September 19, 2002

HOLLOW SKULL

A "Hollow Earth" researcher is looking for another $15,000 in order to carry out his journey from a hole in the South Pole, through the hollow Earth, and out through the hole in the North Pole. Dallas Thompson has already raised $100,000 which he will use to purchase a mini-helicopter to make the trip, which he is planning to begin next May. Thompson claims that the holes into the hollow Earth really exist, and that monks regularly travel through the holes in order to visit a Tibetan village called "Sham-bala." He also plans on encountering dinosaurs on his adventure, and visiting a crystal city under the Earth. (Wireless Flash)

 


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KIDS GROW UP SO MUCH FASTER THESE DAYS
Some parents have started to
raise concerns over the new Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 Broom, which seems
to be incredibly popular with the kids (especially young girls), possibly
due to the fact that the broom vibrates while you run around with it
stuck between your legs. On the consumers review pages of the Amazon.com
website, some parents expressed shock at the vibrating toy, marketed at
8-12 year olds, while others praise the toy for keeping their children
occupied for hours. One naive fool writes: "When my 12 year old daughter
asked for this for her birthday, I kind of wondered if she was too old
for it, but she seems to LOVE it. Her friends love it too! They play for
hours in her bedroom with this great toy. They really seem to like the
special effects it offers (the sound effects and vibrating). My oldest
daughter (17) really likes it too! I reccomend this for all children." 

(Amazon.com)
 


SCREW YOUR RRSP AND START SAVING EMPTIES
A British carpenter has
finished building his own tropical island out of 250,000 plastic bottles.
49-year-old Richie Sowa started designing his dream island in the '80s,
and made two failed attempts before finishing his new home last Janaury.
The island measures 66 feet by 54 feet, weighs 60 tons, and is anchored
to rocks in a lagoon near Cancun. He has also built a two-bedroom house
on the island, powered by solar panels, and he is planning full
self-sustainability by beginning to plant a garden. For now, he makes his
living selling tickets to about 100 tourist a day who want to see his
tropical utopia. 
(The U.K. Sun)
 


PROTECTING THE FAMILY JEWELS
Levi Strauss has created the first pair of
pants which include an "anti-radiation" pocket for your cell phone. The
company claims the material lining the  pocket will protect your body
from harmful phone emissions, but most experts agree that Levi is simply
trying to cash in on consumer fears, as there is still no definite proof
that cellphones give off enough radiation to be considered harmful.


(thisislondon.com) 
 


THE PERFECT PLACE TO DIE
A 63-year-old Italian man who was obsessed with
making sure every detail of his mausoleum would be perfect, died last
week during one of his regular visits to the construction sight of his
future grave. While inspecting the work, he climbed up a ladder to get a
better view. He slipped off the ladder, smacked his head against a marble
step, and fell into his own tomb, dead.  (Reuters)
 


DEPRESSING STATISTICS
Research presented at a meeting sponsored by the
National Institute of Mental Health based on clinical studies of over
71,600 peopl e has found a phenomenal increase in the suicide rate among
people on antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox and
Celexa. The research showed that the risk of a patient's chances of
suicide jumps by over 68 times,  from 11 out of 100,000 to as much as 718
out of 100,000. 
(disinfo.com) 
 


SURROUNED BY SPACE JUNK
For a few days there at the beginning of
September, it seemed like the Earth might have a new moon, but no such
luck. On Sept. 3, an astronomer in Arizona discovered an object called
J002E3 orbiting the Earth at about twice the distance of the moon. A few
days of analysis revealed that the object is probably space junk from the
Apollo 12 mission launched way back in 1969. Astronomers calculate that
the object had been orbiting the sun, but was captured by Earth's gravity
last April. 
(BBC)
 


FROM THE "SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE" FILES
A story out of Singapore
claims that shoppers are tripping all over themselves to get the  new
Get-Slim-Slippers. Despite absolutely no proof that the slippers can
possibly help you lose even one ounce of your flab, shops are selling out
of the new-fangled diet aid as fast as they can stock them.   The
slippers contain magnetic rings inside them which supposedly stibulate
your metabolism, and, according to a distrubutor "the slipper makes you
go to the loo a lot, as they stimulate the digestive system." 
 
(Ananova)
 


SOUNDS SOMEBODY NEEDS INTENSIVE SEX EDUCATION
By the way, did I mention
that reader discretion is advised when reading Curious Times. And that
this column is "for entertainment purposes only"? Ok, then I'll proceed.
News out of Turkey claims that an Animal Safe House in Ortakoy has been
shut down and demolished after two seperate incidences of dogs being
raped by men. The first happened three months ago, when the safe house
was broken into and six dogs were raped. More recently, charges arose
that a guard was pimping out the dogs to men who believed that having sex
with the animals would cure chlamydia.  
 
(kurdmedia.com)
 

PROOFREADER WANTED
A disabled grandmother in Britain has become a target
of a hate campaign after a classified ad she was running in the newspaper
carried a misprint claiming she was seeking a "white person" as a tenant,
when she had meant the ad to read "quiet tenant." Since that time, she
has been inundated with phone calls protesting her racism, and a local
group has demanded a police investigation of her under the Race
Discrimination Act.  
(Reuters)
  

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