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22 Nov 2010 20:34

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Offbeat, U.S.: Study: Men turned on by smell of pumpkin, other foods

  • The number one odor that enhanced penile blood flow was a combination of lavender and pumpkin pie.
  • Dr. Alan Hirsch • Highlighting a key finding in a new study at Chicago’s Smell and Taste Treatment Research Center. The study tested the aphrodisic properties of various foods; along with pumpkin, the scents of vanilla and strawberry rhubarb pie were also found to increase males’ sex drives. Interestingly, none of the scents had a negative effect; “Nothing turns a man off,” Hirsch says. Happy Thanksgiving!  source
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22 Nov 2010 09:58

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Offbeat: Some genius figured out how to put Jimmy Wales on every site

  • Meet our new favorite extension ever. Some clever bastard decided to make a Google Chrome extension that takes those Jimmy Wales guilt-you-into-donating banners and puts one on EVERY. SINGLE. PAGE. Here’s one on Encyclopedia.com, just to show the power of this amazing, immaculate banner. Worth an installation just for a laugh. source
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15 Nov 2010 23:39

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Offbeat: Posted without comment: Sequins-obsessed dude at goodwill

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15 Nov 2010 19:57

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Offbeat, U.S.: Car theft works in victim’s favor

  • bad A BSU student left his car running outside his house while getting ready. When he returned, the car was gone.
  • good A half hour later, police found the car. It was parked at BSU, right outside the kid’s next class. Convenient!
  • amusing“I just put a couple quarters in the parking meter, and went to class,” the student told reporters. source
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14 Nov 2010 11:44

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Offbeat: Bad news: Kobayashi can’t beat Guinness pizza-eating record

  • Is the mighty one falling?: A few months after Kobayashi created a depressing scene at Nathan’s Fourth of July hot-dog-eating contest – a contest he routinely owned for years – competitive eating’s greatest, uh, “athlete” had another embarrassing incident last night, after he failed at a pizza-eating record attempt in New York City. In his defense, the Guinness rules he was working against were kinda strict (pizza is made to be eaten with hands in most cases, not knife and fork), but the result left a champion looking a little like a loser. Poor guy. source
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13 Nov 2010 19:40

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Offbeat: Based on location, Michigan lottery winners frequent sex toy shop

Why does this guy have such a weird look on his face? Well, he, along with a group who chipped in, just won the lottery. Off a ticket he bought at a sex toy shop. Heh. source
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11 Nov 2010 21:58

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Offbeat: Man gets shot, eats lunch, seeks help (in that order)

  • action A New Haven, CT man was shot in the groin shortly after purchasing a sandwich. He was shot twice, and the hospital was only a block away…
  • reaction …but the man was hungry! He went home, finished the sandwich, got a ride to the hospital, and recovered quickly (probably thanks to the sandwich). source
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11 Nov 2010 13:31

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Offbeat: Lithuanian protesters come up with innovative new protest sign

  • Need a new use for your iPad? Here you go. Steve Jobs is going to make a killing at the next Tea Party rally in DC. source
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05 Nov 2010 10:45

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Offbeat: Asian guy boards flight convincingly disguised as old white man

  • We took this young Asian man over to the left, replaced him with the old man over to the right and threw his ass on a transpacific flight between Hong Kong and Vancouver. See if you can notice the difference. source
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24 Oct 2010 20:48

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Offbeat: Guy’s life work: Sorting books, collecting belly lint. No, really

  • 22.1 number of grams of belly lint a British librarian gathered, which set a Guinness World Record
  • 26 number of years it took this dude to acquire all that belly lint; we admit to being weirded out source
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