CNN.com - Palace 'ghost' caught on camera - Dec. 19, 2003: "Closed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor castle outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. Could it be a ghost?

'We're baffled too -- it's not a joke, we haven't manufactured it,' said Vikki Wood, a Hampton Court spokeswoman, when asked if the photo the palace released was a Christmas hoax. 'We genuinely don't know who it is or what it is.'"

Wired News: "Beware the little green man behind the ice cream in the freezer. Or, possibly, beware the man who sees the little green man behind the ice cream in the freezer. Raymond Rodriguez, on trial in Texas for allegedly killing his 77-year-old neighbor Daniel San Miguel, said an icebox imp 'jumped out and said, 'Catch me if you can!'' Rodriguez testified that he tried to catch the little man, then blacked out. When he awoke, he was lying atop San Miguel's corpse. Rodriguez denied stabbing San Miguel to death, but admitted dumping his body in a ditch. He also said he saw bologna and cheese dancing in the refrigerator and, oh yeah, somebody forced him to eat a letter-size sheet of LSD on the evening in question. Next witness, please."

BLABBERMOUTH.NET: "UFO guitarist Vinnie Moore started recording solos Thursday (Dec. 11) for the new Jordan Rudess (DREAM THEATER) solo record. This will be the first time Jordan and Vinnie have recorded together since Vinnie's 'Time Odyssey' record was released in 1988. Moore will be featured on two songs. Joe Satriani, Greg Howe, and Steve Morse will also be playing on the CD.
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CNN.com - Report: Earth's magnetic field fading - Dec. 12, 2003: "The strength of the Earth's magnetic field has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years, raising the remote possibility that it may collapse and later reverse, flipping the planet's poles for the first time in nearly a million years, scientists said. "

Pretty women scramble men's ability to assess the future: "Psychologists in Canada have finally proved what women have long suspected - men really are irrational enough to risk entire kingdoms to catch sight of a beautiful face."





With nothing but personal experience as evidence, I concur wholeheartedly...

Salon.com Life: "But honor your vulnerability to the siren. Honor your helplessness before the sultriness of her seductive song, that thing she does. Find a way to honor her power without letting her capture you. Like Ulysses, who had his men tie him to the mast, you've got to find a way to pass by her without going mad. That's your challenge, my man: to find out, for the first time, just how powerful the siren can be, and just how dangerous to you.

...whatever it is in you that she's got ahold of, cut it off. If you don't, she is going to drag you down to the bottom wrapped in chains and gasping for air, and then she is going to swim to the surface like a happy mermaid who has never even heard your name. "

CNN.com - Transcripts: "BUSH: Motherly. And fatherly. I mean, that's just a normal reaction.

But the same would be true if something happened that was difficult for Jeb or for Doro or Neil or Marvin. And you can criticize me, but don't criticize my children and don't criticize my daughters-in-law and don't criticize my husband, or you're dead."

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Fasting fakir flummoxes physicians: "Prahlad Jani, a holy man, or fakir, who is over 70 years old, has just spent 10 days under constant observation in Sterling Hospital, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.

During that time, he did not consume anything and 'neither did he pass urine or stool', according to the hospital's deputy superintendent, Dr Dinesh Desai."

Christopher Walken says Ladies are your
trouble!

"Okay....look....friend. You've gotta stop
thinking about the girl. She...she lied to
you- your family knows it. Look, I knew that
stings, like a wasp, like a wasp with teeth,
baby! Here's some walking around money. Take
it from me, go and get yourself a new suit.
Not one of those JC...Penny jobs, but a good
suit. A nice fabric, like Wool. Get yourself
a wool suit and enjoy yourself. See a
cockfight, anything, pal? Look, you're number
one."


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