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« on: Apr 1^st, 2003, 8:42pm »

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BEAUTY SALONS MAKE EUROPEANS OF CHINESE

Chinese beauty salons offer a new kind of services to the people. The eyes of a Chinese can be made similar to the ones of a European, the form of ears, eyebrows and lips can be changed in the salons as well.
Several millions of surgeons provide such services in China as of now.
But sometimes their qualification is very poor, that, in its turn, results in a failure of operations.

According to the official statistics, such pseudo-surgeons have disfigured the faces of over 200,000 of Chinese, who addressed for surgical operations within several last years.

It turned out, mostly half-educated surgeons are employed at such beauty salons. The situation made the Chinese authorities ban unqualified plastic operations.

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« Reply #1 on: Apr 1^st, 2003, 8:43pm »

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The Phallus Palace
Sigurdur Hjartarson's Icelandic penis museum caters to travelers with a penchant for the unusual
By HELEN GIBSON Reykjavik

Courtesy Icelandic Phallological Museum
A specimen from the blue whale

There is much to marvel at in the world's most northerly capital: the streets of turn-of-the-century wooden houses, faced and roofed in corrugated iron painted every color from mustard to bright red; the main shopping street, Laugavegur, helpfully arched with a big sign reading "The Main Shopping Street"; the absence of heavy traffic, pollution or visible police; the presence of many of the latest trendy scooters and large numbers of high-wheeled, off-road vehicles obviously used here for more than a little shopping at the local suburban mall; the tiny liqueur glasses at the hotel buffet breakfast set out beside a large bottle of cod liver oil; and the restaurant menus offering dolphin carpaccio and smoked breast of puffin. Perhaps the biggest surprise in Reykjavik, however, is what claims to be the world's only penis museum, just up a narrow passage off Laugevegur.

The Icelandic Phallological Museum houses 99 specimens from all but a few of the country's 40 mammal species, plus eight from other countries in the "foreign section." There are salted, dried penises from whales mounted on wall plaques like hunting trophies, but most specimens are pickled in preserving alcohol or formalin. A sperm whale's massive, trunk-like organ, one of 29 whales' specimens from 12 species, fills a small tank while a tiny jam jar holds the barely visible penis of a German pygmy shrew. There is a penis bone from an Ohio skunk and some flattened, dried, tanned skins of whale penises that can also be converted to a soft suede. Aristotle Onassis is said to have had the bar stools on his yacht "Christina" covered in whale penis leather.

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Scottish brewers will soon have to add vitamins to beer to help the fight with alcoholic effects on the brain. The new brewery regulations are being discussed by the Scottish government now. The authorities are likely to pass legislation on the addition of B1 vitamins to alcoholic drinks.

The project is a part of the program developed by the ministers for the reduction of the death rate because of excessive alcohol consumption. The consideration of the problem is in its initial stage so far.

The government of Scotland says that, as soon as the vitamin is added to alcoholic drinks, information about the vitamin content will be printed on labels. Over one million sterling pounds have already been appropriated for the fulfillment of the program designed for the protection of people from harm caused by alcoholic drinks.

Scientists were charged with the collection of proof to demonstrate the importance of the addition of vitamins to beer. Authors of the project hope that the data will be provided by the moment when a final decision on the project is made. It is really important to add the B1 vitamin to alcoholic drinks, because the lack of the vitamin in alcohol abuse has been already proved.

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DRACULA IS SELLING UNDERWEAR IN ROMANIA

Dracula - the vampire, the horror for all men and women is becoming Romania’s new sex symbol, selling the collection of underwear. The women, who admire the mystical blood-drinker, can get themselves red and black panties, bras, and corsets from Draculina collection. They can also get gerter belts, trimmed with the fangs of the vampire. The designer of the underwear collection said that all the garments were selling very well, the collection was very successful.

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« Reply #4 on: Apr 1^st, 2003, 8:54pm »

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MONKS OUSTED GHOSTS FROM WOMEN’S BATHROOM

The editorial staff of one of Hong Kong newspapers had to send for Buddhist monks to restore the regular work of the office. A poltergeist appeared in the woman’s bathroom. The whole of the female staff of the South China Morning Post insisted that the ghosts be ousted from the office.

On the day of Klara Zetkin’s birthday, one of the employees went to the bathroom. When the woman washed her hands, she suddenly heard somebody pronounce her name in perfect English. The woman searched the place, but found nobody there.

After the incident, the female employees of the company started visiting the bathroom in small groups only, not to be caught unaware by the ghosts.

The end of the story is rather happy. Two Buddhist monks were sent for to say mantras and sprinkle holy water, and the ghosts have disappeared. Perhaps they have moved to the men’s bathroom.

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CHINESE MEN MARRY AND HAVE BABIES ON THE INTERNET

According to an international research, some Chinese men have seven or eight wives on the Internet. One woman from the South of China divorced her real husband because of his virtual polygamy. Another woman decided to divorce her husband and gave a strong reason for it: “He has got another woman on the Internet. Moreover, they have got a baby!”

A famous professor from the University in Shanghai analyzed the situation and explained: “Men like to establish virtual contacts because they wish to realize their most secret wishes. Besides, such alliances are not confirmed by the law, they are immoral and make the Internet spouses free.”

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CHEWY BEER IN KOREA

A South Korean brewery has come up with a novel idea beer that you can chew.
The brewery in question is called Kooksoondang, which has formulated a gelatinous form of its rice drink, Paeksaejoo.
The reason for choosing this chewy form of the beer was given by the factory s manager: We are looking for new ways to present the traditional drink .
It is hoped that the football crowds that will flock to Japan and Korea in the summer will take this chewy form of the liquor instead of getting pie-eyed on its liquid form.

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MONKEY POOP MAKES THE BEST COFFEE

Rich coffee lovers are going crazy for a new kind of coffee, made from the coffee beans that have been through the alimentary canal of the Indonesian monkeys. You can get a cup of such coffee in exclusive American cafes for five dollars. Mark Mauntanos, an importer of this expensive product advised, about 230 kilos of this coffee is delivered to the world market during a year. Experts say, the people of Indonesia have known such a drink for hundreds of years. They noticed that the monkeys, which live in the palm-woods in Sumatra and Java eat coffee beans, but do not digest them. The Europeans, who studied the nature of the most developed apes stated that they selected only the best coffee beans, which went through their intestines undigested.

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