Wacky Stuff

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• Let's just call it even, okay?
• Cop said to taser partner over soft drink
• Man sentenced in meth-from-urine mishap
• Woman to cash in on face transplant film
• Mayor spends $103m to win poll
• Dying to eat at the Last Meal cafe
• $2.6m jigsaw prize almost in place
• Not impressed by maggot pizza
• Buddhist Monk Arrested For Growing Marijuana

 

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• 'Fat' people told to move on plane
• Women took 24 hours to get home from church
• Married 162 times - and still wants more
• Boy brought grenade to show and tell
• Wal-Mart heiress returns degree; roommate says she did homework for $20,000
• Patient attacks dentist with sword in Bangkok clinic; says wrong tooth pulled

 

News Of The Weird

* Pastor Gets Unwelcome Supply of Viagra
* Nova Scotia farmer plows his way to love
* World toilet summit lifts lid on public hygiene
* Recipe for perfect sandcastle
* P2P Future Darkens as eDonkey Closes
* Hairdressers battle over Merkel's hairstyle
* Erotic chat grounds for divorce?
* Da Vinci decodes heart valve surgery
* Beauty contest behind bars
* Foetuses found at Bogota airport

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* Horatio Hornblower is on the list: British office compiles list of odd names
* Cellphone dealer arrested for selling sex videos stored on customer phones
* Central Fla. Man Buys, Drinks Urine-Filled Soda
* The Ten Stupidest Utopias!
* Hold your horses! Stallion in stud mix-up
* Baby alligator hunts for food on sidewalk
* Town to turn stinking hog manure into power
* New Orleans strip joint wants to get back to work
* Rock star burgled during mega-concert

News Flash

* So, don't accept chocolates from a Nazi..
* Visitors try to smuggle lamb chops, steak, rice cookers to Australian prisoners
* 99-year-old man drives car, bowls weekly: says secret is eating right, exercise
* Houses offered for sale with free little pigs
* Man sleeps below moving train

Wacky News Headline

Ostrich escapes from van and runs loose on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge
Machete-wielding Buddhist monks and novices brawl over woman
Villagers stunned as 4-kilogram meteorite lands in rural Zimbabwe field
Ga. pilots forget to put down landing gear
Man upset at credit card offer addressed to 'Palestinian Bomber'

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* Lazy postman faces jail
* Prisoners nearly tunnel out of jail
* Polish pastry 'has the face of Jesus'
* Monks run out of the world's best beer
* Heat dashes Palestinian quest for longest sandwich
* 3 Wives Greet British Man After Surgery

Fired For Blogging???

It was Merriam-Webster Online's No. 1 word of 2004, and Fortune magazine named it the No. 1 tech trend for 2005. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November 2004 found that 8 million people say they have created one and almost one-third of Internet users say they read one. But it's still a mystery: Six-of-ten Internet users say they don't know what "blog" means.

A blog, according to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, is "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks provided by the writer."

Bloggers write about their lives to keep friends and family up-to-date, talk about their industry, discuss hobbies or rant about their favorite reality TV show. But posting pictures of you at work, disclosing confidential information about your employer, or bad-mouthing your co-workers could get you in hot water for committing inappropriate behavior.

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Rumsfeld Offers To Free Saddam

US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld paid a secret visit to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and offered him freedom and possible return to public life if he made a televised request to armed groups for a ceasefire with allied forces, a media report said.

Saddam promptly rejected the offer, Ynetnews reported quoting a London based Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily.

The visit came during Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq about two weeks ago and was known only to a few Iraqi officials in Jordan, the Arab daily reported quoting sources.

Some two weeks ago the British Telegraph had reported that Iraqi gunmen were offered a "deal" to halt all terror attacks in return for a reduced sentence for Saddam, likely to be sentenced to death.

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Celibate Monk Stays Celibate: Not Guilty

As mentioned earlier about a Celibate Monk Caught Trying To Pick Up Undercover Cop, looks like the courts have accepted the fact that he was just curious and found him not guilty and cleared him of all the charges. You know what they say, Curiosity Killed The Cat.

A celibate Buddhist monk has been cleared of trying to pick up a policewoman who was posing as a prostitute.

Hoa Trung Nguyen, 47, from the Phap Bao Temple in Sydney, was convicted of soliciting last year.

He maintained he asked the woman how much she charged out of human curiosity.

And he has now been acquitted on appeal by Campbell District Court.

His solicitor Quang Nguyen said his client was "extremely relieved" to have been proved innocent.

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