Funny gravestones

Cemeteries are often a place of sadness. You go to a cemetery for a funeral or to visit a loved one. But, have you ever gone to a cemetery just to walk around, on a bright sunny day, when you are happy? You will see graves that peek your interest, and grave that get you scratching your head. You will see witty epitaphs, and very sad memorials. You will see lighthearted artwork, scary creepy sculptures, and things that appear to make no sense at all. You'll see the modest and conservative, and the colorful and outlandish.

FML: Your every day stories

As Wikipedia says, "FMyLife is an English-language blog that serves as "a recollection of everyday anecdotes likely to happen to anyone". Posts on the site are short, user-submitted stories of unfortunate happenings that begin with "Today" and end with "FML". FMyLife receives more than 1.7 million hits each day. A book containing stories from the site and illustrations was published in June 2009.
FML has different categories such as: Animals, Health, Love, Kids, Work, Money, Intimacy, and Miscellaneous." It's a pretty cool site, and it had lots of interesting FML stories. Plus, its free to be a member! Have you ever submitted a story, or do you want to? Click here to go to fmylife.com


Bye Bye for now, 
Alexandra D. Jamieson*


*Pen name

Guilty verdict in Emily Longley murder trial

Dear Bloggers,


If you would remember, several days ago for those of you who saw it, I did a post on the EL (Emily Longley) trial. The former boyfriend of New Zealand teenager Emily Longley has been found guilty of murdering her.The jury of eleven men and one woman at Winchester Crown Court in southern England returned a unanimous verdict on Elliot Turner after nine hours of deliberations overnight.Turner, 20, was found guilty of strangling 17-year-old Longley during a heated argument on May 7 last year at his family home in Bournemouth, south England.

WWN Monday

Dear Bloggers,
Guess what, boys and girls? It's Weird & Wacky News Monday! Every Monday, I will deliver some (usually 2-3) weird and/or wacky news articles or pictures.


First up is.....Cross gender model!

Thai lady boy Angkookrat Warangnam, known as Toon, was one of 200 'women' to enter the Brighton's Next Hot Model contest. Shy Toon sailed through the preliminary rounds, wowing judges with her deep brown eyes, long dark hair and slimline figure.After being given the green light by every member of the panel, the Lady Boys of Bangkok star, 26, revealed that she was born a man.Organiser Scott Woolgar said: "During the selection process it did not cross any of our minds for a minute that she was a man.

Secondly is....Interesting choice of exit!

A Russian man had to be rescued by emergency workers from a rubbish chute where he had jumped to escape his girlfriend (Why?) but ended up getting stuck after sliding three floors down.Soviet era buildings in Russia frequently have a metal rubbish chute in the stairwell with a latch opening on each floor that is slightly bigger than a grocery bag. The unidentified man apparently travelled three floors down the chute in the apartment building in Tyumen before getting jammed at the fifth floor level, when he started calling for help. Rescue workers had to use an "electric instrument" to cut the metal and extricate the victim and passed him to a waiting ambulance team, the ministry said.


And last, but not least......Dinosaurs had arthritis too!








Researchers studying a giant eight metre pliosaurus found evidence of an arthritis like disease in its jaw.Usually capable of ripping other dinosaurs to bits with its 20cm teeth, the gammy jaw would eventually have stopped her feeding and led to her death 150 million years ago.Dr Judyth Sassoon, of Bristol university, was fascinated by the specimen since first seeing it in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.In life, it had a crocodile-like head, a short neck, whale-like body and four powerful flippers to propel it through water in pursuit of prey, reports journal Palaeontology.Studying the skeleton, believed to be a female, Dr Sassoon soon noticed that it had the signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis, that had eroded its left jaw joint, displacing the lower jaw to one side.Dr Sassoon said: "In the same way that aging humans develop arthritic hips, this old lady developed an arthritic jaw, and survived with her disability for some time."But an unhealed fracture on the jaw indicates that at some time the jaw weakened and eventually broke. With a broken jaw, the pliosaur would not have been able to feed and that final accident probably led to her demise."


Weird and wacky new out!Bye Bye for now,
Your writer extraordinaire :)