A famed English explorer was invited to Dartmouth to tell of his
adventures in the African jungle. "Can you imagine," he
demanded, "people so primitive that they love to eat the embryo
of certain birds, and slices from the belly of certain animals?
And grind up grass seed, make it into a paste, burn it over a
fire, then smear it with a greasy mess they extract from the
mammary fluid of certain other animals?"

When the students looked startled by such barbarism, the explorer
added softly, "What I've been describing, of course, is a
breakfast of bacon and eggs and buttered toast."

November 25, 2003

NOTE FROM CHRIS:

Weekly British tabloids, despite promising to tell all,
are abiding by a ban on printing details of an "incident"
Prince Charles said never took place. In one of the oddest
scandals yet involving the House of Windsor, Charles has
denied doing something -- without saying what it is --
and a court has banned papers from publishing the story.


Excerpts from today's list:

The Top 15 Possible Scandals Involving Prince Charles


15> Used the words "British" and "cuisine" in the same sentence.

11> Has been hiding Saddam's WMDs behind his ears all this time.

6> Because he once painted raunchy nudes of Camilla, he now wants
to be referred to as "the Prince Formerly Known as Artist."

4> One night, after too many glasses of port, he was caught
carousing in Piccadilly and asking young women if they'd
like to see "Buckingham Phallus."

these are evil:

Q: What's black and comes in little white cans?
A: Michael Jackson

Q: What's the difference between Michael Jackson and a Plastic bag?
A: One is made out of plastic and is dangerous for kids to play with and one is used to carry groceries.

Oddly Enough - Reuters
Flash Camera Flasher Nabbed?
Fri Nov 21,11:15 AM ET
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Police may have captured "the naked photographer," a camera-carrying man wearing nothing but sunglasses and a cap who has been snapping pictures of startled women for months, authorities in Ohio said on Thursday.



Stephen Linnen, 33, was arrested Wednesday night after he allegedly confronted a woman in the laundry room of a residential complex, said Sherry Mercurio of the Columbus Police Department's Public Information Unit.

"We feel confident he's the one," she said.

The woman -- believed to be the man's 39th victim since he first struck in April of 2002 -- reacted by trying to grab the flasher's stocking cap from his head, Mercurio said. The woman called police who cornered the man shortly thereafter.

Linnen was charged with one count of public indecency and one count of assault, the latter for pushing the woman in the laundry room when she tried to grab his hat.

He was released on bond Thursday but arrested again a short time later by police from a Columbus suburb where at least one of the flashing incidents occurred.

"He just pops up, flashes the camera, laughs and runs off," Mercurio said. "He doesn't attack during the winter."

She said investigators do not know what the flasher does with his pictures.