This has nothing to do with science, but this has to be the best headline ever:
British dwarf's penis gets stuck to hoover
Original story here.
Even better, the dwarf in question goes by the stage name Captain Dan the Demon Dwarf. I don't think there's anything to add here.
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As an Edinburgh resident, I have to point out that as Fringe shows go, that's not particularly unusual...
Meh. Possibly made up to publicise the Circus' show in Edinburgh this year - they were apparently emailing the media with offers of interviews with the performer in question well before the story hit the wires.
Even so, that doesn't mean it isn't a great headline...
Sucks for the little guy.
"It was the most embarrassing moment of my life when I got wheeled into a packed AE with a vacuum attached to me,"
Right, because the circus act as rehearsed was quite dignified.
Captain Dan: "I'm not Happy."
Reporter: "Well which one are you then?"
Captain Dan: (mumbles)"Changin' my name to Dirt Devil"
Personally, I preferred the headline on The Register: "Dwarf superglues todger to hoover".
It sounds like something out of an AliG show to me...
(see this clip)
A friend of mine alerted me to another good headline: "Inebriated Psychopath Masturbates in Sauna".