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Child See ... Child Do

Maria Montessori, the pioneer of the Montessori method of teaching kids, said that a child's mind is like a sponge and absorbs everything it sees. Children learn from others, especially their parents. They will do what they see their parents do. So be a good role model to your kids and other kids. Remember your actions will decide what a child does when he grows up. You the parent are his role model, you are his Superman or Superwoman, so live up to it.

Adventurous or Stupid?

Girl in human sling shot at millionaire's home in Utah. So if you are a millionaire you are authorized to do stupid and unsafe stuff? I guess if you can afford a human slingshot and a ATV, you can afford the doctors bills and the lawsuits if need be.

Valentine's Day Gift Idea Series - Gift Idea#1

Valentine's Day is fast coming, well actually it is only 19 days and some minutes to go before you try and please your sweetheart with the gift of the year. No, I am not talking about doing the laundry or the dishes guys, I am talking about something oh so romantic, something nice and shiny like a rock. Ok let's get back to reality, just get a her a gift you would like to watch, and no it's not a 60" Plasma or a Harley, its a Light Up Bra.

Voila...We Are Back...

Sorry readers, we were on a hiatus here, but we are back and we promise to be back with a bang. To our dedicated readers, we apologize for the long absence and a sincere "THANK YOU" to all those readers who checked on our well being and sent us emails on how much they missed reading our blog.

Now that we are back, please bear a little more with us as we catch up, and trust us, we have a lot of catching up to do.

Thanks for sticking it out with us.

Tip Jar

We at Wacky House are a generous bunch of people, generous enough to setup the "Tip Jar". We believe in giving back to the society wholeheartedly, and considering the fact that the holiday season is in full swing we have decided to use this mode to collect money for charity. Every 3 months we will pick a different charity to support and will make available the donations collected and donated. This month being a special month we will be supporting one charity exclusively for this month only.

The charity for this month is:

                            

Taking into account the present inflation rate and the cost of toys, the minimum donation requested is $2 and the maximum is your wish. While making the donation please remember it is for a great cause. 

So join hands with us in making this holiday season special for the kids.

To donate please click on the Tip Jar in the right column.

Be Back Soon ...

China's Death Buses

The country that executed more than four times as many convicts as the rest of the world combined last year is slowly phasing out public executions by firing squad in favor of lethal injections. Unlike the United States and Singapore, the only two other countries where death is administered by injection, China metes out capital punishment from specially equipped "death vans" that shuttle from town to town.

Executions in death vans are recorded on video and audio that is played live to local law enforcement authorities - a measure intended to ensure they are carried out legally.

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$100 Hamburger

A hundred bucks might buy you more than six dozen burgers from McDonald's, but the the swanky Old Homestead Steakhouse will sell you one brawny beef sandwich for the same price.

Boca Raton Mayor Steven Abrams could barely speak between bites as he devoured the 20-ounce, $100 hamburger billed as the "beluga caviar of sandwiches."

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Cool Modified Icons

I’ve been noticing logos lately that have replaced letters with pictures. I think it’s fascinating how the brain just fills in the blanks, whether or not the pictures actually resemble the letters they replace.

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06/06/06 baby born at 6.06am!

A proud mother says it is "spooky" her baby son was born on the dreaded 06/06/2006.

But Gemma Newton, and partner Ben McIntyre, 25, were even more shocked when 10lb 5oz Bobby, was born at 6.06am.

The former Darrick Wood pupil is brushing off concerns about the date and time and is just happy he was born a healthy child after being in labour, ironically, for six hours.

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Man Pays Speeding Ticket 52 Years Later

Better late than never.

That's how a British man felt about paying a speeding ticket he received in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park nearly 52 years ago.

Park officials received a letter and a five-pound note this week from John Gedge, who's now 84 and living in a nursing home in East Sussex, England.

Five pounds was worth about $14 in 1954, and about $9 today.

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Indian Food Flown To World Cup For English Fans

A group of curry-mad England fans are paying £1,600 to have a takeaway flown out from home to Germany.

Bath restaurant Bombay Nights is sending out the meal in time for the end of the England's match against Trinidad and Tobago.

Their customers are dance musicians Opposite Worlds who asked for the curry to be sent to their hotel in Munich.

Bombay Nights manager Abdul Nasir, 32, will fly out with the meal in a cool bag, reports the Sun Online.

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Patient 'Lost' For Three Days In Elevator

A hospital patient was trapped for more than three days in a broken lift after sneaking away from his bed for a cigarette.

Relatives, hospital staff and police searched for days after wheelchair-bound Karlheinz Schmidt, 68, went missing from the Charite Hospital in Berlin.

It was only when technicians were finally called out to fix a broken lift that the severely dehydrated man was found - 80 hours after first getting into the lift.

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Baa, Baa Black Sheep Blacklisted

An Indian state has removed nursery rhymes such as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" from its primary school syllabus because they are "too Western," newspapers said Wednesday.

The government in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, run by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, dropped the rhymes, immensely popular with millions of Indian children, from its Class I syllabus taught to five-year-olds.

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Deputy Fired for Filming Girls in Bikinis

A Martin County sheriff's review board found just cause in the firing of a former deputy who was relieved of duty for using his patrol car's dashboard-mounted camera to film bikini-clad girls at the beach.

Jack Munsey was fired Jan. 30 after an internal investigation found his behavior was not criminal but violated department policies. Munsey had sought reinstatement.

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Teachers Quit After Students Witness Sex

Two middle school teachers resigned after students saw them having sex in a classroom, the school district said.

Frances J. Sepulveda, 30, and Bryant J. Wilburn, 29, said they had sex in the classroom during school hours on "one or two occasions," according to an investigation by the Hillsborough County school district.

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Men Pick Condoleezza Over Julia Roberts For Dinner Date

A national survey by Esquire magazine finds men more likely to invite Condoleezza Rice to a dinner party than Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson.

The secretary of state was followed by Oprah Winfrey and Angelina Jolie in the survey, which is published in the magazine's July issue.

The 29-question survey polled nearly 1,100 randomly selected men aged 25 and older. The choices came from a list of 14 notable women.

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Naked, Cuffed Suspect Flees From Hospital

A burglary suspect was charged with a string of crimes after bolting from a hospital, naked, handcuffed and with blood spurting from a stab wound in his chest.

A deputy had removed Rashon Delee's leg shackles so he could use the toilet at Crouse Hospital when he decided to make his run Sunday afternoon, said Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh.

Delee ripped out an intravenous drip, monitors and a chest tube, threw his hospital gown in a deputy's face and ran from the hospital.

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Turtle On Wheels

Little Bit, a young Eastern Box Turtle was hit by a car in September of 2000. Her shell was crushed and she was left partially paralyzed. There was no way she would ever be released to the wild as happens with most successful rehabs. I repaired her shell using velcro strips epoxied to anchor points on her carapace. After some weeks Little Bit seemed to have made a full recovery except for the use of her hind legs. So some wheels seemed to be the way to go.

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Would-Be Robber Asks Bank How To Do It

A would-be Japanese bank robber asked staff how he should carry out the crime before meekly obeying a request to leave and then accidentally stabbing himself in the leg with a knife he was carrying.

The 58-year-old unemployed man went into a branch of the Saitama Resona Bank in the town of Kumagaya, north of Tokyo, on Wednesday, intending to rob it, a police spokesman said.

According to local media reports the man first asked a bank teller, "Any idea how you rob a bank?" The teller alerted another member of staff, who asked the man to leave.

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How Did They Do That?

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Top 10 Gadgets for the Filthy Rich

Do you travel in private jets? Decorate your foyer with real Renoirs? Use the word "foyer"? Then there's no way you're going to get your gadget fix from anything you can get at Best Buy. You crave the most exclusive, the top of the line, the most unusual, and the most attention-grabbing technology, and price is no object. But there are expensive gadgets, and then there are expensive gadgets. We aren't talking PlayStation 3 expensive — we're talking gear so expensive you'll have your butlers pick them up in your gold-plated helicopter.

Top 10 Filthy Rich Gadgets