Category Archives: Weird

Weird

Not Interested

And speaking of Swedes, everyone knows that Swedish women are hot, right?

Well, these guys don’t seem to think so:

Six gay penguins at a German zoo are still refusing to mate with females of the species flown in from Sweden in 2005, the zoo said on Wednesday.

But this was the funniest part:

The initiative to “turn” the penguins and make them mate had prompted a furious response from gay rights groups.

In a statement posted on its Internet website, the zoo on Wednesday sought to defend itself from fresh criticism.

“We will be delighted if the penguins form even one heterosexual couple and manage to produce first an egg, and then a little one,” it said.

“But of course we accept the male couples that have formed and we are not trying to enforce heterosexuality, as we were accused of doing last year.”

Will the oppression of gay penguins, and suppression of their natural orientation, never end?

Weird

Maybe He Can Tell Us About Warp Drives

I’ve always thought that Ted Kennedy lived in an alternate universe, but now he admits it:

Briefly, Kennedy rewrote the outcome of the 1964 election. “This nominee was influenced by the Goldwater presidency,” he said. “The Goldwater battles of those times were the battles against the civil rights laws.” Only then did Kennedy acknowledge that “Judge Alito at that time was 14 years old.”

Harry Turtledove ought to hire him for some new story ideas.

Weird

Call Of The Wild

A moose was attracted to the plaintive sounds of a teenager’s saxophone.

At least that’s what the story says. Question to the copy editor who wrote the headline, though–who taught the moose’s son to play the sax? It reminds me of the old joke that Groucho told about shooting an elephant in his pajamas.

Here’s a contest, for the best guess at what the song was. Somehow I doubt if it was “Embraceable You…”