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Crime of the Week
Diana Dors
Natural Selection At Work
Height of embarrassment?
No Yawning now.....
Chessington World Of Adventure
Female Employees
Scrotum Self-Repair
58 Actual Newspaper Headlines (collected by journalists)
Great Headlines of Our Time

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Crime of the Week

A Huddersfield man jailed for a year after he admitted having sex with a dog by the roadside in Bradford has claimed he was seduced. Police were called after a couple spotted the 45-year old man with a Staffordshire bull terrier called Badger. He told police "I can't help it if it took a liking to me. He pulled my trousers down."

(As reported in the Sunday Times News Section, 6 December 1998)

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Diana Dors

'... There may be people in Swindon who recall the day that Diana Dors, a local girl made (almost) good, was invited back to open some new civic amenity. The mayor, by all accounts, was briefed thoroughly about how to receive the visiting star.

The most important thing he had to remember was that Diana was known there by her real name: Diana -- carefully now -- Fluck. Right, said Mr. Mayor, got that. Fluck.

"Ladies and gentlemen," he boomed, up on the platform beside the honoured guest. "I'm proud to be here today with one who needs no introduction.

"A warm welcome, please, for someone you all remember as -- and I've been told to be very careful about this, ladies and gentlemen -- Miss Diana Clunt."'

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Natural Selection At Work

A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record store, waving their revolvers in the air. One yelled "NOBODY MOVES!!"

His partner moved, so ... he shot him.

"I [was] a little nervous," he was quoted as saying.

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Height of embarrassment?

"It was the hot bath that did it," pensioner Ron Tupper told a local reporter, as members of the Eastbourne Fire Brigade struggled to free him. "Hot water's always made my apricots sag, and that's where the problem started."

Tupper, a resident of Old Orchard Road, Eastbourne, explained what had happened to him that morning. "I'd just got out of the bath, and thought I'd sun myself on the patio before I got dressed. I sat down on a chair with the Daily Express, but my balls sack was loose because of the hot water, and my tessies slipped between the slats of the seat. I didn't pay much heed at first but, when I tried to stand, the skin had tightened up again, and I couldn't get them out.

"Realising I was stuck, I scuttled back into the house on the chair, and phoned the fire brigade. They were here for over an hour. They tried greasing me and all sorts, but it was no good. So they hacked the chair to pieces, which is a pity because it's one of a set I bought from Timothy Whites, and you can't get them anymore. It's cold showers for me from now on."

(Eastbourne Herald 7/5/94 - reprinted in Private Eye)

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No Yawning now.....

Three clinical psychiatrists had a paper in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry entitled "Unusual Side Effects of Clomipramine Associated with Yawning," describing 4 patients who, while taking the the anti-depressant drug Clomipramine (brand name Anafranil) reported the unusual side effect of spontaneous orgasm every time they yawned.

The first case of this was a female patient who had been depressed for 3 months, but under treatment "Complete symptom remission occurred within 10 days". She then asked how long she would be allowed to go on using the drug, since she had observed that every time she yawned she had an orgasm, and she was able to experience orgasm by deliberate yawning.

Apparently it can work for guys too. One male patient said that while he found the repeated climaxes "awkward and embarrassing", he elected to continue the medication because of the therapeutic benefit he obtained. The awkwardness and embarrassment were overcome by continuously wearing a condom."

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Chessington World Of Adventure

Stolen from Private Eye...

Here at Chessington you can see some of the most dangerous paedophiles in the world, in their natural habitat, where the authories set them free to roam.

A great day out for you, but not your family!

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Female Employees

The following is an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Mass Transportation. It was written for male supervisors of women in the work force during World War II.

Eleven Tips on getting more efficiency out of women employees:

There's no longer any question whether transit companies should hire women for jobs formerly held by men. The draft and manpower shortage has settled that point. The important things now are to select the most efficient women available and how to use them to the best advantage. Here are eleven helpful tips on the subject from Western Properties:

  1. Pick young married women. They usually have more of a sense of responsibility than their unmarried sisters, they're less likely to be flirtatious, they need the work or they wouldn't be doing it, they still have the pep and interest to work hard and to deal with the public efficiently.
  2. When you have to use older women, try to get ones who have worked outside the home at some time in their lives. Older women who have never contacted the public have a hard time adapting themselves and are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy. It's always well to impress upon older women the importance of friendliness and courtesy.
  3. General experience indicates that "husky" girls -- those who are just a little on the heavy side -- are more even tempered and efficient than their underweight sisters.
  4. Retain a physician to give each woman you hire a special physical examination -- one covering female conditions. This step not only protects the property against the possibilities of lawsuit, but reveals whether the employee-to-be has any female weaknesses which would make her mentally or physically unfit for the job.
  5. Stress at the outset the importance of time -- the fact that a minute or two lost here and there makes serious inroads on schedules. Until this point is gotten across, service is likely to be slowed up.
  6. Give the female employee a definite daylong schedule of duties so that they'll keep busy without bothering the management for instructions every few minutes. Numerous properties say that women make excellent workers when they have their jobs cut out for them, but that they lack initiative in finding work themselves.
  7. Whenever possible, let the inside employee change from one job to another at some time during the day. Women are inclined to be less nervous and happier with change.
  8. Give every girl an adequate number of rest periods during the day.You have to make some allowances for feminine psychology. A girl has more confidence and is more efficient if she can keep her hair tidied, apply fresh lipstick and wash her hands several times a day.
  9. Be tactful when issuing instructions or in making critisisms. Women are often sensitive, they can't shrug off harsh words the way men do. Never ridicule a woman -- it breaks her spirit and cuts off her efficiency.
  10. Be reasonably considerate about using strong language around women. Even though a girl's husband or father may swear vociferously, she'll grow to dislike a place of business where she hears too much of this.
  11. Get enough size variety in operators uniforms so that each girl can have a proper fit. This point can't be stressed too strongly as a means of keeping women happy, according to Western Properties.

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Scrotum Self-Repair

From the "Unusual Case" column of _Aspects of Human Sexuality_, July 1991, by William A Morton, Jr, MD. Reprinted without permission.

One morning I was called to the emergency room by the head ER nurse. She directed me to a patient who had refused to describe his problem other than to say that he "needed a doctor who took care of men's problems." The patient, about 40, was pale, febrile [feverish], and obviously uncomfortable, and had little to say as he gingerly opened his trousers to expose a bit of angry red and black-and-blue scrotal skin.

After I asked the nurse to leave us, the patient permitted me to remove his trousers, shorts, and two or three yards of foul- smelling stained gauze wrapped about his scrotum, which was swollen to twice the size of a grapefruit and extremely tender. A jagged zig-zag laceration, oozing pus and blood, extended down the left scrotum.

Amid the matted hair, edematous [swollen] skin, and various exudates, I saw some half-buried dark linear objects and asked the patient what they were. Several days earlier, he replied, he had injured himself in the machine shop where he worked, and had closed the laceration himself with a heavy-duty stapling gun. The dark objects were one-inch staples of the type used in putting up wallboard.

We X-rayed the patient's scrotum to locate the staples; admitted him to the hospital; and gave him tetanus antitoxin, broad- spectrum antibacterial therapy, and hexachlorophene sitz baths prior to surgery the next morning. The procedure consisted of exploration and debridement [removal of dead skin] of the left side of the scrotal pouch. Eight rusty staples were retrieved, and the skin edges were trimmed and freshened. The left testis had been avulsed [ripped or torn out] and was missing. The stump of the spermatic cord was recovered at the inguinal canal, debrided, and the vessels ligated [tied off] properly, though not much of a hematoma [pocket of blood] was present. Through-and- through Penrose drains [?] were sutured loosely in site, and the skin was loosely closed.

Convalescence was uneventful, and before his release from the hospital less than a week later, the patient confided the rest of his story to me. An unmarried loner, he usually didn't leave the machine shop at lunchtime with his co-workers. Finding himself alone, he had begun the regular practice of masturbating by holding his penis against the canvas drive-belt of a large floor-based piece of running machinery. One day, as he approached orgasm, he lost his concentration and leaned too close to the belt. When his scrotum suddenly became caught between the pulley-wheel and the drive-belt, he was thrown into the air and landed a few feet away. Unaware that he had lost his left testis, and perhaps too stunned to feel much pain, he stapled the wound closed and resumed work.

I can only assume he abandoned this method of self-gratification.

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58 Actual Newspaper Headlines (collected by journalists)

  1. Something Went Wrong In Jet Crash, Expert Says
  2. Police Begin Campaign To Run Down Jaywalkers
  3. Saftey Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted
  4. Drunk Gets Nine Months In Violin Case
  5. Survivor Of Siamese Twins Joins Parents
  6. Farmer Bill Dies In House
  7. Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
  8. Is There A Ring Of Debris Around Uranus?
  9. Stud Tires Out
  10. Prostitutes Appeal To Pope
  11. Panda Mating Fails: Veterinarian Takes Over
  12. Soviet Virgin Lands Short Of Goal Again
  13. British Left Waffles On Falkland Islands
  14. Lung Cancer In Women Mushrooms
  15. Eye Drops Off Shelf
  16. Teacher Strikes Idle Kids
  17. Reagan Wins On Budget, But More Lies Ahead
  18. Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim
  19. Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66
  20. Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax
  21. Plane Too Close To Ground, Crash Probe Told
  22. Miners Refuse to Work After Death
  23. Juvenile Court To Try Shooting Defendant
  24. Stolen Painting Found By Tree
  25. Two Soviet Ships Collide, One Dies
  26. Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years In Checkout Counter
  27. Killer Sentenced To Die For Second Time In 10 Years
  28. Never Withhold Herpes Infection From Loved One
  29. Drunken Drivers Paid $1000 in '84
  30. War Dims Hope For Peace
  31. If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While
  32. Cold Wave Linked To Temperatures
  33. Enfields Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
  34. Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge
  35. Deer Kill 17,000
  36. Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
  37. Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge
  38. New Study Of Obesity Looks For Larger Test Group
  39. Astronaut Takes Blame For Gas In Spacecraft
  40. Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
  41. Chef Throws His Heart Into Helping Needy
  42. Arson Suspect Is Held In Massachusetts Fire
  43. British Union Finds Dwarves In Short Supply
  44. Ban On Soliciting Dead in Trotwood
  45. Lansing Residents Can Drop Off Trees
  46. Local High School Dropouts Cut In Half
  47. New Vaccine May Contain Rabies
  48. Man Minus Ear Waives Hearing
  49. Deaf College Opens Doors To Hearing
  50. Air Head Fired
  51. Steals Clock, Faces Time
  52. Prosecutor Releases Probe into Undersheriff
  53. Old School Pillars are Replaced By Alumni
  54. Bank Drive-In Window Blocked By Board
  55. Hospitals are Sued By 7 Foot Doctors
  56. Some Pieces Of Rock Hudson Sold At Auction
  57. Sex Education Delayed, Teachers Request Training
  58. Include Your Children When Baking Cookies

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Great Headlines of Our Time

April 1996: The Pink Paper has an article which reports:

"Sexual health experts in the States are advocating the use of the female condom between gay men.

The director of the San Francisco AIDS Office, Mitch Katz, has authorised for [sic] the so-called Femidoms to be used in the city's sexual health clinics for gay men who have anal sex."

The headline:

"New openings for female condoms."

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