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KFC Shows They Don't Give a Cluck. This Time with Juvenile Diabetes

Joe Waters
Selfish Giving
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:34 UTC
KFC Mug
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I just can't understand what Kentucky Fried Chicken is thinking with its latest cause marketing program. This picture says it all. Buy a HALF-GALLON of soda - with 800 calories from 56 spoonfuls of sugar - for $2.99 and a buck goes to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

I'm actually more astonished that JDRF would sign on for such a pact. KFC showed it's a bird of a different feather last year with Buckets for the Cure and the dreadful Double Down. It's no surprise to me that they deep fried their reputation again, covering it with a disgusting, unappealing exterior that few can digest.

But JDRF should have known better. I Googled the partnership and some Dallas KFC's were selling JDRF's signature sneaker pinups, which seems a more appropriate venture as it's not directly connected to KFC's menu.
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Ridiculous Overreaction! Portland Reservoir Gets Drained After Man Urinates In It

Olivia B. Waxman
Time
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:12 UTC
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© Wikimedia CommonsReservoir at Mount Tabor Park in Portland, Oregon.


Think back to your summer camp days: remember how annoying it was to evacuate the swimming pool when a kid had an accident? Turns out a similar thing happened in an Oregon reservoir this week.

The Portland Water Bureau got pretty pissed off when cameras caught 21-year-old Josh Seater from Molalla, Oregon, urinating in a reservoir in Mount Tabor Park at about 1:30 am Wednesday morning. The Bureau spent about $36,000 to drain the 7.8 million-gallon open reservoir, a major water source for the city's residents.

David Shaff, administrator of the Portland Water Bureau, argued that the draining was justified because the thought of someone whizzing in the water would make residents stop drinking tap water.
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Cat that barks like a dog - until someone notices

Muriel Kane
RawReplay
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:06 UTC
In Russia, even the cats suddenly shift gears when they realize Big Brother is watching. This one is barking out the window like a dog until it sees the camera.

Then it's all, "Meow. Yes, of course, meow, meow. I'm a cat, obviously, meow. Did you think something different? No dogs here. Meow, meow."

This video is from YouTube, uploaded by irik7070 on June 12, 2011
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Security guard tries to remove wart from finger with a shotgun


Yorkshire Post
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:30 UTC
A security guard from South Yorkshire shot himself in the hand to try to remove a wart from his finger.

Sean Murphy, 38, lost most of his left middle finger after using the stolen 12-bore Beretta shotgun at a garden centre in Doncaster.

He also landed in court for using an illegal firearm, and was handed a 16-week suspended prison sentence.

Murphy was told at Doncaster Magistrates' Court that the offence carried a maximum 15 year term.

But he said: "The best thing is that the wart has gone. It was giving me lot of trouble."
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US: Woman Reunited with $30,000 Engagement Ring 14 years Later

Nadine Bells
Yahoo News
Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00 UTC


In 1997, a New Mexico woman lost her engagement ring.

This past week, the woman, who doesn't want her name published, was reunited with the 3-carat pear-shaped diamond.

Santa Fe police announced a few weeks ago that the ring, which had been in their possession for more than two years, would be auctioned off if no one claimed it. Police say 25 eager-but-unsuccessful claims were were made before the rightful owner provided the receipt for the long-lost ring and a photo of her wearing it.

"First words out of her mouth were, 'This is my ring,'" Lieutenant Louis Carlos said of the woman who bought the ring in 1997 on credit.

The woman's fiance at the time promised to make payments on it. She claims that shortly after the ring disappeared, so did he. The bill she was stuck with, which included a list of the "used" ring's flaws, helped her claim her ring.

The Daily Journal reports that the 45-year-old Albuquerque woman was making dinner when the $30,000 ring went missing. She took the ring off before handling raw meat and never saw it again.
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Swedish artist Erik Johansson Creates Incredible Optical Illusion in Stockholm Square

Michael Bolen
Daily Buzz
Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:50 UTC
This takes "Mind the Gap" to the next level.

For the last five days, citizens and visitors in Stockholm have been treated to an astonishing optical illusion in the city's Sergels torg central square. You can check out the breathtaking work of art below


The illusion was created by Swedish artist Erik Johansson. On his website, Johansson writes that he has "always been quite fascinated by perspective illusions in my images and some time ago I got an idea of trying to realize one in a public space somewhere."
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Cigarette cards

Grandad
Smoking Out The Truth
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:02 UTC
There was a time when cigarette cards were collectors' items.

Sadly, those days are gone, and the best we can hope for these days are the lovely images they print on the packs. I have a little collection of these, and I thought I would share them.

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The first is the old time classic.

"Smokers die younger".

Younger than what? Younger than older people? Younger than the Queen Mother? How do they know what my lifespan would be if I didn't smoke? All I can say about this one is that it is miles too vague. Leastwise, it's hardly very scary?

2/10

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Dancing traffic cop in the Philippines


Youtube
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:09 UTC
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Top 10 Royal-Family Gaffes

William Lee Adams
Time
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00 UTC
Prince Philip is easily Britain's most blundering royal, but he's certainly not the only member of the monarchy to make a public blooper. To mark the Duke of Edinburgh's 90th birthday, TIME takes a look at some of the royal family's biggest gaffes

Prince Charles Holds the Press in Contempt
Prince Charles
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In 2005, more than 50 journalists gathered at Klosters, a Swiss ski resort, for a photo call marking Prince Charles' imminent wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles. During the shoot, Charles couldn't hide his contempt. "I hate doing this ... I hate these people," he muttered to his sons Harry and William, unaware that his microphone was picking up every word. Asked by the BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell how he felt about his upcoming nuptials, Charles responded sarcastically, "I'm very glad you've heard of it, anyway." He then turned his head slightly toward Harry and whispered, "Bloody people. I can't bear that man. He's so awful, he really is."

Princess Anne Insults a Fan
Princess Anne
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On Christmas Day 2000, 75-year-old pensioner Mary Halfpenny spent three hours making a flower display for the Queen Mother, then waited patiently outside a church on Sandringham Estate - one of the royal family's country homes - hoping to present it to her. The exchange never happened. Instead, Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth II's only daughter, grabbed the bouquet and huffed, "What a ridiculous thing to do!" The incident left Halfpenny reeling. "It was a really hurtful thing to say," she told reporters. "I've made baskets of flowers for the Queen, and she has always said how nice they are." And Anne's un-princesslike attitude didn't end there: she reportedly told her nieces, princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, to "get a move on" and discouraged them from accepting flowers from well-wishers.
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Graffiti knitters to hit streets on Yarnbombing Day

Julie Mollins
Reuters
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:53 UTC
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Their surreptitious strikes can happen at any time of the day or night. They target the urban landscape -- fences, poles, bicycle racks, construction sites and other commonplace fixtures of city life -- but their weapon is wool and their goal is to enhance cities with their creations rather than destroy.

Over the past few years, a London faction have adorned various famous structures in the capital with wool, including scarves for the lions of Trafalgar Square and a cover on a red telephone box in Parliament Square.

But they can strike anywhere and on Saturday, June 11th this global network of "graffiti knitters" will target objects in local areas that they want to enhance with their handiwork, as part of the first International Yarnbombing Day.

Originator Joann Matvichuk, 44, of Lethbridge in the Canadian province of Alberta, came up with the idea for a special day as she tossed and turned in her bed one night unable to sleep due to insomnia.
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