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Historic F-bombs, after Vice President Joe Biden introduced Barack Obama at the ceremony to sign the health-care reform legislation, and was caught on a microphone whispering to Obama that it was a “big f---ing deal.”
Really small government, after no one applied to run for any of the eight available offices in Hawley, Mass., pop. 336. “We’ll deal with it,’’ said Charlie Stetson, who serves as town treasurer, tax collector, and Zoning Board of Appeals member.
David Slick of North Richland Hills, Texas, who claims to have set a world record by using his head to smash 138 raw eggs in one minute. “My neck is killing me,’’ Slick said during his celebration.
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Gender equality, after major U.S. television networks banned Kotex tampon commercials that use the word “vagina” or even such euphemisms as “down there.” A Kotex executive said the ruling was “very discomforting, given things they can broadcast, like erectile dysfunction.”
Phil Pring and Ben Cummings, British contestants in the Atlantic Rowing Race, who had rowed 2,500 miles from the Canary Islands to the West Indies over 76 days, only to run aground on a coral reef less than one mile from the finish line.
The birds and the bees, after a patch of woods containing 6,000 trees was cut down outside Lancashire, England, because it had become a popular spot for sexual trysts. Since the trees were cleared, said councilmember Jean Rigby, “it’s quieted down a lot.”
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