[DiSaidSo]

It just seems so odd.... he was a moving target! The article said it's happened before, but I mean.... I hope it's rare. That would be no bueno for you motorcycle cats not to ever be able to ride every time there's a thunderstorm within 10 miles.

[Couriant]

Well I don't think that there is a common cause on why people get hit with lightning... at least that's what was on the documentary on people getting hit by lightning. I remember of the lady out of thousands at a concert (or maybe the olympics in Atlanta) was hit. Talk about being unlucky

[Couriant]

McOctopus McDumplings May Be Coming To U.S.

(AP) TOKYO If Morio Sase has his way, hungry teenagers around the world will soon be snacking on something more exotic than McDonald's hamburgers: takoyaki, or octopus dumplings.

With more than 350 takeout stores in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan already, Sase's Gindaco chain is one of a barrage of fast-food companies bringing lowbrow Japanese chow to overseas markets. Its first U.S. store is scheduled to open in Los Angeles in 2007, and it hopes to open 20 stores in California by 2010.

"When I was a small boy, it was street food that made me feel good and warm inside," Sase said at a recent interview at the Tokyo headquarters of HotLand Corp., which runs Gindaco.

Hand-grilled in iron molds by cooks behind a large display window, the octopus dumplings are made from wheat flour paste mixed with fish stock, spring onions and boiled octopus chunks, and drizzled with a sweet sauce, dried bonito flakes and seaweed.

"Foods like takoyaki are closer to Japanese hearts than sushi or sashimi," Sase said. "They're delicious, healthy and warm — the perfect snack."

more at link:
http://kutv.com/watercooler/watercoo...176160328.html

[Gabriel]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060626/...A1BHNlYwMxNzAy

This looks like a good place to put this

[Couriant]

Originally Posted by MNG0304

How NOT to steal a sidekick

For anyone that was following the stolen sidekick story in NY, the girl was charge for possesion of stolen property, as well as being humiliated worldwide.

[angelize56]

It's a shame this guy killed himself anywhere near others! Poor Lorena....in the wrong place at the wrong time!

Tue, Jun. 27, 2006

Montana man's suicide bullet kills girl

Associated Press

EUREKA, Mont. - A man who committed suicide at a party also killed a 16-year-old girl when the bullet traveled through his head and struck her in the chest, authorities said.

Jacob R. Lee, 19, and Lorena Mocko, 16, were found shot to death at around 1 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln County authorities said.

Lee shot himself and the bullet passed through him and fatally struck Mocko, Lincoln County Sheriff Daryl Anderson said Tuesday.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...s/14913746.htm

[Gabriel]

More drunk birds

http://my.earthlink.net/article/str?...0624-223358882

[coderitr]

I think this qualifies as odd (they're going to the prom in Nashville, TN)

[coderitr]

Cue the world's smallest violin

Socialite PARIS HILTON was forced to drive from Las Vegas, Nevada to Los Angeles after airline officials told her she couldn't bring her six pets on her planned flight home.
The hotel heiress brought her monkey, tiger and her ferrets

http://www.pr-inside.com/hiltons-flight-drama-r9540.htm

[teengeekgrrl]

How could they force herto do such a thing?!?!?! Poor creature...

[teengeekgrrl]

"I bought, like, a monkey, a tiger and some ferrets. I tried to bring them on a commercial flight and they wouldn't let me fly with all the animals. They said it wasn't a travelling circus.
So I had to drive all the way home from Vegas in the limo with all these animals, there was like six. It was a lot."

Wow. That says it all.

[coderitr]

I get a tremendous dose of schadenfreude (that word doesn't really fit since it's not misfortune but merely inconvenience) every time these "better than you" celebrities get taken down a peg or two. I love the thought of her having to listen to a monkey screaming for the several hours I guess it takes to drive from LV to LA. Wake up, Paris. It's time to live in the real world.

[Chicon]

Originally Posted by coderitr

I get a tremendous dose of schadenfreude (that word doesn't really fit since it's not misfortune but merely inconvenience) every time these "better than you" celebrities get taken down a peg or two. I love the thought of her having to listen to a monkey screaming for the several hours I guess it takes to drive from LV to LA. Wake up, Paris. It's time to live in the real world.

LOL !

[Chicon]

Scorpions, worms and ants on the menu at NY club

Tue Jul 4, 2006 8:45am ET10
By Claudia Parsons


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A discerning guest at a Manhattan cocktail party removed a scorpion from its bed of cheese atop an endive leaf and popped it in his mouth, determined to savor the taste unadulterated.

"Nutty, sweet," was the verdict of Gourmet magazine food editor Ian Knauer at the recent soiree.

"That's an antenna," he added, pointing to a morsel of cricket left poking through lips of his companion at the Explorers Club in New York, which likes to entertain its well-traveled members with exotic culinary adventures.

Founded in 1904, the exclusive international club has some 3,000 members around the world including Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest, astronaut John Glenn and paleontologist Richard Leakey.

Link : http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...archived=False

Bon appétit !

[eggplant43]

Jul 14, 7:23 AM (ET)

ALOHA, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon woman was looking for love in all the wrong places when she called 9-1-1 wanting a "cute" sheriff's deputy to return to her house.

Lorna Jeanne Dudash succeeded in getting a date - in court, that is.

After her neighbors reported a noise complaint, two Washington County sheriff's deputies knocked on Dudash's door.

When they left, Dudash dialed 9-1-1 in a desperate attempt to get the deputy she described to dispatchers as "a cutie pie" to return.

The dispatcher repeatedly asked why Dudash needed the deputy to return.

Dudash's response: "Honey, I'm just going to be honest with you, okay? I'm 45 years old and I'd just like to meet him again."

The deputy returned and arrested Dudash for misusing 9-1-1. She now faces a $6,000 fine and up to a year in jail.