What weird news stories make you either laugh out loud, or just say "huh?'

[arbcoind]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/06/anthony-weiner-twitter-new-photos_n_871817.html

What a ....Weiner.

Gina

[DonaCatalina]

http://blog.chron.com/hottopics/2011/06/boat-named-titanic-ii-sinks-on-maiden-voyage/
Boat named Titanic II sinks on maiden voyage

If you name your boat Titanic II, you're asking for it.

[LadyDracolich]

LOL... OMG, sooo awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs&feature=player_embedded

[Merlin the Elder]

Lady Dracolich, that is the best thing I have heard in a while! I may be getting crotchety in my old age, but I absolutely hate the rudeness that cell phones have brought out in people.

[DonaCatalina]

Blue Lobsters, who knew?

[Lady Christina de Pond]

hmmm he would go nicely with my blue obsession

[Lady Christina de Pond]

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/cursed-number-39-haunts-afghan-car-owners-065317414.html

it's just a number

[arbcoind]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2011/06/15/pkg.moos.married.mannequin.cnn?hpt=li_t3

Very weird!

[Rowan MacD]

Strawberry, chocolate, vanilla ... cicada?

By Lili Ladaga

If you're an adventurous diner, you might want to get yourself over to Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia, Mo., to see if they have any leftover cicada ice cream. Yes, cicada as in the BUG. As in BUG ice cream.

Sparky's employees are allowed to get a little crazy when it comes to new ice cream flavors, so they may have been inspired by all the 13-year cicada corpses lying about after they emerged last month.

Boiled, then coated in chocolate, the crunchy buggers taste like nuts, apparently. (You know what else tastes like nuts? NUTS.) The shop discontinued the "flavor" after the Health Department advised them to quit serving bugs-n-cream.

[Rowan MacD]

  Apparently 'class entitlement'  is taught at Yale.   She must be a grad student in the subject....

Woman says she's too 'educated' to be kicked off New York train
By Liz Goodwin

By Liz Goodwin liz Goodwin – Fri Jun 17, 10:20 am ET

Loud cell-phone talkers strike again!

A woman traveling on New York's Metro North train line was recorded by a fellow passenger telling train employees that she is too "well-educated" to be told to quiet down and not use profanity in her cell-phone conversation.

"Do you know what schools I've been to? How well-educated I am?" she asks the train employee, who is seen explaining to another employee that she asked the passenger to stop using the "F-bomb."

"I'm sorry do you think I'm a little hoodlum?" she asks, then demands her money back and dares the conductor to stop the train.

The person who originally uploaded the video to Youtube (who has since removed it) said in the description that the woman "was talking too loud on the train when the conductor politely asked her to keep it down and stop using profanity or to take it to the vestibule." After the altercation, the conductor came on the loudspeaker and reminded people to keep conversations quiet, "especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport."

Last month, a woman was escorted from a quiet car in an Amtrak train by police after she chatted loudly on her cell phone for most of the 16-hour journey, and then became angry when passengers asked her to stop.


http://youtu.be/Huw3RvaACvI

[Merlin the Elder]

Oh, Lord Have Mercy!  She should have be let off the train...in fact, pushed off when the train was going over a large body of water.

Why is it that people on cell phones do not understand that their conversations are public?!?! "I was having a private conversation," she says. Uh-huh! Cell phones=Evil Invention!

[Lady Christina de Pond]

cell phone = electronic leash

[Merlin the Elder]

cell phone = electronic leash

You've got that right! This "dawg" ain't gonna be on a leash!

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

I went in the bathroom today at work & could hear a woman obviously using the rest room talking on her cell.  Wonder how she explained the whooshing noise.........

[Rowan MacD]

 Ewwwwwww......


Steak Made from Human Excrement: Is It Safe?
LiveScience.com

   
LiveScience.com livescience.com – Fri Jun 17, 4:50 pm ET

The mere idea is stomach-churning: creating food from human feces.

But researchers in Japan say they have done just that. They have synthesized meat from proteins found in human waste, according to news reports.

While the concept of chowing down on steak derived from poop may not exactly be appetizing, we wondered: is this meat safe?

In theory, yes, experts say. But the meat must be cooked, which will kill any noxious pathogens before you eat it.

"In the food safety world we say, 'don't eat poop,'" said Douglas Powell, a professor of food safety at Kansas State University. "But if you're going to, make sure it's cooked."

The Japanese researchers isolated proteins from bacteria in sewage. The poop-meat concoction is prepared by extracting the basic elements of food — protein, carbohydrates and fats — and recombining them.

The meat is made from 63 percent proteins, 25 percent carbohydrates, 3 percent lipids and 9 percent minerals, according to Digital Trends. Soy protein is added to the mix to increase the flavor, and food coloring is used to make the product appear red.

The researchers came up with the idea after Tokyo Sewage asked them to figure out a use for the abundance of sewage in mud, Digital Trends says.

Powell is not familiar with the researchers' method, but said he guesses that they are first heat-treating the sewage before they reap its resources.

Powell said the idea is not all that different from eating plants that have been fertilized with manure or other excrement, because the nutrients in the poop become part of the plants.

"Theoretically, there's nothing wrong with this," Powell said. "It could be quite safe to eat, but I'm sure there's a yuck factor there," he said.

However, Powell said there is the potential for cross contamination in the laboratory where the poop meat is made. That's why it's a good thing the meat will eventually be cooked.

But what if the final product was not going to be cooked?

"I wouldn't touch it, " Powell said.