London, England -- Socialized benefits may have some benefits after all. U.K.-based newspaper, "The Guardian" reports that Britain's National Health Service is now prescribing vibrators for women suffering from sexual problems.

YORK, England -- The crowd was on clothespins and needles at WH Smith's store in York, England, recently, when daredevil Garry "Stretch" Turner broke his own world record by clipping 153 clothespins to his face. The bizarre display took place to launch the latest version of the "Guinness Book of World Records," according to "The Northern Echo."

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- One former high tech worker in Palo Alto, California, is trading the dot com doldrums for dusty ducts with a cleaning service called GeekMaids. The company consists of ex-network engineer Lile Elam and nine other laid-off techies who specialize in everything from cleaning your windows to helping you learn how to use Windows NT, reports sfgate.com.

BERLIN -- Poles may give makers of the Irish beer Guinness the cold shoulder if Ireland votes to keep Poland out of the European Union. The Polish president says, "If it all goes badly, we won't go to war, but Guinness consumption could fall dramatically because the beer will taste more bitter to us."

LONDON -- Two British scientists have the proof to finally dispute the myth that a man's shoe size correlates with his sex organ size. The study of 104 men appeared in the "British Journal of Urology International" and the scientists conclude, "There is no point using shoe size to obtain indirect measurements of penile length."

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