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[from Popjam]

Woman in Lancashire spends £12,000 on cosmetic surgery so she and her daughter can look more like twins.

The gauntlet appears to have been thrown down for midsize town tourism videos.  Come on Bude, fight back.  Come on Horsham, retaliate!

[via Today's Big Thing]

We must protect the children, I guess.

[tidily spotted, Mr Linehan]

Got a kid who’s stressed about having surgery?  Or just a game-playing NOS fiend?  Why not get ‘em one of these delighful “PediSedate” units?!

This discrete & effective unit will take their minds off whatever the hell else is going on!

PediSedate – yup, it’s a real product.

Apparently it’s quite scientifically sound to construct a “thermal lance” for cutting through metal by piping oxygen through a tube of prosciutto and igniting it.  Theodore Gray has an article about it here.

Part of me thinks it’s undeniably awesome, but part of me is a little disappointed that the article’s been up for 2 days now and yet not one of the comments has included the phrase “pork sword”.

Supposing Abbott & Costello had set their classic “Who’s On First?” routine to a format more easily consumable to the good people of London and Stratford-upon-Avon during the late 16th & early 17th centuries, what might that have looked like?

Well… this, probably.

[Today's Big Thing]

A Russian man who decided that, having grown tired of coughing up blood and dealing with severe chest pain, he would go to his doctor to see what was wrong.  A biopsy produced unexpected results when it contained pine needles.

It is obvious that a five-centimeter branch is too large to be inhaled or swallowed, doctors say. They suggest that the patient might have inhaled a small bud, which then started to grow inside his body.

As the soundtrack rhetoricises – what has love go to do with it?

[from Smange, although I don't think she was that impressed with it...]