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Nov. 20th, 2009 11:32 amLocal quirks:
Nutty San Mateo lawyer San Francisco Airport.
SF Mayor in press tantrums.
Meanwhile all the Whos down inWhoOakville are wondering where their Christmas decorations are.
Open Carry supporters congregate at Cupertino Starbucks.
In Santa Rosa a bit of an Oops!
SoCal Interior Designer nabbed in disability scam after appearing on HGTV.
FBI and San Diego police on the hunt for Geezer Bank Robber.
And elsewhere:
Aussie bloke sets out to get the morning paper and drives nine hours.
Arrest of Squeegee attack in Arkansas.
Any left over Y2K folks can now have vegan condoms and hand-cranked vibrators.
Abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India opens as a tourist attraction.
The problem with urban sanitation is that talking about toilets is not cool.
Russian cannibals nabbed for selling remains to kebab house.
And to prove once again there is no end to imaginative business ideas:
What's in an unusual name? More than you might think!
In another bah-humbug move, the US Post office pulls the plug on Santa. The letters to Santa program had been in use since the 50s.
The Vatican has decreed that Vampires don't make good role models. That bites.
Dead megastar droid zombie blueprints offered for $1m
Dirty PCs. The X-rated horrors of the computer age.
Quote of the day:
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
- Carl Sagan
Nutty San Mateo lawyer San Francisco Airport.
SF Mayor in press tantrums.
Meanwhile all the Whos down in
Open Carry supporters congregate at Cupertino Starbucks.
In Santa Rosa a bit of an Oops!
SoCal Interior Designer nabbed in disability scam after appearing on HGTV.
FBI and San Diego police on the hunt for Geezer Bank Robber.
And elsewhere:
Aussie bloke sets out to get the morning paper and drives nine hours.
Arrest of Squeegee attack in Arkansas.
Any left over Y2K folks can now have vegan condoms and hand-cranked vibrators.
Abandoned Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India opens as a tourist attraction.
The problem with urban sanitation is that talking about toilets is not cool.
Russian cannibals nabbed for selling remains to kebab house.
And to prove once again there is no end to imaginative business ideas:
LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might have thought twice about naming their daughter Suri if they'd known that it means "pickpocket" in Japanese, "turned sour" in French, and "horse mackerels" in Italian.
Today Translations, a London-based translation company, is offering parents-to-be -- particularly celebrities -- the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages.
What's in an unusual name? More than you might think!
In another bah-humbug move, the US Post office pulls the plug on Santa. The letters to Santa program had been in use since the 50s.
The Vatican has decreed that Vampires don't make good role models. That bites.
Dead megastar droid zombie blueprints offered for $1m
Dirty PCs. The X-rated horrors of the computer age.
Quote of the day:
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
- Carl Sagan
