* * * DUzy Awards: Week ending June 7, 2013 * * *

[The DUzy Awards]

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[center] Welcome to teh DUzy Awards!



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somewhere in your response, and I'll do a search;

if you want to make sure I notice it, PM a link to "The DUzy Awards."

DUzy winners are noted in [font color=#800080]purple;[/font]

Editorial comments by me are in [font color=#FF0000] red italics. [/font]

[font color=blue][center]Special thanks to:

alsame, arely staircase, awoke_in_2003, babylonsister, BainsBane, Berlum, Botany, CaliforniaPeggy, Callmecrazy, caseymoz, CrispyQ, dixiegrrrrl , DRoseDARs, Enrique, flying rabbit [font color=#FF0000](love the name, bud)[/font], freshwest, HangOnKids, hootinholler, jberryhill, jeff47, JimDandy, Junkdrawer, Kurovski, longship, malaise, Mnemosyne, mokawanis, msanthrope, nashville_brook, petronius , ReRe, sarge43, scarletwoman, Scruffy Rumbler, Scuba, SidDithers, tavalon, Tien1985, truebluegreen, Viva_La_Revolution, and Warren DeMontague

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[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by FarCenter

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022931271

Hay Festival 2013 - 'Irritating' silent letters could become obsolete

Leading linguist David Crystal tells the Telegraph Hay Festival 2013 that in 50 years' time silent letters will be dropped from many common words, thanks to the internet.

The internet will make English misspellings acceptable, according to one of the country’s most senior linguists, who predicts that in 50 years’ time many common words will be spelt without “irritating” silent letters.

David Crystal, currently professor of linguists at Bangor University, told the Telegraph Hay Festival that it would be “inevitable” that people would drop the ‘p’ from receipt, and change the ‘c’ from necessary into a ‘s’, as well as “simplifying” other words.

“Is it one ‘c’ and two ‘s’s in necessary or two ‘c’s and one ‘s’? It doesn’t actually matter at the end of the day. At the moment it matters, but over time one spelling will emerge and probably a simpler spelling will emerge.”

Prof Crystal said that he started monitoring the word “rhubarb” a decade ago, by typing in the correct spelling into a search engine, and then typing in the word without the ‘h’. He said: “I got millions of hits for rhubarb with the ‘h’, and just one or two without the ‘h’. I did the same job a few years later, and without the ‘h’ got hundreds of hits, and then a few years later hundreds of thousands of hits. Rhubarb is still the dominant one by a factor of 50. But think ahead 50 years – and that this is the time frame over which spellings change – and rhubarb with the ‘h’ and rhubarb without ‘h’ will be equal.”

He said that the ‘h’ was illogical and was never included in Middle English.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/10093089/Hay-Festival-2013-Irritating-silent-letters-could-become-obsolete.html

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=black] [center] Reply 1 by FarCenter

[font color=black] Hay Festival 2013: Oxford professor asks for grammar pedants to relax
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by ananda

[font color=black] Shaxpere concurrs.

..

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by panader0

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018403131

Anyone know a good treatment for cracked ribs?

I'm pretty sure the doctors don't do anything except wrap the area with tape. I took a really good spill the other night (yes, alcohol was involved) and now I'm fairly certain there's one or two cracked ones under my left shoulder blade. The pain is epic.
I cannot afford to go to the hospital.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by MrScorpio

[font color=black] Bar-B-Que Sauce?? Nt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by olddots

[font color=black] I'd say drink untill the pain goes away

but with your luck you might fall down again

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by quinnox

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022932203

Do you have any trouble eating chicken - in terms of

digestion and your system? I don't know why, but chicken seems to be really hard on my system, if you get my meaning. Meat (beef) is to a lesser extent too, but chicken especially.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Silent3

[font color=black] As soon as it stops moving, it goes down much easier. n/t

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Liberalynn

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405075

Anyone Else Wlling to Date Themselves? Who Remembers This Song?

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by olddots

[font color=black] I've dated myself many many times ...............

dinner and a movie then its home for some cheap sex before I cry myself to sleep .

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by rug

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405331

Time to soap the old ferret.



[font color=#FF0000] (If the picture isn't moving, try the link - it's mesmerizing) [/font]


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Dreamsoldier76

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022943025

Worst Person Ever

Okay so which political person is the absolute worst of the worst, lowest of the low *currently in office...?

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by NightWatcher

[font color=black] That dude, what's his name. The guy with the hair and fake smile

Come on, you know

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by HipChick

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022938239

John McCain gains a new Daughter...

An All-American wedding! Arizona Senator John McCain's son, Jack McCain, wed Renee Swift on Saturday, June 1 in San Francisco, Calif., a spokesperson for the senator confirms to Us Weekly.

Jack, 27, is a Navy lieutenant and helicopter pilot. His bride, 29-year-old Swift, is a San Francisco Bay Area native and a captain in the United States Air Force Reserve.

The spokesperson tells Us that the happy pair met in Guam, where they were both stationed.

The rehearsal dinner was in the Tonga Room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco on Friday, May 31. The pair then married Saturday, June 1, at Grace Cathedral with a reception at the California Academy of Sciences.
"Wonderful day at my son Jack's wedding!" Sen. McCain tweeted, Instagramming a picture from the reception.

Swift looked stunning on her special day, wearing a white sweetheart neckline wedding dress with narrow cap sleeves and a natural waistline. She completed her look with a simple necklace and put her hair in sleek undo.

Following their wedding festivities, it's back to work for the newlyweds.

"Jack will return to Guam for another deployment after their honeymoon in Africa," the spokesperson reveals.



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 34 by Bad Thoughts

[font color=black] they should make a Cherios commercial! eom.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by WilliamPitt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022932473

Apparently, I scared the shit out of Glenn Beck on Thursday.

"These guys are so damn evil, man."

He sounds pretty freaked out to me.

Good.



P.S. Please forgive the commentary at the link. This was posted by one of my more prodigious stalkers. He's special.



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 25 by Warren DeMontague

[font color=black] What the fuck is wrong with his hands?

"And WOE be unto those for on that day the socialists will rain down a plague of little bunny foo-foos"

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by CatWoman

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022936588

Karl Rove Melts Down When Confronted With Evidence of Bush IRS Investigation

When David Plouffe confronted Karl Rove with evidence that his Bush administration used the IRS to investigate the NAACP, Rove melted down and stammered baloney.

Video from ABC News:

http://www.politicususa.com/karl-rove-turns-sta-confronted-bush-irs-investigations.html

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Octafish

[font color=black] The response of the professional liar.



Fury, followed by melting.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Bosonic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014502075

Russia's Vladimir Putin says his marriage is over

Source: BBC

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila have said their marriage is over.

The couple, who had been married for 30 years, made their divorce public on Russian state television after attending a ballet performance.

"It was a joint decision, we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life", Mr Putin said.

Mrs Putin had rarely been seen in public in recent months, prompting much speculation in Russian media.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22806866

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Poll_Blind

[font color=black] ...


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by KansDem

[font color=black] ...



Cue the music! "The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and Vlad"

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 10 by Poll_Blind

[font color=black] ...



The ID and EGO in one shot.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 13 by Vwolf

[font color=black] Put another one on the other end of the horse and you're set n/t

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Tripper11

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022948902

Latest Breaking News Forum?

Where did it go?
I looked around for some announcement or thread....didn't find any.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by pinboy3niner

[font color=black] Two words: Stealth Mode.

Already I fear I may have said too much.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by JHB

[font color=black] There's nothing new, just the same crap over and over and over again...

...and the Admins finally decided to give up hope.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by Earth_First

[font color=black] Apparently LBN found out where GD hangs out when the Admins are sleeping...

LBN will stumble in with a new tattoo smelling of newsprint and toner around the collar...

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by Posteritatis

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014498446

Far-Right Extremists Chased Through London by Women Dressed as Badgers

[font color=black]Source: International Business Times

A rally by extremists from the British National Party and the English Defence League was dwarfed by opposition campaigners staging rival protests in London on Saturday 1 June.

Shortly after lunch, a die-hard core of around 50 BNP and EDL supporters was confronted outside parliament by hundreds of activists from anti-extremist groups including Unite Against Fascsim and Hope Not Hate.

But in the event, both groups were upstaged by agitators of a different stripe. Decked out from head to toe in black and white, the group that won the day were campaigning for neither for race war nor ethnic equality, but an end to the government's cull on badgers.

And it was the pro-badger campaigners who appeared to steal a march on the political activists.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/473597/20130601/bnp-edl-hate-fascist-badgers.htm

The Internet will produce no finer headline today. I was driven - nay, compelled - to pass that one along.


There's an easily-pausable autoplaying, unrelated video to the side at the link, just to be warned.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 1 by Spitfire of ATJ

[font color=black]I bet they were terrified!!!


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by magellan

[font color=black]2. First time a real woman ever paid any attention to most of them

You bet they were terrified!

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 16 by NickB79

[font color=black]Looks like a good time to stand my ground!

You guys run and save yourselves, I'll sacrifice myself to slow them down!


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by 24601

[font color=black]4. Badgers! We don't need no stinkin badgers!


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by HooptieWagon

[font color=black]8. Damn furriners...

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Uzair

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022950178

I know prostitutes

One I met at a strip club and we're good friends. A couple of others I met through her, another I met the old fashioned way.

All of them are in it because they like sex. The money is a side benefit. My friend, she is an office worker by day, a stripper and escort by nights and weekends. She has a bachelors degree and lives a happy, normal life. Her clients are screened, and tend to be middle aged professionals in unhappy marriages.

The other two -her friends- are of similar mind. One has a boyfriend who is ok with what she does. She is in school, working on a masters degree. She told me the money is good and that she enjoys her work. The other is not in college, does not have any plans to go back to school, and is happy with her life as well. She works in a department store and strips and escorts on the side, again because the money is good.

All of them say they wouldn't do it if they didn't enjoy it. They like the sex, sure, but they also like meeting new people, they like the idea that they're fulfilling someone's fantasy, they like the money. They see themselves as professionals, doing a job. They're comfortable with their sexuality and don't care about the prudish views of society at large.

They also acknowledge that there is a dark side to their profession. This dark side, we all agree, comes from the illegality of it: sex slaves, trafficking human beings, child victims, brutal abuses. These victims are not protected by the law. They can't go to the cops because then THEY will be arrested. They live in a society that shames them.

Maybe others here have similar experience with escorts as me, maybe not. I don't know, but this is my anecdote. I haven't ever met a sex worker who was forced into it. I think there are two groups. And I think we all agree that the group of women who are forced against their will into prostitution are victims of rape, plain and simple. I do not deny their existence, nor do I pretend that they are anything but victims here. They are victims of their pumps, but they are also victims of their government, and victims of a puritanical society.

Long story short: it needs to be legalized and legitimized.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 2 by jberryhill

[font color=black] I want the "I Know Prostitutes" T-shirt
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] reply 26 by Buzz Clik

[font color=black]You're welcome...


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Ohio Joe

[font color=black] ok but... it's all you get
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 12 by Tien1985

[font color=black] The back should say

"All 3 of them!"
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by Chan790

[font color=black] I have a .gif for that!!



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by MineralMan

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022951471

Man beat 15-year-old girl brought to Twin Cities to be a prostitute

http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_23385893/man-prostituted-beat-teen-roseville-and-st-paul

For those who are posting that prostitutes do that willingly, and that it's OK, please read below and at the link:

After the 15-year-old refused to prostitute herself again for Arteco Marvell Rhodes, the 38-year-old Chicago man beat her with a baseball bat, strangled her, urinated on her and threatened to kill her and burn her body or throw it in the river, according to a criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court.

The complaint charges Rhodes with first-degree sex trafficking, third-degree criminal sexual conduct and possession of child pornography.

According to the complaint, the teen, identified as TJ, met Rhodes in Chicago, and he asked her if she wanted to make money and be "part of a family."

"Rhodes told her they were going to go to Minnesota to do 'tricks,' " the complaint said.

More at the link...

This is prostitution that is not OK. It's also prostitution that is very common in urban areas all over this country. There are people who work as prostitutes willingly, but that does not make prostitution OK across the board. Some of the men who pay for sex pay for sex with 15-year-old girls like this one. Some people may even know men who do this. I don't know any such men. If I did, I would turn them in to the police, instantly. This is prostitution, too. It's not OK. Not at all OK.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 33 by jberryhill

[font color=black] Some people think picking vegetables is okay

Nonetheless, there are people who are beaten and enslaved to pick vegetables.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 36 by arely staircase

[font color=black] i know vegetable pickers

nt

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Playinghardball

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022940755

Native American student denied high school diploma for wearing tribal feather

A high school graduate in Alabama is being denied her diploma after being fined $1,000 for wearing a feather reflecting her Native American heritage.

“I don’t think it’s fair at all,” 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer told WPMI-TV. “I feel like its discrimination.”

Ramer, a member of the Poarch Creek Band of Indians, wore the feather while taking part in the graduation ceremony at Escambia Academy High School in defiance of school policy forbidding “extraneous items” from being worn without school permission.

The school sent a contract for graduating seniors to sign before the May 23 event, but Ramer told the station she never signed it. Escambia is now withholding her diploma until she pays the fine.

“About two months ago, me and the other Indian seniors from the graduating class asked our headmaster if we could wear the feathers on our caps,” Ramer told Indian Country Today Media Network. “She told us ‘no’ and that if we did, she would pull us off the field.”

However, Ramer attended and walked in the ceremony without incident. Indian Country Today reported that the headmaster who denied Ramer’s request, Betty Warren, has been replaced by David Walker, who coaches Escambia’s girl’s basketball team.

“He said if it was up to him, he would give me my diploma,” Ramer said to Indian Country Today. “But he had to go through the board to get it approved.”

Watch WPMI’s report on Ramer’s fine, aired Friday, below.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/03/native-american-student-denied-high-school-diploma-for-wearing-tribal-feather/

Maybe they need to change Alabama to Talibama...

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 7 by okwmember

[font color=black] Its ironic because the idiom "a feather in your cap"

means to have accomplished something. Which graduating would certainly be an example of.

And if there must be a fine to discourage others, why so large an amount? A $1000 is outrageous. It seems a reasonable fine that could be placed in a educational fund would be more than enough to make the point that we don't want students to deviate from the dress code.

More important than the diploma though is whether they can withhold her transcripts.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 26 by ReRe

[font color=black] That's right. Yankee Doodle "stuck a feather in his cap...

... and called it macaroni!" American as apple pie.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 108 by whistler162

[font color=black] So instead of admitting it was a feather

she should have called it macaroni instead and said it was a show of patriotism.

Foolish rule.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by TalkingDog

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022959120

Verizon's Share Everything Plan



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Poll_Blind

[font color=black] And remember: The "Share Everything" plan is ONLY available on...



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by KurtNYC

[font color=black] When Verizon says that they listen to their customers, they MEAN IT.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 9 by Spitfire of ATJ

[font color=black] ....




[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by onehandle

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014502989

Texas woman arrested in ricin letters to Obama, Bloomberg: Officials

Source: NBC News

A Texas woman has been arrested in connection with the mailing of three letters containing a form of the poison ricin to President Obama, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, federal authorities said.

Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson of New Boston, Texas, originally called the Federal Bureau of Investigation claiming that her husband had sent the letters, officials said. The investigators found that she had sent the letters herself, they said.

The woman was arrested in Arkansas on charges that will be filed Friday afternoon, the authorities said.

Read more: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/07/18829206-texas-woman-arrested-in-ricin-letters-to-obama-bloomberg-officials?lite

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 13 by AtheistCrusader

[font color=black] All this story needs now is an astronaut in diapers, and we're good.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Renew Deal

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022946374

Delivering Domino's Pizza by Unmanned Helicopter: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Proving that it’ll try anything short of making tasty pizza in order to get you to buy its pizza, Domino’s has uploaded the above video to its U.K. and Republic of Ireland YouTube account.

The video’s caption: “See the latest delivery innovation from Domino’s. The DomiCopter – taking deliveries to new heights.”
<snip>

http://techland.time.com/2013/06/03/delivering-dominos-pizza-by-unmanned-helicopter-what-could-possibly-go-wrong

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by lame54

[font color=black] For one - you could end up with a Domino's pizza
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by tridim

[font color=black] I'm going to have a pizza sent to Alex Jones' house.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by avaistheone1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014502212

World's Oldest Cancer Found in Bone of 120,000 Year-Old Neanderthal

Source: International Business Times

The world's oldest known human tumour has been found in the rib bone of a Neanderthal who lived more than 120,000 years ago.

The bone was evacuated from a site in Krapina, Croatia more than 100 years ago and has been found to have contracted the fibrous dysplasia tumour, a cancer which is common among modern-day humans.

This discovery by David Frayer from the University of Kansas predates previous evidence of the tumour by more than 100,000 years.

Before this discovery, the earliest bone tumour was seen in an Egyptian mummy around 2,000 years ago.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/475461/20130606/oldest-cancer-tumour-neanderthal-bone-120000-years.htm

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by NickB79

[font color=black] Probably ate too much GMO mammoth

Fucking Monsanto!

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by cali

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022941072

New Jersey Man Who Named Son After Adolf Hitler Shows Up For Family Court Hearing Wearing Full Nazi

Uniform.

The New Jersey man who is fighting to regain custody of his young children--one of whom he named Adolf Hitler Campbell--showed up today for a Family Court hearing wearing a full Nazi uniform and a Hitler mustache.

Heath Campbell, founder of the Hitler’s Order hate group, appeared this morning at a Flemington, New Jersey courthouse for a closed hearing on his request for visitation with his youngest child, a two-year-old boy.

In November 2011, the child (and his three siblings) were taken into custody by state welfare officials, who accused Campbell, 40, and his wife of child abuse. Campbell has contended that he never neglected his children, claiming that they were seized by the state solely due to the their names (one of his daughters is JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell).

<snip>

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/nazi-dad-in-family-court-691243

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 4 by Warren DeMontague

[font color=black] Well, if he's in the market for a new teapot, I have an idea.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by B1560dixiegrrrrl

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022944256

Seems there is more than ONE Hitler teapot, to add to the........furor.



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by Buzz Clik

[font color=black] That's a bit creepy. The other one is more whimsical.

Here's another:



And here is one I really like:



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 26 by Arugula Latte

[font color=black] I have an idea for an entire line of dictator tea kettles.

Next one up ... Pol Pot!
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 42 by riqster

[font color=black] We'll Marx that one down on the list
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 45 by Arugula Latte

[font color=black] And, for our Mexican friends ...

Pour-firio Diaz
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 47 by riqster

[font color=black] I'm Lenin towards that option.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 52 by pinboy3niner

[font color=black] Well quit Stalin and make a decision
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 59 by riqster

[font color=black] Be careful, I can be Amin guy when I am provoked.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 61 by pinboy3niner

[font color=black] Well, excuuuuuse Moi
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 75 by riqster

[font color=black] One Mao time, buddy, and

I'll Chou you up En Lai you out.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 60 by hootinholler

[font color=black] I Tojo before not to be so impatient.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 62 by pinboy3niner

[font color=black] Franco, my dear, I don't give a damn
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 72 by hootinholler

[font color=black] Khadaffi my cloud then.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 73 by pinboy3niner

[font color=black] It's Suharto find a good cloudmate these days
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 92 by hootinholler

[font color=black] Lets just Kruzchev on outta here then
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 97 by pinboy3niner

[font color=black] You Gowon ahead

I'm gonna stay and have a few words with my Papa, Doc. See ya Taylor, alligator.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 74 by riqster

[font color=black] Ayatollah you no already.

Khomeini times must I say it?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 77 by Arugula Latte

[font color=black] Some people are Mussolini in on this thread
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 79 by riqster

[font color=black] A bunch of commie-dian types

But they pun quickly. Some of the fascist posters in the West.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 83 by Arugula Latte

[font color=black] Yep. And there are some real Sekos among them.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 93 by hootinholler

[font color=black] It's pretty big here enough to Ramses a few more in
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 91 by hootinholler

[font color=black] Cesar later then.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by adric mutelovic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014501225

Man gets 30 months for returning used enemas to CVS

Source: Orlando Sentinel

A Jacksonville man will spend 30 months in prison for using about 12 enemas and then resealing and returning them to a CVS store in 2012.

Ronald Eugene Robinson, who was 34 when he was arrested last year, was sentenced to prison this week by U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan. He had pleaded guilty to product tampering.

His sentence will be followed by two years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman William Daniels.

Defense attorney Roland Falcon said his client wasn't trying to hurt anybody. He was doing it because he was in financial trouble.

Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-used-enemas-cvs-20130605,0,5796038.story

How slick.

[font color=#FF0000] (Wayyy too many DUzies to ...er... flush 'em all out - just follow the link and enjoy!) [/font]


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by Robb

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022953381

10 injured in shooting accident at suburban gun club

Ten people were injured Tuesday night at a Kane County shooting club after being struck by buckshot fired from a gun that had been mistakenly loaded with a live round, authorities said.

The incident took place about 7 p.m. at the St. Charles Sportsmen's Club, near Elburn, when a 69-year-old club member from St. Charles fired his shotgun into the clubhouse floor, sending buckshot ricocheting and striking people who were nearby, Kane County sheriff's Lt. Pat Gengler said.

(snip)

Illinois State Police Sgt. Matt Boerwinkle said that because no charges were filed, the man's firearms owner's privileges would not face any sanctions. The state police issue firearm owner's identification cards.

Read More: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/batavia_geneva_st_charles/ct-met-gun-club-accident-0606-20130606,0,731254.story

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 8 by Ohio Joe

[font color=black] And not one of them returned fire?

What good is arming them then

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by warrior1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022953043

Slack-Jawed Yokels Attempt Tree Removal With Car, Fail Miserably

http://jalopnik.com/slack-jawed-yokels-attempt-tree-removal-with-car-fail-511514154

And now, for the most concentrated dose of stupidity you'll probably see all month

This amazing video surfaced in Oppo-town this afternoon when it was posted by reader Bring Back The Stealth. (I'm also taking the rare move of stealing his headline, because it's brilliant and I can't think of a better one.)

In it we see a group of morons, er, amateur arborists who attempt to extract a rather large tree using only an ancient, front-wheel-drive Oldsmobile shitbox and a chain. Needless to say, it doesn't work, sending the car airborne more than a few times

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by bluedigger

[font color=black] It would have worked with the right Olds.

They needed a Cutlass, obviously.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 23 by secondvariety

[font color=black] What's that

thing called when you keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 26 by RedSpartan

[font color=black] Trickle-down economics.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by Eyerish

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018404055

You had one job...







[font color=#FF0000] (Many more pics in the OP!) [/font]


[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=black] [center] On an OP by jakeXT

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405166

After 10-mile run, woman gives birth to surprise baby

After a 10-mile training run, Trish Staine was in pain. Not post-training-run pain. Real, excruciating pain.

“I was yelling and screaming -- I thought I was dying,” says Staine, who was in training for Grandma’s Half Marathon in her hometown of Duluth, Minn. at the end of the month. Her family called an ambulance, and when they got to the hospital, they expected a diagnosis of a pinched nerve, a kidney stone, maybe a burst appendix, they told the Duluth News Tribune. But what the nurse treating Staine found was a fetal heartbeat.

“And I’m, like, looking around, like, no, I don’t believe it,” Staine told TODAY on Thursday. She says hadn’t missed any periods, she didn’t have a “baby belly” – and her husband, John, had had a vasectomy.

But despite all that, Staine soon delivered a healthy girl weighing 6 pounds, 6 ounces.

The Staines already have two biological children, ages 7 and 11, and two foster children, plus John’s three boys who are 17, 19 and 20.

http://www.today.com/health/after-10-mile-run-woman-gives-birth-surprise-baby-6C10224162

10 miles and over 6 pounds lost

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 3 by pinboy3niner

[font color=black] Immaculate deception?
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 14 by bluedigger

[font color=black] This is why I quit running years ago.

You can't be too careful.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 15 by nolabear

[font color=black] Apparently she didn't run fast enough. SOMEBODY caught her.

[div class="excerpt" style=background:#AFEEEE] [font color=#800080] [center] OP by NightWatcher

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018405198

The most epic FAKED photobomb (finish your drink first)



[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 5 by pinboy3niner

[font color=black] Some clowns always have to horse around at weddings

Even if it eclipses the rite and becomes the mane event.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 17 by BlueJazz

[font color=black] Hope the bride is ok with this. I wouldn't want her to have any night-mares about the consequences..

... but I'm sure some jokers on this site will milk it for everything they can just to get a rise out of someone.
[div class="excerpt" style=background:#FFFFFF] [font color=#800080] [center] Reply 18 by Enrique

[font color=black] a double wedding

[LeftofObama]

1. ROFLMAO!

[trumad]

2. Bravo

[Flying Squirrel]

16. tyvm

[Buzz Clik]

3. The teapot pun sequence was classic.

I am hopeful that those responsible were arrested.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Lock 'em up and throw away the key, I say

[hootinholler]

11. I declare you

King of the dictator puns!

[pinboy3niner]

12. You're not too shabby yourself

I just tsar an opportunity and jumped on it. But we had a great team on that subthread, all-around. Every one was a standout.

[hootinholler]

14. It had your Prince all over it!

Countess your blessings

[Scuba]

4. DUers are soooo funny.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Can't believe I overlooked that teakettle thread. It shah was funny!

[rurallib]

6. Ok the tree video is priceless

so glad you caught it or I would have missed it.

[Flying Squirrel]

18. Oh, you can thank DRoseDARs for that one!

[DCKit]

7. FU. I only laughed through 90% K&R.

OMG, thanks for the giggles.

[scarletwoman]

8. Another brilliant batch! Amazing!

Thank you so much for reviving the DUzys!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Priceless and hilarious! Thank you.

[malaise]

13. Some great DUzys this week

K & R

[snagglepuss]

15. .

[Initech]

17. Holy shit, how did I miss the guy returning used enemas to CVS?

[awoke_in_2003]

19. "they should make a Cheerios commercial"...

I damn near spewed English Breakfast Tea with that one.

[Flying Squirrel]

20. Teehee

I got a giggle meself there

[truebluegreen]

21. Many great ones but

EPIC teapot thread. A priceless send-off from dixiegrrrrl and kudos to the inspired responses.

[olddots]

22. Thank you so much , this was a DUzy of a week

this is what makes DU more than a web site.

[jazzimov]

23. Kick!

[eridani]

24. Excellent! Thanks for taking this on.

And now only a few more hours for LOLcats!

[Kurovski]

25. K&R

Very teakled by that thread steeped in puns.

[scarletwoman]

27. Ha! I see you pekoed in on this thread to comment!

I didn't see you at last week's DUzys - your comments used to be more constant.

[Kurovski]

29. I'm a pour excuse for a DUer, leafing for weeks at a time.

Cozy my thread count...I just flo-thru these days.

[scarletwoman]

30. Well, you're in hot water now, and you'll have to take your lumps!

If I could, I'd be tannin your hide!

I had three DUzys last week, and you missed it!

p.s. - I've really missed you!

[Kurovski]

31. Will a little honey help?

Congrats!

I always think of ole DU sweetheart, JeffR when I think DUzy.

[scarletwoman]

33. Honey, you can always sweeten me up!

When I think DUzy, I think of those golden days of sharing champagne in the back of the limosine, the sophisticated banter, the elegant sequined gowns, our matching tiaras...

*sniff*

[longship]

26. Happy to support the DUzys!

R&K

"With friends like that..."

"Who needs enemas?"

Put me on the floor in uncontrollable laughter.

Thanks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. So good to see the many many contributions

and how well you put the Duzys together.
Thank you......

[aquart]

32. Mom just opened the door. "Oh! You're laughing."

[BainsBane]

34. Those dictator puns are awesome

Kudos to everyone.