// December 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // wtf
By John Charles Reedburg
A jealous rampage did the right way. Wow-sers!
Officials at Australia’s Monarto Zoo say that a male white RHINO escaped its enclosure in search of its mate, who was preparing to mate with another male.
// December 11th, 2008 // No Comments » // wtf
A group of Santa’s speed off at the start of the Wendy’s Great New Zealand Santa Run at Viaduct Harbour on December 10, 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand. The Wendy’s Great New Zealand Santa Run is a 3km fun run to raise money for charity.
By John Charles Reedburg
OK. Why only the one reindeer?
Auckland, New Zealand was overly festive yesterday as over 300 RUNNERS, JOGGERS and WALKERS decked out in full-on Santa garb showed up for the first ever Wendy’s Great New Zealand Santa Run.
The almost two mile run raised money for the charity Cure Kids, which funds worldwide research into life-threatening childhood illnesses. Although the good-natured fat man from the north would definitely get behind a good cause, I’m not so sure he’d run for it. After years of munching cookies, he might not be able to make it the two miles.
The event’s $25 entry fee included a Santa hat and for an extra $10 a runner got the full Santa suit. Still, at least one person decided the Santa suit was just not cool enough and instead sported a Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer suit. There’s nothing wrong with being different.
// December 2nd, 2008 // 1 Comment » // wtf
EMESHEL unveils their new line of fragrances in Miami’s Design District during Art Basel. What’s interesting is Emeshel has designed the fragrance bottles to represent the male and female sexual organs.
By John Charles Reedburg
OK.
Not sure I’m intrigued or offended.
Hungarian glass-maker ESHEMEL debuted of two brand new scents in Miami today, delivered in some, ah, interestingly designed containers. According to perhaps the most hilarious press release of 2008, the Budapest-based company is putting the perfume out in bottles that are “provocatively designed to resemble the human sexual organs, taking the art of perfumery to a whole new dimension of artful sensuality and symbolism.”
For women there is Nubia, named for the ancient Egyptian state, and pictured on the right. It comes in five different scents, ranging from Nubia Yellow to Nubia Rose. Pictured above is Nubia Violet, which reportedly “brings the fresh, waggish notes of the fruit-bearing harvest, complete with ripe grapes, sun-kissed blackberries, mulberries and hints of green apple, peach and sea breeze.” A 4.2 oz bottle will set you back $125.
On the left is Rajul, named for the ancient Arabic word for “man.” According to the press release, Rajul “tells the story of an aroma representing the power of the Grand Seigneur of Arabia. After reaching the coast from the desert at dawn and leaving the vast sand dunes of the cool Arabian night, you are touched by the fragrance of the wet wind and the endless water.” The bottle design is “purposely shaped in the form of a man’s most intimate sexual organ, honoring the power and masculine virility of his royal Arabian highness.” A 4.2 oz bottle of Rajul is comparatively cheap, coming in at $120 dollars.
So if you’ve ever been looking at genitalia and thought to yourself, “You know what, I want to smell like that,” get yourself down to Miami tout de suite. Also, whoever wrote the press release for this: you are not being paid nearly enough.
// November 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // wtf
By John Charles Reedburg
Too bad it’s not a sock-it-to-me cake.
An INDONESIAN BAKER hopes to take the title of the world’s tallest cake with a Christmassy confection in Jakarta. Indonesia is a mostly Muslim country. But that hasn’t stopped Indonesian baker Nila Sari from creating what she hopes will be a Guinness World Record-breaking edible Christmas tree which is intended to herald the festive season and year-end shopping binge in Jakarta.
// November 30th, 2008 // No Comments » // wtf
By John Charles Reedburg
Wow-sers!
Straight bananas. Straight bananas.
A Texas ARTIST shows off his collection of toilet seats that he has turned into works of art.
// November 22nd, 2008 // 1 Comment » // wtf
Hopefully with this. I can finally find me a Sugar mama.
LOL!
A former MICROSOFT employee has created a dating website that helps customers find “mutually beneficial relationships.” Sex and money often play a role, but not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.
// November 20th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // wtf
By John Charles Reedburg
Kimichi anyone?
South Korean HOUSEWIVES, among more than two thousand who gathered for an event sponsored by state officials to help the needy, make “kimchi”, the traditional pungent vegetable dish on the grounds in front of Seoul City Hall on November 20 in Seoul, South Korea.
The Kimchi is a traditional Korean dish of fermented vegetables, usually mixed with chilli. It is commonly eaten with rice or as a accompaniment dish to a main meal.
The real food-en-masse action just went down in Seoul, South Korea, where thousands of housewives teamed up to make the world’s largest batch of kimchi, the traditional Korean fermented vegetable dish.
Kimchi accompanies most meals, and is usually made of napa cabbage, garlic, and chili.
About 58,000 heads of cabbage went into this particular batch, which weighs an estimated 143 tons.
Approximately 2,200 volunteers showed up for the event. Korea Yakult Co., the yogurt company that has sponsored the event since 2001, plans to donate the kimchi to 13,000 needy families.
While this is definitely the biggest kimchi-making event in recorded history, don’t expect to see it in the Guinness Book of World Records; unfortunately, kimchi has not yet found a place among the book’s categories.
// November 19th, 2008 // No Comments » // wtf
By John Charles Reedburg
OK. Why are there only black inmates in this footage?
I think prison needs a better affirmative action policy – by any means necessary.
LOL!
TRENTON, N.J. — DAVID WANG is a young man who’s clearly going places. The Princeton University sophomore is gifted with a brilliant mind, a movie-star smile and an understated self-confidence.
KELVIN WASHINGTON is a middle-aged man who’s not going anywhere for the next 44 years. He’s a career criminal who has spent 29 years behind bars for a string of robberies and burglaries.
An unlikely pairing, the two men went head to head Wednesday at the New Jersey State Prison, a maximum-security lockup. Their battlefield: a chess board.
In an unusual cultural exchange program that began six years ago, Princeton students travel to the prison in Trenton, 16 miles from their Ivy League campus, to play chess with the inmates.
“When I heard about this opportunity, I jumped at it,” said Wang, who has competed three times in worldwide chess tournaments, placing as high as 30th.
Prisons across the nation have thriving chess clubs. Some invite outsiders for matches behind bars. The chess club at the New Jersey State Prison has 75 members, including inmates serving life sentences for murder, robbery and other heinous crimes.
Washington, 52, is six years into a 50-year term for a gas station stickup. Chess offers him an escape from prison — short of actually breaking out.
“It eases my mind off the burden of fighting for my life,” he said. “It relaxes me and transports me to another place momentarily. As soon as it’s over, it’s back to business as usual.”
That involves being awakened by corrections officers at 6 a.m., filing into a dining hall for breakfast and checking a log book to see whether he has been granted a pass to go to the law library or the exercise room. If not, it’s back into the cell.
The numbing routine may help explain the popularity of prison chess.
“For one short, sweet moment, I get to be in charge and make my own decisions,” he said. “I get to decide where to move or what not to do.”
Washington and other inmates see parallels in chess and their daily lives.
“It gives me patience,” he said. “Sometimes you see something on the board and you want to jump on it, when maybe it’s best to hold off for a minute and see what’s developing around you before you just jump out and take it.”
Each year, one or two inmates defeat a Princeton visitor. But on Wednesday, 12 of the 46 inmates prevailed — more winners than in the five previous years combined.
“I feel great, baby!” exulted Alonzo Hill, breaking into dance worthy of an NFL touchdown celebration after defeating Atanas Petkov, a Princeton student from Bulgaria. “He got the Princeton shirt on: He the Princeton dude, and I beat him! I did good!”
Hill, 39, is serving five consecutive life terms for his role in a carjacking murder in which a woman who owned a clothing store was shot in the back of the head.
“I just defended, just defended,” Hill said. “He wanted me to make a mistake, but I defended it to the end, baby.”
The inmates were seated at long folding tables covered by new plastic tablecloths inside the prison’s spacious gymnasium. The games were played on cardboard chess boards with plastic pieces.
Each of the students played as many as nine inmates simultaneously, quickly moving down the line, making moves at each board, leaving the inmates several minutes to plot their next moves.
MICHAEL McCALL, seven years into a 45-year sentence for murder, held off Wang for nearly two hours before succumbing to a checkmate.
“I like strategizing; it’s like life situations,” McCall said. “You have to think about what you do. Everything you do should be calculated. We all make mistakes, but we still need to be thinking.”
When the three-hour session was over, Wang returned to campus to pursue his dream of a medical career.
“My goal is to maybe conquer a disease that’s creating havoc and suffering in the world,” he said.
Washington, after dropping his match, went back to his cell. His goal is simply to get back home one day.
“The tiniest little things you enjoy are the things I miss: Getting up to buy the newspaper in the morning while the wife and kids are asleep, sitting down in my easy chair while the downstairs smells of coffee perking, and I look out into the darkness at the stars. I miss that.”
// November 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // wtf
By John Charles Reedburg
Can anyone say – NBA?
LOL!
According to this KCAL 9 CBS Los Angeles report. This KID is taller than most basketball players at 13. Doctors are currently injecting with testerone shots to help stunt his growth. Anyways, is really — bananas.
// November 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // wtf
By John Charles Reedburg
This is going way too far!
Really it is.
A Parisian pet shop has been buying into so-called “OBAMANIA” by selling dog coats, collars and leashes bearing the name and image of United States President-Elect BARACK OBAMA.
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