The unlikely headline game

[goat starer]

"I'm the Bishop of Southwark, This is what I do" says drunk bishop throwing toys out of car he has broken into

unlikely but true

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

World's tallest man saves choking dolphins

True as well.

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Mice on a plane
The cries were louder than the engines:
A flock of mice struck fear and terror in the hearts of more than 100 passengers on a Saudi-Arabian inland flight. The about 80 rodents crawled about one hour after take-off from a bag and dropped on the heads of the passengers. Authorities arrested the owner of the bag.

(from todays morning papers)

[Griffin NoName]

Farmers are being advised to let their flocks run around outdoors.

Bird Flu hits British farm in Suffolk. The virus has so far been detected inside only one shed out of 22 at the site.

How the virus got into the shed, where the birds were always kept inside, is currently unknown.

An exclusion zone has been set up around the site and advice is based on the affected birds having been kept indoors.

* the other farmers are actually being told to keep their birds indoors - doh! the ones that died were indoors -

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From todays papers:

More than 400 drunken fisherman rescued from ice floe
Many had to be taken by force because the refused to leave behind their catch and equipment.
Seems not to be uncommon in the Sea of Okhotsk where about a third of the population does fishing for a living.

[Griffin NoName]

Want to know what hasn't happened yet? The BBC website has a button to click:

The News in 2 Minutes

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From today's papers

Thai fishermen stunk to death
5 Thai fishermen lost their life as result of the rotten fish smell on their boat. 7 lost consciousness, of which 5 fell overboard and drowned.

[Griffin NoName]

Watching television harms the elderly say gerontologists

[Aggie]

BUSH:  Occupying Iraq "disastrous"

In explaining to Gulf War veterans why he chose not to pursue the war further, President Bush said, "Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad. We're going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous."


Sounds unlikely, except that this is an actual quote from Daddy Bush.... 

[Griffin NoName]

Direct from today's Grauniad, bottom of front page

The ever increasing number of tourists visiting Antartica is threatening the continent's delicate ecosystem.

For those who cannot see the picture of the tourists clearly enough here is a similar but clearer one prepared earlier:

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This could also be the topic of a politics thread

Utah GOP: Immigrants tools of Satan

In a speech at the convention, Larsen told those gathered that illegal immigrants "hate American people" and "are determined to destroy this country, and there is nothing they won't do."
Illegal aliens are in control of the media, and working in tandem with Democrats, are trying to "destroy Christian America" and replace it with "a godless new world order -- and that is not extremism, that is fact," Larsen said.
At the end of his speech, Larsen began to cry, saying illegal immigrants were trying to bring about the destruction of the U.S. "by self invasion."
"If the Democrats take over the country, we will be dead, and we will have abortion and partial-birth abortion and the Republican Party will go into extinction," he said. "Nancy Pelosi and the ACLU would oppose this (resolution)."

[Sibling Chatty]

If you're too crazy to be accepted in California, you go to Nevada. If Nevada won't take you,you go to Utah.

Most Mormons aren't total lunatics. A few are. Enid Green whatever her next name will be, however, is certifiable.

Utah Republicans put the rest of the delusional folks in the world to shame. Those people are so scary, their own party runs out so they can't vote on stuff. To be so whacko that Republican's don't want to be identified with you?? Yeah, you gotta be bad.

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A new step towards a talibanic Poland (sorry, no link):

Polish parliament discusses banning of short skirts
A Polish MP proposes to make "temptation to sex" a punishable offense. In his words this includes the wearing of short skirts.

[beagle]

Any news on nurses outfits or black fishnet stockings or...

Just out of interest, why are they against sex? Most of our M.P.s seem fervently in favour of it, as long as their spouse doesn't catch them.

[Swatopluk]

No sex please, we are Polish.

From today's papers:

A glitch
Mysteriously the name of a subway station has disappered from Madrid folding city maps. "Simancas" station does not appear anymore. What makes it juicy is that it is also the name of the leader of the socialist opposition party Rafael Simancas, who wants to replace the conservative head of government of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, in the election in 3 weeks.
The subway company claims that the error has no political background.