Eating people is wrong! But...
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: "Does this taste funny to you?"
A cannibal ate his mother-in-law. She still didn't agree with him.
The cannibal wedding guest toasted the bride and groom.
Why do cannibals like Jehovah's Witnesses? Because they come with free delivery.
NEW YORK (AP) — Prince has been voted the "world's sexiest vegetarian" in PETA's annual online poll, the animal rights group announced Monday.
Prince, 47, shares the honor with Kristen Bell, the 25-year-old star of Veronica Mars, which is being carried over from UPN to the new CW Network this fall.
A strict vegan, Prince recently wrote in the liner notes of his latest album, 3121, about the ills behind wool production. He closed the disc with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi: "To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
The hidden camera follows the man, whose face is not shown, into a ramshackle building where steamers are filled with the fluffy white buns, traditionally stuffed with minced pork.Wonder why.The surroundings are filthy, with water puddles and piles of old furniture and cardboard on the ground.
"What's in the recipe?" the reporter asks. "Six to four," the man says.
"You mean 60 percent cardboard? What is the other 40 percent?" asks the reporter. "Fatty meat," the man replies.
The bun maker and his assistants then give a demonstration on how the product is made.
Squares of cardboard picked from the ground are first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda -- a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap -- then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning are stirred in.
Soon, steaming servings of the buns appear on the screen. The reporter takes a bite.
"This baozi filling is kind of tough. Not much taste," he says. "Can other people taste the difference?"
"Most people can't. It fools the average person," the maker says. "I don't eat them myself."
The Gadsden Flag.We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Cubs swept the crosstown rivals, White Sox this past weekend with good pitching, heads up defense and clutch hitting. None of the above have been Cubbie's traits this year, and for that matter, the past twenty five years or so. Inept, erratic and overpaid is the usual description for the pitching department.
MEMPHIS, Tennessee — A Tennessee mother fed up with her daughter's misbehavior took an unusual tack in for latest punishment, making her stand on a busy street corner with an attention-getting sign. Tashara Wilkins, 13, held a sign Sunday reading, "I don't obey my parents, I'm a liar. I steal from my mom. I have a bad attitude."
"All other resources haven't worked, so I'm making her be publicly humiliated today," mother Cherie Wilkins told WMC-TV in Memphis. "I hope this works for her. I love my child. ... I could be beating her to death, but I'm not."
She said her daughter's bad attitude Sunday morning led to the public display.
Tashara said having to wear her offenses was eye-opening.
"It might even work," she said. "I'm gonna start (behaving better) because I don't want to be standing out here with everybody looking at me like I'm crazy with this sign."
The mother said her daughter would go to church Tuesday night wearing the sign.
"We can't have ‘Thunderstruck'--or any of our songs, really--associated with an American baseball team that sucks so incredibly hard," guitar god Angus Young said from his home in Sydney, Australia. "Perhaps they could find another one from the vast classic rock catalog. Like, say, 'Free Fallin' by Tom Petty. That would make a lot more sense."
Pundits weren't surprised by the band's decision.
"'Thunderstruck' is a hard-charging, hell-raising ode to kicking ass," Rolling Stone rock critic Steve Keegan. "The fact that the Sox continue to use it is an absolute travesty. In the name of all that rocks, either start playing a lot better or stop using that song."
...thanks to "The Heckler"
WBZ1030.com,
6 Jun 2007,
Man Sues Over Long-Lasting ErectionA man has sued the maker of the health drink Boost Plus, claiming the vitamin-enriched beverage gave him an erection that would not subside and caused him to be hospitalized.
The lawsuit filed by Christopher Woods of New York said he bought the nutrition beverage made by the pharmaceutical company Novartis AG at a drugstore on June 5, 2004, and drank it.
Woods' court papers say he woke up the next morning "with an erection that would not subside" and sought treatment that day for the condition, called severe priapism.
They say Woods, 29, underwent surgery for implantation of a Winter shunt, which moves blood from one area to another.
The lawsuit, filed late Monday, says Woods later had problems that required a hospital visit and penile artery embolization, a way of closing blood vessels. Closing off some blood flow prevents engorgement and lessens the likelihood of an erection....
A fight ensued in the Cubs dugout Friday between catcher Michael Barrett and pitcher Carlos Zambrano, but the dispute wasn't about the five-run fifth inning at all. In fact, Zambrano became upset when he returned to the dugout to find Barrett holding the last Gatorade.
"Carlos just lost it when he saw Mike taking the last drink from the cooler," manager Lou Piniella said after the Cubs dropped an 8-5 decision to the Braves. "After those two started swinging at each other, I told 'Z' there were more in the clubhouse, so he went down there and that ended the fight pretty quick."
Apparently this was not an isolated incident. Two weeks ago, Zambrano snapped a towel at Scott Eyre after seeing the portly reliever taking the last bar of Irish Spring soap in the clubhouse showers.
It's possible for two reasonable adults, probably older than 45, to argue for hours about the most significant pop music event of the 1960s. My own vote would be cast in favor of the Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in February 1964, but a very close second is the release of their "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," the majestic album that will be 40 years old in early June. It's not that "Sgt. Pepper" is my favorite record from that era -- Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" is -- but there's no denying the extraordinary influence that the Beatles' most famous achievement had not only in the music industry but this country's popular culture as well.
"Sgt. Pepper," the group's first album that wasn't supported by a world-wide tour, captured, to use a word that didn't become a cliché for years afterward, the "zeitgeist" then, impeccably in sync with the "Summer of Love," "flower power," psychedelia and the youthful lifestyle of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That the Beatles, weary of avoiding hordes of fans and tabloid reporters, abandoned live concerts was in itself a radical shift of gears, but spending more than four months in a recording studio on a single project, and a "concept" album at that, was unheard of. Revisionists today, when critiquing the Beatles' discography, aren't quite as rapturous about "Sgt. Pepper" as millions of fans were in 1967, but the immediate impact of the album can't be overstated.
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When "Sgt. Pepper" appeared, it was as if a massive block party had appeared outside your window. I was nearly 12 years old at the time and when one of my four older brothers came home with the highly anticipated new Beatles record, we listened to it over and over, marveling at the sheer audacity of songwriters John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Doug, overwhelmed by enthusiasm and hyperbole, declared, matter-of-factly, "The band has changed its name forever and rock 'n' roll will never be the same."
And it wasn't just the music. The album cover itself was breathtaking, a puzzling and colorful collage by Peter Blake that showed the band, in gaudy mock-military costumes, presiding over the burial of the "old" Beatles, with scattered mug shots of high and low cultural icons hovering in the background. You'd go cross-eyed trying to figure out just how many notables were depicted -- a mass of pop art that included Marilyn Monroe, Karl Marx, Aldous Huxley, Marlene Dietrich, Sonny Liston, Laurel and Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Marlon Brando, Leo Gorcey, Bob Dylan, Lenny Bruce and Mae West.
The presentation was a triumph of packaging, and included for the first time the printing of lyrics on the back cover. That the group had reached this point a mere three years after the first rush of "Beatlemania" was astonishing, and the songs simply ratcheted up the sense of momentousness provided by the record sleeve.
Relieved from the pressure of performing live, the Beatles were able to record songs that were, even in a relatively primitive studio, filled with overdubs, backward tape loops, snippets of orchestral crescendos, a cowbell here, a tin horn there, creating a sound and style that was quickly, for better or worse, aped by the band's peers and imitators. Aside from the technical innovations, the 13 songs ushered in yet another phase for the Beatles, one that was far more introspective, grandiose and certainly informed by their recreational use of drugs.
Forty years later, it's easy to dismiss such lyrically slight songs as Mr. McCartney's "When I'm Sixty-Four" or George Harrison's meandering, sitar-driven "Within You Without You," but the bulk of "Sgt. Pepper" stands the test of time. For example, John Lennon's "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" is about an evening vaudeville romp where "Henry the Horse dances the waltz" and men leap through "a hogshead of real fire!" Another standout is Mr. McCartney's "Fixing a Hole," a dreamy and druggy meditation about fame and drudgery. He sings about "filling the cracks" in his door that "kept [his] mind from wandering," and chastises those who "disagree and never win and wonder why they don't get in my door."
It's not exactly T.S. Eliot, as some said at the time, but it's a long way from "I Want to Hold Your Hand."
On one point there is almost universal agreement: "A Day in the Life," a five-minute Lennon-McCartney collaboration that concludes "Sgt. Pepper," is the group's most accomplished song. Combining references to British current events and the narrator's utter boredom with urban routines, the song endorses the notion of dropping out of society, as Mr. Lennon sings, dreamily, "I'd love to turn you on."
Although "Sgt. Pepper" received almost unanimous raves when it was released, a significant dissident was Richard Goldstein, who panned the album in the June 18, 1967, New York Times. Mr. Goldstein, roundly pilloried after the review was published, complained the new release was "busy, hip and cluttered." He concludes: "We need the Beatles, not as cloistered composers, but as companions. And they need us."
As was soon evident, however, the Beatles didn't "need us," and, in fact, didn't need each other. The group disbanded just three years later. Mr. Goldstein was partially correct in saying that "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was "precious," but 40 years later I can't think of a single album that was more influential in changing the way that lyricists, producers and fans went about making and consuming popular music.
It's said that Mr. McCartney in particular was inspired by the Beach Boys' 1966 landmark album "Pet Sounds," in which leader Brian Wilson labored in the studio to create a unified set of songs that challenged the listener -- and his competitors -- with its musical complexity. But it was the Beatles, so popular and wealthy that their record label had to cater to what were considered "whims," who topped Mr. Wilson (artistically and commercially) with "Sgt. Pepper." It was no longer a given that a rock/pop group would dash off an album as quickly as possible to minimize cost, and talented young men began to exert more control over studio production, a process of increased sophistication. The release of "Sgt. Pepper" marked the shift of power in the music industry -- not all that dissimilar to the advent of free agency in Major League Baseball -- from the "suits" to the stars, and to this day the balance hasn't changed.
Mr. Smith writes a weekly column for New York Press.
May 29: Japanese mountain climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, 71, speaks to the Associated Press after returning from climbing the summit of Mount Everest to become the oldest person to scale it, in Katmandu, Nepal. Yanagisawa, a retired junior high school teacher from central Japan, was 71 years, 2 months and 2 days old when he reached the 29,035-foot peak on May 22, becoming the oldest Everest climber and beating the record set last year by another Japanese climber, Takao Arayama, who was 70 years, 7 months and 13 days old.
Nuclear pickles
Thank goodness for the Mississippi Delta. It’s given us Doe’s steaks. It’s given us tamales. Arkansas was quick to replicate these food finds. But what about this new one?
The New York Times reported last week on the huge popularity of dill pickles cured in Kool-Aid. They’re sold in convenience stores at nearly every Mississippi Delta crossroads and they’re wildly popular with school kids, who often sell them at neighborhood stands and school fund-raisers.
Curing a dill pickle in Kool-Aid produces a sweet-sour delight, apparently, and the recipes are jealously guarded. The process also produces a pickle of scary hue, from the radioactive red pickle used to illustrate the New York Times food section article to a blue hue never seen in any part of the natural universe. Our question for readers is this: Has the Kool-Aid pickle negotiated the passage across the wide Mississippi River? Is it being sold in Arkansas? Inquiring minds want to know. (One Arkansas Blog reader has already reported an Arkansas variation of some years back: A gallon jar of dill pickle chips marinated in a bottle of Tabasco and five pounds of sugar.)
We have fried pickles in Tennessee, but I've not seen these yet.
