Extreme Psychosis

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tale of online love inspired usually cynical New Yorkers this week to help a young man find the girl of his dreams after he spotted her on a crowded subway train.

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Okay, what’s wrong with this picture? According to the caption, these farmers’ wives are taking a wooden carriage ride in a traditional 17th century event named for Saint Leonhard, the patron saint of animals, and they…Excuse me? Patron saint of animals? Well, unless that fox tumbled from a tree and got conked unconscious, this frau [...]

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German bank manager gave loans to a woman for sex and then embezzled thousands of euros to buy the silence of her relatives, authorities said on Thursday.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing authorities have scolded a local Communist revolution-themed restaurant for harming national sentiment by painting a sign “liberation zone” pointing the way to its toilets.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Ask most Britons if they would rather live in France and they’d probably answer “oui.” But British judges have ruled that two English boys who hate living there don’t have to.

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Well, it’s all downhill from here. Chad Ruble, who used to present video clips of adorable animals, is now hanging out with people who eat $25,000 desserts, $1,000 bagels, and carry utensils in their undergarments.On top of that, today he has a celebrity doing a cameo appearance. Remember the little animals that put you where you [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Got some leftover drugs — the kind that someone else might want to use, such as painkillers or stimulants? Wrap them up in used kitty litter or other pet droppings, the U.S. government advises.

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The children were nestled all snug in their beds,‘As a serial killer took an ax to their heads….Oh, don’t mind me, I’m just thinking holiday thoughts and looking at this advent calendar, which includes an ax murderer behind one of the doors. It really does.Some silly folks are objecting, claiming Fritz Haarmann, who murdered 24 [...]

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man forgot his car after filling it up at a petrol station, police said Friday.

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German flasher stunned lawyers during his appeal hearing on a flashing conviction by stripping off in court, authorities said Thursday.

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Today we have photos from the World Pie Championship. But these are called  “Scotch pies,” even though there is no Scotch in them, nor is there any pie, for that matter. A pie is a specific kind of dessert, with a filling you can describe in exactly two words, like key lime or mom’s apple or [...]

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Blog Guy, I’m very depressed about this TV writer strike. No new “Friday Night Lights,” no “30 Rock,” nothing to live for…Get a grip.Why don’t you do what they do in other countries where they don’t have a lot of their own stuff on television? They either a) watch our old “Starsky & Hutch” reruns, [...]

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It is late, you’re a woman alone, and bad guys are chasing you. You round a corner and whip up your skirt. Instantly, you’re camouflaged as a vending machine, and the attackers keep going. Maybe this urban ploy will work, but you should consider:What happens if the attackers, cranky because you got away, stop to enjoy [...]

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Quick quiz: the last words this model will ever hear are…“Folks, stay away from the panda’s cage, he LOVES stealing ice cream!”“You should’ve had this growth looked at sooner. It may be too late alrea…”“Honey, bring me an hors d’oeuvre from over there under that ceiling fan…”More stories from the Oddly Enough BlogA model presents a [...]

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There is a lingerie brand, see, and  when they want to promote a cause they make a clever bra, put it on a model and call in the media. Some dimwit will then give free publicity to their shopping bag bra or get-out-the-vote bra. Oh, right, all those were in  my blog.Anyway, their latest is a bra with its own set of chopsticks, to help save the trees being [...]

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Forget whatever clever system you use to pick your lottery numbers. Forget your birthday, your address and your girlfriend’s measurements, because a lottery millionaire in China found the perfect strategy: he won nearly $4 million simply by waiting for the winning numbers and then immediately buying those tickets.The dude, a lottery ticket seller himself, [...]

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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadians are becoming wordier, particularly when it comes to their last words.

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Models, you all did great yesterday, but let’s do even better at today’s fashion show. Some notes:Some of you looked a bit pasty. Every model should spend 45 minutes under the tanning lamp today, with number two oil around your eyes. That should restore some healthy color.Also, I know it’s boring backstage, but keep in mind [...]

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LONDON (Reuters) - Share a bath with the most rattlesnakes. Join the longest bra chain. Marvel at the world’s biggest underpants.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in central China has banned on-duty judges from wearing heavy makeup and “frolicking” with colleagues, in an exhaustive list of 55 regulations to improve judicial etiquette.

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There are few pleasures in life nicer than savoring a great view. Mountains, ocean, river, sweeping city skyline, whatever. That’s why I can sympathize with this dude who really wanted a better view from his retirement cottage, so he made one. With a chainsaw.It seems his place was about 50 yards from the [...]

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Twenty Chinese men, including several on the country’s richest list, paid $8,000 a head to attend a matchmaking party with 30 “single young beauties,” state media said Monday.

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Some readers will think I’m making this up. There was just a championship competition in chess boxing, a sport with alternating rounds of boxing, chess, boxing, chess, like that.  See, I warned you.I know what you’re thinking: chess players are smart, and boxers, um, aren’t. So  where do they get players? A good question. And how do they move those little-bitty pieces with boxing gloves? How can [...]

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Foot races for folks in high heels are on the increase. I began noticing this, um, spike in activity a few months ago. Sometimes it’s for charity, as in this video report, sometimes it’s for prizes, and at times, as in this slideshow,  it’s for guys who like to dress up like something other than [...]

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SANXENXO, Pontevedra (Reuters) - “Today it’s my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog.”

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man who kidnapped and raped a woman blamed his actions on a spider, local media reported on Thursday.

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German retiree secretly cut down or shortened 122 trees in a publicly owned forest to give his holiday cottage a clear view of the Baltic Sea, police said Thursday.

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Okay, you may have read that “The Exorcist” has been voted the scariest movie of all time in a Halloween poll published today.That’s probably a good choice. Certainly it’s the scariest film ever shot in Washington DC’s posh Georgetown neighborhood.Following that 1973 movie are 1980’s The Shining, and John Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween. Let’s see, then [...]

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LONDON (Reuters) - A mother cremated a body she thought was that of her dead son, only for him to turn up alive later, police said on Friday.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s secretive love hotels are opening up to European investors as one player in the sector prepares for a debut on London’s stock market this month.

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LYON (Reuters) - Olympique Lyon’s Czech forward Milan Baros was caught speeding at 168 miles per hour in his Ferrari, a club source confirmed Friday.

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LONDON (Reuters) - The Law Lords are due to decide next week whether an elderly victim can sue a rapist who went on to win millions of pounds on the lottery.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s battle against fake and substandard drugs has taken an unusual twist with the discovery of a Web site masquerading as that of the country’s food and drug watchdog.

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The centuries-old theme of man vs. machine, immortalized in song by noble “steel-drivin’ man” John Henry, has now hit rock-bottom: you can play rock, paper, scissors with a robot.Let’s all think about this. This game is the ultimate cliche for random decision-making. And now, for losers who can’t find anybody else who cares as little [...]

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You may recall that recently Chad Ruble presented a video story on a Japan’s Best Bottom competition, and pretty much took the high road regarding puns and double entendres. We were all proud of him.Well, apparently Chad found the high road lonely and boring, because today he’s down here at rock bottom, so to speak, [...]

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As some of you know, one purpose of this blog is to offer career counseling. If I can help recent grads make informed decisions about male belly dancing, contortionism, snake handling, voluntary mutilation and other exciting fields, then I’m a lucky guy.Now, look at this dude. He’s just shooting a cheap remake of the last scene in Dr. Strangelove, but here’s a tip: if at [...]

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“Hey Floyd, what’s that darned commotion?”“Ummm, looks like lots of buck naked people running down the street with pumpkins on their heads.”“Yeah, that sounds about right…”It was time for the annual Naked Pumpkin Run, in Boulder, Colorado. Yes,  that is also the area where they have the Frozen Dead Guy Festival, and other stuff you can read about at Keep Boulder Weird.  I just [...]

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This story seems to raise stupid to a whole new level.  It turns out a 19-year-old woman has escaped from prison by hiding in the suitcase of a fellow inmate who was being released. Can you imagine the guards’ conversation at the prison gate?“Lonnie, look at the big suitcase that girl is lugging. Very heavy. She must have lots of books in [...]

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A hobby historian has discovered the oldest known recipe for German sausage, a list of ingredients for Thuringian bratwurst nearly 600 years old.

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Hey, Blog Guy, I’m aware that a key theme of this blog is truly sickening stuff people eat. You’ve been around, so what is the worst thing you ever saw somebody put in his mouth?Very good question. Nobody believes this, but I did see a guy eat Brussels sprouts once.Eeeeewww! I [...]

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LONDON (Reuters) - A teen-ager was airlifted to hospital and his father had his nose broken when gatecrashers went on the rampage at a 16th birthday party after details were posted on YouTube, police and media reports said Friday.

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Faithful readers of this blog know we sometimes give seemingly impossible assignments to our photographers, and they always come through. Who could forget Martha Stewart and the singing camel, or Civil War widows and motorcycles? This week, we outdid ourselves: Go find seven guys with plungers on their backs, and one dude who seems [...]

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Okay, this career question came up a month ago with Holler if you see a flame, Bernie! and I’m starting to worry that it may be a trend.I know for you young grads looking for action, a sexy job title like “Rocket guard who stands behind the tubes where the flames come out” sounds cool. [...]

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Some Beijing motorists are flushed with anger over new license plate numbers that contain the letter combination “WC,” saying it gives them “unpleasant images.”

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MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A Mexican priest briefly ended up behind bars after punching a policemen who caught him driving drunkenly through the streets of the northern city of Monterrey.

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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines is starting to give its 110,000 policemen a makeover, trying to make them more like friendly neighbors than their current hard man image, the new national police chief said Thursday.

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It’s an ill wind that doesn’t fill somebody’s skillet, or however that saying goes. Strong winds in Australia are blowing migrating Bogong moths off-course and into Sydney, and residents are responding by, uh, eating them.One chef cooks the moths, which are high in fat, in butter. A scientist says to limit your intake, because they [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, is she a sport, or what? In the pageant’s tough competition, this young lady fell for every stale novelty we threw at her! The old soot-covered binoculars, the glow-in-the-dark lipstick, even the really cheesy bald wig!And then, just to show why she deserves this year’s Miss Novelty Shop title more than anyone, check [...]

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VIENNA (Reuters) - An elderly Turkish man was arrested in Austria on suspicion of shooting dead another Turk and cutting off his penis because he believed the victim was having an affair with his wife, police said Thursday.

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MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. authorities filed murder charges on Wednesday against two men found floating in a life raft near Cuba in the killings of four fishing boat crewmembers in a case of murder and piracy on the high seas.

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Hey, Blog Guy - You seem to follow high fashion on a regular basis. I’ve noticed that sometimes you openly abuse the new designs, while other times you compliment them, but you’re really just being sarcastic. That’s quite a range of opinions. Anyway, can you share the worst of the worst? The stuff that gives [...]

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Overweight local government officials in Japan have slimmed down with a three-month “samurai” diet, soldiering on despite a fellow samurai’s death.

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Well, this is just so sad. It turns out cats are getting addicted to Facebook just as people are, according to a new study.This photo, taken yesterday in New York City, shows a typical felineface.com user, wasting her days reading major garbage like “Places I’ve Napped,” “Cleo has sent you a hairball,” and “Tux and [...]

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LONDON (Reuters) - One microscopic organism has thrived despite remaining celibate for tens of millions of years thanks to a neat evolutionary trick, researchers said.

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I look at these fashion photos, and I’d like to think somebody is shooting that prequel to Snakes on a Plane, the long-rumored Snakes on a Runway.But sadly, I know better. Truth is, the cultural gulch between fashion designers and regular people is now so wide that somebody on the other side thinks there is [...]

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Okay, Leonardo, what are you trying to pull now? I’ve seen the painting, read the book, and read some of the original book as well, and I know there isn’t some guy in a suit and tie slinking around The Last Supper behind the disciples, reaching down like he’s about to snatch a necklace from [...]

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Last Friday, in a posting called When vogue goes rogue, I reviewed some of my least favorite fashion designs for women, going back however many months I’ve been paying attention.The posting was very popular, and this week I’m doing the same thing with really awful men’s fashions. Here goes:Dude! is there ANYTHING you wouldn’t [...]

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In a grotesque haute couture mishap, a frenzied swarm of butterflies attacked a fashion model during a show in Paris. Police believe the model had used butterfly food instead of hairspray, and horror ensued.The model was rescued by security guards using standard anti-butterfly tactics, but not before hundreds of teensy fang marks were left on her face.Of course, since the model was wearing a creation by designer Alexander McQueen, the [...]

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LONDON (Reuters) — An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The daily weather forecast on Saturn’s largest moon Titan appears to be a steady drizzle of liquid methane, at least around the bright, exotically named region known as Xanadu, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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