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This diary is not about politics, religion, or meta because I have nothing relevant to say about that. Ergo, you now have before you a This and That diary about nothing of importance.
THIS
NN11.
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Image courtesy henkimaa.com
Is this a round-up of the Usual Unusual Suspects?
Check out this picture by navajo.
Separated at birth from Treebeard.
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Image courtesy brianballentine.com
Finally, torture works!
Image by Fleur Champion de Crespigny courtesy nationalgeographic.com
''Torture'' Phalluses Give Beetles Breeding Boost
February 25, 2009--A female C. maculatus seed beetle (above right) mating with a male (left) tries to free herself by kicking him with her hind legs.
It's not easy: Male beetles have long and spiny genitalia that may act as anchors.
"Males can position their genitalia in an optimal way inside the female as the male releases sperm," said study co-author Göran Arnqvist, an evolutionary biologist at Sweden's Uppsala University.
In a study to be published in March, Arnqvist and colleagues found that individuals with the longest spines are more successful in reproducing than their less endowed rivals.
National Geographic News
THAT
That is weird.
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Image by Matt Rourke/AP courtesy rwsphoto.blogspot.com
Read the comments cheeky quips.
Glue Gun Assault
Police in St. John’s expect to lay charges in a workplace confrontation that involved an unusual weapon: a glue gun.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said an employee of Hearn Distributing is believed to have struck a truck driver on May 12 with a piece of metal. The driver was visiting the premises of the Mount Pearl beer-distributing company.
The truck driver then confronted the employee, who in turn responded with a glue gun.
Many CBCNews.ca community members who read the unusual story offered some cheeky quips.
“Stick em up!” wrote holyroodstudios.
Commenter Jasonf6 said it was a good thing the police were called. “It could have turned into a sticky situation.”
berdan riffed on the debate about Canada’s long-gun registry.
“Of course if this glue gun had been properly registered, then this never would have happened.”
“Obviously a case of male bonding!” joked Sentient Human.
Pumpkin eater channeled classic cop TV show Hawaii Five-O. “Scrap-book him, Danno.”
Only in Canada, eh?
www.allweirdnews.com
Yikes!
An anti-terrorism drill scheduled for Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in March, which was to practice community co-ordination after an attack by a hypothetical white supremacist group angry about illegal immigration, had to be canceled. The sheriff said callers claiming to be white supremacists were angry at being picked on as "terrorists" and had threatened a school in Treynor, Iowa, with an attack that closely resembled the kind of imagined attack that would have preceded the simulated drill. [Des Moines Register, 3-26-2011]
News of the Weird
Now THAT's an accident!
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Image courtesy hemmy.net
My own thoughts on Anthony Weiner (and Sarah Palin).
This and that.
What I hope those lucky Kossacks at NN11 are singing:
Thanks to tonight's Top Comments contributors. Let us hear from YOU when you find that be-all and end-all among these oddballs. (Fancy color courtesy bronte17.)