Friday's Quirky Newsy Bits
Aug. 3rd, 2007 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
As Barry Bonds pushes for home run No. 755 to tie one of baseball's most hallowed records, a Colorado sushi restaurant is celebrating the man who set the record — Hank Aaron.
Hapa Sushi Grill ran a half-page ad Thursday in the satirical weekly The Onion that read "Congratulations Hank Aaron on 755 home runs." At the bottom of the page, the ad continues: "Organic beef and chicken, no added steroids." Full-page ads are planned for two Boulder, Colo., daily newspapers starting Friday.
Ananova:
Flying saucers go into production
A flying saucer that glides three metres off the ground and carries two passengers has gone into commercial production.
US company Moller International has begun to manufacture parts for its Jetsons-like personal flying pod, the M200G Volantor.
Great! But, where's my F*ckin' JET PACK?!
No bull?!
A Serbian farmer has been allowed to take his prize bull to prison with him after an emotional appeal to jail bosses.
The world's first treatment centre for nail biters is to open in the Netherlands next month.
Poll result It's official: Muffy Mount is the ultimate nom de sex pour femme, while the splendid Hardy Woodman ran away with the pour homme title.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's a girl — again — for the Duggars. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 17th child, and seventh daughter, into the world Thursday.
Quote of the day:
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- Henry Adams