Vox Hunt: Tagged, You're It.

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:45:17 -0500

Show us a name tag.
Submitted by [this is connie].

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Keep Your Shoes Dry and Your Hands Free

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:01:24 -0500

I can imagine what would have happened to me if I'd worn this hat about 45 years ago; and it wouldn't have been pretty. South Korea must have a shortage of bullys.

clipped from www.weirdasianews.com

When Umbrellas and Raincoats Mate

They say “Technology comes from Humanity”, and this is exactly what happened when a South Korean company incorporated a UFO outline into its design–the UFO cap.

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Culture QotW: Can't Wait to Read...

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:22:59 -0500

What soon-to-be-published book are you excited to read?

I'm glad 'soon' is a relative term. [grin] According to this site, Sibella Giorello's next novel, The Rivers Run Dry, will appear in February 2009. She crafts an excellent story and her characters seem to be people I know (or would like to). Her first novel, The Stones Cry Out, is a great read and I'm looking forward to many more hours with her fiction in hand.

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Lassie, Come Home

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:37:17 -0500

Or maybe, 'Lassie, Clone Home'. The article goes on to say they are going to auction off five slots for an ordinary person to have a pet cloned. Bids start at $100,000 USD.

clipped from news.yahoo.com

By Jon Herskovitz

Thu Jul 17, 4:01 AM ET

SEOUL (Reuters) - Two South Korean labs are offering pet owners the chance to clone dogs, but for those looking to bring back a beloved beagle, be ready to wait in line and have plenty of cash on hand.

The Seoul-based labs -- one affiliated to RNL Bio Co and the other to Sooam Biotech Research Foundation -- are separated by about 30 km (20 miles) and bill themselves as the only places in the world where you can clone a cocker spaniel or retrieve a retriever, with costs running at about $50,000 (25,000 pounds) to $100,000.

Customers such as South Korea's customs service have cloned a champion sniffer dog, seeing the option as a cost-effective way to produce candidates for expensive training programs.

The customs service estimates the cost at 60 million won (30,128 pounds) per clone. It costs about twice that to breed and train a normal sniffer dog, but only about 30 percent are good enough to make the grade, it said.

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Eight Feel Long and Very Clean

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:02:11 -0500

python

I hope the lady didn't scare the python too badly. But she did get to meet 'Richard Burton' as compensation for her fright. It could have been worse. It could have come up the sewer pipe instead of the drain pipe. Think about it. Or don't, if it scares you too much.

clipped from news.yahoo.com

GORHAM, Maine - A woman got the shock of her life when she found an 8-foot snake mixed in with clothes in her washing machine. The snake, identified as a reticulated python, somehow got into the water pipes of Mara Ranger's 1800s-era farmhouse and slithered into the machine.

"I jumped back and all of sudden its head starts coming out of the washing machine and it looked huge," Ranger told WMTW-TV.

When Richard Burton, who operates Maine Animal Damage Control in Lewiston, arrived at Ranger's house, he could barely believe his eyes.

Burton reached into the machine wearing a pair of welding gloves, expecting to come out with a 4-foot snake. But when he pulled the animal out, it kept coming and coming — all 8 feet of it.

In the meantime, Ranger said she's a little paranoid.

"Now that it's gone, I'm going to be checking crevasses and corners," Ranger said. "I'm going to be looking in the tub first — before and after, maybe even during, the rinse cycle."

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Officer's squad car wrecked, 29 minutes on force.

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:37:48 -0500

This is a bad way to start your week; and your career.

clipped from enews.earthlink.net

From Associated Press
July 15, 2008 5:42 PM EDT

HOBART, Ind. - An officer's squad car was nearly totaled in a crash less than a half hour into his first day on the city police force. Officer Tim Pochron was inside his house early Monday when someone smashed into his new squad car parked outside.

"Pochron was 29 minutes into the first day of his new job when his parked squad car was struck," Hobart police Lt. Steve Houck said.

A man drove his car into a tree and Pochron's car, police said. The man tested positive for drugs, was arrested and taken to a hospital.

The force of the collision bent the rear axle of the squad car.

Pochron, 26, was sworn in last week. He was to start his first day Monday on the morning shift. He previously worked as a police officer in the neighboring Lake County city of Lake Station.

Pochron spent most of the morning filling out paperwork at the station. Deputy Chief Jeff White said Pochron's squad car can be repaired, but he's not sure how much it will cost.

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Vox Hunt: Underwater Picture

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:41:17 -0500

Share a picture taken underwater.
Submitted by jacolily.
I don't have a camera that I can use underwater but the subjects of this photograph are, indeed, underwater at the Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks, Oklahoma.

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Not so catchy product name.

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:53:19 -0500

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Vox Hunt: Vive la France!

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:42:33 -0500

In honor of Bastille Day, show us something French.

clipped from www.medterms.com

French disease: Syphilis. Depending upon someone's thoughts as to where the disease came from, syphilis was also known as the Italian, Spanish, German and Polish disease. The name "syphilis" was coined by Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro). Fracastorius was a true Renaissance man; he wrote on the temperature of wines, the rise of the Nile, poetry, the mind, and the soul; he was an astronomer, geographer, botanist, mathematician, philosopher and, last but not least in the present context, a physician. In 1530 he published the poem "Syphilis sive morbus gallicus" (Syphilis or the French Disease) in which the name of the disease first appeared. Perhaps more importantly, Fracastorius went on in 1546 to write "On Contagion" ("De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione"), the first known discussion of the phenomenon of contagious infection: a landmark in the history of infectious disease.

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Animal Cruelty Runs Rampant

nobody@vox.com(Tim) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:21:46 -0500

Woman frightens fish for fun. What a sad way to get your kicks.

Woman Frightens Fish

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