Oddball News for November 18
Nov 18th, 2007 by Mark
Big Day Today!
We have it all folks. Eggs in pants; wax on, wax off; people of some repute being born; "rich" desserts being upstaged by lowly bugs; fingers chopped off; lawsuits over this and that. You name it, we got. Click for more!
Mr Miyagi is happy
Today is Sunday, Nov. 18, the 322nd day of 2007 with 43 to follow.
The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Saturn, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.
Born Today:
- French philosopher and writer Pierre Bayle in 1647
- German composer Carl von Weber and English composer Henry Bishop ("Home Sweet Home"), both in 1786
- French physicist Louis Daguerre, inventor of daguerreotype photography, in 1787;
- English playwright W.S. Gilbert, libretto writer for the comic operas of composer Arthur Sullivan, in 1836
- Polish composer Ignace Paderewski in 1860; conductor Eugene Ormandy in 1899
- pollster George Gallup in 1901
- comedic actress Imogene Coca in 1908;
- songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1909
- astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, in 1923
- actors Brenda Vaccaro in 1939 (age 68), Linda Evans in 1942 (age 65), Jameson Parker in 1947 (age 60), Kevin Nealon in 1953 (age 54) and Elizabeth Perkins in 1960 (age 47).
More proof that kids are out of control
How sad that the public schools are such disrepair, that you have to sue to make sure you can get into a private school.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UPI) — A 12-year-old boy is suing to retake an entrance test for an elite New York school because he says boisterous students distracted him."Several test takers that were sitting near me spoke loudly, laughed, giggled and sang," Barry Tessler said in the lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Tessler said he spent his summer preparing for the Oct. 27 entrance exam to Staten Island Tech. He was unable to finish the exam and left in tears because the proctor was unable to control the other children, The New York Post reported.
Boy sues to retake test - UPI.com
At least you didn’t lose your head
So let me get this straight. You get into a fight, they patch you up, and you own nothing? Hmm. Sounds like Hillary-care to me.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UPI) — A New York man is suing Bellevue Hospital for losing his finger and then charging him $3,000 in medical expenses, The New York Post reported Sunday.
Man sues for lost finger - UPI.com
My favorite part is the attorney blaming the hospital for him losing his finger. As if they made him fight, and made him lose his finger, and then threw it in the Hudson; all so he could no longer lift boxes at the warehouse anymore.
Does Gary Hart own this place?
Seems to me if you are going to go for publicity, you should get your house err restaurant in order? Then again, maybe the dessert was just that good?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan restaurant that unveiled a record-breaking $25,000 dessert last week has been forced to shut its doors temporarily due to an infestation of mice and cockroaches.
Mice, roaches close home of $25,000 dessert | Oddly Enough | Reuters
Serendipity 3 set a Guinness world record on November 7 for the most expensive dessert when it partnered with luxury jeweler Euphoria New York to create "Frrozen Haute Chocolate," a blend of 28 cocoas fused with 0.2 ounces of edible 23-karat gold.
No doubt serendipity is dripping all over this euphoric event.
Which came first?
That headline sounded better in my head. Now I can’t stop laughing and type.
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Having marital problems? Have you tried putting egg in your underpants?
A woman in Cyprus is on trial for sorcery after pledging to shake off a curse apparently plaguing a man’s relationship with his wife and mother-in-law.
Man seeks to unravel curse with pants and egg | Oddly Enough | Reuters
Seems to me that putting things in your pants is most likely NOT the issue.
Where is the outcry from liberals over this "witch hunt"? How dare they prosecute for sorcery. To think we all believed only America did that.