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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1230 on: May 18, 2011, 01:25:02 PM »
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« Reply #1231 on: May 18, 2011, 04:50:06 PM »
Dartford pair accused of failing to seek veterinary treatment for tortoise’s penis

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How would you know......... rubschin:

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For the good of humanity and we VPers I went and found this...



Whilst looking I found this...



Which in turn led to this. eeek:

Raise high your glass of tortoise penis kidney-tonifying wine and prepare for the scourge
May 6, 2010 in Names/Naming by snark
I’ve been on a rampage though the patent database trolling for unusual names and language. Here is another gem: Tortoise penis kidney-tonifying wine. Betcha’ never thought you could patent such a concoction! In case you want to try to brew this baby up at home, the patent abstract lists the key ingredients:

The invention discloses tortoise wine for invigorating the kidney. The technical key points of the invention are that the wine is made by infusing live turtle, deer scourge, fur seal scourge and such Chinese herbal medicine as honeysuckle, osmanthus flower, codonopsis pilosula, angelica, morinda root, leatherleaf milletia, dodder, Schisandra, radix achyranthis bidentatae, Cherokee rose, barrenwort and grain wine. The wine for invigorating the kidney of the invention ahs the effects of invigorating the kidney, benefiting the stomach, strengthening the human immunity, resisting the fatigue and preventing the aging.

I was especially struck — after “tortoise penis” — by the ingredients “deer scourge” and “fur seal scourge”. I thought, is there another, more benign meaning of “scourge” that I’m not aware of? Nope, all the definitions of “scourge” are pretty grim:

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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1232 on: May 19, 2011, 03:17:11 AM »

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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1233 on: May 19, 2011, 04:15:54 AM »
She does seem to have the appearance of a Walmart customer Press on the photos tab, but have the sick bucket handy  sick2:
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1234 on: May 19, 2011, 01:49:18 PM »
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« Reply #1235 on: May 19, 2011, 01:54:23 PM »
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1236 on: May 19, 2011, 01:59:28 PM »
 eeek: I did have a pony and trap this morning. rubschin:
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1237 on: May 20, 2011, 01:58:17 PM »
Must remember to send this berk an email on October 22nd  lol:

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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1238 on: May 20, 2011, 02:42:29 PM »
Another bunch of mongs say it happens at 6.00 tomorrow    scared2:
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1239 on: May 20, 2011, 02:46:17 PM »
Oh no! Not again! I didn't notice the last three times it happened either.
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« Reply #1240 on: May 20, 2011, 02:48:17 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJQ18S6aag

Always worth another look....  ;D
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1241 on: May 20, 2011, 03:38:09 PM »
Oh no! Not again! I didn't notice the last three times it happened either.

To be honest I love these guys, just for the fact you can wait till after the 'apocalypse' and then just laugh at the stupidity of it all.
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1242 on: May 20, 2011, 05:06:32 PM »
If some group somewhere says it every day, one of them will eventually be right I suppose.

Sadly, they will never be able to say 'I told you so'.
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1243 on: May 21, 2011, 05:42:36 AM »
Another bunch of mongs say it happens at 6.00 tomorrow    scared2:

Their mong leader owns a radio station. I wonder if he's accepted payment for radio ads from  today onwards  rubschin:
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #1244 on: May 21, 2011, 07:56:30 AM »
Another bunch of mongs say it happens at 6.00 tomorrow    scared2:

Their mong leader owns a radio station. I wonder if he's accepted payment for radio ads from  today onwards  rubschin:

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