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Television
Operation
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
As public television viewers in 12 cities sat glued to their sets
while doctors in Philadelphia reconstructed 15-month-old Michele
Miller's skull during a two-hour operation broadcast live, the girl's
parents, Lynn and Paul Miller of Princeton, N.J., opted to watch "The
Wizard of Oz" instead.
The
Dog Love People
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A normally sweet Great Dane Psil has one quirk: she hates United Parcel Service drivers.
While walk Psil one day, around the corner of a house came a UPS man.
Struggling to keep hold of Psil, the owner tried to ease the situation said, "As you can see, he just loves UPS men."
"Don't you feed her anything else?" he responded.
Threaten
With A Knife
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
Sunday, November 29, 1992
Robert A. Chase, 45, was charged with threatening an 11-year-old boy
with a knife in Madison, Wis. The boy was watching Chase play
basketball with another adult when the opponent accused Chase of
"traveling" (taking steps without dribbling the ball).
To seek an impartial opinion, Chase asked the boy, but the boy agreed
that Chase had traveled. Chase then allegedly grabbed the boy, held a
knife to his throat, and asked, "Now. Did I travel?"
Throw
Away Exhibit
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
December 18, 1992
In October, a cleaning crew accidentally tossed out an exhibit at the
Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The exhibit
consisted of 14,000 cigarette butts -- the amount a smoker produces
in a lifetime -- crammed into coffee cans. Said the artist, in
defense of the cleaning crew, "(The butts) didn't smell very good."
Tied
In Election
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
January 12, 1993
Richard Kyle won his Arizona House seat in November more easily than
he had won the Republican primary in September. He and his primary
opponent, John Gaylord, had tied and had agreed to settle things with
one hand of five-card stud dealt by the speaker of the Arizona House.Kyle's pair of sevens put him into the general election.
U.S
Air force Pilot
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
I have a friend who flew Lear Jets for the U.S. Air Force. He would
occasionally be assigned to an air show where one of his tasks was
answering questions about his plane. Someone would always point to
the fuel tank and ask if it was a missile. His standard answer was,
"I can neither confirm or deny the presence of nuclear weapons on
this aircraft."
Unpaid
Parking Pilot
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
Chicago Tribune
William P. Holcomb, whose job is to supervise the tracking down of
Houston, Texas parking ticket violators. It was revealed that he had
375 unpaid tickets.
Unsanitary
Condition
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
Wednesday, October 21, 1992
The local board of health closed down the Wing Wah Chinese restaurant
in South Dennis, Mass., briefly in August for various violations.
The most serious, said officials, was the restaurant's practice of
draining water from cabbage by putting it in cloth laundry bags,
placing them between two pieces of plywood in the parking lot, and
driving over them with a van.
Said Health Director Ted Dumas, "I've seen everything now."
Who
Drove The Bus
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
In June a replacement bus driver hired by Greyhound during the
drivers' strike met the bus he was to drive from Delaware to New York
City. However, a passenger on the bus wound up driving to New York
because the substitute driver could not drive a stick shift.
Who
Was Drinking More
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
Bellevue, WA
On Saturday, police broke up a disturbance between a couple arguing
over which one was drunker. Both were arrested and taken to Overlake
Hospital for treatment of injuries to their heads.
The police are charging them with disorderly conduct and disturbing
the peace, but not assault.
They each injured themselves and not the other. It seems, according to police and witnesses, that the couple were
taking turns bashing their heads into the drywall walls and the
wooden door of their apartment in order to prove they were so drunk
that they couldn't feel the pain.
Women
Pump Gas Now
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
January 16, 1993
Escondido attorney Ben Echeverria filed a $2 million lawsuit in
August against Texaco Inc. and a local gas station manager because
station attendants were pumping gas for women at self-service prices,
but not for men.
The station almost immediately stopped its practice and forced women
to start pumping for themselves.
Working
Cards at ATM
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
One day in line for the automatic teller I overheard:
[Person 1]: Gee, I don't get it..
[Person 2]: What's wrong?
[Person 1]: My card wont work.
[Person 2]: Did anything happen to it?
[Person 1]: I don't think so... It wasn't working very well for a
while, so I rubbed the strip on the back with a magnet to recharge
it... Now it isn't working at all!
Writing
Letter Son
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One student fell into a cycle of classes, studying, working and sleeping.
Didn't realize how long he had neglected writing home until he received the following note:
"Dear Son, Your mother and I enjoyed your last letter. Of course, we were much younger then, and more impressionable. Love, Dad."
Writing
To Grandma
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
A little boy wrote this letter to his grandmother:
Dear Grandmother,
I'm sorry I forgot your birthday last week. It would serve me right
if you forgot mine next Tuesday.
With love,
Mike
Wrong
Place Wrong Time
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being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
Four teenagers were arrested in the parking lot of a large mall in
Lakeland, Fla., just before Christmas when, attempting to steal an
automobile at random, they tried to break into a police van
containing three officers on a stakeout.
Yankee
Doodle History
The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides
being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
The song, "Yankee Doodle" was originally sung by British Soldiers to
insult the colonialists ( which was typical of the British in those
days). The Continental Army took to singing it to annoy the British
(which was typical of the colonialists).
You
Aren't The Worst
The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides
being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or
funny.
Gerrad, a friend of mine, bought a computer, even though he had never
even used a typewriter before. After investigating the computer, he
decided to call the help line. A friendly voice explained step by
step how his new machine worked. All went well until the voice told
him to press the space bar. After studying the keyboard, Gerrad said;
"I've got the latest model and it doesn't have a space bar." But
after further explanation, he managed to find it.A week later, Gerrad again had problems and called the help line. An
instructor was then sent to his house for training. But after a few
minutes, Gerrad's head was spinning. "You don't need to go any
further," he sighed, I don't understand a thing."
To cheer him up, the instructor said: "Hey, there are people who
understand a lot less than you. Last week we had someone on the phone
who didn't even know where the space bar was!"
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