Kathleen Parker | A strange controversy over ads never aired – Kansas City Star


Kathleen Parker | A strange controversy over ads never aired
Kansas City Star
And poor Mitt Romney had to repudiate an ad campaign that never was, that probably never would have been, and over which he had zero control. And thus ends another faux controversy about non-ads in the very strange universe known as American politics.

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A Night At the 2012 Clio Awards On Mushrooms – Gawker


A Night At the 2012 Clio Awards On Mushrooms
Gawker
9:15 pm: The Grand Clio, which is like Best Picture of the Clios, is awarded to Chipotle's "Back to the Start" commercial. The spot debuted during the Super Bowl this year. In it, the pigs from the American family-run farm become the pigs that come out ...

Craig Thomson MP to call on police to obtain brothel surveillance tapes – Perth Now


Craig Thomson MP to call on police to obtain brothel surveillance tapes
Perth Now
Picture: Troy Snook Source: The Daily Telegraph Member for Dobell Craig Thomson ... will address Federal parliament today. Pic: Ray Strange Source: The Daily Telegraph CRAIG Thomson will this morning formally ask police to obtain surveillance footage ...

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Can This Bizarre Contraption Really Lift Your Face? – LimeLife (blog)


Can This Bizarre Contraption Really Lift Your Face?
LimeLife (blog)
There is, however, a bizarre contraption involved. The product, called 'Facelift Bungee' (patent pending), seems simple enough -- it's a piece of elastic and two small combs that the co-owner of Premier Beauty in Royal Palm Beach invented when she was ...

The Strange Spice Vanilla – Canada Free Press


The Strange Spice Vanilla
Canada Free Press
Strangely, these have no flavour when harvested; the delicious scent arises during their curing or fermentation. Exactly how the Aztecs or possibly other Central American peoples discovered this is a mystery. But upon the arrival of the Spanish ...

The Mormon obsession – Washington Post (blog)


The Mormon obsession
Washington Post (blog)
Perhaps if the liberal media did not treat religious people like Margaret Mead approached natives it would seem less strange. The piece is a troubling, and in many cases a bizarre, attempt to picture Romney as “The Mormon candidate,” a standard that ...

Lafayette man finds passion, purpose in art – The Daily Advertiser


Lafayette man finds passion, purpose in art
The Daily Advertiser
It's so weird, because it's a painting of a nice little house, but he used a picture of a nice little doorknob that looks out of place. So it tricks your eye." It's what Bryant calls a story within a story. And now, as he said, "I'm selling them.

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Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird for May 20, 2012 – North County Times


Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird for May 20, 2012
North County Times
NOTE: From time to time, News of the Weird reminds readers that bizarre human adventures repeat themselves again and again. Here are some choice selections of previous themes recently coming around again (plus a couple of updates on earlier stories): ...
Coffee a hot topic in this week's News of the WeirdWaterloo Cedar Falls Courier

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One man’s ‘weird’ but wonderful passion to solve cold case – Knox Journal


One man's 'weird' but wonderful passion to solve cold case
Knox Journal
He even told me not to let anyone in the police force know I was still in touch with him, which I thought was a bit weird.'' While more than 30 years have passed, Mrs Balkan's determination to uncover the truth remains as strong as ever.

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Hot dogs, friends and weight, and spinning things: Strange but True – Plain Dealer


Plain Dealer

Hot dogs, friends and weight, and spinning things: Strange but True
Plain Dealer
They play an essential role in airplanes, which have several gyroscopes onboard, and in spacecraft to help maintain a desired direction," Pickover writes. Brothers Bill and Rich Sones are Cuyahoga County residents who research and write the Strange But ...