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Nation mourns bird killed in domino shooting Fri Nov 18, 2005 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch animal lovers are mourning a sparrow shot dead after it fluttered into an exhibition hall and knocked over thousands of dominoes set up in preparation for a world record attempt. The sparrow will be...

'The prisoner' set for TV return in new version Nov. 17, 2005 Cult classic The Prisoner is set to return almost 40 years after it first hit TV screens. Sky One is in talks to bring back the adventure series, which starred Patrick McGoohan as Prisoner Number 6. The series, which made its...

King Kong stunt in Wellington by Marcus Brogden Nov. 10, 2005 1.00pm Residents of Wellington's central business district awoke this morning to find a Japanese-made car lying crushed in the capital's central shopping area wrapped in police tape. But then locals noticed a trail of giant...

Gee! I can remember when academicians were the ones who were out of touch with reality. Cheers for "other panelist," Howard Rosenberg, University of Nevada Regent.

Except in those lawsuits where the customer sues because the hot coffee was hot, I am usually quite sympathetic to customers who suffer from unusual forms of company negligence, but for me, something here does not add up. My first question is, for what reason was the glue on the toilet seat...

It was always thus! Always some Bible bangers worrying about the morality of young men whom they plan to send out to kill or be killed in a war they have approved. :roll: Thank God for the old timers in the Home Office. :wink:

Smaller than a breadbox. More complex than a map of the London Underground. Check out TomPaine.com's guide to the guys (and gals) who brought you an unjust war: Dick & Don's Cabal! :sad4:

The last time something like this happened, Raymond Barry, Clancy Brown, and Ted Levine were at the bottom of the plot. :lol:

You will not believe it if you hear it today, but in its time, Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre on the Air production of H. G. Wells “War of the Worlds,” broadcast on October 30, 1938, is on record as not only scaring the pants off its audience, but also sending many of them running for the...

Yes! You read that correctly.

Not too long ago, on another board, a poster picked out for censure a phrase I had written which he claimed was nonexistent. That phrase was “excessive patriotism.” What I had indicated to be “excessive patriotism” in that particular incident was people cheering at death and misfortune, simply...

Apparently just one, so long as it is an accident.

Good Night, and Good Luck BY ROGER EBERT October 21, 2005 Good Nigh and Good Luck "Good Night, and Good Luck" is a movie about a group of professional newsmen who with surgical precision remove a cancer from the body politic. They believe in the fundamental American freedoms, and in Sen...

I don’t get it. But, considering the plethora of events surrounding the New Orleans/Hurricane Katrina catastrophe that I don’t get, this rates about as benign as it can get.

This was posted by the Pakistan Daily Times about thirty minutes ago. Ordinarily, I would ignore such a single source, but in the body they quote a BBC program to be aired Monday, Oct. 10th. I am curious to see if, which, and how many, other sources copy it, and whether it proves to be accurate.

“Rumsfeld is violating the law”(Again) Soldiers still waiting for armor reimbursements Pentagon fails to figure out how to pay back troops’ personal expenditures Associated Press Sept. 29, 2005 Full Associated Press Story

For those who missed it, here is Jon Stewart at the Emmys