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Have any of you been to the town of Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! lately? It’s in Quebec. Link
You must admit it’s a name to remember: Young Boozer III. Boozer won the race for Alabama state treasurer, despite a rash of campaign sign thefts early in the campaign. It appears that college students wanted the signs for their dorms and frat houses. Boozer’s campaign manager Glenda Allred said there were still signs left to be picked up after the election.
Allred said the name, and the signs, have led to some odd requests, particularly people from out of state who requested signs even though they had no say in the election.
One request came from a journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “He came down to cover the BP oil spill and saw the sign as he was going down the interstate,” Allred said. “He called saying how he read about the candidate, saw the website and was following the race.”
The future value of the signs is uncertain. Link -via Arbroath
Some headlines just write themselves. Case in point:
Butts Arrested in Boob Murder Case
POTTER TOWNSHIP, CENTRE COUNTY – Police have arrested a third person in connection with the murder of Samuel Boob.
Boob was shot and killed at his home in Potter Township, Centre County, on the morning of August 23rd, 2009.
Kermit Butts, 26, of Madisonburg, is accused of driving the suspected killer to and from the crime scene on the morning of the killing. He was charged with aggravated assault and assisting a murder suspect and placed in the Centre County Prison.
Billie Lampard will always be able to tell people that Danger is her middle name, and so will her brother. Their parents Amy and Glenn Lampard of East Melbourne, Australia named the newborn twins Billie Danger and Ridley Danger.
“I’ve always wanted to be able to say it myself,” Mr Lampard said.
“We’re actually enjoying calling them the ‘Danger Twins’ at the moment. It’s a bit of a novelty.”
Billie Danger Lampard and her brother Ridley Danger Lampard were born about six weeks early at Epworth Freemasons Hospital on Wednesday.
They say family and friends have mixed reactions to the names. Link -via Arbroath
Photo: Badger 23 [Flickr] – via Miss Cellania
No, "Turd Baby" isn’t just a pejorative (look it up at Urban Dictionary, if you must) it is a store in Danshui, Taipei, Taiwan, selling stuff out of little vending machines! It certainly has a unique name!
Photo of this real store in Itaewon, South Korea, was snapped by Neatorama reader Misha McMurtray [Flickr] – Thanks misha!
Talking ’bout loving words, Jonathan Beaton compiled a list of Dictionary.com’s word of the day for Valentine’s Day from 2000 to 2008. For example:
2006: Spoony \SPOO-nee\, adjective:
1. Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental.
2. Foolishly or sentimentally in love.2007: Beau ideal \boh-ay-DEEL\, noun;
plural beau ideals:
A perfect or an idealized type or model.2008: Amative \AM-uh-tiv\, adjective:
Pertaining to or disposed to love, especially sexual love; full of love; amorous.
Emily and Joshua of peer-see blog found the reason why Engrish is so prevalent in China: the poor Chinese kids never had a chance to begin with! Just look at these ABC picture blocks they used to teach English.
Link (The last one is precious!) – Thanks Leah McPherson!
Found at Flickr user skootter01, who wrote:
In Korea you can see some strange signs, and this is one of the funniest I’ve seen. This little shop is located along a little street full of furniture stores in Uijeongbu, near Seoul. My guess is that they just pulled something random off of an Internet search engine that somehow related to wood furniture.
Yes, that’s a real restaurant. The Thunderbird Restaurant is in East Zion, Utah. The founder, Jack Morrison, spelled home made as “ho-made” back before the word "ho" got its current meaning.
Found at our pal Dan Piraro’s new blog (he knows all about pies!): BizarroBlog
