Daily Dose - 020506 - INTERESTING RESEARCH, Rotten News, driving without a tail light, DDL, Hey Martha
INTERESTING RESEARCH
A study in Scotland showed that the kind of male face a woman finds attractive can differ depending on where a woman is in her menstrual cycle.
For instance, if she is ovulating she is attracted to men with rugged, masculine features.
However, if she is in the pre-menstrual period, she is more prone to be attracted to a man with scissors shoved in his temple.
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Rotten News... (true)
German porno planned at Nazi camp
[Terezin, March 25] - The director of a concentration camp memorial in the Czech Republic says he's outraged by reports that Terezin - a site where thousands died - will be used to film a pornographic movie.
"It is horrible," said Jan Munk, the director of the Terezin Memorial. "I will be contacting lawyers."
A Czech tabloid broke the news that a Czech actor-producer named Robert Rosenberg plans to film a porn movie at Terezin about Nazis having sex with women prisoners. The movie is apparently aimed at the German market.
On Monday, a respected newspaper quoted Rosenberg as confirming the report. He said he used the tabloid to announce his project, and said Terezin was the best location for the film.
"The film's theme will concern a city of wartime past," Rosenberg said. "Whatever we can't film in Terezin we will do in the Czech town of Josefov."
Munk said any movie filmed at the memorial would be illegal. Still photographs are allowed, but no videocassette recorders.
Terezin, about 50km north of Prague, was used by the Nazis from 1940-1945 as a prison, ghetto and transfer station for Jews and political prisoners from across Europe. The prison, originally part of an 18th-century fortress surrounded by a huge brick wall, was the site of torture and firing-squad executions.
The nearby ghetto was set up as a "home" for 140 000 Jews from across Europe. Nearly 90 000 were later shipped out and killed in the gas chambers of death camps farther east, mainly Auschwitz. Thousands died in the ghetto from disease and malnutrition.Munk said, he will seek legal action against anyone trying to sell a film shot illegally at the memorial.
"If I have evidence that this film exists and it is sold anywhere, I will seek charges against the man who did it," Munk said. "I will do whatever is possible to cancel it," he said. "But in a democratic society, the possibilities are limited."
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Paralympian Suspended After Failing Drug Test
VOA Sports
13 Mar 2002 03:59 UTC
The leading Paralympian from Germany has been suspended from the Olympic-style games held for disabled athletes after he failed a drug test.
Thomas Oelsener, who has won gold medals in biathlon and the five-kilometer cross country race at the Salt Lake City Paralympics, was suspended Tuesday from the 10-kilometer cross country ski event.
If the drug test is confirmed to be positive, Oelsener would become the first athlete ejected from a winter Paralympics for taking a banned substance.
The International Paralympic Committee convened a hearing into the case Tuesday, and handed a recommendation to its executive board. German officials are waiting the decision by the board.
The 31-year-old Oelsener is considered the leader of the German Paralympic team. He won four gold medals in the 1994 Lillehammer Games.
There has never been a positive doping results at the Winter Paralympics, which were first held in 1976 in Sweden.
Drug cases have come up in the summer Paralympics, with 11 doping cases registered at the 2000 Summer Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia. All of the athletes, including 10 weight lifters, were banned from the competition.
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"How long have you been driving without a tail light?" asked the policeman after pulling over a motorist.
The driver jumped out, ran to the rear of his car, and gave a long, painful groan.
He seemed so upset that the cop was moved to ease up on him a bit.
"Come on, now," he said, "you don't have to take it so hard. It isn't that serious."
"It isn't?" cried the motorist. "Then you know what happened to my boat and trailer?"
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DDL
Use your fingers and rotate the cob
on some butter, a generous glob
Eat across or around,
But one thing that I've found,
Corn is best when you eat like a slob.
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Suburbia: Where they tear out the trees, then name streets after them.
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I have just learned that, should they ever want to meet the conditions for joining the single European currency, citizens of the United Kingdom can no longer use the phrase "spending a penny."
The correct terminology would be "euronating".
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People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future
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Hey Martha (true)
Monday, February 18, 2002
Groom fakes holdup to get out of bill
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A cash-strapped Thai groom spent his wedding night in jail after allegedly faking a holdup to duck out on the marriage bill.
Somsak Sowong, 26, left the wedding ceremony at the Bangkok home of his bride, Saengdaun Jonburom, 31, before it was time to exchange rings, saying he had to return home to collect $1,775 and a gold necklace to offer as dowry.
About 30 minutes later police were informed that Somsak had been found unconscious in a bush nearby, police Lt. Chakawan Aranawat told The Associated Press on Monday.
Somsak claimed a man had hit him over the head with a gun, tied his hands with his necktie and stole the cash and necklace.
Police were suspicious about the story because Somsak did not appear to be injured.
After a long interrogation, the suspect admitted that he had concocted the robbery to cover up the fact that he didn't have the money to pay the dowry or the $670 cost of the wedding party, Chakawan said. It was not clear who had tied Somsak's hands.
Somsak could face up to three years in prison for falsely reporting a crime. His bride-to-be has called off the marriage.