Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

As Rick James might have said, 'Xanax is a hell of a drug.' Enough to make people do bizarre things in order to get it. Like maybe cross-dress in order to fill somebody else's prescription.

That would be bad enough, but it gets worse.

An East Tennessee man has been arrested on charges of wearing a wig and makeup to pick up prescriptions of Xanax and hydrocodone that belonged to his dead sister.

Police said charges against 36-year-old Douglas Gregory Nichols of Athens include prescription fraud. Nichols twice tried to disguise himself to pick up prescriptions that belonged to his deceased sister. The first time was shortly after she died.

Amazingly Nichols' first attempt worked, but on the second try pharmacy staff recognized he wasn't the right person.

I think if you are wound up enough to dress like your dead sister in order to get a little Xanax, you could probably find a doctor to write you a prescription for it.

Let's hope he doesn't wear the wig and makeup in jail.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The world's most expensive hot dog has debuted in Vancouver, Canada, costing $100 for the foot-long dog infused with cognac along with lobster and Kobe beef. The founder of dougieDog Hot Dogs, dougie luv, said in a release his brainchild uses 100-year-old Louis XIII cognac that costs more than $2,000 a bottle. He named the creation the Dragon Dog in honor of the Chinese New Year, which this year celebrates the year of the dragon. The dog is nestled in Japanese Kobe beef from hand-massaged cows that is seared in olive and truffle oils, lobster shreds and a picante sauce whose ingredients Mr. luv wouldn't disclose. He said he intends to contact the Guinness Book of Records to unseat the previous most-expensive hot dog at New York's Serendipity restaurant, which sells for $69. The release said the new hot dog would be a regular menu item and not a limited offer.

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PARIS - A French presidential hopeful said he witnessed allied troops landing in Normandy but the event happened 17 years before he was born. The problem with the account Herve Morin delivered to supporters in Nice was that the invasion took place in 1944 and he wasn't born until 1961, France 24 reported Tuesday. "You, some among you with gray hair, witnessed the storming of the Provence beach," Morin told supporters. "I saw the landing of the allied troops in Normandy." Morin's blooper made him the talk of the micro-blogging site Twitter. Comments used the hashtag #MorinMcFly in a reference to the time traveling Marty McFly played by Michael J Fox in the "Back To The Future" movies, The Local reported. "Herve Morin will be seeing President Abraham Lincoln today for a working meeting" joked one tweeter. Morin registers only 1 percent in opinion polls and some members of his own New Centre party want him to quit the presidential race and back President Nicholas Sarkozy, the report said.

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Lewis, I've used nails guns for years. In order for the gun to recoil and subsequently plant a nail into your skull you would have to practically be pointing the gun towards your head in the first place. A guy I worked with years ago made this mistake and shot a nail down into his knee, behind the kneecap. Looked rather painful.
[I bet he didn't sleep on it.]

I willing to bet the idiot who shot himself in the head with a nailgun & didn't realize it until the next day was probably either stoned, drunk or both! -Ralph

Hello Lewis: This could be an urban legend out of the sixties but the Soviets experimented with low frequency radio waves at super high power as well as Americans in Alaska. Supposedly some of the extreme cold waves of those days were attributed to those experiments. I was looking back to some archives of 1963 and 1968 and found extremely low temperatures for those years. However, I found records of extremely low temperatures before and after the 1960s. Maybe someone else can comment. -J T
[Yeah, it's called High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, and it's still operational. But it is just to study the Earth's ionosphere in order to improve communication. Pumping huge quantities of radiation into the atmosphere doesn't affect the weather at all.]

Lewis; Perhaps you should do a little more research into the whole urban legend/scam that is the whole chemtrails crock of baloney. The thought that any government would waste money to have airliners add some psychotropic materials to their exhaust streams at 35000 feet is so ludicrous as to make anyone laugh. -David
[Nope, not psychotropics but aluminum oxides for weather control. Let's keep our conspiracy theories straight.]

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