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| Dec 4, 2007 @ 7:46 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Maybe I should start a Morons in the News thread..............
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| Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:23 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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As an alternative to burial, cremation is no longer green enough, say environmentalists, because it releases smoke and mercury, and thus the industry is considering "promession," in which the body is frozen in liquid nitrogen to minus-320 degrees (F) and then shaken until it disintegrates into powder. For green burials, the United States has at least six cemeteries that require biodegradable casings and for bodies to be free of embalming chemicals. The Forever Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley, Calif., goes even further, according to an October Los Angeles Times story, banning grave markers, but, said the owner, "We issue the family a Google map with the GPS coordinates" so they can find their loved one. [Los Angeles Times, 10-28-07; Evening Standard (London), 10-10-07]
Shaken.....not stirred - that's just f'ed up!
Google the dead? 
[Edited on 12/4/2007 8:49 PM]
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| Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:26 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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For those Britons who drink in pubs but miss the atmosphere as it was before smoking bans (for example, who may be disoriented by "new" smells that are no longer masked by cigarette smoke), the company Dale Air has introduced, in aerosol cans, a fragrance that it says mimics the musty, ashtray-based scent so familiar to veteran pub-goers. [The Sun (London), 9-19-07]
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| Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:30 PM |
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RevDocLove
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OKAAAAY! 
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| Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:53 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Doctors at Mackay Base Hospital in Australia saved the life of a 24-year-old Italian tourist in August after he had ingested a large amount of poisonous ethylene glycol (found in antifreeze), perhaps in an attempted suicide. The antidote, pharmaceutical-grade alcohol, was in short supply at the hospital, but doctors improvised by setting up a gastric drip and feeding him vodka at the rate of three standard drinks an hour for three days. He made a full recovery, according to an October report in Melbourne's The Age. [The Age, 10-10-07]
Can we get one of those drips at the PLPTB?
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| Dec 4, 2007 @ 9:32 PM |
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RevDocLove
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I think we have one..check with my main man Dave..Mamman 
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| Dec 7, 2007 @ 1:32 AM |
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amishmime
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What about "Bi-Polar" Bears? Are they ambetex.. ambidex.. can they write with both paws?
The weirdest thing I saw, was today in fact, a man was fined for allowing a donkey to roam. Fifty dollars fine. Man that cop must've been a prick.
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| Dec 7, 2007 @ 7:38 AM |
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RevDocLove
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But the elephant was pink with polka dots!....
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. But you really gotta' be bored to research things like that
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Sounds like a few women I have known
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 3:10 AM |
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RevDocLove
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. 
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:36 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Software engineers told Fortune magazine in November that they are constructing a filter to eliminate stupid messages to online forums and bulletin boards. Lead researcher Gabriel Ortiz said his team had compiled a database of idiotic comments and that the new software would detect unintelligible remarks and either alert the writer to fix them or divert the message to the recipient's "junk mail." Easy dumb messages to filter: those with the tacky, immature repetition of a closing consonant, e.g., "That thing is amazinggggg!!!" More difficult: how to treat sarcasm and irony, in that smart writers sometimes deliberately use dumb statements to mock other writers. [CNNMoney-Fortune, 11-7-07]
Oh Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:38 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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An Indonesian fisherman, Dede, age 35, is in reasonably good health except that his hands and feet resemble something out of the "Alien" movie series, with huge root-like growths that render his arms and legs useless, according to a November Discovery Channel TV program, "Half Man, Half Tree," reported on by London's Daily Telegraph. Dermatologist Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland flew to Indonesia and determined that Dede's condition was caused by a genetic inability to restrain the growth of warts ("cutaneous horns") produced by the human papillomavirus. Gaspari prescribed a regimen of vitamin A, which he said should reduce the size of the warts enough so that, with surgery, Dede could eventually use his hands again. [Daily Telegraph, 11-21-07]
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:39 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Twin sisters Doris McAusland and Dora Bennett are 80 years old, live in Madison, Wis., apparently like and dislike the same foods, met their husbands on the same day, from the same church group, had hysterectomies at the same time, always get their hair done together, and, ever since they were toddlers, have worn identical outfits every day (except for one time that they had different shoes), according to a November CBS News report. [CBS News, 11-16-07]
Twin sisters Doris McAusland and Dora Bennett are 80 years old, live in Madison, Wis., apparently like and dislike the same foods, met their husbands on the same day, from the same church group, had hysterectomies at the same time, always get their hair done together, and, ever since they were toddlers, have worn identical outfits every day (except for one time that they had different shoes), according to a November CBS News report. [CBS News, 11-16-07]
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:46 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Karl Marx's writings glorifying communism (though Western capitalists regard it as grim and joyless) may well have reflected merely his alienation from society due to a lifelong series of excruciatingly painful boils, according to a recent British Journal of Dermatology article. In an 1867 letter, Marx wrote, "The bourgeoisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day." [Reuters, 10-30-07]
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| Dec 9, 2007 @ 8:52 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Armin Meiwes, the German gourmet-cannibal who was convicted in 2004 of killing, filleting and eating an apparently willing victim whom he had met via the Internet, gave his first extensive interview from prison in October to German TV and mentioned in passing that his sauteed morsels "tasted like pork, a little ... bitter, stronger." And in November, a Green Party activist who visits Meiwes' prison told a reporter that Meiwes had been elected by fellow inmates as a discussion leader on environmental, tax and legal issues and was demonstrating his commitment to Green Party principles by eating mostly vegetarian meals. [Spiegel Online, 10-16-07; Daily Mail (London), 11-20-07]
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| Dec 10, 2007 @ 5:39 AM |
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tassie1
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now there is definately some interesting reading frenzy.
when that guy chews out his mate he doesn't muck around.
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| Dec 10, 2007 @ 8:12 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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You asked for weird.............I delivered 
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| Dec 10, 2007 @ 10:12 PM |
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RevDocLove
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Weird??? here I am! 
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| Dec 11, 2007 @ 7:23 AM |
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tassie1
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I seen a weird sight the other day,500 miles from the ocean,driving down a back country road and popped around a corner into a quiet country town and there smack bang in the middle of the local park was a full size submarine. they must have run out of old trains. 
it just looked so out of place way out there..
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:33 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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The existence of the 50-year-old, ultra-secure computer protocol required for a U.S. president to launch nuclear weapons is well-known, through newspapers, books and Hollywood films, but according to papers released by Britain's National Archive in November, a similarly complex protocol has been in place in that country only since 1998. Before that, a person could arm a nuclear bomb simply by removing two ordinary screws and (according to BBC News) using "an Allen key to select high yield or low yield, air burst or groundburst and other parameters." [BBC News, 11-15-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:33 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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The China Daily newspaper reported in November that local markets and beauty salons in Guangdong province were selling low-priced hair bands made from used condoms. [Agence France-Presse, 11-12-07]
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