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Snippets &<br />
Soundbites<br />
By the quirky and über-talented ec team<br />
Fun run or Yum run?<br />
Ever get Hungry during your run? Just<br />
try the Krispy Kreme Challenge in Raleigh, N.C.<br />
During this race, more than 5,000 runners jog 2 miles to the<br />
local Krispy Kreme, eat 12 doughnuts each, and then jog back<br />
to North Carolina State University, where the race begins.<br />
And they all do it in less than an hour. Back in 2004, the event<br />
started as dare among some college friends. This year, the<br />
event raised more than $35,000 for charity. Unfortunately, the<br />
participants consumed more calories than they burned in this<br />
race. Twelve Krispy Kreme doughnuts contain 2,400 calories<br />
and 144 grams of fat. And running 4 miles only burns about<br />
400 calories. Oh, but who cares? These folks got in a run, a<br />
meal, and raised money for a good cause. Not a bad deal.<br />
Wedgies:crimefighting<br />
secret?<br />
Yes, they’re<br />
uncomfortable, and we<br />
don’t advocate you giving<br />
them to your little brother<br />
or sister. But a wedgie was<br />
the only thing that stopped<br />
a man who’d tried to break<br />
into a car in Salt Lake<br />
City, Utah. A woman saw<br />
him attempting to break<br />
into her coworker’s car<br />
and chased the guy. She<br />
caught up to him, but he<br />
was a squirmer who kept<br />
nearly getting away from<br />
her. That is, until she gave<br />
him a forceful wedgie and<br />
put him in a headlock.<br />
Needless to say, he stayed<br />
very still until the cops<br />
were able to get there and<br />
arrest him. We bet he’s<br />
regretting ever thinking<br />
about stealing THAT car!<br />
Featuring: doughnut runs, ridiculously long<br />
ear hair, kissing bans, crime-stopping wedgies,<br />
and hand-knit sweaters for balding chickens!<br />
5 things<br />
to<br />
remember<br />
this 4th of<br />
July:<br />
Don’t jump<br />
over lit<br />
fireworks<br />
As fun as it may<br />
look, it’s not smart.<br />
Watch the<br />
Mayo<br />
You wouldn’t want<br />
to get sick, so<br />
ask yourself (or<br />
your host) how<br />
long something’s<br />
been without<br />
refrigeration.<br />
Lather up<br />
Don’t forget the<br />
sunscreen!<br />
be Patriotic<br />
Fly a flag, wear red,<br />
white, and blue,<br />
paint your face,<br />
or whatever. Let<br />
people know you’re<br />
proud to be an<br />
American!<br />
be grateful<br />
You’re fortunate<br />
to live in the USA.<br />
Thank a veteran for<br />
his or her service<br />
to our country.<br />
You have a lot of<br />
freedom as an<br />
American citizen,<br />
but even more as a<br />
child of God! Thank<br />
Him for it.<br />
160<br />
The most miles<br />
ever run in<br />
24 hours on<br />
a treadmill.<br />
(Record set by<br />
Arulanantham<br />
Suresh Joachim<br />
in Canada.)<br />
As men get older, the hair on<br />
their heads slows its growth.<br />
Meanwhile, the hair in their ears<br />
and noses continues to grow.<br />
Turtle gets fake flippers<br />
After a shark attack left “Lu”<br />
the loggerhead turtle with severe<br />
injuries to her forelimbs, Japanese<br />
scientists have fitted her with new<br />
prosthetic ones.<br />
While her swimming capabilities<br />
are only up to 60 percent of a healthy<br />
turtle her size, researchers are hopeful<br />
about her recovery.<br />
Erika Akai, a researcher at the nonprofit<br />
Sea Turtle Association of Japan<br />
said, “She should eventually be able<br />
to lay eggs on a beach.” They’re trying<br />
to get her strong enough to actually<br />
climb up to the beach after swimming<br />
there.<br />
Mind the lip<br />
Kissing banned in British<br />
train station<br />
In an Effort to speed up commute<br />
times, couples are no longer allowed to kiss<br />
at the train station in Warrington, UK (about<br />
3.5 hours northwest of London). While the<br />
public thinks the new “no kissing” signs are<br />
a little silly, city officials say the ordinance is<br />
more of a reminder to not hold up the lines.<br />
Cut your hair!<br />
Radhakant Baijpai claims his 10-inch<br />
ear hair has brought him luck and prosperity.<br />
The 58-year-old Indian grocer has been<br />
growing out the hair in his ears since age<br />
18, and he has never taken scissors to the<br />
bushy masses protruding from his ears.<br />
Baijpai takes special care of his ear<br />
hair, washing it with a specially formulated<br />
herbal shampoo (aren’t we glad to hear<br />
that he washes it!) and making sure to not<br />
If you’re in England,<br />
don’t bother<br />
referring to that<br />
warm shirt of yours<br />
as a “sweater.” They<br />
call it a “jumper.”<br />
Interview?<br />
You?<br />
Yep, you read that correctly.<br />
We want to interview YOU!<br />
Here’s the deal: we love to hear<br />
from our readers. When we get<br />
to hang out with you at focus<br />
groups, you make us laugh, help<br />
us to see this world through<br />
your eyes, and give us reason to<br />
celebrate that God didn’t make<br />
us all with the same personalities<br />
and talents.<br />
So, we’re trying to find out more<br />
about our readers with the ec<br />
Reader Five-Minute Interview.<br />
We ask a few simple questions;<br />
you answer them. Then, we print<br />
them here. Look for the Reader<br />
Five-Minute Interview thread<br />
on our page on Facebook or<br />
check out the link on the blog at<br />
http://ecmagazine.blogspot.com.<br />
Stop by soon!<br />
Take your ec somewhere<br />
that makes you happy<br />
and take a picture. Then,<br />
send it our way. Use the<br />
link on our blog!<br />
wear rings so that he doesn’t accidentally<br />
catch and rip out some of the hair.<br />
His wife has asked him to cut the ear<br />
hair, but he never has. And now that he’s<br />
the Guinness World Record holder for<br />
longest ear hair, she’s quit asking him<br />
about it. She said she knows it’s a source of<br />
pride for him. But the sheer amount of hair<br />
protruding from this guy’s ears makes one<br />
wonder if he ever heard her ask him to cut<br />
it in the first place.<br />
People Are Talking<br />
You live in a world that tells you a lot of lies—<br />
about yourself, what matters, and how you should<br />
look or act. See what some celebs had to say about<br />
that recently.<br />
“People say, ‘It’s<br />
part of being<br />
famous,’ but I<br />
didn’t want that.<br />
I wanted to be a<br />
singer. I’m probably<br />
lying when I say that. I did want to be famous,<br />
but I didn’t realize what famous was. I thought<br />
fame just meant ‘Everyone will love me.’”<br />
—Lily Allen, Spin, February 2009, pg. 46.<br />
“I definitely took my hits, and I definitely got<br />
punished for the bad things I did. And you<br />
know what? Some of those I deserved. Having<br />
been given a second, third, whatever chance,<br />
I don’t think that’s being a magician. Maybe<br />
it’s about having an absolute blind faith in a<br />
higher power. Maybe there’s something I’m<br />
supposed to do that I haven’t done, and that’s<br />
why I keep getting chances.”<br />
—Actress Shannen Doherty, Radar, October/<br />
November 2008, p. 64.<br />
Featherless chickens get<br />
hand-knitted sweaters<br />
Rescuer calls on community to knit<br />
for 1500 rescued fowl<br />
Lucky hens end up at the Little Hen Rescue<br />
Centre in Norwich, UK, where Jo Eglin takes in<br />
hens deemed poor egg layers by the farms where<br />
they lived and layed. Saving them from certain<br />
death, Jo noticed that many of the hens were so<br />
stressed out by the large farms where they had<br />
lived that they lost their feathers. So Eglin called on<br />
anyone who knew how to knit to start making<br />
sweaters for the 1500-member brood. The<br />
chickens are naked no more!<br />
fun random notes<br />
The Buzz<br />
Dates you don’t want to<br />
miss in July:<br />
July 1: Creative Ice Cream Flavors<br />
Day<br />
July 4: Independence Day<br />
July 7: Chocolate Day (as if Feb. 14<br />
wasn’t enough for this food!)<br />
July 11: Cheer Up the Lonely Day<br />
July 17: On this day in 1790,<br />
Washington D.C. was<br />
established as our nation’s<br />
capital.<br />
July 22: Hammock Day<br />
July 27: Take Your Pants for a Walk<br />
Day (Hmm. OK?!)<br />
July 30: National Cheesecake Day<br />
(yes, please!)<br />
Overheard:<br />
• Former dcTalk member Michael<br />
Tait joined the newsboys, replacing<br />
Peter Furler as<br />
their lead singer.<br />
He performed<br />
with the group for<br />
the first time on<br />
March 7, 2009.<br />
• Remedy Drive<br />
will be playing the<br />
Cornerstone Festival this month in<br />
Bushnell, Ill. For more info, check out<br />
page 46 or visit<br />
www.cornerstonefestival.com.<br />
• Talk of BarlowGirl and Everyday<br />
Sunday releasing new albums sometime<br />
this summer.<br />
Next month in ec:<br />
Articles on living with purpose this<br />
school year, pursuing God’s will, an<br />
interview with Henry Blackaby about<br />
hearing God, time management<br />
and organization tips, DVD reviews,<br />
and five weeks of devotions about<br />
pursuing God and His will.<br />
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