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Funny story: Eddie Albert sightings rampant in U.S.

Eddie Albert sightings rampant in U.S.

GRAND MARSHALL, Texas -- Eddie Albert, the versatile actor on Broadway, in movies and on television, known most for his role on Green Acres, died at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of California recently.

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Funny story: New study out on chaotic origins of solar system

New study out on chaotic origins of solar system

BEND LUCY, Wisc. -- By using an expensive computer, scientists have developed a story of chaos in the creation of our solar system that, they agree, explains mysteries about our solar system.

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Funny story: Technology searches for text on ancient parchment

Technology searches for text on ancient parchment

VESTIBULE, Iowa - Scientists are using a "particle accelerator" to translate the long-lost writings of the Greek-mathematician Archimedes. The work was hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote his laundry list over it sometime during the Mid...

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Funny story: Bad storm season predicted

Bad storm season predicted

NERVELINE, Ohio -- The East and Gulf coasts can expect a big hurricane season that could be the worse ever, said an official at the National Torrid Weather and Bad Atmospheric Administration (NTWBAA).

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Funny story: Scientists healed from too much concern about Mars' southern pole

Scientists healed from too much concern about Mars' southern pole

MESMARIA, Md. -- Scientists have been disturbed for decades about why Mars' southern polar cap is offset from its geographical south pole. It was getting so that these scientists were damaging their health over the issue.

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Funny story: Exploding sausage crucial in criminal love syndrome

Exploding sausage crucial in criminal love syndrome

IDA, N.H. -- In early 1973 or maybe it was earlier, in 1954, an armed robber by the name of Tick lumbered into a bank in downtown Svengarden, Sweden. Firing shots as he came in, he took one women and a man hostage, strapped explosive Italian sausage...

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Funny story: Ancient shoe found

Ancient shoe found

LONDON - Archaeologists say they found a 2,000-year-old shoe lodged in a hollow tree near Wellington in southwest England.

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Funny story: Economy's signs of life worry Wall Street experts

Economy's signs of life worry Wall Street experts

NEW YORK - A sharp rise in new jobs in April, 2005, may mean that more people will be working for a living, but some economists say this is not good news for stock market investors, many who don't work for a living.

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Funny story: McCartney takes over Cream reunion to grand applause

McCartney takes over Cream reunion to grand applause

LONDON -- Paul McCartney showed up at the recent Cream reunion in London and took the place of all three Cream members for six songs.

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Funny story: Glick to get ABC news anchor job

Glick to get ABC news anchor job

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The ABC Network has announced that when Peter Jennings can no longer do the network news program, it will take a radical turn of strategy and hire Martin Short as Jiminy Glick to do the daily program.

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Funny story: Rare snails found

Rare snails found

ROBUST, Ind. - A trio of snails thought by most scientists and laymen to be extinct has been rediscovered in the Coosa and Cahaba rivers, according to reports from the Coosa and Cahaba rivers.

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Funny story: Hitler's dentist describes Adolf's final days

Hitler's dentist describes Adolf's final days

SUMMERVILLE, N.J. -- Adolf Hitler was a shivering, boney, weakened man who sang to himself in the days before his suicide in 1945, according to a newly published account of Adolf's dentist, Emil Brustermeister, who cared for Adolf's mouth as Allied f...

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Funny story: Paganism rages in Britain

Paganism rages in Britain

BOXBERRY, Great Britain -- A new study indicates that Paganism and the ancient art of witchcraft are on the rise in Britain. "Television, the World Wide Web, environmentalism, lo-carb diets and even feminism have all played a role in the resurgence,"...

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Funny story: Dreams are the answer, says study, to some question or other

Dreams are the answer, says study, to some question or other

BUTTRESS, Ala. -- The answer to many of your problems, says a study done about many of your problems, may be revealed in your dreams.

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Funny story: The smallest moments

The smallest moments

In the smallest moments come the biggest opportunities. And knowing you, there are many small moments still ahead. In the most ordinary events and endeavors come the most extraordinary possibilities for joy. You missed them, right?...

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Funny story: Your expectations

Your expectations

Your expectations can make things more difficult for me than they would otherwise be if you didn't consider me a magician. Or they can make things go better than they would otherwise go for me if you just name me the sole person in your will.

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Funny story: Same-sex marriage--is it good, bad or what?

Same-sex marriage--is it good, bad or what?

The problem with same-sex marriages is the sex of each person. Should we define marriage as a bond between two people who each have the same type of genitals or only as a union of different ones? And what about the genitalia-challenged people, where would they fit? For as long as there have been man and woman, the idea of having one mate has been endorsed. Mostly by women, of course, but t...

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