Odd News

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• Tongue on Frozen Flagpole Claims Another Victim

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 773
  When my hometown of Vancouver, Washington isn’t landing on Neatorama for its bus-riding goats , it’s usually quiet on the odd news front.  But yesterday, firefighters had to remove a middle schooler’s tongue from a frozen flagpole. Firefighter Mike Swanson then applied warm water to the boy’s tongue to get ...
  12 hours ago

• Musician Stalks Google Street View Car to Gain Fame

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 773
  Nate Heagy, a musician from Saskatoon, Canada, decided that the best way to promote his career was to get pictured on Google Street View. So he followed a Street View picture-taking car around his town until he could predict its path and get his image captured. CBC News quotes Heagy: “Promoting a band is hard. ...
  14 hours ago

• 113Tidbits: Employer Needs A Knuckle-buster On The Cheap

  
  113 Tidbits - Social Feeds And Daring Commentary — Authority: 135
  I found this little nugget of angst in the local area Craigslist arena for jobs. Someone is just a bit pissed over the wages offered by this Scroogish employer. Take a look and tell me what you think of employers that look to exploit you for services rendered. Mind you this is really knuckle-busting work. RE: LUBE ...
  21 hours ago

• 113Tidbits: TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED

  
  113 Tidbits - Social Feeds And Daring Commentary — Authority: 135
  My Body Before The Babies TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s!! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didnt get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put ...
  1 day ago

• 113Tidbits: Gleaning The Intel Analysis Of Facebook Leaks

  
  113 Tidbits - Social Feeds And Daring Commentary — Authority: 135
  Sophos does an outstanding job of their statistical analysis on Facebook users. even with the recent updating of Facebooks privacy initiative, it is uncanny that many thousands of users are allowing leaks to occur. Even the most internet savvy of Facebook users make too much inof public. stop the "friending" of those ...
  1 day ago

• 113Tidbits: MyBlogLog Is An Open Sewer

  
  113 Tidbits - Social Feeds And Daring Commentary — Authority: 135
  Why belonging to sites like MyBlogLog are useless as hell. Today I am totally removing this widget from the site since the majority of the visitors are from weird places. I have nothing at all to share with these people and since belonging to the community there since 2006, the network has steadily degraded into the ...
  2 days ago

• Westertown, Aberdeenshire: Ancient Monument Dumped because Awkward to Drive Around

  
  Newsvine - MinnieApolis's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 123
  Well, the headline is slightly misleading. The rock is merely reburied because the farmer found it inconvenient to drive around it all the time.
  2 days ago

• The worlds first commercial spaceflight

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 773
  Space travel seems almost out of vogue these days, compared with its heyday in the latter half of last century. However, Richard Branson and Burt Rutan may be about to change all that by launching commercial space travel. This may sound like a fantasy, but the world’s first commerical spacecraft was revealed by ...
  2 days ago

• Giant Remote-Controlled Dinosaur Robot Stolen From Mexico Exhibition

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 485
  A remote-controlled dinosaur robot worth about 100,000 Australian dollars (£55,600) has been stolen from a Walking With Dinosaurs show in Mexico.Staff noticed the 1.5m tall robot was missing after the show closed on its opening day in Guadalajara on Friday.
  3 days ago

• Denver Broncos Fan Who Attended 30 Years of Games In A Barrel Is Dead. He Was 69.

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 485
  Tim McKernan was known for wearing a barrel, a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and not much else.But it was enough to make him an icon at Denver Broncos games.McKernan, better known as Barrel Man, died in his sleep Saturday morning of lung failure. He was 69.
  3 days ago

• Rat Risotto Anyone?

  
  I Am Not A Hamster — Authority: 118
  Yknow, Ive got to stop allowing myself to think Ive heard everything. Every time I let myself think that something like this story comes along and blows me right out of the water.It seems that these two guys in this Australian reality TV show called "Im a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" [...]
  3 days ago

• Fossil Awards debut in Copenhagen

  
  YubaNet.com — Authority: 573
  On the opening day of UN climate talks in Copenhagen, NGOs from around the world voted to present their mock "Fossil of the Day Award"--given to the country or countries doing the most to obstruct progress in the global climate talks--to all of the industrialised countries, for their lack of ambition in targets to cut ...
  3 days ago

• The Worlds Most Aggressive Dog Breeds

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 773
  The most aggressive breeds of dogs may surprise you, because they are all so cute! A lot of people have misconceptions when it comes to which dog breeds are most aggressive and which ones aren’t. Aggressive dog breeds generally exhibit behavior that’s meant to scare or intimidate other animals or people. You ...
  3 days ago

• Train Buffs Face Jail Time For Building Their Own Locomotive Out Of Beer Crates, Garden Furniture, And Spare Parts And Then Running It On A Public Line

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 485
  The six-seater train - made out of garden furniture and salvaged train parts - was powered by an electric motor and even had its own refreshments car in the shape of a crate of beer.
  4 days ago

• Britain shuts down UFO Sightings Investigation Unit

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 145
  The Ministry of Defence in Britain has announced that it would no longer be investigating UFO sightings. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) chiefs made the decision to close the £50,000 a year department after deciding there was no benefit investigating sightings which were "an inappropriate use of defence resources". ...
  4 days ago

• Chicken stuffed with cocaine is recipe for arrest

  
  Pinklatex — Authority: 125
  CHANTILLY, Va. – Customs inspectors at Dulles International Airport say a man from Guatemala was detained after he tried to carry a cooked chicken stuffed with more than $4,000 worth of cocaine.Customs and Border Protection spokesman Steve Sapp says agents decided the fully cooked chicken that 32-year-old Wagner ...
  4 days ago

• Sarah Paddy Jones Salsa: 75 or 92 Years Old Sarah Paddy Jones Nicko Dances Salsa

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 601
  There are several stories going around about Sarah Paddy Jones dancing the salsa. The first story I received in an email said Paddy is 92 years old and was dancing salsa with her great-grandson, Nicko, who is 29. A bit more sleuthing turned up a story about a Spanish woman living in Valencia, Spain who took up ...
  4 days ago

• Woman Accused of Trying to Shoplift 418 Items

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 773
  She was not very subtle about it. At the Lewis Drug Store in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a woman was arrested for hauling 418 items out to her car: Police say an employee of the Lewis store at 10th and Cliff in Sioux Falls noticed her acting suspiciously. She was apparently filling up a bag with items and then ...
  4 days ago

• Oeuvre my dead body

  
  lonelysandwich — Authority: 539
  The guy who made this made this . What a world.
  5 days ago

• Japan is Eco

  
  Tokyo Five — Authority: 123
  Japan is becoming more and more 「エコ」 ( “eco” ). How do you say “ eco ” in English? I’m not even sure. It’s a Japanese abbreviation for “ecological” or “ecology”…and it describes acting out of concern for the environment. In Japan, most convenience stores won’t give a plastic bag for ...
  5 days ago

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