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Firm offers celebrity toupees for babies

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A new California company, BabyToupee.com, is selling a series of wigs based on infamous celebrity hairstyles and designed entirely for babies to wear.

The New York Post said that the Santa Barbara business will offer parents the chance to purchase wigs for their infants styled after celebrities such as singers Bob Marley and Lil' Kim, and even one based on real estate mogul Donald Trump's famed mane.

"To see a baby with a little Rasta hat and dreadlocks is really funny," BabyToupee.com co-founder Graham Farrar said.

The paper said that to date the company, which also offers a style based on "Snakes on a Plane" actor Samuel L. Jackson, has received thousands of orders for the $30 wigs.

Tavern's name does not amuse

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Residents in Sea Point, South Africa, are demanding the name of a new local tavern -- "That F King Place" -- be changed to something less offensive.

But Barry Woods, and Irishman who opened the bar in the Cape Town suburb next to Adult World, told the Cape Argus that he has no intention of changing the name, and in fact plans to open more bars with the same name in other Cape Town locations.

Woods said he had contacted solicitors before registering his TFP Co. to make sure it wouldn't be considered offensive.

The chairperson of the London Road Owners' Association in Sea Point supports a change of name. He said tourists would feel like they were in the middle of a red light district.

The Argus reported the city's legal department will call for a removal of signs outside the bar, which are deemed illegal because no permission has been granted to display them.

Author selling literary immortality

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Northern Irish author Jason Johnson is set to sell the right to appear as a literary character in his third book to the highest online bidder.

Johnson, who wrote the novels "Windlicker" and "Alina," decided to put the character's identity up for auction in order to help pay his bills, but his offer to publish an individual's identity alongside characters including a psychiatric patient and a former flasher could draw some significant interest, said the Sunday Observer.

"My motives are purely financial, because I need to pay the bills while I write and I'll do pretty much whatever I can for that," the 37-year-old author said of his unusual sale. "Sitting around all day and making things up is just about all I want to do with my days. I don't care what people's motives for bidding are, that's up to them. But a selling point is that it is the offer of a kind of ticket to immortality and that it will give them something to say at parties, or maybe just into the mirror."

Johnson told the paper that he came up with the idea for the online auction from a documentary's Web site contest that focused on a individual buying their way into a Hollywood production.

Saudi maze game to aim for record

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The Jeddah Hope Center in Saudi Arabia, which helps people with special needs, is planning to construct the world's largest maze game.

Organizers hope to make it into the "Guinness Book of World Records."

Arab News reported that the enormous maze game will be part of a major festival the JHC is planning to hold in early December, during the Haj vacation. The festival will include games and activities dedicated to people with special needs in order to instill confidence and encourage them that they are no different from the rest of society, the report said.

Amin Qari, executive manager of the JHC, said many of the games will involve physical activity that can prove the abilities of those with special needs.

"This is an attempt to change the wrong image of people with special needs and would help them in their professional life by making them accepted as productive individuals who deserve a chance," he said.