Generally Odd

81-year-old finds love online

Age certainly isn’t a barrier when it comes to finding love on the internet - at least not where 81 year old Wu Jieqin is concerned!

Jieqin is a retired Beijing art professor and he recently married Jiang Xiaohui, 58, after meeting her online and falling in love.
“The Internet doesn’t belong to the young alone,” he [...]





Largest tribute to the enema ever?

There are dozen of Spas operating in Russia’s Caucasus Mountain region due to the mineral springs in the area. As with many fancy spas these days it seems that colonic treatments are a specialty.

In June, the Mashuk-Akva Term Spa in Zheleznovodsk unveiled a large monument to the enema. It’s an 800 pound brass syringe [...]





Can you believe that there’s a lawsuit over the ankle?

Apparently Podiatrists in Texas have not only been treating peoples various foot problems but they’ve also been treating ankles. Unfortunately for them the association of Texas Medical Doctors says that the ankle is not part of the foot.

A lawyer representing Texas podiatrists: “You don’t have an ankle. The foot actually includes the ankle.”
A [...]





Rare albino black bear

In Pennsylvania a Westmoreland County man ended up having a memorable 2007 bear hunting season. He bagged a rare albino black bear on the seasons opening day.

The bear was only a cub weighing a mere 47 pounds.
He had at first thought he was looking at a coyote but when the bear got [...]





Dolphin had three moms

A two month old dolphin at the National Aquarium is lucky enough to have three mothers. The little dolphin is being nursed by three females!

Aquarium staffers are amazed and watching the process. Apparently female bottlenose dolphins can spontaneously produce milk if a calf is present, but the practice isn’t well document - [...]