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How do once-wild teens cope with wild ones of their own? Debra Jopson reports. In his youth, that rock bad boy Ozzy Osbourne might have bitten the heads off bats and doves. And maybe he looks like the worst of baby boomers who has turned into a dysfunctional Dad stumbling about at home, swearing enthusiastically as he, his wife Sharon and their teenagers Kelly and Jack indulge in shouting matches on that fly-on-the-wall TV show The Osbournes. The news is that some think he is getting a lot right in his child-rearing practice. Ozzy might have his faults as a father. But two psychologists, whom the American ABC TV presenter John Stossel asked to evaluate the Osbourne fa…
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Advertising Slogans Gone Wrong... Pepsi's "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave," in Chinese. An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of "I saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts read "I saw the potato" (la papa). The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, "Salem-Feeling Free", was translated into the Japanese market as "When smoking Salem, you will feel so refreshed that your mind seems to be free and empty." When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "it won't leak in your pocket a…
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Wednesday May 7, 9:34 AM 2003 Marijuana cell phone cover causes buzz in Australia SYDNEY (Reuters) - Marijuana-scented cell phone covers caused such a buzz in Australia that the company selling them had to pull them out of a technology fair in Sydney on Wednesday. Local authorities and New South Wales state Premier, Bob Carr, slammed the green, marijuana-motif covers as promoting drug use to young people. "A big over-reaction," said Robert Punch, owner, chief executive and founder of Corporate Phone Covers. "It's a novelty. You wouldn't go and buy a big block of chocolate after smelling the chocolate one," he told Reuters. Made in China and arrayed nex…
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OldmanMozz When this opens could you find out what i get for a $1000 high class whore, im not getting any younger and dont want to die wondering?. $1m sex club plan By RAJIV MAHARAJ January 25, 2004 A TERRITORY businesswoman plans to open a $1 million exclusive "gentlemen's club" in Darwin before the end of the year. Therese Miller, 30, said the club would not be a brothel but a "licensed retreat where men can come after work, relax and have a few drinks in the company of beautiful women". She said sex workers from Sydney would be available for $170 an hour or $150 for 30 minutes. Locations at Winnellie have been earmarked for the new venue which by law has t…
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Tired of feeling like Aragorn, Gandalf or Eowyn and want to prove it? Try this link http://www.lotrspoofs.com sorry, don't know how to underline it. I think they are upgrading their site at the moment, so some of the links were a little dodgy but most of them work. Tell us who you are deep down - or try one of the more legite ones for a more accurate answer.
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Croc Hunter Irwin Flees Media Frenzy 2 hours, 40 minutes ago By JAMIE TARABAY, Associated Press Writer SYDNEY, Australia - The "Crocodile Hunter" has become the hunted. Following a weekend of bad publicity, Steve Irwin and his family retreated from the media spotlight and the public outrage he provoked by hand-feeding a crocodile Friday while holding his infant son, a spokesman for his production company said Monday. Canadian Press Slideshow: 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin Crocodile-Infant Stunt Draws Ire (AP Video) "Steve's gathering his thoughts at the moment, he's not available for comment," John Harrison from Best Picture Show told The …
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Source: The Australian Bureau of Statistics:- A massive 543 Australians were admitted to casualty in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth or eye socket. 3 Australians die each year testing if a 9V battery works on their tongue. 142 Australians were injured in 1998 by not removing all the pins from new shirts. 58 Australians are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers. 31 Australians have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in. 19 Australians have died in the last 3 years by eating Christmas decorations they believed were chocolate. Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last y…
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Idiot Breaks Into Glue Factory To Get High - And Winds Up Stuck To Floor! Linkage This is pretty funny stuff ::
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hops Off Testicle in Dispute with Wife Mon Dec 22, 9:59 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan man chopped off one of his testicles in a row with his wife and then walked naked to a police station to report the incident, police said on Monday. Police rushed 26-year-old Stephen Ongala to hospital after he stumbled into their police station in the border town of Busia in western Kenya on Friday bleeding heavily. "He said he did it because he had had a disagreement with his wife," said deputy police chief Shadrack Maithya. "If we get evidence that he tried to take his life, then we may charge him because it is a c…
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South Park encouraging Conservatism 1 2
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Print This Article Email This Article Young and swinging to the Right By Andrew Sullivan December 23, 2003 WHEN, one wonders, did conservatism in America become hip? In the US the new millennium seems to have entrenched a growing trend among the younger generations that, if not culturally conservative, is anti-liberal. Go to a college campus and you will find the young Republicans gaining in strength. You'll find plenty of sullen and not-so-sullen disdain for 1960s-style professors. You will notice that the internet, as well as providing the groundswell for the Howard Dean campaign, is just as popular among more Right-leaning undergraduates. But you'll notice s…
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He must have used the wrong HERB :: Man dies after anti-bullet charm fails From correspondents in Lagos December 18, 2003 A TRADITIONAL doctor in central Nigeria has been shot dead by a patient who was testing the potency of an anti-bullet charm the herbalist had prepared for him, police have said. Ashi Terfa died when patient Umaa Akor fired a gun at his head two weeks ago in south-central Benue state, police spokesman Bode Fakeye said. "Akor went for an insurance against bullets and contacted Terfa to prepare it for him," he said. "To confirm its efficacy, the herbalist tied the charm around his neck and insisted that Akor should fire a gun at him. The ex…
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I'm a great source of useless imformation :: Wino worms show booze tolerance By Kylie Walker 16dec03 MUTANT worms may hold the key to why some drinkers can booze all night without a slur or stumble – yet others disgrace themselves after just a few. Hundreds of worms got wasted when US researchers set out to find out why people behave differently when they get drunk. Most of the inebriated worms wiggled less, moved more slowly and laid fewer eggs before falling into "a state of profound sedation". However, the University of California team found some of them remained sober, even after soaking up the equivalent of the human drink-driving blood alcohol limit. …
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Saddam Hussein captured in his home town in Iraq. Http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/...%5E1702,00.html
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Just saw this.... made me laugh SYDNEY (Reuters) - An absent-minded bank robber dressed as Santa Claus will spend Christmas in an Australian jail after he forgot about his trousers. Gregory Harland-White, 40, planned to rob a bank in a small town on Australia`s island state Tasmania dressed as Santa Claus, dump the suit in a horse trailer and get away on a bicycle, The Mercury newspaper in Tasmania reported on Wednesday. Harland-White bought his Santa suit from a chicken feed shop near the bank and armed himself with two pieces of pipe taped together to look like a gun. After robbing the bank of A$13,451 (5,700 pounds), Harland-White ran into a nearby horse tra…
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