Honolulu Lite
A (tattle) tale of two siblings
Life in Honolulu: A mother was watching her young son and daughter playing when the girl did something that upset the boy. The boy came running up to the mother to rat his sister out. But the mother said, "We don't tattletale. You go work out the problem with your sister." The little boy walked back to the sister and -- out of earshot of the mother -- said "You do that again and I'm telling Mom!" Peace restored. Mom feels proud.
And now the news:
Cows will 'moove' out
ISTANBUL (Reuters) >> A Turkish woman has agreed to sell cows she has kept in upstairs apartments in the city of Trabzon, much to the relief of her neighbors."It's hard to believe someone would keep cows in an apartment," said local alderman Osman Terzi. "For years we have wondered what to do. The noise, smell and manure everywhere made a very ugly scene."
(Even worse were the Friday night flamenco dance parties.)
Ultimate in blind dates
BERLIN (Reuters) >> Diners at Berlin's newest restaurant cannot see what they are eating and have to be guided to their table by blind waiters because the restaurant is pitch black.In the "Unsicht-Bar," which means "Invisible Bar" in German, diners can only indicate whether they want fish, meat or vegetarian and are helped by blind waiters in consuming their meals. The point of the restaurant is to make guests concentrate on senses other than sight.
(Restaurant review: Napkins were tasty but dry, wicker bread basket crunchy but bland and candle on the waxy side. Waiter recovering from inadvertent butter knife wound.)
Police hunt peeping emu
HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) >> An escaped emu caused confusion in Hamburg after a woman called police to report what she thought was a bare-chested man with two big white dots on his forehead staring into her window."The woman heard someone tapping at the window and when she looked out she was a head with two big eyes," said a police spokesman.
The emu, which had escaped from the zoo, was not immediately captured.
(It's not as easy to locate an enormous, flightless Australian bird roaming around a German neighborhood as you might think.)
Honolulu Lite on Sunday:
Stock up on Spam, toilet paper and beer! Dockworkers are threatening yet another strike. How nice to be reminded that Hawaii is not actually a part of the United States but a remote outpost whose vital supply line can be choked off, not by terrorists, but good ol' American longshoremen.
Quote me on this:
"You know how it is when your mind stands with reluctant feet where the night and morning meet ..." -- James Thurber
Charles Memminger, winner of National Society of Newspaper Columnists awards, appears Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. E-mail cmemminger@starbulletin.com