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Politicians in one Australian state have been asked to lend a hand and become sperm donors to help arrest dwindling supplies at an in-vitro fertilization clinic. Can I donate?

A Connecticut woman who was artificially inseminated with the wrong sperm gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Hope they weren't politicians from Australia.

A Romanian couple named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitude for meeting over the Internet. Poor, poor child. He will either get tough or die with a name like that.

Arkansas cops subdue nude jogger with taser. Youch!!!

Noisy lovemaking is no cause for eviction — so long as it's done in the daytime, a Swedish landlord said Thursday.

A large pile of composting manure burning for almost two months has neighbors upset and state officials looking for a way to put it out. Talk about Hot Shit!!!

Clint Eastwood made a strange speach while accetping an award. He said how he and Michael Moore were alike then added, "But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera - I'll kill you."

A HOTEL bed which belonged to devil-worshipper Aleister Crowley is to be exorcised.

Check this out. Before and after arial photos of the Tsunami disaster.

This week in history.
1854 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas .

1910 - The first radio broadcast. Inventor Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera.

1942 - Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

1944, jazz comes to the Met for the first time when Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge, and Jack Teagarden take the stage and show 'em how it's done...

1957 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

1955, Etta James releases her first hit, "Wallflower"...

1957, this week marks the opening of the Cavern Club in an old wine cellar on Matthew Street in Liverpool ... the club becomes world famous by the happy choice of the Beatles as its house band in 1961 and '62 ... it remains in business to this day...

1959, the staggering sum of $800 is borrowed by Berry Gordy for the purpose of starting Motown records, which will become one of the most successful and influential labels of the 20th century...

1962, "The Twist" by Chubby Checker tops the charts ... the song was written and first recorded by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters...

1966, British popster David Jones becomes David Bowie in an effort to avoid confusion with The Monkees' Davy Jones...

1967, in an unlikely bit of casting, Roy Orbison and Sheb Wooley (of "Purple People Eater" fame) are featured in the movie The Fastest Guitar Alive ... Orbison plays a gold-smuggling Confederate spy who totes a bullet-spewing guitar ... the movie also features seven of Orbison's songs on the soundtrack...

1967, the first Be-In takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park ... these gatherings of the incense-and-sandals set go on to become a Bay-Area fixture...

1970, in a bizarre latter-day bubble of Victorian flatulence, Scotland Yard confiscates eight prints from John Lennon's exhibit of erotic lithographs ... an accountant who has strayed into the gallery, Bag One, complains to the police, "They were exaggerated distorted caricatures depicting intimate sexual relationships of a repulsive and disgusting nature" ... the raiding policeman, Detective Inspector Frederick Luff, says, "Many toilet walls depict works of similar merit. It is perhaps charitable to suggest that they are the work of a sick mind ... The only danger to a successful prosecution ... is the argument that they are so pathetic as to be incapable of influencing anyone" ... the gallery is closed and its owners prosecuted for violating obscenity laws ... a London magistrate finally dismisses the charges and returns the lithos to the gallery, where they had been on sale for $58 each...

1972, Memphis' Highway 51 South is renamed Elvis Presley Boulevard ... within a few years the street goes unmarked because the street signs are stolen as quickly as they can be replaced...

1973, Pink Floyd hits the studio to start laying down tracks for one of the most successful albums ever--Dark Side of the Moon...

1974, singer Dino Martin (son of Dean) of the pop trio Dino, Desi, and Billy, is arrested this week in 1974 on suspicion of possession and sale of two machine guns...

1977, Keith Richards wins one ... he is acquitted of possession of LSD charges ... he also loses one, being found guilty of cocaine possession ... charges stem from the discovery of the illegal substance in a car he wrecked on May 19, 1976...

1978, The Sex Pistols play their swan-song show at San Francisco's Winterland...

1980, Paul McCartney goes down in Japan for a big bag of reefer ... he spends 10 days in the slam then gets the ignominious boot...

1981, punk star and former erotic dancer-porn actress Wendy O. Williams is arrested in Milwaukee for pleasuring herself on stage with a sledge hammer ... Ms. Williams--who typically performs adorned only in a G string and two tiny strips of electrician's tape--resists arrest valiantly and receives 12 stitches in the head for her efforts ... she dies 18 years later of a self-inflicted gunshot wound...

1982 - Shortly after takeoff, an Air Florida jumbojet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78.

1991, the crowd rushes the stage at an AC/DC concert in Salt Lake City, crushing three people to death...

1994, Danny Bonaduce of the Partridge Family squares off with Donny Osmond in a boxing ring and beats him in a split decision ... proceeds from the Chicago match go to charity...

1996, Jimmy Buffet, Island Records chairman Chris Blackwell, and U2 singer Bono are taking off in Buffet's seaplane in Jamaica when authorities open fire on them, mistaking them for drug traffickers ... nobody is hurt, no drugs are found, and the authorities are contrite ... Buffet gets a song out of it, "Jamaica Mistaica"...

1996, Lisa Marie Presley shocks the world this week in 1996 by filing for a divorce from the King of Pop after 20 months of matrimonial bliss ... "Do we have sex?" Presley volunteers during an earlier interview with the couple, whereupon they both adamantly answer her own question "Yes, yes, yes!" ... they do not specify with whom...

1996, a milestone of sorts is achieved when Wayne Newton performs his 25,000th Las Vegas show...

1999, claiming that Victoria's Secret's Metallica lip pencils constitute trademark infringement, the band Metallica files suit against the lingerie company...

2002 - US President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel.

2003, as part of a sting on users of an internet child porn site, Pete Townshend is arrested at his home and his computer is seized ... the irony is that Townshend is an activist against child pornography and foolishly used his credit card to access the site merely to see how bad it was ... no child porn is found on Townshend's computer or in his house ... but since his credit card number was on the site, he is given a reprimand and released...

Births this week:

January 12: Mississippi Fred McDowell (1904), Tex Ritter (1907), Ray Price (1926), Glenn Yarbrough (1930), Long John Baldry (1941), Family Stone trumpeter Cynthia Robinson (1946), Michael Hutchence of INXS (1960), Charlie Gillingham of Counting Crows (1960), Rob Zombie (1966), Melanie Chisholm of The Spice Girls (1974)

January 13: Sophie Tucker (1888), Trevor Rabin of Yes (1954), Earth, Wind and Fire drummer Fred White (1955), Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against The Machine (1970)

January 14: big-band vocalist Russ Columbo (1908), Allen (Alain) Toussaint (1938), Mark Egan (1951), Chas Smash of Madness (1959), Jeff Tate of Queensryche (1959), Patricia Morrison of Sisters of Mercy (1962), L. L. Cool J (1968), Dave Grohl of The Foo Fighters and Nirvana (1969)

January 15: Gene Krupa (1909), folk music archivist Alan Lomax (1915), slide guitar blues giant Earl Hooker (1930), crooner Jack Jones (1938), Don Van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart (1941), Edward Bivins of The Manhattans (1942), Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd (1949), Martha Davis of The Motels (1951), ELO bassist Melvyn Gale (1952), Lisa Velez of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam (1967)

January 16: bandleader Phil Harris (1904), Broadway diva Ethel Merman (1908), operatic diva Marilyn Horne (1934), Bob Bogle of The Ventures (1937), William Francis of Dr. Hook (1942), Ronnie Milsap (1943), Sade born Helen Folasade Abu (1959), Paul Webb of Talk Talk (1962), Mark O'Toole of Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1964), Maxine Jones of En Vogue (1966), Aaliyah (1979)

January 17: Eartha Kitt (1927), Bobby Bland (1930), Chris Montez (1943), Mick Taylor [the only lead guitarist to quit the Rolling Stones and live] (1948), Steve Earle (1955), Paul Young (1956), Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles (1957), Shabba Ranks (1966), Kid Rock born Robert James Ritchie (1971)

January 18: blues giant Elmore James (1918), Bobby Goldsboro (1941), David Ruffin of The Temptations (1941), "Legs" Larry Smith of The Bonzo Dog Band (1944), Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins (1956), DJ Quik (1970), Jonathan Davis of Korn (1971), Irish popette Samantha Mumba (1983)

Deaths this week:

January 12: Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees (2003), Brazilian composer/guitarist Luis Bonfa (2001)

January 13: Donny Hathaway (1979), Stephen Foster (1864)

January 15: blues harp pioneer Junior Wells (1998), Grand Ole Opry performer Vic Willis (1995), Harry Nilsson (1994), songwriter Sammy Cahn (1993)

January 16: Paul Beaver of Beaver & Krause (1975), Clara Ward of the Ward Sisters (1973), Arturo Toscanini (1957)

January 17: multi-instrumentalist Norris Turney (2001), bluesman David "Junior" Kimbrough (1998), songwriter Tommy Tucker (1982), R&B singer Billy Stewart (1970)