'ODDZ & ENDZ'

[Spider]

[shadow=red,left,300][glow=black,2,300]~ Clic Pic ~[/glow][/shadow]
__
'S'

[Spider]

WHERE THE HELL IS ..
'PREDATOR'

[/b]

__
'S'[/center][/color]

[Spider]

;D
From:
The Spiderz Webz Vaultz
[ie: Old Cob-Webz]

I had to watch this, short, satirical video several times!

Hope you enjoy it.
__
'S'

[/b][/size]

[/center]

[Spider]

By: JENNIFER LEE


Chris Cheadle/Getty Images
Marry Me at 8 on the 8th, O.K.?

T.G.I.F. Many Asian couples chose Friday as the Big Day.

AFTER becoming engaged last year in Paris, Grace Fung and Victor Chiu returned to New York to discover that event spaces for their wedding on the second Friday of August were already booked. The logjam was unusual for a Friday, but the date in question is this Friday — 08/08/08.

“As a homonym, the number 8 sounds like ‘good fortune’ in Mandarin and Cantonese,” said Ms. Fung, who, like her fiancé, is of Chinese descent.

So, this fortuitous Friday is not only the chosen date of the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics; it has also been circled in red by many couples. (Ms. Fung and Mr. Chiu finally secured a booking for their lucky day at the New York Botanical Garden.)

Chinese people find the 8’s highly desirable for cellphone numbers, license plates, prices (and this reporter’s byline).

In Beijing, officials expect more weddings than usual on Aug. 8, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau has provided an online booking service since June 20 for couples wanting to marry on Friday, giving them until Tuesday to sign up.

But this bump extends beyond China. The Knot, a wedding media and service company, says the number of weddings registered on its Web sites (theknot.com and weddingchannel.com) for 08/08/08 are four times that of other Fridays in August — 22,000 vs. 5,000.

Rob Johnsen and Polly Cohen have planned a Chinese-theme wedding in the Seattle area.

“We’re both really superstitious, and I’m a big gambler and 8 has always been my lucky number since I was born,” said Mr. Johnsen, a founder of MyWedding.com. “We’re both 37 years old, and we figure that this point in our life we need all the luck we can get.”

But so far the 8’s are far behind the lucky 7’s. On July 7, 2007, a Saturday, the Knot counted 70,000 online-registered weddings.

Businesses saw opportunity in the numbers. Joseph Kohn, a photographer in San Francisco, said he is juggling five bookings that day. And when Elite Island Resorts, an umbrella group of Caribbean properties, observed many customer inquiries about that date, it designed an 08/08/08 wedding deal.

Steven Heydt, the president of Elite, said the eighth would be graced by 12 weddings at six of its resorts, an unusual proliferation.

Las Vegas hotels are advertising $888 and $1,888 wedding packages, or deals for the first 88 couples. “Obviously numbers are very important to Las Vegas,” said Lisa Roughley, a spokeswoman for the J W Marriott Las Vegas Resort and Spa, which is offering a free spa deal for bridal parties with the big 8 date.

Mr. Johnsen said, "Luck aside, 8 appeals for another aesthetic and symbolic reason. Our logo on invitations is 8 turned sideways."

'INFINITY'

__
'S'

[/b]

[Spider]

This is something I just learned today and I was born in that month and year!


Who said the internet was not informative?
LOL
__
'S'

---

The December, 1938 issue of Popular Science carried a glowing (hehe) account of a UV branding iron used to scorch newborns' initials into their tender skin so that the nurses wouldn't mix up the babies.

A new hand-type ultraviolet-ray lamp makes it easier for nurses in a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital to brand the initials of a new-born baby on his skin to prevent identification mix-ups in the hospital nursery. Soft ultra-violet rays pass through stenciled initials placed within the easily handled unit to tan the letters on the infant as well as on the mother. Harmless, the identification brand is said to remain visible for a period of two weeks.

New Sun Lamp Held in Hand Brands Babies (Dec, 1938)

[Spider]

Source

Is this a Chupacabra?

~ Vampire Hound caught on film ~


TWO US sheriffs have captured footage which appears to show the mythical Chupacabra –
a ‘Vampire Dog’ that feasts on the blood of goats.

The cops chased and filmed the beast after catching a glimpse of its strange elongated nose and fangs – unlike any coyote or dog they had seen before.

Patrollers Ellie Carter and Sheriff Brandon Riedel filmed the animal – which has Bigfoot-style status in America – in Cuero, near Nordheim, Texas, last week.

Miss Carter yesterday said: “We were checking fences in Cuero when this, this - thing - just jumps out at us.

“I shouted: ‘It’s a Chupacabra’. I recognized it instantly from a program about them in a History Channel episode of 'MonsterQuest'.

“It had big teeth, a big head, short legs in front and long legs in back.

“I was raised on a ranch and I’ve never seen anything like that.”

Fangs

Sheriff Riedel added: “It sure didn’t look like any dog I’d ever seen.”

The Sun reported on a possible sighting of Chupacabra in Cuero, Texas last year.

Scientists carried out tests on a terrifying creature that died near a farm – after sucking the blood of hundreds of chickens and goats.

Farm owner Phylis Canion said at the time: “My land is littered with the corpses of bloodless animals, untouched except for two fang marks.

“Dozens of chickens were sucked dry - it’s eerie.

“I’ve seen a lot of nasty stuff in my life - but nothing like this.”

Although the tests were inconclusive, many scientists believe that the Texas ‘Chupacabras’ are hybrids of coyotes which have bred with Mexican gray wolves.

Mrs Canion – who has now collated records of hundreds of sightings of the beasts – yesterday said: “There’s something very strange going on with these animals and we better find out what it is very quickly.”

Chupacabras are mythical hairless beasts that originate from the Spanish legend of El Chupacabras – a ‘devil’ dog that sucks goat blood.

They also have been featured in the TV Sci-fi drama the 'X-Files'.

Texas TV News Video

---

__
'S'

[Spider]

Have you ever seen ink stamped paper currency?

I got a $1.00 bill the other day and it had a stamped message
with a website address so I went there to see what it was all about.
(Clic Pic)

I entered it and discovered that it originated south of me,
went to Georgia and wound up in Daytona.

I'll spend it in a few days and will be able to track it
if I join this free site as a user.

I found this to be a novel thing to do but can't figure out where
I can get a rubber stamp other than a stationary store.


Seems to me they would sell them or something
but I couldn't find any available on their site.

Oh Well ... Just thought I'd let y'all know about this.
__
'S'

[Spider]

Obituary of Mr. Common Sense

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost
in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:

Knowing when to come in out of the rain.
Why the early bird gets the worm.
Life isn't always fair.
Maybe it was my fault after all.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies
(don't spend more than you can earn)
and reliable strategies.
(adults, not children, are in charge).

The health of Common Sense began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned
but overbearing regulations were set in place.

Reports of a 6 -year- old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate;
teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch;
and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student,
only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer Tylenol, sun lotion or a band-aid to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as
the Ten Commandments became contraband;
churches became businesses;
and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar
in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live,
after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot.
She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust;
his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility;
and his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 3 stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights, Someone Else Is To Blame,
and I'm A Victim.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

If you still remember him, pass this on.
If not, then join the majority and do nothing.
__
'S'

[Spider]

~ RICOCHET ~

__
'S'

[Spider]

No, it's not the result of a Central Florida tornado:
it's Norman Johnson's Upside-Down House,
a gimick to drive traffic to Sunrise Golf Village.

Their similar, but right side up, houses were for sale.
("from $11,500 FHA - VA -CONV.").

This is one way to get people to walk through your model home.

That's a real 1960's car upside-down in the carport,
real standard size furniture was hung from the "floor" inside.

Now, there's only one question:
When demolished,
would you say they tore it down -- or tore it up?
__
'S'

[Spider]

'VAMPIRES ARE REAL'!


Source

[glow=black,2,300] ~ Stacies Last Kiss ~ [/glow]
Stacey Mitchell was bludgeoned to death by her housemates

Lesbian Vampires Jailed For Sex Killing

A lesbian member of a blood-drinking vampire cult and her lover have been sentenced to life in prison for the sexually-motivated murder of their housemate.

Jessica Stasinowsky, 21, and Valerie Parashumti, 19, pleaded guilty to bludgeoning 16-year-old Stacey Mitchell to death with a concrete block in 2006 because she was "annoying", the Australian Associated Press reported.

Judge Peter Blaxell said the murder, in Perth, Western Australia, was "sexually perverse" and "evil", after the court was told the two lesbian lovers became aroused as they battered the teenage girl and then kissed while standing over her body as she lay dying.

"You have each had more than a year in custody to reflect upon the evilness of your crime, yet you still lack remorse and obviously place no value on the sanctity of human life," Mr Blaxell said in handing down the life sentences.

"There is also the added problem that you each enjoy being sexually aroused by the infliction of violence," he said.

When Stacey moved into a house the lovers were sharing, Stasinowsky immediately hated her because she thought the teenager was flirting with her lover, the court heard.

Parashumti felt the need to prove that Stacey meant nothing to her, so she and Stasinowsky decided to kill her.

On the day of the murder, the trio drank whiskey in the kitchen and Stacey took tablets which made her drowsy.

Parashumti crept up behind Stacey and started hitting her on the head with a concrete slab, while Stasinowsky took off a dog chain belt and began to strangle her.

Stacey took at least 45 minutes to die, but Stasinowsky later told a prison officer she wished it had lasted longer.

"Even more appalling are your admissions to the effect that at the time of the murder you were each sexually excited by the violence of the event," said Judge Blaxell.

The killers made a mobile phone video of the murder scene, laughing and mocking their victim, and then dumped her body upside down in a garbage bin in a back shed.

A psychologist found Parashumti, who drank blood as part of a vampire subculture, had very strong sexual sadistic tendencies and was sexually aroused by physical torture and violence.

__
'S'

[/center][/color]

[Spider]

I found this to be interesting



Blind ‘Ants from Mars’

By: Peter N. Spotts | Staff Writer
The Christian Science Monitor
September 18, 2008

Since the days of the T. rex, few animals have evolved into such numbers and filled such diverse habitats as ants.

Now, scientists say they have uncovered a “living fossil” among the picnic spoilers – a tiny, blind ant whose species appears to be what the team calls “the sole surviving representative” of some of the first ants, which are thought to have evolved from wasp ancestors 120 million years ago.

The researchers from the US, Germany, and Brazil dubbed the species Martialis heureka, or the ant from Mars.

The specimen they uncovered is only about 1/10th of an inch long, has no eyes, and lives in the soil.

DNA studies, along with the ant’s physical traits, suggest that it occupies a place at the very base of the ant family tree.

It also belongs to its own new subfamily of ants – the first new subfamily uncovered since the early 1920s, says the research team, led by Christian Rabeling, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas at Austin.

Not all of the early ants were blind or lived underground, the team holds, but M. heureka’s traits suggest that ants adapted to different ecological niches relatively quickly after they branched off the wasp’s early lineage.

The results appear in this week’s issue of
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

_______________
__
'S' [/center]

[Spider]

Do Lemmings really commit suicide?

(clic pic for answer)

__
'S'

[Spider]

Journey Through A Jet Engine

[clic pic]

__
'S'

[/color]

[Spider]

[Clic Pic]

'WOW'
I didn't know they could do this!

[child in womb - before and after]

__
'S'

[Spider]

Health club warns aliens will eat 'fatties' first.



One of Britain's biggest health clubs has been criticised for putting up
a sign warning "fatties" they would be eaten first by aliens.



~ Continue Reading ~
________
__
'S'

[Spider]

Check out this new show coming to HBO
that will premiere after True Blood this summer.

Mummy!

A coming of age tale of a Mummy who wants to find love
but can't find it with a Mummy & instead ends up in love with a Fleshy.
_________
__
'S'

[Spider]

__
'S'

[Spider]

Yearbook Photos of Your Favorite TV Reporters

Anchors/reporters are the celebrities of the news business:
A bunch of familiar faces that sometimes won't stop talking.

But can you name the newscasters before they became famous?

Test your knowledge of these TV mainstays
with their yearbook photos.

There are quite a few interesting fashion/hair choices in the bunch.

[/size]

Onward to the Gallery[/u][/size][/color] [/url]
(answers to the right of each photo).


_________
__
'S' [/center]

[Spider]

telegraph.co.uk
By: Our Foreign Staff
Published: 03 Nov., 2010


Barack Obama Sex Doll
For Sale in China


[The doll was photographed by Chinese state media]
[nestling behind several other standard plastic female toys.]

Americans may have fallen out of love with Barack Obama, but the president of the United States is still an object of affection for the Chinese, who have remodelled him as a blow-up sex doll.

The Barack Obama sex doll was exhibited at the recent 8th Sex Culture Festival in the southern city of Guangzhou.

A doll wearing a dark blue suit and red tie, and with Mr. Obama's face carefully screen-printed onto its head, was exhibited at the recent 8th Sex Culture Festival in the southern city of Guangzhou.

Mr. Obama is widely popular in China, and a "Maobama" t-shirt, bearing an image of his face crossed with a portrait of Chairman Mao, has become a best-seller.

The Guangzhou show, which was only open to adults, cost 30 yuan (£3)to enter and was visited by "tens of thousands" of people, according to a spokesman for the Guangdong Gongchuang Economic Development company, the organisers.

One star attraction was a female doll costing 98,000 yuan.

"We do not know which manufacturer produced this doll," the spokesman added.

However, the picture of the Obama doll, which circulated on the Chinese internet, drew an wide array of responses.

"How could they place the US president behind those other poorly-made models. He is the head of a big country, after all," wrote one anonymous commentator on the Netease internet forum.

"Why can't we have a Mao Tse-tung toy?" asked another.

__________
__
'S'