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nsaspook said:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/amp/news/man-hospitalised-after-falling-in-anish-kapoor-installation?__twitter_impression=true
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Some of this modern art I can't tell from a hole in the ground.
 

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Physics news on Phys.org
A new newspaper is being launched in Pulaski County, MO - The Uranus Examiner.

Of course the reporter just had to file his story in front of the Uranus Fudge Factory. :oldlaugh:
 
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So live in the UK and I'm really hungry, then in my news feed pops up a story about free Pizza ! Yea !

I see it's in the Daily Mail a UK based newspaper that sometimes does give away vouchers. Double Yea !

So I click on the link and...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6161905/Dominos-giving-away-free-pizza-entire-WEEK.html

the headline reads..
'Enjoy one on us': Domino's to offer FREE pizzas to customers for an entire week - including BBQ Meatlovers, Hawaiian and Supreme flavours
so I scroll down some more to find out how to get the deal and discover...
Australia's largest pizza makers are giving away free lunches to their customers for an entire week. Those lucky enough to be wandering past a Domino's in Melbourne...

Bastards.
 
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Borg said:
A new newspaper is being launched in Pulaski County, MO - The Uranus Examiner.

Of course the reporter just had to file his story in front of the Uranus Fudge Factory. :oldlaugh:

Medicine Ig Nobel winner.
https://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(05)03012-9/abstract
Winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes receive a 10-trillion-dollar bill from Zimbabwe (worth about 40 US cents) and the opportunity to give a 60-second acceptance speech before an 8-year-old girl comes on stage saying “Please stop, I’m bored.”
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-...ll-winners-of-this-years-ig-nobel-awards/all/
 
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CWatters said:
so I scroll down some more to find out how to get the deal and discover...
Australia's largest pizza makers are giving away free lunches to their customers for an entire week. Those lucky enough to be wandering past a Domino's in Melbourne...

Borg said:
Maybe they deliver. :oldtongue:
Probably be cold by then...
 
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https://www.kptv.com/no-one-hurt-after-truck-flips-through-air-lands-on/article_8d97f39a-9b9e-5d77-a745-c09cf8464e01.html

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This seems weird... the post count doesn't look correct... . :oldconfused:
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Well, it's news and weird... . :oldtongue:

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berkeman said:
Edited... :wink:
No, that's not what I meant. When you look at your subscribed threads, it shows the total replies. But, when you get to the thread itself, it shows the total post count which is one higher.
 
Borg said:
OCR highlighted it in yellow. The top image shows 309 and the bottom one shows 310.
Oh, thanks.
 
Ah, .:ok:
Borg said:
One is total posts and the other is replies.

Then...
OCR should have said:
Well, it's not news and not weird... . :oldtongue:
Lol... thanks all. . :oldsmile:
 

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DrGreg said:
Giant inflatable colon has been stolen
Well, that took a lot of guts... . :olduhh:

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Seems they are all crooks in a GoFundMe scam.
Time to call:


https://www.yahoo.com/news/new-jers...nt-viral-charged-gofundme-scam-193432689.html
It was a feel-good story for the ages — a homeless military veteran’s random act of kindness and a New Jersey couple intent on helping him get back on his feet during the holidays — that inspired people to donate than $400,000 in an online fundraiser when it went viral last fall.

But prosecutors say Mark D’Amico, Kate McClure and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. fabricated the story in an effort to raise money for themselves.

“The paying it forward story that drove this fundraiser might seem too good to be true,” Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said at a press briefing in Mount Holly, N.J., on Thursday afternoon. “Unfortunately it was. The entire campaign was predicated on a lie.”

The three were each charged with second-degree conspiracy and theft by deception. If convicted on all charges, D’Amico, McClure and Bobbitt would each face 10 to 20 years in prison.
 
nsaspook said:
"He is known to have studied Karate and we believe he has mastered the art of Unagi, the state of total awareness,"
"It's KaratAY!"

"And we were on a BREAK!"
 
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