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Fat pets!

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:43:46 GMT

clipped by: Babe_ORiley
clipper's remarks: so sad...

Well if these pictures of the world's fattest pets are anything to go by, there must be some obese dogs-lovers out there, as well as cat and guinea pig owners.

Sadly experts say overweight dogs are likely to die two years earlier than lean ones and have a much poorer quality of life, so let's hope the diet commences soon.

Guinea PIG: A fury friend with too much fat

This squirrel has had too many nuts

Fat-out: This pooch doesn't need to be thrown a bone

Fur-wheel drive: This dog need to get out and walk

One too many mice for this fat feline

Tags: fat, pets, guinea pig

Hands Up! I'm an Iron Maiden fan

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:00:33 GMT

clipped by: Babe_ORiley
clipper's remarks: haha so crazy!

Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Having a gun pulled on you in Sao Paulo would be a frightening prospect if you weren't walking the streets with Iron Maiden guitarist Janick Gers, and the gun-wielder wasn't an autograph-hunter... oh, and a policeman.

"I'm a cop," says the man, laughing and revealing a pistol.

Seconds earlier, he'd pulled up besides Gers and the Revealed production team in an unmarked car in a back street of Brazil's most populous -- and dangerous -- city.

"I want a picture. I am police."

After rummaging through his bag for his identity card, the presumably off-duty policeman produced a red leather biker vest which Gers duly signed in blue biro. The excited fan shook his hero's hand.

"He'll be arresting people at the concert," Gers laughs.

This is what life is like for Iron Maiden in South America, a hotbed of Maiden fanaticism.

"In South America, it's like verging on hysteria," says Adrian Smith, one of the group's three guitarists.

Wrinkles can get you ciggies

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:50:44 GMT

clipped by: Babe_ORiley
clipper's remarks: Trust the Japs to come up with yet another invention.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

TOKYO (Reuters) - Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.

The legal age for smoking in Japan is 20 and as the country's 570,000 tobacco vending machines prepare for a July regulation requiring them to ensure buyers are not underage, a company has developed a system to identify age by studying facial features.

By having the customer look into a digital camera attached to the machine, Fujitaka Co's system will compare facial characteristics, such as wrinkles surrounding the eyes, bone structure and skin sags, to the facial data of over 100,000 people, Hajime Yamamoto, a company spokesman said.

"With face recognition, so long as you've got some change and you are an adult, you can buy cigarettes like before. The problem of minors borrowing (identification) cards to purchase cigarettes could be avoided as well," Yamamoto said.

Tags: cigarette, wrinkles, machine