It’s so boring that a local preacher is on a campaign to stamp out…well…what he sees as smut.

From the AP:

If the Rev. David Baer has his way, the Whitewood City Council will change the name of one of the northern Black Hills town’s streets.

Hooker Street doesn’t quite lend itself to a family atmosphere and is offensive to some residents in the town of about 800 people, according to Baer.

It’s actually named after a Union general from the Civil War, but Baer said that even renaming it to General Hooker Street might not be much better.

Words escape the stupidity of this story.

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…and we’re back.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

From the Telegraph UK:

Daniel French, 24, made “sexual motions” towards metal railings in Leicester Square Gardens after being challenged by police in the early hours of Sunday morning, Westminster Magistrates’ Court was told.

“He said words to the effect of: ‘I’m going to have sex with that fence’,” said Philip Lemoine, prosecuting.

“The gardens were locked and police asked French to leave. He was drunk and there were some sexual motions - drunken silliness - to the railings.”

Mr Lemoine added: “French said he had a relative who was a solicitor and would teach the police a lesson.”

Ah sobriety must have hurt that guy like nobody’s business.

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It’s only about a week old, but a new pizza place in Winnipeg has already aroused attention — not for its pizza pie, but for the racy extra that comes with it.

Patrons must be 18 years and older to order from Porno Pizza, which delivers pornographic material inserted under every pizza.

The venture, the brainchild of local entrepreneur Corey Wildeman, is raising eyebrows in the Manitoba capital.

“We cater to certain crowds,” Wildeman told CBC News, adding that he realizes not everyone would be sold on the idea.

“I’m pleased to see that it might not be everybody, but it’s most people,” he said with a laugh.

Brilliant!

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I knew there had to be benefits to chocolate. Take that Mom.

Just a tiny amount of dark chocolate seems to lower blood pressure, a small study suggests.

The new research from Germany adds to mounting evidence linking dark chocolate with health benefits, but it is the first to suggest that so little may suffice.

Volunteers for the study ate just over six grams of dark chocolate a day for almost five months — one square from a German chocolate bar called Ritter Sport, equal to about 1.5 Hershey’s Kisses. People who ate that amount ended up with lower blood pressure readings than those who ate white chocolate.

Dr. Dirk Taubert, a University of Cologne researcher and the study’s lead author, said the blood pressure reductions with dark chocolate were small but still substantial enough to potentially reduce cardiovascular disease risks, although study volunteers were not followed long enough to measure that effect.

The study appears in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. It was financed by University Hospital in Cologne.

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Exposure to methane gas led to the deaths of four family members and a farmhand, but whether they suffocated from the fumes or drowned in 18 inches of liquefied cow manure may never be known, authorities said.

No autopsies were planned, in part because investigators believed the deaths on a Rockingham County dairy farm were accidental, said Capt. J.B. Wittig of the county sheriff’s department. Authorities said they could not rule out the possibility that the five drowned or died of another cause.

“It was very, very quick,” Wittig said of the deaths.

One can only hope. Yikes.

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Let the fireworks begin!

A federal judge today gave the green light to the so-called D.C. Madam to distribute phone records that contain the numbers of her upscale and connected clientele. In a ruling filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Judge Gladys Kessler vacated two previous orders that barred veteran pimp Deborah Palfrey, 51, from selling or distributing a decade’s worth of phone records for Pamela Martin & Associates, the escort service Palfrey founded in 1993 and ran for 13 years. In the ruling, a copy of which you’ll find below, Kessler rejected various prosecution arguments, including the claim that potential witnesses could be harassed if the phone logs were disseminated. Before Kessler issued a pair of temporary restraining orders, Palfrey provided ABC News with four years worth of her escort service’s phone logs, which the network used for a May sweeps report on “20/20.”

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Um, yipes?

A Canadian mother has frozen her eggs for use by her seven-year-old daughter, who is likely to become infertile.

Should the girl opt to use the eggs and gain regulatory approval, she would effectively have a baby that was her half-brother or sister.

Critics said the work, presented at a fertility conference in Lyon, was deeply concerning.

But the doctors from the McGill Reproductive Center, Montreal, called the donation an act of motherly love.

Also, the girl and any future partner would have a choice as to whether to use the eggs or not, they said.

You know…sometimes words fail to capture the moment.

So….

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Some people have a lot of free time…I mean, a LOT

Researchers will visit Michigan’s Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the legendary creature known as “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch.”

The expedition will focus on eastern Marquette County, said Matthew Moneymaker of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.

“We’ll be looking for evidence supporting a presence. … We hope to meet local people who might have seen a Sasquatch or heard of someone else who had an encounter,” Moneymaker told the Daily Press of Escanaba.

The legend of Bigfoot dates back centuries. But skeptics have challenged accounts of sightings, and practical jokers have staged hoaxes that have included grainy film footage of people dressed in costumes.

But Moneymaker said members of his organization have either glimpsed Bigfoot or gotten close enough to hear the creature in all but three of 30 expeditions in the United States and Canada.

The late Grover Krantz, a Washington State University professor who specialized in cryptozoology, the study of creatures that have not been proven to exist, believed Bigfoot was a “gigantopithecus,” a branch of primitive man believed to have existed 3 million years ago.

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I could not agree more. My wife recently became a Canadian citizen and I studied along with her to prepare for the exam. I was embarrassed to admit that I was getting quite a few questions wrong.

“Canadians appear to be losing knowledge when it comes to the most basic questions about Canadian history, politics, culture and geography … (they) performed abysmally on some questions,” the firm said in a statement.

Only 4 percent knew the three requirements a citizen had to meet to be able to vote while only a third could correctly identify the number of provinces and territories. Just 8 percent knew that the Queen is the head of state.

The survey was carried out for the Dominion Institute, which aims to boost knowledge of Canadian history and values. It said all high school students should have to pass a special citizenship exam before they can graduate.

These were all questions that, if asked 20 years ago, I would have nailed. But, with the passage of time…not so much. Something to think about on this coming Canada Day.

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A pizza chain has been hit with death threats and hate mail after offering to accept Mexican pesos, becoming another flashpoint in the nation’s debate over immigrants.

“This is the United States of America, not the United States of Mexico,” one e-mail read. “Quit catering to the damn illegal Mexicans,” demanded another.

I think this is beyond moronic. Glad to see the low end of the redneck scale can write at least.

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