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    Nevermind Texting While Driving...

    At first glance you might think this is an expediter, or a cop car. But it's just a guy to can't get away from the office. (AP) — Forget texting while driving. German police say they nabbed a driver who had wired his Ford station wagon with an entire mobile office...
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    No Soup (or Sandwich) for YOU!

    Snacking tourists fined after Rome declares 'War on the Sandwich' - World News By Claudio Lavanga, NBC News ROME -- It’s one of the highlights of any trip to Rome: Sitting on the Spanish Steps eating a real Italian gelato. But on Oct. 1, it became a potentially costly vacation memory. The...
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    UK soldier unexpectedly gives birth in Afghanistan

    UK soldier unexpectedly gives birth in Afghanistan By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Hours after a British soldier in Afghanistan told medics she was suffering from stomach pains, the Royal Artillery gunner unexpectedly gave birth to a boy — the first child ever born to a...
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    UK Firemen Rescue Cow Stuck in Tree

    Heat seeking helicopters, and tranquilizer toting bovine experts were at the ready. Just in case.
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    Interesting Anagrams

    An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once. The letters in "anagram" can be rearranged to be "nag a ram", for example. The best ones are anagrams that in some way...
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    It's Wierd

    Look at this picture the right way, or long enough, and the face will turn from face-on to profile. It's weird. focus on that little wisp of hair hanging down the forehead and you can see the profile.
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    The Earth as you've never seen it before

    I've seen a lot of awesome photos, videos, and time-lapse videos from the Space Station. But none of them come close to this video, a time-lapse video composed of still images from the ISS. All of the images are from the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. It's...
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    Birthday! Happy Birthday Wombat!

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    Another Susan Boyle-esque Surprise on Britain's Got Talent

    It's a singing duo. When 17-year-old Jonathan Antoine and 16-year-old Charlotte Jaconelli took the stage, Simon Cowell leaned over to judge Carmen Electra and audibly mutters, "Just when you think things couldn't get any worse." And then the two teenagers start singing. And jaws drop...
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    'Twas the Night Before Christmas

    Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's a wreck... How to live in a world that's politically correct? His workers no longer would answer to "Elves", "Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves. And labor conditions at the North Pole, were alleged by the...
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    Really Big Fan

    Really, really big. That's one Big Aѕѕ Fan! Below is a Big Aѕѕ Fan at an industrial location in Telford, PA I delivered to this morning. They make coffee and food bags, industrial bags, chemicals, all sorts of stuff. The fan is 24-feet in diameter. Photo: Turtle's Droid Bionic If you have...
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    Which is bigger?

    The motel room at the Quality Inn, or this sleeper? This truck is so shiny... How shiny is it? It's so shiny that it's reflecting the American flag that's on the other side of it!
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    Terrorist Bomb in..... Wetherby?!?!

    Wetherby, the small town of 11,000 people within the City of Leeds, in West Workshire, England. It has a long history, as do most English towns, but this is best known for centuries as a popular stop and staging post on the Great North Road, being exactly 198 miles between London and Edinburgh...
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    Look, up in the air! It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a... deer?!?

    East Missoula, Montana. "Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer, and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and... Hey, where's Blitzen?" According to the Associated Press report, an eagle may have bitten off more than it could chew and dropped the fawn when it was flying away with...
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    Wanna See Something Kewl?

    You've never seen this before. Oh, it's been imaged in artist's renderings, but never like this. It's an actual photograph taken from another spacecraft of the Space Shuttle docked to the International Space Station. This view of shuttle Endeavour, taken by Italian astronaut Paulo Nespoli...
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    Mallard Nests in Middle of Home Depot

    Funny little story about a smart little duck that chose the Home and Garden department of a Bangor, Maine Home Depot for her nest. Mama duck looking for home improvement? Also, while watching the video, it will dawn on you that Beaver Cleaver now works at Home Depot. :D
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    Looking at the Weather...

    I noticed that down in Laredo today it hit 111 with a heat index of 119, and the Memorial Day weekend forecast is more of the same. It dawned on me that you would have to be just butt stoopid to take a load delivering down there on the Friday of the holiday weekend, especially if you don't have...
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    Remember the Wunderland Trains? Here's the Airport

    YouTube - Knuffingen Airport Knuffingen Airport, based on the Hamburg Airport, opened on May 4th, 2011. Pretty kewl stuff. The video is pre-opening, but still impressive. The real airport in Hamburg covers almost 6 square kilometers. This model covers only 150 square meters. That’s a lot...
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    Leading a Charmed Life

    Came across this a little bit ago. Makes for a real "sphincter pucker" moment. Truck Wreck
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    Willie's Place to Reopen as a Petro

    TA Buys Willie's Place
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