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In the news

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:46 am
by Giovanni Schwartz
I feel we need a section for entertaining news articles. I think we've posted enough of them in random sub-fora that they can have their own topic.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.1159756

Re: In the news

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:10 pm
by Yarjka
This one brings up some serious linguistic issues: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Fuk ... story.html

Re: In the news

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:53 am
by mic0
Maybe I'm just really tired, but this article about dieting elephants is funny/bizarre. (Having now read a bit more, it's not funny; only the image in my head of an elephant counting calories is still funny.)

Re: In the news

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 11:51 am
by Yarjka
mic0 wrote:Maybe I'm just really tired, but this article about dieting elephants is funny/bizarre. (Having now read a bit more, it's not funny; only the image in my head of an elephant counting calories is still funny.)
That reminds me of this article I read some years ago: http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Russi ... tails.html

Re: In the news

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:12 am
by S.A.M.

Re: In the news

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:30 pm
by Yarjka

Re: In the news

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:22 pm
by yayfulness

Re: In the news

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:26 pm
by Giovanni Schwartz
Have you never read the Da Vinci Code?

Re: In the news

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:31 pm
by yayfulness
I wasn't aware that that book was a historical document.

Re: In the news

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:56 pm
by Giovanni Schwartz
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ ... ure-names/

Forget being the last Airbender! I want to be a HELLBENDER.

Re: In the news

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:05 pm
by Portia
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087 ... 44712.html

I'm amused by the notion of the People's Front for the Liberation of Provo. What would it fight for: caffeinated Coke on campus? That no view be obstructed? "END THE 1-15 CORE PROJECT!"? (Yes.)

Re: In the news

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:32 am
by Giovanni Schwartz

Re: In the news

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:32 am
by Digit
77-pound wiener dog can barely move.

Re: In the news

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:35 am
by Yarjka

Re: In the news

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:07 pm
by mic0
Okay, Yarjka, that link needs a warning or something. I was so excited, because HEY CHEESE, but wow. WOW. Gross. :)

Re: In the news

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:28 pm
by Yarjka
mic0 wrote:Okay, Yarjka, that link needs a warning or something. I was so excited, because HEY CHEESE, but wow. WOW. Gross. :)
Hey, I'm still excited. A new kind of cheese!!

Re: In the news

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:52 pm
by Whistler
w-what does it taste like??

Re: In the news

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 6:52 pm
by mic0
Yarjka wrote:
mic0 wrote:Okay, Yarjka, that link needs a warning or something. I was so excited, because HEY CHEESE, but wow. WOW. Gross. :)
Hey, I'm still excited. A new kind of cheese!!
Well, alright, you let us know how that works out for you. Whistler, I don't even want to know... okay, yes I do, but only through hearsay do I want to know.

Re: In the news

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 8:20 pm
by Craig Jessop
Ohio Woman Unknowingly Marries Father

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/21/us/ohio-w ... ?hpt=hp_t3

Re: In the news

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:06 am
by Yarjka
Sperm donor claims to have fathered 35 kids across Quebec

This could possibly lead to some more inadvertently incestuous couples.