......and lets not forget that that TV series with the huge ball thing that chased that man along the beach........Was it "the Prisoner"? or something.... was filmed in Portmeirion on the LLeyn Peninsular.....
And also something for the Famous Canadians... (I really love Canada by the way)...... has any one mentioned Kate and Anna McGarrigle? Oh yes they must rate a mention surely.... Isn't (wasn't.. is he still going?) Donald Sutherland Canadian too? Was sent this by a friend who seemed to think I should know about them.. .had a chuckle and secured the Coke Vending machine to the wall!!!! The 2002 Darwin Awards are in. > > They are finally out again. You all know about the Darwin Awards. It's an > annual honour given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest service > by killing themselves in the most > extraordinarily stupid way (last year's winner was the fellow who was killed > by a Coke machine which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to > tip a free soda out of it). > > And the 2002 nominees are: > > 9. A young Canadian man, searching for a way of getting drunk cheap, mixed > gasoline with milk. Not surprisingly, this concoction made him ill, and he > vomited into the fireplace in his house. The resulting explosion and fire > burned his house down, killing both him and his sister. > > 8. A 34-year-old white male found dead in the basement of his home died of > suffocation, according to police. He was approximately 6'2" tall and weighed > 225 pounds. He was wearing a pleated skirt, white bra, black and white > saddle shoes, and a woman's wig. It appeared that he was trying to create a > schoolgirl's uniform look. However, he was also wearing a military gas mask > that had the filter canister removed and a rubber hose attached in its > place. The other end of the hose was connected to one end of a hollow wooden > tube approx. 12" long and 3" in diameter. The tube's other end was inserted > into his rectum for reasons unknown, and was the cause of his suffocation. > > 7. Three Brazilian men were flying in a light aircraft at low altitude when > another plane approached. It appears that they decided to moon the occupants > of the other plane, but lost > control of their own aircraft and crashed. They were all found dead in the > wreckage with their pants around their ankles. > > 6. A police officer in Ohio responded to a 911 call. She had no details > before arriving, except that someone had reported that his father was not > breathing. Upon arrival, the officer found the man face down on the couch > naked. When she rolled him over to check for a pulse and to start CPR, She > noticed burn marks around his genitals. After the ambulance arrived and > removed the man - who was declared dead on arrival at the hospital - the > police made a closer inspection of the couch, > and noticed that the man had made a hole between the cushions. Upon flipping > the couch over, they discovered what had caused his death. Apparently, the > man had inserted his penis between the cushions, down into the hole and > between two electrical sanders (with the sandpaper removed, for > obviousreasons). Evidently, his ejaculation shorted out one of the sanders, > Electrocuting him. > > 5. A 27-year-old French woman lost control of her car on a highway near > Marseilles and crashed into a tree, seriously injuring her Passenger and > killing herself. As a common place road accident, this would not have > qualified for a Darwin nomination, were it not for the fact that the > driver's attention had been distracted by her Tamagotchi key ring, which had > started urgently beeping for food as she drove along. In an attempt to press > the correct buttons to save the Tamagotchi's life, the woman lost her own. > > 4. A 22-year-old Reston, VA, man was found dead after he tried to use > octopus straps to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle. Fairfax County > police said Eric Barcia, a fast-food worker, > taped a bunch of these straps together, wrapped one end around one foot, > anchored the other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped and hit > the pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigators > think Barcia was alone because his car was found nearby. "The length of the > cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between the trestle > and the ground," Carmichael said. Police say the apparent cause of death was > "Major trauma". > > 3. A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites. It seems that he and a > friend were playing a game of catch, using the rattlesnake as a ball. The > friend - no doubt a future Darwin Awards candidate was hospitalised. > > 2. Employees in a medium-sized warehouse in west Texas noticed the smell of > a gas leak. Sensibly, management evacuated the building extinguishing all > potential sources of ignition; lights, power, etc. After the building had > been evacuated, two technicians from the gas company were dispatched. > Upon entering the building, they found they had difficulty navigating in the > dark. To their frustration, none of the lights worked. Witnesses later > described the sight of one of the technicians reaching into his pocket and > retrieving an object that resembled a cigarette lighter. Upon operation of > the lighter like object, the gas in the warehouse exploded, sending pieces > of it up to three miles away. Nothing was found of the technicians, but the > lighter was virtually > untouched by the explosion. The technician suspected of causing the blast > had never been thought of as 'bright' by his peers. > > And the number one nominee for this year's Darwin Award did not die, but > probably wishes he had... > > 1.Spurred on by a bet from the other members of his threesome, Brendan > Mcbride tried to wash his own "balls" in a ball washer at the local golf > course. Proving once again that beer and > testosterone are a bad mix, Mcbride managed to straddle the ball washer and > dangle his scrotum in the machine. Much to his dismay, one of his buddies > upped the ante by spinning the crank on the machine with Mcbride's scrotum > in place, thus wedging it solidly in the mechanism. Mcbride, who immediately > passed his threshold of pain, collapsed and tumbled from his perch. > Unfortunately for Mcbride, the height of the ball washer was more than a > foot higher off the ground than his testicles are in a normal stance, and > the scrotum was the weakest link. Mcbride's scrotum was ripped open during > the fall, and one testicle was plucked from him forever and remained in the > ball washer, while the other testicle was compressed and flattened as it was > pulled between the housing of the washer, and the rotating machinery inside. > To add insult to injury, Mcbride broke the new $300.00 driver that he had > just purchased from the pro shop, which he was using to balance himself. > Mcbride was rushed to the hospital for surgery, and the remaining threesome > were asked to leave the course.
