Can you spell that again?

Headline: It's Spelled 'Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaub...'
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Can you spell that again?

Officials have agreed to correct spelling errors in road signs pointing to a central Massachusetts lake with a 45-letter name.

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster has one of the world's longest place names. It's been spelled many different ways over the years. Some locals have given up and simply call it Lake Webster.

Headline: Judge Orders Defendant's Mouth Taped Shut
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 22.4.9
Caption: Tape it shut

state judge who said he lost patience with an unruly defendant ordered court officials to cover the man's mouth with duct tape. The unusual move was ordered Monday by 6th District Judge Peter D. McDermott during a probation violation hearing for Nicklas Frasure. The 23-year-old Frasure was convicted of felony theft in 2008 and recently released from prison.

Headline: 2 Men Send 217,000 Text Messages, Get $26K Bill
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 21.4.9
Caption: Texting it up

Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000. "It came in a box that cost $27.55 to send to me," he said Tuesday.

Headline: Singing star Boyle bigger than Obama
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 21.4.9
Caption: Susan Boyle Instant Stardom

BRITAIN'S Got Talent star Susan Boyle has proved five times more popular on YouTube than US President Barack Obama. The Scots singer’s sensational audition - singing I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Miserables - has been watched by 100 million fans worldwide on the video-sharing website, The Sun reported.

It dwarfs the 18.5 million who logged on to view clips of Mr Obama’s January inauguration ceremony, and it's only been been online for a week.

It is now 18 million views short of becoming YouTube’s most-watched video - overtaking Judson Laipply’s Evolution of Dance.

The self-confessed virgin from Blackburn is the site’s fastest chart-mover ever.

More than 850 users have uploaded videos of her.

Headline: Report: Fat People Causing Global Warming
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 21.4.9
Caption: Fat People and Global Warming

The rising number of fat people was blamed for global warming on Monday.

Scientists warned that the increase in big eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet.

Overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage.

Dr. Phil Edwards, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "Moving about in a heavy body is like driving in a gas guzzler."

Each fat person is said to be responsible for emitting a ton more of climate-warming carbon dioxide per year than a thin one.

Headline: SUV Falls From NYC Garage, Lands On Nearby Roof
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 21.4.9
Caption: Wrong Exit

Authorities said a sport-utility vehicle has plowed out a sixth-floor window in a Manhattan parking garage and plunged three stories onto a neighboring roof. Police said the driver has been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after the accident around 4 p.m. Monday. It is not immediately known what caused the accident.

Police said a man was parking the white Mercedes Benz SUV in the East 12th Street garage when the vehicle crashed through a large window. He was inside the SUV when it landed.

Headline: Police: California Man Decapitated His Horse
Police: California Man Decapitated His Horse
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 20.4.9
Caption: Dead Horse

ANZA, Calif. — Authorities have arrested a Southern California man after determining that a dead horse on his property had been struck repeatedly in the head with a sledge hammer and decapitated with a chain saw.

Riverside County sheriff's Deputy Herlinda Valenzuela said Monday that Jack Ziniuk summoned deputies to his Anza home Sunday and told them his horse was having seizures after being attacked by dogs and needed to be put down.

Hi Mr. Cow

Headline: Cows with names produce more milk
Clip from: news.com .au
Date of clip: 28.1.9
Caption: Hi Mr. Cow

COWS with names like Daisy, Gertrude or Buttercup produce more milk than their sisters with no names, according to a British study.
Cattle who are given "the personal touch" can produce up to 284 litres of milk more a year, said experts at Newcastle University in northeast England.

Headline: Naked couple greeted with applause
Clip from: news.com .au
Date of clip: 28.1.9
Caption: Walking in the Buff

A COUPLE treated open air diners to a 15-minute naked parade in Singapore, triggering both embarrassment and applause for a scene almost unheard of in the conservative city-state.
Pub manager Terence Chia told the Straits Times newspaper he saw the couple taking off their clothes on Saturday night at a staircase in a block of flats in Holland Village, known for its popular nightspots.

"Then, clothes in hand, they coolly walked in their flip-flops towards the market," he said, adding when the couple did a U-turn a sea of spectators was ready and poised with cameras.

"There were more than 200 people and everyone was taking pictures," the newspaper today quoted Chia as saying. ..

Headline: Michigan Man Busted After Calling 911 on Himself
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 28.1.9
Caption: Brotherly Love

A 24-year-old Michigan man broke into a gas station and called 911 on himself, claiming he wanted to go to jail to be with his incarcerated brother, authorities said.

St. Clair County Sheriff Tim Donnellon told the Times Herald of Port Huron that deputies obliged, arresting the man early Tuesday.

The man called the emergency number about 4:30 a.m. from inside the gas station in Capac, a village northeast of Detroit, authorities said. He said he had had broken in about 20 minutes earlier.

Headline: Ex-Pastor Jailed for Sex With 10-Year-Old 'Wife'
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 27.1.9
Caption: Pervert Too!

MONTREAL — A Canadian man who described himself as a pastor was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl he claims was his wife.

Daniel Cormier, 57, was convicted in October after members of the now-defunct Church of Downtown Montreal became suspicious of his relationship with the girl.

Cormier, who led the church, has maintained he did nothing wrong when he married the girl, then 10 years old, in 1999 during a ceremony at his church.

"I would say that there's no remorse," prosecutor Anne-Andree Charette said outside the courtroom. "He just tried to find justifications."

The girl, now 19, testified she was too young to grasp the concept of marriage but said she remembered the sexual abuse in vivid detail.

Headline: Raccoon rapist's penis bitten off
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 27.1.9
Caption: Pervert!

AN enraged raccoon has bitten off a man's penis as the pervert tried to rape the animal.

Russian Alexander Kirilov, 44, was on a drunken weekend with friends when he leapt on the terrified animal.

Headline: Poisonous Testicles Send Diners to Hospital
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 27.1.9
Caption: Blowfish Testicles

TOKYO — Seven diners in northern Japan fell ill and three remained hospitalized Tuesday after eating blowfish testicles prepared in a restaurant not authorized to serve the poisonous delicacy.

The owner of the restaurant in Tsuruoka city, who is also the chef, had no license to serve blowfish and was being questioned on suspicion of professional negligence, police official Yoshihito Iwase said.

Blowfish, while extremely poisonous if not prepared properly, is considered a delicacy in Japan and is consumed by thrill-seeking gourmets.

Iwase said the seve...

Headline: Calif. Woman Gives Birth to Octuplets, Stuns Doctors
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 27.1.9
Caption: WOW!

BELLFLOWER, Calif. — Eight babies born to a mother in Southern California — only the second live-born set of octuplets in the world — were in stable condition and breathing on their own, doctors said Tuesday.

Headline: New pupils not toilet trained
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 27.1.9
Caption: School Must Toilet Train Students

AN ALARMING number of first-time students at Queensland schools are not rpeoperly toilet trained, it has been revealed.

Queensland Association of State School Principals Norm Hart has urged parents and families to take responsbility for their children.

"We have increasing numbers of children in schools that aren't toilet-trained," Mr Hart said.

"Ten years ago, you never heard of kids going to school not toilet-trained."

His call for parents to be held accountable comes as the state's education system faces an unprecedented shake-up, according to a leading educator.

Queensland Catholic Education Commission executive director Mike Byrne said the system faced a host of major challenges, including:..

Headline: Tourists strip off for SA 'dream job'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 27.1.9
Caption: Nude Begets Dream Job

SOUTH Australia Tourism has launched a viral marketing campaign, giving tourists the chance to star in their own commercials to promote the state. Dubbed Stars of South Australia, the South Australia Tourism Commission promotion – in conjunction with STA Travel – involves UK residents filming a one minute video about travelling to SA.

The prize is a trip to South Australia which is filmed by a professional crew and beamed back to the UK via an online blog.

SATC UK-based marketing manager Neil Saunders said the promotion was devised to attract the sector which was still inclined to travel despite the economic downturn.

"It primarily was aimed at the backpackers and adventure market; in the current economic climate, they are a strong market because people will be looking to take a gap year or get away from it," Mr Saunders said.