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January 30 , 2003

The Lottery is Rigged?
You may have heard you are more likely to be hit on the head by a meteorite than to win the lottery. This is certainly so. The odds are about one in one billion. Even with these odds, lottery commissions are not satisfied. Is the lottery rigged? http://www.uncoveror.com/lottery.htm


The Search for Jan Smithers
Jan Smithers played the touchingly shy and neurotic Bailey Quarters on the wonderful sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati." The show also featured the much more famous Loni Anderson. Why Loni captured the public attention instead of Jan is one of life's mysteries. So, what ever happened to Jan Smithers?

http://www.clothmonkey.com/smithers.htm

Girls with glasses. Bar tricks. How to tie a tie. A true random number service. Alcohol and Calorie Content of about 200 popular beers. Amateur Physics for the amateur pool player. The Best Frauds, Scams, and Big Company Cons in America. More card tricks than you can handle.


I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.
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Town Plans 60 Foot Lava Lamp
Worried that visitors don't stop at Soap Lake any more even though its medicinal waters reputedly can cure anything from sheep parasites to snake bite, civic leaders are considering trying to revive the tourist trade with a 60-foot-high lava lamp in the center of downtown, complete with viewing platform. (Thanks Kathy D.) http://www.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/01/14/offbeat.lava.lamp.reut/index.html

Nipple Scarf
I have absolutely no clue where you might get one of these, but I'm sure if you did, I am sure you would be the first one on your block to have one.

Empire of the Dead
Far below the city streets of Paris, in the quiet, damp darkness, seven million Parisians lie motionless. Their skeletons, long since dis-interred from the churchyard graves their survivors left them in, are neatly stacked and aligned to form the walls of nearly one kilometer of walking passage.
Welcome to the Denfert-Rochereau Ossuary—The Empire of the Dead.
http://www.triggur.org/cata/

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

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