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All Tradition, no Bikinis for Mayan Beauty Queens
 Mica Rosenberg
Pretty young women sashay across stage, thoughtfully answer questions and perform dances - but the Rabin Ajaw pageant, which picks Guatemala's Maya Indian beauty queen, is no typical beauty contest.more »»»
No Fowl: Man is Champion Chicken for 9th Year
 Associated Press
Del Hampton has no reason to be fowl. He was named champion Saturday of the National Cluck-Off competition - an event the Fort Smith, Arkansas, native has won for the past eight years.more »»»
Mom has Quadruplets 3 Years After Triplets
 Francisca Ortega
With fertility drugs, Angela Magdaleno had triplets three years ago. Last week, she had quadruplets without fertility drugs.more »»»
Inmates Sue to Overturn Nude Magazine Ban
 Ken Kusmer
Two inmates have filed a lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Correction to overturn a policy that bars magazines such as Playboy and Hustler.more »»»
Man Pulls TV from House Fire to Watch Match
 Reuters
A Beijing football fan refused to let the small matter of his house burning down disturb his enjoyment of Tuesday's World Cup match between France and Spain.more »»»
Operation Removes Lightbulb from Anus
 Reuters
Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus. Wednesday night, doctors brought Mohammad's misery to an end after a one-and-a-half hour operation to remove the object.more »»»
Smile! A New Canadian Tool Can Re-Grow Teeth Say Inventors
 AFP
Snaggle-toothed hockey players and sugar lovers may soon rejoice as Canadian scientists said they have created the first device able to re-grow teeth and bones.more »»»
New York the Politest City in the World? Get Outta Here!
 Alastair Jamieson
It is the city where eye contact is considered an act of aggression and the most frequently used part of a car is the horn. But New York is the most polite place in the world, according to a survey which ranked its famously brusque citizens well ahead of those in London in kindness and good manners.more »»»
On the Web, Punch and Click
 Paul Farhi
Every now and then, Blake Cater gets an appetite for a fight. There's something about a brawl - a punch-out, a good old-fashioned throwdown - that gets his adrenaline pumping. So with a few of his friends, he goes into his back yard and has at it. And invites the world to watch.more »»»
Naked Beau Flushed from the Bushes
 AP
A man who ran naked through his neighborhood to persuade his girlfriend to marry him got more than he bargained for when he was chased and shot at, police said.more »»»
Rent a Rasta: a New Twist on Sex Tourism
 24-7PressRelease
Every year over 80,000 middle-aged women flock to Jamaica in search of the 'big bamboo.' A practice called "rent a rasta." But who are the real Rastafari? more »»»
US Firm Makes Killer Calendar for Serialphiles
 Sarah Mahoney
April belongs to serial sex killer John Wayne Gacy, convicted of killing 33 young men and boys, while May is for Jeffrey Dahmer, who ate 17 men. June features Satanic worshiper and murderer Richard Ramirez. The grisly 2007 Serial Killer Calendar produced by a Maine businessman depicts some of the world's most notorious murderers.more »»»
Gay Film Festival Slammed for Offering Prize Trip to Anti-Gay Fiji
 AFP
A New Zealand gay film festival has come under fire for offering a membership prize of a holiday in Fiji - where homosexuality is illegal. The prize was inappropriate given discrimination against gays and people with HIV/AIDS, said Bruce Kilmister, the chairman of Aids/HIV support group Body Positive.more »»»
Former Berkeley Student Known as 'Naked Guy' Dies in Jail
 AP
The former California college student known as the "Naked Guy," who gained notoriety for attending class in the buff in the early 1990s, died of an apparent suicide while in jail, authorities said.more »»»
Mexicans Needle Candidates With 'Voodoo' Dolls
 Reuters
Sick of politicians who fail to keep promises, Mexicans are sticking pins in voodoo-style dolls of presidential candidates to needle them into becoming better public servants.more »»»
Italian Pop Star: Mexican Women have Moustaches
 Newswire
An Italian pop star named Tizziano Ferro is at the center of a media firestorm in Mexico after saying Mexican women have moustaches. According to Spain's 20 Minutos, the singer, who lived in Mexico for two years is not into Mexican girls.more »»»
Gas Station's Shocking Sign of Times
 Newswire
Gas really does cost an arm and a leg in places these days. This weekend, a Manhattan Beach, California, gas station said the price of regular gasoline was -- an arm. The price of mid-grade -- a leg. The price of premium -- your first born.more »»»
Feeling Good: Driver Has 18 Times Legal Alcohol Limit
 Liudas Dapkus
Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their testing device must be broken. It wasn't.more »»»
Dude Ranch Reopens as Nude Ranch
 AP
Levi's and Stetson's are definitely out at the former La Tierra Linda Guest Ranch Resort, a dude-ranch-turned- nude-ranch where Hollywood's elite vacationed during the 1930s. Well, the hats are still OK.more »»»
Bikini Protester Charms Chavez
 Reuters
A bikini-clad beauty queen protesting plans for a pulp mill in Uruguay pushed into a photo shoot of European and Latin American leaders at a summit on Friday and Venezuela's president said he blew her a kiss.more »»»
Man Admits Foot-Fetish Assaults on Subway
 Jeanne King
A 23-year-old with a foot fetish has admitted he tried to kiss, fondle and lick the legs and toes of more than 70 women on the New York subway over the last three years, prosecutors said this week.more »»»
Expensive Gas? Cost is No Concern in Beverly Hills
 Bernie Woodall
A couple of attendants washed the windows, checked the tires and pumped $4.299-a-gallon premium into a behemoth Cadillac Escalade as digit counters zoomed toward $100.more »»»
It's Hard Out there for a Virgin...
 Reuters
A brothel has become the first in Berlin to offer special deals for virgins with prostitutes trained in the delicate art of catering for customers who have never had sex, a German newspaper reported Friday.more »»»
Charity Exec Who Stole to Pay Dominatrix Gets Jail
 Jeanne King
An executive at a heart disease charitable foundation who embezzled close to a quarter of a million dollars over two years to pay a dominatrix to beat him was sentenced to two to six years in prison.more »»»
Man Tells Executioners "It's not Working"
 Jim Leckrone
A double murderer was put to death in Ohio on Tuesday but not until after one of his veins had collapsed, causing the condemned man to sit up and tell his executioners, "It's not working," officials said.more »»»
Man Using Web to Barter Paper Clip for House
 CNN.com
Kyle MacDonald had a red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else - and so on and so on until he had a house?more »»»
Women Applaud No-Men, Pink-Striped Metro Cars
 Yahoo! News
Women commuters filled female-only, pink-striped subway cars in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on Monday on the first day of a scheme to avert groping and other unwanted sexual advances.more »»»
Texas College Bars Students from Posing for Playboy
 Yahoo! News
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, which bills itself as the world's largest Baptist college, has threatened to discipline female students if they pose for Playboy magazine, which is trying to recruit models from the college.more »»»
Global Sex Survey: Guess Who's Satisfied
 Andrew Stern
Around the world, middle-aged and elderly men tend to be more satisfied with their sex lives than women in the same age group, a survey released on Wednesday said.more »»»
Texas Halts Arrests of Drunks in Bars
 Reuters
A controversial Texas program to send undercover agents into bars to arrest drunks has been halted after a firestorm of protest from the public.more »»»
Thief Gets Away with Grateful Dead Leader's Toilet
 AP
The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet. Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet.more »»»
California Court: Peeing in Public Illegal
 AP
Ruling on an appeal brought by a Berkeley man who was charged with cocaine possession after an officer stopped him mid-pitstop, the Court of the Appeal for the Second District said Wednesday that public urination is a crime that justified the officer's search of the man's pockets.more »»»
1,500 Venezuelans Pose Nude in Public
 Christopher Toothaker
More than 1,500 Venezuelans shed their clothes on a main city avenue Sunday to pose for American photographer Spencer Tunick, forming a human mosaic in front of a national symbol: a statue of independence hero Simon Bolivar.more »»»
Prostitutes Get Own Radio Station
 Reuters
Prostitutes in the Brazilian city of Salvador are starting up their own radio station. The Association of Prostitutes of Bahia state has won government permission for the project, enabling FM station Radio Zona to start broadcasting in the second half of the year.more »»»
Customers Cook Up Trouble With Fake Penis
 Joe Mandak
A woman who claimed she was trying to cheat on a drug test was behind a bizarre incident in which a frightened convenience store clerk thought she had microwaved a severed penis, police said.more »»»
Crime Blotter: Woman Nailed for Polly in a Bra
 ABC News
A Florida woman learns that smuggling Polly in your bra doesn't always get you a better cracker; a convenience store clerk faces jail time for falling asleep on the job; and an admitted DVD thief is tripped up by his own pants. "Crime Blotter" promises to never lull its readers into a snooze and always give them something to squawk about.more »»»
Believe It or Leave It: Strange Stories of 2005
 AFP
Alongside tragedies, wars and natural disasters the year just ending brought its share of unusual, outrageous and tragi-comic and just downright silly news items. Here's a selection of some of the stranger items:more »»»
Reality Show Tricks Men Into Dating Transvestite
 gagreport.com
Sky One, a British satellite TV network, is in deep trouble over their new reality show entitled "Find me a Man." The show challenged six "lively and outgoing" men to spent a fortnight trying to woo a leggy South American brunette called Miriam, while staying at her luxury villa in Ibiza.more »»»
Strippers Cop Plea in Spanking Case
 ABC News
Erotic dancers Kelly Eslick, Lisa Nolen and Charlene Smith were initially charged with participating in an obscene act and misdemeanor third-degree battery for allegedly going a little too far during an onstage spanking performance on truck driver Keith Lowery.more »»»
Firm Fights To Sell Moon Real Estate
 Reuters
For sale: acre plots, great Earth views, low gravity, moonrock-bottom prices, about as away from it all as you can get. A Chinese company is fighting for the right to pitch plots of land on the moon for sale after authorities shut the scheme down on charges of profiteering and lunacy.more »»»
Hollywood Madam to Open Nevada 'Stud Farm'
 Steve Gorman
Former "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss, whose previous career running a call-girl ring landed her in prison, is returning to the world's oldest profession - to open a Nevada brothel catering to women.more »»»
Businessman Hoodwinked by Thai Transvestites is Felled by Costly Kiss
 Canadian Press
Thai transvestites are often pretty enough to fool tourists into taking them home for the night, but the unwary foreign visitor risks losing his wallet as well as his pride, Thai police warned Monday.more »»»
Buy A House, Get A Free Bride
 AP
For $600,000, a 40- to 60-year-old man can buy a house in a trendy neighborhood that comes complete with a bride. Deborah Hale, 48, has placed an ad on eBay offering to sell her home in Denver to a compatible man who wants to spend his life with her.more »»»
Only on eBay...
 PAMELA ANDERSON'S CHAPSTICK - USED
You are bidding on a tube of Blistex Herbal Answers lip protectant/sunscreen that was actually used by Pamela Anderson...more »»»
Cold-War Device Used to Cause Katrina?
 Wire services
An Idaho weatherman says Japan's Yakuza mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge itself for the Hiroshima atom bomb attack and that this technology will soon be wielded again to hit another U.S. city.more »»»
Farmer Turns Field Into Personal Ad
 AP
It sounds a little corny. A farmer looking for love has planted a personals ad, using corn stalks in a cow pasture. It reads: "S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm-N."more »»»
Strip Club Owner Raises Ire With New Sign
 dailybreeze.com
For years, Howard White has advertised his strip club near the LA airport with a not too subtle marquee reading "Live Nude Nude Nudes." But some say White has gone too far with his latest pitch for the Century Lounge: a freshly posted sign proclaiming "Vaginas R' Us."more »»»
Jailed Mexican Businessman Sews Lips Shut Over Case
 Reuters
A jailed Mexican businessman who is accused of bribing some of Mexico Citys most powerful politicians sewed his lips shut on Monday to protest the criminal charges against him.more »»»
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