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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Apr 3, 2005
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Very likely not...
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pixel Posted Apr 3, 2005
Just saw a story about french wine growers throwing dynamite at municipal offices in protest at falling sales.
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Apr 3, 2005
<< in protest at falling sales.>>
Now that is just bizarre!
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pixel Posted Apr 4, 2005
Apparently we're all buying too much new world wine and they want their government to do something about it.Declare war on Australia maybe
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Apr 4, 2005
You just KNOW we Aussie's would fight to defend our booze!! 
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KB Posted Apr 4, 2005
Hmm, France could be on to a winner then...While they're fighting to keep Aussie booze out of their country, the Aussies are fighting to keep it in theirs! 
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Apr 4, 2005
The Pope's funeral will be on Friday.
The royal wedding has been postponed until Saturday.
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Apr 4, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4409507.stm
The link for the above story.
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Apr 4, 2005
And just to show that there is no security that can't be got round through the application of very simple techniques:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/fingerprint_merc_chop/
"A Malaysian businessman has lost a finger to car thieves impatient to get around his Mercedes' fingerprint security system...they chopped off the end of his index finger with a machete."
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Lady in a tree Posted May 16, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4550069.stm
I've never seen the film Shine but apparently this story shows some similarities.
Still - very intriguing!!
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted May 16, 2005
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Indeed!
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Lady in a tree Posted May 21, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4568321.stm
Oooops! 
with a talcum powder habit!
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Woodpigeon Posted May 21, 2005
"US teacher marries boy she raped"
A former US schoolteacher has married an ex-pupil 10 years after she raped him when he was just 12.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4569259.stm
Bizarre...
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Ivan the Terribly Average Posted May 22, 2005
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1374173.htm
The bit about 'aeroplanes being programmed to be even more terrified of crashing than their passengers' made me think of DNA...
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KB Posted May 26, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4578895.stm
Now you can go on the go!
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KB Posted May 28, 2005
Baby stable after second head removed:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6998205/?GT1=6190
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted May 29, 2005
That's freaky, but good that the baby is all right...
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Jun 6, 2005
James Bond's space suit found!
http://www.space.com/news/mol_spacesuits_050603.html
Oh, ok, it's a story about a locked room at NASA found to contain two spacesuits from the 60's for spies working in orbit. But one of the suits has the identifier '007' on it
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The Groob Posted Jun 7, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4614515.stm
Worrying. The generation that will, one day, rule the world.
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