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February 26, 2007
Workers at downtown boutique Fusion jeans received a very special and unexpected delivery of 20 pounds of marijuana, prompting them to call the police. The two packages of marijuana received Saturday are worth $90,000. AP quotes Capt. Chris Werner as saying, "Officers received a call that the manager of the store had received a package from FedEx and when he opened it there was a five-gallon bucket inside. "
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February 23, 2007
Britain's Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has had a cow named after her. Gloucestershire farmer Sally Jones - who names all her cattle after members of the British Royal Family or royal events - has named her newborn calf Camilla.
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January 25, 2007
Australia's Macquarie Dictionary on Wednesday named "muffin top" the word of the year. In this case, muffin top does not mean the top of a muffin - it refers to the roll of fat that overflows out of the top of low-cut or too-tight jeans. Muffin top topped the list in an online Macquerie Dictionary poll, despite the American Dialect Society's nomination for "whale tail," a term for the part of G-string underwear that shows over the waistband of low-cut pants. A whale tail can be either intentional or unintentional.
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January 25, 2007
Topics opera, rock, theater, jennifer, nature, mexico, quotes, names, wedding, bus, feet and city
Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride who escaped her wedding in 2005 by making up a story about being kidnapped and raped, is having her story turned into a rock opera. Wilbanks later admitted she hopped on a bus to Mexico because she got cold feet and pleaded no contest to lying to police. The show, named the "Runaway Bride," has been called an "unauthorized rock opera. " According to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, scriptwriter Jaime Heck said that neither Wilbanks' nor her then-fiancee's names are mentioned in the opera and that he has not spoken to either of them.
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January 15, 2007
Topics man, mirror, money, family, houses, telephone, names, book, newspaper, phone, car and leaves
A Portuguese man who has no family, left his fortune to 70 individuals he randomly selected from a public phone book. The man, identified as Luis da Camara wrote his will at the age of 29 and chose his "heir" by selecting names he randomly picked out from the Lisbon telephone directory.
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