and the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Thursday, December 18, 2008
Usually when the wife lowers her head to hubby's precious jewels, it's a cause for rejoicing, but not when she only wants to
sniff his stuff to see if he's been out messin' around.
TCPalm.com (Stuart, Fla.)
Imagine the shock at the funeral of Wang Diange, when his body just up and exploded (creating a change in his "cause of death" from "lightning strike" to "accidental bodily reception of a
weather-busting silver iodide rocket").
Daily Telegraph (London)
Asian-like behavior in Ottawa: a man and woman making
10,000 vengeance calls to 911 because of anger over the gov't's handling of a child custody case.
New York Times
In a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, this month, highly-seasoned streets (not de-icing salt, but
de-icing garlic salt!).
Associated Press via Yahoo
A guilty plea to violation of U.S. anti-gambling law, by another member of that fabulous family from India,
the Dikshits.
Associated Press via New York Times
In absolute numbers, the equivalent of six percent of the entire population of the U.S.
lives in caves in China (20m people), but a lot of them are quite comfy (electricity, plumbing, cable TV, no interest-rate-resetting mortgages).
McClatchy Newspapers
Today's Newsrangers: Steve Dunn, Keith Donovan, Bruce Alter, Sandy Pearlman, Philip Urban, Kathryn Wood, Emmitt Dove, Mindy Cohen, Stephen Taylor
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