Marge, as November’s cover girl, doesn’t show you quite everything; a few things are tastefully left to the imagination. She is also the subject of a three-page spread and an article titled, The Devil in Marge Simpson.

So, how does Marge Simpson measure up to Marilyn Munroe? Up to now, only Homer knew, but her secrets will be unveiled for all.

The publishers of Playboy magazine are hoping that this playful approach will attract newer readers as their audience has been slipping. No longer is Playboy the only choice for young (and older men) to ogle beautiful women, not with the advent of the Internet and the multitude of photos available to all.

Let’s see if Marge has what it takes. After all, Marge isn’t all sunshine and roses. According to her biography on theSimpsons.com,

she also has secrets: She has been tempted to stray from her husband by a charming bowler and was nearly seduced into a life of crime by her one-time neighbor, Ruth Powers.

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What do I think? Um, let’s just say I’m not a fan.

Just click on the box below to see what I mean:

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But, according to this fascinating article from mental floss, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Might sound somewhat morbid and gross, but it turns out there are plenty things your body can do and places for your body to end up rather than six feet under or in an urn.

According to this mental floss article  ‘10 Things Your Body Can Do After You Die’, throughout history, the dead have been busy doing everything from getting married (ghost marriage) and unwinding with a few friends (mummy based panaceas) to powering up crematoriums, being a Soviet tourist attraction (Lenin), standing trial (Pope Formosus), and touring the world as a work of art (Body Worlds).

That’s just to tip of the iceberg when it comes to dead adventures. Head on over to mental floss to find out all the gory details.

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Apparently the judge decided that the yawn was a disrespectful interruption of the court and the yawner was in contempt.

Seriously, you have to wonder what the judge was thinking. Yawning is as natural as breathing and just as involuntary. No one really knows why we do it. But we do. Animals do it. Even babies in the womb do it.

And as everyone knows, it’s pretty contagious. You see, or even hear, someone else yawning and nine times out of ten, you’ll be yawning yourself within a second or two.

But there was no report of that happening in this court which is probably just as well as it might be ended up with the jail being full of yawners.

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If so, here’s a study you  might want to consider.

Two reporters living in New York City recently walked around the city for four days wearing flip-flops. They took numerous train trips, walked through Prospect Park, headed out to the bars in West Village, took in a baseball game at Coney Island, waded through the public restrooms at the Coney Island subway station, and even rode the Cyclone, twice.

They then turned the flip-flops over to a microbiology lab at EMSL Analytical for testing.

The results -  the flip-flops had collected approximately 18,100 bacteria of the five most prevalent varieties, including the deadly Staphylococcus aureus.

Now flopping around in Flip Flops might stop your feet from touching the ground but they don’t stop the grim from the ground touching your feet.  So it’s pretty certain that what ever gets onto the flip flops has a pretty good chance of also getting onto your feet. Just imagine what could happen if you had a cut on your foot. Bacteria such as the deadly Staphylococcus aureus could enter the cut, allowing the bacteria to enter your bloodstream, which, if untreated, could kill you.

Not a pretty picture.

So what’s a flip-flop lover to do? Well, this one is going to start by throwing the flip flops away and wearing shoes (and socks) the next time she visit’s the big city.

Yeah, I know that sounds a little extreme but  I’d rather cover up than get covered in germs.

What about you?

Going to toss the flip-flops?

If not, here’s a few flip-flop cleaning tips for you.

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It starts with taking a block of wood  and heat it up until it turns to pure carbon (in other words charcoal). 

They then spray calcium over the carbon thereby creating calcium carbide. Further chemical and physical steps will convert the calcium carbide into carbonated hydroxyapatite which is then able to be implanted and used as the artificial bone.

According to the scientists, the wood-derived bone substitute will let live bones to heal faster and more securely after a break than currently available titanium and ceramic implants.

But using wood to create artifical bone is still a work in progress. Scientists are currently limited to trialing the process on sheep. Implantation in humans not yet on the cards.

Something, though, to look forward to in the future.

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But can we expect everyone to smile all the time. Is that even possible? And would we really want to be constantly surrounded by smiling faces?

One Japanese company, Omron, thinks so and has created the Smile Scan to help people rate their smiles.

Consisting of a video camera and sensor unit that connected to computer software, the Smile Scan scans a person’s face, rendering a 3D image and evaluates critical spots such as mouth and eyes to see if the person is smiling hard enough. The smile is then rated from 0 to 100.

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Currently available only in Japan, the Smile Scan is being used by companies such as Japan’s Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. This Tokyo-based company is using the ‘smile meter’ to grade and evaluate the grins of it’s station staff as they report to work each day. Employees are then able to carry around a printed image of their best smile so that they can replicate it throughout the day as they meet and greet customers at train stations.

Can you image the employees at the Grand Central Station in NYC or at LAX airport submitting to a similar process?

Somehow I don’t think they’d be smiling!

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All they have to do is sign up for three years and they can have the plastic surgery of their choice – for free.

Interesting incentive plan. And apparently it’s working. According to the clinic manager, they are now fully staffed.

 In fact, they had to reject dozens of applicants.

But it sounds more like providing a bandaid rather than a cure to the continuing nursing shortages.

(via Kevin MD.com)

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This waterless toilet, aptly named LooWatt, is a closed-loop management system that will recycle human waste and eventually turn it into energy.

Here’s how it works. After defecating, you turn the crank on the toilet which, instead of flushing, magically pushes the waste down into a receptacle that is lined with a carbon-rish biodegradable film. Once this prototype sealed container is full, it is removed and the compressed waste is taken to an anaerobic digester which, in turn, will produce cooking gas from the methane.

It sounds a little gross but makes a whole lot of sense…

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Here’s a sampling…

A police officer who steals marijuana and gives himself a drug-induced fit of panic  His conversation with the dispatcher: “I think we’re dying. We made brownies, and I think we’re dead. Time is going by really really really really slowly.”  They survived and the  police officer was lucky not to have to do time.

An Ohio man called 911 in May 2009 after his live-in adult son refused to clean his messy bedroom.

An Oregon man called 911 because a  box of orange juice had been omitted from his younger brother’s order at a McDonald’s drive-thru.

And that’s just the start of a list of bizarre and odd 911 calls. Check out the Time article for more.

Obviously no one ever told these people that 911 calls really should be for life or death situations.

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