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Timsgal
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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SPELL-CHECK RUN AMOK CHANGES NAMES IN PA. YEARBOOK
Yearbook Company's Spell-check Fiasco Gives Some Pa. High School Students New Last Names
MIDDLETOWN, Pa., Jun. 2, 2008
(AP) A computer spell-checker run amok christened several Pennsylvania high school students with new _ and in some cases unflattering _ last names.
Middletown Area High School's yearbook listed Max Zupanovic as "Max Supernova," Kathy Carbaugh as "Kathy Airbag" and Alessandra Ippolito as "Alexandria Impolite," just to name a few.
"It was kind of funny, but kind of rude at the same time," Ippolito said.
The mistakes were found on four of the yearbook's 176 pages, co-editor Amanda Gummo said.
Ed Patrick of Taylor Publishing, which printed the book, said his company is responsible for the errors and will provide free stickers printed with the correct names.
"It happens all the time, every year," Patrick said. "Look at any yearbook in the country."
(I really love the name "Max Supernova"!!! How cool! But "Kathy Airbag"? Poor girl  )
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Does he have more than one crack now? |
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Timsgal
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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Those are pretty funny!!!!
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sweetbee
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| A couple of those will probably be in the next Darwin Awards book. I need to start clipping some of the things from my local newspaper. Since there are allot of small towns around here some of the news is a little bizarre. |
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Timsgal
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Oh, I LOVE reading the Darwin Awards!! Those are so hilarious. (I know, I have a morbid sense of humor sometimes ... lol!)
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Brentwood mom finds snake sleeping in crib with baby
A mother in Brentwood checked on her sleeping daughter to find a real-life urban legend come true: There was a snake in her baby's crib, she said.
Cari Abatemarco, 32, of upstate Troy, was visiting family in Brentwood late last week when she awoke after 1 a.m. Thursday to the sound of her 7-month-old daughter's cries and responded as any mother would. She said she found a live snake coiled around baby Isabella's leg.
"Once I lifted her up and the snake fell off of her, she stopped crying. But then I was the one crying all night," Abatemarco said.
Abatemarco's uncle Charlie Vecchiarelli eventually pried the hissing snake from Isabella's crib with a back-scratcher and placed it in a bucket, according to Joyce Abatemarco, the baby's grandmother. Animal control officers said they picked it up later Thursday and brought it to the Town of Islip animal shelter in Bay Shore.
Animal control workers identified the snake as a California king snake and said it was a little more than a foot long. Joyce Abatemarco, who lives in the home where the incident took place, said it was closer to 4 feet.
A spokeswoman for Islip Town confirmed that an animal control officer took the snake. The reptile is not venomous but is a constrictor and is sometimes kept as a pet. Officials said they could not be sure where it came from.
The snake is not indigenous to Long Island and will probably be adopted by an organization that cares for exotic animals, said Joanne Daly, supervisor of the Islip Animal Shelter.
Cari Abatemarco, who is legislative director for state Sen. Craig Johnson (D-Port Washington) in his Albany office, said her parents had recently bought the baby's mattress at a store in Bay Shore, and family members said the packaging was not secure. She said she believes the snake may have been in the mattress when they bought it. The family declined to name the store.
The snake's appearance in the home, however, could have had something to do with the weekend heat wave, said Gary Rogers, a captain with the Suffolk SPCA, who said his agency referred the case to the animal shelter.
"You open a window, it's warm out, they are probably looking for shade, too," he said.
Joyce Abatemarco speculated the snake may have been an escaped pet. "Not us," she added, "We're more puppy-doggy kind of people."
For now, Daly said, the snake is "thriving" in captivity. |
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I saw that on the news. Thank God it wasn't poisonous! |
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, we just heard it on the radio on the way home today ... ICK!!! 
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Manure thief falls into dung, flees naked
Fri Jun 27, 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) A woman trying to make "manure bombs" using stockings, slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked, German police said Friday.
Two women entered a farm in the northern village of Eberholzen Wednesday evening and started to fill the stockings with manure.
"One of them slipped into the manure tank, right into the cow muck," said a spokesman for local police. "The other one helped her out. We found their clothes in a field. One seems to have run off completely naked, the other in her underwear."
Police said it was unclear what the women had intended to do with the "manure bombs," but added the incident could be linked to victory celebrations surrounding the Euro 2008 semi-finals on Wednesday evening, when Germany beat Turkey 3-2.
"The women can get their clothes back from the local police station -- unwashed," the spokesman added.
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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:53 am Post subject: |
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HAHA!
Sounds like an exciting night for those two... something to tell the grandkids for sure! |
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