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Swedish couple win the right to call their child Lego

Ikea isn't acceptable, but a boy in Sweden now has the right to be named Lego.

The decision comes from the Administrative Court of Appeals in Stockholm, reports the Pointlex legal news service.

Both the Swedish Tax Authority and the County Administrative Court had earlier denied parents the right to name a child after the famous coloured building blocks for children.

Both referenced an earlier ruling which forbid the name Ikea.

Bizarro Earth

Taiwan: Boy, 4, in rehab for cigar addiction

A four-year-old boy is in rehab in Taiwan after he became addicted to smoking his father's cigars.

The father, of Gaoxiong city, started taking his sons, aged nine and four, to a rehabilitation centre after catching them stealing his cigarettes and cigars.

"The answer was what I had expected, but the hardest to accept," he told China Times.

The boys admitted stealing and said they did it because they thought their father looked "cool" when he smoked.

Pumpkin

Eighties fashion 'violates laws of nature'

Lopsided haircuts made popular by 1980s pop stars not only risk making those sporting them look silly but also go against the evolutionary process itself, according to a professor of mathematics.

Even 20 years later many still cringe at the decade's excesses from Flashdance legwarmers to shoulder pads, New Romantic frills and excessive eyeliner.

Now Prof Marcus du Sautoy, of Oxford University, says that as well as being in questionable taste some of the more bizarre haircuts of the 1980s actually run counter to the path of evolution.

Over the centuries people have developed to find symmetry attractive but the decade remembered for yuppies, mullets and ra-ra skirts saw a host of stars choosing daring asymmetrical haircuts, which flies in the face of nature's rules of attraction.

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Eighties fashions: Cyndi Lauper (left) and Flock of Seagulls (right)

Crusader

Australia: Pope's visit to boost sex industry, says study

Australia's sex industry is preparing for a business boom arising from the Catholic Church's World Youth Day in July.

Eye 2

NY comics seek record with 50 hours of stand-up

Comedian Marina Franklin would normally be offended if somebody fell asleep during her stand-up routine, but 13 hours into a 50-hour comedy marathon she's willing to cut the crowd some slack.

Franklin was one of around 100 comedians trying to set a Guinness world record for the longest non-stop stand-up comedy show this week at a New York comedy club.

Smiley

Missing Cape Cod lighthouse located in California

WELLFLEET, Mass. - Local historians for decades thought the 30-foot tall lighthouse that once overlooked Wellfleet Harbor had been taken down and destroyed in 1925.

Turns out, it had just been moved to the California coast.

lighthouse at Point Montara
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A lighthouse at Point Montara is shown in Montara, Calif., Wednesday, June 4, 2008. According to lighthouse researchers, this lighthouse was first erected in 1881 overlooking Wellfleet Harbor in Wellfleet, Mass. and had been moved by the Coast Guard from Wellfleet to Yerba Buena, Calif., and eventually to Point Montara.

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Brazil inmate had $173K, guns, TV, fridge in cell

SAO PAULO - The luxurious lifestyle of a convict in northeastern Brazil has come to an abrupt end after police confiscated a plasma TV set, gym equipment, two pistols and cash worth $173,000 from his cell, officials said Tuesday.

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Police: Woman arrested for non-emergency 911 calls

BENTON, Illinois - Police in Benton say Tabitha Artis was persistent in dialing up the county's 911 system, and they're calling it a crime. The 27-year-old woman was arrested for disorderly conduct for allegedly making several 911 calls police didn't consider emergencies.

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Dutch man injures posterior in mooning accident

UTRECHT, Netherlands - Utrecht police say a 21-year-old Dutch man is recovering after a "mooning" that went horribly wrong.

A police statement says the man and two others had run down a street in Utrecht with their pants pulled down in the back "for a joke."

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Man unearths box of Depression-era cash

Milwaukee - Dan Deming had heard the rumours about the buried treasure on his central Wisconsin farm.

At first he made some halfhearted attempts to find it, and then searched in earnest for two or three years after receiving a metal detector for his birthday.

"I don't know what I thought, if I thought it was really there or not," he said.

The mystery ended recently while Deming was tearing down a 100-year-old shed on his property. A rusted box tumbled from the rubble and wads of currency dating back to the Depression spilled on the ground.