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Cross Found In Potato Chip
Bakersfield TV station KERO reported. Amanda Biezad was about to eat the Lay's potato chip when she discovered the cross.She said she's never seen anything quite like it, but isn't ready to call it a...
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Woman 'Calls 911 After Acupuncture Mishap'
A woman apparently had to pull acupuncture needles out of her back and call emergency services after staff forgot about her and closed the clinic with her still inside.
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Fencing champ to teach scheme kids using foam blades
British fencing champion Keith Cook wants to take his talents into schools in some of the Capital's most deprived areas though, to give children as young as five the chance to experience it - with foa...
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Do sexy candidates score more votes
By Lauren Keiper Boston - Campaign managers and strategists are often given credit for a political candidate's election victory, but stylists and image consultants should receive the praise, accord...
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How Churchill disguised his lisp...
London - A part of a set of dentures used by Winston Churchill to disguise a lisp is going on sale. The partial dentures are being put on auction with an estimated value of 4 000 pounds. A dupli...
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Teens take flying leap to deliver mail
The main worry for some young mail carriers in southern Wisconsin is neither dogs nor extreme weather. It's plunging into a lake. A never-stopping boat delivers mail to dozens of mansions on Lake G...
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Humor festival draws world’s cartoonists
WILMINGTON Cartoonists from around the world are submitting works on the themes of freedom and Edward M. Kennedy, the late Massachusetts senator, for an international humor contest scheduled in Boston...
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'Spray you'll marry me'
By Daily Mail Reporter A romantic graffiti artist asked his girlfriend to marry him - by spray painting his proposal across a whole entire wall. Stuart Barrie, 37, took seven hours to complete t...
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Transport Canada fails to see humour in line of baggage stickers
VANCOUVER — The furor over the cheeky design of some new luggage stickers has led the two Vancouver entrepreneurs behind them to halt sales in Canada.The large decals — intended to help suitcases ...
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Cheeseburger found in SC woman's gas tank
(07-29) 18:25 PDT Rock Hill, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina woman found out fast food won't make your car go fast. The Herald of Rock Hill reported Thursday a 30-year-old woman made a complaint to pol...
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Penile electrosurgery Proceed with care
Concerned that blokes worldwide were risking toasted todgers - and obviously not overburdened with willing subjects - the dedicated researchers conducted the experiments on themselves.Their report, ti...
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Transport Canada fails to see humour in line of baggage stickers
VANCOUVER — The furor over the cheeky design of some new luggage stickers has led the two Vancouver entrepreneurs behind them to halt sales in Canada.The large decals — intended to help suitcases ...
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McCourt's `The Irish ...' finds humor in adversity
Making successful entertainment out of serious history is a rare gift.Yet from the tragic 1840s potato famine to a haunting, modern U2 anthem, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former history teacher ...
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Good and evil, leavened with humor
The hard-boiled, hard-biting mystery novel is nothing new. For years, readers have turned to J.A. Jance’s books when they’re looking for mystery novels riddled with tense moments but also perfumed...
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Transport Canada fails to see humour in line of baggage stickers
VANCOUVER — The furor over the cheeky design of some new luggage stickers has led the two Vancouver entrepreneurs behind them to halt sales in Canada.The large decals — intended to help suitcases ...
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Texas man's stolen gun returned after 2 decades
In this photo taken Thursday, July 29, 2010, provided by the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office, Bruce Garner, 59, of Terrell, Texas, is seen reunited with a long-lost H&R nine-shot revolver more tha...
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Hidden treasures in man's underwear
The man was stopped by border control officials on July 23 as he boarded a flight to Rome from Belfast International Airport.The cash - which consisted of British Pound Sterling and Euro notes - was d...
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Transport Canada fails to see humour in line of baggage stickers
VANCOUVER — The furor over the cheeky design of some new luggage stickers has led the two Vancouver entrepreneurs behind them to halt sales in Canada.The large decals — intended to help suitcases ...
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Transport Canada fails to see humour in line of baggage stickers
VANCOUVER — The furor over the cheeky design of some new luggage stickers has led the two Vancouver entrepreneurs behind them to halt sales in Canada.The large decals — intended to help suitcases ...
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Friend sued for Facebook 'paedophile' slur
By Andy Dolan A chef was ordered to pay 10 000 pounds in damages to a former friend he falsely accused of being a paedophile on Facebook. Jeremiah Barber posted an indecent image of children on ...
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Cheeseburger Found In SC Woman's Gas Tank
A South Carolina woman found out fast food won't make your car go fast. The Herald of Rock Hill reported Thursday a 30-year-old woman made a complaint to police after she took her car to a Rock Hill m...
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Cheeseburger found in SC woman's gas tank
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROCK HILL, S.C. -- A South Carolina woman found out fast food won't make your car go fast. The Herald of Rock Hill reported Thursday a 30-year-old woman made a complaint to pol...
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Package for 'grandma' contains 6 lbs. of drugs
TALLADEGA, Ala. -- A package addressed from "Grandpa Henderson" in San Diego to "Grandma Henderson" in Talladega, Ala., wasn't ordinary mail, and it wasn't picked up by any grandmother.The package ar...
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What's that weird thing around Saturn's second-largest moon
In 2008, researchers detected a sharp, symmetrical drop in electrons around Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon. This could be caused by a ring of debris, but the Cassini spacecraft, which has flown by...
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James Chance, Twist Your Soul – The Definitive Collection
James Chance was a crucial component of the No Wave/Ze Records strain of early-80s new-wave endeavour in New York. Through James Chance & The Contortions and James White & The Blacks, ...
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Just who is that strange man on the news
The stocky balding man has so far appeared on British TV more than 100 times this year, in news reports for BBC1, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News and Al Jazeera. The trouble is none of the channels wanted hi...
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Man gets jail after sexcapade with stranger
Lying for sex. It happens all the time. Yet a married Palestinian man has been ordered jailed for 18 months for having sex with an Israeli woman after giving her the impression he too was Jewish, a...
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Card. Zen: not true that “Beijing really wants Bishops appointed by the Pope”
There is still a long way to go in relations between Beijing and the Holy See on the appointment of bishops, which is not the result of an "agreement" but a "tug of war." The test of communion with th...
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500-pound alligator rounded up in SC lagoon
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- As gators go, the one found in a South Carolina lagoon was downright gargantuan. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported that an 11-foot-long, 500...
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500-pound alligator rounded up in SC lagoon
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- As gators go, the one found in a South Carolina lagoon was downright gargantuan. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reported that an 11-foot-long, 500 pound alligator was re...
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Md. man sentenced for stealing library's tarantula
WESTMINSTER, Md. -- A Maryland man has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for stealing a spider from a public library.Carroll County Circuit Judge J. Barry Hughes sentenced 27-year-old Randy Humple of...
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A Box Office Dream Come True
In a summer of relatively safe films that have disappointed at the box office, Warner Bros. is looking smarter every week for taking a chance. The studio’s
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Churchill's false teeth go on sale
A set of dentures made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill have gone under the hammer in Britain. Auctioneers say they expect the item to fetch up to 5,000 pounds ($8,600) for "th...
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Graphene's Bizarre Behavior Well Suited to Electronics
Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have found that when graphene is stretched in a specific way it sprouts nanobubbles in which ...
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150 Gnomes Stolen From Yard
Denver TV station KMGH reported. Mardean Gibson has been collecting gnomes for five years, using them as decoration in her yard.When she went to bed Tuesday night, her gnomes were sitting outside. Mo...
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Deputy Shoots Himself In Leg During Training
An Okaloosa County sheriff's deputy is on leave after shooting himself in the leg during a training exercise at a firing range.Miguel Rojas accidentally hit himself Tuesday when deputies were forced t...
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Mass. humor contest on freedom, Ted Kennedy drawing entries from cartoonists around the world
WILMINGTON, Mass. - Chinese cartoonist Yang Xiang Yu addresses freedom with a drawing of the Forbidden City and a medical mask over Mao's mouth. Iranian cartoonist Mohammad Fatehi Kahvarin sees image...
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Zedonk hybrid born at Ga. wildlife preserve
A four-day-old Zedonk, a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey, stands next to her mother at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Lumpkin County, Ga. Monday July 26, 2010. The director of the preserve...
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Chopper show family makes boy's dream come true
Andy Deerdoff loves to go, whether on the playground or on his own mini motorcycle. But two years ago, the Springfield boy's "go" disappeared. He felt tired, and he had a fever that wouldn't...
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Man listed as Tokyo's oldest had been dead decades
TOKYO — A man listed as the oldest living male in Tokyo in fact died some 30 years ago, city officials said after his body was found mummified in his bed. Police visited the home of Sogen Kat...
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Churchill's choppers sold at auction in England
(07-29) 08:48 PDT LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill — described as the teeth that saved the world — sold at auction ...
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Obama Not On Chelsea's Wedding Guest List
President Barack Obama says he didn't make the guest list for Chelsea Clinton's wedding. In an interview on ABC's daytime talk show "The View," Obama said he wasn't invited because former President Bi...
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Vicar conducted 360 sham marriages
LONDON (Reuters) - A vicar was found guilty on Thursday of conducting hundreds of sham marriages between African nationals and cash-strapped eastern Europeans to allow illegal immigrants to gain resid...
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Brewer claims world's strongest beer
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch brewer with a penchant for competition has laid claim to creating the world's strongest brew: a beer that is some 60 percent alcohol by volume.
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Saggy pants foolish but legal, NYC judge rules
N EW YORK — Wearing saggy pants is not a crime, just foolish. That’s how a New York City judge ruled in throwing out a summons issued to a man wearing low-slung pants that exposed his und...
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... And the mouse jumped out of the sauce
A west London restaurant owner was criticised for an "appalling catalogue of offences" after health inspectors saw a mouse jumping from a bowl of sweet and sour sauce in the kitchen. Inspectors vis...
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A Tale Of Two Weddings
Chelsea Clinton's multimillion-dollar wedding in New York state this weekend is a stark contract to her parents' nuptials, which took place in their living room before eight guests.Former President Bi...
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Facebook Renews Lost Love 50 Years Later
It's a love story with a high-tech twist.A Louisiana woman was shocked to find a friend request from a man she met more than 50 years ago when she recently logged into her Facebook account."My friend ...
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Don't Say 'Stay-At-Home Mom'
I am a stay-at-home mom. I just don't like being called one.It's that word, "stay." It sounds like I am just sitting here, biding my time, wasting away, being passive. I looked up the definition of st...
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New Harrods Owners Fall Prey To Clampers
Harrods from Mohamed al Fayed in April for £1.5bn. The business is led by the Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad al Thani. The al Thani family are worth around £2.5bn and have stakes in dozens of...
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