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Monthly Archives: October 2005
ETs in Peru Too
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) – One minute Jonathan Reed was hiking with his golden retriever in a forest in Seattle. The next, his pet was being torn apart by a "gray" — an alien being with an elongated head, smelling of … Continue reading
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Facial Hair Special Fair
There were men with Fu Manchu moustaches. There were contestants with long flowing Gandalf beards. And there was the reigning world champion: German Karl-Heinz Hille, whose gravity-defying sideburns look a bit like an upturned bucket. Some 220 contestants from all … Continue reading
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Together Forever
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) – A professor of English in southern India loved his mother so much that he lived with her corpse for 20 years. When he died, the pair were laid to rest in the same grave. Syed Abdul … Continue reading
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BU Tech – Converted Vacuum Cleaner Anti-Sniper Robot
IRobot Corp. of Burlington, famous for its robotic vacuum cleaners, has teamed up with researchers at Boston University to develop a military robot capable of spotting enemy snipers. ”You’ll actually see the sniper before the smoke disappears from the shot," … Continue reading
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Even Einstein Had a Sence of Humor
Those wacky geeks at Harvard and MIT are at it again. In parallel with the august Nobel Prizes in Sweden, every year they award what they call the "Ig Noble" Prizes in Cambridge. Last year’s recipients included two sociology professors … Continue reading
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Ghosts of Oktoberfest Past
Back in 1970, a 17 year old Dowbrigade rolled into Munich with about as much of a clue as a kumquat in a supermarket. We were coming from Vienna, where we had thoroughly trashed the up-scale apartment of a rich … Continue reading
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A Wolfie in Sheep’s Clothing
It’s starting to look like the Nwe York Times hit on a genius solution to boost sagging circulation – raise the price and piss people off. Appearantly operating on the “Forbidden Fruit” theory of economic motivation, by removing Dowd, Krugman … Continue reading
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Sacrilege or Sacrament?
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish bookmaker Paddy Power was fending off the wrath of Christians in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Ireland on Friday over an advert depicting Jesus and the Apostles gambling at the Last Supper. The billboard posters, on display in … Continue reading
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