Discrimination-Female Statue Thrown out Due to Big Breasts

LILLE, France - The mayor of a town in France has thrown a patriotic female statue out of his town hall because its breasts were too big, his aides said on Friday. The terracotta bust of Marianne -- the traditional female embodiment of the French Republic in a Phrygian cap -- was an original work by a local artist, installed in 2007 at the town hall in Neuville-en-Ferrain, population 10,000.

"It was making people gossip," said one town hall employee who asked not to be named. "Remarks were made, during weddings for example." Mayor Gerard Cordon persuaded councillors to approve 900 euros (1,280 dollars) in this year's budget to buy a replacement, a more conventional bust of Marianne modelled on the statuesque French model Laetitia Casta. The artist, who made the rejected bust, Catherine Lamacque, said she gave it outsized breasts deliberately, "to symbolise the generosity of the Republic." The town hall bought her terracotta statue in 2007 for 1,400 euros.

Surprise-Hen turns cock after undergoing gender-bending sex change after 'she' stops laying eggs

WHEN an egg-laying hen started crowing at dawn, her owners wondered why she was acting so cocky...

It turns out pet “Gertie” had had a sudden, eggs-traordinary sex change.Great-grandparents Jim Howard, 76, and his wife Jeanette, 79, thought it odd that Gertie had begun bossing around their other hens, Daisy and Grace, and had stopped laying eggs. But they were stunned when the gender-bending hen grew a red comb and wattle, and started to cock-a-doodle-do.

Great-gran Jeanette explained: “They were all laying eggs until the end of last year. Over winter I didn’t take much notice, then one day I heard this noise coming from Gertie. She’d started cock-a-doodle-doing and was strutting around. I’ll have to start calling him Bertie.”Jim, a retired delivery company manager from Needingworth, Cambs, added: “It must be odd for her or him.”

Victoria Roberts, of the Poultry Club of Great Britain, said the changes are extremely rare. She added they happen to one in 10,000 chickens when a hen’s ovary is damaged and testosterone levels soar.

Good- Arkansas bans Saggy pants

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Students living in the state of Arkansas who love their sagging pants will soon have to leave them at home.Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill this week that bans students from wearing clothing that exposes “underwear, buttocks or the breast of a female.”Arkansas educators have long complained about the drooping attire, such as young men wearing saggy jeans that expose the top of colorful boxer shorts. “We feel the bill can improve the learning environment in schools,” said Donna Morey, president of the Arkansas Education Association.

What-Teacher's Topless photos found by students

An art teacher at a posh British boy’s school who posed topless for photos in her classroom is distraught after those photos fell into the hands of her students and were quickly circulated, local media reports.

The Daily Mail has published the photos of Joanne Salley, a former model and TV personality, wearing just tight blue jeans as she leans against bookshelves. The photos were believed to have been taken by another teacher in an empty classroom. The newspaper reports the images were discovered after a memory stick was left in the school's photo lab.

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Katie Holmes in X-rated confusion

Katie Holmes was horrified when her daughter Suri picked up a bag of penis gummies during a recent New York shopping trip. Photographers captured the little girl with the inappropriate sweeties and shots prompted media groups to criticize Holmes' parenting skills. But the actress insists it was just a harmless mistake. In a taped appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, which will air in America on Friday, Holmes explains, "I took her to get ice cream in New York at this place called Serendipity that we go to all the time. It's for kids. The clientele is children. We go in and we are waiting for a table and she grabs some gummies that are boy-part gummies. I was horrified.

Top ten email blunders

YOU'VE read the rude emails exchanged by two London men over a "hot girl" which went viral. But they are just the latest in a long line of people hitting send before thinking.

Here news.com.au reveals our top 10 other embarrassing email blunders.

1. Do You Know Claire Swire?

When Claire Swire sent a naughty note to her solicitor boyfriend Bradley Chait remembering a recent romp, he proudly shared the email with some friends, who shared it with their friends under the subject line "Do You Know Claire Swire?". Millions ended up reading the gory details.

2. Ham Strung

An exchange between legal secretaries over a missing ham sandwich leads to both women getting the sack.

3. A Very Bad Day

When the World Trade Centre fell on September 11, 2001, US Transport Secretary Stephen Byers' special adviser Jo Moore emailed colleagues saying it was agood day to bury bad news. She had to apologise after the email became public.

4. Hot List

Three male employees of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Ireland were suspended for circulating an email which rated thirteen new females employees on their looks.

5. Human Relations

When personnel officer John Crook recommended one of his colleagues for a pay rise and was asked by his manager why he felt his colleague deserved it he gave his reasons and jokingly added: "She was a grrrrrrrrreat shag as well!" He lost both his job and a claim for unfair dismissal.

6. Chat-up Cheese

Joseph Dobbie met a woman at a party, later acquired her email address and sent her a message describing her smile as "the freshest of my special memories". He went on to say he was sure she would "be able to see sincerity where others would see cliche". Instead, she forwarded the message to her sister and millions ended up reading it. The sender had included his phone number and was bombarded with mocking calls.

7. Web Browser

Former British Treasury press officer Robbie Browse sent an email to friends making fun of Chinese people’s eyes. But he accidentally copied it to his press list, containing 83 leading national newspaper journalists. One them immediately replied asking: "Will we all be invited to your leaving party?" Browse faced disciplinary action.

8. Insult the Aged

When principal Patrick Hazlewood and his school's treasurer Barry Worth jointly received an emailed complaint from local pensioner Mary Kelly about some misbehaviour by their pupils, Mr Hazelwood responded:"Tell her to get stuffed”, thinking his response was only going to his colleague. But he hit 'Reply All' so his message also went to Mrs Kelly.

9. Penta-gone

Devon schoolgirl Claire McDonald found herself receiving emails containing top secret information from the Pentagon after being accidentally added to a round robin list by a navy commander. One of them was offering advice to the UK on how to prevent secrets from being leaked.

10. Email Boob

A Ray White property consultant sent an email with the subject "Show me your tits'' to a columnist at the Courier-Mail. His explanation was that he his office had changed their email program and he was sending a test message to his partner, the contents of which are a long-standing joke between the couple