Interesting News Stories

QUOTE (psammead @ January 28, 2007 04:36 pm)

Cat gets head stuck in jam jar while trying to catch a mouse. With picture

Oh that poor mouse! I have no sympathy for the cat. You play with glass jars, you gonna get your head stuck. I feel a cat macro coming on. Something along the lines of "i'm in ur jarz, terrifyin' ur mouse".

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"i'm in ur jarz, terrifyin' ur mouse".

This needs to be on a t-shirt.

Remember the plucky duck who survived being shot and refrigerated for two days?. Well, it's come back from the dead, again!

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"We lost her. You know, the bird's dead and it's over. I'm sorry," he said of the operating team's immediate reaction.

"And then, you know, up comes that head and the wings start flapping and, honestly, what, 20 seconds later, I mean the bird was, like, up."

There were scenes of high emotion in the operating theatre, said Noni Beck of the Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary.

"I started crying: 'She's alive!'"

Okay, I think Plucky needs to be nicknamed "Buffy."

Bank sends 75,000 customers' statements to one woman. Let's hope she's got a shredder.

Is there such a thing as a class action lawsuit in England?

ETA: Body found in British Atlantic jet landing gear.

Dune. Desert Planet.

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Dune. Desert Planet.

News I heard on the radio yesterday, to which I shouted "FINALLY!"

He's a press-beast fame-ho but some days I really appreciate our Premier.

Man keeps contact lenses in for a year.

As someone who has scarring due to overuse of contacts, this story totally freaked me out.

...I can't even bring myself to click the link.

I did check out the link, and now I regret it.

*full body shudder*

There's a lesson to be learned here, kids.... take care of those contacts!

Because I have no soul, I have little pity for anyone that thinks its a good idea to wear 3 layers of contacts.

Nuns on the run

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Unknown to the rest of Greece’s monastic community, the nuns of the Saints Kyrikos and Ioulite convent at Sidi-rokastro near the Bulgarian border had been doing a brisk clothing trade since installing six large knitting machines in the convent ten years ago. They sold to some 25 clothing chains around Greece and often travelled to European capitals to keep an eye on fashion.

Too bad one of the nuns isn't named Maria so we can make the "how do you solve a problem like Maria" jokes. Stupid fugitive nuns and their noncooperating names!