http://www.politicollision.com Working to Restore the Constitutional Republic Sun, 19 May 2013 03:55:11 EDT en http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=california-doctor-suggested-patient-have-oral-sex-with-husband-to-treat-gag-reflex-
J. Peter Zegarra, a California doctor, has been publicaly reprimanded by the state's medical board after he told a patient to practice oral sex on her husband. The patient had expressed concerns her gag reflex would interfere with an upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy, according to CBS affiliate KOVR.

The patient, an unidentified woman, complained that the Sacramento-based colo-rectal surgeon told her to practice oral sex on her husband "twice a week" prior to the procedure as a way of allaying the reflex.

According to CBS Sacramento, Zegarra made the suggestion in front of the woman and her husband "several years ago." The station also noted Zegarra had tried twice to expunge the complaint from the public record. Zegarra's name appears on a summary of administrative actions taken by the California board of medicine in 2007.

CBS Sacramento reports that a spokesperson for the state board of medicine called the doctor's suggestion inappropriate, even if it was meant as a joke.

As a matter of perspective, doctors have been caught doing much worse than dispensing questionable advice: ]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 03:55:11 EDT Pernicious Odd Stuff 12 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=california-doctor-suggested-patient-have-oral-sex-with-husband-to-treat-gag-reflex- http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=dont-get-goosed-1
A visitor to the tech giant's Boise, Idaho, office recently had an altercation with a pissed-off goose that was serious enough that officials decided to address the problem with a memo titled "Boise Site Communication: Avoiding Geese Attacks."

Hewlett-Packard spokesman Michael Thatcher acknowledged the memo and told The Huffington Post it was sent out as a preventive measure after a visitor to the Boise office "had a run-in with a goose."

There has been no fowl play since then, but officials didn't want any more feathers flying, so they sent out a memo April 10 to HP's Boise employees.

Sources said those workers found it so "unintentionally hilarious" that they have been forwarding it to employees at other HP locations.

The birdbrained memo obtained by The Huffington Post starts out, in typical corporate speak, by explaining how Canada geese -- the type found near the Hewlett-Packard Boise office -- "usually start choosing mates and selecting a territory for nesting in late February to early March."

The memo also lays out how Canadian geese divide the work between genders.

The gander’s job during nesting season is to defend the female, their nesting territory, and eggs. If a person or another goose enters the territory, the gander will usually give a warning call to the intruder before chasing it away. Some geese can be very aggressive and will only stop their attack when the intruder has left or the goose’s life is threatened. ]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 03:50:01 EDT Pernicious Odd Stuff 12 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=dont-get-goosed-1 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=the-floating-temple-how-to-lift-a-seven-million-pound-112-year-old-building Sun, 19 May 2013 02:11:57 EDT danielT Odd Stuff 14 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=the-floating-temple-how-to-lift-a-seven-million-pound-112-year-old-building http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=city-bra-ban-doesnt-hold-up
But on Thursday, justice was restored to the universe. A ridiculous city order to ban the bras as a fire hazard was rescinded.

"Oh my goodness, we won," cried Marcy Skowronski, the always colorful 87-year-old owner of the south side bar. "We're going to have a party to throw the bras back up."

I'll let Skowronski explain what happened when a city inspector stopped in recently.

"We've had bras hanging here for 45 years. It's been a charm of the place. So here comes this gal, and she's walking in here like Lady Astor's pet horse, you know, and she says she wants those bras down because they're a fire hazard. Now how can a bra be a fire hazard unless someone is wearing it? Honest to God."

Actually, I don't know about Lady Astor or whether she had a horse, but I do believe that bras rarely ignite, either when worn or if repurposed as tavern art. Ald. Bob Donovan, who jumped in on Skowronski's side, said, "I'm no expert, but aren't bras flame resistant anyway? I know some of them are awfully hot."

You get a sense of the bawdy but beloved tradition at the Holler House. Female customers, particularly first-timers, are encouraged to remove, autograph and leave their bras behind because, well, just because. Typically, they modestly wriggle out of them right there on a bar stool, or they retire to the ladies room.

It's a practice that Skowronski herself began one crazy night in the 1960s.

"We all got bombed, all these girls. And we just decided to take our bras off and hang them up," she said. ]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 21:03:03 EDT Pernicious Odd Stuff 13 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=city-bra-ban-doesnt-hold-up http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=blackbird-hitches-a-ride-atop-a-red-tailed-hawk
The image atop this post might be even more incredible—or at least unique. It shows a red-winged blackbird standing on the back of a red-tailed hawk, looking as if it’s catching a ride to another destination. ]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 19:54:36 EDT Pernicious Odd Stuff 12 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=blackbird-hitches-a-ride-atop-a-red-tailed-hawk http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=-anyone-afraid-of-heights-

]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 08:53:08 EDT Mortis Odd Stuff 12 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=-anyone-afraid-of-heights- http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=poop-in-pools-more-common-than-you-may-think-cdc-warns-1 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:31:00 EDT Fender Stratocaster Odd Stuff 17 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=poop-in-pools-more-common-than-you-may-think-cdc-warns-1 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=venezuela-to-saturate-the-market-with-50-million-rolls-of-imported-toilet-paper- Thu, 16 May 2013 02:35:28 EDT gbudavid Odd Stuff 15 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=venezuela-to-saturate-the-market-with-50-million-rolls-of-imported-toilet-paper- http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=chinese-businessman-destroys-his-maserati-after-dealership-makes-him-mad Thu, 16 May 2013 01:51:53 EDT gbudavid Odd Stuff 14 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=chinese-businessman-destroys-his-maserati-after-dealership-makes-him-mad http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-america
“Where are you from?”

“Austin.”

“Texas.”

“Oh. Like George Bush, right? Where’s your horse?”

So you see the problem. But Austin is not alone in this. Regular people all over the country are surrounded every day by gun-toting, cowboy boot-wearing, country bumpkins. You know the type—they’re the folks who you run into at Walmart at 1 a.m.; NASCAR is their religion; and high school was just something they did for a couple of years, like flared jeans or TiVo were for the rest of us.

The rednecks.

Now, I don’t use this term negatively at all. In fact, thanks to Jeff Foxworthy with his hundreds of “you might be a redneck” jokes, the term has been adopted fondly, proudly, by these tobaccie-spittin’ folk. Jokes are not the only redneck litmus test, though. Turns out—and I want to get this right—yew mat just be a redneck if yew live in one of these cities: ]]> Wed, 15 May 2013 03:19:44 EDT Pernicious Odd Stuff 14 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=the-10-most-redneck-cities-in-america http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=ghost-town-under-water-for-25-years-surfaces-video Sat, 11 May 2013 18:52:03 EDT gbudavid Odd Stuff 15 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=ghost-town-under-water-for-25-years-surfaces-video http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=-what-does-english-sound-like-to-foreigners
Just remember that your terribly accented gibberish is part of the age old practice of faking languages. And Americans are not the only ones who do it.

Not a single word in Adriano Celentano’s song, “Prisencolinensinanciusol,” means anything.

It doesn’t make a lick of sense, but it sure does sound a lot like English. Released as a single on November 3, 1972, the song was designed to seem like American English. A satirical parody, it was written to highlight the fact that many Italian artists were singing American pop classics without knowing a single word of the language.




]]> Fri, 10 May 2013 19:15:40 EDT Fender Stratocaster Odd Stuff 13 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=-what-does-english-sound-like-to-foreigners http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=omg-how-to-make-a-website-fart-whenever-someone-scrolls-yes-really-
The code is a simple enough. Just include "fartscroll.min.js" on your page, and then define how often (how many pixels of scrolling) you want the site to make a fart noise. Or, better, sneak onto your friend's Tumblr or Wordpress and slip the code into their themes without telling them. ]]> Fri, 10 May 2013 01:37:24 EDT Pernicious Odd Stuff 10 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=omg-how-to-make-a-website-fart-whenever-someone-scrolls-yes-really- http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=obama-to-run-for-third-term-as-president-of-kenya-
The reasons offered for this unprecedented move are complex, but boil down to the fact that he cannot accomplish the goals he set for himself in a mere eight years. Barely less than one year into his second term, the president and his advisors now doubt that the fundamental transformation of America can be achieved in the time that remains to him.

This vision, never fully articulated, was said to include a new currency, tentatively named, Hope Dollars, which would be backed by an aggressive program of economic leveling of individual wealth through taxation.

Society would become classless, although everyone would move to what is now called the middle class, unlike what happened in the classless communist countries where everyone became a worker.

There were also some minor constitutional changes in Obama's restructuring plan. Texas, for example, was to be merged with California; Massachusetts would take over New Hampshire, and so forth.

The most radical departure was said to be the evolution of the armed forces into an unarmed national community cadre that would be set to cleaning up playgrounds and renovating housing. ]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 06:12:00 EDT psygremlin Odd Stuff 13 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=obama-to-run-for-third-term-as-president-of-kenya- http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=hell-on-wheels-life-with-mutant-bicycles
But back in 1948, a number of inspired amateur craftsmen — not content with riding mundane, conventional bicycles — took their enthusiasm to another, unlikely level and … well, let’s let LIFE tell it, in the words the magazine used in its December 27, 1948, issue:


]]> Thu, 09 May 2013 05:30:26 EDT psygremlin Odd Stuff 10 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=hell-on-wheels-life-with-mutant-bicycles http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=will-wonders-never-cease-this-is-the-first-ever-international-clitoral-awareness-week Wed, 08 May 2013 19:34:03 EDT Pernicious Odd Stuff 11 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=will-wonders-never-cease-this-is-the-first-ever-international-clitoral-awareness-week http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=she-was-a-dinghy-young-broad-now-shes-a-dinghy-old-broad--
`Yoko Ono (the reason The Beatles broke up) decided to go "UUUHHH OOHH HHUUUUNNNNNGGGHHH" screaming live at an art show... applause was given and lulz were had.....`

Lyrics for Yoko:

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHAAAOOOUUH
OW WO UH UH UHHAHAHAHA UHHAHAHAHA UHHAHAHAHA UHHAHAHAHA
UHHAOWHAOOH OOH HU UH OW!! OOH HU UH OW!! OOH HU UH OW!!
WAHA HOOHA HOOHA HOOHA HOOHA HOOHAHA HOOHA " ]]> Tue, 07 May 2013 08:50:15 EDT Mortis Odd Stuff 11 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=she-was-a-dinghy-young-broad-now-shes-a-dinghy-old-broad-- http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=-bacon-houses-tsarnaev%E2%80%99s-memorial
We love bacon in all its forms, so when we dream of bacon houses they feature wonders like bacon wallpaper that peels off in crispy strips, or maybe chandeliers with dangling shards of glassy candied bacon. (Um, will someone please make a bacon-based Willy Wonka film?) Here's what we do not imagine: Broken-down murder-scene shacks. But unfortunately, that's all that the bacon architects of the internet have mustered up so far. ]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 04:07:29 EDT Pernicious Odd Stuff 13 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=-bacon-houses-tsarnaev%E2%80%99s-memorial http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=women-injured-in-phoenix-and-tucson-bee-attacks
Phoenix Fire Department officials say a woman was hospitalized in serious condition after she was attacked by a swarm of bees Thursday morning near Thomas Road and 44th Street.

Landscapers sprayed water on the woman in an attempt to help and firefighters treated the woman for multiple stings before she was taken to an emergency room.

In Tucson on Thursday afternoon, a woman walking past an east-side amusement park on Tanque Verde Road was stung by more than a hundred bees.

Firefighters donned bee suits and used foam and water to get the bees off the woman.

Paramedics treated the woman before taking her to a hospital, where she's listed in stable condition.
]]> Sat, 04 May 2013 03:42:48 EDT Efficacious Odd Stuff 15 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=women-injured-in-phoenix-and-tucson-bee-attacks http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=-weird-mothers-day-gift-guide-21-unusual-gifts-for-your-unusual-mom
Why? Because they think that's what Mom really wants.

Your mom influenced you to be the person you are now and what you do is a reflection on her.

It means she probably would prefer a gift that's strange, bizarre, even peculiar more than something you grabbed without thinking because you thought she'd like it.

Face it: You're weird, and so is your Mom. Give her something that reflects that, like a wearable odor filter, a mooning gnome or even a contraption that makes it easier for her to poop in the woods.

She'll love you for it. She has to. She's your mom. ]]> Sat, 04 May 2013 01:32:40 EDT Efficacious Odd Stuff 14 http://www.politicollision.com/story.php?title=-weird-mothers-day-gift-guide-21-unusual-gifts-for-your-unusual-mom