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Post 4441

taliesin

Obama and the Monkey God --

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Hanuman_idol_for_Obama/articleshow/3160730.cms


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Post 4442

anhaga

'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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Post 4443

kuzushi


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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Post 4444

toybox

A woman appointed imam in Belgium.

I only found a link in French smiley - sorry

http://www.lequotidien-oran.com/index.php?news=5110471


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Post 4445

IctoanAWEWawi

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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Post 4446

anhaga

'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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Post 4447

A Super Furry Animal

Thought I'd try this one again with one word changed, seeing as it got smiley - yikesd 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...?

RFsmiley - evilgrin


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Post 4448

Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ...

Banjo maestro plays during brain surgery

smiley - yikes

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 ........... smiley - run


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Post 4449

Orcus

Or brain surgery on a brain surgeon smiley - bigeyes


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Post 4450

toybox

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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Post 4451

Orcus

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 smiley - laugh


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Post 4452

Christopher

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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Post 4453

Alfster

B3ta...superb site. There are a lot of very sharp people who post to that site.

Well done, chris!smiley - ok


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Post 4454

Christopher

Thanks. Obviously I'm going to have to start watermarking things, since they credited B3ta on those that did. smiley - smiley


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Post 4455

Alfster

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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Post 4456

pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? |

"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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Post 4457

Christopher

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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Post 4458

Ellen

Too bad you didn't get credited for it. smiley - erm


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Post 4459

Christopher

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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Post 4460

IctoanAWEWawi

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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