Art gag or niche business?
1. How would you like to be immortalised with your very own Lego Minifigure? Yes, me too! An Etsy store, Funly3DFaces, will customise your face to fit on to a Lego head for $30. Money well spent, I hear you say.
2. According to Wikipedia, when larger kangaroos are chased they will often lead their pursuer to water, then once standing submerged to the chest, the kangaroo will attempt to drown the attacker.
A reader writes: "So I see a septic tank truck near our house and I think, ours is probably due to be emptied so I go over and talk to the operator. I don't shake is thickly gloved hand but I do take a card he offers me (after removing the gloves) and as I walk away I notice the less than sanitary looking splashes of dried brown liquid on the card. Yikes!"
A news story from Jefferson City, Missouri, 1961. Eddie Jones, 3, was described as "a reckless and incompetent tricycle operator" in a $50,000 damage suit in district court. The petition, filed by Homer Wolfe against Eddie's father, Ed Jones, alleges that Wolfe's wife, Bertha, was employed as a maid in Jones' home when she was struck by a tricycle. She alleges she suffered extensive injuries and mental anguish. "Little Eddie, who was on his tricycle, gathered a full head of steam and without a warning yell of any nature propelled his tricycle with great force into the body of Bertha Wolfe while her back was turned," the petition charged. The plaintiff contends that the senior Jones knew that his son "was a reckless and incompetent operator of the tricycle".
Following the Paris terrorist attacks, about 60 per cent of Millennials (those aged between 18-29) said additional American troops would be needed to fight the Islamic State, but 85 per cent answered, in the next question, that "no," they themselves were "probably" or "definitely" not joining the military. (Source: Harvard Institute of Politics poll).
Local: A local photography company was a no show, after a date mix up, and this client let them have what for on their Facebook page."The way this woman carries on you would think it was a Royal wedding, not a 1 year old birthday party," says Jess. (read below)
Picture this: An App that will tell you if you how attractive you are and have a stab at your age...(To be taken with a grain of salt)
Picture this: Liquor fanciers will know the vodka that comes in the Crystal Skull head, right? Well a forensic scientist used facial reconstruction techniques to give the skull a face...
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