Weird world... Bra sizes of female cops accidentally sent to entire dept… New York: Some female cops in Detroit were recently left embarrassed when an assistant police commander mistaken emailed a file containing bra sizes, that were collected for bulletproof vest fittings, to the entire police force. ** Missing dog found 10ft up tree near driveway… Owners of a missing dog were happy but amazed to hear that it had been found safe and well – up a tree. Laddy, a seven-year-old border collie, had disappeared from his home in Davenport, Iowa, two days back. Two days later, Ron Stevenson was working in his yard a coup-le of blocks away when he heard a dog barking and then whining. He looked around but could see no dog. Finally, he looked up and spotted Laddy – at least 10 feet up a tree near his driveway. ** ** Bride sells hideous cake on eBay.. Northumberland: elia, a bride from Haltwhistle, Northumberland, snapped up a black iced tyre cake online after seeing a beautifully decorated image, but what she actually received was much less glamorous. Not only were the tiers lumpy and uneven, but they were leaning tone side. Instead of being smooth, rounded and shiny, the icing was different shades of unappetizing, cracked, grey. ** Bee sting therapy creates buzz in China. Patients in China are swarming to acupuncture clinics to be given bee stings to treat or ward of life-threatening illness. More than 27,000 people have undergone the painful technique = each session can involve dozens of punctures – at Wang Menglin’s clinic in Beijing, says the bee acupuncturist who makes his living from believers in the concept. But except for trying to prevent allergic reactions to the stings themselves, there is no orthodox medical evidence tht bee venom is effective against illness. (Me: Another form of ‘faith’ healing!). ** China’s 5 lakh ‘leftover women’ looking for love… Shanghai: Xu Jiajie has gone on countless blind dates and to numerous match-making events over the past five years in search of a husband. At 31, the baby-faced office worker from Shanghai is under enormous pressure from family and friends to get married. But the right man is hard to find, she says, a big issue for urban, educated and well-paid Chinese women in a society where the husband’s social status is traditionally above the wife’s. (Me: I think it is a swell idea for India - with a highly skewed male-female ratio with hundreds of thousands of middleclass men remaining bachelors for want of suitable girls – to import such ‘leftover women’ from China; our bachelor boys would welcome them with open arms…) ** Some stray thoughts on our I.Day… Although our leaders at Independence were against creation of states on linguistic basis in the caste-ridden country, they said they being democrats at heart would agree to such carving out if the public opinion demanded. So the original 14 states spanned into 30 today bowing to public demand. One other reason trotted out for bifurcation of existing stqtes was, smaller the states, better the administration. Smaller, I think, meant lesser population. We have about 650 districts and 543 parliamentary constituencies all over India, and the population has gone up by 4 times in 65 years. Using the same logic, it would be advantageous to have at least 543 states with as many CMs and multiple ministers and tens of thousands of staff, from the administration point of view… hai na..
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:38:43 +0000
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