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Today on VSR – The news is strictly based in Kiev this week, as I go over the segment I tried to do on episode 120, but ran into Ed on a hot streak. Magnificent 7 list of 7 things so cutesy that I shouldn’t like them, but still do, My interview with Cousin Brandon and his lady, and a music recommendation…All on this special podcast edition of VSR.
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Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
ANTIOCH, Ill. – A boy fishing in a northern Illinois lake hooked — and then lost — what he thought was a human foot, but a search determined the appendage had belonged to a mannequin.
Divers and sonar teams spent nearly 10 hours searching Lake Marie, near Antioch, before they located the fake foot Wednesday evening.
Authorities say the boy reeled the foot to within three feet of his boat before it fell back into the murky water.
Gurnee Fire Department Battalion Chief John Skillman says the search was launched because the boy was considered a reliable source.
BEIJING – If your girlfriend's favorite color is orange and you want to propose, maybe dressing yourself and 48 friends as giant carrots is the best way to get her to say yes.
One lovestruck Chinese man did recently for China's Valentine's Day in the center of the eastern city of Qingdao.
As bemused shoppers — and his girlfriend — looked on, the man spoke into a microphone inside his costume about their first date six months ago.
He then peeled away his disguise and proposed. Shoppers shouted "marry him, marry him," and she accepted.
The reports say the proposal took him three weeks to plan and cost 100,000 yuan ($15,000).
VIENNA – A famed Austrian museum has fired an employee for washing his hands and face with his urine.
Alfred Zoppelt says he was fired after 23 years of working as an attendant at the Belvedere, a castle in Vienna with a major art collection. He says his adherence to urine therapy was previously "never a problem."
Zoppelt, 57, said Thursday his notice from Belvedere says he was fired because "you regularly rub urine into your skin, particularly the face and hands. With this, you soil your place of work ... and threaten the health of your co-workers."
A woman answering the Belvedere press department phone confirmed that Zoppelt was fired but refused to give her name or further information.
Believers in urine therapy claim medical and cosmetic benefits but these have not been proven.
I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)
Interview with Brandon and Michelle of VanityState.tumblr.com:
Intro:
Do you realize what you’ve done to me with this site??
What inspired the site?
Do either of you have a vanity plate?
Yes: What is it?
No: What would it be?
The Cars:
What would you say are the Car makes most likely to have a vanity plate?
My top 3:
BMW
Mercedes
Audi
(Model most likely: VW Bug)
The Thrill of the Hunt:
Car Wreck potential of this new hobby?
Most danger you’ve ever put yourself in getting a pic of a plate?
Have you ever turned in a direction you were not planning to go as a result of trying to get a good plate?
The Plates:
Best plate you’ve captured?
Most bizarre plate you’ve seen?
Your favorite one you’ve captured?
The one that got away: I’m assuming the Bon Jovi one, but anything else?
What is your dream plate?
Are you noticing vanity plates everywhere now? Beyond just on cars…
I see them in restaurants, decorations for stores, advertisements, it’s crazy.
The Features on the Blog:
Cinema Vanite: Excellent wordplay…it has not gone unnoticed. (This from a guy who used to write a weekly column called “Dodging the Issues” )
-I lost a little respect for you with the revelation that 90210 was one of your favorite shows, though. (Although I8A FRE is pretty awesome, I must admit.)
-Masarati with “Hunk” on it?
-The Wolf/Pulp Fiction
Bumper Stumpers:
What is Weirder in Kiev???
KIEV (AFP) – A Ukrainian zookeeper plans to spend five weeks living in an enclosure with two lions to raise funds for the zoo.
Alexander Pylyshenko, who entered the lions' enclosure on Tuesday, said he plans to spend the next 35 days painting pictures of the lions, which he will sell to raise money for new buildings.
The 40-year-old even intends to help a pregnant lioness give birth during his time with the lions, the zoo said.
"I hope that my attitude and the optimism with which I approach this project will be understood by people," he said in a statement on the zoo's website.
He told a local newspaper, Nash Gorod, that he planned to take showers and use a toilet outside the enclosure but would sleep on a wooden platform inside.
The private zoo in the town of Vasylivka in western Ukraine, around 500 kilometres from Kiev, has two lions, named Samson and Katya, living in a bare enclosure.
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine's Environment Minister Mykola Zlochevsky vowed on Wednesday to free all bears kept in restaurants for entertainment purposes and often forced to drink alcohol, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
Captured and tamed bears were often used for entertainment in the Russian Empire, which included Ukraine, turning the animal into a national symbol.
The practice appears to have also survived Ukraine's emergence from Soviet rule, but Zlochevsky said it was inhumane and unacceptable today.
"On television, they keep showing bears suffering in restaurants and roadside hotels," Interfax quoted him as saying. "How long can we tolerate animal torture in restaurants where drunken guests make bears drink vodka for laughs?"
Zlochevsky said his ministry was building a large enclosure in a wildlife sanctuary where it would place about 80 bears it planned to liberate.
Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:
Shalom and Good Evening to you all!
(Clip 98 – Info Outro)
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