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A Capuchin monk (62) records his second heavy metal album. Because it's bitchin', is why. Link

Any of y'all Virginians probably already know this, but apparently they've been selling scratcher tickets for which the top prizes have already been won. This brings up an interesting question... this is obviously always a possibility, unless you're buying the first tickets in that series. Does the purchaser need to do their homework to find out if the prizes have already been won, before buying a ticket? Or does the retailer have any responsibility to communicate that? How WOULD you know? The verification process takes time, and is sometimes not publicized until later.

There's an ad campaign for M&M candies showing an anthropomorphic candy wearing a cowboy hat, boots, tighty-whitey underpants, and playing a guitar. There's a street performer in NYC's Times Square who hangs around all day wearing a cowboy hat, boots, tighty-whitey underpants, and strumming a guitar. The latter is suing the former for copyright infringement.

At least, it better be, for $6,000! It's not even the size of a Ford Fiesta or anything.

When a 10 year-old girl from the South-East of Britain stepped on the scale of Nintendo's new game Wii Fit, she expected to get the blood pumping with some fun, casual exercising. Instead, the game's software told her she was fat. She was devastated to be called fat and we had to work hard to convince her she isn't."

While the somewhat callous system is reasonably accurate in determining the BMI of adults, a child's BMI can literally change from day to day. Experts have deemed its use in Wii Fit misleading.

Japan... wtf.

"Remember those coin-operated “claw” games in the 80’s, where you could snag some fuzzy dice if you moved the robot hand with enough skill?

Well the Japanese arcades have a weirder, more sophisticated version. Having long moved on from useless stuffed animal prizes, the clientèle are hungry for something more interesting and substantial… like a delicious live lobster!"

What does a thirteen-year-old do with hookers on a $30K spree?

He playes Halo with them.

I think Ralph Hardy is a pretty cool guy, eh hires hookers and doesn't afraid of anything.

Actually, no, it was just Sea World. But they did wreck a dolphin into another dolphin during a show. It died. How long do dolphins live, anyway? That one was 30. I mean, how long do dolphins live when they're not crashed into other dolphins?

Young girls get boob jobs in bimbo game! GIRLS as young as seven are being targeted for a controversial online game where characters get breast implants, stay “waif thin” and constantly visit tanning booths.

That is, music for dogs. Someone made a dog-ears-only recording, in Australia. Apparently it's selling quite well. Read about it here.

Violin virtuoso drops Stradivarius down stairs, then falls on it. It gets busted.

Ooops.

I hope to someday see or participate in something of this kind.