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• On Fox and Friends: 59+35+26=100?!?

  
  YesButNoButYes Reader Comments — Authority: 634
  Hang on, checking my desktop abacus. Okay, 59+35+36 ... Wait a minute ... Were not gong to talk about global warming or Climategate or sharks sweating in the oceans or polar bears wearing Snuggies or Eskimos bartering fish for refrigerators. Global warming takes a back seat here to unintentional comedy. On ...
  3 hours ago

• Amish Man Accused of DUI

  
  WGNS Radio — Authority: 448
  We doubt he reached any of his neighbors with his one phone call, but we do know for a fact that an Amish man was arrested for drunk driving last Sunday in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Police found the 22-year-old man asleep in his slow-moving buggy, which was weaving in and out of the center lane.  A breathalyzer test ...
  5 hours ago

• Big Blue Creature (link roundup)

  
  Super Punch — Authority: 675
  Big Blue Monster by Simon Dominic. And a few more links: 1. Really angry email from Harvard Crimson staffers to outgoing editors. 2. An argument that mandating condoms in porn movies would increase the risk that performers get HIV. Via these sites . 3. Someones plaiting horses manes in Dorset. Maybe ...
  6 hours ago

• Book returned to Ohio library after 60 years

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A book has been mailed back to an Ohio library after six decades, accompanied by an anonymous letter of remorse.
  7 hours ago

• Baby alligator, snakes found in university dorm

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A baby alligator, a diamondback rattlesnake, six pythons and three chameleons have been found in a University of Arkansas dorm room.
  9 hours ago

• Japanese Beer Made From Space Barley

  
  MoonDog Sports — Authority: 582
  Japanese brewer Sapporo is launching the world’s first beer produced using malt made from 100% space barley.
  11 hours ago

• Farmer sees divine sign in cow born at Conn. dairy

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A holy cow in Connecticut, perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine?
  15 hours ago

• Owner claims can holding $10K left at Iowa store

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  The owner of a tin can containing more than $10,000 that sat for four days on a Kmart service counter in Iowa has claimed the treasure.
  15 hours ago

• Some see divine sign in cow born at Conn. dairy

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A holy cow perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine? A calf born at a dairy farm in Sterling last week has a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross. The calfs owner, Brad Davis, told WFSB-TV that he thinks the marking may be a message from above, though hes still trying to figure out what that ...
  18 hours ago

• Police: Man dresses up as mom to withdraw cash

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Police said a Franklin man dressed up as his mother in an attempt to withdraw money from her bank account. Tita Nyambi, 25, was still at the Chase Bank in Franklin, in Somerset County, when police arrived Monday afternoon. Tellers called to report that a man wearing womens clothes and speaking in a high pitched voice ...
  20 hours ago

• Utah dog missing for 3 weeks found in storm drain

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  A dog missing for three weeks was found skinny but alive after getting stuck in a storm drain in a Salt Lake City suburb. Susan Garrs 4-year-old Australian shepherd mix, Millie, had dropped from 35 pounds to 22 pounds when she was found over the weekend.
  22 hours ago

• Mexican police investigate dinos disappearance

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Organizers of the Mexican tour of the "Walking With Dinosaurs" show say someone has walked off with a robotic baby Plateosaurus.
  22 hours ago

• Pair find stranger asleep on couch cuddling a bear

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Authorities said a Mississippi Gulf Coast man apparently thought he was at his girlfriends place when he wandered into another couples home and fell asleep on their couch. Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd told The Mississippi Press that a couple in the St. Martin community found a stranger snoozing on their couch and ...
  22 hours ago

• NC woman accused of selling moonshine at day care

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Authorities have charged a North Carolina woman with selling moonshine out of her day care center. The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday that North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement arrested a 57-year-old woman last week at Parkview Community Center in Charlotte.
  1 day ago

• Police: NY man tries robbery with paintball gun

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Police said a man tried to rob a New York diner while wearing a paintball mask and carrying a paintball gun. Yonkers police Sgt. Patrick McCormack said the man was subdued at the Broadway Diner by four volunteer members of the city Office of Emergency Management.
  1 day ago

• Houston gives fake fire hydrant a serial number

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Houston city workers mistakenly thought a fake fire hydrant was the real thing, painted it blue and gave it a serial number. But the homeowner realized the mistake and contacted the city. Debbie Vogelsang told KPRC-TV that she was concerned that painting the old hydrant in the citys colors could cause dangerous ...
  1 day ago

• Man Quits Women, Marries Video Game Character

  
  YourTango | The Latest Smart Talk About Love — Authority: 592
  You know how relationships are "hard?" And you more or less cant live with women (or men) AND cant live without them? Well, per BoingBoing, a man has decided to quit the old "human" romance rat race. A fella called Sal9000 isnt giving up on love, just love with things that are three-dimensional. The phenomenon of love ...
  1 day ago

• Pa. police arrest Amish man in buggy for DUI

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Police in central Pennsylvania arrested an Amish man on drunk driving charges over the weekend after he was found asleep in his moving buggy. Police said a 22-year-old man was slumped over and asleep in a slow-moving buggy on Sunday night.
  1 day ago

• Christmas Story: Boise boy licks pole, gets stuck

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 823
  Its become an annual winter tale: A young boy gets his tongue stuck to a metal pole, perhaps as the result of a dare. This year, the scene straight out of the movie "A Christmas Story" unfolded Tuesday morning in Boise with a boy of about 10. Boise firefighters used a glass of warm water to free the unidentified boy ...
  1 day ago

• Cops Catch Christmas Tree Crook

  
  WGNS Radio — Authority: 448
  Cops in Portage, Indiana say they caught a Christmas tree thief late Friday trying to make a getaway — on a motorized bicycle.  The Post-Tribune reports when police stopped 48-year-old Phillip Menefee for riding his bike at 1 a.m. with a Christmas tree balanced across his handlebars, he claimed he purchased it ...
  1 day ago

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