Today in Extraordinarily Odd
Here’s a kid with 8 limbs. That’s right, 4 legs and 4 arms. She’s from India and she’s actually a Siamese twin but her conjoined twin has no head which makes her the sole owner of a bunch of limbs. She’s going into surgery so 30 doctors can craft her body to resemble that of your average person. CNN is reporting that the surgery is meant to last 40 hours. Apparently the kid is considered a goddess her village. I think it’s safe to say that if she were born in the South she’d be considered the spawn of Satan. Plus, the other thing is, why are her parents doing this? They could all make a mint on a traveling act. Still, each to their own.
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A whole herd of wild boars have invaded the Chinese city of Hangzhou including, on Halloween night, a 200 pound boar jumping on the bed of a small girl. That has led to the Chinese government lifting the ban on boar hunting which, when you think about it, has got to be the first permissive act they’ve engaged in since the Beijing Olympic madness began. So, this is what it takes to get the Chinese government to unban something. Now all that needs to happen is for some kind of dire plague to strike which can only be fixed through the massed funding of crispy duck stalls near public toilets. I still can’t get past the fact that they did that.
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A survey has revealed what the English consider to be the stupidest of their laws and 27% think that the law which outlaws dying in parliament is the most inane. Not too shabby as far as self awareness goes. After that the statistics take a nosedive to below ten for everything but 7% of people say that outlawing the use of an upside down postage stamp featuring the monarch’s head upside down is pretty damned stupid. The great thing about the English is that even though they’ve acknowledged that these are inane laws, if someone did actually die in parliament there’s a good chance that some would insist on tradition and book their corpse. I don’t know why I’m weird about the English today.
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Here’s a kid with 8 limbs. That’s right, 4 legs and 4 arms. She’s from India and she’s actually a Siamese twin but her conjoined twin has no head which makes her the sole owner of a bunch of limbs. She’s going into surgery so 30 doctors can craft her body to resemble that of your average person. CNN is reporting that the surgery is meant to last 40 hours. Apparently the kid is considered a goddess her village. I think it’s safe to say that if she were born in the South she’d be considered the spawn of Satan. Plus, the other thing is, why are her parents doing this? They could all make a mint on a traveling act. Still, each to their own. [source]
A whole herd of wild boars have invaded the Chinese city of Hangzhou including, on Halloween night, a 200 pound boar jumping on the bed of a small girl. That has led to the Chinese government lifting the ban on boar hunting which, when you think about it, has got to be the first permissive act they’ve engaged in since the Beijing Olympic madness began. So, this is what it takes to get the Chinese government to unban something. Now all that needs to happen is for some kind of dire plague to strike which can only be fixed through the massed funding of crispy duck stalls near public toilets. I still can’t get past the fact that they did that. [source]
A survey has revealed what the English consider to be the stupidest of their laws and 27% think that the law which outlaws dying in parliament is the most inane. Not too shabby as far as self awareness goes. After that the statistics take a nosedive to below ten for everything but 7% of people say that outlawing the use of an upside down postage stamp featuring the monarch’s head upside down is pretty damned stupid. The great thing about the English is that even though they’ve acknowledged that these are inane laws, if someone did actually die in parliament there’s a good chance that some would insist on tradition and book their corpse. I don’t know why I’m weird about the English today. [source]
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