Funny, Unique or Strange News Items

[youthathletics]

I recall Jesus saying that the reason a pterodactyl can’t be heard going to the bathroom is because the P is silent. He really said that.

He was a wise guy!

[youthathletics]

Funny video clip https://www.facebook.com/paz/videos/10153676351422744/

[Brooklyn]

red neck tries Moxie for the first time:

[gforumnet]

A woman was kicked off a flight after cabin crew told her to change her low-cut and see-through top...


https://gforumnet.org/easyjet-flight-bo ... n-because/

[LandM]

So in Banf - beautiful and cool. Walk out of the living in the van down by the river and a black bear just strolls by on a Sunday. I am laughing but our camper friends including spouse duck for cover. The bear had obviously made a prior visit or two. He was like a big hairy dog

[ChairmanOfTheBoard]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... thing.html

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/A ... 33761.html

https://nypost.com/2019/09/06/burglar-c ... leep-cops/

[Brooklyn]

limited edition of Spam sells out quickly:

https://komonews.com/news/offbeat/limit ... even-hours





was looking forward to trying it - but mebbe it will be on the market real soon

[Brooklyn]

hitchhiker:

[Brooklyn]

''old news'' story about an era long gone in Lake WOEbegone:


The girls of Grand Meadow: Minnesota's best-kept sports dynasty secret
From 1929 to 1939, the Meadowlarks played 94 games of six-on-six basketball and never lost. Usually, it wasn't close. Opponents 'were afraid to play us,' said Beulah Ankeny, 99.


http://www.startribune.com/the-girls-of ... 490269331/



“Naturally, we’re proud of our record,” she said. “But I don’t think it went to our heads. It was just a fact of life.”

[Brooklyn]

viewtopic.php?f=60&t=418&start=20#p19024





Life often imitates art. Strangely enough, last night as I was on a city bus returning home after watching a game of youth hockey, there were several teen passengers talking about their parents. One girl complained of her conservative parents and their religious zeal. I was reminded of a scene in Chapter 5 in which people gather in a pseudo religious meeting in which opiate consuming congregants pretend their Messiah is near, approaches, and then manifests himself. They say,

"Listen!" trumpeted the voice. "Listen!" They listened. After a pause, sunk to a whisper, but a whisper, somehow, more penetrating than the loudest cry. "The feet of the Greater Being," it went on, and repeated the words: "The feet of the Greater Being." The whisper almost expired. "The feet of the Greater Being are on the stairs." And once more there was silence; and the expectancy, momentarily relaxed, was stretched again, tauter, tauter, almost to the tearing point. The feet of the Greater Being–oh, they heard them, they heard them, coming softly down the stairs, coming nearer and nearer down the invisible stairs. The feet of the Greater Being. And suddenly the tearing point was reached. Her eyes staring, her lips parted. Morgana Rothschild sprang to her feet.
"I hear him," she cried. "I hear him."
"He's coming," shouted Sarojini Engels.
"Yes, he's coming, I hear him."




The girl said she attended a meeting of church women in which they re-echoed those same words. Each said, 'the Messiah is coming ... he's coming to save us all ... he's HERE!"

When asked if she saw or witnessed it, the girl said she saw nothing, heard nothing, because absolutely nothing occurred. All of the women looked at her as if in shock. She walked out of the meeting and vowed never to return as this was not a church meeting but a cult and she just couldn't stand the conformity and pretensions of the church women.


Yes, life does often imitate art. Looks like Marx was right after all when he said that all too often religion is an opiate.

[ChairmanOfTheBoard]

https://nypost.com/2019/10/03/mobsters- ... witter_app

Mobsters are still quoting “The Godfather” nearly 50 years after the Mafia masterpiece came out, according to reputed Colombo capo Joseph Amato’s wiretapped phone calls.

[ChairmanOfTheBoard]

Runner with ‘Jesus Saves’ race bib collapses, is saved by man named Jesus
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/21/ ... -by-jesus/

[Brooklyn]

Lake WOEbegone pro wrestler moonlights as paranormal investigator:


http://www.startribune.com/meet-the-pro ... 564037662/


Seeing the resting places of the dead is a way to make history come to life, according to Dorn.

[Brooklyn]

Covfefe wins!


https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing ... ollar-race

[Brooklyn]

Which is the USA's # 1 city for enjoying Thanksgiving?



You guessed it - it's Lake WOEbegone!


https://minnesotasnewcountry.com/st-pau ... nksgiving/

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-places-t ... ing/67603/



Confession: the survey doesn't sound all that kosher to me.

[Brooklyn]

Only in Jersey!



https://www.delawareonline.com/videos/e ... 496138001/

[Matnum PI]

Buy a Kale Scale at Amazon.

[DMac]

How would you like to deal with this one when she's about sixteen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soI0q3CBliE

[Brooklyn]

How would you like to deal with this one when she's about sixteen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soI0q3CBliE

all throughout the video I kept thinking of "stereotype"

[Brooklyn]

"Go back to Iowa!"

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... story.html


Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams made a controversial appeal to gentrifiers at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Monday.

“Go back to Iowa,” Adams, who is expected to be a top Democratic contender in New York’s 2021 mayoral race, told transplants. “You go back to Ohio! New York City belongs to the people that [were] here and made New York City what it is.”



Huh???


Personally, I always thought God's Country was open to everyone. Sure, I'm against unregulated gentrification with its removal of the poor. As Rep. Adriano Espaillat said in more restrained tones, ''We’re not against people coming in, but we’re about keeping the people that are there.'' That's the true spirit.