Buffet Sets World Record With 510 Dishes
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
 AP - It's time to raise a glass of bubbly — the maker of the Alka-Seltzer antacid tablet has set a record for creating the world's largest buffet.
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Vegas spread is world's largest buffet
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - Even in this over-the-top town famed
for all-you-can-eat spreads, nobody had ever seen one quite
like this: Forty soups, 100 salads and 150 desserts perched
upon a 500-foot (152-metre) maze of tables.
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Hiker Returns Purse With $1M in Jewels
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
AP - John Suhrhoff found the Louis Vuitton bag on a Sausalito park bench during a lunch stop in the scenic city following a weekend hike.
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Woman Gets Ring Back After Flushing It
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
A $15,000 diamond ring is back on the hand of its owner, five weeks after it was accidentally flushed down a toilet.
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Three Kids In Family Have Same Birthday
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
It's almost as if they planned it Angie and Bob Deering's three children all have the same birthday. And they're not triplets.
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Poll: Americans See, Hear More Profanity
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
This is a story about words we can't print in this story. You probably hear these words often, and more than ever before. But even though we can't print them we do have our standards we can certainly ask: Are we living in an Age of Profanity?
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Crazy Cat With Six Toes Terrorizes Conn.
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Residents of the neighborhood of Sunset Circle say they have been terrorized by a crazy cat named Lewis. Lewis for his part has been uniquely cited, personally issued a restraining order by the town's animal control officer.
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Man Accidentally Divorces Wife In Sleep
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Village elders ordered a Muslim man in eastern India to leave his wife after he accidentally divorced her in his sleep, a news report said Tuesday.
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Boy, 3, Gets Trapped Inside Toy Machine
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Devin Haskin isn't the first little boy to find the inside of a toy machine too enticing to resist. When the 3-year-old boy crawled through the discharge chute of a Toy Chest claw machine at a Godfather's Pizza, he ended up on the other side of the glass surrounded by stuffed animals.
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Three Kids in Family Have Same Birthday
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
AP - It's almost as if they planned it — Angie and Bob Deering's three children all have the same birthday. And they're not triplets.
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Boy, 3, Gets Trapped Inside Toy Machine
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
AP - Devin Haskin isn't the first little boy to find the inside of a toy machine too enticing to resist. When the 3-year-old boy crawled through the discharge chute of a Toy Chest claw machine at a Godfather's Pizza, he ended up on the other side of the glass surrounded by stuffed animals.
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Conn. Driving Instructor Is 93
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
AP - As a driving instructor, Morton Morrison finds that he can still teach the "kids" something new about driving safely.
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DeLay wants pistol-packing permit back
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - Rep. Tom DeLay, once one of the most
powerful figures in the U.S. Congress, wants his right to pack
a pistol restored after the state of Texas revoked his permit
following his indictment last year.
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Canadian province makes it easier to apologise
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - A Canadian province
wants to make it easier for people to say they are sorry
without the fear of being sued.
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Crazy Cat With Six Toes Terrorizes Conn.
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
AP - Residents of the neighborhood of Sunset Circle say they have been terrorized by a crazy cat named Lewis. Lewis for his part has been uniquely cited, personally issued a restraining order by the town's animal control officer.
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Cannabis Food Label Ring Busted
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
US police have uncovered a bizarre drug ring in which members were lacing sweets, chocolate and soft drinks with cannabis.Armed raids at five properties revealed a sophisticated operation where drugged foods were being labelled like ordinary products.
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'Flatulent Chair' Teacher Wants £1m
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
A female teacher is claiming £1m in damages after she was forced to sit in a chair that made flatulent sounds.
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Fishnet Tights Snare 'Garage Robber'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
An alleged robber has been caught because of his distinctive fishnet tights, according to police.The man is accused of stealing £165 from a petrol station in Monterey, California.
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Crying Game: £1m Lost On One Kick
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
A punter has lost out on a bumper £1m payout - all because of a missed penalty.
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Vinnie In Doghouse Over Dope Test
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Actor and former footballer Vinnie Jones could be fined after his greyhound tested positive for drugs.Boavista failed a test for banned substances following its victory the £55,000 Irish Cup on February 26.
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Doorbell Causes Canine Confusion
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
A Dutch family is being hit with tax bills because officials keep mistaking their barking doorbell for a real dog.In Holland, dog-owners must pay an annual tax on their pets.
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Briton's Wallet Found On Aussie Reef
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
A British backpacker's missing wallet has been returned by an Australian diver who found it perched on the Great Barrier Reef 10 metres below the surface.Daniel McShee, from Cornwall, realised the wallet had gone when he tried to buy drinks in a bar in Cairns.
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Officials Flunk New Citizenship Test
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Civil servants in Austria have been left with red faces after making several mistakes on a new citizenship test for immigrants.Officials even got the man who wrote the national anthem wrong.
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World's Oldest Animal Dies Aged 255
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
A giant tortoise thought to be one of the world's oldest creatures has died at Calcutta Zoo.Local lore said Addwaita the Aldabra tortoise was around 250-years-old. She had been at the zoo since 1875.
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Castro Burns His Pants To Survive
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Cuba's Fidel Castro has such a burning desire to survive assassination he sets his pants on fire.He is so fearful of being bumped off he orders his underwear to be burnt rather than sent to the laundry where it could be infused with lethal chemicals.
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Be A Space Tourist Soon... For A Price
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Space tourism to an orbital space station could become a reality by 2050 - but at a huge cost to travellers, it has been revealed.Those looking for this kind of astronomical adventure are likely to have to fork out around £575,000 for the privilege, a report prepared for Churchill Travel Insurance has found.
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Rock Out! Best Ever Air Guitar Song
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven the been voted the ultimate guitar solo of all time.The Jimmy Page epic beat the likes of Guns N' Roses' Paradise City and Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child to best air guitar moment.
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'Brits Have More Brains Than French'
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Brighter Britons have more brain power than the French, according to controversial new research.But no gloating at the back there about beating Continental rivals - the most intelligent country in Europe is Germany.
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Dogs Eat Better Than Their Owners
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Devoted dog owners often joke that their pets eat better than they do.Now it seems that could really be the case after tests showed some brands of dog and cat food contain less fat and salt than fast food and ready meals.
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Tom DeLay Wants Gun License Back
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Rep. Tom DeLay is fighting to regain his concealed handgun permit after it was suspended because of his indictment on felony charges.
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Court rejects lawyers' appeal over pit bull ads
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - Two Florida lawyers on Monday lost a
U.S. Supreme Court appeal that argued the state violated their
free-speech rights by disciplining them for their television
advertisements featuring a pit bull dog.
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Child poetry plagiarist unmasked
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - The 10-year-old winner of a
children's poetry competition had to hand back her prize money
after newspaper readers noticed that her poem was the work of a
well known writer.
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China offended by baby boiling comments
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - China, which is marking 2006 as the
Year of Italy, has denounced comments by Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi that the Chinese under Mao Zedong boiled
babies.
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Furor as London mayor calls US ambassador "crook"
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - London's rambunctious mayor, already
fighting suspension for comparing a Jewish journalist to a
concentration camp guard, landed in fresh hot water Tuesday for
likening the U.S. ambassador to a "chiselling little crook."
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Youth hopes movie truck will pay for college
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - A half-ton pick-up truck used in the
award-winning gay Western "Brokeback Mountain" is up for sale,
and the seller, a Canadian high school student, hopes the
proceeds will help pay his way through college.
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Dutch child poetry plagiarist unmasked
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - The 10-year-old winner of a
children's poetry competition had to hand back her prize money
after newspaper readers noticed that her poem was the work of a
well known writer.
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Guatemala zaps fruit flies in nuclear pest war
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - Every week, Guatemalan
scientists blast 2.7 billion fruit flies with radiation to make
them sterile in a bizarre nuclear war against one of the
world's most destructive farm pests.
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Man Accidentally Divorces Wife in Sleep
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
AP - Village elders ordered a Muslim man in eastern India to leave his wife after he accidentally divorced her in his sleep, a news report said Tuesday.
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China decries Berlusconi baby boiling comments
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Reuters - China, which is marking 2006 as the
Year of Italy, has denounced comments by Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi that the Chinese under Mao Zedong boiled
babies.
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Solar Eclipse Coming Wednesday
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Tourists and scientists were gathering at spots around the world for a solar show the first total eclipse in years, which will sweep northeast from Brazil to Mongolia, blotting out the sun across swathes of of the world's poorest lands.
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A 'whopper' of a burger bill
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
A quick meal at George Beane's neighborhood Burger King ended up costing a lot more than he expected when he got the $4,334.33 ...
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Cat Lives High On The Hog In China
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Being a pampered pet with an easy life has made one cat in China very, very fat. Weighing a whopping 33 pounds, the 9-year-old cat, astonishingly, still enjoys good health.
This feline monster, from Qingdao, Shandong Province, has a waist measurement of 31.5 inches.
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Boy, 3, Gets Stuck Inside Toy Vending Machine
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
A machine filled with toys must have been awfully tempting to a little 3-year-old boy.
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Conn. man sells holy hardware on eBay
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Thomas Haley was unloading supplies for his job at Hardy's Hardware when he said something odd caught his eye: the face of Jesus ...
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A 184-proof whisky, and that's no blarney
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Following a 17th century recipe, one of the eight artisanal whisky producers on the tiny Scottish isle of Islay will produce ...
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Jeb Bush asked to explain post-Katrina cruise ship deal
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
A top House Democrat released e-mails Tuesday detailing Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's role in pushing a $236 million federal contract ...
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12-year-old sticks gum onto $1.5M painting
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Apparently, one 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts doesn't think much of abstract art.
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After 450 years, feudal outpost votes for democracy
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
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Sold: Lovely 2-bedroom home ... with dog
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Mar,28
Housing contracts can get complicated in a hurry. "In every offer, there's always something to be negotiated," said real estate ...
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Woman gets beer from her kitchen faucet
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