The Lighter Side
It’s the end of the week again, so I thought once more I’d bring some lighter stories to your attention.
Adding a wasp to rice crackers would not exactly be my first choice as a snack but it’s becoming popular in Japan.
A Japanese fan club for wasps has come up with the jibachi senbei, or digger wasp rice crackers. They are made in Omachi town 200 km (120 miles) northwest of Tokyo and have five or six black digger wasps each that are clearly visible.
Young people see the bugs and refuse to eat the senbei, but seniors, they love them. We even have an order from a nursing home.
Torao Kayatsu, the president of the Omachi digger wasp lovers club
A bag of 20 crackers costs 370 yen (E2.40) but may be in a limited supply as the wasps are caught in the wild.
In Malaysia, a 41-year old man has beaten his own world record by dragging three train coachers 9 feet (2.8 metres) using only his teeth.
Raja Gigi managed to drag a total weight of nearly 300 tonnes of metal (660 lbs) to not mark Malaysia’s 50th year of nationhood but also to beat his 2003 world record.
The Malaysian record board will verify the attempt on Monday with a view to passing information of the feat on to the Guinness World Record Book.
And finally two cities in Louisiana have banned trousers that dangle way below the belt, exposing what is underneath.
Alexandria and Shreveport have both passed the legislation in a move that is being called a form of racial discrimination, as the fashion is closely linked to the hip hop culture and is hugely popular among young black people.
We unanimously passed the legislation because we have had so many complaints from citizens who don’t want to see young men with pants hanging so low, showing their underwear and, in some cases, their posterior.
Louis Marshall, a city councillor in Alexandria
The fines, in Alexandria, would start at $25 and to quote Marshall “that goes up every time the pants go down.”
Friday, August 31st, 2007 and is filed under Views on News.
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