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Katrina
Gangsta Spray Tans
It appears what I know to be true is finally happening:
Essex will take over the world.
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Sin
Man dies in cake-eating contest

An inquest is to be held on a man who died during a contest to see who could eat the most fairy cakes.
Katrina
Stuff.co.nz: German tagger caught in the act

A German backpacker was caught red-handed on camera tagging rock walls on the walk up to the Franz Josef glacier terminal face last Thursday.
English tourists managed to take a few pictures of the 28-year-old culprit and handed their footage to police who arrested him on Friday heading out of town.
The man was made to clean his work off the rocks and ice in the company of Department of Conservation staff.
Hooray for the DoC, but hang on, 28? Isn't he a bit, well, ancient to still be doing this kind of crap? Not to mention stupid, there's only one road into Franz Josef township and only one out...
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FuzzyTony
Troubled by the U.S. presidential race? It could be worse:

Hitler, Frankenstein Battle For Votes In India

Feb 25, 2008 (CNN) - Think Barack Hussein Obama has it rough campaigning for president with a name like that? The Illinois senator has nothing on Frankenstein Momin. Or Billy Kid Sangma. Or Adolf Lu Hitler Marak.
The three men are among dozens of others with equally colorful names who are competing for legislative seats in Meghalaya, a remote northeast Indian state, on March 3. There are about 60 seats up for grabs, 331 candidates vying, and no shortage of unusual names. There's Britainwar Dan, Admiral Sangma and Bombersingh Hynniewta - all ready for battle. There's Laborious Manik Syiem and Hilarius Pohchen. Boldness Nongrum and Clever Marak. Even a Tony Curtis Lyngdoh.
canaryman
Some strange things happen in Japan, I liked the way that:

When students standing outside the gates started to scream at the sight of him, he dashed inside the school grounds, hoping to blend in with the crowds of teenagers, the paper said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2257905520080222
sarabyrd
Man Sees Blue After Overdose Of Viagra

At least he's a Chelsea fan.
Allershausen
Robbers attack the wrong bar!
dstadt
Redheads 'have more sex than blondes or brunettes'

Blondes may have more fun but redheads have more sex, according to new research in Germany.

The study by Hamburg Sex Researcher Professor Dr Werner Habermehl looked at the sex lives of hundreds of German women and compared them with their hair colour.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770
dolfan
Umm...but it appears to me that every woman in Germany has red hair. I mean RED hair, like the color of ketchup red. Man if I could only get into the hair dye business!
Neandertaler
How not to pull a sickie from work
Katrina
Wikipedia founder bins girlfriend via Wikipedia

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is facing public humiliation after he apparently used the site to break-up with girlfriend and Canadian TV personality Rachel Marsden.
Marsden, who pleaded guilty to criminally harassing a boyfriend in 2004, possesses reportedly saucy instant message transcripts with Wales and is now auctioning off his clothes on eBay.
The bitter backlash came after Wales announced in a statement on Wikipedia that he was "no longer involved with" Marsden and had only met her in person for the first time in February this year.
Marsden told The Canadian Press that "it didn't really help matters that Jimmy chose to announce the breakup to the entire world via Wikipedia".
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He probably binned her by Wiki due to blind fear, but seeing as he had the info (what's a little criminal harrassment between friends?) and still went out with her... hmmmm.
Uncle Nick
Detectives declined to say where Kuch works, or whether he still has a job.
I presume that if his employers have read the article he is now out of work.
dstadt
Tent city in suburbs is cost of home crisis

ONTARIO, California (Reuters) - Between railroad tracks and beneath the roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected, in a blighted city center, but in the once-booming suburbia of Southern California.

http://features.us.reuters.com/cover/news/...7-616F0DA5.html
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