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Tidbits & Outrages.


Keepin' `em down in the Delta

A bill introduced in the Mississippi legislature The Mississippi Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The bicameral Legislature is comprised of the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, with 122 members, and the upper Mississippi Senate, with 52 members.  in January would make it illegal for a male customer in a strip club to have an erection, even if entirely clothed clothe  
tr.v. clothed or clad , cloth·ing, clothes
1. To put clothes on; dress.

2. To provide clothes for.

3. To cover as if with clothing.
.

What do you mean, you don't want the wafer?!?

Last month it became legal for

Kentucky ministers and church officers to carry guns inside their houses of worship, as long as they have concealed weapons permits.

Redefining the Happy Meal

Cyros International Sperm Bank sperm bank Reproduction medicine A registered tissue bank that collects, stores, tests, and sells frozen sperm to be used for artificial insemination. See Artificial insemination.  Ltd., a Danish sperm bank, is marketing itself as "the McDonald's of sperm," according to a Wall Street Journal article. Cyros currently exports sperm to 25 countries.

They saw it coming

In late February, the New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 Human Resources Administration ended a program that had provided at least 15 welfare recipients with training as psychics in an effort to move them off the rolls. The Psychic Network pays "workfare work·fare  
n.
A form of welfare in which capable adults are required to perform work, often in public-service jobs, as a condition of receiving aid.



[work + (wel)fare.]
" recipients $10 an hour after completing the training program offered through the city agency. The program was canceled after a New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times article revealed it existence

Ted Koppel shouldn't try it.

A new late night Russian TV news program has been causing controversy. The news anchor, Svetlana Pissotskaya, delivers the days events while stripping off her clothing, occasionally assisted by a producer, whose disembodied hands are seen unbuttoning her shirt or jacket.

Madonna wants to have his child

A new German rock star, a completely computer generated image named E-Cyas, has recently released a successful single, to rave reviews, that cracked the top 100.

"Honey, can I call you back?"

U.S. Air Force security officer Airman Raymone Sydnor, on patrol at Eglin Air Force Base Eglin Air Force Base is the home of the United States Air Force 96th Air Base Wing of the Air Force Materiel Command, and is also headquarters for more than 45 associate units.  in Florida, dropped his cell phone on the floor of his car and, during his efforts to retrieve it, drove into a parked F-15 fighter jet, destroying his patrol car and causing $62,000 in damage to the plane.
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