Strange & Stupid: Amusing News

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 27, 2009 — A 2009 study conducted by the online dating site AdultsOnlyList.com reveals that women are more likely to have an intimate encounter with men whom they have known for less than 6 hours. The poll of 20,000 women daters aged 18 - 35 asked of them to define exactly how long they would wait to engage in any type of intimate encounter after meeting a man for the first time. A staggering 34% revealed that they would wait less than 1 date (or approximately 6 hours) with a man before engaging in intimate behaviors.

Website owner Dan Levy proposes that “Women are immersed with the idea, from every media outlet in the country, that having sex on the first date is the norm.” He even coined the behavior as “The Paris Hilton Effect.” Mr. Levy further explains that “Hollywood and the media have really set the stage for this to be a reality. Every other image the average woman sees is of a major celebrity flashing their underwear or hanging on the arm of a different man every night. That being said, the results aren’t very shocking to me.”

The women who participated in the poll resided in major cities around the country. The cities included in the poll were San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. Of the 20,000 women who took part in the study, 24% stated they would wait until the second date, while 42% said at least three or more dates were necessary.

NYP= An Upper West Side woman has filed a $500,000 lawsuit charging that her downstair’s yappy little dogs are driving her nuts.

Theodore Henderson’s two Chihuahuas “bark in a manner that is offensive, constant, continuous and incessant.”

Paulette Taylor, 62, says in the suit that the dogs have her so stressed that she can’t sleep. The suit adds that Henderson “may even be guilty of inciting his Chihuahuas to bark.”

Taylor has complained to Henderson and to the management of their building at 382 Central Park West for well over a year, but they’ve done nothing, said her lawyer, Jacqueline Bukowski.

“We’re asking for a restraining order against the dogs,” Bukowski said, or “some sort of soundproofing” to block the barking from coming into Taylor’s apartment, which is directly above Henderson’s.

A Chicago man has been arrested for allegedly sending Obama and his staff envelopes containing HIV-infected blood, in the hopes of killing or harming them.

It’s only the second time ever that HIV-infected blood has been sent with malicious intent through the U.S. mail system, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said.

In the weeks leading up to Obama’s inauguration, Saad Hussein, an Ethiopian refugee in his late 20’s, sent an envelope addressed to “Barack Obama” to offices of the Illinois government in Springfield, Ill., according to court documents. The envelope contained a series of unusual items, including a letter with reddish stains and an admission ticket for Obama’s election-night celebration in Chicago’s Grant Park. Court documents said Hussein, who takes drugs to treat a mental illness, later told FBI agents he is “very sick with HIV” and cut his fingers with a razor so he could bleed on the letter.

Days after sending the letter to Obama, Hussein allegedly placed two more letters in the mail, one addressed to “Emanuel,” an apparent reference to Obama’s current chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. The two letters contained what appeared to be dried blood, the court documents said.

Over 16 years, Kenneth Douglas had drug and alcohol infused parties at his workplace. He even participated in coitus with many women.
The problem?

At least three of those women were dead, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said Thursday.

But if Douglas is to be believed, he could have had sex with as many as “over a hundred” bodies in the 16 years he worked as night attendant at the Hamilton County morgue.

“This guy’s just a pig. I can’t explain why someone would do something like this. … This is off-the-charts weird.”

Douglas, 55, of Westwood, already is serving a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty last year to abuse of a corpse. He admitted he had sex with the nearly beheaded body of 19-year-old murder victim Karen Range in 1982.

Thursday, Douglas was indicted on two more counts of abuse of a corpse after DNA evidence, Deters said, showed Douglas’ semen was in the bodies of two women who were killed in 1991 and stored at the morgue awaiting autopsies. One of the women was nearly beheaded and 6 months pregnant.

“We’ll never know” how many victims there are, Deters said, “because (Douglas) doesn’t know. We probably won’t (ever) know the scope of his abuse.”

DENVER (AP) - Conservative evangelical leader James Dobson has resigned as chairman of Focus on the Family but will continue to play a prominent role at the organization he founded more than three decades ago, The Associated Press has learned.

Dobson notified the board of his decision Wednesday, and the 950 employees of the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based ministry were informed Friday morning at a monthly worship service, said Jim Daly, the group’s president and chief executive officer.

Dobson, 72, will continue to host Focus on the Family’s flagship radio program, write a monthly newsletter and speak out on moral issues, Daly said.

“One of the common errors of founder-presidents is to hold to the reins of leadership too long, thereby preventing the next generation from being prepared for executive authority,” Dobson said in a statement. “… Though letting go is difficult after three decades of intensive labor, it is the wise thing to do.”

“I don’t see any dramatic departure from what Focus stands for,” Caruana said of Dobson’s leaving the board. “There are obviously younger people the ministry would like to reach, and we’re on track to do that.”

Was gonna re-write, but its too perfect.[from the Guardian]
The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country’s love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners. At fault, they say, is the US public’s insistence on extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply products when they use the bathroom.

“This is a product that we use for less than three seconds and the ecological consequences of manufacturing it from trees is enormous,” said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defence Council.

“Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.” Making toilet paper has a significant impact because of chemicals used in pulp manufacture and cutting down forests.

Paper manufacturers such as Kimberly-Clark have identified luxury brands such as three-ply tissues or tissues infused with hand lotion as the fastest-growing market share in a highly competitive industry. The New York Times reported a 40% rise in sales of luxury brands of toilet paper in 2008.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (AP) — The mayor of Orange County city Los Alamitos says he will resign after sendingan off-color email to a “small group for friends.”

The email was a picture depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons under the title “No Easter egg hunt this year.”

Mayor Dean Grose issued a statement Thursday saying he is sorry and will step down as mayor at Monday’s City Council meeting. He admits that the e-mail was in poor taste and claims he was unaware of the racial stereotype linking black people with eating watermelons.

Low-cost airline Ryanair is looking at the possibility of installing a coin slot on lavatory doors.

Ironically, in a light-hearted survey conducted by Telegraph Travel last November, we asked readers which service they thought no-frills airlines might start charging for in the future.

56 per cent of readers said that a charge for “using the loo” would be the most likely, while 31 per cent chose “reclining seats” and 11 per cent opted for “sick bags”.

One Ryanair spokesman, Michael O’Leary, said that Ryanair was determined to make air travel easier and more affordable.
“I don’t think there’s anybody in history gone on board a Ryanair flight with less than a pound,” he added.

Later, Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamara said: “Michael makes a lot of this stuff up as he goes along and, while this has been discussed internally, there are no immediate plans to introduce it.

“However, this highlights Ryanair’s continuing obsession with lowering costs and passing these savings on in the form of lower fares.

The Dublin-based airline has gained a reputation for its high booking fees and ancillary charges.

The carrier charges £30 to check in a bag, £10 to pay for flights with a debit or credit card (excluding Visa Electron), £60 to check in sports or music equipment, £15 for each kilo of excess baggage, £50 to change a flight and £100 to change the name on a ticket.

“Natural living” advocates unveil their latest planet-saving invention - the reusable toilet wipe.
[Family Wipes: $11 per dozen basic, $20 per dozen premium, hemp, or sherpa]
buy your friendly poo wipes here

Jerry Seinfeld: reality genius.
Look for “The Marriage Ref” on NBC quite soon [tentatively, this fall].
It features celebrities, comedians and athletes who will judge couples in the midst of marital disputes while recommending various strategies to resolve their problems.

Always using his own personal miseries to inspire shows…lets see if being boring, old, and married can match up to single and ridiculous.