Strange & Stupid: Amusing News

Franklin, MA– A 3-year-old boy was doing what all boys do yesterday afternoon…digging in his yard for buried treasure. But he did something that most boys do not: he found it.
Ryan Baima found wedding rings lost by the original home owners 33 years ago. They were lost in 1976 and belong to retired school teacher Joan Mulligan.
Mom helped Ryan to return the rings to their rightful owner. “She said, ‘I think I have something that belongs to you.’ And immediately it flashed through my mind that’s what it was. I couldn’t believe it,” said Mulligan, who lost the rings when she was gardening.
“I gave (Ryan) $50 in multiple bills and he was in the house throwing it up in the air and going, ‘Woo!” Mulligan told WCVB.
Mulligan said she will have her long-lost rings repaired in time for her 50th wedding anniversary next year.

My slumber party will most definitely be cooler than yours.  Why?  Because I will have THIS:

In the sub-zero wasteland of the planet Hoth, only the strong survive… and of course those lucky Jedi protected by the thick skin of a Tauntaun.

This high-quality sleeping bag looks just like a Tauntaun, complete with saddle, internal intestines and glowing lightsaber zipper pull.

Use the glowing lightsaber zipper pull on the Tauntaun sleeping bag to illustrate how Han Solo saved Luke Skywalker from certain death in the freezing climate of Hoth by slitting open the belly of a dead Tauntaun and placing Luke inside the stinking (but warm) carcass.

FUCK.

YEAH.

Today is National Sleepy Head Day in Naantali, Finland. Traditionally on this day the last person in the house still sleeping is woken up using water, either by being thrown into a lake or the sea or by having water thrown on them.

[This day is based on the story of the Seven Sleepers, the Saints of Ephesus who slept in a cave for some two to three hundred years during the Middle Ages to avoid persecution by Decius, the Roman emperor at the time. The story of the Seven Sleepers is told in the Quran and other Muslim texts.]

STEPHENS CITY, Va. - A stray kitten has found a new mother in a golden retriever, who began producing milk for the little feline after hearing its cries. Honey hadn’t given birth in 18 months, but after her owner, Jimmy Martin, brought home the kitten, she suddenly found herself playing mom.

“She started licking her and loving her. Within a couple of days, Honey started naturally lactating,” said Kathy Martin, Jimmy’s wife. “The kitten took right to her, and she started nursing her.”

Jimmy Martin noticed the kitten, whom the family dubbed “Precious,” about six weeks ago, when she ran in front of his concrete truck. After following her and realizing there was no mother cat in sight, he took her home.

The kitten refused to drink from a bottle, and Jimmy’s mother, Ruth Martin, feared Precious would die.

The family initially tried to keep Precious and Honey apart, fearing the dog would play too rough with the little gray-striped kitten. But Honey was elated at Precious’ presence, wagging her tail and prancing all over the house trying to sneak a peak at her. Eventually, the family let Honey approach Precious, and the dog immediately took to her.

The Martins said they told a veterinarian about Honey and Precious, and learned that interspecies nursing does happen on rare occasion.

Precious now sometimes plays with dog bones, and Honey lets Precious gnaw on her like a puppy would.

“She thinks she’s a dog,” Kathy Martin said. “She’s really fit right in.”