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« Ummm... Other?: March 2007 | Main | Ummm... Other?: May 2007 » Ummm... Other?Stupider Than An American - Almost My lovely sister sent this to me today. Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at $1,600 each. She was crestfallen when told it was a sheep. One couple said they became suspicious when they took their "dog" to have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves. Let's just say, for argument's sake, that you have no clue what a sheep looks like. How do you not know what a dog is supposed to look like? And that it doesn't have hooves?! I say "almost" because i think the stupid things we've done and believed over time has accumulated and far surpasses even this idiocy. Let's not forget the cashier who accepted a $200 bill with Bush's face on it. Or, WMD. Now, that's a good one. Update:
By min | April 26, 2007, 11:36 AM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (6)| Link The French can make anything sound pretty. Even German. By min | April 26, 2007, 8:37 AM | Music
& Ummm... Other? | Link The man, whose name was not released, was found after officials resumed a search of the house on Long Island, just east of New York City. Debris mixed with human and animal waste was piled high in every room, some all the way to the ceiling. Helen Bushwick was found Thursday evening, located by her feet and her moans, when volunteer firefighters responded to the two-story house, in a tidy upper- middle-class neighborhood, after relatives told police they could not reach her. "A six-foot pile of rubbish collapsed on her and trapped her in there," Erik Kinney, a volunteer firefighter, said of Bushwick. Six feet is about 185 centimeters. There was garbage -- "cans, boxes, clothing, papers, whatever you can collect in every room, some spots to the ceiling, some three feet to the ceiling," Kenney said. "Feces -- raccoon, possum and human" were found in buckets and in the trash. "The stench was very strong, as you can imagine," he added. The house will be boarded up, and the woman's relatives will be allowed to go through the contents. Afterward, the buildings department will assess whether the structure is sound. This article just raises more questions than it answers. Why was there feces and garbage piled 6 ft high in this woman's house? If she had relatives who were concerned enough to call the fire department after not being able to reach her, how is it that they didn't know she was living in these conditions? How could anyone living next door to her not have complained to the health department about the smell? And what NY firefighter uses the word "rubbish"? By min | April 16, 2007, 12:10 PM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (1)| Link E-VER-Y-THING! Hard boiled egg molds! It's brilliant! Who knew you could mold your hard boiled eggs? The Japanese, that's who! 
I love bento accessories. By min | April 12, 2007, 1:19 PM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (3)| Link « Ummm... Other?: March 2007 | Main | Ummm... Other?: May 2007 » |
