Subject:                          Daily Dose - 040126 - difference between lawyers, BIZARRE NEWS, LIFE'S IDIOSYNCRASIES, DDL, Rotten News

 

The priest was instructing a class of third-graders at All Saints grammar school.

 

"There were two brothers, and one of them chose the wicked path of Satan.  The brother was evil and corrupt and did great damage to many people, and wound up a convicted criminal in a tiny, dark cell."

 

"But the other brother studied hard and became a great, rich, knowledgeable lawyer."

 

"Now, children, what is the difference between these two brothers, who started out in the same place, who together embarked upon life's stormy seas?"

 

Herman raised his hand and said, "Easy.  One of them got caught."

 

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BIZARRE NEWS....

 

A Brush With Fate

 

AUSTRALIA - A brush turkey thought he had met his match when a man fell into a mating hole in a Burleigh park and was almost buried alive.

 

The man was walking along a track when he fell into the 'hole of love' and was buried up to his head. It is thought that a brush turkey discovered the man shortly after he fell and attempted to bury him in a mating ritual. The man was stuck in the hole for awhile until someone noticed him and called emergency services.

 

Several fire crews came to the scene and fought back laughter as they retrieved him from the hole. A wildlife ranger said that December was the frisky season for brush turkeys.

 

Just last week signs warning people of wild turkeys were put up in the national park.

 

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Their Plan Went up in Smoke

 

BERLIN - German police arrested a shoplifter after he raised suspicion by waddling through a supermarket. It was discovered that he was hiding 177 packs of cigarettes in his trousers.

 

"He'd filled his trousers in the truest sense of the word," a police spokesman for the western town of Olpe said Friday. "They were so full of stolen goods he could hardly walk."

 

The thief, in his twenties, was aided by three accomplices who created a shield by holding newspapers in front of the man and his bulging pants, said police. The supermarket staff alerted police, who arrested the four as they tried to transfer the packs into their vehicle.

 

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LIFE'S IDIOSYNCRASIES.....

 

1) Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants.

 

2. Marriage changes passion. Suddenly you're in bed with a relative.

 

3. I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with "Guess" on it. So I said "Implants?"

 

4. I don't do drugs anymore. I get the same effect just from standing up fast.

 

5. Sign in a Chinese Pet Store: "Buy one dog, get one flea..."

 

6. I live in my own little world. But it's OK. They know me here.

 

7. I got a sweater for Christmas. I really wanted a screamer or a moaner.

 

8. If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

 

9. I don't approve of political jokes. I've seen too many of them get elected.

 

10. There are two sides to every divorce: Yours and crap for brains.

 

11. I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person, you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

 

12. I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

 

13. Everyday, I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days that I've stayed alive.

 

14. How come we choose from just two people to run for President, and 50 for Miss America?

 

15. Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant, like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?

 

16. Why is it, that most nudists are people you don't want to see naked?

 

17. Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.

 

18. Every time I walk into a singles bar, I can hear Mom's wise words: "Don't pick that up, you don't know where it's been.

 

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DDL

 

There was a young nympho named Myrtle
Who had a heated affair with a turtle
But the thing most phenominal
Was a swelling (abdominal)
Which proved to Myrtle the turtle was fertile

 

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I was watching the Discovery Channel and turkeys are amazing creatures. They have been bred over hundreds of years to have small brains, big breasts, and peck at food. So they're like the supermodels of the animal kingdom.
---Jay Leno

 

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People who never get carried away should be.
---Malcolm Forbes

 

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Christmas is weird. What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?
---Marsha Coleman

 

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Q:  What do you call a 200 lb. woman who likes to screw men and women at the same time?

 

A:  A bisexual built for two.

 

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If your tires are bald, expect hairy driving.

 

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Q:  What do you call a smiling Roman with pubic hair between his teeth?

 

A:  Gladiator.

 

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Doctors are not publicizing one major side effect of the impotency drug Viagra. Men will be forced to make conversation for an hour before the pill kicks in.

 

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Rotten News....  (true)

 

Tuesday, 9 December, 2003, 09:27 GMT 

 

DIY cruise missile thwarted

 

A New Zealand man who built a cruise missile in his garage claims the New Zealand government forced him to shut down his project after coming under pressure from the United States.

 

Bruce Simpson says he built the missile using parts bought off the internet to show how easily it could be done.

 

He says he attracted considerable interest from potential buyers - including an offer from Iran to pay him for details of his research.

 

"The New Zealand government at first said I had done nothing illegal. But then a US official was quoted as saying it was 'extremely unhelpful', " Mr Simpson told BBC News Online.

 

"The authorities here finally decided to bankrupt me over a tax debt and I have now had to give the missile to a friend for safe keeping."

 

Although his own missile building days have come to an end, he believes he has proved his point - "that by using off-the-shelf technology in a suburban garage a terrorist can create a weapon against which there is no effective defence."

 

New Zealand officials have said they cannot comment for reasons of "secrecy".

 

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Indian Teachers Banned From Knitting
Wed Dec 10, 6:30 AM ET
By BABU LAL SHARMA, Associated Press Writer

 

LUCKNOW, India - Teachers in India's most populous state have been told to stop knitting in classrooms and pay more attention to their students.

 

"They are often more interested in knitting than in teaching," Neera Yadav, the principal secretary of education for Uttar Pradesh, told The Associated Press in the state capital Lucknow on Wednesday. "All the officials — including teachers and clerks — in the primary and secondary sections have been banned from knitting on school premises during teaching hours."

 

Complaints from parent groups prompted the ban, which went into effect Nov. 26.

 

Teachers, however, are fighting back.

 

"People concentrate better when they knit," argued Panchanan Rai, a teachers' representative in the state legislature.

 

"What's wrong if they sit in the staff room and knit during free periods?" asked R.P. Mishra, a spokesman for the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Teachers' Association, calling the ban "dictatorial."

 

Mishra said the teachers have threatened to strike for the right to knit, but the government has not responded.

 

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Woman Sentenced for High-Speed Nursing
Fri Dec 5,10:22 AM ET

 

RAVENNA, Ohio - A woman who nursed her infant while driving 65 mph on the Ohio Turnpike was sentenced to three months of house arrest for violating child-restraint laws.

 

Catherine Nicole Donkers, 29, was also fined $300 Thursday. The judge delayed the sentence for one month so she can pursue her appeal.

 

Donkers was found guilty in August of three traffic-related charges. She was found innocent of child endangering.

 

Donkers said her husband ordered her by cell phone to breast-feed their 7-month-old daughter to save time while she drove on the turnpike May 8. Police stopped Donkers after a trucker who saw her holding the baby on her lap called 911.

 

Donkers testified she did nothing wrong because the couple's religious beliefs require her to follow her husband's directives. They belong to the First Christian Fellowship for Eternal Sovereignty, which has a history of challenging the government.