Giant Crocs Stalk Australian Man For Days (Odd News)
(Terry Donovan, 65, was at the hut on Dinah Island, in north Queensland, when he was cut off by flood waters this week, the Cairns Post reported. Mr Donovan saw four-metre saltwater crocs lurking in the waters, with one lunging at a wallaby sheltering on the hut's back deck. "The first time I saw it and it saw me, it was just outside. It sank below the surface and I saw it swim under the house,'' he said.)
Giant Crocs Stalk Australian Man For Days (Vancouver Sun)
(After being flushed out to sea by last year’s massive tsunami and earthquake, a Japanese squid-fishing boat has drifted across the Pacific Ocean and was about 120 nautical miles off British Columbia’s north coast Friday evening. The 150-foot ship was found drifting right-side-up about 140 nautical miles (260 km) from Cape Saint James, on the southern tip of Haida Gwaii.)
Shampoo Ad With Hitler Sparks Outrage (My Fox NY)
(A Turkish shampoo commercial featuring Adolf Hitler has drawn outrage from Jewish groups worldwide and calls for it to be withdrawn immediately. "It's totally unacceptable to make use of Hitler, the most striking example of cruelty and savagery," the Turkish Jewish Community said in a statement, blasting the 12-second ad that has been airing since last week.)
Texas Rangers to Offer $26 Hot Dog (My Fox NY)
(The Texas Rangers are pitching a new menu item designed especially for heavy hitters. When fans belly up to stadium concession areas on opening day on April 6, they will be able to purchase a one-pound hot dog priced at $26.)
New Jersey middle school bans hugging (Fox News)
(More than 900 students at a New Jersey middle school have been told no more hugging. The district says Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School Principal Tyler Blackmore made an announcement that students were in a "no hugging school" following some "incidents of unsuitable, physical interactions.")
Christian Sex Toy Store Offers Smut-Free Dildo Shopping Online (LA Weekly)
(This should give a new meaning to the term "passion play." Marc Angenent, a Dutch priest turned sex therapist, has started an online store for Christians who want to shop for sex toys, but don't want to be inundated with pornographic images and crude language.)
A Boy Allergic to Food (Yahoo)
(Joshua, a 9-year-old who lives with a disease called eosinophilic esophagitis, is allergic to nearly all foods. Pizza, hot dogs, you name it, and Joshua likely cannot eat it, or even be allowed to taste it or smell it. Joshua gets most of his nutrients through a formula prescribed by his doctor, and through a feeding tube in his stomach. Because of his disease, Joshua is homeschooled by his mother, and needs to live his life with extra caution.)
Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship (Independent UK)
(A mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah's Ark when doomsday arrives – supposedly less than nine months from now. A rapidly increasing stream of New Age believers – or esoterics, as locals call them – have descended in their camper van-loads on the usually picturesque and tranquil Pyrenean village of Bugarach. They believe that when apocalypse strikes on 21 December this year, the aliens waiting in their spacecraft inside Pic de Bugarach will save all the humans near by and beam them off to the next age.)
Kevin Smith bored of action films (Winnipeg Free Press)
(Kevin Smith thinks shooting action films is "f**king boring". The director - who has previously made 'Red State' and 'Cop Out' - claims he is now bored of creating the dramatic films and would rather spend his life chatting. He said: "I'd rather waste time sitting around talking to people than waste time on a movie set. "Well, it's not a waste because you're eventually getting a product, but you shoot two weeks for a 30-second action sequence. Life's too short. Shooting action is just painstakingly f**king boring.")
Kevin Smith Calls Bruce Willis the "Meanest Emo Bitch" Ever (US Magazine)
(Kevin Smith has taken on everyone from film critics to movie distributors to airline companies--so it should come as no surprise that the outspoken filmmaker isn't the type to forgive and forget. Though the tweets have since been deleted, Smith, 41, shared an excerpt from his new book, Tough S--t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good, on the social media site Thursday. "Who am I talking about when I write THIS," Smith tweeted. "He turned out to be the unhappiest, most bitter and meanest emo-bitch I ever met at any job I've held. And mind you, I worked at Domino's.")
Bus driver sacked for eating a grape in stationary, empty bus (Digital Journal)
(A Coventry bus driver has lodged an appeal against his suspension from the coach company he has worked for for five years, after being sacked for eating a solitary grape in the cab of an empty bus that was sat in the depot. National Express proclaims "health and safety management is the most important thing we do." Whilst no one would dispute passenger safety should come first, it seems some jobs-worth has taken the health and safety remit too far in the sacking of 66-year-old Michael Shephard.)
Red Bull billionaire was once a bus conductor (Digital Journal)
(Chaleo Yoovidhya, who died March 17 at age 88, introduced the world to energy drinks by developing the high-caffeine beverage Red Bull, and rose from poverty to become one of the richest men in the world. Yoovidhya was born on Aug. 17, 1923, in the northern Thai province of Phichit into a poor Chinese immigrant family that scraped a living raising ducks and selling fruit. He never had a secondary education and soon moved to Bangkok, where he worked as a bus conductor before becoming a salesman for a pharmaceutical company.)
Gary Oldman 'thought he had lost' Batman film script (BBC)
(Gary Oldman has described the moment he thought he had lost the script for Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. The film, which is out in June, concludes director Christopher Nolan's superhero trilogy - and the plot has been a closely-guarded secret. "I was in a panic for 20 minutes," Oldman told the BBC. "I thought, 'where the hell have I put it?'")
Batman gets pulled over in the US for improper license plates (Joe IE)
(Montgomery County Police made an unusual traffic stop this week in the US state of Maryland - none other than the Dark Knight, Batman himself. Rather than Bruce Wayne's usual mode of transport - the Batmobile - this superhero imposter was pulled over in an admittedly still quite impressive black Lamborghini Gallardo. His crime? Improper license plates.)
Comic-book legend pens himself into new series (Times Colonist)
(Stan Lee is barging into the pages of his own comic book as a character based on himself who rubs elbows with superheroes - call it a cameo for the reality-TV age. His new series Stan Lee's Mighty 7, which hit stores this week, is inspired by reality television and throws into the mix real-life characters - like Lee himself, the creator of such Marvel Comics icons as Spider-Man and The X-Men.)
Marvel Comics talent scout has us Marvelling over poached eggs (Toronto Star)
(Crack an egg, place it in a pot of boiling water for three and a half minutes, remove it with a slotted spoon and pat it dry with paper towel. There, you just poached an egg. I know people who fix MRI machines, direct movies, and play the viola in front of royalty. Yet all of them believe poaching an egg to be more complicated than going out for brunch. So if you cook an egg for someone on Sunday, between sunrise and 2 p.m., they will be your best friend.)
Comics used to teach central Pa. medical students (Star Gazette)
(One comic illustrates a medical student's losing battle with sleep while holding a surgical instrument in one position for hours in a quiet operating room, as a tiny Mr. Sandman circles her head. Another medical student's comic strip chronicles the harvesting of a patient's organs, and how her initial excitement over a cool surgical case morphs into the realization that the patient has died in the process.)
Seaweed toast is same as half an hour on treadmill (Telegraph UK)
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