nothing to see here

And now for some news that has nothing at all to do with nude women . . . yet:

As of about an hour ago, I am the nervously proud owner of a Toyota, the first car with my name on it since some clown wrecked my Chevy in – has it really been fourteen years?

Now to deal with insurance. Kibitzing is invited.

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search-bait

Nude gymnasts banned

Three Romanian women gymnasts have been punished by their national federation for giving a nude performance in Japan.
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The trio had “tarnished the image of gymnastics” with their naked performance . . . said the Romanian gymnastics federation president Nicolae Vieru. . . .

Spoilsport. He should look up the etymology of gymnast sometime.

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but where would I keep them?

Someone just offered me bigger breasts. That doesn’t happen every day.

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puns for humanity

Once again, a seaside resort restores a man’s health.

For the first time, cancer has been treated by removing an organ from the body, giving it radiotherapy and then re-implanting it. The out-of-body operation allows doctors to administer high doses of radiation to widespread tumours without affecting other organs.

The technique has been dubbed TAORMINA after a resort town in Sicily. It’s also an acronym for Trattamento Avanzato degli Organi per Mezzo d’Irradiazione con Neutroni e Autotrapianto.

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a big non-container

making a really big glass Klein bottle

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dark and light

Paracelsus gives some links about something of concern to many of us at this time of year: the time of sunset. FAQ; Navy calculator

2006: the FAQ link is broken; I imagine it’s merely moved on the same site, but …

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it’s the special berries

Drunken moose alert in southern Norway

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