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Paws Up!Our Salute to the Awesome!
From Episode 20: FREAKIN' Dave Coulier WolfGnards.com So the three girls of Full House are all blonde-hair, blue-eyed girls. But how? If their mother is Greek (as her brother, Uncle Jesse, is), and Bob Saget's Dan Tanner rocks the dominant genes of brown-hair, brown-eyes, then how did the girls get so white? The folks at WolfGnards.com have done the research, the genetic studies, and determined that maybe, just maybe, someone else in the Full House fathered these kids!!!! Read about it at WolfGnards.com here. To WolfGnards.com, for uncovering the shocking truth behind one of television's most beloved sitcoms, we salute all of you. PAWS UP! From Episode 19: Electionplexaramapalooza The unnamed Cleveland Municipal Court judge Court records show a Cleveland Municipal Court judge ordered 32-year-old Shena Hardin to stand at an intersection for two days next week. She will have to wear a sign saying: "Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus." The woman was caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to avoid a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children. Apparently, this was a regular occurrence so the bus driver video-recorded the incident. To the unnamed judge, for doling out public humiliation as an (appropriate) form of punishment, we salute all of you. PAWS UP! From Episode 18: Tailgating. Sorta... The People of Hurricane Sandy There are many tales of people who embodied the spirit of community and "doing what's right." So this is a cornucopia of Paws going Up. There is a story of a 7-Eleven in Little Ferry, New Jersey that donated their perishables to a local shelter, but found themselves full of customers. They decided to stay open, even with no power, and sell what they could to people who needed supplies. There is a story of brand new pizzeria in midtown Manhattan that decided to stay open for 30 hours straight making and delivering pizza pies to people in the area who had no power, and in some cases, access to food. And there was a guy in New York who had power, so he ran an extension cord out to his front gate, so people who had no power could come by and charge their phones. To all these people, and those whose stories we haven't heard yet, for being heroes in their own small way, we salute all of you. PAWS UP! From Episode 17: Tombstone Vagina Alicia Richman Alicia Richman of Granbury, Texas, has been declared the new Guinness World Record holder for "Most Breastmilk Donated." Between June 2011 and March 2012, the 28-year-old mother of one donated 11,115 ounces -- or 694 pounds -- of breastmilk to charity, according to Guinness. By volume, that's about 87 gallons. After she gave birth in March 2011, she began pumping and storing her milk, and quickly realized she was producing much more than her son could consume. When two freezers were chock full of pumped milk, Richman contacted the Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas, an nonprofit that collects breast milk donations for critically ill and premature infants in need. Read the story from Huffington Post here. To Alicia Richman, for helping out those who need it and getting a world record along the way, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode 16: featuring Special Guest, Eleni Voukefalas The world's oldest profession is giving a whole new meaning to love of the game. But the amateur Voukefalas club (whose players include pizza delivery guys, students, waiters and a bartender) has raised eyebrows with its flamboyant sponsorship choice. Players on a cash-strapped Greek soccer team now wear pink practice jerseys with the logos "Villa Erotica" and "Soula's House of History," two bordellos it recruited as sponsors after drastic government spending cuts left the country's sports clubs facing ruin. Brothel owner Soula Alevridou, the team's new benefactor, has already paid more than 1,000 euros ($1,312) for players to wear her jerseys. Read the story from ESPN here. To Voukefalas, for saving their soccer club... by any legal means, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode 15: The Vagina Episode Love Joule bar in Toyko A women-only 'masturbation bar.' That's what it is. The city's Love Joule bar -- where artwork has been replaced by rows of curious-looking rainbow-coloured vibrators -- is being touted as a "self-pleasuring" bar, a "masturbation" bar or a "girls-only" bar. Despite what the headlines announcing the opening would have you believe, it's just a place women go to talk. "Once they take a seat, customers are able to experience a pleasant place in which they can openly discuss masturbation," says owner Megumi Nakagawa. "Since most people view female masturbation as something of a mystery or taboo, it is not a usual topic at typical bars." Read the story from Wired here. To the Love Joule bar, for creating a place for ladies to discuss... lady things, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode 14: Boogieboarding on a Manatee Scientists in Great Britain Physicists have conceived of a "space-time" cloak which makes the passage of time invisible by manipulating light. The cloak, which could conceal whole events from a viewer, promises to be of interest to jewellery robbers, magicians, exam cheats and practical jokers. The theory is based on censoring the flow of events, which we perceive as a stream of light particles, also called photons, that strike the retina. According to researchers from Imperial College London and Salford University in north-west England, the flow of photons can be slowed and events edited out and stitched back together by exploiting a characteristic of fibre optics. The theory has yet to be tested or confirmed in a lab but the authors are confident this will not be too far ahead. Read the story from ABC News (Australia) here. To British scientists, for trying to make a Harry Potter-esque Invisibility Cloak, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode 13: Oktoberfest! The Landshut Cannibals A German ice hockey team, the Landshut Cannibals, did a deal with the local brothel, Lustra, which will see the hockey players wear bright pink warm-up shirts complete with a lipstick-covered mouth logo, the motto "The world could be so sexy," and the silhouette of a woman in high heels with a thong dangling from her hand. A spokesman for the team told the local paper they had wanted to attract attention with a new sponsor - and had therefore approached the Lustra brothel. Read the story from The Local (from Germany) here. To the Landshut Cannibals, for showing us sponsorship knows no limits, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode 12: Mudpuddle Michael Graver 71-year-old Michael Graver assaulted 4 armed robbers as they broke into a jewellery store. The four men began attempting to flee after Mr. Graver had taken their sledgehammer from them and began swinging. Read the story from the Telegraph in the UK here. To Michael Graver, for showing us the definition of courage (or crazy), we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode 11: Talk Like a Pirate William Henry Perkin Aged just 18, William Henry Perkin started trying to synthesize quinine, which was used for the treatment of malaria. Instead he came up with the synthetic dye "aniline purple," also known as mauveine. His accidental discovery resulted in the first mass-produced artificial dye, which he named mauve. From that point on, you could make colors in a factory from chemicals, rather than insects and plants. Read the story from BBC News here. To William Henry Perkin, who showed us that we don't need dye with bizarro materials (i.e. cow urine for yellow dye), we salute you. PAWS UP!
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