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Note to self: never shake the bucket of nuts before you’re tied to the yak rope

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Truer words have never been spoken.
This BBC article quotes Time Asia, reporting about a unique new tourist attraction in India. Apparently run (and started?) by one man (Peter Dorje), this “sport” entails going up on a mountain with a bunch of yaks, attaching yourself to a rope and a pulley mechanism, shaking a bucket […]

Note to self: videotape sex

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

Just read this story about a woman in Florida who reported that she was gang-raped by a bunch of “French men” in her apartment complex.
The men denied her story, and probably would have been in some serious trouble, except for the fact that they had a videotape of the incident, which they showed to police, […]

Note to self: no parrots

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

This little article popped up today via CNN.com.
You can read for yourself, but to summarize in a nutshell: some guy’s girlfriend was having an affair, bringing her lover back to an apartment she shared with her boyfriend. Unfortunately for her, she was talking while with her lover, and his parrot began repeating things she […]


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