Mattel launches Barbie clothes for women

Yahoo! News: " Toy maker Mattel Inc (NYSE:MAT - news), known for Barbie fashion dolls, is expanding the plastic icon's domain to include high-end designer clothing and accessories for adult women. [...] Weak sales of Barbie dolls, a lackluster retail environment, and strong competition have hurt Mattel recently. The company is working to raise Barbie's non-toy profile as well as tap a grown-up fan base as part of a long term plan to reinvigorate the toy brand."

Yikes!

Real people who have relationships with Barbaras

Boing Boing: "Like many born in the sun sign Cancer, Sidore is a
homebody, but then, she couldn't leave the comfort of the bed she
shares with Davecat even if she wanted to because Sidore is a 100-pound solid silicone Real Doll."

Hanging victim thought Halloween prank

United Press International: "The 42-year-old woman, who lived in Frederica, hung suspended from a branch for several hours, easily visible to passing motorists who dismissed it as a Halloween prank and did not alert authorities."

The Toy - SMS Controlled Vibrator

Shiny Shiny: "The Toy is discreet - as all such toys should be - remaining invisible during Bluetooth searches. And since it isn't activated until the message is read, discretion won't be undone by sounds of surprise."

Billiard with a hamster

The Sun Online: "Drunken Ackland, 31, had already tormented the tiny creature by: TRYING to “pot” her like a snooker ball using a table leg as a cue; POSTING her through a neighbour’s letterbox as a sick prank; HURLING her out of ground-floor and upstairs windows, damaging one of her legs."
John Ackland probably will loose more than his freedom - it's probable that his girlfriend won't take him back after his rather strange way to handle her pet hamster.

Late for the doc

Guardian Unlimited: "``It was total chaos,'' Horner said. ``There were so many people there that we didn't know who had been hit and injured, or who the witnesses were.''"
87-year-old Ruth Otto was in a hurry. She did miss the parking lot and smashed her car into the lobby of the hospital in Bismarck, USA.

Living skeleton

Yahoo! News: "Mothers use his name to scare their children while even adults hope they don't bump into him in the dark -- for more than 40 years Gopal Haldar has been making his living in India's Sunderbans mangrove region as a ghost. Measuring a mere 1.21 meters (four feet) and weighing a slight 24 kilograms (52 pound), Haldar -- now near to retirement age -- says he has been malnourished all his life." via (Boing Boing)

Explosive teeth

AZ Central: An Army sergeant based at Fort Huachuca walked into a bank Monday, his mouth covered in duct tape, and presented a note saying he had a bomb in his mouth, police said.[---]A bomb squad robot removed the tape. Robinson said once the tape was taken off, Lewis spat out an unidentified object, which was not an explosive device. (via Boing Boing

Twiggy: Fat folk have no excuse

This is London: "Sixties supermodel Twiggy has hit out at fat people - after replacing a size-16 woman as the new face and body of Marks and Spencer."

Ring my ass, darling

The Register: "Petronela Brandus, 24, has become the latest 'body cavity phone blagger' to have her collar felt after police stopped the suspected thief as she got off a bus in Iasi. Passengers had apparently seen the 24-year-old lift the device, but cops could find no trace of it.[...]In the time-honoured fashion, they then rang the number and heard the tell-tale sound of internal phone action. In this case, however, Brandus had not gone for the relatively-simple vaginal option, but rather the less convenient back passage route."

Too sexy for the job

CNN.com: Caterina Bonci, 38, got sacked from her work as a teacher in religion. The official explanation is that she had a divorce. But the fact is that she had it back in 2000 and scratching on the official explanation's surface she was sacked because of her looks. She was too good-looking.

Bonci said she separated from her husband in 1995 and divorced in 2000 and that both events had not affected her job or raised eyebrows from her employers at the time.

She said reports that fathers accompanied their children to religion classes so they could look at her meant little to her as long as the children came to class.

"When a woman is considered too sexy and attractive in a small town it becomes a big thing," she said.

Pet dryer

Aving: This is pretty strange. A big machine to dry wet pets.

R-trainwanker caught

wnbc.com: Remember the wanker? He is in custody. Daniel Hoyt, 43 years old will flash his "badge" inside the slammer.

The punkrockers Holy Grail

Fortean Times: A punk rock legend and an ex-music journalist from Brentford – not your average Grail hunters, one might think. Nevertheless, Rat Scabies – former drummer for The Damned – and his neighbour Christopher Dawes travelled far from their native West London in search of buried treasure and secret wisdom.

Scabies father was a Grail-hunter for years so it's not because of Brown's book. Or it is.

Fun with the mp3

Prylfeber: What so funny?