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Post by wutang on Oct 31, 2006 7:44:33 GMT -5
Miami zoo hosts poop exhibit By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 42 minutes ago MIAMI - Meadow muffins. Guano. Feces. Solid waste. Kaka. The words for poop are endless, but the Miami Metrozoo has another term to add to the list: educational. Now on display is a 5,000-square-foot exhibit on excrement titled "The Scoop on Poop," which invites visitors to explore the science of scat. The exhibit is filled with photos of animals in some of their most indelicate moments. Stool sample models abound: haylike football-sized balls (elephant), kidney-bean-looking pellets (porcupine) and coallike lumps coated with fur (black bear). Beyond the "ick" factor, however, zoo officials and the exhibit's creators say there is a lot of information being imparted. Visitors can smell the stench of flowers that mimic dung to attract flies for pollination. Videos include one of a hippo spreading its droppings around to mark its territory. Simple games include "Who Dung It?" "We didn't want this to be a gross exhibit for shock value," said Chad Peeling, who helped create the display. "Our goal with the exhibit was to make people think, kids especially, about the science in all aspects in life and this thing that adults don't like to talk about." Miami is the exhibit's second stop after opening at a Virginia museum in May. Created by Clyde Peeling's Reptiland — whose namesake is Chad Peeling's father — in Allenwood, Pa., it is based on a 2001 book of the same name. After the exhibit closes at the Metrozoo in January, it will make stops in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Redding, Calif. The exhibit is not the first to feature feces, however. An exhibit called "All the Poop" toured Japan in 2001 and another in England showcased scat samples. On a recent afternoon one woman cheered "go, go, go" as two children raced model dung beetles at a station in the Miami exhibit. Students on a class trip posed in a cutout of a person sitting in an outhouse. Others examined slides of parasites found in dung using a microscope, while classmates weighed themselves on a scale designed to tell them how long it takes an elephant to poop their weight. "I don't think it's that disgusting," said Bruno Cazarini, 13, of the exhibit's topic. "I think plenty of people get the wrong impression." Cazarini, who was visiting the zoo with a school group, said he knew about dung beetles, some of which burrow inside dung to eat and rest. But he did not know about its uses as a type of waterproof plaster for the homes of Masai people in East Africa, which he learned from information at the exhibit. Adults have had fun with material, too. Some volunteers and zoo employees have started wearing plastic poop pins that look like the real thing. Zoo personnel have also brought out a bowl of chocolate-covered candy, inviting visitors to take one if they dare. Elephant keepers, meanwhile, were charged with weighing the amount of elephant poop one of the zoo's Asian male elephants, Dahlip, produces in a 24-hour period. The total: 540 pounds. Meanwhile, a commercial for the exhibit, which will begin running shortly, has already shown up on YouTube. One couple, who are zoo donors, even called to offer to loan the zoo a scat sample of their own. The pair has a lump of excrement from 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat enclosed in a glass globe, which the zoo plans to put on exhibit within a few weeks. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061030/...c/poop_exhibit |
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Post by vinnypunditsheros on Oct 31, 2006 11:29:12 GMT -5
The movie "Freaks." video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6355110065089064433&q=FreaksFilmed in 1934 with real circus freaks. It's one hour and four minutes, but the best part's at the beginning. A shemale is peeking at some norms and the dude walks up and says, "Now here's something for your eye!" and punches her in the face. |
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Post by vinnypunditsheros on Oct 31, 2006 11:43:44 GMT -5
Re: Freaks
I just started watching the movie, even without sound. I forgot the very beginning of the movie has a bunch of freaks dancing in the woods. The guy with no legs creeps me out.
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Post by rimrocka44 on Oct 31, 2006 14:14:56 GMT -5
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_on_re_us/hopkins_halloween_partyFrat suspended over 'Hood' party BALTIMORE - Johns Hopkins University has suspended the Sigma Chi fraternity because of a "Halloween in the Hood" party that drew protests by black students.
The invitation to the party, posted on the Web site Facebook, encouraged guests to wear "regional clothing from our locale" with jewelry including "bling bling ice ice, grills" and "hoochie hoops."
The party, held Saturday night at the fraternity house, featured a skeleton pirate hanging on a noose.
Black Student Union members protested the party on Monday, saying the appearance of the image and the language on the invitation highlighted racial tensions at Hopkins and the strained relations between the university and the surrounding community.
Protesters held signs showing a historical lynching next to a picture of the fraternity's skeleton.
"We need to educate the student body because apparently some people weren't given much of a proper lesson in the history of our country," said Yasmene Mumby, 20, a junior and BSU member.
University officials suspended all the fraternity's activities pending a full investigation. President William Brody said in a statement that he was "personally offended" and called the matter "deeply disturbing."
Sigma Chi's international headquarters on Monday also ordered the chapter's operations suspended for 45 days and said a full investigation was under way. It said further disciplinary action was possible.
"We are naturally very concerned about these allegations, and are committed to holding every one of our members accountable to our fraternity's values of friendship, justice and learning," Mark Anderson, executive secretary of Sigma Chi, said on the fraternity's Web site.
More than 100 students attended a campus forum Monday night before a panel of top administrators. Three men who identified themselves as Sigma Chi members stood up during the meeting and apologized for the actions of the author of the invitation, calling it shameful.
Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, said he intends to explore legal action against both the fraternity and the university.Pimps and Hoes also rumored to be in danger.
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Post by southhampton on Oct 31, 2006 14:36:30 GMT -5
"Protesters held signs showing a historical lynching next to a picture of the fraternity's skeleton."
Wow, over reaction much?
Thats fucking bullshit, it was making fun of inner city culture, not black people. Where is all the protest over red neck parties?
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Post by vinnypunditsheros on Oct 31, 2006 14:53:34 GMT -5
As I told Rim, I get angry every Patty's Day when non-Irish people wear shamrocks. And don't ever let me see you with a leprechaun hanging in your window in March. Ever hear of NINA, mother fucker?
Mostly, I can't stand Notre Dame. The nickname "Fighting Irish" is a nasty stereotype against Irish-Americans such as myself, and presents us in a negative light. Have they never checked American history, seeing all the starving Irish immigrants escaping certain starvation during the potato famine? I have signed many petitions and participated in many sit-ins trying to get that awful university to change its name. I'm offended every time I watch football.
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Post by mikenice on Oct 31, 2006 16:33:58 GMT -5
Haha, if that's not a joke then it's not funny. I agree that any European stereotype is overlooked. In the end, though, those who can make fun of their own ethnic/racial stereotypes are better off than those who are offended by everything. Double standards bother me just as much as anyone. But what can you do but make fun of all races, ethnicities and religion including your own.
As for the Fighting Irish nickname, there is a story on how that came about way back in the day. I'll try and dig it up.
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Post by vinnypunditsheros on Oct 31, 2006 16:58:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I was definitely joking. I tried to use their arguments for my heritage to show how ridiculous their argument is. For crying out loud, they're showing a lynching victim next to a picture of a hung PIRATE at a Halloween Party.
It would be different if they had a party with a KKK theme. I see no racial undertones to this 'Hood party.
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Post by rimrocka44 on Nov 3, 2006 9:12:21 GMT -5
What happened and made everyone so sensitive. Bunch of General Tso's Chickening fat pussies. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! www.news4jax.com/news/10221303/detail.htmlPolice Chief Ousted For Urging 'Jelly Belly' Officers To Get TrimPOSTED: 12:56 pm EST November 2, 2006 WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- Police Chief Paul Goward was tired of looking around his department and seeing blubber hanging over the belts of some of his officers. So he sent out a memo exhorting the "jelly bellies" to shape up.
In the end, the department lost 190 pounds -- all of them belonging to Goward. He was forced out as chief because some of his officers took offense at the memo.
The Oct. 11 memo bruised feelings on the 80-member force, drew at least one anonymous letter of complaint from officers about the chief's management style and made his department the butt of jokes about fat cops and doughCash & Prizes!.
"If they got their feelings hurt to the extent of `Do something about it,' then I did what I was intending to do," said an unapologetic Goward, a trim 6-footer who was forced to resign his $92,000-a-year post last week.
Some of the chief's defenders said his ouster was a big overreaction.
"He offered tremendously good advice, yet he was sacked," wrote Thomas Roe Oldt, a columnist for The Ledger of Lakeland.
In his memo, titled "Are You a Jelly Belly," the chief never singled anyone out, and apart from the title, didn't call anyone names.
Instead, he provided a list of 10 reasons police officers should be in shape. He said overweight police poorly represent the profession, poop out when chasing suspects and might have to resort to "a higher level of force" if a criminal got the upper hand in a fight. He said out-of-shape cops are a liability to the city and their families.
"Take a good look at yourself," he wrote. "If you are unfit, do yourself and everyone else a favor. See a professional about a proper diet and a fitness training program, quit smoking, limit alcohol intake and start thinking self-pride, confidence and respectability. And stop making excuses for delaying what you know you should have been doing years ago. We didn't hire you unfit and we don't want you working unfit. Don't mean to offend, this is just straight talk. I owe it to you."
Winter Haven cops must pass physical examinations to be hired but are not regularly tested for fitness thereafter.
Goward, 60, said he is not a fitness freak, was not "asking for a department full of Arnold Schwarzeneggers here" and did not order his officers to stay away from fast-food restaurants or doughnut shops. In fact, the 36-year police veteran, who has also worked in Kansas and South Carolina, said Winter Haven's force is no less fit than the others he has served on.
David Greene, manager of the central Florida city of 30,000, said through a spokeswoman that he was too busy for an interview, but told the local newspapers the anonymous complaint letters made it clear the police department had a morale problem because of Goward's abrasive management style during his 2½ years there.
"Emotions within the police department and the relationship with the police chief became raw," he told The Ledger.
Winter Haven officers contacted by The Associated Press said they were told not to talk to reporters about Goward's departure.
One of the anonymous complaint letters described the force as "upset to say the least" about the chief and called the "Jelly Belly" memo "the icing on the cake."
"This letter shows the type of harassment and hostile work environment we have. The chief of police is constantly 'bad talking' us in every way possible and we have had enough of his arrogance," the letter read.
Mandy Rohrbaugh, a 40-year-old nursing student and Winter Haven resident, said Goward had the right message, but perhaps could have delivered it differently.
"I think honestly our police force needs a lot of shaping up, and I think they should be fit not just when they're hired but through their time," she said. |
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Post by wutang on Nov 4, 2006 13:34:22 GMT -5
EL CERRITO - A police encounter with a naked man near the El Cerrito BART station turned into an arrest on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon Thursday.
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Passers-by called officers about 7:50 a.m. to report that a naked many was lying on a tree stump beside the Ohlone Greenway path, exposing himself and masturbating.
Police saw John Sheehan and arrested him on suspicion of indecent exposure.
Officers led him to the nearest street. Before putting Sheehan in the back of his car, Sgt. Paul Keith asked him if he had anything on him that police should know about.
Sheehan replied that he had hidden a screwdriver in his anal cavity, Horgan said.
Unsure about what to do, police called for a fire engine.
Firefighters quickly decided that an emergency room would be better equipped to deal with the situation.
Sheehan interceded before an ambulance was called.
"When he heard what they were talking about he said, 'Hey, don't worry about it. I can do it,'" said El Cerrito Detective Cpl. Don Horgan.
Sheehan was paroled from state prison last week and listed an address in Pittsburg, Horgan said. Police booked him into County Jail in Martinez, on suspicion of parole violations, indecent exposure and one felony count of possessing a concealed weapon.
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Post by bonafide on Nov 6, 2006 6:44:26 GMT -5
Where can I get a motherfuckin' hat like this........?  |
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Post by ricksmith80 on Nov 6, 2006 17:14:29 GMT -5
didn't really know which thread to put this under and didnt wanna make another one... Heres a quick video of Chas Daniel of the University of Missouri doing something disgusting on live television www.zippyvideos.com/2788213176234406/chase/ |
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Post by CosmonautLaunchPad on Nov 7, 2006 8:07:25 GMT -5
didn't really know which thread to put this under and didnt wanna make another one... Heres a quick video of Chas Daniel of the University of Missouri doing something disgusting on live television www.zippyvideos.com/2788213176234406/chase/Did he eat that poop? What causes grown men to eat their snot? This kid in this class at work is always picking his poop and eating it and everyone sees him. If you think about it, the fact that some humans do this makes us no better than dogs eating their own poop. ***edited to add, happy birthday ricksmith80!! |
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Post by southhampton on Nov 7, 2006 10:24:56 GMT -5
Not a Texas bb player, but a frosh scholarship bball player at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith from Texas (Terrist Parramore - Fort Worth Southwest HS). Guy in Freddy Krueger mask is "groping" female guests at a party. Parramore intervenes and tells him to stop. They argue and Freddy leaves. Brave Freddy returns with a 16-year old kid (also in a mask), points to Parramore and says "Yeah, that's him". 16-year-old kid shoots Parramore multiple times in head and chest. www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/15892145.htm |
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Post by CosmonautLaunchPad on Nov 20, 2006 8:18:34 GMT -5
Couldn't find a link for it, but apparently Cosmo Kramer pulled a Mel Gibson. He dropped the N bomb multiple times at a bunch of heckler's during a stand-up act.
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