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Bride misses her own wedding

April 3rd 2010 02:47
lego wedding

A drink with a friend before your wedding is a tradition Siobahn Watson was determined to follow. Now she wishes she hadn't.

Watson, 24, of Manchester, England, a telesales assistant, was engaged to Aaron Todd, also 24, a bricklayer. A white Rolls-Royce had been hired, the bridal party's gowns had been designed, fitted and paid for, guests had been invited and a lot of money had been spent on the function at which everyone would celebrate the happy day.


Unfortunately, Watson's final drink as a single woman turned into something of a final fling as a single woman. Not all the details have been released, but we can read between the sheets.

Some hours before her wedding, Watson went out for that fateful drink with the unnamed "friend". They drank. They drank some more. At some point Watson lost her mobile phone. At some other point, the two stopped drinking and went to a motel.

We know only two things for certain that went on in that motel room. One is that Siobahn Watson went to sleep. We know that because we have been told the other thing that happened: she woke up.

She woke at about the same time that she was supposed to be saying, "I do."

Later, Watson was quoted as saying, "When I realised I had missed my own wedding, I started shaking. I could not believe I had been so stupid."

Aaron Todd, who had spent longer than expected standing, alone, by the altar, while friends and family tried continuously to ring Siobahn on her lost mobile phone, was quoted as saying, "She won't get a second chance.''


dailystar.co.uk; image: firstpersonsingular.org


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Massive marketing

March 15th 2010 09:54
Donna Simpson
Donna Simpson, a 42-year-old mother from New Jersey, US, weighs 602 pounds, or 43 stone, or 273 kilograms. Her dream is to build that up to 1,000 pounds, or 71 stone, or 454 kilograms, making her the world's fattest woman.

Why not, she says. “I love eating and people love watching me eat. It makes people happy, and I'm not harming anyone.”

Her claim that people "love" to watch her eat may be an overstatement, but the fact that some people are fascinated by the sight of a very large woman eating very large amounts of food is undeniable.

We know this because Donna Simpson has a web site which offers live video of her eating, on average, "four burgers and fries, a loaf of bread with peanut butter and jam, four servings of meatloaf and mashed potato, a large pizza, a chocolate cake with ice cream and cream, 12 cupcakes, two cheesecakes and fizzy drinks" a day.

That's a direct quote from Donna.

Simspon says she spends about US$600 a week on food, but has 260 web site subscribers, including some from Australia and Japan, who pay US$12 a month, giving her more than US$3,000 a month.

It's a solid return, and obviously has growth potential, considering it was launched just four months ago.

One can help massage growth potential, of course, with some astute marketing. But how to promote a video feed of a fat woman eating a lot? How to hit the headlines of the big city papers and, yes, the bloggers?

Hey, we know, how about announcing your intention to become the world's fattest woman!

The magazine exclusives, the book and the reality TV show are not far away.
story: dailymail.co.uk; image: James Ambler/Barcroft USA

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The Large Hadron Collider
A woman in Europe has failed to save the world after a court in Germany yesterday dismissed her claim that Earth is likely to be sucked into a black hole if scientists resume testing at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher.

The woman, who has not been named, was convinced a resumption of scientific work at the collider, which has had a checkered and controversial history, posed a serious threat to the planet. She was so worried, she took her case to the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.

The Large Hadron Collider is a high-energy particle collider. Built in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the border between Switzerland and France, it was designed primarily to simulate the conditions prevalent during the Big Bang, and thus help scientists explain the origins of the universe.

The facility was opened, with great fanfare, in September 2008, only to break down after nine days. It stayed broken down for 14 months, opening again briefly in December last year before shutting down again, this time to get it ready for collisions at new "unfathomed" levels. It was these tests, which began last month, that the unidentified woman believed placed the world in danger of being sucked into a black hole.

It is thought she feared that scientists would find the answer to the biggest question of all — how do particles acquire mass? This is the holy grail of the scientists at work at the Large Hadron Collider. They are looking specifically for a surmised entity known as the Higgs Boson which could provide the answer. The Higgs Boson is more commonly referred to as the God Particle.

This is not to be confused with another theoretical particle called a strangelet which earlier opponents of the Large Hadron Collider said posed a great danger. If a strangelet was released, they claimed, it would turn the Earth to goo.

The German Constitutional Court, in its ruling on the latest protest against the collider, said: "The overwhelming scientific opinion is that the experiments carried out at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) present no dangers."

They then said the woman who feared we were all destined to become dinner for a black hole was "unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about".
Agence France Presse



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Today's news: bowser bonk

February 9th 2010 07:13
The trial continues of an Australian man who was having sexual intercourse with a woman in a vehicle at a petrol station and who refused to stop having sexual intercourse despite police arriving and requesting him to do so.

The court was told that police indicated from outside the locked vehicle that they wanted the couple to cease having sex. Exactly how the police indicated their requirements was not made clear in media reports of the court case


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Today's news: US nuclear weapons scare

January 15th 2010 23:22
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There has been a security scare at the super-sensitive Pantex nuclear weapons assembly plant in Amarillo, Texas.

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Who wants to be a solitaire?

January 4th 2010 00:11
lifegem diamond
Technology is marvellous with so many amazing things achievable nowadays. For example, just how deprived were our grandparents who lived in a time when, if a loved one died, it was not possible to turn their remains into a diamond?

Today it is. Just go to www.lifegem.com and see


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Care for a date?

September 9th 2009 01:05
9 september 2009

Good morning, would you like a date?

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Jacko nominated for Nobel Prize

August 11th 2009 05:22
michael jackson

A petition seeking to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Michael Jackson — yes, that one — has been signed by more than 15,000 people.

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Plough girls

July 27th 2009 07:59
indian farmer

No way I would ask my daughter to do this, but then I'm not a farmer in India experiencing drought. Still, it seems a bit extreme.

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Addressing the blues

April 13th 2009 23:37
blue house

I like architects. I like wacky, you see, and architects provide some of the best wackiness around.

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Wheely dumb

February 26th 2009 10:00
car thief

In a daring attempt to pinch the 2009 Supreme Stupidity Award, a car thief in Adelaide, South Australia, managed yesterday to lock himself in a car he was trying to steal.

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Best nest

February 23rd 2009 19:37
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Black-billed magpie

In what may be a first in the bird world, two magpies have constructed a nest using metal sticks.

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Pocket science

February 23rd 2009 01:51
guard dog doberman

The newest member of the Association of Bungling Burglars is a Chinese man who appeared in court at the weekend on a charge of stealing cable wiring from a construction site.

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Record breaker

February 15th 2009 07:03
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Lee Redmond and her record finger nails

Breaking a nail shouldn't break your heart, but in Lee Redmond's case it came close.

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