Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Today in history: April 21,1986 - Showing his true investigative reporting talents at their best, Geraldo Rivera opened a vault that belonged to Al Capone at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Nothing of interest was found inside.
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Skywatcher alert:
http://spaceweather.com
Earth is passing through a stream of dusty debris from Comet Thatcher, the source of the annual Lyrid meteor shower. The best time to look is during the hours before dawn on Thursday, April 22nd, when the shower peaks. Lyrids appear to stream from the vicinity of the bright blue star Vega in the constellation Lyra high in the northern sky. This is not an intense shower, but some years it is pretty: northern sky watchers typically see between 5 and 25 meteors per hour.
Visit Spaceweather.com for more information and a sky map
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Batman and Robin fighting crime - in Whitley
--ananova
Two mystery men dressed as Batman and Robin have been fighting crime and saving damsels in distress in a small English town.
The pair have been spotted springing into action a number of times in recent weeks on the streets of Whitley, near Reading.
The Reading Evening Post asked readers for news of the duo after they dealt with a pair of streakers at a local football cup final.
And the newspaper was besieged with calls from residents who claimed to have seen the 'superheroes' in action.
Michelle Kirby was stranded when her Peugeot 206 ran out of petrol on Easter Sunday - until Batman and Robin appeared out of nowhere and pushed her car to the nearest petrol station.
She said: "They just appeared. I saw them running down the road in Batman and Robin outfits - I was laughing so much.
"It was like a scene out of Only Fools and Horses and they stayed in character the whole time.
"They said, "I'm Batman, I'm Robin" and I said, "No, you're not" and asked them if they were going to a fancy dress party but they said they were going back to Gotham City."
Ray Cox, 61, spotted the caped crusaders at about 11.30am after doing his morning shopping.
"I said to my wife, it would make it a better and safer place with these men," he said. "Batman was quite a broad chap. They would scare a few muggers off and I'd feel safer in Whitley."
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Tastes Just Like Chicken
Chukwu Christian is one tough landlord. During a scuffle with an unidentified former tenant in Nigeria, Chukwu bit off the tenant's nose! Chukwu says he doesn't remember doing that, specifically.
His statement: "I didn't bite him. He wounded me. I didn't know how he managed to get his own injury, but it might be that I wounded him unknowingly. I regret the incident ," he added.
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Aero Bar Follow up.
So they found the folks who wrote "Shit Bar" in the 'best before date' area on the Nestle Aero bars in York (UK). They've been fired for their misdeeds, but the union is going to appeal the dismissal since none of the 'offending bars' had left the factory before someone discovered the...uh...typo.
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Australian man sues television channel over Prime Suspect language
In another 'oh my virgin ears' lawsuit, Andre van der Linden, an Australian evangelical Christian, is suing a television station after an episode of a show called Prime Suspect used "Jesus Christ" as a swear word. Declaring angrily that this has insulted "hundreds of thousands of Christian believers, Andre demands that the blasphemous words must be bleeped out in the future.
I had no idea that hundreds of thousands of Christians watch Prime Suspect. I wonder if it's syndicated?
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Moopor Has a Bone to Pick with PM
An angry aboriginal woman known as Moopor confronted Prime Minister John Howard yesterday and, tossing back her possum skin ensemble, pointeda 2.5cm kangaroo bone at him, thus placing a silent curse upon him. So now he has his choice: he can be 'enlightened' by the curse and help the aboriginies and be fine OR he can choose to ignore the message of the bone. Should he choose the latter, he will be under a curse until the next federal election and who knows what nastiness may befall him.
Howard's response: "I will deal with the matter calmly."
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Skywatcher alert:
http://spaceweather.com
Earth is passing through a stream of dusty debris from Comet Thatcher, the source of the annual Lyrid meteor shower. The best time to look is during the hours before dawn on Thursday, April 22nd, when the shower peaks. Lyrids appear to stream from the vicinity of the bright blue star Vega in the constellation Lyra high in the northern sky. This is not an intense shower, but some years it is pretty: northern sky watchers typically see between 5 and 25 meteors per hour.
Visit Spaceweather.com for more information and a sky map
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Batman and Robin fighting crime - in Whitley
--ananova
Two mystery men dressed as Batman and Robin have been fighting crime and saving damsels in distress in a small English town.
The pair have been spotted springing into action a number of times in recent weeks on the streets of Whitley, near Reading.
The Reading Evening Post asked readers for news of the duo after they dealt with a pair of streakers at a local football cup final.
And the newspaper was besieged with calls from residents who claimed to have seen the 'superheroes' in action.
Michelle Kirby was stranded when her Peugeot 206 ran out of petrol on Easter Sunday - until Batman and Robin appeared out of nowhere and pushed her car to the nearest petrol station.
She said: "They just appeared. I saw them running down the road in Batman and Robin outfits - I was laughing so much.
"It was like a scene out of Only Fools and Horses and they stayed in character the whole time.
"They said, "I'm Batman, I'm Robin" and I said, "No, you're not" and asked them if they were going to a fancy dress party but they said they were going back to Gotham City."
Ray Cox, 61, spotted the caped crusaders at about 11.30am after doing his morning shopping.
"I said to my wife, it would make it a better and safer place with these men," he said. "Batman was quite a broad chap. They would scare a few muggers off and I'd feel safer in Whitley."
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Tastes Just Like Chicken
Chukwu Christian is one tough landlord. During a scuffle with an unidentified former tenant in Nigeria, Chukwu bit off the tenant's nose! Chukwu says he doesn't remember doing that, specifically.
His statement: "I didn't bite him. He wounded me. I didn't know how he managed to get his own injury, but it might be that I wounded him unknowingly. I regret the incident ," he added.
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Aero Bar Follow up.
So they found the folks who wrote "Shit Bar" in the 'best before date' area on the Nestle Aero bars in York (UK). They've been fired for their misdeeds, but the union is going to appeal the dismissal since none of the 'offending bars' had left the factory before someone discovered the...uh...typo.
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Australian man sues television channel over Prime Suspect language
In another 'oh my virgin ears' lawsuit, Andre van der Linden, an Australian evangelical Christian, is suing a television station after an episode of a show called Prime Suspect used "Jesus Christ" as a swear word. Declaring angrily that this has insulted "hundreds of thousands of Christian believers, Andre demands that the blasphemous words must be bleeped out in the future.
I had no idea that hundreds of thousands of Christians watch Prime Suspect. I wonder if it's syndicated?
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Moopor Has a Bone to Pick with PM
An angry aboriginal woman known as Moopor confronted Prime Minister John Howard yesterday and, tossing back her possum skin ensemble, pointeda 2.5cm kangaroo bone at him, thus placing a silent curse upon him. So now he has his choice: he can be 'enlightened' by the curse and help the aboriginies and be fine OR he can choose to ignore the message of the bone. Should he choose the latter, he will be under a curse until the next federal election and who knows what nastiness may befall him.
Howard's response: "I will deal with the matter calmly."
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