Monk caught with 230 porn films in monastery: report
A Benedictine monk has been caught with around 230 pornographic films in his room in a monastery in western Germany, the local Abendzeitung newspaper reported on Thursday.
The discovery was made after the monk was caught trying to steal four gay pornography DVDs from a sex shop in the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg in southern Germany.
After an assistant caught him stealing the films, the 49 year-old fled, throwing his loot in a rubbish bin before being caught by police.
The monk lives at the 900-year-old Maria Laach Abbey in Rhineland-Palatinate.
ABC 7-3-8
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Cemetery full, French Mayor tells locals not to die
The Mayor of a village in south-west France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.
In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish".
It added: "Offenders will be severely punished".
The Mayor said he was forced to take drastic action after an administrative court in the nearby town of Pau ruled in January that the acquisition of adjoining private land to extend the cemetery would not be justified.
Mr Lalanne, who celebrated his 70th birthday on Wednesday and is standing for election to a seventh term in this month's local elections, said he was sorry that there had not been a positive outcome to the dilemma.
"It may be a laughing matter for some, but not for me," he said.
- Reuters
ABC 6-3-8
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Moses high on Mt Sinai: Israeli study
Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.
Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.
"As far as Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics," Dr Shanon told Israeli public radio.
Dr Shanon, who says he himself has dabbled with such substances, says Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the "burning bush".
"The Bible says people see sounds, and that is a classic phenomenon," he said, citing the example of religious ceremonies in the Amazon in which drugs are used that induce people to "see music."
He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil's Amazon forest in 1991.
"I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," he said.
He said the psychedelic effects of ayahuasca were comparable to those produced by concoctions based on bark of the acacia tree, that is frequently mentioned in the Bible.
- AFP
ABC 5-3-8
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/04/2179961.htm
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Penis artist tries again in Archibald
Article from: AAP
February 20, 2008 06:32pm
A CHEEKY artist who uses his penis as a brush has entered a racy self-portrait for Australia's top art prize.
Australian Tim Patch, who calls himself Pricasso, usually exposes his talents at sex product fairs around the world, but has decided to go upmarket by entering a painting for the Archibald Prize - the nation's top award for portraiture.
In a unique painting style, Patch does not use paint brushes, but his penis to apply paint to the canvas.
"I had to use my bum to paint in the background, because you have to have the occasional break," Patch said to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper today.
Patch entered a painting of a plastic surgeon in last year's Archibald Prize, but failed to impress the judges.
This year's entry depicts a nude Patch, wearing only a hat, holding a blank canvas to hide his "brush".
The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney expects up to 700 portraits to be entered for the 2008 Archibald Prize, with the finalists to be announced in March.
Daily Telegraph 20-2-8
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'Silent' Xmas song climbs the NZ music charts
By New Zealand correspondent Peter Lewis
An unusual music CD has made it to the big time in New Zealand this Christmas.
It is two decades since Sir Bob Geldof and the Band Aid team first posed the question, "Do they know it's Christmas time at all?"
This year it got New Zealand's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals thinking.
So they recorded a CD single, 'A Very Silent Night', as a fundraiser and a timely reminder for people to share the Christmas spirit with their pets.
But if you happen to catch a snippet of it, do not try to adjust the volume - because you will not hear it.
The song was recorded at very high frequencies so only a dog can hear it, and it struck such a chord with animal lovers that they have pushed it to number three on the singles charts.
ABC 25-12-7
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Puppy latches on to urinating man's member
By staff writers
December 14, 2007 07:44pm
A DRUNKEN man urinating through a fence got a nasty surprise when a playful puppy in the adjoining lot latched onto his member.
Kann Veasna took a break from drinking wine at a street stall to relieve himself through a hole in a fence, according to news agency DPA.
However a puppy spotted the Mr Veasna's appendage as it poked through and apparently thinking it was a toy latched on, newspaper Rasmei Kampuchea reported.
Suffering lacerations Mr Veasna fronted up to a hospital in Phnom Penh for treatment and was forced to tell the embarrassing story of injuries.
"It's undoubtedly sore now, but luckily it should still be useful to him in the future,'' a doctor was quoted as saying by DPA.
Daily Telegraph 14-12-7
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Salzburg shoppers to put husbands in 'creche'
Posted Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:00pm AEDT
Women in the Austrian city of Salzburg will this year again be able to pursue their shopping with abandon over the Christmas period, free from sourpuss boyfriends and husbands.
For the second year in a row, a 'creche' will be set up in the town centre where women can leave their partners for a few hours so that they can hunt down all those last-minute presents, without a bored and whingeing spouse.
In a large white tent set up on Salzburg's central Herbert-von-Karajan square, the men will be able to play computer games, leaf through newspapers or magazines or simply have a drink at the bar with co-suffering "shopping widowers".
From December 13 to 23, women can "surrender" their partners at the tent's entrance free of charge between 4:00pm and 10:00pm (local time).
They are given a numbered ticket which they then have to present on their return to collect their spouse.
Salzburg toymaker Andreas Stadlbauer came up with the idea of a so-called "Maennerhort" or "men's creche" last year.
It proved such a success - with about 1,500 men found refuge there from the shopaholic tendencies of their 'better half' - that he decided to repeat the venture again this year.
Indeed, Mr Stadlbauer has even patented the name "Maennerhort".
And with big-name corporate sponsors, he is planning to set up similar creches in Vienna, Hamburg and Munich.
In Germany, where men have a reputation of being particularly averse to shopping, the creches might even operate all year around, the entrepreneur suggested.
- AFP
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