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(Should give the term "Magic Kingdom" a whole new meaning)

London to Get Sexual 'Theme Park'

LONDON - Move over, Eros. Developers announced plans Friday to open a multimillion dollar sexual "theme park" near London's Piccadilly Circus, home to the much-photographed statue of the Greek god of love.

Backers say the London Academy of Sex and Relationships, due to open next spring, will not be a sleazy sex museum, but an educational multimedia attraction that will teach visitors to become better lovers and provide valuable information about disease and sexual problems.

Located within the Trocadero entertainment center — just around the corner from Soho, London's red-light district — the $8.3 million project will feature unspecified "high tech and interactive exhibits."

Alex Rayner, a spokesman for the project, said it was "committed to avoiding the sleazy image that the sex industry usually conjures."

"Titillation is not the goal," he said. "It's meant to be educational. It's meant to be informative."

The privately funded project has support from sexual health organizations including the Sexual Dysfunction Association and AIDS charity The Terrence Higgins Trust.

"It is long overdue that the U.K. faces up to its responsibilities in the sexual arena — we cannot simply avoid mankind's leading preoccupation and the issues that go with it," said the academy's director of exhibits, Dr. Sarah Brewer. "The academy is the perfect vehicle by which to address these important matters in an exciting, amusing and yet educational way."

Several cities around the world — including New York, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Paris — are home to erotic museums. Typically, they exhibit everything from pornography to high-minded paintings exploring local sexual attitudes and culture.

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"You can skip tellin' me about the Chevrolet Player of the Game. A thousand-dollar contribution to a scholarship fund in the athlete's name. A thousand dollars won't even keep a kid in decent drugs for one semester."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Never underestimate the powers of the handicapped)

Police: Man in Wheelchair Steals Squad Car

RIALTO, Calif. - A disabled man in a wheelchair, arrested for allegedly trying to steal a power saw at Home Depot, managed to slip out of his handcuffs and steal the squad car he was placed in.

Phillip Anthony Moreno, 44, a parolee with a previous $200,000 warrant for his arrest, has eluded capture.

Moreno and girlfriend Denise Marie Vasquez, 35, were taken into custody about 3 p.m. Tuesday by Home Depot security officers after they allegedly tried to steal a hand-held electric saw, Sgt. Randy DeAnda said.

"He had been sitting on it. It was under him on the chair," the sergeant said.

When police officers arrived, they arrested Moreno and Vasquez and placed them in separate patrol cars. Moreno's wheelchair was put the squad car's trunk and the arresting officers stepped away to search the couple's car.

DeAnda said Moreno got out of the handcuffs, crawled through the security barrier window opening separating the front and back seat and got behind the wheel of the squad car.

Moreno drove away, the sergeant said, noting he has a bad leg.

The police car was found several hours later abandoned in Bloomington. The wheelchair was missing from the trunk.

Vasquez was booked and remains in custody, DeAnda said.

Yawnnnnnnnnnn

I so sleepy. I can't keep my eyes open. It is only 1:15 pm. I still have over 4 hours left to work today. Where is the No-Doze when you need it????

Blast From The Past

Remember this stuff? My mom would never buy this stuff for me, so I had to have my grandma buy it for me, or I had to use my money to get some and then hide it so my mom wouldn't see. Why? Because it was nothing but flavored and colored sugar that came with 2 big, fat sticks of sugar which were supposed to be your "dipping sticks." Yep...sugar plus more sugar. That is a sure way to get any kid hyped up. The "Lik Stiks," as they were called, were kinda nasty tasting on their own. You needed to put them in the Fun Dip so that they would get some kind of flavor. Some people liked to eat the sticks, while others, like me, threw them away. Nasty! The Fun Dip had the consistency of sand, which was what made it so fun! I believe they still sell this stuff at candy shops. So if you see some in a candy store, pick up a packet and have at it, and prepare to get a sugar high.

Link:
Lik Em Aid

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(Revenge, he said...revenge!)

He should have taken a gander upwards

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish hunter was knocked unconscious after his son shot a flying Canadian goose which then fell onto his head, news agency TT reported Wednesday.

"I guess it wanted revenge," hunter Ulf Ilback told local newspaper Extra Ostergotland, according to TT.

Ilback said he had to stay in bed for two days after being knocked out by the goose, which fell from around 60 feet. The birds can weigh up 13 pounds.

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"I don't like it when I'm in an audience and the emcee tells us to give someone a welcome specific to that city. 'Let's all get together and give this little lady a nice Toledo welcome.' I've often thought if I were from Toledo it would be fun now and then to give someone a Baltimore welcome, just to break the emcee's balls. Or maybe slip in an exotic Budapest welcome when no one is expecting it. One thing I would never do is give someone a Dallas welcome. That's what JFK got. Dallas welcomes don't last too long."

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(Oops...our bad.)

Dutch police raid pensioner's flat by accident

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police stormed into an 80-year-old woman's flat, startling her in her sleep, after neighbours mistook her protest over a broken elevator as a plea to be rescued.

"The lady had hung up a banner on her balcony saying: 'Help, I am locked up!' and worried residents in the neighbourhood called the police," police spokesman Frans van Rijnswou said on Monday.

Pensioner Philomena Priem, who has difficulties walking and lives on the seventh floor in a flat in the town of Zoetermeer, put up the banner to complain about maintenance work to an elevator that prevented her from coming and going when she wanted.

Sequoias

We went camping over the weekend in Sequoia National Park. You can see the pictures here.

Funny Stuff From George Carlin

"Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning."

Stupid News Story of The Day

(Here's a tip: If you have an illegal job, it is best not to talk about it with the media.)

Media boasts land top hooker in jail

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A $2,000 an hour prostitute known as New York's No. 1 Escort pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of money laundering and prostitution that stemmed from her bragging in the media about her work.

Canadian Natalia McLennan, 25, sobbed uncontrollably in Manhattan Criminal Court after she was unable to post $50,000 bail and was taken away in handcuffs to jail.

The charges against McLennan came after she bragged in several interviews about her professional exploits, including posing provocatively for the cover of New York Magazine under the headline "N.Y.'s # 1 Escort Reveals All."

In that interview, she told the magazine she generated revenues of $1.5 million annually and kept 45 percent of that sum in return for having sex with high-roller clients of NY Confidential, a swanky Moroccan-themed brothel in Manhattan.

McLennan showed up for her arraignment dressed in a skimpy mini-skirt, a see-through blouse and four-inch spike heels, and told the court she had no idea she would remain in custody after the hearing. She wailed as she was taken from the courtroom.

She will remain in jail pending her next hearing on Monday. She faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.