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A Splatter of Quickies
Current mood:  amused
Category: Art and Photography
"Unusual habit - Italian priest planning nun beauty contest"
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/5963980.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7581039.stm
"Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September.
"Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God," he told Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
He is asking nuns to send their photos to him, saying that internet users will then choose the winner."
But, before you go cancel your membership to 'naughtynunsinheat. com',
""We
are not going to parade nuns in bathing suits," Rungi said by telephone
from his town of Mondragone. "But being ugly is not a requirement for
becoming a nun. External beauty is gift from God, and we mustn't hide
it."
Rungi
said the idea was first suggested to him by nuns with whom he regularly
prays and works. He hopes there will be dozens of submissions once the
Web site is started.
The contest drew criticism from the association of Catholic teachers."
Really? Criticism? From Catholic teachers??
Oh, ow... sorry, I think I just overextended my sarcasm tendons.
In other news - some guys have all the luck!
"Auctioneers open suitcase to find military-grade C-4"
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/5963801.html
"The
rusted, padlocked suitcase sat alongside a porcelain coffee service
set, decorative enamel-finished eggs and a vintage gas-powered model of
the 1965 Chaparral II race car prototype.
Auctioneers
got the suitcase open just before the sale on Saturday and found three
blocks of military-grade C-4 plastic explosive, two tubes of a similar
plastic explosive, a blasting cap and some dynamite."
But,
of course, the idjits couldn't keep quiet, they had to call call in the
authorities, who didn't even have a party with the stuff!
"The
Conway Fire Department's bomb squad put the aging explosives inside a
special container and drove them out to an isolated spot to destroy
them, district chief Jon McMahon told the Log Cabin Democrat newspaper.
The auction went on as planned."
Booooo-ring!
Oh,
and just in case you ever thought the US rail industry was in a
pathetic backward state... I really can't tell you otherwise.
"Amtrak train runs out of fuel in California, strands 80"
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/5964625.html
"A
quick train trip down the coast turned into a long haul for more than
80 Amtrak passengers when their train from Los Angeles to San Diego ran
out of fuel Sunday night.
Amtrak
spokesman Cliff Cole said the train sat for about two hours on the
northern edge of San Diego before another engine came along to push it
the last several miles to the San Diego train station.
...
A train running out of fuel is "an unusual occurrence" and Amtrak officials will be looking into how it happened, Cole said."
10:41 PM
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