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Friday June 06 2003

grinding nemo

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it's all a hoax. flushing fish does not result in them being freed to the ocean as disney & pixar would have us believe.

Kids be warned: Flushing your pet fish down the drain will not send it safely into the ocean as depicted in the movie "Finding Nemo."

A company that manufactures equipment used to process sewage issued a press release Thursday warning that drain pipes do lead to the ocean -- eventually -- but first the fluid goes through powerful machines that "shred solids into tiny particles."

sfgate.com

duh.

80's ending

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the ending of every single 80's movie wrapped up into one neat little package.

teens teaching fbi

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three teenage girls are teaching the fbi how to chat like them so they can catch pedophiles online.

"They, like, don't know anything," said Mary, 14, giggling.

"They're, like, do you like Michael Jackson?" said Karen, 14, rolling her eyes at just how out of it adults can be.

Probably the youngest instructors ever in an FBI classroom, the girls have become an invaluable help to Operation Innocent Images -- an initiative that tries to stop people from peddling child pornography or otherwise sexually exploiting children, FBI officials said.

washingtonpost.com

credit card prank

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In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature.

zug.com

this guy goes so far as to sign the receipt "i stole this card" and still never gets a single question.

pimp dog

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you will not be seeing any pictures of wicket in this.

say it ain't so bad sammy

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according to wired, corking bats isn't such a big deal. well, except for the whole being against the rules thing.

The boost a slugger gets from a corked bat is highly overrated. In fact, experts on the physics of baseball say such bats reduce a hitter's power.

"You have a slightly lighter bat, and you're going to hit the ball a little less far," said retired Yale professor Robert K. Adair, the author of The Physics of Baseball.

wired.com

Thursday June 05 2003

submit your nominees

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What do former Iraqi information minister Saeed al-Sahaf, U.S. President George W. Bush, Tory MP Elsie Wayne and Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman have in common?

They're all nominees for the first annual World Stupidity Awards, a dubious honour to be bestowed June 6 - whether they like it or not - on some of Canada's, and the world's, most recognizable public figures. "Some people think we're joking with these awards," organizer Albert Nerenberg said Friday in a news release.

canada.com

lebron who??

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lebron james better watch out. 3 year old mark walker is headed for the nba. check out the video of him hitting 18 straight shots.

Wednesday June 04 2003

car with pot

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A Mexican national may sue the U.S. government for selling him a car with a hidden load of marijuana, and then arresting him when he tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in it, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

cnn.com

dog blog

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wicket made chris pirillo's dog blog.

Sunday June 01 2003

toilet roll art

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just in case you needed something to do with those toilet paper rolls.