"Mrs Robinson inspires internet chart push"

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"Mrs Robinson inspires internet chart push"

(Reuters) - The extramarital affair conducted by Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister, has inspired an internet campaign to push "Mrs Robinson," the song from the film "The Graduate," to the top of the British pop charts.
The drive began after Robinson, 60, said last week she tried to kill herself last year following an affair with a then 19-year-old man that resembles the plot of Mike Nichols' Oscar-winning film.

A university graduate played by a young Dustin Hoffman was seduced by the older Anne Bancroft in the 1967 movie which helped the Simon and Garfunkel song to number one in the United States pop charts a year later.

"Lets get the iconic song Mrs Robinson - made famous by the 1960's hit The Graduate - to number 1 in next Sunday's chart in honor of Northern Ireland's disgraced first lady," the campaign page, hatched on the Facebook website, said.

Participants have to download the song from the internet. A similar drive on Facebook, the world's No.1 internet social network, put US rap-metal band Rage Against The Machine on top of the Christmas chart but the 10,000 people backing "Mrs Robinson" falls someway short of the near one-million who supported that push.

Peter Robinson temporarily stood down as first minister on Monday to face an inquiry over whether he should have told authorities of the 50,000 pounds ($80,000) his wife raised to help the 19-year-old man open a cafe in Belfast



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Song of the Day:
The Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson


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Thanks to Simon Fishburn for passing this along.

The Robinson scandal even made it to Australia's most famous Bondi Beach where Paul Winn played a tribute to Iris amusing the Irish travellers.

"Brothel wants males to service women"

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"Brothel wants males to service women"

(UPI) -- A Nevada brothel owner said she is hoping to begin offering male prostitutes for female clients by the middle of January.

Bobbi Davis, owner of the Shady Lady Ranch brothel in Nye County, said the Nevada State Health Division agreed to write men into the state codes governing prostitution earlier this month and she is scheduled to meet Jan. 5 with the Nye County Commission for final approval, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Monday.

Davis said, if all goes as planned, she could add two men to her current stable of five female prostitutes the week after the meeting with the commission.

Several experts, including industry lobbyist George Flint, have already predicted failure for Davis' venture. Flint said several brothel owners have attempted hiring men to service women in the past, but the gambles always failed, in large part due to the amount of time the few female customers wanted to spend with their sex workers before intercourse.

"Women won't come in for a quickie. They're not jackrabbits like men are," Flint said. "There is just nothing about it, fiscally or any other way, that makes any kind of sense."

However, Flint and other experts said male prostitutes in brothels could potentially succeed if they catered to gay clients. Davis said it will be up to the workers to decide whether to take same-sex jobs.



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Ratt - Nobody Rides For Free

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"Woman admits loud sex violations"

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"Woman admits loud sex violations"

(UPI) -- A British judge said a woman who admitted to violating an order banning her from excessive screaming during sex will likely be spared jail.

Caroline Cartwright, 48, of Washington, England, admitted in Newcastle Crown Court to violating the antisocial-behavior order by having noisy sexual romps with her husband, Steve, on April 18, 22 and 26 of this year, The Sun reported Tuesday.

Sunderland Magistrates imposed the order in April after neighbors and passersby lodged more than 250 complaints about Cartwright's "shouting and screaming."

Judge Beatrice Bolton scheduled sentencing for Jan. 18.

"I'm certainly not going to pass an immediate custodial sentence but I am going to order a presentence report," Bolton said. "This is not the usual sort of antisocial behavior."

"The reason why I am asking for a presentence report is because it is such an unusual case and this is the first breach," she said. "If it were to be a custodial sentence it would be suspended, I think, at this stage."




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Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize


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"Aussie, Chinese officials urge pandas to reproduce"

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"Aussie, Chinese officials urge pandas to reproduce"

Australian and Chinese officials urged two bamboo-munching giant pandas on Sunday to consider reproducing during their 10-year residency Down Under.

Wang Wang and Funi, on loan from China, arrived at the Adelaide Zoo two weeks ago but were officially welcomed Sunday by leaders at the opening ceremony of their 8 million Australian dollar ($7.25 million) enclosure. Their exhibit will open to the public on Monday.

"Look after yourselves, keep healthy and active, eat your greens and maybe, when the time is right, think about starting a family," Governor General Quentin Bryce said in a speech directed at Funi and Wang Wang, who were sprawled against nearby boulders, chewing bamboo shoots. "There are not enough of you in this world."

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Junsai said he was already thinking of Australian names for a possible panda cub.

"Wang Wang and Funi carry the friendship and greetings from the Chinese people," he told the gathering, explaining that Funi means "Lucky Girl" and Wang Wang means "Net Net."

"Who can rule out the possibility that the lucky girl will fall into the net of love and later have a lovely baby?" Zhang said. "This would be a great achievement of the joint Australia-China conservation program."

The pandas, 3 and 4 years old, are the only giant pandas in the southern hemisphere. Chinese President Hu Jintao offered the pandas as a goodwill gesture during a 2007 visit to Australia.

Funi and Wang Wang will be kept in separate enclosures until breeding season.

Wild female giant pandas are sexually mature at about age 5, and males at 6 or 7 years old. They may mature earlier in captivity due to better living conditions and nutrition.

One reason pandas are endangered is that they are notoriously poor breeders, with females having only three days a year in which they can conceive. Some males never succeed at natural breeding, so artificial insemination has become common practice in breeding captive pandas.

Zoo CEO Chris West said the animals have adapted easily to Australian bamboo — they each eat 88 pounds (40 kilograms) a day — and to their new enclosure. Because they are in quarantine for another two weeks, they will remain behind glass walls before being allowed into the outside area that includes bamboo plants and refrigerated rocks to keep them comfortable in Adelaide's hot summers.

The pandas are expected to generate more than AU$600 million for the South Australia state economy during their time here, with an anticipated 262,000 foreign visitors and 1.3 million Australians visiting Adelaide to see the animals.

The two pandas had been living at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding Center in Ya'an City in southwestern Sichuan province, after the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center where they were living was destroyed in a massive earthquake last year.

Only about 1,600 of the animals live in the wild, while another 120 are in Chinese breeding facilities and zoos.

China uses payments from zoos that host loaned pandas to fund research and breeding programs. Under such loan agreements, any panda cubs born overseas to lent animals remain China's property.



Song of the Day:
The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch


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"Man calls 911 for sex"

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"Man calls 911 for sex"

(UPI) -- Police in Florida said they arrested a man who called 911 five times to report he wanted someone to have sex with him.
Basso, who was arrested 15 minutes after his last 911 call, told officers he called 911 because it was the only number he knew that was free while his cell phone was out of minutes.
He was charged with making a false 911 call and taken to Hillsborough County Jail.




Song of the Day:
Foreigner - Urgent



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