Monday, June 26, 2006
Limbaugh's latest drug run-in
Rush Limbaugh was detained for about 3 1/2 hours at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription.
The 55-year-old radio commentator's luggage was examined by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after his private plane landed at the airport around 2 p.m. from the Dominican Republic, said Paul Miller, spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
Customs officials found in Limbaugh's luggage a prescription bottle labeled as Viagra, a prescription drug that treats erectile disfunction, Miller said.
"The problem was that on the bottle itself was not his name, but the name of two Florida doctors," Miller said.
The matter was turned over to the sheriff's office, whose investigators interviewed Limbaugh.
"He said he had the Viagra in his possession for his use and that he did obtain it from his doctors," Miller said.
Rowling hints Harry Potter might die
Author J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted Harry Potter might not survive either.
"I have never been tempted to kill him off before the final because I've always planned seven books, and I want to finish on seven books," Rowling said Monday on TV in London.
"I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks, `Well, I'm gonna kill them off because that means there can be no non-author-written sequels. So it will end with me, and after I'm dead and gone they won't be able to bring back the character'."
Rowling declined to commit herself about Harry, saying she doesn't want to receive hate mail.
"The last book is not finished. But I'm well into it now. I wrote the final chapter in something like 1990, so I've known exactly how the series is going to end," she said.
Justices pooh-pooh Winnie the Pooh
The Supreme Court refused on Monday to decide whether the granddaughter of A.A. Milne, British creator of Winnie the Pooh, can recapture control of the copyright for stories featuring the children's book character.
Milne wrote the Pooh books between 1924 and 1928 and granted a U.S. license to Stephen Slesinger in 1930.
Slesinger, in turn, granted his rights to Stephen Slesinger Inc.
The company sublicensed to Walt Disney Productions certain rights to the Pooh works.
When Milne died in 1956, he did not bequeath ownership of the copyright to his family but to a trust that later became known as the Pooh Properties Trust.
Clare Milne, who was not born when her grandfather died, sought to use a 1976 copyright law to terminate the prior licensing agreement and recapture ownership of the copyright.
New sex doll to keep the party going
A new breed of artificial human sex companion has been unveiled that promises to take the air out of old-fashioned inflatable dolls.
My Party Doll, a southern California-based manufacturer, displayed two prototypes of their $5 000 love buddies at the 10th annual Erotica-LA Convention, which ended on Sunday.
The show drew thousands to its celebration of all things carnal in a city known as the capital of the United States sex industry.
The three-day event featured more than 300 exhibitors unveiling the latest in sex toys, paraphernalia and publications, as well as sex seminars and a chance to audition for pornographic films.
US pornographic film revenues now equal mainstream Hollywood's total box-office figures. More than 200 pornographic films are produced every week in the US, mostly in Los Angeles. About 12 000 people in California live off the pornographic film industry.
Adding to the notion that sex sells, in 1997, roughly 33 000 pornographic websites existed. Today the number has mushroomed to 500 000 and growing daily.
Hermaphrodite Dolls Puzzle Russian Children
Freaky China-made dolls appeared in the shops of several Russian cities — Kalilngrad and Chelyabinsk, Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported Thursday.
The price of the toy is just 12-15 rubles (25-30 cents). The girl-dolls are dressed in pajamas, but if you undress them you will find out that the plastic baby-girl has something girls do not have...
It seems difficult to explain to children what a “hermaphrodite” is and more over it does not seem necessary, even though our world changes rapidly.
Students Arrested Over 'Violent' Stick Figure Drawings
Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures. The boys were arrested Monday on charges of making a written threat to kill or harm another person, a second-degree felony. The special education students used pencil and red crayon to draw primitive stick figure scenes on scrap paper that showed a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said. "The officer found they were drawing these pictures for the sole purpose of intimidating and scaring the victim," said Ocala Police Sgt. Russ Kern. The boy depicted in the drawings told his teacher, who took the sketches and contacted the school dean, Marty Clifford. Clifford called police, who arrested the boys after consulting with the State Attorney's Office.
Top 5 Things To Do While in a Bathroom Stall
1. Using a small squeeze tube, spread peanut butter on a wad of toilet paper and drop the wad under the stall wall of your neighbor. Then say, “Whoops, could you kick that back over here please?”
2. Lower a small mirror underneath the stall wall, adjust it so you can see your neighbor and say, “Peek-a-boo!”
3. Cheer and clap loudly every time somebody breaks the silence with a bodily function noise.
4. Fill up a large flask with Mountain Dew. Squirt it erratically under the stall walls of your neighbors while yelling, “Whoa! Easy boy!”
5. Say, “Boy, that sure looks like a maggot.”