July 26, 2005
And they say we're dumb
Signs in Mass. Town Bear Alabama Outline
The highway signs in Easthampton, Massachusetts have an Alabama outline. Apparently, someone looked at the federal manual governing highway signs, which uses the Alabama signs as a sample. (First in the alphabet, I guess.) So they showed the guide to the contractor, who apparently isn't too good at geography and gave them exactly what they asked for. The signs stayed up for a week before anyone noticed. As the contractor said, "the numbers were correct".
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March 18, 2005
Note the category
al.com: NewsFlash - Judge refuses to let cousins marry
The first cousins in question live in Pennsylvania. Not Alabama. Not anywhere in the south. I'm just saying.
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August 19, 2004
The governor New Jersey deserves
New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Rush & Molloy: Piscopo entertaining a run for gov
And at the bottom of the world's deepest hole, there's the New Jersey governor's mansion.
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August 13, 2004
Maybe we should have a pool
CNN.com - New Jersey governor quits, comes out as gay - Aug 13, 2004
Now, if one in ten people (or is it just one in ten men?) is gay, that means, statistically speaking, that 3-5 other governors are gay. So which ones? Other than Schwarzenegger, of course. I mean, that one's pretty obvious.
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January 16, 2004
Nyah nyah nyah
CNN.com - Northeast looks forward to relative warming trend - Jan. 16, 2004
Today in Tuscaloosa: Clear, high of 63º. Just another one of those random gorgeous days we get two or three times a winter. Okay, so it will rain tomorrow, but it was really nice today.
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August 17, 2003
Isn't that just typical
Blackout Pinned on 3 Failed Lines in Ohio
See, it was power lines in a Bush state that knocked out power to millions of people in Gore states. (Plus Canadians, who are basically Democrats anyway.) It's symbolic, that's what it is, symbolic of Bush dragging down the rest of us with his policies that sap our nation's energy.
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August 16, 2003
Let's just blame the French
USATODAY.com - U.S.-Canadian investigation into blackout planned
Or if that's too farfetched, those French-Canadians in Quebec.
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August 15, 2003
My father would say it was good for them
Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, Patrick & Teresa's power came on this morning. They had to walk back to Fair & Balancing Brooklyn last night, like so many.
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It's all Fair & Balanced-Up
Parts of Country May Remain Without Power Though Weekend
Most of Manhattan's still down. The parts of Michigan still out may be out through the weekend. They're muddling through. New Yorkers seem to have grown up a lot since 1977 and are mostly pulling together rather than preying on each other. Of course, they've been through a lot.
As the President indicated, we need to look at modernizing the power grid. This sort of thing simply shouldn't happen. And you can bet that al-Qaeda is taking notes.
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August 14, 2003
Looting time!
Power Outages Reported Along East Coast
As far north as Toronto, as far south as Maryland, west to Cleveland and Detroit. What is this, Great Blackout Number Three? Or is it Four? I've lost track It seems to be universal in New York and spotty elsewhere.. The Professor has a lot of stuff, as you might expect..
Presumably, it's the same thing as the previous ones, a small event cascading. And hopefully, just an error and not human malice.
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May 26, 2003
A tribute to heroes
New Yorkers Protest Firehouse Closings
Budget cutbacks? Hey, close the firehouses!
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May 06, 2003
Still more looting
N.H. Cracks Down on 'Old Man' Looting
Why didn't the Army put a stop to this?
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April 29, 2003
In other alligator news
Burglars Steal Alligator From Wis. Home
This one was only two feet long, while the one in New York was four feet.
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No, it didn't come from the sewers
Alligator Is Found in New York City Park
It was probably someone's pet. That, or it's out for revenge on fashion designers for using its ancestors to make purses and shoes. The latter is unlikely because it was found in Queens.
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February 17, 2003
We're all gonna freeze and die!
Presidents Day Storm Buries Northeast
Lucky this came on a holiday when nobody had to go to work, I suppose.
HA! I kill me.
Well, lucky the postal workers who are the only people who get Presidents' Day off won't have to brave rain, sleet, or snow.
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December 17, 2002
Bite me, Yankee
Says a state employee protesting layoffs in the Connecticut Department of Mental Health:
"We came out because we don't want to see Connecticut turn into Alabama."
Well, for one thing you don't have the climate. It's nice to see that we're the absolutely worst thing that you could turn into.
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October 25, 2002
I mean, a cat I could see...
AP Wire | 10/25/2002 | Minnesota man shot by his dog
So much for man's best friend.
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