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10 Years ago

I just uncovered two of the news stories that I was almost obsessed with 10 years ago. They've stuck with me over the years, and last night one of them crossed my mind. Little did I realize that one would lead me to the other. And that it's almost exactly 10 years ago, to the week, that they were in the news. Now I just need to find that article about the eyelash mites that die of constipation because they have no anus.

Dr. Puri Puri
Speaking of toilets and communication, you need to know about a
TV-review column from The Daily Yomiuru, an English-language newspaper
published in Japan. The column states that there's a children's TV
show in Japan called "Ugo Ugo Ruga", which features "an animated
character with heavy eyebrows called Dr. Puri Puri (Dr. Stinky), a
piece of talking excrement that keeps popping up from the toilet bowl
to express strange platitudes that only an adult can fathom."

You're thinking. "Hey! Sounds like Henry Kissinger."

- Dave Barry, columnist for the Miami Herald

Naked Pentecostals
VINTON, La. (UPI) - A Pentecostal minister from Floydada, Texas
remained jailed in Louisiana Friday on numerous charges after driving a
car crammed with 20 naked followers through the city at 90 miles per
hour.
Police in Vinton, La. said they were surprised when they stopped a
speeding Pontiac Grand Am Thursday and the Rev. Sammy Rodriguez emerged
wearing just a towel, only to get back behind the wheel and speed off.
But they were downright flabbergasted a few moments later when the
car crashed, forcing 20 people - all of them nude - to climb out of the
vehicle in a baseball field. None of the passengers was seriously hurt.
Patrolman Johnnie Vice said Rodriguez claimed God told the people to
take off their clothes to shed themselves of the devil's influence.
Rodriguez is scheduled to be arraigned Saturday on a host of traffic
violations and may be charged with endangerment because of the danger he
posed to his passengers, Vice said. The others spent the night at a
church and were awaiting the arrival of relatives from Floydada.
Police said that the preacher told them he believed the devil was
after them, so they left Floydada Tuesday in a caravan of six cars.
Vice said ``They got to San Antonio and God told them San Antonio was
a devil town and to take off their clothes.'' They abandoned the other
cars, he said.
He said the carload of people, who ranged in age from 1 year to 65,
was headed for a church somewhere in Florida.
Said Vice: ``I've been at this job 21 years and I've never seen
nothin' like this. Never in my life. It's like a dream, especially when
you see this many people get out of a vehicle naked.''

Both stories now found at Yucks Digest

Posted by Shokufeh at August 29, 2003 11:08 AM