June 2004 Archives

Models demonstrate how to use a bed designed for sex, a contraption with handles and straps, while visitors look on, at the "Leisure Hotel Fair" in Tokyo June 30, 2004. At the 10th annual "Leisure Hotel Faire", operators and investors discuss the ins and outs of the most profitable niche of Japan's real estate market -- 17,000 "love hotels" serving a population of 99 million adults. REUTERS/Issei Kato

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Cancer patient Christopher Campbell holds roll of MEDI-JUANA Thursday, June 24, 2004, in Portland, Ore. Ailing people who legally use medical marijuana to alleviate their suffering would be able to possess a greater amount of the drug under a measure that activists are getting ready to promote on Oregon's fall ballot. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Some 110,230 lbs(50,000 kgs) of narcotics are burned by Iranian police to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 26, 2004. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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For the past 15 years we have had a common box turtle named "Lulu" walking our apartments and houses. She basically had free reign over the entire house and for the last 5 years called the space under our TV home.

Well... today she died. We're sad and my daughter is taking it very poorly. I'm dealing with it better since as far as I can tell Lulu was living on borrowed time for the past 15 years. She was found in a field full of people at a local carnival by a good friend of mine. He knew that we liked animals so he brought her to us. Over the past 15 years she has been tortured by our cats, licked by our dog, outlived 3 other tortoises that we had and been kicked around the house like a hockey puck a few times. She even found her way into our air duct system at one point. After about a month I was wondering where she was and my wife heard scratching and I had to lure her out.

Her favorite foods were spaghetti and meat sauce, macaroni and cheese and rice. She ate anything and at one point I swear she tried to eat daughter’s toes when she was younger!

Overall I'd say she had a pretty good life. She didn't have to hibernate and she got to eat things other than plants and bugs.

We'll miss you Lulu!

Two horses fight during the 'Rapa Das Bestas' event in Cedeira, northwestern Spain June 27, 2004. On the last Sunday of the month of June, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in Galicia. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal

"WHAT THE FUCK???"

I want to organize the annual Heterosexual Pride Parade where WE can parade around and act normal! Oh yeah, that's every day!

Men parade during the annual Gay Pride in Paris Saturday, June 26, 2004. The march comes three weeks after a Green party mayor celebrated the first homosexual marriage in France. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The book jacket of David T. Hardy's and Jason Clark's book, 'Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man,' is intended to debunk Moore's methods as 'Fahrenheit 9/11' hits theaters. (AP/Regan Books, HO)

Bullfighter Daniel Duarte is gored by a bull during a bullfight in Algeciras, southern Spain, Thursday June 24, 2004. Duarte was hospitalized after the goring. (AP Photo/EFE, J. Ragel)

An artist rendering of the platform of the proposed space elevator is shown in this undated handout photo. President Bush wants to return to the moon and put a man on Mars, but scientist Bradley C. Edwards has an idea that's really out of this world: an elevator that climbs 62,000 miles into space. While outsiders laugh, the institute Edwards works for has a NASA contract and he thinks an initial version could be operating in 15 years. (AP Photo/Institute for Scientific Research)

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A tornado forms in the sky above Aken, south of Berlin, in this picture taken June 23, 2004. Around 100 buildings were partially destroyed after a tornado raged through the east German region of Saxony on late Wednesday evening. REUTERS/Holger Otto

Warner Bros. is back on track with development of a live-action film adaptation of the popular Japanese-made cartoon series 'Speed Racer,' the studio said on June 24, 2004.The 'Speed' project, idling in Warner's slow lane for about a decade, shifted back into high gear after actor Vince Vaughn ('DodgeBall') sold the studio on his own concept for the movie, with Vaughn cast as the title character's mysterious big brother, Racer X, a studio spokeswoman said.

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Nick Wooster, aged 11, of Saanichton, British Columbia, submitted the
winning design in a contest held earlier in the year for the new Canadian 25 cent coin.