The host of a new Dutch talk show plans to take heroin
and other illegal drugs on air in a program intended
to reach young audiences on topics that touch their
lives, producers said Wednesday.

The show is called "Spuiten & Slikken," or the "Shoot
Up and Swallow" show.

Even in the liberal Netherlands, where marijuana is
sold and used openly, the proposed action by presenter
Filemon Wesselink is illegal.

The Shoot Up & Swallow show's main hostess will
interview guests about drug use and abuse, while
Wesselink and another presenter will carry out
in-the-field experiments with sex and drugs.

Wesselink, 26, plans to ingest heroin in the form of a
pill. In other segments of the show, Wesselink plans
to go on a drinking binge in a series of pubs. He also
will try LSD — on his couch under the supervision of
his mother.

BNN has drawn viewer complaints for programs in the
past, including a sex education program called "This
Is How You Screw." One segment discussed how to have
sex in a nightclub and featured life-size mannequins
with sex organs.

Psychopaths could be the best financial traders!

A team of U.S. scientists has found the emotionally
impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes
and that people with brain damage may make good
financial decisions, the Times newspaper reported
Monday.

In a study of investors' behavior 41 people with
normal IQs were asked to play a simple investment
game. Fifteen of the group had suffered lesions on the
areas of the brain that affect emotions.

The result was those with brain damage outperformed
those without.

The scientists found emotions led some of the group to
avoid risks even when the potential benefits far
outweighed the losses, a phenomenon known as myopic
loss aversion.

Who wants to be a Killionaire!

A Church of England vicar has unveiled his self-styled
"100-Minute Bible", an ultra-condensed edition of the
Christian holy book which claims to neatly summarise
every teaching from the Creation to the Revelation.

Such improvements is "Thall shall not!"

Subject: Area 69
To: lentz2001@yahoo.com

Jerry,

I was playing around in the kitchen about three years
ago when I decided it would be a good a idea to try
and scare my dog with our black and decker dough
mixer. I put it on high speed and pointed it at the
dog who started to run away.

To prove to the dog that it was harmless I attempted
to stop the blades with my hand. My fingers got bent
back to my wrist before the mixer
gave up and I broke my fingers.

The pain was so bad the grip of my other hand squeezed
the trigger harder, though I didn't know it at the
time. I tried to turn it off and run it back manually
to pull my fingers out, but slid the switch above the
trigger all the way over to reverse.

It spun and wrapped my fingers back the other way also
cutting one knuckle deep. I finally let go of the
pistol grip with my right hand and yanked the cord
from the wall socket, but the rubber tore free of the
wires and it started sparking, so without thinking I
quickly tried to pull the severed plug from the socket
and shocked myself so bad, I dropped to the floor. I
must have knocked myself out by hitting my chin on the
edge of the counter on the way down.

I was out and I heard paramedics putting me in the
ambulance. I could almost see them, but it was so
foggy. They were leaning over me under a light. Then
it seemed I was in the hospital. I saw on doctor reach
over and pick up what I was thinking was my mushy
brain. He played with it in his hands.

Then I realized it was the cookie dough I was mixing.
I was still on the floor and as the doctor stood up
over me, I could see they were like incects, but with
thin human like bodies.

I screamed. One of them was holding my mangled left
hand. Past him laying on the floor was my dog, asleep,
or I thought at the time, dead.

As I tried to sit up there was a rushing sound, they
all stood straight up and shot right up through the
ceiling of my kitchen. No hole, just sifted right
through.

Okay, people told me I was dreaming, but I never told
anyone till now that my panties were laying up on the
counter next to the mixer. My dog woke up, but sadly
died about 6 months ago. He was old so don't get to
sad.

So there's my Area 69 story, hope you are happy
getting all the scoop from a shy and quiet girl. Oh,
and guys? You ROCK!

Thanks, Romy

Some 30,000 taxpayers in 13 states better be prepared
to open their checkbooks again. Payments they made
last week are now most likely at the bottom of the San
Francisco Bay.

The checks were lost early on the morning of Sept. 11,
when the truck that was transporting them to an IRS
lockbox got into an accident on the San Mateo Bridge.
Thousands of pieces of mail were blown all around,
including into the bay.

The IRS spokesman, are asking people's patience during
this period.

Yeah, if it was the other way around... I'm sure
they'd have lot's of understanding and patience.

The U.S. space agency, NASA, unveiled the spacecraft
that will succeed the Space Shuttle program: the Crew
Exploration Vehicle, or CEV. The spacecraft will be
designed to carry four astronauts to and from the
moon, support up to six crewmembers on a future
mission to Mars and deliver crew and supplies to the
International Space Station.

Hopefully the $104 billion dollar lunar program will
bring jobs to the valley.

President Bush has targeted America's return to the
moon with two missions per year with the goal of
building a permanent lunar outpost. And one outpost
and resort on the surface of the sun.

A JetBlue airliner with its front landing gear stuck
sideways safely landed, balancing on its back wheels
as it slowed on the runway at Los Angeles
International Airport.

The safe landing was made at an auxiliary runway set
apart from the main terminals. The pilot landed using
the back wheels first and then eased onto the front
tires, which smoked, popped and sparked on contact.

Emergency crews from across the area massed near the
runway, ready to help the 139 passengers and six crew
members.

Sources say in the landing the pilots didn't even
spill one drop of their drinks.

INXS has tapped J.D. Fortune as its lead singer on
CBS' Rock Star: INXS.

Fortune, who once paid the bills by imitating the King
and, when that failed, lived out of a car.

INXS, cohosts Brooke Burke and Dave Navarro, performed
in front of a live audience at the same Los Angeles
studio where Producers built a replica of downtown
L.A.'s Mayan Theater, the Mayan was the site of the
band's final L.A. concert with the late Michael
Hutchence. Hopefully J.D. Fortune won't go the way of
Michael Hutchence, but Producers built a replica of
the noose used just as a boost to ratings.

After directing four of his band's videos, including
the recent "Question!," System Of A Down bassist Shavo
wanted little to do with the promotional clip for the
title track from the group's album, "Hypnotize."

Currently finishing production for the video in Los
Angeles, he has apparently caught the eye of
Hollywood: he says he's entertaining an offer by
Miramax Films to direct a feature film.

Ed McMahon is taking to the road to pay tribute to
longtime TV partner Johnny Carson, stopping in the
late-night king's home state to reflect on the pair's
friendship.

Carson, who grew up in Norfolk, NB died Jan. 23 of
emphysema at age 79. He was the host of "The Tonight
Show Starring Johnny Carson" from 1962 to 1992.

Many props and friends of the show will be on display
for fans to see. One prop is the lil monkey that peed
on Carson's head, now dead the stuffed monkey will
surely bring a smile to the faces of all that view the
video clip.