Miscellany
§ - Hungry Elephants Hijack Sugar Trucks - "Yoo said the elephants had learned to pick up sugarcane dropped by drivers who took pity on them, but that the practice had taught them dangerous new habits. He told the [Bangkok Post] of incidents where the leader of the herd had stood in the road to block the vehicle while the others unloaded the produce with their trunks."
§ - Kerry's Profanity Gets Bush's Attention - Sheesh! I'm no fan of "the F word" either, but even I wouldn't waste my time responding to this sort of thing. Guess the response was deemed worthy of the time of folks on the government payroll however.
§ - Hey, I could use this! - Tissue Kups
§ - For celebrity watchers - 2003's "Most Boring Celebrities of the Year"
§ - C&C Warning! - Every Woman's Nightmare!
§ - That was cute! - Nicktoons just showed a very short film called "A Very Agressive Vegetable" wherein a little girl riding in a shopping cart tells her mom that broccoli is awful—and the broccoli jumps into the cart and starts cussing her out!
§ - Sigh... - AOL Offers PCs for $299 - A whole new batch of clueless newbies coming our way fast.
§ - An adventure - Why Pop-Ups Prove Unpopular - I'm surprised that this site, with its own oft-refreshing pop-ups, would even be willing to run this article!
§ - Wedding trauma - Police Capsicum-Spray Bride - "The cake was left uncut, the groom was punched, the bride was sprayed with capsicum spray, the guests were taken away in an ambulance after being attacked with an axe and the honeymoon was cancelled."
§ - Checking Your Bill for a New Charge Called 'Oops' - "Meet the economic specter of the new millennium: stealth inflation. That's when phone companies and just about anybody else who sends you a bill manages to extract more money from you without actually raising their rates."
§ - This item may be satire but it's frighteningly close to the truth...
| If the state of California starts banning things because they're frivolous, we're all in very big trouble indeed.
Kevin Drum |
| With the economy being as bad as it has been for so long, the yakuza are having trouble making money and finding new recruits.
Atsushi Mizoguchi |
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