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


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Smart rats drink more...

Clever rats drank more alcohol when they were given it over a five-day period that the less intelligent rodents. The scientists suspect that the rats that ...

Carrots were originally purple!

It seems they only became orange because of the Dutch, according to Reuters.  They began cultivating orange carrots in the 1720's because orange was ...

A Catch-22, of sorts

Thursday, May 16, 2002   (1 post)
The AP today reported the story of Christina Slivas, a 24 year old single mother.  Christina wanted to send her daughter to a private kindergarten, but ...

Quote of the Day

Thursday, May 16, 2002   (1 post)
"It's not so much an end as a new beginning - kind of like being transferred to another diocese." - Bill Maher, after ABC recently announced the ...

California cracking down on spitballs

In California, a kid caught launching spitballs was charged with battery causing serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, assault by force likely to ...

Studies in the Obvious (cell phones while driving)

MONTREAL (Reuters Health) - Two large studies suggest that an individual's risk for collision or other serious accident increases whenever he or she uses a ...

Quote of the Day

Wednesday, May 15, 2002   (1 post)
"It's unconscionable that they would be giving this marijuana to patients. It's stale, low-potency ditch weed." - Dale Gieringer, state coordinator ...

A neat story about baseball... and dreams...

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1451/2831078.html

Irony

There are too many buffalo, so the federal government is now killing them and giving the meat to Native Americans. full story

Quote of the Day

Tuesday, May 14, 2002   (1 post)
"I like the strictness, Turns me on." - Ozzy Osbourne, commenting the crush he has on Anne Robinson of TV's "The Weakest Link"

Japanese work ethic...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese veterinarian who failed to diagnose mad cow disease in a sick dairy cow has apparently committed suicide, health officials said on ...

Quote of the Day

Tuesday, December 29, 2020   (2 posts)
"This was a safety issue, it was not a choice of underwear issue" - Rita Wilson, the vice-principle who was suspended for checking girls for thong underwear ...

Call off the search...

Friday, May 10, 2002   (1 post)
Three elderly Brits disappeared while on vacation in France, sparking a three nation manhunt for the trio.  Reuters reports that the three have been ...

"The Wind Done Gone" will continue to be published...

Friday, May 10, 2002   (1 post)
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The estate of "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell and a U.S. publisher have settled a lawsuit over a black writer's parody of ...

Goofy-Ass Quote of the Day  (LOTR - The Two Towers)

Thursday, May 9, 2002   (2 posts)
"THE TITLE [The Two Towers] IS clearly meant to refer to the attacks on The World Trade Center, It is unforgivable that this should be allowed to happen." ...

Ever wonder what a Japanese Lynyrd Skynyrd band would look like?

Wednesday, February 9, 2022   (2 posts)
wonder no more... http://www.netjoy.ne.jp/~ysakurai/music/leotard/011021_livephotos/011021_livephotos.html (I just love it when th

Quote of the Day

Thursday, May 9, 2002   (1 post)
"We need to send a signal, we need to be clear with people: we are the only French speakers in America." - Quebec Culture Minister Diane Lemieux I ...

Practical Art

LOS ANGELES (AP) - An artist upset by a confusing Los Angeles freeway sign took matters into his own hands by scaling the sign and adding directions so good ...

Method to the Madness...

Thursday, May 9, 2002   (1 post)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The 21-year-old college student accused of putting pipe bombs in mailboxes in five states told authorities he was trying to make a "smiley ...

 

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