ummm, unfortunately I have nothing to say today , but there is no one to blame for this soooo.....things.

"Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos"

People of Lesbos take gay group to court over term 'Lesbian'

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press WriterWed Apr 30, 10:22 AM ET

A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women.

Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name.
One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, "insults the identity" of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians.

"My sister can't say she is a Lesbian," said Dimitris Lambrou. "Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos," he said.

The three plaintiffs are seeking to have the group barred from using "lesbian" in its name and filed a lawsuit on April 10. The other two plaintiffs are women.

Also called Mytilene, after its capital, Lesbos is famed as the birthplace of Sappho. The island is a favored holiday destination for gay women, particularly the lyric poet's reputed home town of Eressos.

"This is not an aggressive act against gay women," Lambrou said. "Let them visit Lesbos and get married and whatever they like. We just want (the group) to remove the word lesbian from their title."

He said the plaintiffs targeted the group because it is the only officially registered gay group in Greece to use the word lesbian in its name. The case will be heard in an Athens court on June 10.

Sappho lived from the late 7th to the early 6th century B.C. and is considered one of the greatest poets of antiquity. Many of her poems, written in the first person and intended to be accompanied by music, contain passionate references to love for other women.

Lambrou said the word lesbian has only been linked with gay women in the past few decades. "But we have been Lesbians for thousands of years," said Lambrou, who publishes a small magazine on ancient Greek religion and technology that frequently criticizes the Christian Church.

Very little is known of Sappho's life. According to some ancient accounts, she was an aristocrat who married a rich merchant and had a daughter with him. One tradition says that she killed herself by jumping off a cliff over an unhappy love affair.

Lambrou says Sappho was not gay. "But even if we assume she was, how can 250,000 people of Lesbian descent — including women — be considered homosexual?"

The Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece could not be reached for comment.

There is just so much that is hysterical about this story. Perhaps I should not use the word hysterical though since it is derivative the Greek word hysteria meaning womb. I would not want to offend anyone who found this story hysterical, in a colloquial sense, but did not in fact have a womb.

Perhaps I am not getting the point here, but why didn't the people of Lesbos have a problem with the term lesbian as used to describe homosexual women...before now? The article explains that the term lesbian was used to describe homosexual women because of the poet Sappho who live in the 7th century B.C....as in 2700 years ago! Are we to believe that there is just now confusion regarding Lesbians meaning people from Lesbos and Lesbians meaning dykes? This never came up over the past 2700 years?

Further more...the entire homosexual and lesbian community of Greece could not be reached for comment? Not one person? In the whole country?

I think that this article is more dramatic that Sophocles.

Regradless, no one would ever mistake Greeks as homosexual when they are in fact straight. Just look at their artistic, cultural and historical traditions...there is nary the suggestion of any homosexuality whatsoever! WHATSOEVER!

PURSE SNATCHING IS SO PASSE

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/od_nm/witchcraft_dc;_ylt=ArC1dlUIpN8od4P8Zy9l62gSH9EA

Men of the Congo BEWARE!! There is a new evil lurking behind every corner in Kinshasa. No it is not a hungry tiger, or malaria infected mosquito (at least not this time), but something much more deviant and horrifying. Penis snatchers!!!!!!!!

Black magic is being used to either shrink or steal one's penis! And here I was thinking that head shrinking was bad. This is infinitely worse.

13 (suspected) Sorcerers have been rounded up. Supposedly it takes but one touch from these "sorcerers" and puff your penis shrinks before your own eyes, or simply swept away to the island of misfit penises.

You might think this is funny, (well it is) but it is leading to attempted lynchings, and is being featured heavily on Congo radio call in shows. There are all sorts of conspiracy theories about this recent outbreak of penis snatching, anything from political oppression, to extortion (offering to give back or enlarge your shrunken penis for a fee.) My question, (well i have many on this but) Have these "victims" looked down to see,if in fact they had been penis snatched? I think living with a penis your whole life, you would know if it had been "magicked," I know I would.

This seems to me like a "the dog ate my homework excuse" for the inadequate Congo man. But to be on the safe side, The Congo Republic is off my list of places to visit before I die.

brian

"WHAT THE F?" and things

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7370842.stm

Just the introduction to this one is enough to say " WHAT THE F$#K!!"

"Seven German artists are living with LICE in their

hair in an Israeli museum for three weeks in the

name of art"

HUH? Unless these little bugs are creating mini frescoes on the heads of these artists, I don't get it.

I do understand all art is open to interpretation, but this is just dirty, and contagious. These are a few of my least favorite things!!!!

They are wearing shower caps to keep the lice from spreading all around the museum. Um, yeah, on my next trip to the Holy Land, I think this is one museum I will skip. This really is gross. Anyone who has a child in elementary school knows how contagious Lice is, and how much work it takes to "delouse" your home after an outbreak. This is one mess holy water can not clean up.

Whats equally disturbing is that 23 year old artist Vincent Grunwald, claims they are hosting the little guys, as the museum is hosting the "ARTISTS." Come on now, they have invited the most disgusting "things" to live under a shower cap on their heads. Oh you know what would be great hosting parasites such as tapeworms, or maybe a very artistic bacteria....such as I don't know, ecoli, or maybe even hosting a delightful STD.

yuck yuck yuck yuck. I mean you wouldn't host crabs for a night at the museum Mr Grunwald? Or would you?......

brian

Mop

Has anyone seen the mop? I sware that thing has legs...and a tongue.

PENGUIN FASHION?

OK... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080424/ap_on_fe_st/odd_penguin_wetsuit;_ylt=AgWQSAB3YeVWdiOQ9EX1NeKs0NUE

This definitely can be summed up in one word.....and that word is ........"things". A wetsuit for a senior penguin? I get it, I really do, the penguin was losing his feathers in his old age and was walking around all bare assed and shivering, while the other penguins laughed and called him names like "nudie" or like many of us, just rolled their eyes at the antics of the elderly. Walking around without pants, eating plain flavored foods, and napping in the middle of conversations. Kooky seniors.

Any way, "Pierre", (the penguin, because if i had a pet penguin that would be the first name that came to mind), is all Mr happy pants in his sleek fitted wetsuit. According to this article, Pierre had "fittings" for his new outfit. What!!!!You couldn't get it right the first time? You needed to follow him around and make adjustments? Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't all penguins pretty much the same size and shape?

What really gets me, is this article is making Senior Aquatic Biologist Pam Schaller, look like a genius for coming up with this idea. Don't get me wrong I am sure she is quite intelligent and a whole hell of a lot smarter then I am, but it isn't rocket science, that if you are cold you put on a coat. Besides, other animals have clothes you can dress them up in, why NOT penguins? I like penguins..........

brian

"We give 'em oil and nuts and bolts and they're happy guys..."

I can wait for the next model of Bon Tron 2000s to roll off the assembly line.

If they come equipped with machine guns (or even kung-fu grip) we are doomed . Doomed. DOOMED!

I have highlighted the passages below that remind me of my of the current Bon Tron model. I must admit, they are so like like that I sometimes forget that I am not dealing with an actual human!

WALTHAM (WBZ) ― It's nimble. It's quick. It can fit into small spaces, and best of all, take a pipe bomb out of a mailbox bare-handed. "It" is a police robot in the midst of a competition in Waltham, between bomb squad officers from all over the country.
They are training on the latest robot technology that could someday save their lives. "We deal with him just like any other partner; we take care of them," said San Francisco bomb squad officer Dino Zografos.

"We give 'em oil and nuts and bolts and they're happy guys…If nobody gets hurt it's a great deal for everybody." Zografos says this is one partner that has already come through for him. One time his robot flushed out a barricaded gunman.

"The bad guy, I don't know what he was thinking, his frame of mind, but he saw the robot and psychologically it bothered him because he wasn't dealing with a human being now, so in his mind, it caused him to give up," Zografos described.

These robots can hand you something, just like a human. They can see you - through a camera, and hear you with the use of a microphone. And they aren't just for police departments. The U.S. military is using hundreds of similar robots in Iraq and other war zones around the world.

Next off the assembly line is a robot with a machine gun. It's not in use yet, but soon a soldier will be able to control it from the safety of a jeep. "They might use these in checkpoints," Zografos said. "It gives a soldier a stand off distance… keeps the soldiers out of harm's way." Because whether it's a war zone, or a city street, a robot down is better than a man down.

"T" IS FOR YOUR TOOF FILLED MOUTH, AS WELL AS "THINGS..".

Consarnit!!!!

THE RUSH IS ON!!!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080423/ap_on_bi_ge/dental_gold_rush That's right folks!

Forget panning for gold, the source is much closer then you may think. Can't pay the mortgage? Need that extra cash this month? Head on down to your local pawn shop, gold teef in hand, and in an instant you will be able to maintain your comfortable way of life. Cash for your teef, does it get any better then that? It seems that gold teef are going for $50 to $60 a pop. Now, I don't know anybody that has gold teefs, per say, but if i did drinks would be on them, that's for sure. Come on now is the economy really that bad that people are hawking teeth? I guess wooden teef would not fetch that much in today's market, would they?

From my understanding, those of you out there with dentures, may just have hit the jackpot! According to this article dentures are filled with bits and pieces of "precious metals", from gold and silver,to palladium(whatever the hell that is). But alas i am a destined pauper lacking gold teefs and dentures. I guess when the time comes when i need extra cash, I'll just have to settle on selling a kidney,or baby on the black market. (most likely a baby)

brian

brian

Things

I am so pleased to be a part of this historic moment.
Disgruntled Unemployee and Daily Things united.
Truly, the stars have aligned!

Kitty's got a ............WIG?

OK ....total nonsense!!!!! http://www.kittywigs.com/

In case we were all wondering what Lil Kim's kitten (and i do not mean her Virgina)(sic) would look like,....here you go! What?!!!!!! I as a pet owner do not get this one bit, although I have a dog, so maybe it is different? I know we all like to think

of our pets as our children, but when you start disguising them as little people, with wigs and dresses, you have crossed a line from pet lover to just plane weird. It is much like babies being photographed as household plants, or in some cases ....delicious cakes! Please do not ruin a lovely plant or a sweet sweet delicious cake by putting a baby in it. It is just odd and gross, and i don't want to talk about it any longer.........

brian

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