PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested 320 people for practicing sorcery and religious cults, the National newspaper reported Thursday. Belief in sorcery is widespread in this jungle-clad, mountainous South Pacific island nation where some villages only encountered Western civilization in the 1930s. Police raided three villages Monday near the city of Lae on the north coast and arrested leaders of a "cargo cult" and their followers, the newspaper said. Th...
PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested 320 people for practicing sorcery and religious cults, the National newspaper reported Thursday. Belief in sorcery is widespread in this jungle-clad, mountainous South Pacific island nation where some villages only encountered Western civilization in the 1930s. Police raided three villages Monday near the city of Lae on the north coast and arrested leaders of a "cargo cult" and their followers, the newspaper said. Th...
Thanks go out to my friend Jo who sent me these head-scratchers.... BRAIN CRAMPS (On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever," --Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contes...
Thanks go out to my friend Jo who sent me these head-scratchers.... BRAIN CRAMPS (On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever," --Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contes...
And you thought numerology was the only way to enlightenment... Alectromancy - uses letters inscribed in a circle, selected by rooster pecking grain. Bibliomancy - is divination by turning to random book passages. Bletonism - divines by observing swirling currents of water. Cephalomancy - Examines the boiled skull of an animal particularly goat or Donkey. Cromniomancy - divines using interpretation of the curved patterns found inside an onion. Dorze - throws fowl entrails on the...
And you thought numerology was the only way to enlightenment... Alectromancy - uses letters inscribed in a circle, selected by rooster pecking grain. Bibliomancy - is divination by turning to random book passages. Bletonism - divines by observing swirling currents of water. Cephalomancy - Examines the boiled skull of an animal particularly goat or Donkey. Cromniomancy - divines using interpretation of the curved patterns found inside an onion. Dorze - throws fowl entrails on the...
Some thoughts on what a dog would ask God about the nature of the universe and his relationship to it... TO: GOD FROM: DOG Dear God: Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom, if ever, smell one another? Dear God: When we get to heaven, can we sit on your couch? Or is it still the same old story? Dear God: Why are there cars named after the jaguar, the cougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, but not ONE named for a dog? How often do y...
Some thoughts on what a dog would ask God about the nature of the universe and his relationship to it... TO: GOD FROM: DOG Dear God: Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom, if ever, smell one another? Dear God: When we get to heaven, can we sit on your couch? Or is it still the same old story? Dear God: Why are there cars named after the jaguar, the cougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, but not ONE named for a dog? How often do y...
From Reuters: How do you like your kangaroo -- medium rare? Doesn't sound too appealing, does it? So in a bid to make Australia's national icon more palatable, Food Companion International magazine and the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia are running a competition to find a more palatable culinary name for the meat of the hopping marsupials. More than 300 entries have already been received from around the world including marsu (taken from marsupial), marla and wallagang (der...
From Reuters: How do you like your kangaroo -- medium rare? Doesn't sound too appealing, does it? So in a bid to make Australia's national icon more palatable, Food Companion International magazine and the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia are running a competition to find a more palatable culinary name for the meat of the hopping marsupials. More than 300 entries have already been received from around the world including marsu (taken from marsupial), marla and wallagang (der...
From The Chaser of Australia: article President Bush has found another job for his friend and failed Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, appointing her to defend another embattled friend, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, after his indictment for perjury. "Harriet Miers is the ideal candidate to represent Scooter in court," the President announced. "She's a wonderful Christian, a loyal friend and I know her heart. What more could you want, apart from maybe legal skills?" But Mr Libby has rejec...
From The Chaser of Australia: article President Bush has found another job for his friend and failed Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, appointing her to defend another embattled friend, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, after his indictment for perjury. "Harriet Miers is the ideal candidate to represent Scooter in court," the President announced. "She's a wonderful Christian, a loyal friend and I know her heart. What more could you want, apart from maybe legal skills?" But Mr Libby has rejec...
I know she is a woman and pregnant, but this takes balls... From today's Arizona Republic : A pregnant Ahwatukee Foothills resident ticketed for driving in a carpool lane is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday to argue that her unborn child counted as a passenger. Candace Dickinson, 23, hopes to overturn her penalty and prove her point that even though her child was still in the womb while she was driving on Interstate 10 on Nov. 8 in Ahwatukee Foothills, there still was a seco...
I know she is a woman and pregnant, but this takes balls... From today's Arizona Republic : A pregnant Ahwatukee Foothills resident ticketed for driving in a carpool lane is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday to argue that her unborn child counted as a passenger. Candace Dickinson, 23, hopes to overturn her penalty and prove her point that even though her child was still in the womb while she was driving on Interstate 10 on Nov. 8 in Ahwatukee Foothills, there still was a seco...
Have you read the life journal of this man? Apparently he's got his own blog now, along with Venom , Spiderman , Beast , and my favorite, the Incredible Hulk . Too funny, especially in the middle of the night. It's 12:15 AM... anything is funny about this time of night.