The local paper posts strange news bits on the website: http://www.pioneerlocal.com/evanston/news/914468,pp-suburboddity-042408-s1.article

My favorites from this week:

Possible sequel to The Maltese Falcon
CARY, April 17 -- Police ( Read more... )

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1).We have invested in laundry bags that tie close. Dirty laundry has turned up in the strangest places
2) Toilet lid covers are now permanently down.  She will drink water from
anywhere, the toilet, the dishwasher, the shower.
3)  Dad has learned to share his Lazy-boy
4) I have 2 shadows. One that is the absence of light, and one that is a canine.
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Meet Miss Alma, the sweetest mellowest dog.  She is 1/2 beagle, 1/2 basset hound, all dog.  She and Jr have settled into a wary co-exisitence. 

As I sit in kitchen looking out the backyard window I see

3 birds at the bird feeder

2 squirrels and a chipmunk feasting on what the birds have dropped

and a rabbit.

I also have a very contented cat sleeping on the couch.

WASHINGTON - Did Internet thieves steal Herman Munster's MasterCard number? Crooks in an underground chat room for selling stolen credit card numbers and personal consumer information offered pilfered data purportedly about Herman Munster, the 1960s Frankenstein-like character from "The Munsters" TV sitcom.
The thieves apparently didn't realize ( Read more... )

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Liviu Librescu a 75-year-old Israeli professor is one of the people who died in Monday's Virginia Tech shooting. The professor saved several students before got shot, witnesses said, quoted by DPA news agency.

Librescu was teaching his class in Norris Hall entered the building randomly unloading his gun in class rooms. The Mechanics and Aeronautics ( Read more... )

ATLANTA -- Four-year-old Bernas isn't the computer wizard his mom is, but he's learning. Just the other day he used his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor as his mom, Madu, swung from vines and climbed trees ( Read more... )

Forget the flowers, chocolates or champagne. For these lovebirds, the answer is in the stones ( Read more... )