RECENT HEADLINES

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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.

No comments:

Twittter

My photo
PRODUCERS OF ''1050 CHUM MEMORIAL BLOG' http://wp1050chumto.blogspot.ca and "SONGS HEARD ON 1050 CHUM" http://heardon1050chum.blogspot.ca