[Couriant]

I agree. If this was when smoking first started yeah... but now?

[JEBWrench]

A lot of the payout from a tobacco comapany lawsuit will come from their subsidiaries - like General Foods, and many many other food processors.

Which means, the cost of living will go up from that ruling.

[Couriant]

Under the title IRONIC:

South Dakota's first execution since 1947 will be a Texan

[lexmarks567]

Heres somthing odd in the news to day heres a link Shows you how STUPID people are in this world
http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/...cvqh=twist_cat

[Couriant]

If you are talking about the cat story, check our the ridiculous item of the day thread

[DiSaidSo]

Originally Posted by Tidus4Yuna

Under the title IRONIC:

South Dakota's first execution since 1947 will be a Texan

Tidie.... are you a farker?

[Couriant]

semi...

[DiSaidSo]

Originally Posted by Tidus4Yuna

semi...

Well I'll be durned..... You should PM me your screen name so I can stalk you.

[angelize56]

Here in Michigan...odd but wonderful news! A woman donated her bone marrow a year ago and saved the life of a woman suffering from leukemia! The year was up and the donor registry gave each woman the other woman's name! The donee called up the donor and asked her if she knew the song "Puff the Magic Dragon"....the woman saved was none other than Mary Travers from Peter, Paul and Mary! Small world!!

[DiSaidSo]

Originally Posted by angelize56

Here in Michigan...odd but wonderful news! A woman donated her bone marrow a year ago and saved the life of a woman suffering from leukemia! The year was up and the donor registry gave each woman the other woman's name! The donee called up the donor and asked her if she knew the song "Puff the Magic Dragon"....the woman saved was none other than Mary Travers from Peter, Paul and Mary! Small world!!

That is wonderful. Should go in the good news thread!

[angelize56]

Hi Di! Good idea...I'll pop it in that thread as soon as I go over to the dark side!

[Couriant]

Talk about irony:

Vietnam’s ‘Electric Man’ electrocuted
Hung killed while repairing a generator

HANOI, Vietnam - A Vietnamese man who once appeared on national television to demonstrate his ability to resist electric shocks has been electrocuted while repairing a generator, an official said on Tuesday.

Nguyen Van Hung, aged in his early 40s, was killed in Tay Ninh province near the Cambodian border while repairing the generator without first cutting the power supply, a local official said.

“When alive, he used to demonstrate at our office how he would insert two fingers into the electrical plughole without problems,” the official said.

Hung, nicknamed “Hung Electric”, had appeared on television’s “Strange Stories of Vietnam.’’

Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

[angelize56]

The thought of a penile transplant knid of makes me cringe... I can see why the man and woman were psychologically disturbed and had it removed!

Sep 19, 2:08 PM EDT

Penis Transplant Reported in China

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Medical Writer
Chinese doctors say they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man and his wife.

The case appears to be the first such transplant reported in a medical journal - European Urology, published by the European Association of Urology.

The Chinese doctors could not be reached for comment, and their report does not explain how the 44-year-old man lost his penis. It says only that "an unfortunate traumatic accident" left him with a small stump, unable to urinate or have sex normally.

Fourteen days after the penis transplant, the recipient and his wife requested that the organ be removed "because of the wife's psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis," the surgeons report in the journal.

Lab examination showed no sign of rejection, the doctors report.

If adequate attention had been paid to the need for counseling and other psychological concerns surrounding the transplant, "the need for penile amputation could probably have been avoided," Vardi wrote in his commentary.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-19-14-08-46

[eggplant43]

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish woman staged fake kidnappings of her son four times and got his father to pay her more than a million euros ($1.26 million) in ransom money, newspaper El Mundo reported Friday.

Police in the southern Spanish city of Seville arrested the woman and five accomplices, including the 15-year-old son who cooperated in the deception by calling his father on the telephone and begging him to pay up.

The father paid ransoms after the first three fake abductions without realizing the involvement of his son's mother, from whom he had separated. He became suspicious the fourth time and hired a private detective, El Mundo reported.

[Couriant]

Classroom Trash Can Used As Toilet
S.C. teacher allows five students to use a trash can as a toilet during lockdown drill

AP) A fifth-grade teacher allowed five students _ a boy and four girls _ to use a trash can as a toilet during a school lockdown drill when no one was supposed to leave the classroom.

The Charleston County teacher, Philip Frandino, was reprimanded last year for putting cardboard around a student's desk and keeping him isolated from his classmates for two hours for talking, The (Charleston) Post and Courier reported Friday.

On Tuesday, Frandino gave the Charlestowne Academy students permission to use the trash can. When a girl used the bathroom, other girls held up jackets to shield the view while other students stood on the opposite wall with their backs turned, school district spokesman Jerry Adams said. Boys also did the same for the boy.

"It's not acceptable," associate superintendent Patricia Yandle told the newspaper.

During the drill, which lasted less than an hour, Frandino called the school's main office and said students needed to use the restroom. It's unclear what the he was told to do, but Yandle said he was not told to have students use the trash can.

CHARLESTON, S.C., Oct. 13, 2006

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(AP) A fifth-grade teacher allowed five students _ a boy and four girls _ to use a trash can as a toilet during a school lockdown drill when no one was supposed to leave the classroom.

The Charleston County teacher, Philip Frandino, was reprimanded last year for putting cardboard around a student's desk and keeping him isolated from his classmates for two hours for talking, The (Charleston) Post and Courier reported Friday.

On Tuesday, Frandino gave the Charlestowne Academy students permission to use the trash can. When a girl used the bathroom, other girls held up jackets to shield the view while other students stood on the opposite wall with their backs turned, school district spokesman Jerry Adams said. Boys also did the same for the boy.

"It's not acceptable," associate superintendent Patricia Yandle told the newspaper.

During the drill, which lasted less than an hour, Frandino called the school's main office and said students needed to use the restroom. It's unclear what the he was told to do, but Yandle said he was not told to have students use the trash can.

"We always learn something" during lockdown drills, school district spokesman Jerry Adams said Friday. "And clearly communications between the classrooms and the main office to get directions on things was one of the issues here."

Adams said as much privacy was given as possible. He also said students were given sanitary wipes.

The teacher was on administrative leave with pay. Frandino did not comment on the situation to The Associated Press.

more at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...8KO0RVO2.shtml