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Post 2181

The Groob

Fossil hunter Richard Leakey reproaches Houston museum for using 3.3 million year old skeleton as a "prostitute"

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=6257fb56-5aa2-4b5f-9443-4b07eb36d250


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Post 2182

plodrog

Pick the bones out of that!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3876401.stm


Arms before poverty. Those that have it want it protected before giving it to others? Cynical as ever.
p.


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Post 2183

Ballynac


This really made me laugh.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSHER94722820070829?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

I love that his prosthesis made him unduly sensitive to the weather! smiley - smiley


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Post 2184

badger party tony party green party

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6967474.stm

He added that there were many interesting applications for adhesive suits, in areas ranging from space exploration to defence. The work could also aid the design of gloves.

Can someone please forward this to the England goal keeping coach.smiley - grovel


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Post 2185

A Super Furry Animal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6970468.stm

Why, exactly, was this minute's silence being held? He had no connection to either club, so far as I can see.

RFsmiley - evilgrin


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Post 2186

The Groob

404? Wossitallabout RF?


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Post 2187

pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? |

Brits 'addicted' to cheap flights
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6970730.stm


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Post 2188

A Super Furry Animal

Gosh, that was a quick one...it only appeared about 5pm.

The story was that a one minute's silence was held at a football match between Millwall & Southend United, because of the death of an 11-year-old in Liverpool. It was apparently "ruined" by some Millwall fans, who (quite rightly IMHO) wondered what the duck was going on.

RFsmiley - evilgrin


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Post 2189

zendevil


smiley - rofl at Ballynacs post (2183)

The guy was obviously off his head thinking he could get that much...

zdt


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Post 2190

Ballynac

She may have been a gerat lady (open to debate) but why is she still the front page story???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6971415.stm


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Post 2191

Xanatic

It seems the campaign to get people to stop with drink and drive is working. This woman realized herself that she was too drunk to drive home. Instead she let her five year old son do it for her:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BFZ2UAFPVB13NQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/08/31/wdrive131.xml


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Post 2192

taliesin

"There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/08/30/sci-web.html

smiley - evilgrin


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Post 2193

Titania (gone for lunch)

'Experts are debating whether the web is the work of social cobweb spiders working together, or a mass dispersal where the arachnids spin webs to move away from one another.'

Rubbish, it's one giant smiley - spider behind it all, can't you see?smiley - silly


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Post 2194

Titania (gone for lunch)

Ever wondered *where* those test bombings took place?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/30/btsc.chance.nukes/index.html


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Post 2195

Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo)

http://www.the-fly.co.uk/story.aspx?id=467

Supergrass bass player Mick Quinn has broken his neck while sleepwalking.smiley - yikes

I hecking love Supergrass, and he's a fine, fine purveyor of melodic, couterpointy bass lines.

Get well soon dude.


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Post 2196

Researcher U197087

Seconded smiley - cheers

The web is clearly the work of that old lady from Krull.


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Post 2197

Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo)

'Military scientists tested mustard gas on Indians'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2160245,00.html


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Post 2198

Alfster

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6971328.stm

Um, no shit Sherlock!


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Post 2199

SilviaWordsworth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6974110.stm

Makes me want to grow a beard, just to compete smiley - diva


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Post 2200

Maria

A British( he was on holidays in the south of Spain) was taken to hospital smiley - bluelight

he was discussing about football with some friends smiley - alesmiley - alesmiley - alesmiley - ale
and he did a rude gesture with his arms (one hitting the other, donĀ“t know the word, but it is very common and means something like

smiley - bleepk off!! He did it so vehemently that with his own fist he beat his eyesmiley - bruised fell off the stool and hit the floor.
Although he was very smiley - injured he kept the smile and laughed at himself smiley - sillysmiley - drunk Btw they were two English and two scottish men.

The gesture is called "a cut of sleeves" in my language
smiley - cheers


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