Monthly Archives: November 2003

The Party Party – Wacky Season Begins

Standing at just 5 feet tall, Mario would be the shortest U.S. president ever, 4 inches shorter than James Madison. He would be only the second bachelor president, after James Buchanan (Princess Peach has offered to take on the duties … Continue reading

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Gopher Trees Smell Like Skunk Says Potts

A US university is covering its Christmas trees with the pungent scent that skunks spray – to discourage thieves. The University of Minnesota is going to spray between 400-500 pine trees with two gallons of the natural ingredient. Within hours … Continue reading

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Nipple Clampdown in Thailand

Sounds painful. Actually, the Dowbrigade has always held that our culture’s open acceptance of the MALE nipple, while completely banning the FEMALE version from mainstream media, was an example of blatant sex discrimination. We sure hope those "Nipple stickers" hit … Continue reading

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Mass Legalizes Gay Marriage – Pets Next

Mass Facts: The 2000 Census estimated there were about 19,000 gay couples in Mass., and about 659,000 nationwide, or less than 1 percent of households. Provincetown is the community in Mass. with the highest rate of gay partners, about 15 … Continue reading

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Rebranding Germany

Heard about the new German-Chinese restaurant? The food is great, but an hour later, you’re hungry for power… FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Hard working, dull and humorless? Germany, which has been saddled with negative stereotypes since World War II, is actually … Continue reading

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Blogosphere Explosion Continues

I thought Technorati was acting a bit pokey.   It says Dowbrigade hasn’t been updated in 5 days 16 hours and 45 minutes. I was beginning to wonder if my memories of the past five days were some sort of … Continue reading

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He Forgot to Grease her Down….

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Perhaps Santa should carry a disclaimer: "Don’t try this at home." It might have saved an Albuquerque teen from a lot of embarrassment. The teenage girl, 15, got lodged in a chimney trying to get into a … Continue reading

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Free-range Happy Turkeys Something to Celebrate

Look a little nervous, don’t they? Who can blame them? Perhaps the least we can do is make sure their short lives are enjoyable and stress-free… Free-range turkeys make up only a small percentage of the nation’s overall production of … Continue reading

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Please Don’t Tell My Wife

Don’t tell Norma Yvonne, but I am falling in love with a Brazilian model. No, not one of my students, even worse, a girl I met on-line. Her name is Kaya. Fortunatly, or unfortunately as the case may be (I’m a … Continue reading

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Soaring Rents Promote Extended Families

One of the inevitable results of globalization, porous borders and the revolution in transportation is, if not a homogeniazation then at least a frothy interweaving of cultures. On one hand the wealthy begin to look more and more alike as … Continue reading

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Brain Scan Roots Out Racists

A brain scan to identify racists? But how do we get the suspected racists to submit to scanning? And what do we do with the racists once we identify them? None of it made sense until the Dowbrigade noticed that … Continue reading

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Laos Jars Unsolved Mystery

THONG HAI HIN, Laos — The first time Sousath Phetrasy saw the huge stone jars scattered in a grassy field, he was entranced. Carefully avoiding old unexploded bombs in the ground, the Laotian businessman walked among hundreds of the ancient, … Continue reading

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