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Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Where’s Tom Wolfe when you need him?: "Baseball star’s wife makes ultimate threat
The wife of a top US baseball player has vowed to have sex with all of his team mates if he ever cheats on her.
Anna Benson, a former model and stripper who was named Baseball’s Hottest Wife by FHM, is married to Mets pitcher Kris Benson.
She told Howard Stern’s radio show: “I told him, cheat on me all you want. If you get caught, I’m going to s***w everybody on your entire team. Coaches, trainers, players. I would do everybody on his whole team.”
Stern, egging her on, asked: “Even the coaches? What about, like, the bat boys?”
“Everybody would get a turn,” Anna pledged. “If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine.”
Uh huh. I see that, somehow, this woman managed to have a career as a “model and stripper” without developing the faintest shred of a clue how men think or respond to a challenge like this.
Bet on it. Somehere, a coalition of the most unattractive no-hopers in the Mets organization — probably organized by some dude with a beer gut, bad breath, and a bread-dough complexion who harbors a lo"
Friday, March 10, 2006
Amsterdam's "No Toking" Signs On Sale Next Week
Amsterdam's "No Toking" Signs On Sale Next Week
I read earlier this week about the "no pot smoking" street signs in Amsterdam that are being stolen by those who apparently into the evil weed who thought they make pretty good souvenirs. So the city -- or the Baarsjes district of Amsterdam -- has decided to sell them. I've got a friend or two who I thought would find it amusing to get one of these as a gift. I tracked down the council site, found the right page with contact details, and sent an email to find more. That page has now been updated, plus I was also emailed some additional information. The signes go on sale through the web next week, and more "no toking" items will follow. Here's the info I just got emailed:
Information about purchasing the “blowverbodsbord” (no toking sign)
Dear Sir or Madam,
Thank you for your interest in our sign. It has taken a while to inform you about how to purchase the sign. We did not expect the enormous response.
Monday the 13th of february at 16.00 hours local time the sites www.noblowbord.nl and www.notokingsign.com will start. You will find information about purchasing the sign on these sites and you will be able to pay by creditcard.
The sign is 60 cm in diameter and made from highquality material. The sign can be delivered to you if you pay the shipping costs. Delivery time is approximately three weeks.
In due time we will offer you also other ”no toking” products like caps, t-shirts and different stickers.
If you have a creative idea for a new “no toking” product we would be most interested. In that case please contact no.blow.bord@vespro.nl . If your idea gets produced, you will receive a free sign and of course a free sample of your product.
We hope to have informed you.
Many greetings from Amsterdam
Geert Jan Stolk
Blowverbodsbord-campaign
CNN.com - New animal resembles furry lobster - Mar 8, 2006
CNN.com - New animal resembles furry lobster
PARIS, France (AP) -- Divers have discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.
Scientists said the animal, which they named Kiwa hirsuta, was so distinct from other species that they created a new family and genus for it.
A team of American-led divers found the animal in waters 2,300 meters (7,540 feet) deep at a site 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) south of Easter Island last year, according to Michel Segonzac of the French Institute for Sea Exploration.
The new crustacean is described in the journal of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
The animal is white and 15 centimeters (5.9 inches) long -- about the size of a salad plate.
In what Segonzac described as a "surprising characteristic," the animal's pincers are covered with sinuous, hair-like strands.
It's also blind. The researchers found it had only "the vestige of a membrane" in place of eyes, Segonzac said.
The researchers said that while legions of new ocean species are discovered each year, it is quite rare to find one that merits a new family.
The family was named Kiwaida, from Kiwa, the goddess of crustaceans in Polynesian mythology.
