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PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Interesting article.......

Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/11/apop021111.DTL&ao=all
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Man has 39 wives over 90 children

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – The more, the merrier is certainly true for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren -- and wouldn't mind having more.

They all live in a four storied building with 100 rooms in a mountainous village in Mizoram state, sharing borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, media reports said.

"I once married 10 women in one year," he was quoted as saying.

His wives share a dormitory near Ziona's private bedroom and locals said he likes to have seven or eight of them by his side at all times.

The sons and their wives, and all their children, live in different rooms in the same building, but share a common kitchen.

The wives take turns cooking, while his daughters clean the house and do washing. The men do outdoor jobs like farming and taking care of livestock.

The family, all 167 of them, consumes around 91 kg (200 pounds) of rice and more than 59 kg (130 pounds) of potatoes a day. They are supported by their own resources and occasional donations from followers.

"Even today, I am ready to expand my family and willing to go to any extent to marry," Ziona said.

"I have so many people to care (for) and look after, and I consider myself a lucky man."

Ziona met his oldest wife, who is three years older than he is, when he was 17.


Rumor has it that for next wife he would like a Canadian art teacher. Sweat
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

gaijinmark wrote:
Rumor has it that for next wife he would like a Canadian art teacher. Sweat

LOL. rofl

Time to step up, G-Mark. Mr Green
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

gaijinmark wrote:
Man has 39 wives over 90 children

Actually not very uncommon in certain parts of the world. I guess culturally he wouldn't have to listen to all the nagging. Beaten hehe
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Kijinnmaru wrote:
I guess culturally he wouldn't have to listen to all the nagging. Beaten hehe

LOL... Or hear it 39 times more than your typical one wife marriage. Beaten
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Sensei, check your collection, YOU COULD BE A MILLIONAIRE!! w00t!

Spider Man #1 sells for $1.1 million

NEW YORK (AFP) – The inaugural 1962 comic book to feature Spider-Man netted a superhero-sized $1.1 million, the US online auctioneers said.

The copy of the Marvel comic book, in excellent condition, sold through ComicConnect.com with a cover that shows the spidery avenger -- in his other life known as the meek Peter Parker -- swinging from a high building with a man under his right arm.

Five decades ago, the comic went for just 12 cents.

The big sale has been bested only by the $1.5 million price reached for Superman's 1938 debut comic book last year. The 1930s to 1950s are seen as comics' golden age and surviving copies are keenly collected.

"The late 1950s and early 1960s are considered the Silver Age for comic books," said ComicConnect.com founder Stephen Fishler in a statement.

"People have often wondered how much this near-perfect condition book would sell for, and today we found out," Fishler said.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

How much money would he lose by taking it out of the package and touching it just once? hehe
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

One owner, low (relatively) mileage:http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/phx/578467547.html
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

bmwracer wrote:

LOL... Or hear it 39 times more than your typical one wife marriage. Beaten


To think some people haven't been laid that many times in their lives.

Hmmm... (takes off shoes to count)... never mind.... OMG
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Would-Be Robber Stuffs Frozen Shrimp Down Pants, Strikes Grocery Store Guard

03/28/11 10:45 AM ET AP

DOVER, Pa. -- A central Pennsylvania man faces robbery and assault charges after he allegedly stuffed a bag of frozen shrimp down his pants and attacked a grocery store security guard.

Northern York County Regional Police say 37-year-old Brian McDaniel was spotted hiding the shrimp in his pants and struck a security guard who tried to stop him inside a grocery store Thursday in Dover Township. The guard sustained minor injuries.

McDaniel was caught in the store's parking lot by the security guard and a bystander. He is being held on $10,000 bail.

It was not immediately clear if McDaniel had an attorney.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

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Would-Be Robber Stuffs Frozen Shrimp Down Pants, Strikes Grocery Store Guard

03/28/11 10:45 AM ET AP

DOVER, Pa. -- A central Pennsylvania man faces robbery and assault charges after he allegedly stuffed a bag of frozen shrimp down his pants and attacked a grocery store security guard.

Northern York County Regional Police say 37-year-old Brian McDaniel was spotted hiding the shrimp in his pants and struck a security guard who tried to stop him inside a grocery store Thursday in Dover Township. The guard sustained minor injuries.

McDaniel was caught in the store's parking lot by the security guard and a bystander. He is being held on $10,000 bail.

It was not immediately clear if McDaniel had an attorney.


All that for a bag of frozen shrimp.....sad. Sad
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Sengo wrote:
All that for a bag of frozen shrimp.....sad. Sad

He must've been really craving for a shrimp cocktail. Beaten
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

What's on the menu?
Jock-strap jambalaya!

hehe
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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2011 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Man unknowingly liveblogs Bin Laden operation

Love the last line of the article.... rofl

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/02/international/i030448D05.DTL&tsp=1
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Roswell UFO was Russian craft: new book

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ROSWELL, New Mexico �\
The world famous Roswell �gincident�h was no UFO but rather a Russian spacecraft with �ggrotesque, child-size aviators�h developed in human experiments by Nazi doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele, according to a theory floated by investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen.

Her book, �gArea 51: An Uncensored History of America�fs Top Secret Military Base,�h is about the secretive Nevada base called Area 51. One chapter offers the new Roswell theory, citing an anonymous source who says Joseph Stalin recruited Mengele and sent the craft into U.S. air space in 1947 to spark public hysteria.

Like past theories, Jacobsen writes that the U.S. government was involved in a cover-up of the UFO report, which has spawned space alien legend and turned this southern New Mexico town into a tourist attraction.

Bill Lyne, who self-published a book called �gSpace Aliens from the Pentagon�h in 1993, agrees that the Roswell incident was faked, but he thinks the hoax was perpetrated by the U.S. government�\not the Russians.

�gThey�fre just saying what I�fve been saying all along, that it was a hoax,�h he told the Santa Fe New Mexican. �gBut that Mengele stuff is a bunch of hogwash because Mengele was recruited by the CIA (rather than the Russians), and he was actually brought to Albuquerque.�h
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Pennsylvania 8th Graders' Field Trip Includes Hooters Lunch


06/ 1/11 10:26 AM ET AP

BERWICK, Pa. -- For one group of central Pennsylvania eighth-graders, a recent field trip to Baltimore included lunch at Hooters – a restaurant better known for its busty waitresses than its food.

The Berwick Middle School students were visiting the National Aquarium last week. Chaperones took them to various restaurants for lunch because the group of 100 was too large for a single place.

The Bloomsburg Press Enterprise reports Tuesday that one group of 15 to 20 students ended up at Hooters.

Superintendent Wayne Brookhart says that while he wishes the group's coed chaperones had chosen another restaurant, he has not received any complaints from parents.

Hooters spokesman Mike McNeil says the restaurant chain often hosts groups, including sports teams and church organizations with teens and younger children.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

bmwracer wrote:
Pennsylvania 8th Graders' Field Trip Includes Hooters Lunch


06/ 1/11 10:26 AM ET AP

BERWICK, Pa. -- For one group of central Pennsylvania eighth-graders, a recent field trip to Baltimore included lunch at Hooters – a restaurant better known for its busty waitresses than its food.

The Berwick Middle School students were visiting the National Aquarium last week. Chaperones took them to various restaurants for lunch because the group of 100 was too large for a single place.

The Bloomsburg Press Enterprise reports Tuesday that one group of 15 to 20 students ended up at Hooters.

Superintendent Wayne Brookhart says that while he wishes the group's coed chaperones had chosen another restaurant, he has not received any complaints from parents.

Hooters spokesman Mike McNeil says the restaurant chain often hosts groups, including sports teams and church organizations with teens and younger children.


hehe That's pretty funny.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

Tu_triky wrote:
hehe That's pretty funny.

The only field trips I had were to Exposition Park and the LA County Museum of Art. Sad
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

bmwracer wrote:

The only field trips I had were to Exposition Park and the LA County Museum of Art. Sad


Haha. Puppy Dog Eyes
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top

bmwracer wrote:
The Bloomsburg Press Enterprise reports Tuesday that one group of 15 to 20 students ended up at Hooters.


Clearly this was the "cool" group. hehe
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