Mike Tyson facial tattoo latest pick-up trick

Forget flowers, chocolate or Twitter: Mike Tyson’s facial tattoo is a hot new way to woo someone.

Swinging singles are going out and having their faces painted with a temporary, Tyson-inspired “Hangover” movie tattoo — in a gaudy effort to look like knockouts to the opposite sex.

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World’s most pierced woman gets married to balding civil servant

Elaine Davidson, who has almost 7000 piercings covering her body, married Douglas Watson, at a low-key wedding reception in Edinburgh.

Brazilian-born Miss Davidson, 46, made a bizarre sight in a flowing white wedding gown and floral tiara with only her face visible, which was painted green and covered in 192 piercings.

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The article doesn’t mention why she painted her face green, but her groom had nice things to say to her:

“People see the piercings but I see the amazing personality underneath.”

I also found this part interesting:

The former nurse now has 6,925 including more than 1,500 that are “internal” that are said to weigh almost seven pounds.


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Nation’s largest Protestant group faces ‘decline’

NASHVILLE — Baptisms fell to their lowest number in 60 years among Southern Baptists, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

The new numbers are a sign that the denomination is in trouble, Baptist leaders say.

“This is not a blip,” said Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay. “This is a trend. And the trend is one of decline.”

In 2010, Southern Baptists baptized 332,321 people, or 17,416 fewer than in 2009, according to a report released by Nashville-based LifeWay Research. This marks the eighth time in 10 years that baptisms have declined and the lowest number of baptisms since the 1950s.

The report was released in advance of the convention’s annual meeting, which opens Tuesday in Phoenix.

Membership also dropped for the fourth year in a row, leaving the denomination with 16,136,044 members.

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I think the decline of the Baptist church is happening for two reasons.  The most obvious being that less people attending church, but I think the emergence of the nondenominational Bible churches (which many are just Baptist Splenda) are stealing their memberships.

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