Tortise hotel

Mrs Neely who runs the Jersey-based Tortoise Sanctuary, had to set up the fridges because of the particularly mild winter.

Her tortoises hibernate for up to three months between December and March, and need steady temperatures between 3c and 8c.

They are in danger of waking early if it heats up - and then do not have enough body weight to keep themselves warm and not enough energy to eat or drink.

But fridges, at a steady 4c to 6c, are the perfect environment.

Mrs Neely said: "It's much easier to maintain a constantly cool temperature with a fridge than it is with our ever-warming climate."

On Saturday night a guest said she would get a bottle of wine and was stunned when she opened the fridge.

Mrs Neely said: "I do sometimes keep a bottle of wine inside because it helps stabilise the temperature."

me, in 62 years...

This British gentleman is Buster Martin, and he is 101 years old. The father of 17 returned to work as a plumber three years ago "because he was bored." But apparently that wasn't enough to keep him entertained, because now he has taken up running marathons.

First he ran the Roding Valley half-marathon in Essex (with a time of 5 hours and 13 minutes,) and is now focusing on the full-length London Marathon. If he makes it, he will officially become the world's oldest competitive athlete. His trainer has experience in these matters, having previously helped Fauja Singh, 96, break the London marathon record for the over-90 category.

His personal secret to staying young, of course, is no secret. The BBC reports that, on finishing the half-marathon run, the first words of the working plumber were: "Where's my beer?"

uh, what?

sports widows rejoice

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Via Street Anatomy

Norma Jean, 1949

Atheists

and furthermore...

Bag lady: Please, can someone help me? Call 911...
Cop: You're talking to a goddamn cop! Are you fucking retarded?

--Times Square

from Overheard in New York

Also

Guy randomly wipes out on the sidewalk, flat on his stomach with arms stretched out in front of him. Everyone stares.

Nearby cop: Safe!

--Outside Penn Station

from Overheard in New York

if i had a nickle...

Student: ... And I was all, 'Dude, don't touch my side of the cadaver!'

--Albert Einstein College of Medicine

from Overheard in New York

Is It Hot in Here, or Is It You, Wednesday One-Liners?

I gotta try these sometime...

 

Man to scantily clad girl passerby: Yo, can I get your number? Can I text message you? Can I e-mail you? Somethin'? [As she walks away] Can I be your socks?

--Times Square

Overheard by: Nicole

 

70-year-old man to 20-something jogger: Good morning. Would you like to wrestle in the grass over there?

--Riverside Park

 

from Overheard in New York

Sing along...

I always feel like... somebody's watching me....

man, if i had a dime...

the proud, the few

Bored cop on megaphone: Please walk on the sidewalk. Stop walking in the middle of the street... Stop walking in the middle of the street. Use the sidewalks... See how you're on the black pavement? You want to be on concrete. See the cars trying to run you over? That's 'vehicular traffic.' Get out of its way.

--Next to Radio City Music Hall

 

from Overheard in New York

Three models banned from Madrid fashion week for being 'too skinny'

"Three models have been banned from Madrid fashion week for being too thin.

They were sent home after doctors weighed and measured all 70 of the girls taking part.

The show, which started yesterday, bars models with a Body Mass Index of less than 18, believing that they set an unhealthy example for teenage girls."

More from the Daily Mail

Several years ago, I told Pamela that the tide was turning on this kind of stuff. And I'm glad to know that I was right. Every time something like this happens, it helps reset the expectations and the standard of beauty.

But Paris Hilton's not on the list...

7 Amazing Holes

um, ouch?

This baby elephant has been rescued – by the nose – moments after his mother apparently tried to crush and drown him. The drama took place just seconds after the baby was born in a zoo. Pori, a 26-year-old African elephant, shocked onlookers by appearing to stamp on her new son. She then began rolling him in her enclosure before putting him in water, in an apparent attempt to drown him. Visitors at Friedrichsfelde Animal Park in Berlin screamed to alert keepers, who lured Pori away from her child with bread and apples. Members of the public then pulled the baby out of the water to safety. He was given a tranquilliser and painkillers. Amazingly, the baby was later reunited with his mother by zoo staff who said she had not been trying to kill him after all. Although the mother killed her first baby in 2005 by accidentally crushing him, keepers think her behaviour yesterday was down to a failed bid to make the calf stand up. Elephants usually nudge their young to help them take their first steps. Claus Pohle, deputy director of the zoo, said: "It only looked like she wanted to stomp him. All is well with Pori and her son. She is a proud and loving mother."

end of the world?

Amazing moment the world's biggest Christ was struck by lightning

This amazing photograph gives whole new meaning to the phrase "May God strike me with lightning if ..."

Rio de Janeiro's world-famous statue of Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm over the Brazilian city on Sunday.
The statue - which towers over the city as the largest statue of Christ in the world - did not appear too damaged after the strike, according to Brazilian reports.

The statue stands 39.6 metres (130ft) tall, is made of 700 tons of reinforced concrete, and is located at the peak of the 700-metre (2,296ft) Corcovado mountain overlooking the city.

It was named one of the new Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.

Sunday's lightning storm felled trees and wreaked havoc in several Rio neighbourhoods.

Via Cellar Image Of The Day

Russian Stacking Frogs

She sure does love her lamb!