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I Love POO ?

Nothing says “I love you” more than a Valentine’s Day card made from pulped elephant faeces.

Card maker Vijender Shekhawat is hoping his unique format of romantic missive will take the market by storm.

His company Haathi Chaap (Elephant Stamp) plans to process 30 tons of dung every month to make a special paper from the grass and leaf fibres

that pass through the elephants’ system without being digested.The pulp produces a high quality, unique paper which can be used for any style

of greeting card.

“Elephants’ gastrointestinal tract cannot digest fibres well. About 40 per cent of everything goes through untouched but softened and pre-pulped.

“As a result, their dung makes fantastic paper when it is pressed and processed,” explains Vijender.

Crucially for the potential buyers and receivers the cards do not smell.

“People always worry about the smell, but believe me the cards smell as sweet as any other Valentine’s Day cards on the market,” added Vijender.

thanks to : orange uk

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Sex Dolls Relaxes Speeders

A blow-up sex doll is being used as a new form of traffic calming measure in China.

Annoyed that local police were not catching speeding motorists outside her home in Ningbo, Lin Chen took matters into her own hands.

The 67-year-old bought a blow up sex doll and dressed in sexy red underwear to make motorists slow down to get a better look.

“There are a set of traffic lights near my house and the cars just shoot through them as fast as they can. It’s very dangerous,” explained Chen.

“The police aren’t interested so I bought this doll and tied it to the tree.

“I thought that drivers would slow down if I could give them something worth looking it,” she added.

Police admit that accident figures have dropped since Chen made the dummy.

“It isn’t a method we would use, but we can’t say it isn’t working,” said a spokesman.

thanks to : orange uk

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Possible Da Vinci Painting Found In Scottish Farmhouse; Could Be Worth $150 million

Fiona McLaren, 59, had kept an old painting in her Scottish farmhouse for decades. She reportedly didn’t think much of the painting, which had been given to her as a gift by her father. But after she finally decided to have the painting appraised, some experts are speculating that it may in fact be a 500-year-old painting by Leonardo da Vinci and potentially worth more than $150 million.

“I showed it to him [auctioneer Harry Robertson] and he was staggered, speechless save for a sigh of exclamation,” said Ms. McLaren, according to The People.

The Daily Mail says the painting may be of Mary Magdalene holding a young child. The painting is now undergoing further analysis by experts at the Cambridge University and the Hamilton Kerr Institute, who will attempt to uncover its exact age and origins.

Even if the painting is not a da Vinci original, it is believed to at least be from the da Vinci school, created by one of the master’s pupils during the 16th century.

A papal bull was found attached to the back of the painting and is believed to have originated from the era of Pope Paul V, head of the Catholic Church in the early 17th century. McLaren says the word “Magdalene,” is visible on the faded paper.

McLaren says she hopes the painting is sold to a museum, and she plans to donate a percentage of the painting’s sale value after it is auctioned.

Thanks to : Yahoo

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Found: Lost Camera Reunited With Owner After Three Years

pic courtesy of John Noerr

A bagel shop, a purple door, and a street sign helped reconnect a lost camera with its owner after three long years.

John Noerr uncovered a water-logged Canon XT digital camera in a creek in upstate New York near his parents’ home. The art educator from Poultney, Vt., realized that the memory card of the camera amazingly still worked, and with 581 photos, there could be enough information to track down the owner.

According to the Post-Star, the supersleuth spent three weeks combing through the photos looking for clues to the owner.

After plenty of dead ends, Noerr found two pictures he called the holy grail. A woman sitting on a stoop in front of a purple door with the street number 327, and a shot of a sign: Third Street.

A random snap of a bagel shop helped lead the 39-year-old to conclude he was looking for someone in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. Using Google Maps for street views, he located the address. Tax records gave him a family name: Comeau.

A search on the Web led him to Twitter, where he sent a message to a woman that he might have found her camera. She responded that she hadn’t lost a camera, but her brother had.

Noerr said, “There was a moment it could have belonged to any number of 7 billion people. Then, there was a moment when it belonged to just one.”

That was one lucky Michael Comeau, who had dropped his camera on a bridge three years back while on a camping trip and had long since given up on ever recovering it.

The photos included long-forgotten images, even some of now-deceased relatives. Comeau called the return of his camera “totally bizarre,” adding, “I can’t wait to get it back.”

thanks to : yahoo news

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