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JeffinCO · 10-15-2008, 01:05 PM

I am copying this from a newsclip I cut out of the international section of the paper back in '95.

"EGYPT - SIX DROWN SAVING CHICKEN.

Six People drowned Monday while trying to rescue a chicken that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt.

An 18-year old farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot well. He drowned apparently after an undercurrent in the water dragged him down, police said. His sister and two brothers went in one by one to help him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers then came to help, but were pulled down by the same undercurrent.

The chicken survived."

guest1234567 · 10-15-2008, 01:44 PM

Darwin award nominees.

guest1234567 · 10-15-2008, 01:51 PM

OBATMA!*|*Weekly World News

OBATMA!
Posted on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
By Tap Vann

At a shocking press conference this morning, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama announced that he has a half-man half-bat half-brother.

The boyish looking half brother of undetermined age had been living in a cave in the Karura Forest outside Nairobi, until he was recently discovered by Dr. Robert Ndesango of Kenyatta University. Dr. Ndesango, who had been researching in the cave, was at first startled by the unusual boy, who quickly introduced himself as Obatma. Soon enough, the boy was showing him his part of the cave and pictures he’d drawn on the walls.

Tests indicate that the boy mutant is indeed Barack Obama’s younger half brother; the two share a father but have different mothers.

It was during the “gap” in his official itinerary in Israel that Obama took a military helicopter to Kenya to clandestinely visit his kin. The McCain camp had obtained pictures of Obatma and had threatened to release them to the nation if Obama did not own up to the mutant.

Senator Obama stood proudly next to the brother he claims to have first met on a trip to Kenya during the late 1990’s. Michelle Obama declined to attend the announcement and said through a spokeswoman, “That boy is strange. He will not be coming near my house or my kids.”

When asked how Obama’s half brother came to be a half-bat mutant, Obama said it was “a family matter that should remain private.”

Critics question if having a mutant brother could hurt him in the election. Obama replied “There is no greater bond than that of family. Turning my back on him would be like cutting off a limb. From the volcanoes of Hawaii, through the cornfields of Kansas and on to the caves of Kenya, I have lived the American dream and my unique diversity is what truly allows me to be so audacious in my hope.

“Obatma shares my DNA and will be uniquely qualified to understand some of the difficult issues facing mutants in this country and around the world.”

Will Bat Boy, the most famous mutant of them all, now come out and endorse Obama?

Senator McCain could not be reached for comment, but sources say he was glad that the intense discussion of Obatma now sweeping the nation would lessen the focus on whether his running mate, Governor Palin, may actually be a Palien hailing from a small planet east of the sun known as Wazeela.

guest1234567 · 10-15-2008, 01:52 PM

Sarah Palien?*|*Weekly World News

Sarah Palien?
Posted on Thursday, September 4th, 2008
By Hideaki Tailor

Following Sarah Palin’s emergence on the national stage, the blogosphere lit up with reports that Governor Palin does not actually hail from Wasilla, Alaska but from a planet known as Wazeela.

The tiny planet, which is located some 37,000 miles due east from the Sun, is known to be rich with fossil fuels that lie beneath snow-capped peaks.

Internet reports also cited the particularly short 5-month gestation period of Wazeela females as proof that Palin was, in fact, a Palien.