Monday, November 12, 2007

Today in Extraordinarily Odd

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has just gone and spent what is estimated to be more than 300 million dollars on his very own A380 superjumbo plane making it the first purchase of the aircraft since it was launched less than a year ago. Tom Cruise and your private jet at 11 million a year eat your empty heart out, baby. That’s not even to mention those dumb ass Australians who paid 100,000 dollars for two first class seats on the first commercial flight the A380 aircraft makes. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is naming it the Flying Palace and I would hope that as such it comes with indoor water features and complimentary champagne upon arrival – plus when you walk in there has to be a small choir and toucans fly above you. Plus lions. Lions that just hang out with chains around their necks. And fur. And liquid happiness. No crying allowed. There’d probably be a sign on the door inside saying that. The “no crying” thing. After all, in the Flying Palace your dreams may come true. [source]

A poll run by Zoo magazine has shown that 1 in 5 people who took the poll want to see Australian Prime Minister John Howard naked in a magazine. It’s not really a point to say that I don’t know why this is the case although I suspect it’s just a collective of clever political science students trying to be hilarious and some cultural residue of his pending defeat in the next Federal election in Australia which is in just under two weeks. Australian politicians aren’t actually that attractive whereas American ones actually are. General Wesley Clark is not only a lion of a man, he’s got extraordinary skin and looks great in a bathing suit as time Magazine showed a while back plus, John Edwards looks like he could model face cream for Nivea. The rest are a little haggard sure but at least it’s not all beast here in the US. [source]

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