Chutzpah, Boredom, Irony
and the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Chutzpah: "Officer," she asked the cop who was questioning her during a traffic stop, "Can I light up a cigarette?" (Sure.) Thanks. (Uh, lady [the cop said, noting that the cigarette was kinda odd-shaped], I thought you were talking about a tobacco cigarette.) The Star Press (Muncie, Ind.)
New York man, saying he had "nothing else to do" with his time, has spent two yrs, and $7.5k, fighting his wrongful $115 parking ticket. Associated Press via MSNBC
Irony Overload: (1) A Nevada phlebotomist on contract to the police, summoned to the station to test a DUI driver, showed up over the limit, herself. (2) Customs and Border Protection's chief port director for southern New England was busted for knowingly having an illegal as a housekeeper and in giving the lady instructions on how to beat federal law. (3) Tacky attempts to beat a speeding ticket were revealed against this couple, the man a justice of the peace and deputy church warden and his wife a schoolteacher. Associated Press via KUSA-TV (Denver) /// Reuters via Yahoo /// Daily Telegraph (London)
Giving new meaning to the term sucking face, a Chinese woman reported going partially deaf after her boyfriend's turbo-kiss vacuumed loose her left eardrum. Agence France-Presse via Yahoo
The Pentagon's Inspector Gen'l is making the accusation official today with a report: Lotsa Marines must've died from roadside bombs while the Corps brass was diddling around about buying mine-resistant vehicles, that is, until Bob Gates got to town. USA Today
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
Artist extraordinaire (I'm kidding) Nicolas Guagnini's 2007 show 77 Testicular Imprints garnered mixed reviews, and since it's a classic one-trick-pony exhibit, not a lot of the 77 are out and about on the Series of Tubes, but here's a review of the show with a photo containing several of them. You'll notice that each piece is smudged. That's not a bug; it's a feature, the feature, of the art. Each smudge was made by Guagnini's dipping his nutsack in the medium and smudging the image. Since he is known to have a fascination for the number 7, he must have thought he needed more than 7 pieces but fewer than 777. Time-Out New York [Ed.: Longtime NOTW Daily readers might recognize this piece of work, but the original link I supplied way back then was only a promotion page and did not display examples.]
Today's Newsrangers: Kathryn Wood, Larry Seltzer, Ian Pert, Ginger Katz, Bryce Jackson, Eli Christman, Brendan Brady, Kiki Yablon
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Chutzpah: "Officer," she asked the cop who was questioning her during a traffic stop, "Can I light up a cigarette?" (Sure.) Thanks. (Uh, lady [the cop said, noting that the cigarette was kinda odd-shaped], I thought you were talking about a tobacco cigarette.) The Star Press (Muncie, Ind.)
New York man, saying he had "nothing else to do" with his time, has spent two yrs, and $7.5k, fighting his wrongful $115 parking ticket. Associated Press via MSNBC
Irony Overload: (1) A Nevada phlebotomist on contract to the police, summoned to the station to test a DUI driver, showed up over the limit, herself. (2) Customs and Border Protection's chief port director for southern New England was busted for knowingly having an illegal as a housekeeper and in giving the lady instructions on how to beat federal law. (3) Tacky attempts to beat a speeding ticket were revealed against this couple, the man a justice of the peace and deputy church warden and his wife a schoolteacher. Associated Press via KUSA-TV (Denver) /// Reuters via Yahoo /// Daily Telegraph (London)
Giving new meaning to the term sucking face, a Chinese woman reported going partially deaf after her boyfriend's turbo-kiss vacuumed loose her left eardrum. Agence France-Presse via Yahoo
The Pentagon's Inspector Gen'l is making the accusation official today with a report: Lotsa Marines must've died from roadside bombs while the Corps brass was diddling around about buying mine-resistant vehicles, that is, until Bob Gates got to town. USA Today
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
Artist extraordinaire (I'm kidding) Nicolas Guagnini's 2007 show 77 Testicular Imprints garnered mixed reviews, and since it's a classic one-trick-pony exhibit, not a lot of the 77 are out and about on the Series of Tubes, but here's a review of the show with a photo containing several of them. You'll notice that each piece is smudged. That's not a bug; it's a feature, the feature, of the art. Each smudge was made by Guagnini's dipping his nutsack in the medium and smudging the image. Since he is known to have a fascination for the number 7, he must have thought he needed more than 7 pieces but fewer than 777. Time-Out New York [Ed.: Longtime NOTW Daily readers might recognize this piece of work, but the original link I supplied way back then was only a promotion page and did not display examples.]
Today's Newsrangers: Kathryn Wood, Larry Seltzer, Ian Pert, Ginger Katz, Bryce Jackson, Eli Christman, Brendan Brady, Kiki Yablon
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