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Mr. Potato

California: Man Finds Jesus in Coconut

Ayesha Thomas
News 10/KXTV
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:00 UTC
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© Mike ZachwiejaMike Zachwieja says he can see the face of Jesus in this coconut.
A Paradise man claims he discovered a miracle in the produce section of his local grocery.

In a letter to News10, Mike Zachweija said he went shopping to buy bananas a few days before Christmas. He glanced at a bunch of coconuts and noticed one that looked like it had a silhouette of a face on it.

Impressed with the image Zachweija bought the coconut.

On Christmas Day Zachweija said he decided to take some pictures of the coconut before the image faded away.

In his letter he wrote:
"As the first picture I took appeared on my small digital camera, I could hardly believe what I was looking at. The silhouette face now had some color and much more detail, with added Christmas sunlight. The face looked very much like that of Jesus."
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Satire: Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner


The Onion
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:02 UTC
Officials say the President's home teleprompter is simply a tool to make sure pillow talk with Michelle or conversations with his Mother-In-Law go smoothly.

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Mr. Potato

Satire: Bin Laden Claims Responsibility for Balloon Boy Hoax


Borrowitz Report
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:00 UTC
Bin Laden
© CIA
CIA Analyzing Latest Terror Tape

One day after claiming responsibility for the Christmas Day underpants bomber, Osama bin Laden appeared in a new terror tape today in which he claimed responsibility for the Balloon Boy hoax that held the nation spellbound last year.

"The so-called Balloon Boy claimed that he 'did it for the show,'" a stern-faced bin Laden says on the tape, which surfaced Sunday morning. "In point of fact, he did it for jihad!"

In the somewhat rambling tape, Mr. bin Laden spends 45 minutes claiming responsibility for other things, including the massive Tylenol recall, John Edwards' illegitimate baby, and the Detroit Lions' NFL season.

According to a CIA analyst familiar with the tape, a new characterization of Osama bin Laden may be beginning to emerge: "He's like a movie executive: no matter how little he was involved, he claims credit."
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Mr. Potato

California: 16-Year-Old Girl Starts Solo Sail Around Globe


The Associated Press
Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:46 UTC
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© AP Photo/Richard HartogAbby Sunderland, 16, looks out from her sailboat, Wild Eyes, as she leaves for her world record attempting journey at the Del Rey Yacht Club.
A 16-year-old has set out to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone.

Abby Sunderland of Thousand Oaks sailed into the sunny Pacific Ocean on Saturday after being delayed a few days by a series of violent storms in California.

Her boat-builder father, Laurence, along with other family members and fiends, cheered at the Del Rey Yacht Club as they watched the 40-foot craft called Wild Eyes depart.

She plans to be at sea for five or six months. She will be alone but able to communicate via satellite telephone and a blog.
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Little Lizards Make Big Money for Villagers

Heru Asprihanto
Reuters
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:20 UTC
A tiny Indonesian lizard has become big business for impoverished villagers in Indonesia, where growing Asian demand for reptile-based traditional medicines has driven a boom in gecko farming.

Geckos -- the pale, soft-skinned lizard with a distinctive call -- are abundant in Indonesia and are believed by Chinese and Korean traditional medicine devotees to help cure cancer as well as skin and respiratory diseases.

In rural Banjarsawah village, on the eastern half of Java island, struggling farmers have discovered geckos make a surprisingly lucrative commodity.

Tohasyim, 32, a farmhand who earns 10,000 rupiah (about $1) a day feeding other people's cattle, now makes 1 million rupiah or about $110 a month hunting geckos in a local forest.
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Mr. Potato

Flashback Front fell off

barrelsofsea
youtube.com
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:56 UTC
Ever wonder about the safety of those tankers that carry thousands of gallons of crude oil, then watch this. It's supposed to be a spoof..

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Mr. Potato

Break In 911 Call


Entertonement.com
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:20 UTC
A man calls 911 when he gets stuck in a window while trying to break into a house.
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Comic: 'Our dream to deprive millions of healthcare is within reach'


Raw Story
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:39 UTC
Popular online comic Andy Borowitz often has his own farcical take on current events -- and today is no exception.

Turning his sights on the special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat vacated by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Borowitz suggests that a Republican victory will be a victory for healthcare reform defeat. In so doing, he creates invented remarks for Republican candidate Scott Brown, who has said he'll join a Republican-led filibuster of the Democrats healthcare overhaul in the Senate.

Writes Borowitz:
Boston (The Borowitz Report) - Firing up voters on the eve of the special election to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, Republican candidate Scott Brown spoke at a campaign rally today, proclaiming, "With your help, our dream of depriving millions of health care is within reach."

"Let's send a message, Massachusetts!" Mr. Brown exhorted the crowd. "Let's tell people across the country that if they want health coverage, they are shit out of luck!"

An aide to Mr. Brown said that internal polling reveals that the Republican's anti-healthcare message may be catching on: "Right now, Scott is showing a double-digit lead among people who describe themselves as douchebags."
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Stewart: Kennedy legacy losing to 'naked guy that owns a truck'

David Edwards
Raw Story
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:09 UTC
Democrats are concerned that they could lose the Senate race in Massachusetts to Republican Scott Brown because it might derail President Barack Obama's domestic agenda. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart wants to know why Democrats wouldn't be able to pass legislation with an 18-vote majority in the Senate -- which he notes is bigger than any congressional advantage former President George W. Bush ever enjoyed.

Stewart also poked fun at Brown, noting a statement in which he followed a statement announcing his candidacy with, "this is my truck," and that he posed nude for a magazine in 1982.

"So the Democrats are losing to Captain Freeball," Stewart remarks. "The Kennedy legacy goes down to a naked guy who owns a truck.
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Mr. Potato

French Anti-piracy agency's logo broke copyright


The Telegraph
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:11 UTC
Hadopi
© The TelegraphThe design agency Plan Creatif that created the Hadopi logo has now admitted it used the typeface by mistake
France's new internet agency set up to protect the rights of artists is facing legal action for using a copyrighted design for its logo.

The French government's web police force - called Hadopi - was set up to stop piracy and clamp down on illegal downloaders.

The agency's logo was unveiled this by French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand, who said that Hadopi "finally had a face".

But within hours of its launch, it was forced to apologise for using a typeface without permission that belonged to France Telecom.
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