Pat Fish's Blog: Pop Culture-Could These Be the Bones of Romeo and Juliet? A Nobel Nomination of Note

Time for a Pop Culture update and we begin with the story of boys growing breasts with the help of a few herbs.

On to the sweetest Nobel nomination of all and exclusive to this Blog, the bones of Romeo and Juliet?

In memory of Frankie Laine, a horse that can dance with the best and, we're not making this up, an Easy Bake Oven Story.

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Could They Be Romeo and Juliet?

One of the few Broadway musicals I chanced to attend, AIDA, was also about two young lovers who were buried together.

Beyond that factoid, these lovers are believed to have been young when they died and were evidently buried together in a lover's embrace. Archaeologists attribute their youth to the good shape of their teeth, even as skeletons.

From MSNBC.com:

ROME - They died young and, by the looks of it, in love. Two 5,000-year-old skeletons found locked in an embrace near the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale "Romeo and Juliet" have sparked theories the remains of a far more ancient love story have been found.

Archaeologists unearthed the skeletons dating back to the late Neolithic period outside Mantua, 25 miles south of Verona, the city of Shakespeare's story of doomed love.

The grave and humans buried are over 5000 years old. Touching, oddly, that the lovers remained together in an embrace for all of eternity. From so long ago, proving that love is eternal, always has been and always will be.

Rush Limbaugh Hijinks

Disclaimer-I love Rush Limbaugh more than any pundit, radio personality, entertainer or conservative human being on the planet. That being said, ole Rush is either directly involved in, or part of, a few intriguing activities of late.

First, heh, the man has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize!

Landmark Legal Foundation has nominated syndicated radio Talk host Rush Limbaugh for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Limbaugh was nominated for the award for his "nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all humankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin. These are the only real cornerstones of just and lasting peace throughout the world," said Landmark President Mark R. Levin.

But absolutely Rush Limbaugh should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, goodness if Al Gore can get a nomination while Jimmy Carter actually won one. For so long the Nobel Peace Prize has been an anti-American joke, whoever is in charge of it all using what was once a cherished institution and turning it into one great big smirk. Al Gore deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for why again?

Rush is also involved in Fox's new satire-comedy series called "The Half Hour News Hour". I chanced to see a clip from this show on Hannity and Colmes this past week and laughed out loud in the dark of my bedroom for the entire five minutes of the clip.

It was a clip featuring "BO" magazine. The BO standing for, but of course, Barack Obama. The new magazine has stories on how Barack chooses his bathing suits, Barack's favorite meals, Barack's cure for indigestion.

The quasi-commercial for BO magazine also features plenty of frameable pics of Barack and there's even a Barack book club the subscriber can join.

My goodness it was just so funny and since I happened to chance upon this clip of "The Half Hour News Hour" by accident, I really didn't even know what I was watching at the time. As I laughed at the wonderful humor of it all I found myself wishing that just such a show would dare to air. After the clip, I was surprised as all get-out when Sean Hannity announced that what I'd just seen was a clip from Fox's new series, premiering the following week.

The NEXT day I heard Rush announce on the air that he too will be on a "Half Hour News Hour" show, starring as President of the United States with Ann Coulter as his Vice-President. Of course I must laugh right out loud yet again as THAT scenario has got to be the liberals' worst nightmare.

Trust that this humble Blogger will be reviewing this new series, with exclusive pictures. Know that this humble Blogger says, NOT so humbly, that she herself could have written this satirical series based on my very own tongue-in-cheek, sick-of-liberal-lies Blog posts.

Heh.

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A Dancing Horse Video

This horse dances better than most white guys I know.

Young Boys Grow Breasts "Organically"

I can't remember when I've ever read such scientific clap trap besides global warming in the story about the young boys growing their own fine breasts, below.

From the New Scientist.com:

Three young boys grew breast tissue after exposure to lotions and shampoos containing lavender or tea tree oil, researchers say.

It is not uncommon for boys to develop breast tissue during puberty or just after, but the boys affected by the plant oils were aged four, seven and 10.

The natural oils may be “gender-bending” chemicals mimicking effects of the female hormone, oestrogen, the findings suggest. The boys were otherwise normal, and lost the breast tissue within months of discontinuing use of the product.

THREE boys were the subject of this study? I am no scientist but three of anything hardly seems like any sort of proper statistical sample.

Besides this, if these are really "natural" substances than what's the point? Is this official notification of a sort that if a young boy wants breasts he can get them easily enough with the bark of yon tree? Or could there be an enterprising company ready to form and market oils that will grow breasts on young males for a small fee?

And if creams and lotions containing these oils are so readily available, why wouldn't a scientific study focus on the breast-growing effects of these oils on , say, FEMALES, just throwing it out there.

This so-called scientific "study" has some kind of hidden agenda, go with me here.

Easy Bake Oven Subject of Big Lawsuit

First, I am beyond surprised that Easy Bake Ovens still exist! I know they were around when my daughter was young and in fact she had one. My daughter is 30 years old so these Hasbro toys have been around for some time.

From the Clarion Ledger.com:

A 6-year-old Richland girl is suing the maker’s of the Easy-Bake Oven, Hasbro, Inc., for $1.2 million after she got her hand stuck in the oven for more than three hours.

Emergency room doctors were forced to cut the device off with a bone saw after conventional methods failed.

Now I don't know, and the story doesn't provide, just how this child got her hand stuck in the oven. The story does provide the little detail that Hasbro had to recall almost a million Easy Bake ovens due to a manufacturing defect that might allow a child to get a hand stuck in the toy's oven opening.

The lawyer for the little girl reports that, gasp, 29 other children have suffered burns as a result of this defect.

Let me calculate here for a minute. Okay, almost a million of things were made because that's how many are on recall. 29 kids managed to get their hands stuck inside the thing. That's 29 out of 985,000 owners of these defective ovens.

Well we have a justice system and it allows companies like Hasbro to be sued by parents of dumb little kids who don't have enough sense to keep their hands out of a hot oven. Actually Hasbro should charge more for their toy as the lessons learned with the play may actually teach a dumbish kind of kid that hot stuff BURNS!

Media Nuggets

Thanks to Anita at Free Republic.

###### MSNBC's Chris Matthews exposed talking "Democratic talking points". And that 's continuing even now.

###### Columbus Dispatch offering buyouts - which is nothing but firing honorably.

###### Harry Reid to fight Associated Press - with Britney Spears' lawyer about his Las Vegas land deal scandal.

###### NBC & it's "military analyst" Arkin -> Retired Col. Ken Allard (NBC's military analyst) comes out against Arkin & NBC.

###### Media, Not Sex is - Top Worry for Parents .

In Memorium Frankie Laine

Died February 6, 2007, age 93.

From Jeffos Retro Music.com:

Frankie Laine, born Frank Paul LoVecchio on March 30, 1913, is one of the most influential singers in history.

A clarion voiced pop singer with lots of style, able to fill halls without a microphone, and one of the biggest hit-makers of late 1940s/early 1950s, Laine had more than 70 charted records, 21 gold records, and worldwide sales of about 260 million disks. Originally a rhythm and blues influenced jazz singer, Laine excelled at virtually every music style, eventually expanding to such varied genres as popular standards, gospel, folk, country, western/Americana, rock 'n' roll, and the occasional novelty number. He is known as Mr Rhythm for his driving jazzy style.