It isn't anything new to say that Yao Ming (Chinese basketballer who plays in the NBA) is a big mofo. He is 7'5 and 136kg. However it has recently been revealed that Yao Ming was specifically bred to play basketball. Both of his parents played for China’s National Basketball Teams. His father Yao Zhi Yuan stands 6'7 and his mother Fang Feng Di stands 6'3. At first glance, you may think this was a romantic basketball love match, formed while slam dunking each other. But alas, the Chinese goverment over zealous for sporting glory on the world stage to show their communist might "strongly encouraged" Yao Mings parents to bang one out for the nation and create a basketball wonder kid. So Yao Ming was born. From the age of nine Yao Ming was trained to play hoops. He hated it, but eventually came around. He was always going to be an international star.

It got me thinking, surely there are plenty of Aussie sports stars who should be given the green light to get under the covers and produce a little aussie legend. Perhaps Dawn Fraser and Ian Thorpe should have a little water baby? I know neither of them likes the opposite sex, but Dawn kinda looks like a man anyway.

Some other possibilties:
Richie Benaud + Liesel Jones
Peter Sterling + Liz Ellis
Cathy Freeman + Dennis Lillee

Who would be your ultimate Aussie sporting match-up?

'Berko' rooster pierces girl's throat
Sydney Morning Herald
March 28, 2006

A four-year-old girl has been airlifted to hospital after a savage rooster attack left her with a collapsed lung.

"She had been pecked quite savagely on the face, the neck and it appears it did pierce her windpipe," said NRMA CareFlight helicopter spokesman, Ian Badham.

Grace Angel, who lives on a farm near Mudgee, was airlifted to Orange Base Hospital last night before being flown on to Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney.

Her uncle, Ben Angel, told smh.com.au that Grace and her two sisters were "feeding the chooks" when the rooster went "berko".

"It's gone off its tits. I don't know what it was doing. You hear of cranky roosters but I've never heard of one actually attacking anyone like that," Mr Angel said.

"It's just a dumb bloody white rooster. I didn't think roosters were that violent actually."

He said Grace's father would have wasted little time in destroying the rooster.

"I don't think the rooster's alive. Knowing my brother, he would've smashed it."


"berko" and "off its tits" in the one article!! Thats Gold!
I love Oztraya!

Please Tell Us When you Intend To Die

The seventh case of the decomposed body of an elderly person found at home is just "the tip of the iceberg", a Sydney academic, Keith Watmough says. Watmough appealed to the public especially the elderly to "inform neighbours of your plans for the following weeks so they know what that smell is when they haven't seen you around."
He continued, "If you feel likely to die, do the right thing and inform a neighbour or relative who can feed your pets, collect your mail and call the cops."
Watmough identified many elderly as selfish and asked them to "please consider the poor saps who have to peel your decomposing body of the Smokey Dawson recliner."

'Back to the Future' is one of my favourite movies ever. But have you ever wondered why Marty, a 17 year old kid, likes to hang around an old guy like Doc Brown?

Well the good people at ChocolateCakeCity.Com think they know with their movie, 'BrokeBack to the Future'.

Holy Teraflop Batman!!

The version of the IBM-built Blue Gene machine at the Juelich Research Centre in Germany has managed processing speeds of 46 teraflops, equivalent to 46 trillion operations a second.

Wow, I want a super-pooter like this one to play Lemmings on!