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Oddities spotted in the news
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North Bay road open after swimming moose prompted closure
"No update has been given on the status of the moose."
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
Well, obviously no moose is good moose.
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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
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!
*Rimshot.mp3*
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry! NO QUARTER! No Quarter by Echo's Children
Middletown Delaware peace officers issuing a turkey of a citation...
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news...868479001/
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry! NO QUARTER! No Quarter by Echo's Children
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
A couple of idiots...
Two men called 911 Sunday to report their vehicles were being taken away — by police.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
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) Traditionnnnn!
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
Will Wheaton being Will Wheaton!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/wil-wheaton-w...57979.html
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry! NO QUARTER! No Quarter by Echo's Children 
RE: Oddities spotted in the news
01-13-2018, 03:58 PM (This post was last modified: 01-13-2018, 03:59 PM by Norgarth.)
an interesting article from Popular Mechanics about a space rock found in Egypt
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/...ar-system/
RE: Oddities spotted in the news
01-23-2018, 08:37 AM (This post was last modified: 01-23-2018, 08:43 AM by robkelk.)
New Brunswick now has highway offramp signs directing people to microbreweries.
Remember, don't drink and drive...
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
... y'know, we gotta do something about the confusion between that part of Canada and the city down the street from me.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
This seems remarkably poorly thought out.
RE: Oddities spotted in the news
01-23-2018, 03:18 PM (This post was last modified: 01-23-2018, 03:28 PM by robkelk.) (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.) Riding the coattails of the teenaged idiots eating Tide PODs ("Actual Tide laundry detergent pods are poisonous and should not be consumed"), a Brooklyn pizzeria comes up with PIEd Pods - colorful pepperoni calzone.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
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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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
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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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
RE: Oddities spotted in the news
01-30-2018, 03:21 PM (This post was last modified: 01-30-2018, 04:06 PM by robkelk.)
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. ![[Image: tim-hortons-bouctouche.png]](https://i.cbc.ca/1.4510151.1517326297!/fileImage/httpImage/image.png_gen/derivatives/original_620/tim-hortons-bouctouche.png) (And this one just went out on the hourly national news.)
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
WWII Air Force veteran gets a supply drop of a cake from his old unit on his 100th birthday.
Yes, an actual supply drop – the cake was parachuted in. The site has video. Beer Choir!
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
"We wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire"
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/...-1.3382703 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.
Aging rum the old-fashioned way - putting it on a tall ship and sailing it around the world
Coffee in South Korea - "A stroll down Coffee Street in Coffee City" Anybody here own shares in Shopify? They got the contract to sell marijuana online in Ontario when that becomes legal later this year.
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
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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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
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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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown
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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