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News, current events, general weirdness - ripped from today's headlines


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Scary...

Wednesday, July 3, 2002   (1 post)
A Pakistani tribal council ordered an 18-year-old girl to be gang-raped in order to punish her family after her brother was seen walking with a girl from a ...

New Invention

A British company is now selling these beer flavored potato chips... ...

Nominee for "Dumbass of the Year" Award

Wednesday, July 3, 2002   (1 post)
The AP reports that Christopher J. Antus was arrested Monday during a routine traffic stop.  Turns out Antus was a fugitive from the law, wanted for felony ...

It's not exactly the Virgin Mary, but...

Wednesday, July 3, 2002   (1 post)
NASCAR fans may soon be making a pilgrimage to Interlachen, FL, near Daytona, to see Lil' Dale - a goat born with a distinctive white number three, the ...

Don't swim in Germany

Wednesday, July 3, 2002   (2 posts)
Yesterday officials pulled a giant snapping turtle out of Dornach lake, near Munich.  According to Reuters, it was big enough to snap off a human arm. ...

Canadians have a hard time in Scotland, eh?

Two Canadians in Scotland have been placed under 24 hour protection from locals, who are confused by their foreign accents.  Authorities were concerned ...

Quote of the Day

Wednesday, July 17, 2002   (2 posts)
"A tennis racket is much more dangerous on that plane than any of our boomerangs can ever be." - Betsylew Ross Miale-Gix, a world class competitive boomerang ...

British Tooth Phone

Perhaps you've heard of the new British cell phone, which is designed to be implanted in one's tooth.  Well, we've finally located a photo of ...

Here's one for the tele-marketers...

Friday, June 28, 2002   (1 post)
Leonardo Diaz was hiking in the Andes mountains when he found himself stranded by a blizzard, according to a recent report from Reuters.  When he realized ...

Political Correctness

Friday, June 28, 2002   (1 post)
Reuters reports that a British theater company has changed the name of their production of "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" to "The Bellringer of ...

Quote of the Day (two-fer from Ann Coulter)

Thursday, June 27, 2002   (1 post)
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity," - Ann Coulter, on how to deal with Muslim countries "I think it ...

Watch for Falling Cows

Thursday, June 27, 2002   (1 post)
An Austrian woman was injured Thursday when a cow fell on her car.  The Austria Press Angency reported today that a cow had wandered away from a hillside ...

Top 10 Suggestions for the Color of the Universe

As previously reported, the Universe is brown.  Well, more of a beige, actually.  The "official" name the scientists have given it is "Cosmic Latte". ...

Tennis is COOL!

I mean really, is there anything better than two hot Russian tennis players kissing each other? ...

Quote of the Day

Monday, June 24, 2002   (1 post)
"Would you believe I'm walking down the street in the middle of the day with this pot plant?" - Daniel Fornash, boasting to a passer-by on the street ...

Fake ID's

Monday, June 24, 2002   (1 post)
Some schoolkids in Australia had a great idea for using school PC's to produce fake ID's, reports Reuters.  Unfortunately, they overlooked one ...

Q: What color is the Universe?

A:  Brown Okay, so they try to make it sound better by calling it "Latte", but it's still brown.  The Universe just seemed so much cooler ...

Summer Solstice

In case you missed the naked dancers at Stonehenge this year, you can see a picture of them here

Special Olympics

Everybody gets a ribbon... [IMAGE]

Picture of a dog with an artificial leg

from Japan (where else)... [IMAGE]

What do you do if you are a Count?

Saturday, June 22, 2002   (1 post)
If you are Count Alvaro de Marichalar of Spain, you take a jet-ski and sail from Rome to Miami.  The Count goes into the record books as the first person ...

Nimoy to Roddenberry - Let Spock keep his balls

Friday, June 21, 2002   (1 post)
The following quote is from a private memo from Leonard Nimoy to Gene Roddenberry concerning what Nimoy saw as Spock's diminishing role in the series.  ...

 

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