Weird News

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Cicero

Sure and what of the alcohol and caffeine content? Oh wait that's just me....

[glatt]

Dude who got stuck upside down for 28 hours in a tight squeeze in a
cave and died will be left there, and the cave sealed.

story

[TheMercenary]

Sweden woman's 'murder' committed by elk not husband

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8384143.stm

[Crimson Ghost]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Sweden woman's 'murder' committed by elk not husband

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8384143.stm

Is that part of the initiation, or is it the moose I'm thinking of...?

[skysidhe]

I know my weird news is pretty lame usually but oh well.
It's how my weird operates.

The Sun-Maid Girl

http://www.sun-maid.com/en/about/sunmaid_girl.html

Many people want to know if a real person was the original "Sun-Maid girl." The answer is "Yes," and her name was Lorraine Collett Petersen. In May 1915, she was discovered drying her black hair curls in the sunny backyard of her parents' home in Fresno, California. She was then asked to pose for a painting while holding a basket tray of fresh grapes. This striking image was first applied to packages of Sun-Maid raisins in 1916. Over the years, this image has been seen on millions and millions of packages and has been taken into homes throughout the world.
The treasured original watercolor painting is today kept safely in a concrete vault at Sun-Maid’s headquarters in Kingsburg, California.


Just recently they changed her image which has earned it some weird remarks.


Naturally, the revamped look hasn't gone unnoticed, rankling both ends of the political spectrum. The blog for conservative magazine The Weekly Standard noted that the new Sun-Maid girl looks "as if Julia Roberts decided to don a red bonnet and start picking grapes," while the feminist website Jezebel.com remarked that it looks as if she's had “some implants.”

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Naturally, the revamped look hasn't gone unnoticed, rankling both ends of the political spectrum. The blog for conservative magazine The Weekly Standard noted that the new Sun-Maid girl looks "as if Julia Roberts decided to don a red bonnet and start picking grapes," while the feminist website Jezebel.com remarked that it looks as if she's had “some implants.”

looks like she had a reduction first, though:


Original 1916 version of the Sun-Maid trademark.


The Sun-Maid trademark in 1923

[ZenGum]

These idiots should just join scientology.

The transgressions of Tiger Woods have proved too much to take for one of the golf superstar's most fanatical fans, who is now disbanding a church set up in praise of the sports icon.

John Ziegler, the pastor of the First Church of Tiger Woods - www.tigerwoodsisgod.com - has announced in a statement on the blog that the organisation is being dissolved because of the golfer's "personal sins".

The church, whose home page has now been rechristened "The Damnation of Tiger Woods", was launched by radio host Ziegler in 1996 to "celebrate the emergence of the 'true messiah".

More at the link.

[morethanpretty]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

These idiots should just join scientology.

Gods can't sin, they must not be very faithful for thinking their God is a sinner.

[TheMercenary]

the 1916 version looks like her boobs are bigger.

[jinx]

So the feminists are only looking at her boobs? Don't they pretend to get pissed when men do that?

[classicman]

More Bad news for Tiger

Moments ago, CBS 2 obtained a copy of the subpoena request. The trooper stated a witness, presumably Elin Woods, told him Tiger had been drinking alcohol earlier in the day and he'd taken the prescription drugs Ambien and Vicodin. The officer said that warranted suspicion that the golf star's accident was caused by his impairment, but the subpoena was denied.

Bloom believes Uchitel must have been paid off by Woods for her silence, especially given the maneuvering of her mom over the past few days.

"We know that paparazzi caught Gloria Allred leaving Tiger Woods' lawyer's office on Monday night. That has to mean they were engaging in negotiations. Paparazzi then caught her leaving Rachel Uchitel's hotel on Wednesday night after midnight, and at 7:00 a.m. the press conference was cancelled," said Bloom.

It was a press conference where the club hostess was expected to tell all. But the date with the media was canceled due to "unforeseen circumstances." Bloom said a check must have been cut.

[Crimson Ghost]

Perhaps he should have used a driver.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Crimson Ghost

Perhaps he should have used a driver.

Out loud laughter man!

[skysidhe]

feminists are annoying

I'm just not so into computer images.

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Weirder than the crash is the cash Elin Woods is negotiating for.
or is it T.W.'s idea?


Elin and Tiger Woods had a prenuptial agreement, as expected. The couple is undergoing marital counseling, as you'd also expect. And now The Daily Beast is reporting that Elin Woods is renegotiating that prenup to get an immediate $5 million payout from her husband and as much as $55 million more to stay with him for two more years.

The initial prenup was worth $20 million after 10 years of marriage. However, the Chicago Sun-Times' Bill Zwecker has reported that Elin Woods will receive an immediate payment "into an account she alone controls," and that the 10-year timeframe -- which began when they married in 2004 -- has been shortened and the value increased "substantially."

But apparently there's also a behavioral component to all this: Elin Woods must "be a dutiful wife in showing up with him at social events and in public as if they were still the perfect couple, and sign a nondisclosure form that will prevent her from ever telling her story."

It's important to note that to date, there's no concrete evidence that Elin Woods has ever been anything but the perfectly dutiful golf wife. I'm sure the Woodses would like nothing more than to portray domestic calm to the world, and Elin Woods now apparently has several million more reasons to do just that.
http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/de...rn=golf,206529

The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...=hp:mainpromo1

[classicman]

With 300 MILLION - why would she ever need to sell her story?

Meanwhile more weird news from the Woods household

Tiger Woods' mother-in-law was rushed early this morning from the golfer's home to the same Florida hospital where he was taken after a car accident two weeks ago, according to an official at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee. Barbro Holmberg, 57, a Swedish politician, was taken to the hospital by paramedics called to the golfer's Windermere home shortly after 2:36 a.m. Holmberg complained of stomach pains, and her condition is not life-threatening, hospital spokesman Dan Yates said.

"She's in a wing that helps protect her privacy," he said, adding that she's in stable condition.