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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Today's Leading Economic Indicators
(1) One bank not needing a bailout is CryoGam Colorado (a sperm bank reporting a big jump in potential suppliers since the financial collapse) (as men follow career-counseling advice and concentrate on work they're good at). (2) Business is also up at the Haven in White Plains, N.Y., where rich people go when they panic with economic paranoia ("delusions of poverty"). Turns out that when some Masters of the Universe fail, they get really, really messed up (leading some of us normal people to get manic at their depression). Associated Press via Yahoo /// New York Times
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At a Stuart, Fla., full-service carwash: the DogPro Dog Spa, a coin-operated, self-service pet-washing system ($10 for 10 minutes) (the 7th one in the U.S. so far) TCPalm.com (Stuart) /// The K9000 dog-washer
David Green, 39, Norristown, Pa., pleaded guilty to burglary, done in after his DNA was matched to doo-doo on the basement stairs in the home he burgled (not explained in the story, but maybe people shouldn't go criming if they've got the runs). Times Herald (Norristown)
A movement of a few revisionist presidential historians is underway to remake Martha Washington into a red-hot mama (Bonus: George was a hunk, too). Washington Post
Recurring Theme: In China, too (not just Japan), unhitched men under pressure from their parents to marry are now renting women to introduce as their girlfriends. Reuters via The Independent (London)
Recurring Theme: Firefighters had to rescue a guy who got stuck in the chimney of a woman's house early Sunday morning in Burlington, Vt., and the guy, rather than concoct some creative explanation, told cops . . he didn't know how he got in there. Associated Press via Yahoo
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Your Daily Loser
A 21-yr-old man went to the trouble of drilling a big hole though the wall of a bank in Marseilles, France, and after all that hard work, found out he had mis-estimated . . and was now in the bank's restroom, not the vault. Reuters via Yahoo
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Today's Newsrangers: Joe Church, Les Greenwood
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Today's Leading Economic Indicators
(1) One bank not needing a bailout is CryoGam Colorado (a sperm bank reporting a big jump in potential suppliers since the financial collapse) (as men follow career-counseling advice and concentrate on work they're good at). (2) Business is also up at the Haven in White Plains, N.Y., where rich people go when they panic with economic paranoia ("delusions of poverty"). Turns out that when some Masters of the Universe fail, they get really, really messed up (leading some of us normal people to get manic at their depression). Associated Press via Yahoo /// New York Times
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More Things to Worry About
At a Stuart, Fla., full-service carwash: the DogPro Dog Spa, a coin-operated, self-service pet-washing system ($10 for 10 minutes) (the 7th one in the U.S. so far) TCPalm.com (Stuart) /// The K9000 dog-washer
David Green, 39, Norristown, Pa., pleaded guilty to burglary, done in after his DNA was matched to doo-doo on the basement stairs in the home he burgled (not explained in the story, but maybe people shouldn't go criming if they've got the runs). Times Herald (Norristown)
A movement of a few revisionist presidential historians is underway to remake Martha Washington into a red-hot mama (Bonus: George was a hunk, too). Washington Post
Recurring Theme: In China, too (not just Japan), unhitched men under pressure from their parents to marry are now renting women to introduce as their girlfriends. Reuters via The Independent (London)
Recurring Theme: Firefighters had to rescue a guy who got stuck in the chimney of a woman's house early Sunday morning in Burlington, Vt., and the guy, rather than concoct some creative explanation, told cops . . he didn't know how he got in there. Associated Press via Yahoo
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Your Daily Loser
A 21-yr-old man went to the trouble of drilling a big hole though the wall of a bank in Marseilles, France, and after all that hard work, found out he had mis-estimated . . and was now in the bank's restroom, not the vault. Reuters via Yahoo
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Today's Newsrangers: Joe Church, Les Greenwood
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