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« Reply #360 on: January 13, 2012, 05:42:14 PM »

And another medical story: Woman injects bath salts; loses arm to flesh-eating bacteria.
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« Reply #361 on: January 21, 2012, 04:24:22 PM »

It's getting harder and harder to find a good school mascot.

New School Can't Be Cougars Because It Might Offend Middle-Aged Women.
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« Reply #362 on: January 25, 2012, 03:21:58 PM »

Watch out, Oklahoma chefs!! Apparently you won't be able to use dead babies in your recipes anymore.
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« Reply #363 on: January 25, 2012, 03:54:01 PM »

Soylent Green is people!
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« Reply #364 on: January 26, 2012, 05:43:44 PM »

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/cocaine-mistakenly-sent-to-un-headquarters/story-e6frf7jx-1226255004433
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Seriously, I tried to lick my own face.

Ah. Typical ivory tower pedanticalness.
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« Reply #365 on: January 30, 2012, 09:55:55 PM »


The Muppets repsond.
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« Reply #366 on: February 03, 2012, 08:39:34 AM »

In Vermont, cops really are pigs.
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« Reply #367 on: February 03, 2012, 08:54:54 AM »

Infinite number of monkeys (6) with infinite number of typewriters (1), cannot recreate the works of Shakespeare.
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« Reply #368 on: February 03, 2012, 03:21:31 PM »


If I laughed at this story, does that make me a bad person?
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« Reply #369 on: February 05, 2012, 09:45:21 AM »

Kim Jong Un Looking at Things and providing "on-the-spot advice."

Picture #26 has him holding a guitar. I wonder if the North Korean state press will say that he was instantly able to play "Bouree" or "Eruption" - "Despite the lack of amplification, electricity, and prior experience with the instrument, the Great Successor was able to grace us with a version of 'Eruption' indistinguishable from that on the 1978 debut album from Van Halen of the Evil Western Empire. He then smiled, the clouds parted and began raining Skittles."
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« Reply #370 on: February 06, 2012, 08:50:10 PM »

Simpsons dolls banned in Iran.
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« Reply #371 on: February 08, 2012, 10:49:52 AM »

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/02/congressman-falls-months-old-onion-story-about-planned-parenthood-abortionplex/48344/

Original Onion story:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex,20476/
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« Reply #372 on: February 11, 2012, 01:05:40 PM »

Don't teach anything that's not G-rated in Arizona!

Arizona State Senate to Colleges...

What a waste of various courts' time that could be.
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« Reply #373 on: February 11, 2012, 07:56:15 PM »

Don't teach anything that's not G-rated in Arizona!

Arizona State Senate to Colleges...

What a waste of various courts' time that could be.


There's a whole thread on this one: http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,86085.msg2075858.html
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« Reply #374 on: February 16, 2012, 10:47:24 AM »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101399/Heart-Attack-Grill-customer-Las-Vegas-suffers-cardiac-arrest-eating-Triple-Bypass-Burger.html
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