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Curious Times No. 183
March 13, 2003YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT BIG FEET
Bigfoot researcher Loren Coleman is set to publish his next book Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, which includes the first ever study of the sex life of the Sasquatch. Coleman claims there are many eyewitness reports concerning the sexual escapades of the Sasquatch, including graphic details regarding their breasts and penises, but he claims that other researchers are too prudish to make these reports public. Among his most unusual accounts is a witness who claims to have seen a Sasquatch having sex with a cow, and "a few" cases where adult men where kidnapped and forced to impregnate female Bigfoot creatures. (Wireless Flash)WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT?
When we were young, we used to dream about a future with flying cars, floating cities and robot maids. What we didn't realize is that in the actual future there is going to be advertising covering every unused square inch of our planet. An advertising agency in London is bringing this scenario just a little bit closer by renting advertising space on the foreheads of university students. "This is a new way for them to supplement their meagre income, but it's also the new advertising medium," said a representative from the agency. Students will have corporate logos temporarily tattooed on their foreheads and will be paid just over four pounds an hour for three hours work, which is the estimated time that students are out and about in an average day, and promoting the products. (Reuters)SCREW THE RAIN FORESTS
A physicist from Columbia University has invented an artificial tree that is designed to do the job of real trees, drawing carbon dioxide out of the air in order to help clean up the Earth's atmosphere. Dr. Klaus Lackner says that the tree doesn't look like a real tree - more like a goal post with Venetian blinds - but a single synthetic tree could remove 90,000 tons of carbon dioxide each year, the equivalent of 15,000 cars, and about a thousand times more than a living tree can remove. He estimates that about 250,000 synthetic trees would need to be "planted" worldwide in order to soak up the 22 billion tons of carbon dioxide produced annually. (BBC)PINING FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS
A company in Berlin has started plans to build a communist theme park which will recreate life in East Germany before the Iron Curtain came down. Apparently, nostalgia for the old country is at an all-time high, and several tour companies have already come on board to create package tours for those wanting the authentic East German experience. The 10,000 square metre theme park will include surly border guards, rigorous customs inspections, authentic East German Mark notes, and restaurants which serve bland commie grub. "The aim isn't to make big joke out of East Germany," said a spokeswoman for the company, "it was an important part of Germany's history and the period should be recreated as accurately as possible." (Reuters)
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A new Harris poll out of the States reveals that over two thirds of Americans believe in hell, but only about 1 per cent believe that they will actually end up there. The poll also found that 82 per cent of Americans believe in heaven, and most of those fully expect they'll be getting through those pearly gates. Good luck. (NBC)ELVIS HAS BEEN KICKED OUT OF THE BUILDING
A singer up in Whitehorse, Yukon, who legally changed his name to Elvis Presley a few years ago has been banned from the territory's justice building after filing a long string of frivolous lawsuits against every legal authority in Canada. A supreme court judge called Elvis "a serial litigant," and called his affidavits "rambling gibberish." Over the past few years, Elvis has tried to sue police officers, lawyers, judges, the RCMP and the Solicitor General of Canada, each time for damages in the millions of dollars. The court order disallows Elvis to file any more lawsuits without a judge's approval, and not until he pays back over $10,000 in court costs. In response, Elvis countered with a $120 million suit against the Crown. (CBC)TO: GOD@HEAVEN
For all you lazy sinners out there, be aware that the Roman Catholic Bishops in the Philippines have ruled that confessions must be carried out in person in order to be forgiven. Despite a huge increase in the popularity of confessions sent by email, fax, or test messaging, Catholic officials say these time-saving initiatives are unacceptable. (Philippine Star)
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