News of the Weird

I am beginning to think that Mattell has forgotten that Barbie dolls are for young children mostly.

The toy company is now offering a premium-price collectors’ series for adults.  The first dolls in this series are Barbie and Ken versions of characters from the AMC show “Mad Men.” The dolls are selling for around $75 each.

The characters to be made into dolls include Don Draper, who isn’t faithful to his wife. His wife, Betty Draper, is also in the collection. So we have a Ken that’s cheating on Barbie. Wonderful. (Where is a divorce lawyer Barbie when you need one?)

While the dolls come with period clothing and accessories things like cigarettes and alcohol glasses are not included. (So we can have infidelity but no tobacco and alcohol in Barbie land. OK?)

The dolls have the approval of “Mad Men” officials.

And you think the U.S. health care system has problems …

The nurses’ union NU’91 is launching a campaign to bring a pressing healthcare issue to the forefront in the Netherlands —  sex is not health care.

The campaign began after a 42-year-old man with a muscular disorder dismissed one of his home caregivers because she would not help him relieve “his natural urges.” He said that his other seven caregivers did that for him.

A care dependents interest group called Per Saldo, said that patients are free to ask for the services, but caregivers can refuse them because “sexual services are not part of a caregiver’s tasks.” However, there are specialized legal agencies in the country that can help and are even arranged by some municipalities to help patients.

There are so many jokes and innuendoes associated with this that I’ll just let you go there

An Australian underwear company, AussieBum, is releasing a line of men’s underwear made out of bananas. It’s touting the line as “a world first in underwear.” The eco-friendly underwear is made up of 27 percent banana fiber. It’s also made up of cotton and lycra.

“Naturally you can’t really add anymore banana fiber than that because it might be a bit squishy,” said Lloyd Jones of AussieBum.

The cost is $26.17 (Australian dollers) a pair. To see the commercial, go here: www.aussiebum.com/en/underwear/1265/brf%20white

Remember Fruit of the Loom isn’t made from real fruit , but these are.

You’ll never believe what happened in school today.

An irate Memphis, Tenn., mother was upset that a child had spit on her child the day before and sought revenge after drinking a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor. Wanting to confront the child’s parents, Toni Price, 32, went into Riverview Elementary School with a sword that was concealed inside a black cane she used.

Police arrived and took the cane away from her before anyone was hurt. Price is now charged with aggravated assault and having a weapon on school property.

Who wants to RIP when you’re dead?

A British couple, Andrew and Janine Leishman, has decided that when they are gone they will give their bodies to a medical college for dissection before their skeletons are put on display at the Edinburgh Dungeon.

Believe it or not, the dungeon has actually been trying to recruit skeletons (don’t ask) to be part of its new show about 19-century serial killers who sold the bodies of their victims.

The couple said they decided to do this for several reasons. The first is that they didn’t want to inflict the pain of funerals on family members, the second is they wanted to highlight a shortage of organ donors and promote individuals donating their bodies to science. Then there’s the third reason …

“We’re also big fans of the dungeon and the idea of joining their exhibits after death quite appeals to us,” Janine Leishman said.

The dungeon’s staff is elated with the donations.

“We have fake skeletons already but there’s nothing quite like the real thing, and there are probably several people out there who would relish the prospect of hanging around and scaring people for years after they’ve died,” said Iain Scouller, manager of the dungeon. “The only condition of our offer is that donors must also register to donate any viable organs as well as leave their body for research.”

Imagine agreeing to chaperone your child’s field trip to the museum, only to get there and realize that the class has to walk through a swingers’ club to get in. That’s exactly what’s happening in Vienna, Austria.

An interior view of the swingers club "Element6" that is part of a provocative project by Swiss artist Christoph Buechel at Vienna's Secession, seen on Tuesday (AP Photo)

The Secession, a contemporary art museum, has temporarily incorporated a swingers’ club named Element6 as part of a project by artist Christopher Buechel. While there are no swingers there during the day for the little kiddies to see, they are there at night. However the swingers, bars, whirlpool and other decor/toys stay all the time.

The event is actually part of a ploy to sort of recapture the scandal first caused when Gustav Klimt (whose masterpieces are on exhibit) unveiled “Beethoven Frieze” in 1902. It was thought to be pornographic at the time because of the depiction of women’s bodies.

As far as the owners of Element6 are concerned, this is great publicity.

“In the framework of this exhibition at the Secession, each individual can test for himself or herself whether this opens up new dimensions for his or her own sexuality,” the club said in a statement.

Of course this has a lot of conservatives in an uproar. One political party even asked “has our society completely lost it?” because of this.

The exhibit ends April 18.

I have to get into this web argument here. There is no way director/actor/writer Kevin Smith is too fat to fly in an airline seat. Smith, who is also known as Silent Bob to millions of fans out there, was recently booted out of a Southwest Airlines flight because they said he was too fat.

Kevin Smith puffs out his cheeks in a Southwest Airlines seat.

According to Southwest, a customer must be able to comfortably lower the armrest and cannot infringe on a portion of another seat or make the customer in the adjacent seat uncomfortable and be able to exit the aircraft in the event of an emergency. If they can’t do that they need two seats.
Smith said the armrests went down and he could buckle his seat belt without an extender so he didn’t think he was against the policy, but the airlines did.

Now I have flown on airlines before, including Southwestern, just let me say that according to that policy everyone needs to buy two seats (Smith had done that just in case, but had to take an earlier flight that wouldn’t let him have two seats). I have never been on an airline where one of the people in the seats next to me didn’t make me uncomfortable in some way or another. However if I was on that Southwestern flight I would have loved to be next to Smith (I probably would have irritated him telling him how much I love his movies, “Dogma” especially).

Anyway, Southwest eventually issued an apology via Twitter and issued Smith a $100 policy. I hope Smith took their apology, because a lot of his fans are still miffed.

To see what Smith’s fans had to say about him getting booted, check out his Twitter account at twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith. Need I remind you that this is not a twit for children (this is after all the guy who came up with the character Jay as well as Silent Bob).

This 1957 image provided by Wormhole Publishers shows Fred Morrison holding a frisbee. Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, died Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Wormhole Publishers)

A man who took a science fiction toy and made it into an American icon has died.

Walter Frederick “Fred”  Morrison, the creator of the Frisbee, has died. He was 90. Morrison, who originally named the Frisbee the “Pluto Platter” and dressed in an astronaut costume to sell it died in Utah from cancer.

In 1957, Morrison sold the rights to the Pluto Platter to Wham-O, who changed the name to Frisbee.

“That simple little toy has permeated every continent in every country,” said Morris’ attorney, Kay McIff. “As many homes have Frisbees as any other device ever invented. How would you get through your youth without learning to throw a Frisbee?”

So, if you can, go throw one in memory of Mr. Morrison.

Image from photos.nslog.com/

To quote Norm from Cheers: “It’s a dog eat dog world out there and I’m wearing Milkbone underwear.”

The cold weather is not helping New York’s crime problem. A woman in the Park Slope neighborhood has reported that someone stole the doggy sweater right off her dog’s back.

Donna McPherson, 42, said she tied up her dog, Lexie, outside a supermarket so she could by milk. She returned to find the poor white pooch shivering in the cold sans its $25 wool coat with leather trim.

“How could anyone steal a coat off someone’s back in the freezing cold?” McPherson asked to one newspaper.. “I asked him, ‘Where’s your coat?’ like he could answer me. I looked all over and could not find it.”

Let’s take a look once again at stupid criminals.

This man reminds me of the movie “Let’s Go to Jail.” The main character supposedly did this in his youth. An Elkhart, Ind., man has been arrested after stealing a sheriff’s office patrol car.

It seems deputies responded to a call of a domestic disturbance. The call involved Ryan Larson, 21, arguing with his father, and a trashed home. After pulling up to the home, the officials were told Larson, who was drunk and on prescription medication, had fled the home.
An officer left the engine running in his car (it is cold outside after all and in Elkhart leaving your engine running is protocol to power on-board computers) and went inside to investigate. After seeing the officer enter his house, Larson (who must have been hiding near the home) jumped into the car and sped away. Police used the unit GPS to track it. However, to add insult to injury, Larson crashed the patrol car before being captured by police.
Larson is being charged with auto theft, resisting arrest, OVI and leaving the scene of an accident.

Note: Make sure the gas tank is full in the getaway car.
A Colorado man is in prison after he allegedly robbed a Wyoming restaurant and then got away on a local interstate in his car which was probably on empty when he was in the eatery.
According to reports, Justin Roberts was found about 60 miles west of the eatery where his car ran out of gas. He is being charged with aggravated robbery.