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October 12, 2008

LOTD for October 12

Filed under: Uncategorized — gokamoto @ 4:50 pm

It is hard for me to believe that this lawyer went to court to defend how he tried to deduct $322,000 from his taxes for prostitutes, porn, sex toys, and erotic massages:
http://exposecorruptcourts.blogspot.com/2008/09/outrage-elderly-tax-lawyer-told-he-cant.html

University of Central Oklahoma students bragged on MySpace about their party planning business…and were hit with a HUGE tax bill ($320,000) when tax officials visited their MySpace site!
http://newsok.com/article/3300840/

Study found that arthroscopic knee surgery for arthritis actually doesn’t reduce joint pain or improve knee function. 200,000 to 300,000 of these operations are done each year in our country and they might be wasted procedures!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-knee11-2008sep11,0,1198164.story

The drop in the value of the dollar has resulted in US colleges being more affordable to students from other countries, once factor in the increase in foreign national enrollment–now up to 582,984 foreign nationals attending US colleges:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/05/foreign_students_flock_to_the_us/

Interesting that our “types” change depending on the time of the month and the fluctuation of testosterone levels:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7616354.stm

Pretty amazing photos when the world’s smallest man posed with the lady with the longest legs. He is 2 feet. 5.37 inches tall and her legs are 4 feet, 3.9 inches long:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Guinness-World-Records-book-is-Launched-With-He-Pingping-And-Svetlana-Pankratova/Article/200809315101015

http://weirdnews.about.com/od/suggestedreading/ig/Weird-News-Photo-Extravaganza/Shortest-Man-and-Leggist-Woman.htm

The world’s oldest man celebrated his 113th birthday last month. His hometown is Miyakonojo (560 miles southwest of Tokyo):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080918/wl_nm/japan_oldest_dc

We will have 4 new designs Lincoln penny designs:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/22/news/economy/US_onecent/index.htm?cnn=yes

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