They broke a world record in Panama City, Fla., yesterday by more than the bare minimum — thanks to 450 bikini-wearing beauties.
The town smashed the Guinness record for the longest bikini beach parade ever, which had been held by Surfers Paradise beach in Australia, where 357 women marched last year.
“It was exhausting, but it was exciting,” said one of yesterday’s champs.
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If asked “what’s the sexiest holiday of the year?’’ you’d probably guess Valentine’s Day. You’d be off by more than seven weeks.
Birth statistics show that more people have sex on Christmas than on any other holiday, according to doctors in a fertility practice in San Diego.
They said the prescription for Christmas romance includes eggnog, champagne and mistletoe.
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This school of fish should flunk out.
Scientists at NYU’s Polytechnic Institute created a robot fish that convinced real fish to follow it by mimicking the fast tail propulsion of a leader of the pack.
The follower fish figured — correctly — there was nothing fishy about their leader.
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For an Oxford scholar, she certainly is a boob.
Student Madeline Grant, 19, was running for a post at the university library and campaigned with the slogan, “I don’t hack. I just have a great rack.’’
Many of her fellow students blasted her campaign as “damaging the perception of women.’’
Election results are due in the next few days.
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In more zany news from Britain’s intellectual capital:
Don’t bother the cops — call Bambi!
A purse snatcher in Oxford who had the straps of a pocketbook around his victim’s neck fled in terror when a heroic deer darted out of the woods and frightened him off
The woman suffered very minor injuries.