Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 6, 2003 at 10:16:04 PM CEST
Encyclopedia: List of German expressions in English
Spritzer A spritzer is a tall, chilled drink, usually made with white wine and soda water.
The word comes from the German spritzen "sprinkle", i.e. adding water and thus diluting the wine so that it can be consumed in larger, thirst-quenching, amounts without the negative effects of alcohol.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 6, 2003 at 5:51:24 PM CEST
Roys Tiger darf leben
«Montecore», der wie die meisten der 60 Tiger und Löwen des Magierduos «Siegfried & Roy» in der Privatzucht der beiden Deutschen geboren und aufgewachsen ist, wird begnadigt. Die Pressesprecherin: «Der Tiger wird definitiv nicht eingeschläfert. Er befindet sich wieder in seinem Gehege und ist vom Vorfall noch ganz verstört.»
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 5, 2003 at 12:10:43 PM CEST
Camera phone images appear on neighbours TV set
A Finnish family had a shock recently when photos of their neighbour started appearing on their television one evening. A news program the family were watching suddenly went blank and then pictures of their neighbours started appearing on the TV instead.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 4, 2003 at 1:25:32 PM CEST
How to fake being an Indie rock expert
You're sick of digesting mainstream, overproduced drivel from the likes of MTV and the local "be-caller-100" pop station. You'd like to be edgier and more "underground" - or at least you'd like to pretend you're both those things. The only trouble is, you don't know where to begin. Being in-the-know about independent rock music - a.k.a. "indie rock" - can seem like an overwhelming task.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 3, 2003 at 8:06:37 PM CEST
Gefesseltes Schaf ruft die Polizei
Skurriles vermeldet die Polizei in Hamburg: Ein gefesseltes, in einen Kofferraum gesperrtes Schaf habe durch "Klopfgeräusche" auf sich aufmerksam gemacht. Zum Glück der Heidschnucke wurden Polizisten auf sie aufmerksam und leiteten eine Rettungsaktion ein.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 2, 2003 at 12:59:37 AM CEST
How many vacation days has George W. Bush taken to date as president? How does that compare with Clinton?
According to an August 2003 article in the Washington Post, President Bush has spent all or part of 166 days during his presidency at his Crawford, Texas, ranch or en route. Add the time spent at or en route to the presidential retreat of Camp David and at the Bush family estate in Kennebunkport, Maine, and Bush has taken 250 days off as of August 2003.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 2, 2003 at 12:36:38 AM CEST
Department of Penguin "Justice" Probing Alleged Leakage
DOPJ launched a full scale investigation into what it believes are leakage points in the national protection moat. For the past few weeks an abnormal amount of water has been replaced by the pumps that supply the defensive moat with it's water.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 30, 2003 at 3:16:44 PM CEST
Die Verblödung schreitet voran
Die weitgehend verdrängte Bedrohung der menschlichen Intelligenz durch die Vergiftung der Umwelt
Nein, dies ist kein Artikel über neokonservative US-Think-Tanks oder über den Niveauverfall der elektronischen Medien oder über die neueste Sau, die durchs Dorf der bundesdeutschen "Reform"-Debatte getrieben wird.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 30, 2003 at 2:57:38 PM CEST
470.000 Euro Parkgebühren
Weil der Schauspieler Richard Harris seinen Rolls Royce 25 Jahre lang in einem New Yorker Parkhaus vergessen hat, bekam seine Witwe eine unglaubliche Rechnung.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 23, 2003 at 12:09:28 PM CEST
Rent-A-Husband Comes to Aid of Russian Women
Nina Rakhmanina is single.
She does have 10 husbands but she rents them out to other Russian women on their own.
What her "husbands" seek to satisfy, she says, is simply that old-fashioned, Soviet-era yearning to have a man around to put right the things that always needed fixing.
And no, there are no romantic extras on offer.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 21, 2003 at 2:22:56 PM CEST
Strange Japanese Matrix-style ping-pong spoof game
GREAT
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 21, 2003 at 1:43:36 PM CEST
4 dimension Rubic’s cube applet
Each little cube is a hypersticker. Each 3x3x3 cluster is a hyperface. Left-click to twist a hyperface CCW. Right-click (or meta-click) to twist a hyperface CW. Middle-click (or control-click or alt-click) on an outer hyperface to rotate it to center
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