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A collection of 155 issues

Bog snorkelling

New champion for bog snorkellers. A firefighter from Bristol has won one of the UK's strangest sporting events in mid Wales. Ian Hawkes, originally from Llandrindod Wells, triumphed in the world bog snorkelling championships in Llanwrtyd Wells in Powys on Monday. He took over from reigning champion Philip

Lemming sheep

450 sheep jump to their death in Turkey. ISTANBUL, Turkey - First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported. In

Sunscreen

Wear Sunscreen by Mary Schmich. Heard this set to music on the radio tonight, a spoken voice recording with background music called "Everybody's free to wear sunscreen." It was recorded in 1998 and hit the American charts in 1999. This is a few snippets: If I

Quantum mechanics

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it. Erwin Schrodinger, talking about Born's Probability Wave Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics I guess that's funnier if you know that Erwin Schroedinger is one of the big names

Peeps!

Things to do with leftover Peeps: * Heat tests * Cold tests * Acid and solvent tests * Vacuum tests Do not eat the eyes! Even phenol, a fairly vicious solvent, couldn't dissolve them.

Monsters in the closet

Popped into Barnes and Noble yesterday for some quiet time after a wildly sucessful knitting morning at my house. Around fifteen people crammed into my living room, stitching and talking, learning new techniques and ogling patterns. I'm a person who values alone time, so we went to the

Tests of togetherness

There are some things that prove you're a couple. Survive these tasks, and nothing can beat you. This is a small and incomplete list: Go on a long distance road trip and get lost, but stay together. Really lost. Guildford to Bournemouth via Portsmouth in the middle of

When technology goes bad

He started life with such potential. Storing phone numbers, calendars, little notes, all the important data his master could provide. But it wasn't enough. This PDA had ideas above his station. He left his masters employ, and after a string of adventures ended up stranded outside in the

Brain dump

The great thing about supporting the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team is that when they lose, it's not splashed all over the US radio, TV, and newspapers like with some St Louis Cardinals I could mention. And because the All Blacks are one of the best rugby

Why?

I like America, I really do, but this country does one thing that drives me batty and I cannot figure it out. Why do you coat the rutabaga (Swede) in wax? Why? Why? Why?! Of all the vegetables, only this one is subject to such indignity, and it makes them

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