UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

Wearing the following customes at Halloween parties will instantly transform you into a chick magnet. NOT!

Free mammogram? Any takers?

Squeeze the pump, fake diarrhea comes out at the “exposed bum.” Very tasteful…

Just don’t show that to Gary Glitter!

Keep childbirth out of Halloween parties!

I think men sporting fake saggy breasts are horrific sights:

And no references to bestiality!

As for this truly stunning creation, it will not even pass customs:

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wpgc.com

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The following are probably the coolest Halloween costumes ever.

For starters, check out the following video of a Bumblebee (Transformers) custome; it really transforms at 0.32! There are quite a few videos of DIY Transformers costumes on youtube, but this is the best I have seen so far.

The only improvements to it could be:
(i) enable the car to actually run!
(ii) [some one commented] a version that transforms one’s date into Megan Fox

And how about this mobile toilet costume? At first glance, it would seem that there are 2 guys there!

Can anything top those two? Probably things that magically transform into patio furniture cushions would do the trick.

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Kenneth Pinyan (1960 – 2005) was a divorced father and Boeing engineer in Seattle, Washington, USA with a very strange hobby. While others are into things like browsing for stuff at Best Buy, he indulged in something more radical: bestiality.

He would perform “receptive anal sex” with fully-grown male horses (stallions) at a farm, videotape the encounters, then distribute them using the pseudonym “MrHands60″.

In one particular encounter on 2nd July 2005, the horse’s penetration caused him to suffer a perforated colon i.e. a hole, or holes was or were “punched through” his colon’s wall, which is normally deemed a medical emergency.

However, due to the nature of the case, he did not immediately get medical attention. I mean, what does he tell the doctor, “Doc, I’m hurting inside my stomach because a horse raped me?”

As a result, he died.

He is probably the first person to actually get killed by willingly being anally penetrated by a horse.

I have not seen the video, nor am I going to look for it, for seeing people’s reaction on youtube was enough, like the following:

The case was popularly known as “Enumclaw horse sex case”, and as a result a bill was passed in the state outlawing “both sex with animals and the videotaping of the same,” punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment.

James Tait, now 58, is the guy who was involved in the making of the video. Amazingly, he continued having sex with horses himself and of course videotaping the acts until his latest arrest in mid October 2009:

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The Sun, 20 Oct 2009

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Paul Bint, 47 could be the world’s greatest impersonator with criminal intentions, so skilful was he that orlando vacations could be had at will.

Dubbed “King Con”, he pretended to be successful professionals for 25+ years and was not caught, until he posed as a top lawyer, Director of Public Prosections, Keir Stamer QC.

In the past, the man with reportedly 24 aliases has posed as an aristocrat, a banker, a doctor, a property tycoon, a policeman and even a ballet dancer!

His first recorded case was in 1983 when he posed as a doctor doing the rounds in hospitals, and in one case he touched a woman’s breasts while telling her to trust him as he was a doctor. He also arranged X-rays, attended to a man whose lung had collapsed, stitched up the head of a patient and even attempted to enter an operating theatre where a heart bypass operation was ongoing!

Perhaps worst of all, he also told the parents of a 17-year-old girl hurt in a road crash she would live. 6 hours later she died.

He also once gatecrashed a high-class party and sent Dom Perignon champagne to Koo Stark’s table.

But his favourite seems to be posing as Queen’s Counsels.

Motive: to attract women.

Modus Operandi: advertise himself in lonely hearts columns, boasting about his alleged wealth. In reality, the former headresser is homeless.

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The BBC, 26 Oct 2009

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UPDATE 25th March 2011

It was just a matter of time: Hitler gets angry because Datuk T didn’t use a HD CCTV for the “Anwar Sex Tape”!

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UPDATE 13th April 2010

Today the BBC called this the internet’s biggest parody.

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In the excellent 2004 film Der Untergang, Adolf Hitler has a nervous breakdown, launching a scathing verbal attack to his generals when he realizes that he has lost the war.

That scene in the movie, which is about the last 12 days in The Fuhrer’s life has been endlessly parodied. In other words, it has become an internet meme.

The original is this:

But it has been hilariously twisted beyond recognition. The latest: Hitler lets loose after Manchester United lost to Liverpool 0-2 in the EPL:

Other highlights include a take on the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC):

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According to wikipedia, one of KFC’s actual advertisements is one promoting its “wicked crunch box meal”. It features a fictional black metal band called “Hellvetica” performing live, which ends with the lead singer swallowing fire. The commercial then shows the lead singer at presumably his dressing room eating a “wicked crunch box meal” and saying “Oh man that is hot”.

Someone commented that that’s a cool name for a band, definitely better than if the band were named “ceramic tile“!

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Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand (sometimes written as Porntip Rojanasunan), 54 at first glance could be easily mistaken for a washed out rock star due to her “punk-rock hair dyed purplish red, sparkly eye shadow and a silver fish-shaped ear cuff,” not mentioning a fashion sense not usually attributed to medical specialists.

Some photos follow.

When she testified at the inquest into the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock in Malaysia on 21st October 2009

Investigating the Santika Pub fire in Bangkok (January 2009) which killed 59 people

In 2005

She is probably the top forensics expert in the South East Asian region, who gained international fame for her work after the 2004 Tsunami.

She has conducted more than 10,000 autopsies. Whoa, that’s a lot, perhaps she’d gotten so used to seeing dead bodies that she’d pass by one without even a blink, while holding a discount cigar in one hand.

She is the Director of the Central Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Thailand.

Dubbed Dr Death, she spends more time with the dead than the living, a fact which apparently terrified her husband.

She is a celebrity in her home country but disliked by “many on the police force who has criticized the police as corrupt and has frequently challenged their findings.” As a result, she travels with a minder.

On her appearance, in her own words in 2005:

I wanted to work for society but also I wanted to dress in this style. Being an ordinary doctor was not a good way for me, so I had to find some specialty that was compatible. I work with the dead, and the dead do not complain.

Another, in September 2009:

It‘s my artistic side. Before I became a doctor, I wanted to be an interior designer and the first magazine I subscribed to was the fashion magazine Glamour. The second one was National Geographic. You see, these are two opposite things in my life.

She’s married to a bank manager in Bangkok and they have a teenage daughter. She writes books about her work in her spare time. Her favourite TV show is unsurprisingly “CSI: Miami”. She sleeps for only 4 hours a day, a habit started with she entered her profession 30 years ago.

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Megadeth, the American thrash metal band’s title track to its 1992 album “Countdown to Extinction” created history when it made the group win the “Doris Day Music Award”, by the Humane Society of the United States in 1993 because that song “spotlights species destruction and the horrific ‘sport’ of canned hunts”.

Snarling Dave Mustaine and Doris Day? Perfect pairing eh?

Song:

Lyrics:

Endangered species, caged in fright
Shot in cold blood, no chance to fight
The stage is set, now pay the price
An ego boost, don’t think twice
Technology, the battle’s unfair
You pull the hammer without a care
Squeeze the trigger that makes you ‘Man’
Pseudo-safari, the hunt is canned
The hunt is canned

All are gone, all but one
No contest, nowhere to run
No more left, only one
This is it; this is the Countdown to Extinction

Tell the truth, you wouldn’t dare
The skin and trophy, oh so rare
Silence speaks louder than words
Ignore the guilt and take your turn
Liars’ anagram is “lairs”
Man you were never even there
Killed a few feet from the cages
Point blank, you’re so courageous
So courageous

All are gone, all but one
No contest, nowhere to run
No more left, only one
This is it; this is the Countdown to Extinction

“One hour from now
Another species of life form
Will disappear off the face of the planet
Forever, and the rate is accelerating”

All are gone, all but one
No contest, nowhere to run
No more left, only one
This is it; this is the Countdown to Extinction

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UPDATE 21 October 2009

According to Explor3:
- Jessa Belle (Bell) was featured on a Filipino TV show called Rated K in April 2009;
- She never completed school
- She married at 15
- She was abused by her husband
- She finally separated from him due to him having an affair
- She has children
- She picks up and sells bottles to earn a living
- She is practically an illiterate, hence her mispronounciation of the lyrics
- She admits to sometimes being hurt when laughed at everytime she sang

We hope she gets all the necessary assistance to turn her passion into something big; so big that her horde of fans would utilise a remote backup service to keep her videos safe and sound.

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Jessa Belle has all the makings of a singing star created by youtube. She obviously likes singing, and possesses a rather nice tone, unfortunately the list of positives abruptly ends there.

She apparently burst upon the scene earlier this year, but my first view of her was today: an attempt at classic rock ballad You’re All I Need by White Lion. It is the most unbelieveable cover of that song I have ever heard.

And it all starts getting even more surreal at 0:49 when a dog starts barking loudly. Luckily it did not howl. Later on it seems that she might be singing on a roadside as you can hear what sounds like a motorcycle passing by.

Still, even Mike Tramp might find this cute.

Apart from this song, she has also been caught on video attempting Madonna’s Crazy For You:

She also like to belt out a good rock number, like Zombie by The Cranberries:

Still, her favourite could very well be Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On, as could be seen from the following passionate delivery:

Heck, even the uptempo number Low by Flo Rida, complete with dancers!!!

Wow, even Rihanna’s Umbrella:

Finally:

There must be many more on youtube…

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On 17th October 2009, the world’s most unusual cabinet meeting ever was held by the government of Maldives: 5 meters underwater for 30 minutes. To communicate, they used whiteboards and gesticulations.

Why underwater? To highlight what global warming could do to the country, which lies in the Indian Ocean with an average elevation of a mere 2.1m (7 feet) above sea level: the world’s lowest-lying country.

It was attended by 11 of the 14 cabinet ministers, chaired by President Mohamed Nasheed, and also attended by Vice President Dr Mohamed Waheed.

The president is a certified open water diver, while the other ministers recently took diving lessons and had to be certified fit to go underwater, probably none on a weight loss pill regime.

The prez chairing the unusual meeting

The prez in more normal circumstances

To get to the meeting spot: a turquoise lagoon off Girifushi Island with a backdrop of corals, they hopped on a boat and travelled 20 minutes before going down. Each minister was accompanied by 2 persons: a diving instructor and a military bodyguard.

By the end of the meeting, they’d signed a document asking for a global cut down in carbon emissions to be presented at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, which they hope will replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

Some of the other ministers in attendance

The document entitled “SOS from the frontline” was printed on a white plastic slate and signed with waterproof pencils.

Video

Later a press conference was held, also underwater.

Journalists followed the proceedings by snorkeling around.

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The BBC, 17 Oct 2009

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IMHO, it’s Jean Michel Jarre’s Magnetic Fields Part 5 (1981).

I was stunned when I first heard this more than 20 years ago – a very Malaysian/Indonesian sounding melody yet with a title like THAT.

Perhaps it’s a case of his business plan writers gone cuckoo, and I am not sure where he got the melody from – perhaps after going to Bali on holiday?

Listening to it again, I can almost imagine little magnetic men in little orbits doing an oriental jig…

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Shannon Jackson, 36 of Tennessee, USA had a restraining order against Dana Hannah in real life.

Then she went on Facebook and poked Ms Hannah virtually.

Using screenshots of that person’s Facebook page as evidence, Ms Jackson was arrested on 25th September 2009, and later jailed for it, because the court order said she can’t “telephone, contact or otherwise communicate with the petitioner”, which of course can include Facebook.

This is probably the first recorded case of a person being detained for a poke, which allows “users to make themselves known to other users of the site without sending a message” and can be used to “flirt with people they do not know.”

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Idola Sabah (Sabah Idol) 2005 participant Ridah Annie Malanjang’s debut album was released in late 2008 I believe.

There was a rather popular song off that album entitled Lugai-Lugai, and while I thought it was okay, it did not have that special extra something that would make me listen to it over and over again.

It was a different matter a few weeks ago when I heard “Sopirosi-rosi”, another of her songs. Written by local songwriter Peter Peninting, I was instantly smitten by the melody the first time I heard it. Shame on me, it’s been in the charts for more than half a year before I noticed it!

I think it’s definitely one of the best, if not the very best Kadazan/Dusun song of 2008/2009.

Here’s a preview:

If you like what you hear, please purchase the original.

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According to the 6th edition of The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings (2009), arguably the world’s best authority in determining which are the world’s top universities, a survey of academics and graduate employers worldwide reveals that the top 10 universities in the world for 2009 are:

1 Harvard University (USA)
2 Cambridge University (United Kingdom)
3 Yale University (USA)
4 University College London (United Kingdom)
5 Imperial College London (United Kingdom) & Oxford University (United Kingdom)
6 University of Chicago (USA)
7 Princeton University (USA)
8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
9 California Institute of Technology (USA)
10 Columbia University (USA)

Observations:
- Harvard remains at the pinnacle; it has topped the list ever since the rankings were done
- Cambridge climbed one place to 2nd
- Oxford dropped one place to 5th
- University College London climbed 3 places to 4th
- Seven of the top ten universities are American, 4 are in Great Britain
- The Australian National University is the highest-placed university outside the US and the UK at 17th (dropped a place)
- European representation in the top 100 increased from 36 in 2008 to 39
- North American representation in the top 100 dropped from 42 in 2008 to 36
- Asian representation in the top 100 increased from 14 in 2008 to 16
- Highest ranked Asian uni: The University of Tokyo at 22nd, which dropped 3 places
- Second highest ranked Asian uni: The University of Hong Kong, which climbed 2 places to 24th
- Malaysia returned to the top 200: Universiti Malaya (UM) at 180th place. Last year no Malaysian universities were in the top 200. UM’s highest ever ranking, and the highest ranking ever achieved by a Malaysian university was 89th in 2004. Compare that to the USA’s 54 universities in the top 200, Japan’s 11 universities in the top 200 (6 in the top 100), Australia’s 9 universities in the top 200 (8 in the top 100), China’s 6 in the top 200 (2 in the top 100), Hong Kong’s 5 in the top 200 (3 in the top 50!) and South Korea’s 4 in the top 200.
- Top university for social science: London School of Economics
- Top university for engineering: École normale supérieure of Paris

In compiling the rankings, more than 9,000 academics and 3,000 employers responded to the surveys.

Well, we hope universities whose hostels offer heated mattress pads also get extra marks :-p

The full list

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The BBC, 7th Oct 2009

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Flight: Air India, IC-884, 106 passengers, 7 crewmembers

Plane: Airbus A-320

From: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), 12.35am local time

To: Lucknow, en route to New Delhi, 6am local time

Date: 3rd October 2009

Local time of altercation: 4.30am (while over Pakistan airspace)

On one corner: the 2 pilots, Commander Ranbeer (Ranbir) Arora and Captain Aditya Chopra

On the other corner: 2 cabin crew: 24-year-old unidentified air hostess and flight purser Amit Khanna

Cause: 2 versions:
- the crewmembers said the pilots sexually harrassed an air hostess. The argument started in the cockpit but spilled into the galley.
- the pilots said “the harassment claim was an attempt to divert attention from accusations of misconduct against a male flight attendant.”

Damage:
- a pilot & an air hostess got bruises in the ensuing punch-up.

Aftermath:
- both parties filed complaints upon landing.
- The air hostess claimed she was “abused and pushed by the two pilots inside the cockpit when she refused to grant them personal favours.”
- Air India grounded (de-rostered) all involved.

Of course the passengers were wide-eyed in disbelief, as it was definitely endangering the lives of everybody on board and grossly violating safety norms.

Whew, if these were a common occurence in airlines, getting even a term life insurance would be a monumental task.

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The BBC, 4th October 2009

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