out-there-ness

I just read on the the wondrous site for oddly gratifying information that is my MSN homepage the headline, "Girl's twin is found inside her stomach." I immediately chuckle, not because of the misfortune of a Greek 9-year-old, but because of a similar mention in one of my favorite movies. More on that in a sec...

MSN: "A 9-year-old girl who went to the hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday. 'They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that [a] tumor would hide an embryo,' hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said. Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord. Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births."

Isn't that news of the weird, or what? And, supposedly, I was a twin some 23 years ago. So I absorbed my other half? I no like that. :-( Makes me squeamish.

But the occurrence reminded me of one of my favorite scenes from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Toula's "crazy" aunt (we all have those) sat down her niece's fiancee's parents, upon first meeting, and went right in about a lump in the side of her neck and the fact that in the lump was her twin. "They found teeth and a spinal cord." You gotta see it to laugh at it! (And she's Greek, too! ha ha! It's in the accent! ha! It's...ok. I'll let it go now.)

In other news of the weird today, well known Atlantan YouTube celebrity "Soulja Girl" (or "ATL Hoodrat") has been put in jail for harassing Marta passengers. Supposedly, the girl was already on probation for spitting on a Marta employee some time ago. The girl's mother says she's bipolar, basically justifying the girl's "out-there-ness" shown in the YouTube capture. So, if you know your daughter is on probation for acting up on Marta and she's bipolar, why is she still riding Marta without you, mom? Come on!





[I honestly think this lunatic has been posted on everyone's blog for the past week or so!]

Have you ever seen the headline, "Man steals ATM with a forklift?" Not until Bush was in office! Hard times, ladies and gents. Hard times.

Other MSN headlines as of 8 p.m. today: "Best jobs for a recession." "Hollywood P.I. convicted of racketeering." "Tonya Harding tells her story." Rough stuff.