Being fruitful and multiplying, and more
Good week for: Being fruitful and multiplying, Going natural, Pretty boys; Bad week for: Forgetting to log off, Ernie Anastos, Cairo
Good week for:
Being fruitful and multiplying, after Rachel Krishevsky, of Jerusalem, who died at age 99, left behind some 1,400 direct descendents: 11 children, 150 grandchildren, 1,000 great-grandchildren, and a few hundred great-great-grandchildren.
Going natural, after German parks officials designated an 11-mile-long trail for the nation’s many naturists, who prefer hiking in the nude. “If you don’t want to see people with nothing on,” a sign on the trail warns, “then you should refrain from moving on!”
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Pretty boys, after a London department store began offering “guybrow” nights to take advantage of the growing male interest in eyebrow grooming. “The Neanderthal monobrow will soon be ancient history,” predicted a spokeswoman for the store.
Bad week for:
Forgetting to log off, after Jonathan Parker, 19, of Fort Loudon, Pa., allegedly broke into a home and stole some jewelry, but left his Facebook account logged into the victim’s computer—which is how police identified him.
Ernie Anastos, anchor for Fox 5 News in New York City, who while bantering with the weatherman on live TV advised him to “Keep f---ing that chicken!” He later apologized, saying he’d meant to say “plucking.”
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Cairo, after the Egyptian government, in a misguided attempt to combat swine flu, killed all of the nation’s pigs last spring. Now the streets of Cairo are filled with mounds of rotting garbage, which used to be eaten by roaming pigs. Killing the pigs, said one community activist, “was the stupidest thing they ever did.”
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