News of the Weird 2.0 (June 5, 2012)
News of the Weird 2.0
(Almost) Daily, Since May 21, 2012
Underreported News, Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
June 5, 2012
(datelines from June 1 or later) (links correct as of June 5)
People
The aberrant aberrant: The latest alleged massive child pornography distributor is a mansion-dwelling 41-yr-old Dallas, Tex., socialite. WFAA-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth)
Channeling Andy Kaufman: Former British politician Lembit Opik, 46, tried to be a professional wrestler (tag team match) but lasted only 2 minutes (except for the suspected broken ribs, expected to take a while to heal). Daily Telegraph
Medical Marvels: The World's Greatest Newspaper continues to drop its trawl to snare the unfortunate. Here's a 2-yr-old girl born with half her skull missing (Adams-Oliver Syndrome, n=130 in the world). And this Pakistani gentleman has a particularly severe Proteus syndrome (giant head, feet, hands). World's Greatest Newspaper /// World's Greatest Newspaper
From a book review in Sunday's New York Times: Annabel Chong, "famous" for a 1995 sex film in which she took on at least 70 men at onesitting lying, reported that she retired in 2003 and "embark[ed] on a career in coding and Web design," leading a "boring Republican lifestyle consisting of stocks, golf, and home improvement projects." New York Times (scroll down)
Funny Old World*
Criteria for marriage in India: caste, complexion, horoscope, height, character, family,love. Enter now the "love commandos," acting like a sort-of U.S. Civil War-era underground railroad shepherding lovers to the altar--unless the families can track the couple down and teach them with fists and rocks just what "marriage" is all about. BBC News
In a Gloucestershire village, the renewal of the four-century-old Shin-Kicking Championships. ITN (London)
An environmental panel and an administrative bureau have both turned down pleas by neighbors of a man in southern Sweden who moans "louder than an animal" when he masturbates. "t affects my state of mind," said one neighbor. The Local (Stockholm)
News of the Weird 1.0
Update: The home of William Lyttle, the disturbed Brit who spent the last 40 yrs of his life digging tunnels under his upscale property in Hackney [NOTW, 9-3-2006, 9-23-2001] (to store junk, including four cars), has been fixed up (the holes cemented) and is expected to fetch the equivalent of about $1.15m. World's Greatest Newspaper // NewsoftheWeird.com (scroll down)
Again: This has been No Longer Weird'ed, except that Sr. Vicente Benito might be the new world record holder . . for dying at home and not having one's body discovered for the longest time. So far, authorities in Canizal, Spain, fix the death (discovered last week) as about 15 to 20 yrs ago. Man sure enough kept to himself. The Guardian (London)
Thanks to the mighty NOTW Board of Editorial Advisors. (* stolen from Private Eye)
(Almost) Daily, Since May 21, 2012
Underreported News, Hand-Picked and Lightly Seasoned by Chuck Shepherd
June 5, 2012
(datelines from June 1 or later) (links correct as of June 5)
People
The aberrant aberrant: The latest alleged massive child pornography distributor is a mansion-dwelling 41-yr-old Dallas, Tex., socialite. WFAA-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth)
Channeling Andy Kaufman: Former British politician Lembit Opik, 46, tried to be a professional wrestler (tag team match) but lasted only 2 minutes (except for the suspected broken ribs, expected to take a while to heal). Daily Telegraph
Medical Marvels: The World's Greatest Newspaper continues to drop its trawl to snare the unfortunate. Here's a 2-yr-old girl born with half her skull missing (Adams-Oliver Syndrome, n=130 in the world). And this Pakistani gentleman has a particularly severe Proteus syndrome (giant head, feet, hands). World's Greatest Newspaper /// World's Greatest Newspaper
From a book review in Sunday's New York Times: Annabel Chong, "famous" for a 1995 sex film in which she took on at least 70 men at one
Funny Old World*
Criteria for marriage in India: caste, complexion, horoscope, height, character, family,
In a Gloucestershire village, the renewal of the four-century-old Shin-Kicking Championships. ITN (London)
An environmental panel and an administrative bureau have both turned down pleas by neighbors of a man in southern Sweden who moans "louder than an animal" when he masturbates. "t affects my state of mind," said one neighbor. The Local (Stockholm)
News of the Weird 1.0
Update: The home of William Lyttle, the disturbed Brit who spent the last 40 yrs of his life digging tunnels under his upscale property in Hackney [NOTW, 9-3-2006, 9-23-2001] (to store junk, including four cars), has been fixed up (the holes cemented) and is expected to fetch the equivalent of about $1.15m. World's Greatest Newspaper // NewsoftheWeird.com (scroll down)
Again: This has been No Longer Weird'ed, except that Sr. Vicente Benito might be the new world record holder . . for dying at home and not having one's body discovered for the longest time. So far, authorities in Canizal, Spain, fix the death (discovered last week) as about 15 to 20 yrs ago. Man sure enough kept to himself. The Guardian (London)
Thanks to the mighty NOTW Board of Editorial Advisors. (* stolen from Private Eye)
Comments
Chuck,
Thank you for the daily weirdness!
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Thank you for the daily weirdness!
😊
Posted by girlgenisuNYC on 06/05/12 at 05:46 PM
Proteus Syndrome This is the stuff myths are born of. Go see the pix.
Annabel Chong The count was 250. Veoh has video....
Swedish Moaner Think Handy Man.
Sr. Vicente Benito So only deathand taxes are a sure thing in Spain.
I like being Shepherded into this daily weirdness along with my AM coffee. Thanks, Chuck.
Annabel Chong The count was 250. Veoh has video....
Swedish Moaner Think Handy Man.
Sr. Vicente Benito So only death
I like being Shepherded into this daily weirdness along with my AM coffee. Thanks, Chuck.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 06/05/12 at 11:25 PM
Señor Benito: Any explanation on how no one noticed the bills mounting up? OTOH, I suppose he wouldn't complain when the utilities were cut off. Although I wouldn't expect the gubmint to miss getting their cut of the property taxes.
Posted by TheCannyScot in Atlanta, GA on 06/06/12 at 12:35 AM
Aberrant: not so aberrant: You can run searches for felons living in your area. I did so not long ago. It was very interesting. The poor neighborhood had a few, mostly robbers. The rich neighborhoods had a felon on almost every block and almost all of them were sexual crimes. So not so aberrant there, just massively underreported.
Posted by Baughbe on 06/06/12 at 08:39 AM
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