Board, which just reported that consumer confidence reached a four-year high in April, even as gas prices soared. "People are not about to trade in that Hummer." Brian Dalby just traded in an SUV—for an even bigger one. "I like to look down on traffic," says the Grosse Pointe, Mich., real-estate developer, who swapped a 16mpg BMW X5 for a 15mpg Chevy Tahoe. "Besides, gas won't stay above $3 a gallon all summer."

It was different back in the summer of '79, when gas prices spiked and stayed around $2.80 (adjusted for inflation) for more than two years. That, and fuel shortages (remember those lines?), finally got Americans to switch to smaller cars and reduce gas consumption by 12 percent between 1978 and 1982. But even though today's average price of $2.91 a gallon comes close to the 1981 inflation-adjusted peak of $3.18, it is still not as much of a strain on the family budget. Back then, 9 percent of the household budget went for fuel costs, while today it's half that. Jobe's Cadillac customers shrug off gas prices. "People say, 'Hey, you know what, it's like two Starbucks a week more'."

Still, for car buyers who can't afford a Caddy, gas mileage has moved up the priority list (thou

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etherealme Children of the Korn Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Iowa Age: 34 Posts: 936 Points: 31,355.57 Bank: 15,292.12 Total Points: 46,647.69 Donate	A No Fly-Swatting zone.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060510/...dangered_flies __________________ Since the government gets to use imaginary money to cover its ass, how come I can't use Monopoly money to pay my mortgage?

05-10-2006, 08:49 PM	#384 (permalink)
Ghetto Fabalus Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a field of... no wait, a hollow... in a stranger's... GRR THEY'VE ALL BEEN TAKEN! I'll settle for Minnesota, I guess. Age: 23 Posts: 932 Points: 613.65 Bank: 179,309.59 Total Points: 179,923.24 Donate	Does this guy sound familiar LadyJo? <3. knows you ride the subway NEW YORK - A 23-year-old with a foot fetish has admitted he tried to kiss, fondle and lick the legs and toes of more than 70 women on the New York subway over the last three years, prosecutors said Wednesday. In a handwritten confession to police released by the Manhattan district attorney's office, Joseph Weir said his aim was "to make them laugh and smile and open to talk to me." Weir, who was arrested late last week after attacking a woman on a subway in lower Manhattan, is charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and unlawful imprisonment — the latter charge referring to his habit of grabbing his victims' legs and not letting go. He faces up to a year in jail if convicted and has been released on $6,000 bail until a court hearing on June 26. In a rambling confession peppered with grammatical errors, Weir, who lives in Brooklyn, detailed how he accosted the women while riding the subways between Manhattan and the borough of Queens. "I get on my knees, bow, grab their feet, kiss them. I grab their hand and tell them 'You're so beautiful. I'm not worthy,'" he wrote. "I do not give me real name. If they ask I will tell them my name is Anthony, Jason or Careem." Weir said his motivation was to get to know the women, but he recalled that often they would move away when he tried to "taste and touch them." "Some women had kick(ed) me and screamed," he wrote. "I've done this to about 70 women, mostly black." Prosecutors said dozens of women had started to come forward to identify Weir, who told detectives in his confession that he lived with his parents and two sisters. "I am currently unemployed," he wrote, adding that he had been fired from his previous job with a sightseeing company. In his confession, Weir apologized to his victims, saying: "I don't mean to hurt no body and I am sorry." I love how he picked black New York women, of all the lovely ladies he had to choose from. And he wonders why he got his ass beat.