Tuesday October 22, 2013 CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce

***Comment from Don Fitch on LiveJournal 10/22  "May I suggest (without checking-out the site, because my computer/browser is wonky) that you probably do not have _the_ answer to the question 'what color is an orgasm?'. You seem to have _an_ answer. Probably quite a good one, but only one of many. (Okay, I might be missing something,because you're usually sharper than that.)"

The article does give several diverse answers.  And it's not always, or only, visual.

***The birth of Prince William’s son in July 2013 was the occasion for an outpouring of media speculation about the fate of the royal baby’s foreskin. The possibility that he might be circumcised was connected to a purported tradition of circumcision within the British royal family, said to be have been initiated either by Queen Victoria or by George I. In this article, we trace the origins and evolution of these stories and assess their validity. Our conclusion is that belief in a royal circumcision tradition derives from the reported circumcision of Prince Charles by the mohel Jacob Snowman in 1948, and the efforts of the British Israelite movement to concoct "lost tribes of Israel" origin for the British race. These elements merged into a fully developed narrative that was widely disseminated from the late 1990s. The initially separate claim that the tradition was imported from Hanover by George I can be sourced precisely to 2012. We further show that these stories are inventions, and that the royal family circumcision tradition should be regarded as a classic instance of a contemporary legend or urban myth.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/kz2dmcd

****Groom Who Halted Own Wedding With Bomb Hoax Jailed
LONDON October 22, 2013 (AP)
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
Associated Press

A forgetful British bridegroom who made a hoax bomb threat rather than admit he'd neglected to book the venue for his wedding was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail.

Neil McArdle called Liverpool's St. George's Hall from a phone booth on his scheduled wedding day in April, claiming a bomb was due to go off in 45 minutes.

His fiancee, Amy Williams, was left standing in the street in her wedding gown while the building was evacuated.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/pg98wmk

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