Top 100 Weirdest Stories of 2009

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Well, unless something really weird happens in the next couple of days, that is. . .

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The 100 Weirdest News Stories We Dugg in 2009

99. Too Fat to Work Family Says $36,000 Is Not Enough Benefit Cash

The Chawners, a married English couple and their two adult daughters, haven't been able to work in 12 years. The reason? They're too fat. Weighing in at between 240 and 340 pounds, the Chawners claim they're too heavy to find work and that the 36, 000 dollars they get a year in government assistance isn't enough to, ahem, "put food on the table. . ."

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Weird Piercings

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A lot of people I know have piercings beyond the ordinary one in each earlobe. My sister has one in her belly button. My friend and occasional blog contributor, Stupid Monkey Planet, has several, and I haven't asked him where they all are. And I've known several people with them in their tongues, eyebrows, lips, nipples. People seem to like to pierce a lot of things these days.

It's not for me. Even if I wanted them, I'm such a klutz, I'm quite certain I'd rip them out by accident, and be a bloody mess. Still, I don't see the harm, unless they cause your face (or other parts) to leak, or if they permanently stretch out a body part so that it doesn't ever snap back into place.

But it can be taken to extremes, as this story shows. . .

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What's the Weirdest Thing You Can Pierce?

Have you ever been drunk, making out in the home of a stranger you just met in a bar, and just when things start getting hotter, she or he begins to uncover numerous piercings so abundant and bizarre that it makes you question the intelligence of the decisions you've made in your life? . . .

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Science is Cool Gross: No More Tang for Astronauts

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I saw a report on this the other day, and was reluctant to post it. But hey, everyone needs a little gross-out to start their Wednesday, right? All righty then. . .

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Astronauts Will Soon Drink Their Own Urine

NASA has developed a water recovery device for its space stations that will recycle urine into potable drinking water.

Due to a recent breakthrough in the distillation process, astronauts will soon be able to drink water that comes from their own taps. . .

Read more at: Asylum

More Horrible Tattoos

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With apologies to Stupid Monkey Planet, my tattooed-iest friend, here is another collection of bad tattoos, this time from Asylum. I couldn't resist after seeing the tattoo of an Eames chair and ottoman, which is imagery my brother uses for his antiques business. My brother, you see, has his own bad tattoo of Freddy Krueger Frank Sinatra.

Enjoy.

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Bad tattoos: a gallery of ink that stinks

Chair and Footrest: The choice for furniture salesmen/bikers everywhere.

Skull Face

"What? What do you mean the auditions for Skeletor are over? But I..."

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