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taliesin Posted Oct 14, 2008
Obama and the Monkey God --
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Hanuman_idol_for_Obama/articleshow/3160730.cms
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anhaga Posted Oct 14, 2008
'she will pass it on to the Obama after it is sanctified. '
What's being sanctified, the Hanuman idol or the Obama?
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kuzushi Posted Oct 14, 2008
Bus carrying Peru soccer team falls off cliff, 8 dead and 22 injured
A bus carrying a second-division Peruvian soccer team has fallen 200 meters (600 feet) down a ravine, killing eight people and injuring 22.
Peru's Andina state news agency reports that highway robbers forced the bus driver out of his seat at gunpoint on Monday. The brakes came loose and the bus rolled off the cliff.
Celendina police say two of the dead and most of the injured are members of the San Cayetano soccer club from the northern city of Celendin. Andina reports two of the team's owners also died.
The team was returning from a game it lost 10-0.
Andina reports a second bus fell 15 meters (49 feet) into a ravine in the southeastern province of Cuzco Monday, killing one passenger and injuring 38.
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toybox Posted Oct 15, 2008
A woman appointed imam in Belgium.
I only found a link in French
http://www.lequotidien-oran.com/index.php?news=5110471
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Oct 15, 2008
just a quick link for when you read the inevitable 'bonfires banned by HSA' stories in the UK (and others).
http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/index.htm
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anhaga Posted Oct 15, 2008
'William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.
The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html
Who's palin' around with terrorists now?
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Oct 15, 2008
Thought I'd try this one again with one word changed, seeing as it got d last time...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3185863/Doctor-Who-producer-calls-Prince-of-Wales-a-miserable-swine.html
Doctor Who producer insults Prince Charles because he won't appear on his tell-o-vision show.
I rather think Russell T Davies has a somewhat inflated view of his own importance, and should perhaps remove himself from up his own anus.
Oddly enough, no BBC link to this story...?
RF
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Oct 16, 2008
Banjo maestro plays during brain surgery
Amazing stuff!
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/banjo-maestro-plays-during-brain-surgery--a-hrefhttpmediafairfaxcomaurid42839bvideoba/2008/10/16/1223750182754.html
If they were to do brain surgery on a drummer ...........
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toybox Posted Oct 16, 2008
Zero-star hotel: Spend a Night in a Nuclear Bunker
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,584297,00.html
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Orcus Posted Oct 16, 2008
Heh, my boss is Swiss and he once told me that everyone in Switzerland has a nuclear bunker in much the same way that everyone in the UK had an Anderson bomb shelter at one point.
Good to see them making use of them
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Christopher Posted Oct 16, 2008
Two of my recent photoshops for B3ta have been nicked by the Daily Mail website; The first one on the page below, which I got rid of since I wasn't happy with how the dice turned out, and the last one with the girls in the windows of Barclays, which was my first to make the front page of http://www.b3ta.com
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1078027/The-best-credit-crunch-jokes-laughing-way-bank.html
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Christopher Posted Oct 16, 2008
Thanks. Obviously I'm going to have to start watermarking things, since they credited B3ta on those that did.
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Alfster Posted Oct 16, 2008
The RTD Prince Charles 'sunb' story on the Beeb website.
Hardly a snub really.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7666660.stm
Also, the piece is promoting RTD's new book.
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Oct 17, 2008
"BN -- Central Bank of Jamaica says everyone should just chill out."
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/chill-out.html
click on picture to read it...
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Christopher Posted Oct 17, 2008
This just in - we're on page 37 of today's Mail. Uncredited.
http://www.b3tards.com/u/a609ede35986cfd048a1/mail-credit-crunch-page.jpg
Mine's there just under the headline.
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Christopher Posted Oct 17, 2008
There's a bit of bad blood between b3tans and the Mail, after one of their more xenophobic reporters got Googlebombed, by way of an explanation of what it actually was.
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/532310.php
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Oct 18, 2008
food standards agency warning
http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2008/oct/novelty
"An Agency spokesperson said: 'This is a first. We’ve never had to put out an alert before on "willy spread" – chocolate-flavoured or otherwise."
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