http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/weird-chat/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:39:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2286317/posts The wife of the new head of Britain's spy agency has posted pictures of her husband, family and friends on internet networking site Facebook, details which could compromise security, a newspaper said on Sunday. In what the Mail on Sunday called an "extraordinary lapse," the new spy chief's wife, Lady Shelley Sawers, posted family pictures and exposed details of where the couple live and take their holidays and who their friends and relatives are. Publishing the story on its front page and the pictures on a double-page spread, the Mail on Sunday said the information "could potentially be useful to... THE AUSTRALIAN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2286317/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2286108/posts And so the Michael Jackson post-mortem circus rumbles on: footage of him rehearsing for his live shows with all the enthusiasm of a puppet trying to dance while its strings are being cut one by one; the news that Diana Ross is planning a Candle in the Wind moment at his funeral, singing You Are Not Alone in memory of a man who kind of was, and preferred it that way; even the news that Bubbles the chimp, Jackson's onetime bezzie mate, will not be allowed to attend the funeral as he is "too violent", and instead will spend the... guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2286108/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:23:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2286084/posts The sun has decided to join in the July 4 U.S. Independence Day celebrations with its own display of spectacular fireworks. A Sunspot Alert has just been issued which supports a crop circle prediction that Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) will hit the Earth on July 7, 2009. examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2286084/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:34:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2286043/posts One rather expected consequence of the passing of the 'King of Pop', Michael Jackson is a rash of alleged sightings of Jackson's ghost. From the Philippines to Mexico, From Japan to the United States fans have been claiming to have been visited by Michael's spirit. One such story coming from Manila in the Philippines has captured the imagination of local radio audiences. Angelina Ramos, aged 38, a beautician and Manila native has been a serious Jackson fan 'all her life'. Last year never-married Angelina contracted a rare blood disease. Doctors gave her a ninety percent chance of not surviving for... All News web http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2286043/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 19:06:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285711/posts Have you seen the latest fad for teens in Japan? They are called bagelheads. Teens in Japan are injecting themselves with saline, which causes bumps in their heads. The lumps and bumps created by the saline can be shaped and molded. The teens are calling themselves bagelheads. The disfigurement only last 24 hours. I have a hard time looking at these teens, and I just hope it stays in Japan and doesn't make it's way over to the states. Will bagelheads be an addition to body piercing, and tattoos in the U.S.? Can lox heads, or cream cheese heads, be... nj http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285711/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 01:31:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285596/posts Defending Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Joey Chestnut says he practiced hard to successfully retain his crown Saturday in New York. The 25-year-old told the New York Daily News he went into the annual Fourth of July competition in Coney Island confident he would repeat as the hot dog-eating champion of the world. "I've been practicing hard," Chestnut said wolfing down a personal high with 68 hot dogs. "I knew it would be hard to beat me." Chestnut said despite going against six-time titleholder Takeru (Tsunami) Kobayashi, he felt comfortable after consuming 23 hot dogs in the event's first... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285596/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:40:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285557/posts ELK GROVE, Calif. – A Northern California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch. Officials at the Elk Grove Unified School District asked families of the teacher's 24 students to get rid of the DVD after the unintended clip was found spliced in a scene where children were sharing stories in class. news.yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285557/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:41:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285532/posts Wisconsin's "Cheese Lady" says she's marrying a retired Navy commander enamored by her efforts to sculpt an aircraft carrier out of cheddar. Professional cheese sculptor Sarah Kaufmann, 57, first caught the eye of retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Bill Parry, 67, as they were aboard a plane and she was poring over the plans for her 6-foot-long sculpture of the USS Ronald Reagan, which was unveiled at the ship's home-porting ceremony, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Saturday. The two were to wed Saturday in Manitowoc, Wis., on the shores of Lake Michigan, dressed in pirate costumes. "(Kaufmann) was looking at a... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285532/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:50:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285430/posts First Place — Nick DwyerSecond Place —T. BaxterThird Place — Dave Corrasa Gizmodo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285430/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:02:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285373/posts Sam The Eagle presents Stars & Stripes Forever. (See link.) YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285373/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:33:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285185/posts A source close to the Jacksons has exclusively revealed to X17 Online that family will likely have a traditional Muslim burial for late Michael Jackson. "The family is considering following the Muslim burial traditions because they believe Michael would have wanted to be laid to rest in keeping with his new-found religious beliefs," says the source. "Michael's brother Jermaine is educating the family as to the special rites because he feels it's important to bury his brother according to the Muslim way," adds the source. Despite earlier reports that both public and private memorial services for the late music performer... Ace show biz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285185/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:39:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285100/posts If you're scared of heights, it may be time to look away now. Not content with having the tallest building in America, the owners of Sears Tower in Chicago have installed four glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up. The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's Skydeck. Designers say the platforms - collectively dubbed The Ledge - have been purposely designed to make visitors feel as they are floating above the city. The reward is unobstructed views of Chicago from the building's west side... Mail Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285100/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:11:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284993/posts July 1, 2009 Dear William, Thank you for contacting my office about cap and trade legislation. I appreciate hearing from you about this important issue. I certainly appreciate the importance of keeping consumer energy rates as low as possible during these difficult economic times. I worked with my colleagues to include weatherization assistance funding and homeowner tax credits for efficiency and renewable energy projects in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. However, I feel strongly that Congress must act swiftly to curb the greenhouse gas emissions driving global climate change. In New Hampshire climate change is already altering the beautiful... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284993/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:55:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284892/posts Lol... Global Warming Effects http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284892/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:52:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284768/posts Matt Walker Editor, Earth News A queen and worker Argentine ant have many, many relatives A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. What's more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together. Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America.... Earth News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284768/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:48:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284730/posts ELIZABETHTON — Two prisoners of the Carter County Jail face new charges after they allegedly tattooed an image of a male organ on the back of another prisoner’s neck. Sammy Jackson Green, 20, 202 Old Lacy Hollow Road, and Robert Shaun Hicks, 27, 2134 Gap Creek Road, were each charged July 1 with tattooing without a license. In addition to the charges, the cell block in which they resided had its television, telephone and radio privileges revoked for a week. Jailers discovered the tattoo June 6 when they noticed inmate Johnny Calhoun had a fresh tattoo on the back of... Johnson City Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284730/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:41:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284689/posts Make sure you haven't just eaten and then check out this new online ad for Internet Explorer 8 from Microsoft: Direct link via YouTube here. Chris Matyszczyk reports for CNET, "This work is not, as some have surmised, the work of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the agency responsible for both the 'I'm a PC' and Gates-Seinfeld campaigns. It is the brainchild of Bradley and Montgomery, the folks that brought you the Mojave Experiment." "The vomit ad is one of a series, all featuring actor Dean Cain," Matyszczyk reports. "The series is taglined 'Browse Better.'" Mac Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284689/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:10:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284634/posts Woman’s silicon breasts burst as she lands in California Front page / Society / Real life stories 01.07.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru A female passenger from Russia had her silicon breasts ruptured as she landed in an airplane in the United States . The 45-year-old woman from Moscow was hospitalized urgently, Life.ru website reports. The woman, identified only as Irena D., decided to spend her holiday on the beautiful beaches of the transatlantic coast. She boarded a Boeing-767 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport with a hope that in about 14 hours she will be enjoying the sun of California. Pravda http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284634/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:15:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284623/posts Strange sighting on Lake Champlain http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284623/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 03:56:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284593/posts After looking at the video a few times I support them 100%. http://en.rian.ru/video/20090615/155250830.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284593/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:54:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284520/posts LONDON (Reuters) – A housewife from Sleaford in Lincolnshire will be the first of thousands of people to stand for one hour on top of a plinth in London's Trafalgar Square as part of a 100-day "live sculpture" exercise. "One & Other" is a work devised by sculptor Antony Gormley for the square's empty plinth, now a platform for temporary works of art. The first of 2,400 people to feature in Gormley's work is Rachel Wardell, a 35-year-old housewife and mother-of-two. Participants are chosen at random, and 14,500 people have applied so far. Applications are still open and can be... news.yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284520/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:33:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284475/posts Many animals and people experience chronic joint pain. In dogs, a common source of joint pain is hip dysplasia, a developmental defect of the hip joint. Implantation of gold into the soft tissues around the hip joints of dogs with dysplasia can relieve pain and lessen stiffness for several years. Joint pain in animals and man may be due to injury, wear or deformity. Hip dysplasia of dogs is a congenital defect that makes itself known during the growth phase, leading to varying degrees of pain and loss of function as the dogs age. Dog owners will as a rule... sciencedaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284475/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:37:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284438/posts Scientists have performed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the giant extinct moa bird, using prehistoric feathers recovered from caves and rock shelters in New Zealand.Researchers from the University of Adelaide and Landcare Research in New Zealand have identified four different moa species after retrieving ancient DNA from moa feathers believed to be at least 2500 years old. The giant birds – measuring up to 2.5 metres and weighing 250 kilograms – were the dominant animals in New Zealand’s pre-human environment but were quickly exterminated after the arrival of the Maori around 1280 AD. sciencedaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284438/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:09:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284303/posts No, wait, don't start throwing white gloves at me in anger! I didn't say it--I just thought it. It's Steppin' Out magazine's Chaunce Hayden who actually put that idea on paper, and I'm merely here to share his fuming words with y'all as a public (or perhaps pubic) service. Check out Hayden's reasoning and see if you don't gag, spew, wince, and totally agree: It's time for the voice of reason. Michael Jackson was an a-hole. There, I said it, and I'll say it again. Michael "creepy, boy-loving" Jackson was an a-hole. Got a problem with that? Too bad. I... ONTD.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284303/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:56:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284290/posts I have found Michael Jackson's "secret girlfriend". Yes she does in fact exist. She lived in Neverland. Here is her picture. View her here only on Free Republic! Sources out of Neverland say that her name is in fact "Tinkerbell" but uses the nickname "Tink". Her body was modeled after the late actress "Marilyn Monroe". It is reported that Michael Jackson would sneak off to Neverland to meet with Miss Tinkerbell for late night rendevous when ever possible. It in not confirmed but it may be that Miss Tinkerbell is the mother of Jackson's third child "Blanket" Jackson. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2284290/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:37:19 GMT