This is just STRANGE

It seems there's a new trend that follows the painted cat phenomenom. Botox treatments are now available for dogs. I wasn't aware that dogs got wrinkles, unless you count pugs, bulldogs and sharpeis. But they're supposed to have wrinkles. Which would make it a little obvious that they weren't all natural. I'm not even going to look for a picture on this one.

My Must-Visit Tourist Attraction

The above photo was not photo-shopped in any way... well, it might have been, but the actual thing is real (I know someone who's been there). General 'Stonewall' Jackson was a General for the Confederate army during the civil war. He was shot by his own troops by mistake and lost his left arm to amputation. He was so important that they buried his arm with an actual funeral. He died a few days before the battle of Gettysburg, leaving General Robert E. Lee to lose both the battle and the war.

Stop in the Name of the Law!

If you’re looking to stop a crime but can’t find anything, try stopping such odd and obscure crimes such as:

Removing rocks from the state of Hawaii,

Someone playing dominoes on Sunday in Alabama,

Someone throwing pickle juice on a trolley in Rhode Island,

Or someone singing in the bathtub in Pennsylvania (though, please, just overhear them!)

To make sure you aren’t breaking any laws in your state (or just laugh your head off) go here.

'High' Fashion

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” This quote struck me as funny, so I decided to look up some of the worst (and most painful) fashions of all time, which, unfortunately, weren’t done away with after only six months.

The corset. Back when women didn’t have the right to vote, corsets were all the rage. They promoted good posture and made the wearer appear slimmer. These contraptions kept the back erect (now found to cause stress on the lower back) and made it hard to breathe. This caused women to faint at the slightest shock, which was considered ‘charming.’ Girls have died from too-tight corsets causing their ribs to bend inward and puncture their lungs.

Foot-binding. In the time between the tenth and twentieth centuries, Chinese women would begin tying their daughter’s feet so they would get smaller and smaller. The binds cut off circulation and left the feet horribly deformed. The pain lasted the duration of the procedure and would come again if you were to untie the feet. Girls were reduced to tottering about slowly, but they usually just sat still.

No doubt that today you’ll be able to find even more with all the recalls going on.

Strange Proposals

After reading an article about a guy who sent his girlfriend a hacked game of "Bejeweled" that would ask her to marry him when she got to a certain score (she said yes) I decided to do a little internet research on other strange ways people have proposed marriage. Here is one of my favorites:

A guy who had met his girlfriend through photography hid a picture of himself kneeling with a ring in a bouquet.

This one speaks for itself. I couldn't cut it down:

He is in the Navy Reserve and asked me to come to the reserve center to help out with a "change of command" rehearsal in the morning. I went and it seemed like I really served no purpose!

After it was over, his chief came over to me and asked if I new a certain young man by the name of Jerry. I said of course. He said, "Well he is kind of a chicken and needs our help."

Then he called him over. Jerry got down on his knee and pulled out a little black box from his uniform pocket. Then the entire unit said out loud, "Will you marry him?!"

It was so cute! Oh, and I said yes of course!! They got it all on video, too.

I just thought some of them were kind of clever.

Could you imagine getting an F in flirting?

Singapore, anxious of the city's declining birth rate, is now giving students formal lessons on how to flirt. If that sounds weird the first time, read it again. The course includes love song analysis and how to chat online. On one hand, the students can talk about their boyfriends/girlfriends to a teacher that (hopefully) knows what they're talking about. On the other hand, who would WANT to talk to their teacher?