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The Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession. The app takes users through the sacrament - in which Catholics admit their wrongdoings - and allows them to keep track of their sins. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12391129" onclick="window.open(th...

Tulare County man dies after being cut by knife attached to cockfighting rooster's leg
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Twitfic inspiration
Desperate, I robbed an adult toy store, but the sales girl came at me with a pair of 38's and hit me in the head with a rabbit.

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StalinSays wrote:

themorg wrote:It seemed almost scarier than the hammer blow episode. Perhaps it was just that i have never thought of a utilitarian use for the Undead.

Seconded.

I wouldn't call it scary as much as I would call it disturbing.

You mean amurricans...

I sure thought it might be an example of Poe's Law at first

"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

The latest explanation
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/ar ... ery-solved" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Urban explorers discover London sewers are infested with slithy toves that had been flushed after biting their owners

My wife's aunt has been collecting art deco lamps of nude figures for few years. Most of them are stored in a spare bedroom of the old farmhouse that they live in and they apparently spook the grand sons.

I also went through a period when I didn't like having my bedroom door closed because the wood grain pattern of the veneer on the inside of the door formed a triangular shape that my over active imagination would turn into something like an evil wizard.

Besides the normal things, are there any specific things that "tweaked" you as a kid? Also, did you have any rituals that you used to deal with things that frightened you? I just listened to the story "Tattletale" on the Dunsteef podcast http://dunesteef.com/2010/10/13/episode-84-tattletale-by-chris...

When the victim opened the door, he told police two men wearing masks came running inside. One of the men was carrying a large sword and the other was carrying a battle ax.

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Talia wrote:Haha. Plantporn. Awesome and disgusting at the same time.

Just what do you think hay fever season is all about...

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/851202-reindeer-regularly-eat-magic-mushrooms-in-the-wild-research-finds?fb_ref=ITO%3Dsocialnet-facebook-like&fb_source=home_oneline" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; He also claimed that herdsmen drink the reindeer’s urine to experience the high themselves....

Lal the chicken-eating cow http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology ... edium=link" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A Serbian man is being hailed as a hero after killing—accidentally—a shark that had been terrorizing an Egyptian resort town.
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"in other news today, a woman in a raccoon suit was attacked by an eagle today while she was waiting in line outside of a hotel waiting to enter a "furry" convention. -That'll take the "yiff" out of someone"

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"The new discovery is that nick marks around the orbital margins of the Taung child demonstrate once and for all that an eagle really was the killer."