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Patrick Swayze Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer With Only Five Weeks Left to Live

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Mar 052008

This kind of news is always weird. I can’t imagine a doctor telling me that I only had five weeks left to live.

Patrick Swayze Diagnosed With Cancer, Five Weeks Left to Live

Patrick Swayze, best known for his role in Dirty Dancing, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told that he has just five weeks to live.

Swayze, 55, has been sick with the disease since he was diagnosed in late January with pancreatic cancer. The cancer has since spread to other organs and now the actor/dancer is dying.

For the past month, Swayze has been traveling to Stanford University’s prestigious cancer center in Palo Alto for radical chemotherapy, but his doctors are no longer optimistic that the treatments will be successful, according to the National Enquirer.

Swayze received three treatments of chemotherapy, causing the tumor to shrink, but less than his doctors had hoped for. He was then told that he should prepare for the end.

Italy’s Court of Appeal Issues Ruling Making It Illegal For Men To Scratch Their Crotches In Public

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Feb 282008

The best line in this story has to be “…the equivalent of touching wood in Britain.”

Note to self: stay out of Italy.

Italian Ban On Public Privates-Scratching

Italy’s Court of Appeal has issued a new hands-off landmark ruling – outlawing men from scratching their crotches in public.

he ruling says that blatant scratching or holding is “an act contrary to decorum and public decency”.

Superstitious Italian men often hold or touch their private parts for good luck when they see a hearse or to ward off bad luck – the equivalent of touching wood in Britain.

Italy’s Court of Appeal in Rome made the judgement after listening to the appeal of a 42-year-old man from Como who had been fined 200 euros for gross indeceny at a hearing in May last year.

His defence lawyer had argued that his client – a mechanic – had been mereley adjusting himself in his overalls and nothing else.

However, the appeal was overturned by the judges who said in their ruling hat: “The touching of genitalia in public is a sign of ill manners and must be considered against public decency.

“The rules of social etiquette require all of us to abstain from what might be considered offensive to public decorum.”

The ruling added that touching or scratching below the belt risked causing “awkwardness, disgust and disapproval in the average man”.

The man’s 200 euro fine was upheld and he was also ordered to pay 1000 euros in costs.

I guess this rules out Major League Baseball ever playing any exhibition games over there.

Star Magazine’s Perfect Face

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Feb 252008

This is hilarious! Star Magazine put together the perfect face for a man and woman using the results of a survey by Beverly Hills plastic surgeons Toby Mayer and Richard Fleming. Star morphed the most requested celebrity body parts to create the perfect male and female faces. They are perfect alright; perfect for radio.

If you ask me, the guy looks like a gay Elvis (not that there is anything wrong with that) and the woman looks Faith Hill after botched up plastic surgery.

Wait. People really want hair like John Stamos?

The Perfect Face?

What happens when you combine 007 Daniel Craig’s baby blue eyes, Leonardo DiCaprio’s nose and Matt Damon’s lips? Star decided to find out!

Using the results of a new survey by Beverly Hills plastic surgeons Toby Mayer and Richard Fleming, Star morphed the celeb body-parts most often requested by patients to create what should be the perfect man — and woman!

But is the end result — which also added Christian Bale’s jaw and John Stamos’ hair — all that good-looking?

As for the female morph, it’s Katie Holmes’ eyes, Katherine Heigl’s nose, Keira Knightley’s cheeks, Jessica Simpson’s long blonde hair and — not surprisingly — Angelina Jolie’s lips, “People want fullness, they want that pout,” says Dr. Fleming.

Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance

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Feb 162008

On January 14, 1969 comic Red Skelton, on his weekly television show, expressed sorrow that the Pledge of Allegiance might someday be considered a “prayer” and eliminated from public schools. Red Skelton’s words were remarkably visionary and perhaps more prophetic than even he imagined.

On that show, Skelton offered his television audience his reminiscence of an incident from his schoolboy days in Indiana. Mr. Lasswell, Skelton’s teacher, felt his students had come to regard the Pledge of Allegiance as a daily chore to be recited by mechanical repetition. They had lost any sense of the meaning of the words they were speaking. As Skelton related the story, Mr. Lasswell told his class: “I’ve been listening to you boys and girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester and it seems as though it’s becoming monotonous to you. If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each and every word?”

Skelton then delivered to his audience a stirring version of the explanation provided to his school class by their teacher so many years earlier and a recitation of the pledge itself.