‘The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter.
Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum.
“Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much,” the book continues. “It sounded medical and secret, but also important.”’
‘This guys best friend Dave apparently tried to sleep with his sister so hes serving him a nice warm can of soup…to the nuts. At least now if he does eventually sleep with your sister she wont get pregnant.’
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‘Men who have had a vasectomy may face an increased risk of developing a rare type of dementia marked by a steady loss of language skills, researchers said on Tuesday.
Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, writing in the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, linked this male sterilization surgery to a neurological condition called primary progressive aphasia, or PPA. [..]
Of those with primary progressive aphasia, 40 percent had undergone a vasectomy, compared to 16 percent of the others. Those with PPA also suffered the ailment an average of four years earlier than the others.’
‘Heres what happens when an airbag is placed in a bucket and it is ignited while a guy sits on top. Check out the air he gets.’
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‘Indonesia will drop hundreds of concrete balls into a mud volcano in a bid to brake the flow of hot liquid that has displaced more than 10,000 people and inundated entire villages in Java, an official said on Friday.
The torrent of hot mud has been flowing since an oil drilling accident in May in Sidoarjo, an industrial suburb of East Java’s Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city.
Numerous attempts to cap or curb the flow since it started have failed.
But now the government plans to try concrete balls linked by metal chains.’
Followup to Poisonous mud wreaks havoc on Java.
‘A feuding neighbour was arrested for mowing his lawn in the NUDE, a court heard yesterday.
Yan Price, 30, exposed himself to shocked housewives two weeks after cops reprimanded him for sunbathing naked in his garden, it was claimed.
They saw him in the buff, apart from one glove, while bending to pick up dog muck.
A shocked young mum told York Crown Court: “I felt intimidated. You could see everything.”’
‘Five students from Whitman-Hanson Regional High School were suspended this week after a freshman student was taped to a bench and punched in the groin during a bizarre hazing incident, school officials said yesterday.
School Superintendent John F. McEwan said four sophomores and a junior decided Jan. 17 to pull a prank on a freshman after school in the boys’ locker room. [..]
The students first grabbed a freshman, held him down, and started teasing him, McEwan said.
“That student got away,” he said.
The group then went after another freshman, who, at first, was laughing as well, McEwan said.’
‘Man I can not think of a worse ending to a sledding accident. This dude is going to be hurting for awhile.’
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`An Australian family favourite – the perfect bar accessory for anyone who likes to impress their mates with their toys.
This, is a genuine kangaroo scrotum folks, if you click on the picture to enlarge it you’ll notice an abundance of hair… yes, the kangaroo has hairy balls too!’
He was doing so well, until he came to such a sudden stop.
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`Earlier this afternoon, a reader sent in an image highlighting what he claimed was the Silver Surfer’s chromy nut sack. He said this screen grab came from the currently posted trailer for FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER.
Initially, I had my doubts — who wouldn’t? It HAD to be fake. I mean, the notion of Surfer cruising around with his metallic junk swinging in the wind just didn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Finally, curiosity got the best of me (it wasn’t the homo-erotic kind of curiosity…not that there’s anything wrong with that), so I jumped to the QuickTime HD version of the trailer and started frame-by-framing through the scene in question.
And, sure enough, there it was…the Silver Surfer’s shiny package!’
`Ball lightning could soon lose its status as a mystery, now that a team in Brazil has cooked up a simple recipe for making similar eerie orbs of light in the lab, even getting them to bounce around for several seconds. [..]
A more down-to-earth theory, proposed by John Abrahamson and James Dinniss at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, is that ball lightning forms when lightning strikes soil, turning any silica in the soil into pure silicon vapour. As the vapour cools, the silicon condenses into a floating aerosol bound into a ball by charges that gather on its surface, and it glows with the heat of silicon recombining with oxygen.’
There’s also a ball lightning video.
A working mirror seems to be back online. Hooray for goatse. 🙂
The making of goatse image series is worth a chuckle too.
Update: the mirror has gone down again. In the meantime, there’s this:
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They look like they make a comfortable chair.
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This is from that Balls Of Steel show, which appears to be consistently hilarious. I dug up a few more clips.
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‘Find a big stranger, jump on their backs like a rodeo and hang on for as long as possible.’
I’ve seen a bunch of clips from this Balls Of Steel show floating around lately. They’re all very funny. If anyone finds anymore, let me know. 🙂
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‘A compilation of The Annoying Devil’s funniest moments from the British TV show Balls of Steel. They can only get away with this stuff in England cause in the US this guy would get shot. Still this guy does some really funny pranks.’
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‘Gotta give Japanese game show producers credit they are single handedly the most sadistic and hilarious people ever. On this game show contestants have to recite a tongue twister under a certain amount of time or they get slapped in the balls. Brilliant!’
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`Someone seems to have gone out of their way to cause people genuine harm by placing six footballs on the capital’s streets and a sign asking people to kick them. The catch? The balls were filled with concrete.
“Can u kick it?” was written on a poster near the innocuous looking footballs. So, probably without thinking too long about it, two young guys, aged 21 and 23, took up the challenge and gave the balls a good kick. Unfortunately the leather balls had been filled with concrete and weighed around 10kg each. The men sustained foot injuries so severe that they had to go to hospital.’
`A preimiership star had to miss a match – after scalding his privates with boiling water.
Sunderland and Scotland striker Kevin Kyle was feeding eight-month-old son Max when the accident happened.
He had the youngster perched on his knee, while holding a jug of hot water to warm up a bottle of milk. But Max slipped and booted the jug – splashing water in his dad’s lap.
It is understood to have burnt Kyle’s testicles and his inner thigh.
He went to hospital and was kept in overnight for observation.’
`The menu at Beijing’s latest venue for its growing army of gourmets is eye-watering rather than mouth-watering.
China’s cuisine is renowned for being “in your face” – from the skinned dogs displayed at food markets to the kebabbed scorpions sold on street stalls – and there is no polite way of describing Guo-li-zhuang.
Situated in an elegantly restored house beside Beijing’s West Lake, it is China’s first speciality penis restaurant.
Here, businessmen and government officials can sample the organs of yaks, donkeys, oxen and even seals. In fact, they have to, since they form part of every dish – except for those containing testicles’
Just another one of these images that makes your brain go “WTF?”.
Not safe for work, unless your boss is on Christmas holidays already.
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Not safe for work, though not as bad as that Mr. Hands thing from the other week.
