America - Land of contradictions and just plain weird

No Smoking! - Get out of town!
Unless it's marijuana than just don't do it where we can see you. Cool?


Belmont, Calif., became the first American city to ban smoking everywhere in the city limits, including condominiums and even cars (but not detached, single-family homes). (A day before that, however, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to instruct the police to treat marijuana-smoking as the city's lowest law-enforcement priority.

We give to charities... Just stay THRERE!

The City Council of Greenleaf, Idaho, passed an ordinance in November to require nearly all residents to keep a gun at home in case the town becomes overrun by people relocating after Gulf Coast storms.

Prevent stupidity - Use a F$*$ing condom!

At the county jail in Dubuque, Iowa, in November, Michael Kelley Jr., 29 and accused of attempted murder, was swapping stories with inmate Jamie Brimeyer, 34, when he asked about Brimeyer's facial scar. As Brimeyer described being stabbed in the cheek by an unknown assailant in 2005, Kelley realized that he was the one who had stabbed him and recalled the incident so well that he corrected some of Brimeyer's recollections. Brimeyer later reported Kelley, who is now also charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.


Police Blotter: (1) (from the Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine, Nov. 10) "6 p.m., a woman said she suspected someone had sabotaged her washing machine. A police investigation concluded that an imbalanced laundry load had caused the shaking." Who was the real unbalanced one?

Every store has condoms - they cost less than a couple of candy bars!

Sheboygan, Wis., in November, police arrested Leah Jerolimek, 21, and charged her with trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill at a gas station, even though the bill (made with a computer and printer) was blank on the back.

Oh thank goodness it's not just us....

Excuse me waiter, what part of the dragon is this made of?

The Powys County Council in Wales warned the maker of Welsh Dragon sausages in November that it must label its product better, such as by marking it "pork sausages" (so as not to mislead about the type of meat it contained).


Your such a doormat! No I'm not! I'm a Doormat Tester!

British performance artist Ian Thorley, working on grants from several local councils, did a week's stint on an Ashington street in October, stepping onto and off of a doormat while wearing a badge identifying him as a government doormat tester.

Outer Galactic! (article link)

My closet is packed with nothing! What am I going to wear to Saturn?!

Don't you just hate it when a guy says "What's wrong with this?" and he pulls out some dress you wouldn't wear to a food fight let alone some cool outer galactic Hot Spot.

We're moving all of the manufacturing jobs overseas - Your fired
We're moving all of the Call Center jobs overseas - Your fired
We're moving most of the legal work jobs overseas - Your Fired
Response: WHAT!? Thats not fair!


Tough Noogies
U.S. losing legal work to overseas firms

Sony has finally come clean about creating a fake blog to promote its PSP.

The site, alliwantforxmasisapsp, went live at the end of last month. But the blog was so obviously phony that readers immediately voiced suspicions. The marketing agency that created the blog, Zipatoni, first registered the domain name under its own name. Didn't they know this information was easily discoverable?

What's more, the content was clearly not consumer-generated. One post dated Nov. 22 read, "stick this ad in your girl's vogue cosmo people who live real simple or your dad's national maxim geographic sports for men. whoever, they'll get the point."