Flash in the Pan

• You're a Jerk When You're Drunk It's a new slogan that Finnish brewers are using to deal with young adult binge drinking and goes with a web site with pictures of a woman vomiting into her handbag. (Independent Online)


• Designated Driver A drunk man has his 11-year-old son drive him home. Police stopped them when the boy was driving the wrong way down a one-way street. (Arizona Central)


• What Am I Eating? The Beijing Tourism Bureau has released a list of proposed names for foods that have received such odd translations as "steamed crap" and "virgin chicken." Wait, those weren't ... literal translations, were they? (AP)


• What Do They Do for Scotch? A group of Missouri men had a plan for stealing beer from a package store: have one of them wear a mask and do a naked hula as a distraction. Had they maybe had success getting beer earlier that day? (AP)


• No-Stench Zone A Taiwan restaurant apparently served so much of a southern Chinese dish called Stinky Tofu that it was fined for exceeding smell limits three times. (Reuters)


• The Punishment? Seconds Four Swiss prison inmates escaped when one of them squeezed through the food hatch in his cell door and released the others. Guess when he said he didn't get enough to eat he was serious. (Ananova)

Labels: China, driving, drunk, Finland, Switzerland, Taiwan, tofu, weird

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• Chocolate in Moderation A recent study suggests that daily dark chocolate reduces blood pressure. Unfortunately, the necessary ingestion is around 6 grams, with the restriction undoubtedly leading to depression. (AP)


• Penguins and Garlic Shanghai zoo keepers are feeding garlic to the penguins to ward off respiratory problems, sutffing a few cloves in each fish the birds eat. For some odd reason, there has also been a sharp drop in the number of people wanting to see the birds. (AP)


• Paris Hilton Goes to Dogs Someone supposedly poked through Paris Hilton's garbage, found a can from some organic dog food, and sold it on eBay for $305. Hopefully they will recycle it. (AP)


• Porn Pizza A western Canadian pizza joint has been putting a pornographic picture in the bottom of each box, under the pizza. The restaurant sold hundreds of pizzas in one week. Do delivery personnel ask if it was as good for the customer as it was for them? (AFP)


• Movie Munching There's a new documentary on speed eating. Get to the theater early - the snack stand lines will be fierce. (AP)


• Really Fresh Fish A chef in Taiwan got into trouble for serving a fish that wasn't quite dead. Boy, and ususally people complain because the fish isn't fresh enough. (AP)

Labels: blood pressure, chocolate, dog food, fish, fresh, garlic, Paris Hilton, penguins, pizza, porn, speed eating, Taiwan, weird

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