New Karaoke

BERLIN (AFP) - Germans are screaming, moaning and panting for the latest nightlife craze -- porno karaoke.
Film producers Satt und Durstig organized a premiere in Berlin last month after a successful test run in the northern city of Hamburg and the trend has already spawned imitators in other major cities.
The event follows the rules of traditional karaoke but instead of standing in for Whitney Houston or Frank Sinatra, contestants belt out the parts of adult movie stars.
Players pair off in male-female teams as a XXX film is loaded into the
projector. With the sound turned off, each duo is handed two microphones and has one minute to provide the aural fireworks for the action on the screen.
The crowd, which tends to find the show more comic than erotic, then
chooses the couple that has given the most convincing, creative and
ecstatic performance while faking an orgasm before hundreds of strangers

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Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been sighted “many times” at a popular karaoke club in his hometown of Tikrit this month, U.S. intelligence officials confirmed today, and appears to be “in good health, but off-key.”

According to the reports, the Iraqi madman has sung as many as five songs a night, most of them ‘70’s “soft rock” classics such as “A Horse With No Name,” at the Top Hat Club, one of the most popular karaoke establishments in Tikrit.

The confirmation of this most recent spate of Saddam sightings shocked many in the intelligence community, who expressed surprise that the Iraqi strongman would risk capture by appearing in public in such a conspicuous way.

But according to Mizban Khadr Al Hadi, a former Saddam aide who is now in U.S. custody, Saddam’s “borderline obsessive” love of singing may have lured him out of hiding.

“Even when we were under U.S. attack, Saddam would excuse himself from cabinet meetings to go do karaoke,” Mr. Al Hadi said. “He’d be, like, ‘Sorry, Dr. Germ, I’ve got the music in me.’”

When asked at a Pentagon briefing about the latest Saddam sightings, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, “I don’t know why you’re asking me about this – why don’t you ask Little Miss ‘Look-at-me-I’m-in-charge-now’?”

At the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan said that more funds would be needed to search Tikrit’s karaoke clubs for Saddam, since searching karaoke clubs was not a part of President Bush’s $87 billion request currently before Congress.

When asked to put a price tag on locating the former Iraqi strongman, Mr. McClellan replied, “priceless.”


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