Saturday, May 19, 2012

The really important news stories of the day

The RAF Rescue Helicopters have priorities you know

The pilots landed on a beach to buy three Magnum Classics ice cream bars and one white chocolate Magnum
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Plan your next vacation: Visit the Snoring Museum


Located in Alfeld, Germany, The Alfelder Schlafapnoe- Gesellschaft (ASG), (is)one of the oldest self-help groups for Sleep Apnea....(exhibits include) several leather chinstraps with attached mouth coverings, vintage humidifiers, and ointments and nasal sprays on display. There are even electronic devices––looking like blood pressure monitors––that are supposed to relive snoring with buzzes and zaps.
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Dave Barry links to
A new pilot program in Georgia is giving kindergartners a say in whether or not their teachers will get pay raises or get fired.

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Spike Milligan's epitaph 'I told you I was ill' voted UK's favourite

His words of wisdom was voted ahead of Oscar Wilde’s "Either those curtains go or I do" and Frank Sinatra’s "The best is yet to come" by a considerable margin...
Next was Mel Blanc's "that's all folks", followed by Frank Carson with "what a way to lose weight’ while Winston Churchill was next.
The former Prime Minister finished sixth with: "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

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Dr. Krauthammer predicts " It’s going to be one of the filthiest campaigns in American history"...

What, dirtier than accusing Jefferson from having a black mistress, Andrew Jackson for being a bigamist, Cleveland for having a son out of wedlock, and McCain being the "Manchurcian candidate"?

Another reason to support the Pirate Bay: You can download and watch your favorite TV shows without political commercials.

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 The latest boycott: one is not allowed to even mention Hoopoe birds in the UK Press...


 (Photo: Eyal Bartov)


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and the really importan headline of the day: Science zeros in on the perfect lambchop.

no, not this one (photo fromDollsmagazine)

this one: The researchers say there is a fine balance between the amount of muscle and the amount of intramuscular fat for consumers (Source: Brian Steele/iStockphoto)

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