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Old 10-16-2008, 04:13 PM   #196
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The AP article left out the best part:

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Authorities said Kathleen Allmond later took a picture of herself wearing a necklace made from pieces of her mother's skull and posted it on her MySpace page, reported KNVN-TV in Chico, Calif.
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Old 10-16-2008, 04:24 PM   #197
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That's terrible.

HLJ. I'm going to have to start calling you "sunshine". lol!
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Old 10-16-2008, 04:55 PM   #198
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She was just honoring her mother's wishes to have pieces of her skull made in to jewelry, with photographs posted on the internet.
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Old 10-16-2008, 06:19 PM   #199
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Oh that's better. Did her mom also wish to have blood drunk from her skull? And a posthumous wild orgy? Gotta do the do, ya know
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Old 10-17-2008, 07:55 AM   #200
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I just hope they respected her wishes not to be served with mustard...
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Old 10-17-2008, 11:26 PM   #201
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Human is usually best with soy sauce ....

Not that I've ever partaken ....
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Old 10-20-2008, 12:18 PM   #202
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Copper thefts leave youth sports scrambling

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TUCKER, Georgia (CNN) -- Last Thursday around dusk, Granite Park soccer field in suburban Atlanta was more crowded than usual.
With lights not working, the Optimist Club of Fort Worth, Texas, was forced to play all games on Saturday.

With lights not working, the Optimist Club of Fort Worth, Texas, was forced to play all games on Saturday.

Makeshift goals had been erected to accommodate five extra teams from the Tucker Youth Soccer Association. On the sidelines, groups of giggly kids waited their turns on the field while soccer moms and dads mined the crowded green space in search of a place to park their lawn chairs.

The atypical arrangement was caused by thieves who had ripped out copper wiring from light poles at nearby Henderson Park field, causing about $6,000 in damage, displacing teams that practiced under the lights and making the TYSA players the latest victims of a nationwide epidemic.

"It's annoying that we have to drive all the way here. It takes away time from homework and talking to friends," said Lizzie Howell, 15, who had to leave home earlier than usual to make it to practice by 7 p.m.

Her friend and teammate, Jessie Spencer, worried that the cramped quarters might affect her game.

"I'm kind of upset that we didn't get to practice on the same field and we have to be all crowded out here," said Spencer, 15.

TYSA fared well compared with its neighboring league, the Gwinnett Soccer Association, whose teams sought refuge at Granite two weeks earlier under similar circumstances. The vandals who hit the GSA's field in Lilburn stole about $100 worth of copper wiring from their field and caused about $8,500 in damage.

Those losses paled in comparison to the $25,000 in damage caused by thieves who hit Norcross Soccer Academy's field in Pinckneyville, Georgia.
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Old 10-20-2008, 01:38 PM   #203
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That's just wrong. They should make a law that you can't steal stuff.
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Old 10-20-2008, 04:22 PM   #204
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Okay I've lifted this from snopes, which I wouldn't usually do (enough people here read it). But the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud - hard. In the correct use of the word, it's so random.

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Claim: A Fisher-Price talking doll utters the phrases "Islam is the light" and "Satan is king."
Status: False.
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Other toys that speak have been the focus of similar misunderstandings. The 2006 talking book Potty Time with Elmo had some folks hearing its "Uh-oh! Who has to go?" phrase as "Uh-oh! Who wants to die?" — a negative toilet-training message if there ever was one.

In 1982 similar problems plagued "Baby Darling," a doll manufactured in Hong Kong. American consumers mistook its Spanish "Quiero a mami" (meaning "I want mommy" or "I love mommy") as "Kill mommy."

Check out the link to the sound file at the bottom of the snopes page.
I can clearly hear, "Islam is light" now I've been told it's there. But perhaps it's, "Islam is lite" in fact a criticism of the religion. FWIW I can't hear anything about Satan at all.
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Old 10-28-2008, 02:26 AM   #205
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Mobile phones suck

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A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.

The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.

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"He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off,"

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read on at BBC news
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Old 10-28-2008, 11:51 AM   #206
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I would have totally done that....I will be advised. I'm not one to let my electronics die in toilets, even if the hope of salvation is minimal. I'm so glad that wasn't me, right now.
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Old 10-28-2008, 02:20 PM   #207
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New bumper sticker - "Hang up the phone and shit."
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Old 10-28-2008, 10:45 PM   #208
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He had a shitty day.

Did he own the LG Chocolate?

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He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off
The bowl or his hand?
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Old 10-28-2008, 10:50 PM   #209
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good question
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The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm.
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Old 10-29-2008, 01:49 AM   #210
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Is it too late to vote for the hand?
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