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Monday, February 15, 2010

President scraps farewell from five virgins

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HEADLINE: President scraps farewell from five virgins
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/president-scraps-farewell-from-five-virgins/story-e6frfku0-1225830686111
CLIP:
NEPAL'S head of state dispensed with a centuries-old tradition of having five virgin girls bid him goodbye as he left on a foreign visit.
Heads of state in Nepal were traditionally seen off by five pre-pubescent girls representing the Hindu goddesses Durga, Sarshwati, Laxmi, Radha and Annapurna, who performed religious rituals to bring success

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HEADLINE: Film director booted off flight for being fat
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/film-director-kevin-smith-booted-off-southwest-airlines-flight-for-being-fat/story-e6frfq80-1225830330236
CLIP:
SELF-DESCRIBED "way fat" director Kevin Smith was booted from a Southwest Airlines flight because of his size, according to his own breathless minute-by-minute tweets.
Smith, the millionaire director and writer of Clerks and Zack and Miri Make a Porno was thrown off the US budget airline's Boeing 737 late Saturday night in Oakland, California, because the captain deemed him a "flight risk," Smith tweeted. The incident was first reported by TMZ overnight.

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HEADLINE: Police investigate Scottish kilt dropper
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/world/police-investigate-scottish-kilt-dropper/story-e6frfkz9-1225830278404
CLIP:
BRITISH police are investigating after a Scottish rugby fan exposed himself on live television.
The Scot dropped his kilt while facing the camera on Friday evening's news program BBC Wales Today, ahead of Wales' dramatic Six Nations victory over Scotland in Cardiff on Saturday.

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HEADLINE: Pope gives holy seal of approval to pop classics
SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7026960.ece
CLIP:
... Yesterday, however, the Vatican gave its imprimatur not only to Santana and Oasis, but also to the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, U2, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac in a list of approved pop albums published in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. ...

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HEADLINE: Britain's sexiest female farmer crowned
SOURCE LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7222429/Britains-sexiest-female-farmer-crowned.html
CLIP:
Blonde Anna Simpson has been voted Britain's sexiest female farmer. Miss Simpson, 25, beat hundreds of rivals to be crowned the most attractive female farmer in the country.

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HEADLINE: Catholics get condoms with their roses
SOURCE LINK: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/free-condoms-with-valentines-flowers-in-the-philippines/story-e6frev20-1225830085509
CLIP:
MEN buying flowers for Valentine's Day were given something else for the weekend in the Philippines, Asia's staunchly Roman Catholic outpost -- free condoms.
The health department set up two tents and booths carrying the slogan "Are You Sexually Active?'' at Manila's Dangwa wholesale flower market on the day before St Valentine's.

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HEADLINE: School teacher replaced by a website
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/teachers-replaced-with-a-dyi-website/story-e6frfkwi-1225830289226
CLIP:
FURIOUS parents are demanding the New South Wales Education Department explain why their children have been abandoned without a qualified 2-unit maths teacher for the first month of Year 12.

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HEADLINE: U.K. Pastor: 'Wives, Submit to Your Husbands'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585771,00.html?test=latestnews
CLIP:
A pair of British church leaders are under fire for preaching in sermons that "modern women's" lack of obedience is to blame for the country's high divorce rate, The Daily Mail reported.

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