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  Your favorite Obscure Store stories of 2001 JIM ROMENESKO: Many of my favorite stories of '01 have already been mentioned, but here are a few others: > Man jailed for saying his McNuggets were "shit" > Man arrested for having sex with chicken at motel > Condom in toothpaste leads to man's heart attack > Student's pants catch fire during drama skit CRAIG STAFFORD: The articles linked on Romenesko always brighten my day. The Darwin Awards have nothing on these people! You are everything Jay Leno's HEADLINES should be if, oh say, Leno didn't suck so badly (and...

It's raining fish in Greece Athens - A shower of tiny fish rained down on the village of Korona in the mountains of northern Greece late on Tuesday, Greek television reported on Wednesday, attributing the incident to a mini-tornado. Villagers discovered the unexpected catch on the banks of Lake Doirani, which lies on the Greek border with the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, following a spell of rough weather. According to a weather expert at the university of Salonica, in northern Greece, the fish were probably skimmed up from the surface of the lake by a mini-tornado formed during a...

Controversy has erupted in France after the linguistic authorities gave the @ character a name no French email user has ever heard of. Translations of @ Czech: zavinac (pickled herring) Russian: sobachka (little dog) Italian: Chiocciola (small snail) Hebrew: strudel (Austrian cake) Until now, the French have had a choice between "arobase", a popular word derived from the Spanish, and - for the anglophile - "at". But the General Commission for Terminology and Neologisms - the government body charged with coining new French words - has decided that the proper word should be "arrobe". However there are no guarantees that...

Is rhyme a crime of judicial decorum when people implore 'em? Sunday, December 08, 2002 It seems more a question for Jerry Springer than for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. A 45-year-old multimillionaire meets a 17-year-old girl working in a ski shop. They begin a two-year courtship. He gives her a car, a couple of credit cards and sets her up in an apartment. Finally he proposes, handing her an engagement ring -- with a fake diamond. They get married, but not before she signs a prenuptial agreement. She agrees that about all she'll keep after a divorce is $3,500 for...

Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (Reuters) - The mummified bodies of a German woman and her son who apparently died three years ago were found in their Florida home, along with the remains of their dead dog, police say. A calendar and paperwork found in the home in tiny Lehigh Acres, along with food in the refrigerator with 1999 expiration dates, led investigators to believe the two may have died as long ago as March 1999. The U.S. acquaintances of the pair may have thought they moved back to Germany while their German...

When your arch-rival is Coca-Cola, it is important to aim high. Pepsi is doing this with possibly the biggest promotional giveaway in marketing history - a trip to space. The fizzy drinks giant is in talks with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency to buy a £10million shuttle ticket to the Mir space station. If successful, Pepsi plans to give this away as a prize on a TV gameshow broadcast in the US. 'It's the most audacious PR tactic any consumer brand has ever attempted and I think it will be successful,' said Gidon Freeman of PR Week. 'The media...

<p>The irreverent animated series may not be an obvious source of moral inspiration, but to many the hapless family -- and their Evangelical neighbor, Ned Flanders -- are the very picture of Christian values.</p> <p>A British Christian group last month hosted a Ned Flanders Day, complete with look-alike contest and a performance by the satirical band Ned Zeppelin. And on this side of the Atlantic, a Simpsons study guide that ties certain episodes to lessons of faith was released in August.</p>

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A transvestite sued a Los Angeles beauty school, claiming his application was rejected when school officials realized he was not a woman. The lawsuit, brought Wednesday by a plaintiff known only as "Sandy," is the first of its kind under a 1979 city ordinance that prohibits businesses from discrimination based on sexual orientation, "Sandy's" attorney, Gloria Allred, told Reuters. "Sandy is not required to appear as a man because she is a man or has male genitalia," said Allred, a high-profile Los Angeles lawyer. When he enrolled last month at the Marinello School of Beauty in...

    US non-lethal weapon reports suppressed   14:47 09 May 02 Debora MacKenzie   Bugs that eat roads and buildings. Biocatalysts that break down fuel and plastics. Devices that stealthily corrode aluminium and other metals. These are just a few of the non-lethal weapons that the US has tried to develop, or is trying to develop.   Titles of some of the non-lethal weapon reports But quite how close such weapons are to reality we may never know. The US National Academy of Sciences is refusing to release dozens of reports proposing or describing their development, even though the documents are...

Cut Wrong South Carolina An angry man walked into his local police station and threw a bag of cocaine on the counter. He told the desk sergeant that it was a substandard cut and demanded that dealer he bought it form be arrested. You Mean You Had To Lift The Hood? San Antonio, Texas Amy Brasher was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, after a mechanic found eighteen packages of marijuana packed in the engine compartment of the car. The woman, who had taken her car in for an oil change said that she did not realize he would have...