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Priest who blessed Morales found with cocaine (Reuters)
30 Jul 2010 at 5:42pm
Reuters - The Aymara priest who blessed Bolivian President Evo Morales at an inauguration ceremony four years ago has been arrested in possession of 530 pounds (240 kg) of cocaine, police said Thursday.

Vicar conducted 360 sham marriages (Reuters)
29 Jul 2010 at 3:53pm

Wedding bell balloons fly from a storefront in Rhinebeck, New York, July 26, 2010. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - A vicar was found guilty on Thursday of conducting hundreds of sham marriages between African nationals and cash-strapped eastern Europeans to allow illegal immigrants to gain residency in Britain.




Brewer claims world's strongest beer (Reuters)
29 Jul 2010 at 3:59pm

A waiter takes a tablet of beer mugs on the opening day of Schweizerhaus beer garden in Vienna March 15, 2010. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter BaderReuters - A Dutch brewer with a penchant for competition has laid claim to creating the world's strongest brew: a beer that is some 60 percent alcohol by volume.




Churchill's dentures fetch nearly $24,000 (Reuters)
29 Jul 2010 at 4:04pm

Sarah Prior holds a partial set of  dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - after they were sold at auction in Aylesdham, England, Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.) The upper dentures, one of several sets specially made for the wartime prime minister, were crucial for maintaining his distinctively slurred speaking style famous from World War II-era radio broadcasts. The dentures were bought by a British collector of Churchill memorabilia, at three times the estimated price. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)Reuters - A partial set of British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill's gold-mounted dentures has fetched 15,200 pounds ($23,770) at auction, over three times the estimate.




Hamas targets women's underwear in modesty drive (Reuters)
28 Jul 2010 at 5:32pm

A Palestinian woman walks next to mannequins outside shops in Gaza City July 28, 2010. REUTERS/Ismail ZaydahReuters - The Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip have ordered lingerie shops to display more modesty.



Strange New Products
News blog of strange, funny, weird and odd gadgets and stuff now hitting market.

Climate Change Chocolate Bar
by noreply@blogger.com (Steve)
12 Jan 2008 at 7:58am
Bloomsberry, LLC, a Salem, MA-based chocolate maker that sells its bars in whimsical wrappers, have now teamed up with TerraPass, a green energy broker, to offer these "Climate Change Chocolate" bars.

Climate Change Chocolate
The wrappers have printed on them 15 tips to reduce your carbon footprint on the world, and in addition have included in their sale price, enough carbon energy credits from TerraPass to offset your carbon footprint for one day.

You can read more about the global warming confection at TerraPass' website...

http://www.terrapass.com/lp/index.chocolate.html
The Fizz - Screw-on Ice Cream Float Cup
by noreply@blogger.com (Steve)
5 Jan 2008 at 12:40am
The Fizz is a plastic cup that screws on to a plastic PET bottle allowing you to create a mobile ice cream float.

Once you screw the cup to a bottle, fill it up with ice cream, then insert a straw, and finally, squeeze the bottle. This fills the cup with soda, allowing you to sip out a mixture of ice cream and soda.

The cup is reusable, but not dishwasher safe.

the fizz cup
Fruit Stickles - Flavored Fruit Skewers
by noreply@blogger.com (Steve)
25 Dec 2007 at 6:48am
Fruit SticklesFruit Stickles are wooden skewers used for sticking together chunks of fruit. Except the skewers are seasoned with cinnamon and tropical fruit flavors that leach into the fruit chunks.

The idea is that gives fruit an extra boost of flavor to tempt children into eating more fruit.

The seasoning contains no sugar, just pure seasoning. It's similar to the cinnamon toothpicks that restaurants used to give out in the 70s, except for making fresh-fruit shiskabobs.

I'm sure this can be extended into meat seasoning skewers, for real shiskabobs.

Visit Fruit Stickles online...
http://www.callisonsfinefoods.com/index.php?q=stickles
Subtle Butt - Fart Pads
by noreply@blogger.com (Steve)
14 Dec 2007 at 6:00am
Subtle Butt Fart PadsA company called The Pond Inc. is now selling a product called "Subtle Butt", billed as a fart neutralizer, to eliminate smelly flatulence.

It's an activated carbon fabric pad, measuring 3.25" x 3.25" square, and adheres to the inside of your underwear with two self-adhesive strips.

As the wind breaks, Subtle Butt filters the flatulence, absorbing and neutralizing its odor. Now you can eat as many burritos you want and still have a social life.

Available in a five pack, they retail for $9.95 per pack...
http://www.garmentguard.com

Check out the demonstration video...



NOTE: if you think this sounds familiar, check out the Doggie Thong Fart Neutralizer that we wrote about earlier.
Hillary Clinton Toilet Bowl Brush
by noreply@blogger.com (Steve)
12 Dec 2007 at 1:21am
Hillary Clinton Toilet Bowl BrushIf Hillary Clinton should succeed in her bid to move back into the Whitehouse, Republicans can at least find some comfort while cleaning toilets with their "First Cleaning Lady" toilet brush.

I tried to come up some smart-ass comment tying together the effectiveness of the cleaning bristles and the whole "whitewater probe", but I can't think right now.

There's also one for George W. Brush Bush that looks more like his father. And then they're working on an Osama Bin Laden brush.

Visit the official website...
http://www.theoriginalbowlbuddy.com


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