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Army Buys Same Size Bras For 500 Women
Friday April 9 8:16 AM ET

dailynews.yahoo.com

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Women serving in the Danish army are furious over the military's purchase -- handled by a male
officer -- of the same size brassieres for 500 women soldiers.

''They have bought one model only and think that it can fit all of us. But we are big and small, thick and thin,'' Lance Corporal
Ulla Bekker Madsen said in the tabloid Ekstra-Bladet Friday.

Major O.P. Soerensen, the procurement officer responsible for the purchase, told the paper that an order had been placed for
a C-cup size 100 brassiere, which the manufacturer said fitted 90 percent of Danish women.

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Friday April 9 8:15 AM ET

Floating Furniture And Musical Condom Invented

LONDON (Reuters) - Floating furniture, musical condoms and a do-it-yourself halitosis kit were put in the top ranks of the
world's wackiest inventions Thursday.

The gas-filled furniture was designed to float up to the ceiling when not in use, to give more space.

The musical condoms burst into song when the right pressure was applied. The bad breath detector was a simple tube
attached from mouth to nose.

The science magazine Focus, which listed the gadgets, had checked through patent records to find which were the weirdest
inventions ever concocted.

Also among their quirkiest discoveries was the ''Tootsie Tube'' for snug winter nights -- a pipe which caught a person's
breath and funneled it down the bed to keep the toes warm.

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