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WTF?!

GiggleSugar — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:30:00 -0800

A re-born is a spooky, realistic-looking doll that, for some women, takes the place of a real baby. (Read LilSugar's take on it here). In the documentary My Fake Baby, you see women taking their re-borns to the grocery store and to the park. (They're made with painstaking craftsmanship by an English mother of four.) One woman is corrected by her grandson who, when she says she has a baby, replies, "It's a doll!" Eeeeek! I'm not surprised that some men purchase Real Dolls cuz they can't interact with real women, but c'mon ladies, I expected more from you! What ever happened to Beanie Baby collecting?!

Très Bizarre: Prisoner Wants Visit From Mom - Who Is a Cat

TresSugar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0800

Five years may be a short prison sentence, but that's 36 years in cat time. Way too long for Peter Koenig, a German inmate who wants to see his mother while serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery. One small, furry problem, though. His deceased mother is reincarnated as a cat, or so he believes.
The (formerly) heat-packing Buddhist took his fight to court, demanding cat-visiting rights, but was turned down for being unable to "furnish proof that his deceased mother had been reborn in the cat.” In a misguided gesture the court suggested a compromise: he could always write her.

Funny as this story sounds, it seems to me that if you can have human visitors in prison, why not have furry, four-legged ones?

Source: Flickr User Law Keven

Headline of the Day

GiggleSugar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:00:00 -0700

Frantic Rescue Effort Saves Doll, Not Baby

Remember those creepy, life-like "reborn" dolls I told you about a while back? Well, here's how real they look: A police officer in Queensland, Australia smashed a car window to rescue a baby he thought was unconscious inside. And this is not an isolated incident. It's happened in the US, too. These $1,000 and up babies are "even weighted to feel like a baby's weight and they flop like a baby," says their designer (shown above with one of her creations). Click here to read more about it and here to watch how these spooky things are made.

Does This Ad Make You Want to Buy Vodka?

GiggleSugar — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:02:00 -0700

So Belvedere vodka's new campaign suggests that they're redefining luxury ("Luxury Reborn"). So how do they do that? By getting Terry Richardson to photograph an ad that shows a woman reapplying lipstick presumably after giving some dude a blow job. That's an interesting view of luxury. But for whom? Would this ad make you want to buy Belvedere?

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UPDATE: Check out some follow-up ads: here. Ugh.

Do You Believe in Spirits?

DearSugar — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Everyone has a theory about what happens after you pass away. Some feel that you go to heaven, some believe you are reborn again, and some people think that when you die, your spirit dies too. Then there are those who think that your spirit lives on as a guardian angel, and that spirits are found among people who are still living.

I've never had a personal experience with a spirit, but my mother has. One time, when I was 11 or 12, my mom and I were in the kitchen and she told me she could feel her sister's spirit in the room. I got shivers because her sister had passed away a few years before. It definitely freaked me out to think that my aunt's ghost was walking around the kitchen with us, but it comforted my mom.

So I'm wondering, have you ever had a supernatural experience? Have you ever felt the presence of a deceased friend or relative? Or do you think there are no such things as spirits?

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