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That’s off of the official White House homepage. For those of you who don’t know yourselves, that’s known as the Shocker and it has sexual connotations. It’s often accompanied by the phrase “two in the pink, one in the stink” which should give you a pretty good idea of exactly what sexual connotation it holds. If you still don’t get it then go read the Wikipedia entry for it.

Maybe they think it’s supposed to be a W or maybe they just thought it was funny to do a “gangsta” sign. I don’t think they realize what it actually symbolizes. Or maybe they do and that’s part of why they’re doing it. It’s the sort of naughty thing I’d probably do if I were a lame duck president counting down the hours till I get booted out of office.

Found over at Fark.com.

Twelve female high school students sporting only their underwear and duct tape around their breasts ran across a football field during their school team’s home game last week in Delta, B.C.

[...] The streaking happened on Oct. 28 during a Delta Sun Devils game against the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers of Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School from Surrey.

Video footage obtained by CBC News shows a dozen South Delta students wearing very little run across the field and spray silly string on the opposing team during half time.

[...] The girls, calling what they did a “harmless prank,“ said streaking is a tradition at their school.

“It’s just kind of like a fun [graduation] prank for our year, and it’s been going on for a couple of years now,“ said one of the girls, who wanted to be identified only as Rochelle. “It was pretty much out of fun.“

The principal, as most are wont to do, disagrees with it being a harmless prank:

“We don’t take it lightly. This is a school. [In] schools, we hold higher ideals than we do in, say, the mall,“ Ted Johnson told CBC News in an interview.

Holy crap! Girls sometimes streak half-naked through Canadian malls? Which ones? When? Why the hell didn’t anyone tell me about this sooner?

Johnson said he warned students last month not to streak at this year’s final game of the season but was, obviously, ignored. Many parents and children left the game in disgust after the prank, he said.

“Our position is one that we don’t celebrate this. We don’t find it funny,“ he said.

I don’t know. It seems kind of funny to me. There’s a blurry picture of the girls in action at the link. I’m sure the opposing football team is just traumatized by having a dozen mostly naked cheerleaders spray them with silly string. “Hey coach! When are we scheduled to play these guys again? Is there anyway we can just play them every week?“

On a more serious note: There’s an interesting distinction between America and Canada to be drawn from this news item. Here’s the consequences the girls will be facing for their impulsive bit of horseplay:

Johnson said he has told the girls involved that they will be suspended from school if they do anything else wrong.

They must also encourage younger students to end the streaking tradition, Johnson said.

That’s it. A stern talking to and a don’t-fuck-up-again warning.

Here in the U.S. the girls would probably be arrested and put on a sex offender registry because they, and the football players, are all minors and the person who filmed them would be arrested and charged with producing child pornography.

That’s an interesting distinction, don’t you think?

Luckily, for all of us, I voted.

Cheer up, it’s nearly Christmas: The village which has already put up its decorations - Mail Online

With Hallowe’en and Bonfire Night still to be celebrated, volunteers in Coleford, Gloucestershire, have decorated the streets with festive figures and tinsel.

However, their efforts have not brought goodwill to all men.

Conservative councillor Denis Riley, who lives near the town centre, said: ‘I don’t like seeing Christmas decorations before Bonfire Night but unfortunately this kind of thing happens all over the place.

‘The fact that they have been put up this early suggests to me that it has nothing to do with the true meaning of Christmas and more to do with commercialism and bringing in shoppers.‘

What a Scrooge. And a cynical one at that!

No, no, no. There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation as to why the decorations are out this early. There’s simply not enough time to do them all later:

The volunteers claim they were forced to begin work early because of health and safety regulations which state they can only work together on Sundays. This year’s decorations went up quicker than expected.

Volunteer Bryan Marrot said: ‘There will be plenty more decorations to go up which we will be working on until the end on November.

‘We need safety contracts and insurance to cover working on the ladders and using cherry picker cranes. Doing all the safety checks takes a lot of time so we start as early as possible to make sure we have them done in time.‘

See? It’s bureaucracy that’s the reason for the (early) season!

Found in this Flickr stream.

Claiming he was a federal agent couldn’t keep a Chicago man from being arrested at Great American Ball Park on Saturday.

According to court records, when a concession employees working the View Level refused to serve Rafael Rosario, 26, he asked two more times.

When Cincinnati Police asked to see Rosario’s I.D., he tensed up and claimed he was a federal agent and the officer had no right to see his I.D. Records show Rosario is employed by the Transportation Safety Administration at O’Hare Airport in Chicago.

The police arrested him under the charge of disorderly conduct while intoxicated and being a total asshat. I guess all that bossing around at the airport made him think it applied out in the real world as well.

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Plus my picture is much more evil looking.

Found over at Boing Boing Gadgets.