Archive for January, 2010
Posted on January 29, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Oysters – the Tudor version of cinema popcorn (Reuters)
Reuters - Elizabethan theater-goers chomped on an exotic array of foods while enjoying the latest plays of the day, new evidence found at the sites of Shakespearean playhouses in London suggests.
Posted on January 29, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Priest checks fingerprints for mass attendance (Reuters)
Reuters - A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.Posted on January 28, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Boy faces court for bee sting prank (Reuters)
Reuters - A prank has had serious repercussions for an Indonesian boy facing criminal charges because he caused a classmate to be stung by a bee, the Jakarta Post reported on Thursday.Posted on January 28, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Pork better for sex than Viagra? (Reuters)
Reuters - Argentina's president recommended pork as an alternative to Viagra Wednesday, saying she spent a satisfying weekend with her husband after eating barbecued pork.
Posted on January 27, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Man torches car battling frost (Reuters)
Reuters - A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood.Posted on January 27, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Mobsters buck downturn, may target bourse (Reuters)
Reuters - Italy's mafia crime syndicates bucked the recession in 2009 to raise 'profits' by almost 8 percent with the financial crisis making companies and even the stock market even more vulnerable to cash-flush mobsters.Posted on January 27, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Draft law to jail dog eaters whets debate (Reuters)
Reuters - A proposal to jail people who eat dog meat for up 15 days has caused controversy in China, where dog hot pot is traditionally popular.Posted on January 27, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Church offers for a prayer for wedding day nerves (Reuters)
Reuters - The Church of England is offering to pray for lovestruck couples to help ease any jitters ahead of their wedding day.Posted on January 27, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Leader slaughters goats to ward off evil? (Reuters)
Reuters - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has a black goat slaughtered at his house almost every day to ward off "evil eyes" and protect him from "black magic," a newspaper reported Wednesday.Posted on January 27, 2010 - by Yahoo! News: Oddly Enough - Reuters
Dog washed out to sea has lucky escape (Reuters)
Reuters - A dog had a lucky escape when a Polish boat rescued him from an ice floe that had carried him more than 100 miles up a river and out onto the icy waters of the Baltic Sea.