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V-Review: TV - How I Met Your Mother (Intro)
2007-10-21 12:29:00
(From Left: Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson, Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin,Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen, Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky, andJosh Radnor as Ted Mosby)-CBS.com-How I Met Your Mother is the 'awesome-est' CBS Sitcom, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, premiered on September 19, 2005. This show is plotted as the main character, Ted, in the year 2030 (voiced by Bob Saget), gathers his son and daughter to tell them about the events that led to his meeting with their mother, which begin in 2005.How I Met Your Mother is unique in a way that it explores the concept of stories and storytelling usually with multiple flashbacks occurring each episode. Being in a non-chronological manner, viewers often see something happen first and then find out later the event that had caused it.The story pilots in 2005 with Ted Mosby (Josh Radner) as a single, 27-year-old architect living with his two best friends from college, Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), a law studen...
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V-Laugh: The Koala and the Hooker
2007-10-20 14:11:00
A little koala bear wanders into a whorehouse. He climbs the stairs and finds a door open. He goes in to the room to find a naked prostitute asleep on the bed. He quickly climbs onto the bed and begins performing oral sex on the prostitute. She wakes up - shocked and sees this koala bear going down on her, and she decides that since it feels so good she’ll let him finish. The koala finishes, wipes his chin, climbs off the bed and heads for the door.The prostitute jumps up and yells at him, “Hey, you have to pay for that!” The koala shrugs, and continues to head for the door. The prostitute yells at him again, “Hey, you have to pay for that. I’m a prostitute!”She gets up, and pulls a dictionary off a shelf and shows the koala the definition. PROSTITUTE (n.) a person receiving payment for sexual services. The koala shrugs, takes the dictionary and turns the pages to the definition of koala bear. KOALA (n.) a small bear that eats bushes and leaves.
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Elephants AFRAID of Bees??
2007-10-19 19:18:00
Whoever thought that such a goliath mammal would be afraid of tiny little bees? Researchers have discovered that these giants FLEE at the buzz of a swarm of bees. This statement is backed up by observers in Kenya who notice that elephants damaged acacia trees with empty or occupied beehives significantly less than trees without hives. Moreover, in Zimbabwe, elephants forged new trails in order to avoid beehives.Well, to note why the elephants are afraid, honeybees native to eastern and southern Africa (Apis mellifera scutellata) are notoriously aggressive, especially near their hives. It has been known that swarms are able to kill an African buffalo. To confirm whether bees could really drive away elephant herds, zoologist Lucy King at the University of Oxford and her colleagues carried out an experiment (as seen on video below). Firstly, the team had to digitally record the buzz of agitated African bees from a wild hive, found inside a tree trunk along the Ewaso Ng’iro...
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Pope John Paul II from beyond the grave??
2007-10-17 07:06:00
(Left Image: Bonfire in Poland; Right Image: Pope John Paul II at an audience in 2001)-DM Pictures-This fiery figure is being hailed as Pope John Paul II making an appearance from beyond the grave. Believers said that the Pope had his right hand raised in blessing during a ceremony held in Poland to mark the second anniversary of his death.Service director Jarek Cielecki, a Polish priest and close friend of John Paul II, travelled to Poland after hearing an onlooker had photographed the image. Father Cielecki said he was convinced the picture showed the former pontiff. "You can see the image of a person in the flames and I think it is the servant of God, Pope John Paul II," he said. The image was continuously broadcasted on Italian TV and also posted on religious websites, causing some of them to crash as thousands logged on to view with their own eyes the eerie figure formed by the flames. The bonfire was lit during a service at Beskid Zywiecki, close to John Paul's birthplace a...
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V-Laugh: Catholic School
2007-10-15 12:40:00
A ten year old public school boy was finding fifth grade mathematics to be the challenge of his life. Science? Piece-of-cake. Geography? No big deal. Spelling? Ha! You gotta be kidding me... but Math? Oohh, devastating!!! Not only to him, but his mum and dad too!! It's not that they weren't doing everything and anything to help their son. Private tutors, peer assistance, CD-ROMs, textbooks, even hypnosis! Nothing worked.Finally, at the insistence of a relative, they decided to enroll their son in a private school. Not just ANY private school, but a Catholic school (with Nuns, weekly mass).Well, the first day of school finally arrived, and dressed in his salt and pepper cords and white wool dress shirt and blue cardigan sweater, the youngster ventured out into the great unknown. His mother and father were convinced they were doing the right thing.They were both there waiting for their son when he returned home. When he walked in with a stern, focused and very determined expression ...
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Why Falling Cats Land on Their Feet??
2007-10-07 17:02:00
(Spider-cat, Spider-cat, does whatever a Spider-cat can...) You may think that falling cats always land on their feet. Contrary to that popular belief, every day cats DO sustain serious injuries from falling out of open windows, off balconies, and from rooftops. Unlike me (or most human), cats are not acrophobic (fear of heights), and will often leap after a bird or butterfly only to find themselves falling through the air. The trauma sustained from a fall of over two stories (24 to 30 feet) is known as high-rise syndrome. Usually, if a cat falls a short distance, it can right itself and land on its feet, due to its exceptional coordination and balance, and flexible musculoskeletal system. However, if it falls more than one or two floors, it may sustain injury because its legs and feet cannot absorb the shock. Textbook Guidelines for Cats to Survive a Fall: The cat determines which way is up and rotates the head until it is right side up. It brings the front legs u...
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America's Top 5 Haunted Places
2007-09-25 11:45:00
No. 5: The Winchester Mystery HouseIn 1881, Sarah Winchester, the widow of famous gun maker Oliver Winchester, became convinced that she needed protection from the evil spirits of all the people killed by Winchester rifles.A psychic advised her to continually add rooms to her San Jose, California, mansion to confuse any ghosts that may try to find her. (Ghost can walk through walls, don't they?? Winchester might have been the confused one.)She did so for nearly 40 years, adding more than 100 rooms and staircases, until her death in 1922. After Sarah's death, her own ghost was said to haunt the halls of her maze-like mansion. Today the building remains a popular tourist attraction, a bizarre monument to superstition and paranoia.********************No. 4: The Amityville HorrorOn Nov 13, 1974, six members of an Amityville, New York, family were killed by one of the family's sons, Ronald Jr. ("Butch") DeFeo. In his legal defense, DeFeo claimed that demonic forces in the home drove h...
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