In case you didn’t feel moved to sign up with Earth-Bound Pets to prepare for the Rapture, perhaps you will find this service, offered by Reincarnation Bank, more to your liking. Reincarnation Bank offers a safe-keeping for any asset you wish to deposit through your transition into the next life. There are people who say [...]
October 8, 2009
A post about a perky penguin seems fitting for our quirky compendium. Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav is a King Penguin living in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. Nils was visited by the Norwegian King’s Guard on the 15 August 2008 and awarded a knighthood. The honor [...]
October 6, 2009
BOSTON — Sex in a Tufts University dorm is fine. Sex in a Tufts dorm with your roommate present? That’s a no-no. This semester, the school has a new policy banning sexual activity while a roommate is in the same room. A Tufts University spokeswoman said the school issued the new rule after a dozen [...]
September 24, 2009
You won’t find any of these items in eBay’s motors section or in collectibles. Instead, the strangest eBay auctions are to be found by trawling through the thousands of items in the “everything else”. Here, we run through the 10 most bizarre. A “dead fairy”, a “mutant cucumber”, or a pint of sun-dried bees are [...]
September 15, 2009
New evidence suggests that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. It seems that the “time” part of the space-time continuum is literally running out. Scientists have previously measured the light from distant exploding stars to show that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. They assumed that [...]
September 13, 2009
Her uniform looks good, with striped scarf and blue cap in perfect order, but railway employee Mitsue Endo has one thing to do before she faces the masses — she must pass her employer’s smile test. Endo, who works at hectic Shinagawa Station in central Tokyo for Keihin Express Railway Co., sits in front of [...]
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