5-String Brain Surgery, Mouthfuls of Cockroaches, Tattoo Hoaxes
and the Morning Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Tuesday
Banjo-pickin' in the OR at Vanderbilt Medical Center
Some brain-surgery patients have to remain conscious during the operation so that doctors can tell if they're fooling around in the correct area or not, and if the patient can speak, or add and subtract, etc., it guides the doctors. (Supposedly, no pain.) So renowned picker Eddie Adcock, whose career was threatened because of hand tremors that surgeons were trying to stop via brain re-wiring, brought his banjo in and picked a note here and there to let doctors know they had the right wires. BBC News (video)
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Your Daily Loser
Now here's Mr. Travis Fessler, the best use of whose time, he believed, was going for the record of how many Madagascar hissing cockroaches he could put in his mouth at the same time. (Answer: 11) Cincinnati Enquirer
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People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
And we have the lush stylings of glamour photographer Mariano Torres, who specializes in the low-light genre of "upskirt," except his career has been interrupted by the fact that his 14-yr-old model, inadvertently, was the daughter of a cop. WKMG-TV (Orlando)
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Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Therese Batson, 44, and her obviously-biological son, William Cook, 23, charged with hiring a hit man to 86 her boyfriend and his brother, with a down payment of 29 Xanaxes. Palm Beach Post
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More Things to Worry About on Tuesday
It says here that these two Indonesian guys got tricked into getting ugly face tattoos on the belief that the gov't was hiring men with, especially, face tattoos. Ninemsn.com (Sydney)
Sumo Sammy won a medal, making Aussies proud. It's Samantha-Jane Stacey, 14, a sumo wrestling prodigy (286 lbs., maybe more). Courier-Mail (Brisbane) /// photo gallery /// The Sun (London)
"I am the famous Wang Hao!" (exclaimed the Olympics silver medalist in table tennis, when the security guard tried to stop him from peeing outside the karaoke club). (Wang's coach said he'd have a talk with him.) Reuters via Yahoo
Tennessee dad Mark Ciptak named his new baby girl "Sarah McCain Palin Ciptak" instead of "Ava Grace Ciptak," and signed the birth certificate. (Bonus: As of Sunday, he hadn't informed Mrs. Ciptak!) Kingsport Times News
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Editor's Note
Yo, here's the only reason for limiting the Commenting on most individual stories: The software we use makes it too time-consuming to set up. I want to publish "the news" in one (or, now, two) long post(s), rather than individual stories, and doing that one (two) long post, with Comments inside it, means I have to format each story a second time to get Comments threads going. For example, if there are four stories referenced in "More Things to Worry About on Tuesday," I'd not only have to publish Tuesday's entire post with links to all the stories, but I'd have to create four additional Comments posts (that readers would not see) just to open individual Comments threads. And I'd rather be reporting the news than formating a damn web page. Even Alex, our resident part-time geek (relevant quote: "I love the smell of html in the morning"), couldn't figure out how to avoid that step. I'm glad y'all like to Comment on the news, and I hope you'll continue to do it, but I have many more Readers than Commenters, and I'd rather devote the energy to putting more news in front of the Readers.
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Banjo-pickin' in the OR at Vanderbilt Medical Center
Some brain-surgery patients have to remain conscious during the operation so that doctors can tell if they're fooling around in the correct area or not, and if the patient can speak, or add and subtract, etc., it guides the doctors. (Supposedly, no pain.) So renowned picker Eddie Adcock, whose career was threatened because of hand tremors that surgeons were trying to stop via brain re-wiring, brought his banjo in and picked a note here and there to let doctors know they had the right wires. BBC News (video)
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Your Daily Loser
Now here's Mr. Travis Fessler, the best use of whose time, he believed, was going for the record of how many Madagascar hissing cockroaches he could put in his mouth at the same time. (Answer: 11) Cincinnati Enquirer
Comments 'travis_fessler'
People Whose Sex Lives Are Worse Than Yours
And we have the lush stylings of glamour photographer Mariano Torres, who specializes in the low-light genre of "upskirt," except his career has been interrupted by the fact that his 14-yr-old model, inadvertently, was the daughter of a cop. WKMG-TV (Orlando)
Comments 'mariano_torres'
Your Daily Jury Duty
[no fair examining the evidence; verdict must be based on mugshot only]
Therese Batson, 44, and her obviously-biological son, William Cook, 23, charged with hiring a hit man to 86 her boyfriend and his brother, with a down payment of 29 Xanaxes. Palm Beach Post
Comments 'therese_batson'
More Things to Worry About on Tuesday
It says here that these two Indonesian guys got tricked into getting ugly face tattoos on the belief that the gov't was hiring men with, especially, face tattoos. Ninemsn.com (Sydney)
Sumo Sammy won a medal, making Aussies proud. It's Samantha-Jane Stacey, 14, a sumo wrestling prodigy (286 lbs., maybe more). Courier-Mail (Brisbane) /// photo gallery /// The Sun (London)
"I am the famous Wang Hao!" (exclaimed the Olympics silver medalist in table tennis, when the security guard tried to stop him from peeing outside the karaoke club). (Wang's coach said he'd have a talk with him.) Reuters via Yahoo
Tennessee dad Mark Ciptak named his new baby girl "Sarah McCain Palin Ciptak" instead of "Ava Grace Ciptak," and signed the birth certificate. (Bonus: As of Sunday, he hadn't informed Mrs. Ciptak!) Kingsport Times News
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Editor's Note
Yo, here's the only reason for limiting the Commenting on most individual stories: The software we use makes it too time-consuming to set up. I want to publish "the news" in one (or, now, two) long post(s), rather than individual stories, and doing that one (two) long post, with Comments inside it, means I have to format each story a second time to get Comments threads going. For example, if there are four stories referenced in "More Things to Worry About on Tuesday," I'd not only have to publish Tuesday's entire post with links to all the stories, but I'd have to create four additional Comments posts (that readers would not see) just to open individual Comments threads. And I'd rather be reporting the news than formating a damn web page. Even Alex, our resident part-time geek (relevant quote: "I love the smell of html in the morning"), couldn't figure out how to avoid that step. I'm glad y'all like to Comment on the news, and I hope you'll continue to do it, but I have many more Readers than Commenters, and I'd rather devote the energy to putting more news in front of the Readers.
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