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I guess my wife was right.

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Artists: Sachiko Kodama, Minako Takeno

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I thought you would like this, nursie.

“In space, if unprotected pieces of metal touch each other, they stick together permanently.”

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No Tresspassing

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Apparently hiting women for fun and profit isn’t enough for Mike Tyson. Great move for someone known for rape and domestic abuse, by the way. He’d also like to be a manwhore:

If we were making a list of people most likely to strike a blow for women’s sexual equality, Mike Tyson, convicted rapist, and Heidi Fleiss, convicted tax evader (a consequence of her time as the “Hollywood Madam”), probably wouldn’t rank too high. But as the Los Angeles Times’ Las Vegas Blog, Movable Buffet, reported yesterday, Tyson is apparently in talks with Fleiss to be one of the first hired for her groundbreaking “stud farm,” which, if approved, would be the first Nevada brothel to sell the sexual services of men instead of women.

Fleiss tells blogger Richard Abowitz she thinks Tyson “definitely would” be one of her employees, and that the former champ told her “it’s every man’s dream to please every woman no matter how old, how young, how fat, how pretty, how ugly, it’s every man’s dream to please every woman and especially get paid for it … Hell yeah, I’ll be your number one stud.” That’s funny. I sort of thought it was the dream of most old, young, fat, pretty and ugly women to avoid sleeping with convicted rapists.

There is even an application online for anyone interested in turning tricks with Mr. Tyson.

12 If this doesn’t work, we’re trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the connubial bed.

13 During a railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.

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No one knows how far the the network of burrows underneath 75-year-old William Lyttle’s house stretch. But according to the council, which used ultrasound scanners to ascertain the extent of the problem, almost half a century of nibbling dirt with a shovel and homemade pulley has hollowed out a web of tunnels and caverns, some 8m (26ft) deep, spreading up to 20m in every direction from his house.

This is just weird. After hearing complaints for 40 years, the city is finally told Mr. Lyette to stop his digging and will be filling in the holes with concrete at a cost of £100,000, which Mr. Lyette wil be billed for. He claims it was just home improvements and denies that he dug under anyone’s property but his own.

link: After 40 years’ burrowing, Mole Man of Hackney is ordered to stop