Greetings fellow Bizarros:

Today’s bizarre comes to you from Japan. And this is bizarre,
folks, but I guess no more bizarre than a lot of religious
ceremonies. To tell you the truth, I would sort of like to
see something like this in, say, the Catholic church.

About 9,000 men clad only in loincloths joined in a free-for-
all at a Buddhist temple in Japan, trying to secure two pieces
of sacred wood.

The event at Saidaiji Temple in Okayama was part of the 500th
anniversary of Saidaiji Eyo, described as “one of Japan’s
three oddest festivals.”

Whoever got out with the two chunks of wood, if not his
“fundoshi” or white loincloth, was to be proclaimed by the
temple’s monks as “the man of fortune for the year.”

The ceremony began about 10 p.m. Saturday with a purification
ritual in which the men poured cold water on themselves. Then,
at midnight, the monks turned off the lights and dropped the
two 8-inch sticks among them and the struggle began.

There was no word on who turned out to be the lucky guy, but
it was probably the one who had the fewest butt cheeks smashed
in his face while scrambling for the wood. Why does that sound
so homoerotic to me?

Bizarrely,

Lewis

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+—————– Bizarre March Holidays —————–+

March 1 is National Pig Day and Peanut Butter Lover’s Day

March 2 is Old Stuff Day

March 3 is I Want You To Be Happy Day, Peach Blossom Day
and National Anthem Day

March 4 is Holy Experiment Day

March 5 is Multiple Personalities Day

March 6 is National Frozen Food Day

March 7 is National Crown Roast Of Pork Day

March 8 is Be Nasty Day

March 9 is Panic Day

March 10 is Festival Of Life In The Cracks Day

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————- Rome: No ice cream after 1 a.m. ————–

ROME – Authorities in Rome said a law to take effect in
March bans ice cream, pizza and sandwich vendors from
operating after 1 a.m. Officials said the city council
measure was designed to bring the city’s nightlife to a
close at an earlier hour, ANSA reported Thursday. “This
applies to croissant makers, ice cream makers, cake shops,
yogurt shops, sandwich shops, take-aways and rotisseries,”
city councilor Davide Bordoni said. “One in the morning
seems to us a reasonable hour that is satisfactory for
both the shop owners and residents,” he said.

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———- Teen fired after calling job ‘boring’ ———–

CLACTON, England – A 16-year-old British girl said she was
fired from her office job after managers saw that she had
branded her position “boring” on Facebook. Kimberley Swann
said she was called into her manager’s office at Ivell
Marketing & Logistics in Clacton, England, and given a
letter stating that she was being fired from her job as an
office administrator after she called the job “boring” on
her Facebook page, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.
“Following your comments made on Facebook about your job
and the company we feel it is better that, as you are not
happy and do not enjoy your work we end your employment
with Ivell Marketing & Logistics with immediate effect,”
the letter read. “I did not even put the company’s name,
I just put that my job was boring. They were just being
nosy, going through everything. I think it is really sad,
it makes them look stupid that they are going to be so
petty,” Swann said.

———- 100-year-old man still hard at work ———–

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Minnesota man who marked his
100th birthday Thursday continues to work half days at
the company he has owned since 1955, family members said.
Bill Horst, son of centenarian Errett “Eddie” Horst, said
his father still puts in weekday hours at Globe Publishing
in South St. Paul, Minn., and until six months ago, he
was driving himself to work for daily 8-hour shifts, the
St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press reported. “He would’ve been
gone at 85 if he had retired,” Bill Horst said. “He comes
here every day, and it makes him feel like he’s a part of
the place. People — his old clients — still come in here
to see him and call to see how he’s doing. But there just
aren’t a lot of his old buddies left.” Eddie Horst, who
has 15 great-grandchildren, said that despite needing a
magnifying glass to read mail and invoices since his eye-
sight began failing last year, he is otherwise in perfect
condition to work. “Other than my eyesight, I’m fine,” he
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———- Couple, 14 and 17, divorce in Israel ————

JERUSALEM – The Jerusalem Rabbinic Court has granted a
divorce to the youngest couple to ever apply in Israel,
a 14-year-old girl and her 17-year-old husband. A spokes-
woman for the Rabbinic Courts Administration said the
groom’s parents insisted on the divorce after they
discovered that he and his young wife had married under
Jewish law by exchanging vows in front of two witnesses,
giving one another rings and consummating the relation-
ship, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. “We want young
people to learn from this case,” the spokeswoman said.
“Getting married like this can ruin a young person’s life.”
Rabbi Eliyahu Ben-Dahan, director of the Rabbinic Court
Administration, said young people should take the lesson
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> READER COMMENTS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

HI..Regarding the story where the homeowner took off in the
thieves’ car…I read he was going to be charged with vehicle
theft. How’s that for justice? -Rosie
[I didn't read that. And I sort of find it hard to believe,
since the victim called the police himself.]

i just love all your videos! i just watched talented bear.
-shirley
[That's an incredible video, isn't it?]

What tragedy about Anna Nicole Smith? Now all the rich old
men in America don’t have to worry about her stealing their
money. Besides, I remember seeing on TV that ‘her anus was
unremarkable.’ Wait, is that the tragedy? I’m so confused.
-Michael
[I have seen it and whoever said that was dead wrong. She
had a very remarkable anus.]

The example of waste in the state of Washington is egregious
but this is not why we have a $7 trillion federal debt. The
government’s problem is off the books and black budget
spending. A stack of 100 dollar bills were airlifted into
Iraq with no accounting for where they went. Billions of
dollars are spent on weapon systems that do not work and
intelligence agencies that did not prevent the attacks on
the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. At least social
service spending like the food stamps that Washington State
is getting go immediately into our economy and multiple
several times keeping our economy going. -Jeremy
[You are right about that. Several months ago I did a column
in BN about that very story. The gross waste, lack of over-
sight, accountability and...I guess there is no other word
for it...CORRUPTION that has been going on over there is
just disgusting.]

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