Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - not a gamelan in sight...

 
 

German man marries his dying cat

The article says that marrying an animal is illegal in Germany.  That's reassuring to know.

Steve Jobs Cheese Head

Nuff said...

Looking for that extra-special gift?

Then look no further.
This "Bacon grease glass vase (scented)" is being offered for sale on ebay, and at the time of posting has already attracted two bids.  A highly unusual item, this is sure to make the ideal gift for the bacon grease connoisseur in your life.  But don't delay - you only have five days left to bid...
The seller's description:
"Want to preserve the scent of bacon in your home at all times? 
This glass vase (that includes its first layer of bacon grease!) is the perfect way to store your bacon grease. 
The vase itself, 7 inches tall with a 4-inch diameter mouth at the top, is glass, but already tinted with the scent of fresh bacon. The grease itself is 1.5 inches deep, from a pound of bacon made on Friday, February 19. (Which means it's still fresh!)
With this vase, you'll be able to keep the grease forever, which means you can let your nose enjoy the smell of bacon any time of day. You'll also prevent those nasty accidental spills of grease down your drain. (And who wants that?)
Use this vase as a way to start your bacon grease collection. Add to it every time you make bacon and eggs for breakfast--you can start your own collection of grease in a layered display (like those sand art crafts you used to love as a kid). If you want, we'll even add another layer of bacon grease before we ship this product.
Admit it--a bacon grease collection is something you never thought you'd need, but now that you've heard about it, you really want to get started!
Save your drain! Save the smell! Save the bacon grease!"

 

My New Pink Button | Dangerous Minds

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Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something like this comes along:

My New Pink Button (tm) is a temporary dye to restore the youthful pink color back to your labia. There is no other product like it. This patent pending formula was designed by a female certified Paramedical Esthetician after she discovered her own genital color loss. While looking online for a solution she discovered thousands of other women asking the same questions regarding their color loss. After countless searches revealing no solution available and a discussion with her own gynecologist she decided to create her own. Now there is a solution!

They have several different shades—but of course—in their product line.

For instance, there’s “Bettie”:

Think of that favorite lipstick you wear for those dressy black tie affairs and think “Ginger.” This shade blends with a woman’s own skin tones to bring out that “sexy hot pink, I am fired up, look”. Go dancing this weekend and remember to bring “Bettie” along!

“Audry” will give your vagina a “bold, burgundy-pink” color and “Marilyn” is for the fairer ladies out there.

PS Maybe it’s just that I have the brain of a natural-born marketer, but don’t you think “HOT BOX” would have been a better, more memorable name for this product line?

*runs far, far away*

Additional reading: Color Your Cootchie Like a M*therf%@king Rainbow…! (Cherrybombed)

Thank you Mr. Mark Jordan of London, England!

 

Why flies were chosen as urinal targets | Boing Boing

NPR has a story about why urinal manufacturers chose the fly as a target to reduce splashing.

Keiboom in Amsterdam says the original fly idea was proposed almost 20 years ago by Dutch maintenance man Jos Van Bedoff, who had served in the Dutch army in the 1960s. As a soldier he noticed that someone had put small, discrete red dots in the barracks urinals, which dramatically cut back on “misdirected flow.”

Two decades later, he proposed to the airport board of directors that the dots be turned into etched flies. According to Keiboom, Van Bedoff decided that guys want to directly aim at an animal they can immobilize. The ability to use one’s natural gifts and achieve victory over the foe while standing is the key, he explained. Guys, he felt, can always beat flies. That’s why flies are so satisfying.

Is that the answer?

Berenbaum, the entomologist, says she’s not convinced. More than a hundred years ago in Britain, bathroom bowls also sported insect images, she says. Back then, however, the favored target was not a fly, but a bee. And bees have stingers. It seems that men in the 1890s were willing to take more imaginative risks when peeing.

There's A Fly In My Urinal (Via Nudge Blog)

 

Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises | Boing Boing

Male bedbugs will schtup anything, and when they do, their stabby little penises can do great damage to one another. Female bedbugs have some "down there" armor that absorbs the punishing blows of the bedbug's love-spear, but males lack this protection. A pheromone discovered by a Swedish researcher can cause male bedbugs to kill each other with their penises through uncontrolled shagging:

According to lead researcher Camilla Ryne, bedbugs are notoriously undiscerning about who they mount, and are accustomed to stab their penis straight into another male's abdomen...

Males with blocked glands were mounted as often as other males, but for longer and suffered more wounds.

"This is the first time I've seen an alarm pheromone used as a sexual one," New Scientist quoted Ryne as saying.

New discovery may help deal with bedbug infestation (Thanks, Steve)

(Image: 98221_hires.jpg, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from liz.novack's photostream)

 

Spanish cops called in over allegation that band was playing "contemporary" music at jazz festival, medical necessity cited | Boing Boing

Spanish Civil Guardsmen were dispatched to the Sigüenza Jazz Festival to gather evidence as to whether the Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core band were actually performing jazz or "contemporary music." Their attendance followed a complaint from a festivalgoer whose doctor "had warned it was 'psychologically inadvisable' for him to listen to anything that could be mistaken for mere contemporary music."

His complaint against the organisers, who refused to return his money, was duly registered and will be passed on to a judge.

"The gentleman said this was not jazz and that he wanted his money back," said the festival director, Ricardo Checa.

"He didn't get his money. After all, he knew exactly what group he was going to see, as their names were on the festival programme.

He added: "The question of what constitutes jazz and what does not is obviously a subjective one, but not everything is New Orleans funeral music.

"Larry Ochs plays contemporary, creative jazz. He is a fine musician and very well-renowned."

Spanish fan calls police over saxophone band who were just not jazzy enough