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BIZARRE NEWS - Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008
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Greetings fellow Bizarros:
This is just what you want when you come home after a night
out drinking...floating furniture. The Lounger, a hovering
chair inspired by the land speeders from the "Star Wars"
movies, is set to go on sale in Britain in March.
The furniture hovers above the ground using three strong
magnets to give a feeling of weightlessness. Creator Keith
Dixon said he has already gotten response about his
invention from around the world.
"Sitting on it is an incredible sensation," he said. "You
are defying gravity."
The chair is comprised of a base and a see-through acrylic
seat all with magnets repelling each other, forcing the
seat to float up to 14 inches above the base. A pair of
connecting rods stops the seat shooting off sideways but
allows it to move up and down.
"The lounger moves when you sit down, but then it finds
its own level," said Dixon, adding that it can hold up to
266 pounds.
Bizarrely,
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+-------------- Bizarre Newspaper Headlines ---------------+
STRIP CLUBS SHOCK - Magistrates May Act On Indecent Shows
(Daily Mirror).
AUDIENCE TRIED TO SPOIL PLAY - But St. Chad's Players
Succeeded (Sunderland Echo).
A FARMER'S WIFE IS BEST SHOT (Glasgow Evening Citizen).
NUDIST NABBED - Unclothed Man Who Admits Brandishing Pistol
Is Charged With Carrying Concealed Weapon (Providence Jour-
nal).
MAGNATE USED TO REMOVE NAIL IN STOMACH (Los Angeles Times).
PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM - Special Committee To Sit On Bed Bug
(Liverpool Echo).
PIPELINE RAPTURED (Ghanaian Times).
UNDERTAKER'S FAILURE - Let Down By Customers (Yorkshire
paper).
CHANNEL SWIM ATTEMPT - Boston Girl's Arrival in Liverpool
(Liverpool Echo).
POLICE FOUND SAFE UNDER BLANKET (Gloucestershire Echo).
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-------- 70-year perfect attendance for Rotarian ----------
HOUSTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The Rotary Club of Houston has
announced a special celebration for a Rotarian who has
not missed a weekly lunch at the club in 70 years. A club
official said Bernie Lorino, 93, began attending weekly
Rotary Club lunches in 1938 and hasn't missed a meal since,
the Houston Chronicle reported. "We're going to have a
celebration," Rotary President Vern Swisher said. "We'll
have Bernie's family and special friends. We'll have a
cake. We're just going to let him and his family know how
very blessed we are to have him in our club." Lorino's
dedication to perfect attendance once led members of the
Garden of the Gods Rotary Club in Manatee Springs, Colo.,
to hold a meeting at his bedside while he was recovering
from a kidney ailment. "I think that says that the Rotary's
'service above self' motto is vitally important to him,"
Swisher said. "Bernie not only attends, he's actively
involved. He's a real asset to our club." Lorino is modest
about his accomplishment, insisting he has met a Florida
Rotarian with an unbroken attendance record longer than
his own 70-year streak.
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-------- Hearing postponed for drunk defendant ----------
REDMOND, Wash. - A Redmond, Wash., judge postponed a hear-
ing in a drunken driving case after the defendant showed
up in court intoxicated. King County District Court Judge
Linda Jacke put off the hearing until Feb. 27 after Joseph
Longfellow, 35, recorded a 0.32 percent blood alcohol
content in a portable breath test, The Seattle Times
reported Thursday. State law considers anyone with a blood
alcohol content higher than 0.08 percent to be intoxicated.
The judge ordered Longfellow taken into custody, but
paramedics insisted on taking him to a hospital to ensure
he did not suffer alcohol poisoning. Trooper Jeff Merrill,
a spokesman for the Washington State Highway Patrol, said
Longfellow was arrested Dec. 2 after he was involved in
an accident in a construction zone. He refused a Breath-
alyzer test and was charged with driving under the
influence, Merrill said. Longfellow has pleaded not guilty
to the DUI charge.
---------- Preschool bans stripes, polka dots -------------
KOSKULLSKULLE, Sweden - A Koskullskulle, Sweden, preschool,
trying to spare an employee migraine headaches, has barred
students from wearing striped or polka-dot clothing. School
officials said the employee's headaches are set off by
looking at multicolored clothing, The Local reported
Thursday. "It's a pity for the employee and as a result
I've tried to create an appropriate work environment. The
person in question has a right to be able to work,"
Principal Maj Norberg told the Norrlandska Socialdemokraten
newspaper. Some parents have objected to their children
being forced to change to more blandly colored clothes when
they show up in "inappropriate" garb. "I have a hard time
believing that they have a right to make this sort of
demand," said Ulf Eriksson, head of the National
Association of Homes and Schools. "As a politician I think
it sounds a pretty strange to force preschool children to
have a certain type of clothing. We don't have such
regulations in this municipality," Weine Backman, head of
the committee for children, education and culture for
Gallivare municipality, told the newspaper.
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-------- NYC condoms invite users to 'Get Some' ---------
NEW YORK - Teams from the New York Health Department are
distributing official city condoms wrapped in a newly-
designed package that invites users to "Get Some."
Officials with the city Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene said teams distributed the slogan-bearing condoms
to commuters for Valentine's Day, WNYW-TV, New York,
reported Thursday. The NYC Condom has shown us what a
sexy brand can do for safer sex," said Dr. Monica Sweeney,
the health department's assistant commissioner for human
immunodeficiency virus prevention and control. "We gave
out more than 36 million of them last year. I hope the
fresh look will help even more New Yorkers protect them-
selves from infection and unintended pregnancy in 2008."
Officials with fuseproject, the San Francisco-based ad
agency that designed the condom wrappers and dispensers,
said the rebranded designs are aimed at making condom use
more attractive. "Good design can help bring condoms out
of the closet," said Yves Behar, the agency founder. "The
brand's friendly design and the dispenser's approachable
shape convey openness and acceptance. They say condoms
are nothing to be embarrassed about."
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READER COMMENTS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Re: Mom Chooses Beer Over Baby. Well, of course she chose
beer over the baby. Toddlers aren't nearly as refreshing
or thirst-quenching as a frosted mug o' suds!! -Jamie
[Maybe if you chill them really well....]
I agree with Janet on this and I don't care about the size
of men's columns.
[I'll forward your email to TZ.]
Lewis, Does the sex bot company offer financing? You'd
think that anyone who can afford to spend $7000 on a sex
doll wouldn't NEED to buy a sex doll wouldn't you?
-Jamie in Nova Scotia
[Depends on where you are, I would guess. Which would you
rather have on a cold, Nova Scotia night...the $7,000, the
attention of an amorous sea lion or the sex bot?]
The problem with using prison labor for litter removal is
that it sends the wrong message to youth and to the com-
munity as a whole. It makes things like picking up litter
and concern for the environment, which are decent things,
appear to be punishment. Basic psychology. Kind of like
your obvious inferiority complex when it comes to the South.
How's that crooked government working out for you there in
Chicago? It's a lot easier to make fun of things and people
you know nothing about than it is to improve your own lot,
isn't it? Perhaps you should remove some of the litter,
such as the cowardly and contemptuous remarks, from your
rag. Your smug, arrogant and low comments clearly demon-
strate Northern inferiority. -Cindi
[Yep. It's too bad we have all the money.]
Could you please tell me what anyone would want with croc
eggs? Over easy or scrambled?? And by the way...I don't
think you are a dickhead like that person from the south
called you. -The Empress
[No, not a dickhead. Just smug, arrogant and contemptuous.]
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