watermock
08-23-2004, 04:14 AM
The Dog Ate My Euros
Fri Aug 20, 8:42 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman thought she had been robbed by sedative-toting thieves when she returned to her car to find 380 euros ($470) missing and her dog vomiting, only to discover the pet had eaten the cash, police said on Thursday.
"She thought the dog had been drugged and that thieves had taken the money," a police spokesman in the western town of Aschaffenburg said. "The woman had withdrawn the money and hidden it under bank statements on the passenger seat."
She informed police and took the dog to a vet.
"The vet gave the dog an injection and after 20 minutes six of the 50 euro notes reappeared," the spokesman said.
"The dog spat out the rest of the money in shreds along with the bank statements."
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Boudreaux's Butt Paste Sells Itself
By ALAN SAYRE, AP Business Writer
COVINGTON, La. - Retired Louisiana pharmacist George Boudreaux hasn't needed Madison Avenue pitchmen to get the word out about his concoction to treat diaper rash. He just lets the name do it for him: Boudreaux's Butt Paste. "Would you be talking to me if it was called George's Diaper Cream?" Boudreaux recently asked a reporter.
Probably not. And a paste with any other name probably wouldn't have gotten attention from Oprah Winfrey, who featured Butt Paste on her show.
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040822/thumb.ny11408221705.boudreauxs_paste_ny114.jpg
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(Reuters) - Armed robbers stole "The Scream" and another masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch on Sunday in a bold daytime raid on an Oslo museum packed with terrified tourists. Two masked robbers ran into the Munch Museum, threatened staff with a handgun and forced people to lie down before grabbing "The Scream," an icon of existentialist angst showing a waif-like figure against a blood-red sky.
OMG, My Dog Ate My Euros
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20040822/amdf668676.jpg
Honestly, it's such a bad piece I hope it doesn't ever show up again.
Fri Aug 20, 8:42 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman thought she had been robbed by sedative-toting thieves when she returned to her car to find 380 euros ($470) missing and her dog vomiting, only to discover the pet had eaten the cash, police said on Thursday.
"She thought the dog had been drugged and that thieves had taken the money," a police spokesman in the western town of Aschaffenburg said. "The woman had withdrawn the money and hidden it under bank statements on the passenger seat."
She informed police and took the dog to a vet.
"The vet gave the dog an injection and after 20 minutes six of the 50 euro notes reappeared," the spokesman said.
"The dog spat out the rest of the money in shreds along with the bank statements."
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Boudreaux's Butt Paste Sells Itself
By ALAN SAYRE, AP Business Writer
COVINGTON, La. - Retired Louisiana pharmacist George Boudreaux hasn't needed Madison Avenue pitchmen to get the word out about his concoction to treat diaper rash. He just lets the name do it for him: Boudreaux's Butt Paste. "Would you be talking to me if it was called George's Diaper Cream?" Boudreaux recently asked a reporter.
Probably not. And a paste with any other name probably wouldn't have gotten attention from Oprah Winfrey, who featured Butt Paste on her show.
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040822/thumb.ny11408221705.boudreauxs_paste_ny114.jpg
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(Reuters) - Armed robbers stole "The Scream" and another masterpiece by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch on Sunday in a bold daytime raid on an Oslo museum packed with terrified tourists. Two masked robbers ran into the Munch Museum, threatened staff with a handgun and forced people to lie down before grabbing "The Scream," an icon of existentialist angst showing a waif-like figure against a blood-red sky.
OMG, My Dog Ate My Euros
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20040822/amdf668676.jpg
Honestly, it's such a bad piece I hope it doesn't ever show up again.