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Things to Worry About
The Worcester's buttonquail was supposed to be extinct, but a recent photo turned up of a live one in the Philippines, so it wasn't extinct (but now it is because that one was cluelessly sold for food at a poultry market). National Geographic
Update: Crazy ol' Jonathan Lee Riches, the federal inmate who is positively the looniest serial litigator in all of America's hoosegows, just filed again, claiming that many of his problems (which are legion) stem from his addiction to NASCAR (which is NASCAR's fault). Nashville City Paper /// Riches's Wikipedia entry
A gay Heathrow airport security guard won £62.5k ($89k) because his female boss constantly dissed his sexuality, why, once even shaking her breasts at him! Daily Mail
Least Competent Police: In Ireland, cops were quite alarmed about a scofflaw Polish motorist with about 50 accumulated tickets, until they realized that it was really several Polish motorists who were ticketed, and the reason the same name was reported is that Irish cops were copying "Prawo Jazdy" off the Polish license, thinking t was the guy's name, but it was just "driver's license" in Polish. Reuters via Yahoo
Hoax Alert: The reporter for that fabulous story in this space on Wednesday (about the Chinese guy with a wife and five gals on the side) got fired yesterday for plagiarism, having lifted the story from a magazine, and his editor is investigating whether it's a true plagiarized story or a made-up plagiarized story. People's Daily (Beijing)
Irony from a certain age: Years ago, Maytag appliances were advertised as extremely low-maintenance (The Maytag repairman was "the loneliest man in town"), so now comes Maytag repairman Darin French of Incline Village, Nev., convicted yesterday of a scheme of overbilling the company for warranty work on that low-maintenance stuff. Associated Press via Yahoo
The Worcester's buttonquail was supposed to be extinct, but a recent photo turned up of a live one in the Philippines, so it wasn't extinct (but now it is because that one was cluelessly sold for food at a poultry market). National Geographic
Update: Crazy ol' Jonathan Lee Riches, the federal inmate who is positively the looniest serial litigator in all of America's hoosegows, just filed again, claiming that many of his problems (which are legion) stem from his addiction to NASCAR (which is NASCAR's fault). Nashville City Paper /// Riches's Wikipedia entry
A gay Heathrow airport security guard won £62.5k ($89k) because his female boss constantly dissed his sexuality, why, once even shaking her breasts at him! Daily Mail
Least Competent Police: In Ireland, cops were quite alarmed about a scofflaw Polish motorist with about 50 accumulated tickets, until they realized that it was really several Polish motorists who were ticketed, and the reason the same name was reported is that Irish cops were copying "Prawo Jazdy" off the Polish license, thinking t was the guy's name, but it was just "driver's license" in Polish. Reuters via Yahoo
Hoax Alert: The reporter for that fabulous story in this space on Wednesday (about the Chinese guy with a wife and five gals on the side) got fired yesterday for plagiarism, having lifted the story from a magazine, and his editor is investigating whether it's a true plagiarized story or a made-up plagiarized story. People's Daily (Beijing)
Irony from a certain age: Years ago, Maytag appliances were advertised as extremely low-maintenance (The Maytag repairman was "the loneliest man in town"), so now comes Maytag repairman Darin French of Incline Village, Nev., convicted yesterday of a scheme of overbilling the company for warranty work on that low-maintenance stuff. Associated Press via Yahoo
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