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		Shaman
 
  
  Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Hammertown
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				 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:36 pm    Post subject: Power of the Press | 
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				Actual newspaper headlines. 
 
 
  1. Include Your Children When Baking Cookies 
 
 
  2. Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers 
 
 
  3. Drunks Get Nine Months in Violin Case 
 
 
  4. Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus? 
 
 
  5. Prostitutes Appeal to Pope 
 
 
  6. Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over 
 
 
  7. British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands 
 
 
  8. Teacher Strikes Idle Kids 
 
 
  9. Clinton Wins Budget; More Lies Ahead 
 
 
10. Miners Refuse to Work After Death 
 
 
11. Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant 
 
 
12. Stolen Painting Found by Tree 
 
 
13. Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Counter 
 
 
14. If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While 
 
 
15. Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide 
 
 
16. Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge 
 
 
17. New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group 
 
 
18. Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Space 
 
 
19. Kids Make Nutritious Snacks 
 
 
20. Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half 
 
 
21. Typhoon Rips through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead 
 
 
   
 
 
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		guest of Japan
 
  
  Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1601 Location: Japan
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				 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 10:21 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				That was hysterical!
 
 
OK, this seems like the perfect place to add a GW quote I got the other day from the BBC website.
 
 
"This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq.  Now there are some who would like to rewrite history; revisionist historians is what I like to call them." | 
			 
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		tjpnz2000
 
  
  Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 118 Location: Japan
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				 Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:57 am    Post subject:  | 
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				From the Japan times of a while back
 
 
`Parkistan keeps up crack down`
 
 
Love it! | 
			 
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		Mike_2003
 
 
  Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 344 Location: Bucharest, Romania
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				 Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 3:13 am    Post subject:  | 
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				| I had a chuckle when I checked the BBC ceefax service. I think a couple of program titles had become scrambled and apparently at 5.30pm you can watch "Delia Smith's Cooking with Dolphins." | 
			 
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