…probably not available in the Guinness Book of World Records or Ripley’s Believe It or Not
UPDATE 11th Dec 2007: First published in September 2006 by Irish magazine The Dubliner, this has since been established to be fake. Nordegren has never posed in the nude. The pics are fact those of Playboy model Kim Hiott, mostly from a 2000 edition. The Dubliner has issued an apology and lost the lawsuit.
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Mrs Woods, Elin Nordegren poses in softcore pics [Update 11th Dec 2007: link not working anymore].
Tags: elin nordegren, elin woods, tiger woods
Burning Man is an annual event held at Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
It lasts about a week.
In 2005, about 35,000 people attended!
And what it is exactly is difficult to explain.
It’s like all these thousands of people converge in the middle of the desert, create a temporary city and do all sorts of fun things. After it’s over, they go back to their lives, leaving no trace of them ever being there.
It culminates in the burning of an effigy of a man:
Sounds like something I’ve got to add to my list of things to do before I die.
There are many pics of this event around the Net, but this one I found the best, because it looks at it from the point of view of a Burning Man “virgin”:
http://www.jeremedia.com/photos/bm/
Tags: burning man, effigy, strange events, social events
For man, it’s JL Hunter “Red” Rountree (1912 - 2004) who did his first heist at age 86. In all, he managed 3 successful bank robberies in 5 years.
Why did he do it? A bankrupt, he wanted to get his fortune back.
He died at age 92 in prison.
For a woman, possibly it’s a yet unnamed 79 years old.
She was arrested in Chicago after trying to hold up a bank with a toy gun.
She was wearing “a white visor that read “princess” and black sunglasses.
An FBI agent’s affidavit says she walked into a Bank of America branch and told a female cashier she could not speak very loud because she had just come from the dentist.
When the cashier leaned forward, the woman pulled out what appeared to be a gun and said: “Give me $30,000. My friend is across the street. And no dye.”
However, the cashier reached into her drawer and activated a silent alarm before walking away from the counter.
The robber waited a few minutes then walked out of the bank, ditching her trench coat as she left. A bank employee flagged down a police officer who arrested her outside.
Tags: rountree, bank robbers
The Harm Reduction Journal is suggesting the above.
If so, what should be done now?
That we should outlaw cigarettes and legalise marijuana instead?
The families of people who were hanged for marijuana / ganja trafficking will throw a fit - from the lowest of the low, up to national hero status?
Tags: harm reduction journal, cannabis, marijuana, ganja
Tech entrepreneur Mrs Ansari, 40 became the 4th space tourist, and the first woman, and of course the first Iranian.
Like the previous 3, she reportedly paid USD20 million (16 million euros) for the privilege.
But what interested me more was her life story which is truly inspiring:
She arrived in the US at age 18 totally unable to speak English.
But she proved to be a wizard at electrical and electronics engineering, and went on to earn her Master’s.
And she proved to be an even bigger wizard at being a techpreneur: founded a company making software for switching signals on phone networks. Knowledge gained at first and postgrad degress put to good use. I guess that would be good enough for a PhD, if she went for it.
But she reserved her best for last: selling her company for more than USD500 million at the height of the dot com boom just before the bubble burst.
So I think it’s safe to say she can afford to go up there.
Her quote is worth putting up: “People think they reach the height of their life at age 40. I’m hoping this is just the beginning of another hill that I will be climbing.”
Tags: anousheh ansari, ansari, space tourist
Of all the chain emails I received everyday, this one takes the cake and actually made me forward it to others. So if you want your chainmails to be forwarded, you know what to do.
Read it at the source.
Tags: chain emails, chainmails
It’s not Tiger Woods.
Tiger Woods started playing golf at age 3, became World Junior Champion at 13 and became a pro at age 21.
Brayden Bozak is 2 years old and aims to be a pro by 7.
Tags: brayden bozak, golf, golf prodigy, prodigy, sports
Bogues (1965 - ) played in the NBA for 14 seasons starting 1987.
He’s only 5′ 3″ (1.60m) and 136 pounds (62 kg).
So who said you need to be a six-footer to be an NBA player?
In a June 2000 interview with CNN, he was asked the following questions:
“…..most players are sent the message that if you’re not six feet tall, you can’t survive in the NBA. How were you able to ignore that message? What are the biggest obstacles you’ve had to overcome as a “small” point guard in the NBA and college, and how did you overcome them?
He answer is an inspirational:
“That’s where the “Always Believe” comes in. You’ve always got to stay true to beliefs. I never accepted it when someone said I couldn’t do something. They don’t know my capabilities and potential. I left the criticism go in one ear and out the other. I just had to show that it’s possible that a kid my size can compete and be as successful as the others on the floor. I didn’t see myself failing. I studied the game and became knowledgeable of how to get across what I can do to others. Hard work, the idea of Always Believing and the willingness to survive has been a big part of my having a 13-year career.”
Some interesting tidbits:
How did it happen? In jail for 11 years (1990-2001), he observed:
…how different races reacted when integration was enforced and societal stigmas over racism were not in action to civilise conduct. He claims that the whites in prison were under a continual state of siege by the other races, and that he was welcomed by whites, while blacks tried to rape him (his prison sentence was extended for attacking two blacks who made sexual advances).
He considers himself black, although he’s not really black in the traditional sense - his father is of mixed race and his mother Jew.
In my view, he’s just another screwed-up guy. Would you like your leader to have this in his resume:
Understandably, reaction from other groups to Felton’s strange life story have been mixed:
An actual news release by the very serious-minded US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which is under the even more serious-minded US Department of Homeland Security states:
ICE arrests 15 aliens in Roswell working for US military contractor
ROSWELL, N.M. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents today arrested 15 illegal aliens who were working for a local company here that is under contract to paint U.S. military aircraft, including Lockheed C-130 military aircraft.
Some of the aliens were in the process of painting these aircraft when they were arrested.
Federal agents today executed a search warrant at Dean Baldwin Painting Inc., 82 Earl Cumming Loop, Hangar 1083, in Roswell, N.M. ICE was assisted in the investigation by the following agencies: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General; Defense Criminal Investigative Service; U.S. Department of Labor; Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General; and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol (CBPBP).
Of course it was clarified later that:
The aliens were arrested after they were determined to be illegally residing and working in the United States. Those arrested are citizens of Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Tags: roswell, aliens, humor, humour, unintentional humour, unintentional humor, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
