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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-17-2017, 04:16 PM
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-17-2017, 04:24 PM
Well, obviously no moose is good moose.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-21-2017, 12:14 PM
Delayed flight turns into Newfoundland kitchen party at Pearson International Airport
Imagine what would have happened if the delay was longer than 30 minutes...
(This, BTW, is why I like Newfoundlanders so much.)
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-21-2017, 06:50 PM
Hmm. Methinks that they'd all be quite 'merry' by boarding time, and or have invaded a terminal kitchen to make it a proper kitchen party!
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11-22-2017, 10:18 PM
Middletown Delaware peace officers issuing a turkey of a citation...
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news...868479001/
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11-24-2017, 12:03 PM
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
11-27-2017, 04:15 PM
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11-29-2017, 04:26 PM
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
12-05-2017, 01:38 PM
Part of a column in today's Washington Post:
Quote:A medic who was born in the back of an ambulance delivered a baby in the back of his own ambulance on his birthday. Daniel Helsel assisted the pregnant woman exactly 42 years after his mother gave birth on the side of the Beltway.
(reported by Lynh Bui)
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12-15-2017, 05:20 PM
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01-13-2018, 03:58 PM
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an interesting article from Popular Mechanics about a space rock found in Egypt
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/...ar-system/
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01-23-2018, 08:37 AM
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
01-23-2018, 12:32 PM
... y'know, we gotta do something about the confusion between that part of Canada and the city down the street from me.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
01-23-2018, 02:08 PM
This seems remarkably poorly thought out.
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01-23-2018, 03:18 PM
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(01-23-2018, 12:32 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: ... y'know, we gotta do something about the confusion between that part of Canada and the city down the street from me.
While you're renaming parts of the USA, please do something about Ontario County, California sharing a postal abbreviation with Ontario (ON, CA).
(01-23-2018, 02:08 PM)hazard Wrote: This seems remarkably poorly thought out.
Yeah, I've already added it as an example to the All The Tropes page "Do Not Do This Cool Thing". Mind you, Ontario has had offramp signs for wineries for years, and they don't seem to have affected the drunk-driving statistics. (Of course, wine isn't consumed the same way that beer is.)
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
01-24-2018, 12:20 PM
What does a snow plow have to do with gender equality?
Apparently, the same as what a snow plow has to do with reducing a city's carbon footprint.
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01-24-2018, 04:24 PM
Sharks' Hertl, Braun regret insulting Winnipeg in interview
I'm surprised we didn't have a story like this earlier. After all, it's the Sharks and the Jets.
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01-30-2018, 03:21 PM
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Fleeing bank robbery suspects caught at Tim Hortons drive-thru
Which lead to a half-dozen police cars all in one donut-shop parking lot.
(And this one just went out on the hourly national news.)
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
02-07-2018, 03:30 PM
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.
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02-12-2018, 12:42 PM
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02-16-2018, 12:08 PM
Small-town local history museum swamped by international calls about a new exhibit about a local boy
To be fair, the small town is Stratford, Ontario, and the local boy is Justin Bieber. The exhibit opens Sunday.
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02-19-2018, 11:13 AM
The best save of the game was off the ice
Quote:"If there's any dangerous situation, we'll be there," the officers said in a joint statement in Korean.
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RE: Oddities spotted in the news
02-23-2018, 02:47 PM
Nova Scotia eatery's enormous 6-pound donair eluding extreme eaters
Yes, a Halifax-style donair is tasty, but who can eat one that's the equivalent of two-dozen hamburgers?
Quote:No one has finished Alexandra's Pizza's massive donair after 17 attempts in the last five months
Apparently, nobody.
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