Weird News

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/N...d-08102012.htm

Man, take a look at the bush, it's a masterpiece of horticulture.

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think - Dorothy Parker

It is totally unfair how things just freaking grow like massive beasts in England. All they have to do is throw down some seed and voila- they have a beautiful garden. In fact, their yards are so pretty they actually call them 'gardens' - our yards are just that: yards. Of brown, crunchy, horrid used-to-be grass. You could cut yourself on it.

Here in Ohio things only grow in May and June when we get all excited that maybe, just maybe, they'll survive the holocaust that is Ohio July and August, only to have our hopes cruelly dashed by the relentless Sun God Apollo. Then in Sept. and Oct. plants have another slim chance before our first frost which is usually "earlier than expected" and there go your mums.

Ohio- it's cheap to live here and you'll know why once you visit!

[Lamplighter]

"Fearless" Felix Baumgartner's supersonic skydive from 24 miles
above the New Mexico desert was a rousing success, ...

What's the big deal ?
He jumped out of a balloon and went down... which way did he expect to go ?

Little kids have thrown their oatmeal on the floor for years to prove that gravity works.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

What's the big deal ?

I think that it was from a record breaking altitude and he fell very quickly.

[Scriveyn]

Originally Posted by glatt

I think that it was from a record breaking altitude and he fell very quickly.

... and must have shattered his brain real hard, if he had one in the first place:

FELIX Baumgartner, the Austrian parachutist who broke the sound barrier by jumping to earth from the stratosphere, has said in an interview he backs the idea of a dictatorship, though a moderate one. [...] Schwarzenegger's experience, said Baumgartner, who did not reveal whether the thought came to him during the four minutes and 20 seconds of his descent, showed "you can't do anything in a democracy". [...]

from dailytelegraph.com.au

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

What's the big deal ?

He was sponsored by Red Bull.