Popular road sign in England, due to its odd name, especially for Americans whose term “butt hole,” means “anus,” it has since been changed, unfortunately.
Unfortunately this sign is no longer there, it has been renamed Archers Way in 2009, due to so many American tourists stopping by this sign in Doncaster, England, and taking photos while smirking and laughing. Continue reading
Talk about the government losing their heads. This man, Gary Harrington, is currently in jail because he collected rain water on his own private land! Let the comments flow . . .
SEPTEMBER 8–A Florida woman who claimed to be a “vampire” last night attacked an elderly man, biting him on the face and arm and tearing away chunks of his skin, according to police.
The arrest affidavit:
Shortly after 9/11 the United States government created a Federal agency known as the Information Awareness Office — now defunct — but it had the most omnous New World Order-ish, Illuminatiesque, logo that we’d ever seen. Wikipedia writes about the organization:
The Information Awareness Office(IAO) was established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillanceand information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to national security, by achievingTotal Information Awareness (TIA). This would be achieved by creating enormous computer databases to gather and store the personal information of everyone in the United States, including personal e-mails, social networks, credit card records, phone calls, medical records, and numerous other sources, without any requirement for a search warrant.[1] This information would then be analyzed to look for suspicious activities, connections between individuals, and “threats”.[2] Additionally, the program included funding for biometric surveillance technologies that could identify and track individuals using surveillance cameras, and other methods.[2]
Following public criticism that the development and deployment of these technologies could potentially lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by Congress in 2003. However, several IAO projects continued to be funded, and merely run under different names
Creepy.
According to some scholars and theorists, Irish Roman Catholic Saint Malachy created a prophetic list of 112 Popes.
This list is known as the Prophecy of the Popes or St. Malachy’s Prophecy. Apparently the prophecy is written in short Latin phrases attributing special characteristics to certain Popes, beginning with Pope Celestine II (1143), and ending with a certain “Petrus Romanus” who will be the last Catholic Pope, whose reign will end with the destruction of Rome.
Throughout the centuries scholars and theologians have highly criticized the authenticity of the prophecies. Nevertheless, some of the prophecies – created by St. Malachy or forgers – are interesting and do bear some vague coincidences. For example, for Pope John Paul II it was written “De labore solis,” which in Latin translates as “of the labor of the sun.”
Several explanations are often given for this – the future Pope used to work in a quarry in Poland, and he was born during a partial solar eclipse and was buried during a rare hybrid eclipse. The proceeding Pope, Benedict XVI, was given the “Gloria olivae,” which in Latin translates into “glory of the olive.” Some have claimed that Ratzinger’s choice to take the name of Benedict as a fulfillment of the prophecy, since the olive branch is one of the symbol’s for St. Benedict, and the Olivetans are a monastic order within the Benedictine Confederation. According to this prophecy the next Pope will be the last.
See: The Prophecies of St Malachy & St Columbkille. 6 ed. Buckingham: Colin Smythe, 2006.
Throughout the beginning of the 20th century, several ex-plorers made fascinating discoveries of mummies in the south-eastern edge of the Tarim Basin in China. The dis-covery of mummies is nothing new, but these mummies had notable differences from the typical physical features of people from that particular geographic region. Some of the mummies were tall, had long noses, and red and white hair indicating that they were Europeans, yet the mummies over 2,000 years old. After several DNA tests it has been shown that the DNA sequence of the mummies is characteristic of DNA found in the area of today’s Eastern Europe, particu-larly Ukraine.
See: Mair, Victor H., and J. P. Mallory. The Tarim Mummies. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2008.
Straight Edge refers to a subculture within the hardcore punk music scene. The principle ethics of the subculture are that its adherents abstain from the use of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and recreational sex. The term was coined in the 1980s by the Washington D.C. hardcore punk band Minor Threat, whose core tenants were taken from the lyrics of a song called “Straight Edge,” whose central message was that the hero had better things to do then to do drugs and abuse sex. Ian MacKaye, leader of the band and author of many of the songs, who does live a life of abstinence, is however not an exponent of Straight Edge as a group or subculture.
Roy Cleveland Sullivan of the United States is perhaps the only person to have been struck by lightning seven times. His first lightning strike occurred in 1942 when he was in a look-out tower; he lost a nail on his big toe. The second strike occurred in 1969 while he was driving a car, this time he was knocked unconscious and his eyebrows got burned. The third occurred in 1970, while working in his front yard. The fourth in 1972, while in a ranger station, setting his hair on fire. In 1973 a lightning bolt hit him in the head, setting his head on fire again. In 1974 he was struck for the sixth time, while camping. In 1977 he was hit for the seventh time, while he was fishing. It is unknown if he has been struck since 1977. He died in 1983 from natural causes.
A new reality TV show on the IFC will follow the adventures of men who love their beards. They claim they like to “win.”
Lohan – world’s oldest mother.
In November 2008 Rajo Devi Lohan (no relation to Lindsay Lohan, we think!?) from India gave birth to her first child, at the age of 70. While Lohan is the world’s oldest mother, the Indian farmer Nanu Ram Jogi is the world’s oldest father, who at the age of 90 fathered his 21st child to his fourth wife. Jogi has at least 12 sons, 9 daughters, and somewhere around 20 grandchildren – he is not certain of the exact amount.
Jogi – world’s oldest father.
