Our Daily Dead

Personal Responsibility News

Sherman set the Wayback Machine to late last year and recall the southern Oregon mountains tragedy suffered by the Kim family. Dan over at Infospigot has a well written wrap up of sorts called Lessons and “Lessons”. Mosey on over and give it a read.

Wrong Career News

It was supposed to be a “no nudes” photo shoot as a 41st birthday present from hubby Ashton Kutcher, but Demi Moore unwrapped again this time posing nude for photographer Mario Testino. First thing Mario said was “…lets get nude…” quotes Demi. She goes further and explains: “Mario has an incredible sense of play, which makes the experience more enjoyable.” Uh, huh. Even after hundreds of tries we still managed to select the wrong career.

More Nude News (since we’re in the mood)

Pity Staff Sgt. Michelle Manhart who stripped nude for Playboy and may now may lose her job? We imagine that indeed it might be a touch difficult for the troops under her (so to speak) to pay close attention to what she is saying. Playboy’s six-page spread of the sergeant will hit newsstands this week.

That’s a wrap folks. Pass it along to Demi and Michelle.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Time to cash in a wee bit of that trust fund you are sitting on Mr. and Ms. Trustafarian because the Dracula Castle is for sale. Seems the family that owns the Transylvanian castle famous for its connections to the 15th century medieval ruler who inspired “Dracula” said Wednesday they wish to sell the fortress to local authorities for $78 million. Yup, just a paltry $78 million. Dollars we guess, not Euros or the local Romanian script.

The North County Times further reports that “…more than 400,000 visitors a year visit the castle — mainly because of its loose association with ‘Vlad the Impaler,’ the legendary prince whose cruelty inspired novelist Bram Stroker’s creation, the vampire Count Dracula.”

“Vlad punished wrongdoers or the lazy by impaling them on stakes, and once impaled all the elderly people in a community in an act of revenge following the killing of his father and brother.”

“Vlad did not own the castle, but is believed to have used it briefly during his incursions in Transylvania. He is also believed to have been imprisoned in the castle for two months in 1462 when he was captured by a rival Hungarian king.”

And while your digging out those nickles and quarters from under the seat cushions you’ll want to consider picking up your very own country. The world’s smallest country comes complete with its own flag, stamps, currency and passports.

You’ll need to apply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it is just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea.

And even better? Asked to describe the delights of living on what Prince Michael described as a cross between a house and a ship, the 54-year-old said: “The neighbors are very quiet. There is a good sea view.”

No doubt with your trust fund you can get both Sealand and the Castle Bran and STILL have enough to get a Starbuck’s installed in each.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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We’ve been rummaging through the ODD closet digging out a variety of posts that have gone missing on this blog ever since the Infinite Number Of Monkeys programming and drinking team migrated us over to Wordpress.

As such you might notice a few On Deck-ers, ODD Exit-ers and such come posting by…except we might forgo for the old stuff about On Deck-ers who have graduated like William Rehnquist and Richard Pryor. Read or re-read as you will. These data transfers take an enormous amount of time, effort, cases of Boone’s Farm and general help from several goat-ropers who happen to occupy the space next door.

News You’d Rather Not Think About
Everyone’s favorite What-Is-It? target Michael Jackson planted a (so-they-say) reverent wet smacker on the coffin-ated James Brown although it is hard to tell exactly what is going on from the picture. Noted Hey-Look-At-Me types and dueling Reverends Al (I’ll Take The Penthouse) Sharpton and Jesse (I’m No Relation To Michael) Jackson handled body guard duties for the Pop Star. Note in the second picture that Mr. Michael does his best to imitate the look of his other idol Elizabeth Taylor.

We Were Passing By And The Title Caught Our Eyes…No Really
The article in question is alt-titled quite academically “On the proper use of symbols for the look-who’s-talking two”, but we found it easier to stay abreast of matters given the lead in title of “Read My Tits”. In her well-endowed article author Evany Thomas proposes a new language called “branguage”…granted you are likely juggling any number of melons at present, but you’d be a boob not to read the entire article. And remember what Ms. Thomas says: ‘…fun is in the learning.” And BTW…Ms. Thomas DID use the word ‘ODD’ in the text of her article which made us really stand up and take notice.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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