Our Daily Dead

Um, what? I keep banging my head, but I’m not getting anywhere.

News of the Weird as found in our local ODD newspaper (yes, we still partake of that quaint tradition whereby a real paper is delivered (mostly) into our ODD Galactic Empire HQ (see below) driveway): two clowns who trespassed onto railroad property and climbed onto a boxcar to check the view were severely burned by a 12,500 volt line also atop said boxcar. They sued of course claiming such was in no way their fault and that the railroads did not do enough to stop them from tresspassing. They won about $12M in compensatory damages and another $12M in punative damages. The Editors here conclude that the railroad did in fact err and should have turned the voltage all the way up.

ODD Galactic HQ - aka the Dancing House in Prague.

And since we are in the way of scratching our collective heads and our Talking Heads we’d like you to consider these fine newspaper headlines.

File this under Wrap Up: Nude Christmas card photo perhaps?

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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Eek! A Mouse! We admit to being ODDly torn between the Silly String story, the Mary Cheney (”I Ain’t No Fortunate Son”, er daughter?) story, the “Mom and Dad kidnapped me the day before my wedding” story, the gun in every house (but what about brains?) story, the flatulence downs airliner story, or the continuing tale of Mel Gibson Lunatic For Hire.

The story that has us really nonplussed however is the James Kim story. Why keep going on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere when you are ill-equipped to do so? Why not turn around and head back to the highway? If you are insistent on walking out, why not follow said dirt road back instead of striking off through the woods? Plenty of questions that will likely never be answered, but there is one item we think will come out: hypothermia. The killer in hypothermia is that you THINK you are doing all the right things and making excellent choices, but the sad truth is that you are really in a dangerous downward spiral. Bad news period.

New Age Dating Tips
And here we have a lovely ‘Bad News’ segue…A Cobb County, Georgia police officer is accused of sending an inappropriate (aka nude) photograph to a woman he arrested. Go get ‘em tiger.

Apophis Redux
And just in case you are still tweaked over Apophis the Science Boys have good news about water on Mars. No word if United Van Lines services the area yet however.

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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In an exclusive the Yorkshire Post reports that a notorious egg thief has plunged to his death in South Yorkshire while looking for rare bird eggs. Colin Watson, from Selby, North Yorkshire, was three-quarters of the way up a 40ft larch tree in Doncaster when he fell to his death. Mr. Watson, we presume, was apparently well know for his sticky fingers as the Post further relates that “…he was one of our most prosecuted egg collectors.” Indeed. Was.

While we are on something of a Dead kick…um, Grateful Dead that is of course, we need to alert you to a San Jose Mercury News article bringing word that “Hamza El Din, a musician and composer who helped popularize ancient traditional songs from North Africa, has died. He was 76.” Who? El Din performed at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 and recorded two albums for the folk label Vanguard in 1964 and 1965. Mickey Hart, a drummer with the rock band the Grateful Dead, helped produce another album, ”Eclipse”. El Din helped arrange a now historic Grateful Dead performance at the Great Pyramids in Egypt in 1978. “Oh, THAT El Din.”

Make ours Over Easy please…

~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com

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