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If you have $27,500 lying around (sure, who doesn’t?), extreme travel group G.A.P Adventures will take you as high as 13 miles above the Earth’s surface through its Edge of Earth program on a MiG-31. First-class accommodation and meals, and we bet you’ll be screaming your balls out with all the breathtaking (and breakfast-retching) things [...]

What do you do when there’s a heat wave and not a body of pristine unpolluted water around?
A floating pool!
The Badeschiff (”bathing ship”), as spotted floating on the Spree river in Berlin, Germany, is an old barge converted into a public swimming pool. If you gotta go pee, you only have to stand on the [...]

Maybe you’re not aware of it yet, but luxury submarines are so hot right now as the pussy magnet of choice among the very rich. You know, for screwing the brains out of those out-of-work Hollywood starlets while sea anemones float by the submarine window. It’s fine — except with those naughty dolphins.
“Dolphins are easily [...]

When you’re content with succulent dinners composed mainly of bird seed for most of your life, seeing how the White House regaled the palate of the royal British couple arouses the kind of fascination hobos feel whenever they see somebody like Rosie O’Donnell. Here’s the actual menu from the White House website.
Menu for the Dinner [...]

Umo Inc’s “Gold Facial Treatment,” which it unveiled recently at Beautyworld Japan in Tokyo, involves placing three sheets of 24-carat gold leaf on your face and costs £125. The question everyone’s asking is: Does it work? Our answer is: Yeah, in the exact same way farting through silk works.

Play with your logic… before your logic plays you.

If you guys have any opprobriously wacky but burning question that you’d rather not ask aloud due to a nagging fear that your privates’ privacy might be placed under scrutiny by the sexual public, well, I have just discovered apt recipients to it: just throw the ball to these homies and they’ll put all your [...]

As testament to people’s ceaseless obsession with talking rodents to amuse kids and grown-ups, here’s Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal reportedly in talks with investors about opening an $8 billion Disneyland theme park in Bahrain.
Quite “unpredictably,” the said venture will be called [drumroll please] “Disney Bahrain.”
Alwaleed, the world’s eighth-richest man, is talking to investors [...]

The “Eejanaika” at Fuji-Q Highland in Japan has been designed to make you barf your lunch, even if you didn’t actually have one. With a top speed of 126 km/h, descent angle of 89 degrees, and individual seats that rotate you 360 degrees, it won’t really be surprising if its operators hand out miniature replicas [...]

Have fun this Holiday Season!!!
Cheers! Always smile, stay young at heart, age with grace!
And watch out for ALAS FILIPINAS this 1st of January 2007.
With lotsa love, Pepe Alas.

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