Each bug is a real bug, with it's carbon guts removed, and metal/silicon guts put in their place by artist Mike Libby. “He spent his youth developing a keen understanding of the material world looking under rocks, dismantling appliances and practicing alchemy with ingredients found under the kitchen sink.”
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For years, competitors at the World Pie Eating Championship in Wigan have shown their eating prowess by gobbling as many meat and potato pies as they could manage in three minutes. But this year, in a break from tradition, the champion scoffers will compete to eat just a single pie in the fastest time possible.
Organisers of the annual event say the changes have been made in light of the Government's healthy eating advice and anti-obesity campaign, and will also offer vegetarian options.
“They've taken things too far this year – pies are supposed to be meat and potato and anything else just isn't normal,” said Dave Smyth, 48, from Hindley, who won the first contest in 1992 when he ate an impressive four pies in three minutes.
This guy must have had way too much time on his hands, but it's still pretty impressive.
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The Lake District Tourist Board have set up a hotline for depressed Britons to call when they feel like being comforted. Callers can listen to sounds like Cumberland sausages being cooked, Lake Windermere and a reading of Wordsworth's 'Daffodils'.
Eric Robson of Cumbria Tourism said: “Few of us enjoy getting up in the dark or coming home in it. Making the most of daylight and how you spend your weekends could be important for keeping the winter blues at bay.”
Lordi, the Finnish monsters who won Eurovision have released their own brand of cola.
“The Lordi phenomenon has brought the whole nation together”, said Ritva Sinisalo, of the beer company which makes the drink.
The lead singer, Mr Lordi designed the label featuring the five members of the band in their monster costumes. Lordi kick off their Bringing Back the Balls to Europe tour in Stockholm on 16 September, and play five UK dates in October.
A professor at the University of Florida has proved that vampires couldn't ever have existed.
Vampires supposedly feed on human blood, and once bitten, a person turns into a vampire and starts feasting on the blood of others. If on Jan 1, 1600, the human population was 536,870,911 and the first vampire came into existence that day, then bit one person a month, there would have been two vampires by Feb. 1, 1600. A month later there would have been four, and so on. In just two-and-a-half years the original human population would all have become vampires with nobody left to feed on.
If mortality rates were taken into consideration, the population would disappear much faster. Even an unrealistically high reproduction rate couldn't counteract this effect.
A 15-year-old boy stole a bus, drove it along a public transit route, picked up passengers and collected fares, authorities said Sunday.
“I drove that bus better than most of the LYNX drivers could,” the teen, who is too young to drive legally, told a deputy after he was stopped and arrested. “There isn't a scratch on it. I know how to start it, drive it, lower it, raise it.”
Davis had previously been charged for a similar bus theft. Passengers and deputies noted Davis drove the bus at normal speeds and made all the appropriate stops on the route. One passenger, suspicious of the youthful looks of the driver, called 911.
He was charged with grand theft auto and driving without a license. A court hearing was scheduled Tuesday to determine whether he will be charged as an adult.
If you're going to steal a bus, it would make sense to get a load of passengers, then go an a rampage before crashing over a cliff. He must have forgotten to act out the last part.
Urinals shaped like an opera singer's mouth have been removed from an operahouse in Vienna.
The urinals included a set of lips, teeth and a bright red tongue, but a spokeswoman for the Vienna Department of Womens' Affairs said they were “tasteless and offensive”.
The owner of the operahouse, Neuhard Gerhard said he found it odd that the urinals, which had been in use for three years had only become an issue in the run-up to Austria's national elections.
An interesting to the miniatures competition at Craftster.org, others included a miniature room, wedding cake and Mona Lisa.
The burger was a little over one inch tall and about an inch wide.
All actions are expressed by rewriting of a cell background color. Each one of cells as a dot, and move it by make cell's background color high-speed rewriting. Although I did not think it's possiblele, but now it's possiblele by the favor of the improvement in a performance of a personal computer. The window zoom is 10%, so the each cell can not be seen. But it is A CELL.”
Even works on Excel 2007, and there's a version of space invaders available aswell.
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