May God continue to bless Burger King.
On the heels of the mockumentary Whopper Virgins, Burger King is launching an actual beef-scented cologne to grab attention, and keep the grill marks of its brand firmly seared in to the collective cerebral cortex.
The fragrance is for real, and retails for just $4 bucks. It’s available on FireMeetsDesire.com, the BK site with a slideshow of soothing images of waterfalls and beaches and finally the naked King to get you in the mood for fast food.
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The best way to deal with our enemies.
GUANGZHOU, China – While animal lovers in Beijing protested the killing of cats for food on Thursday, a butcher in Guangdong province — where felines are the main ingredient in a famous soup — just shrugged her shoulders and wielded her cleaver. “Cats have a strong flavor. Dogs taste much better, but if you really want cat meat, I can have it delivered by tomorrow,” said the butcher, who gave only her surname, Huang.
It was just this attitude that outraged about 40 cat lovers who unfurled banners in a tearful protest outside the Guangdong government office in Beijing. Many were retirees who care for stray felines they said were being rounded up by dealers.
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That’s one lucky cow!
LONDON (AP) – A British pilot said he ran into an unusual hazard while making an emergency landing – a cow. Rob Wotton said he was trying to land his World War II-era Tiger Moth after the engine stalled just after takeoff southwest of London on Sept. 14. He was about to touch down in a field when the animal wandered into his way.
Video of the event on YouTube shows the brown-and-white cow being knocked to the ground by the plane’s lower left wing. The two-seater was damaged but landed safely.
An accident report said the cow was “apparently uninjured.”
Wotton said he might paint a cow on the plane to mark the event.
He says: “I have to say it is the first cow I have ever hit in 22 years’ flying.”
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Hahahaha….wonder what this did to Mr. Criminal’s self esteem?
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A San Antonio fast-food restaurant cashier laughed at a robbery suspect and told him to get a job if he wanted money during a failed holdup on Tuesday evening.
Police said the suspect approached the worker and demanded money, but the cashier laughed and apparently didn’t realize the man was trying to hold up the place.
The suspect then allegedly pulled out a box cutter and demanded the cashier’s wallet. The employee complied, but had no money in his billfold.
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Whew….glad this law has changed…heh.
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) – Spitting is now OK in Sarasota. City commissioners voted Monday to abolish a law dating back to 1908 that banned spitting. They argued the law was unenforceable. Lawyers said it was used to target those in lower income neighborhoods.
But for the past century it was illegal. And although seldom enforced, it’s still illegal to spit on sidewalks and other public spaces in many cities.
Sarasota police arrested two men in 2007 on charges of public spitting. Both men had criminal histories that include drug possession. A police spokesman said the arrests were part of a push to curb crime in neighborhoods known for illegal drug sales.
Reports said cash and marijuana was found on a third person arrested this month for spitting.
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Gotta love it…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A state legislator wants to dump a 19th-century law banning the sale of yellow margarine, though it’s been years since any violator was ordered to spread ‘em.
Rep. Sara Lampe said Tuesday she plans to file legislation repealing the law when the 2009 legislative session starts in January.
Most of Missouri’s restrictions on imitation butter date to 1895, and they were last amended in 1939. Although the state no longer enforces them, the penalties could still make dealers in contraband dairy product toast: up to a month in jail and a $100 fine for first-time offenders and six months in jail and a $500 fine for repeat offenders.
Enforcement of the law falls to the state Agriculture Department, and officials there didn’t know when someone was last prosecuted under it. Case records from the late 19th and early 20th century show that Missouri courts upheld the constitutionality of the restrictions in several appeals.
Agriculture Department spokeswoman Misti Preston said it’s likely that the Legislature restricted margarine and other imitation butter products to protect Missouri’s dairy industry, which was a key business for the state in the early 20th century.
According to the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers, by 1902, 32 states home to 80 percent of Americans had restrictions on the color of imitation margarine. Congress in 1886 passed a federal tax on the spread by that was repealed by President Harry S. Truman in 1950.
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That must have been SOOOOME egg beater!
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – It really must have been a special item. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, two men entered a man’s home early Sunday and demanded his eggbeater. One suspect was holding a pistol while the other brandished a knife to the resident’s neck.
Police caught the men outside the home and they are being held in Orient Road Jail. One suspect also faces a charge of aggravated assault.
Police found the eggbeater in the man’s left pocket.
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WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) – A suspicious surplus of Christmas spirit led to the arrest of a man in Southern California. Westminster police say officers responded to a disturbance call at the house of 48-year-old Vuong Pham, where they found rooms overflowing with wicker reindeer, plastic snowmen and inflatable Santas.
For weeks people in Pham’s Orange County neighborhood had reported a steady disappearance of lights, figures and faux trees from their front yards.
Police say they connected the thefts to Pham after looking through his house and arrested him Monday on suspicion of grand theft and possession of stolen property.
Officer Cameron Knauerhaze says it took three trucks to take all the Christmas contraband to the station. Police weren’t clear on the motive.
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She’s lovin’ it!
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – It was a Big N’ Tasty burger and one trip to jail to go for a woman suspected of DWI in St. Paul. Police said a 26-year-old woman pulled into a McDonald’s drive-thru with squad car lights flashing and sirens blaring behind her. The woman had time to eat a couple of fries before police caught up to her and arrested her on suspicion of drunken driving Sunday.
The woman said says she saw the cruiser at the McDonald’s, heard an officer honking the horn and figured she was getting pulled over because her driver’s license was revoked. She told the St. Paul Pioneer Press in a jail interview: “I thought they were fixing to mess with me. … I was fixing to get something to eat.”
The woman said she couldn’t get out of the drive-through because cars were behind and in front of her.
She’s contesting the accuracy of a breath test she took.
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