Happy Holidays and don't eat the yellow snow!
We look at the light and fluffy side of life around here. And what could be lighter or fluffier than snow? Here’s some advice about a certain kind of snow… Frank Zappa’s songs have some rather weird lyrics. However, the first two carols in the list below (press the left and right arrows to navigate) are not by him. The rest is, and the very last one is a real treat: he appears on Crossfire back in the 80s defending his right to free speech. Without further ado, Happy Holidays!
Vietnamese-Japanese-Canadian man builds fembot with $25,000
33 year-old Trung Le from Brampton, Ontario, managed to build his ideal life partner on a budget. Because of the financial strains imposed by his hobby, he had to move in with his parents. In a recent interview he declared: She's not really my girlfriend. Aiko's a robot who can do a lot of things, and hopefully more soon. I have friends – I don't need to create friends. There was a lot of stress. Of creating her, of having almost no money left and finding no sponsor. We know about Aiko: Aiko – which means love child in Japanese – can speak about 13,000 sentences in Japanese and English, do algebra, trig and geometry, and tell the weather in foreign cities, courtesy of Internet links. She can move her hands, nod her head – and shout indignantly if touched roughly. When Le lightly slapped her, she cried out: "It's not nice to touch a girl's head. Touch your own head." Le is now trying to teach her to make tea and coffee, and do simple household chores. Warning to all men who hope to duplicate Trung Le’s efforts in the hope of a quieter life: he had a heart attack last year, so we can safely assume she’s not as nice as she seems. Sources: ts
Woman prank calls parents to attend imaginary school meeting
Shelan Waisberg, 34, faces 28 charges after calls were made to parents asking them to attend an imaginary school meeting discussing sexual assault and the mental health of their children. Carmen Chai from the Toronto Star reports: The night before, nine anonymous calls were made to parents telling them that their child had been sexually assaulted by a teacher, or the principal had secret files concerning their child's mental health, Det. Steve McIlwain said. The caller said she was a teacher at the school. The parents were asked to attend a meeting with the principal the following morning at the school. "When the parents showed up, the principal didn't know what was going on," McIlwain said. The woman was charged with nine counts of public mischief, eight counts of personation, mischief interfere with property, nine counts of conveying a false message and criminal harassment and will appear at College Park Courts on Jan. 22, 2009 at 2 p.m. Source: ts
Police Cruiser fully-loaded with 12-gauge shotgun stolen & recovered
A man stole a police cruiser but was apprehended shortly thereafter. Police used the GPS emitter and caught him within minutes. Henry Stancu and Precious Yutango from the Toronto Star wrote: Toronto police arrested a man and recovered a cruiser minutes after it was stolen from an accident scene in Weston. The low-profile traffic stealth car with a shotgun mounted between the two front seats was stopped on Weston Rd. near Lawrence Ave. W. when the theft occurred around 7:30 p.m. Using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, police managed to locate the car within minutes. It was found behind stores on Weston Rd. at Wilby Cres., a short distance from the accident scene. A 36-year-old man was arrested. Police said the 12-gauge shotgun was locked in its harness and would have been difficult for anyone to remove. The car had minor damage to its front fender when it clipped a vehicle on a side street. Most police vehicles are equipped with GPS tracking systems, said Staff Sgt. Randy Smith. "It's an officer safety issue," he added. "We can locate our police cars. We can ensure we know where our cars are at all times." Source: ts
Fred Thompson on the economy
Fred Thompson has come up with a message of hope and holiday cheer for all those of us who watch in misery how the world around us collapses. Watch and listen, it's worth it! If this didn’t cheer you out and you still feel you’re about to lose the shirt off your back, consider joining a strip poker championship.
Gay penguins - fathers by stealing eggs
At the Polar Harbin zoo in eastern China, a gay penguin couple is stealing eggs from heterosexual penguins and attempt to conceal their theft by placing stones at the feet of their parents before waddling away with their eggs. Even though they wear suits, heterosexual penguins are not dumb, so they noticed the deception and ostracized the couple. Keepers then physically separated the gay couple from the group to avoid disrupting the hatching. There are numerous examples of homosexuality in the animal kingdom, but gay penguins have captured the public's attention more than any other species. A German zoo provoked outrage from gay lobby groups after attempting to mate a group of gay male penguins with Swedish female birds who were flown in especially to seduce them. But the project was abandoned after the males refused to be "turned", showing no interest in their would-be mates. In 2002 a couple of penguins at a New York zoo who had been together for eight years were "outed" when keepers noticed that they were both males. Source: tlg
China’s Andy Rooney, GNR and Chinese Democracy
For many-many years, investigative TV reporting was a synonym of CBS 60 Minutes. And every single one of them had a common fixture meant to make you laugh and think at the same time: Andy Rooney. Unfortunately, he is largely unknown to the new Internet generation. When we first watched the Chinese Andy Rooney we thought it’s hysterical. For many, however, the joke will be lost, as not everybody is familiar with his work. So we made a YouTube compilation of his best, including parodies and an interview with Ali G which you can navigate by pressing the left or right arrows: Source: ONN, YouTube, 60 Minutes
Here's the Chinese version, courtesy of ONN:
