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A Dutch farmer watched in disbelief as a driver under the influence of cocaine drove a slalom course through his corn field, only to be joined by two police vehicles in hot pursuit, adding to the damage.

IPhone launch day arrives. $499? I think not.

Thousands Line Up to Buy APPLE IPhones... Of course they are. That's what they were trained to do. You have to have the newest and the best to be cool. Didn't you know that?

Reporter's Mic Stolen at Apple Store During Live Shot... You do realize that it's just a phone right? Sure it can do anything from play music to raise the dead but it's still just a phone. Watch the video. It's fuuuunnnnnyyy!!!

Man pays $4.88 for plasma TV at Wal-Mart. This happened in Monroe, La? Sweeeeeet! I'm going to Monroe.

House Cats' Wild Ancestor Found.

Former astronaut Lisa Nowak didn't wear diapers during her 950-mile road trip to confront a romantic rival, her lawyer said Friday, disputing one of the more bizarre details to emerge from the NASA love triangle. For the first time in a while, Paris Hilton isn't the headline in the news, instead,....we have diaperless astronauts.

Scientists swap genes in bacteria. I swapped at a rock concert once. It's similar.

Squash grown 10,000 years ago in Peru. That's right kids, only the important news appears on my site.

Bald eagle comes off endangered list. Whatever you do, don't tell the rednecks!!!

The `80s are back with `Transformers'. Oh what fond memories.

Thieves in the former Burma's main city, Yangon, are taking advantage of outages often lasting for more than 20 hours a day to steal the copper power cables, police said on Friday. Maybe the power company will finally stop and think...We should be more reliable. Hmmm, ya think?

India, struggling to promote greater condom use among its population, is looking to hire its own "condom man" to follow the example of a former Thai cabinet minister who successfully pushed for safer sex. Oh how do I apply?

A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas affiliated children's television program was beaten to death in the show's final episode Friday. Why are you hatin' on Mickey?

The stylists wear scanty outfits, but a Salem man has found out that customers have to stay covered up. Kevin Bean, 48, was charged with indecent exposure and lewdness after allegedly stripping naked in the Lather & Lace hair salon in Salem this week. I'm a logger...... Love ya Ray Stevens.

A teacher who forced a pupil to write "I am a retard" 100 times was acquitted by an Italian court on Wednesday of abuse charges. If the shoe fits,.....

Britain is proposing to remove the term "prostitute" from the criminal statutes because it carries too much stigma. Aww. C'mon now. read comment for retard above. Here's what I don't get. You can sell almost anything in the world to make one feel better, save for illegal drugs. The reason it's illegal? It's very hard to tax. hehehe Like you've never paid for sex. hahahaha.

Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer ... car thief? An Arizona Highway Patrol officer who ran the Wienermobile's plates as the vehicle traveled for a promotion briefly thought the giant hot dog on wheels was, well, hot. It turns out someone had indeed stolen the "Y-U-M-M-Y" plate off the Wienermobile in Columbia, Mo., back in February. Oscar Mayer officials reported the theft to police there, company spokeswoman Syd Lindner said. The company got a replacement YUMMY plate that same month and notified police in Missouri, Lindner said. YUMMY....hahaha

Wimbledon is getting its knickers in a twist. Tatiana Golovin had the Wimbledon referee reaching for his rule book when she sought to appear on court wearing red underwear. Show 'em what you're made of girl. You got this!!!

A Goleta Valley Junior High School teacher is facing charges for allegedly smoking marijuana with two students........and.....???

Tickets to the moon sell for $100 million... I'm gonna have to wait until I get my next pay raise to purchase mine.


Today In History:
512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.

1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.

1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.

1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.

1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.

1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's Controllable pitch propeller.

1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".

1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.

1997 - Mike Tyson bites off a piece of his opponent Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match. I was at a restaurant in Branson Missouri with co-workers from Remington Theater watching the fight.

2003 - Thirteen are killed in a porch collapse in Chicago. 13 people on one porch?

2007 - Haymarket car bomb was found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.


Happy Birthday:
1861 - William Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939) It sits right next to the Mustard Police department and the Ketchup fire department.

1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938)

1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)

1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)


Deaths on this day:
1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator (b. 1777)

1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1887)

1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)

1969 - Shorty Long, American singer (b. 1940) He had to be a rapper....

1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)

2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)

2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)