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Issue date: 9/26/02 Section: News Digest
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Blind actors perform with sound, smell
BUENOS AIRES –– A troupe of blind actors is performing a new play in a pitch-dark theatre in Buenos Aires.
Their production, The Desert Island, is the surprise hit of the season in the Argentine capital.
The theatre is based in an unlit basement where the audience have to be led to their seats.
Sound effects and smells are used to help overcome the fact that nobody can see anything.
courtesy www.ananova.com
Man arrested three times in three hours
SWEDEN –– Police in Sweden say they stopped a man for drunken driving three times within three hours.
They first stopped the 30-year-old Norwegian for speeding on E18 motorway heading for Norway and found he was over the alcohol limit.
When he left the police station, he got back in his car and drove off but was spotted on CCTV cameras and arrested again.
Police took his car from him but later released it when the man returned with a friend who he said was going to drive the car, reports Nettavisen.
Half an hour later, the police received new reports of a speeding car on the E18 to Norway and found the man was back in the driving seat and still over the limit.
The man faces three charges of drunken driving, two of speeding and one of illegal and reckless driving.
courtesy www.ananova.com
Guinness' who's who of world records
The world's top maggot bather and the globe's greatest nasal spaghetti blower will feature in this year's Guinness Book of World Records.
The 49th edition of the famous records chronicle also includes the world's most pierced woman and the globe's longest tongue.
Elaine Davidson, Edinburgh, has spent five years gathering 720 piercings all over her body.
Her stomach, breasts, hands, ears, forehead, eyebrows, chin, nose and tongue have all been pierced.
Other newly confirmed record holders include American Jackie Bibby, who held eight rattlesnakes by their tails in his mouth without assistance.
Also featured in the book will be Briton Christine Martin, who spent 90 minutes bathing in 10 gallons of maggots as well as American Kevin Cole who sent a spaghetti strand 19 centimeters after blowing it from his nostril.
The book, which has sold more than 95 million copies since its first publication in 1955, is now the world's best-selling copyright book.
courtesy www.ananova.com
School for drag queens opens in Italy
A school has been set up in Italy to teach people how to become drag queens.
Drag artist and TV presenter La Karl du Pigne will be offering classes in mid October.
Lessons will include how to hide a beard, catwalk with high heels and speak in a higher tone of voice.
The three day course will be in Turin and open to men aged 18 to 65.
courtesy www.ananova.com
BUENOS AIRES –– A troupe of blind actors is performing a new play in a pitch-dark theatre in Buenos Aires.
Their production, The Desert Island, is the surprise hit of the season in the Argentine capital.
The theatre is based in an unlit basement where the audience have to be led to their seats.
Sound effects and smells are used to help overcome the fact that nobody can see anything.
courtesy www.ananova.com
Man arrested three times in three hours
SWEDEN –– Police in Sweden say they stopped a man for drunken driving three times within three hours.
They first stopped the 30-year-old Norwegian for speeding on E18 motorway heading for Norway and found he was over the alcohol limit.
When he left the police station, he got back in his car and drove off but was spotted on CCTV cameras and arrested again.
Police took his car from him but later released it when the man returned with a friend who he said was going to drive the car, reports Nettavisen.
Half an hour later, the police received new reports of a speeding car on the E18 to Norway and found the man was back in the driving seat and still over the limit.
The man faces three charges of drunken driving, two of speeding and one of illegal and reckless driving.
courtesy www.ananova.com
Guinness' who's who of world records
The world's top maggot bather and the globe's greatest nasal spaghetti blower will feature in this year's Guinness Book of World Records.
The 49th edition of the famous records chronicle also includes the world's most pierced woman and the globe's longest tongue.
Elaine Davidson, Edinburgh, has spent five years gathering 720 piercings all over her body.
Her stomach, breasts, hands, ears, forehead, eyebrows, chin, nose and tongue have all been pierced.
Other newly confirmed record holders include American Jackie Bibby, who held eight rattlesnakes by their tails in his mouth without assistance.
Also featured in the book will be Briton Christine Martin, who spent 90 minutes bathing in 10 gallons of maggots as well as American Kevin Cole who sent a spaghetti strand 19 centimeters after blowing it from his nostril.
The book, which has sold more than 95 million copies since its first publication in 1955, is now the world's best-selling copyright book.
courtesy www.ananova.com
School for drag queens opens in Italy
A school has been set up in Italy to teach people how to become drag queens.
Drag artist and TV presenter La Karl du Pigne will be offering classes in mid October.
Lessons will include how to hide a beard, catwalk with high heels and speak in a higher tone of voice.
The three day course will be in Turin and open to men aged 18 to 65.
courtesy www.ananova.com