Thursday, November 01, 2007

Today in Extraordinarily Odd


Albert, Texas, a tiny yet historical town is up for sale on eBay with a price of about $2.705 million and if you read the description it says that President Lyndon Johnson went to school in the town in 1920. That’s all really in order but I really think the glaring question here is, who the god damned hell buys a town on e bay? I mean, this is nowhere near as ludicrous as that frustrated journalist from Belgium who put his entire nation up for sale (despite not even owning it! SHAME!). Of course, with these small yet historical towns you also have to be careful that it’s not a ghost or some kind of scam. How annoying and also spooky would it be to buy a town on ebay and then turn up to get it and have some old toothless crow sit there and stare at you through her one good eye while holding a rifle that dates back to the Civil War only to hear her say, “Why…that town hasn’t been there in 40 years…” . Then you’d be really screwed. [source]

130,000 people from all over the world entered a competition held by a lingerie company which was designed to pick the best ass in the world for a modeling contract. The two people who won were both from The Balkans which begs the obvious question, “Was the company too based in the Balkans?”. That is of lesser concern at the moment though because while the winners were Kristina Dimitrova, 19, and the pretentiously named 24-year-old Andrei Andrei, the AFP report features only a picture of Dimitrova’s ass. Andrei’s is nowhere to be found. You can find other pictures of him posing like an energy vacuum but none of his apparently noteworthy ass. The pic on the right is of Dimitrova and I think its safe to say that those yellow lace gloves had something to do with her buttock based triumph. [source]



A German pensioner just cut down 122 trees that were thoughtlessly and selfishly getting in the way of his view. Actually, the report says that he SECRETLY cut down 122 trees. How do you secretly cut down one tree let alone 122 of them? Well, that’s a matter for another time but what’s good about it is the reporter got in a quote from the police: "He told us he wanted to enjoy an unobstructed view of the Baltic," about 50 metres from his cottage, said Jan-Hendrik Wulff, a police spokesman in the northern city of Luebeck. It’s good that he used the word “enjoy”. To be obsessed enough and angry and freaked out enough to cut down 122 trees just for a view (and what a view it would now be – a landscape littered with the massacred remains of a small forest) you’re probably not really capable of much enjoyment. Good. [source]

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