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VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:22 am

Due to discussion in another thread, this MUST go here . . .  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Feb 8, 7:07 PM EST Chicken Manure Stench Holds Town Hostage FRENCHVILLE, Maine (AP) -- Northern winds have been sending a stench of manure from across the Canadian border, the people in this St. John Valley town are tired of holding their noses. "It smells like acid or sulfur, and it's really strong. The last couple of weeks have been really bad," Frenchville Town Manager Philip Levesque said. "It's an international problem." Levesque said the odor comes from a chicken manure composting facility in New Brunswick. People in the town of about 1,200 say smells from the plant along the St. John River are so bad when the north wind blows that windows and doors must remain closed and outdoor activities are curtailed. Percy Thibeault, a resident of the area most affected by the smells, said a committee called Citizens for Clean Air has been formed to deal with the odor. "This is affecting real estate valuations. They are going down," said Thibeault, adding that the problem is made worse by commercial pigpens operating west of St. Hilaire. "It's affected our quality of life," Thibeault said. "We can't have barbecues, can't open windows and doors because of the smell. It's a nuisance." 2005 The Associated Press</td></tr></table>

Gizensha · Postby **Gizensha** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:11 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (VisibilityMissing @ Feb 9 2005, 02:22 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Due to discussion in another thread, this MUST go here . . .  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Feb 8, 7:07 PM EST Chicken Manure Stench Holds Town Hostage FRENCHVILLE, Maine (AP) -- Northern winds have been sending a stench of manure from across the Canadian border, the people in this St. John Valley town are tired of holding their noses. "It smells like acid or sulfur, and it's really strong. The last couple of weeks have been really bad," Frenchville Town Manager Philip Levesque said. "It's an international problem." Levesque said the odor comes from a chicken manure composting facility in New Brunswick. People in the town of about 1,200 say smells from the plant along the St. John River are so bad when the north wind blows that windows and doors must remain closed and outdoor activities are curtailed. Percy Thibeault, a resident of the area most affected by the smells, said a committee called Citizens for Clean Air has been formed to deal with the odor. "This is affecting real estate valuations. They are going down," said Thibeault, adding that the problem is made worse by commercial pigpens operating west of St. Hilaire. "It's affected our quality of life," Thibeault said. "We can't have barbecues, can't open windows and doors because of the smell. It's a nuisance." 2005 The Associated Press</td></tr></table>   </td></tr></table>  Funny. I normally prefer the smell of manure to the smell of hospitals.

Zaaphod · Postby **Zaaphod** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:14 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (VisibilityMissing @ Feb 8 2005, 06:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Chicken Manure Stench Holds Town Hostage  </td></tr></table>  Yuck, chicken manure.....

Foxchild · Postby **Foxchild** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:16 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Gizensha @ Feb 9 2005, 01:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Funny. I normally prefer the smell of manure to the smell of hospitals.  </td></tr></table>  If you've smelled chicken coups, or chicken slurry, then no, you'ld prefer the smell of the hospital. trust me on this!

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:16 pm

unless that was a REALLY bad hospital. ...We should get Doppledanger's opinion on this.

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:32 am

There's a lesson here somewhere . . .  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Feb 10, 9:35 PM EST Drunk Birds Crash Into Building's Glass COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Dozens of birds, drunk from eating holly berries, crashed into the glass of an office building and died earlier this week. "It was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," worker Denise Wilkinson said. "It was spooky. You could hear them where they flew into the glass." Warm weather and an ample supply of berries attracted hundreds of cedar waxwings into the enclosed courtyard of the three-story building Tuesday, The birds began getting drunk on the berries. They got so loopy that some were falling off branches and others were slamming into the glass walls that enclose the courtyard, said Burgess Mills, the building's owner. About half of the 100 birds that slammed into the building died, workers said. Groundskeepers have tried to help the birds by putting tape on windows or nets over the holly trees to keep them from eating the berries, Mills said. --- Information from: The State, <a href='http://www.thestate.com' target='_blank'>http://www.thestate.com</a> 2005 The Associated Press.</td></tr></table>

Dr. Dos · Postby **Dr. Dos** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:00 am

Friends, don't let friends fly drunk. About 1 block from our school on the way home from our 5th grade field trip a bird smashed into the bus windshield so hard it cracked the glass. The field trip was terrible, but I was glad I went after that.

Ruedii-X · Postby **Ruedii-X** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 5:38 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (VisibilityMissing @ Feb 10 2005, 10:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> There's a lesson here somewhere . . .  </td></tr></table>  It sounds like the birds were feeding primarily on the holly berrys. That's not healthy. They need to plant a greater variaty of plants.

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:38 am

You're suggesting the birds need to watch "Supersize Me"? <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Ruedii-X · Postby **Ruedii-X** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:20 am

No, I think they need to plant something other than holly bushes.

Joe3210 · Postby **Joe3210** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:52 pm

I do believe VM was making a witty statement.

Ruedii-X · Postby **Ruedii-X** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:03 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Joe3210 @ Feb 12 2005, 08:52 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I do believe VM was making a witty statement.  </td></tr></table>  And I was making a witty reply by blatently not acknowlgeing the joke.

Joe3210 · Postby **Joe3210** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:05 pm

Touche

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:25 pm

And now that both punchlines are established, we can get on with the thread. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> Just in time for Valentines Day, a free divorce . . . huh?  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Feb 11, 10:30 PM EST Station Offers Free Valentine's Divorce By WILLIAM KATES Associated Press Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Cupid occasionally misses his mark, so a local radio station is running a Valentine's Day contest offering a free divorce. "Everyone associates Valentine's Day with love, and diamonds, chocolate, roses. But what about those people that hate it. This is for those people," said Scott Petibone, program director at WKRL-FM, a progressive rock station heard in Syracuse and Utica. The station, known as K-Rock, began promoting its divorce-giveaway Monday. By Thursday, the station received over 100 entries, Petibone said. A winner will be selected on Valentine's Day. Although some contestants are offering explicit explanations of why they want a divorce, Petibone said none is necessary. However, the divorce must be uncontested. "We're not looking for the most horrible stories or the most vicious couples," he said. The free divorce will be handled by lawyer Brad Margolis. A divorce without custody issues, where both husband and wife want to split and agree on how to divide their assets, costs at least $1,390 - about $1,000 in legal fees and $390 in state filing costs, he said. "That's a lot of money for a paper-pushing exercise. In a lot of these cases, people just want to make legal something that is already done," Margolis said, noting the national divorce rate is over 50 percent. In Syracuse, some clergy called the contest tasteless. "A divorce is a death, the death of a dream," said the Rev. Joseph Champlin, rector at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. "You wouldn't make a joke out of someone who died, would you?" --- On the Net: K-Rock: www.krock.com Margolis: www.cnylawoffice.com 2005 The Associated Press.</td></tr></table>

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 6:25 am

Well, I can imagine there's quite a market for this: <a href='http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic ... TES-DC.XML' target='_blank'>Date From Hell: Rescue</a>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> CANBERRA (Reuters) - It's every single person's nightmare: You're on a date, it's a disaster but there's no way out. With Valentine's Day looming, a mobile phone company in Australia has come to the rescue with a service offering an escape from the date from hell. All you have to do is discreetly dial three numbers and then hang up without saying a word. "Virgin Mobile will call them back a minute later with a perfect excuse to get them out of there. We'll even talk them through what to say," the company, a joint venture of the Virgin Group and Optus, said in a statement. A survey of 402 people by Virgin Mobile found that 53 percent arrange in advance to have a friend call them mid-date to check they are all right or if they need an excuse to get out. The results showed women were twice as likely as men to use the tactic. </td></tr></table>

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