Daily Archives: July 24, 2003

You choose the caption: The mummified body of Thai Buddhist monk Dang Piyasilo, or "Loung Pordaeng", is displayed at Wat Khunaram on Samui island. (AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul) or A recent postcard from my college roommate Skip, who disappeared into the Golden … Continue reading →

Everybody knows Bob Dylan was born Bobby Zimmerman, and that Woody Allen was originally Alan Stewart Koenigsberg. This informative article will add to your impressive but essentially useless knowledge on this process. Now can anyone tell me if the following … Continue reading →

About 350,000 academic essays are for sale on the internet, and about 10 per cent of university students’ work is plagiarised, a habit that is spreading, a British expert says. Jude Carroll, a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, said essays … Continue reading →

The Coast Guard stopped this 1951 Chevy pick-up yesterday as it was driving less than 40 miles from the Florida Coast.  The 15 Cubans aboard were returned to Fidel.  The Coast Guard sank the truck, saying it was a “hazard … Continue reading →

Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly announced yesterday that the sex scandal in the Catholic Church was “far deeper” than previously revealed, and probably involved over 250 abusers and over 1000 children. ”The mistreatment of children was so massive and so … Continue reading →

Turnaround is fair play. My current method for dealing with telemarketers, who always seem to call while I’m trying to take a nap, is to ask for the callers home phone, since as they are calling me at home, after work, … Continue reading →