Thursday, April 19, 2007
What Does the Owl Know...?
What happened inside the owl cage at the Moscow Zoo? What’s known is this: Alexander Luparev, 32, was found dead in his underwear inside a cage home to a Siberian owl. Luparev’s clothes were strewn around the cage, along with some vodka, and he was found lying in a pool of blood underneath the bird....
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
And Today's Special is...
In the wake of the tainted pet food scare, there’s a new demand for recipes for homemade dog and cat food, such as “spoiled sheepdog stew”, made from lamb, rice and vegetables. Others, such as “peanut butter doggie cookies” are reportedly so good that they tempt the cooks to lie down with the dogs....
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Tombs and Mistresses...
Beijing is outlawing "tomb futures", a practice of buying and selling tombs as speculative investment. The crackdown follows repeated scams, in which cemeteries sell non-existent burial plots in the land-starved nation. Investors believed the plots would appreciate in value. The government is also...
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Let's hear it for the ...er, female dogs...
When Connecticut ’s Canine Control Office issued dog tags in the shape of a fire hydrant, they received calls from women protesting that this was discrimination against female dogs. No word on the reaction of the CCCO. (Unverified, communication from a friend) I’ve also heard in Connecticut all...
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Friday, April 13, 2007
Don’t Try this at Home: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime...
‘To prove his hypothesis that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori causes stomach ulcers – a theory which was initially ridiculed [come on guys, it was just a hypothesis] – physician Barry Marshall drank a culture filled with the spiral microbes. Marshall and his colleague Robin Warren later won the...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
In my previous post I told you about bears, and you know about the birds,
but do you know about the bees? That there are 16,000 species, and that most of them do not live in colonies? Well, I didn’t either until very recently. I did know the queens are sluts, but I didn’t know just how bad they are. They mate and mate until they collect more than 70 million sperm from...
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Sunday, April 8, 2007
It's spring, we'll be heading into the woods again, so here's some advice:
Be aware - be safe - distribute this to all the hikers and hunters you know: In light of the rising frequency of human and grizzly bear conflicts, the Alberta Department of Fish and Game is advising hikers, hunters and fishermen to take extra precautions and keep alert for bears while in the field....
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Friday, April 6, 2007
More Dark Stuff - especially for OTA
Poor OTA is desperately waiting for an item from me, so she can complete one of her lists. This would be item # 14, of course, since OTA finds it increasingly difficult to make lists consisting of less. In fact, it occurred to me that one day she might decide to list her children and discover that...
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Thursday, April 5, 2007
No Wives And No Murders...
Police in various Canadian provinces (states for my US friends) have occupied the clubhouses of the Hell’s Angels. Under new Canadian anti-racketeering legislation, these houses were obtained from the proceeds of lillegal activities, and hence are subject to seizure. Their neighbours seem to like...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Might as well advertise...
Laurels are not something Bolivians associate with their country, yet they appear on their coat of arms. Now the government of President Evo Morales is proposing to replace such European symbols with indigenous ones. The laurel leaves would be replaced with coca leaves, a stimulant used for...
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