News of the Weird

People never get advertising with an edge.

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Well I thought it was funny!

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Well damnit, now Iā€™m hungry!

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Reminds me of sketches Iā€™ve seen of an ice creamery and crematorium. With flavors like ā€œChocolate Chip Cookie Do Not Resuscitateā€, ā€œKids, I Think Itā€™s Time You Learned About Death by Chocolateā€ and ā€œPushing Up Daquirisā€.

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Things I learned from this article:

  • People smuggle birds.

  • You can smuggle them in hair curlers and theyā€™ll (sometimes) survive.

  • Thereā€™s such a thing as a birdsong competition.

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Itā€™s really big in countries that donā€™t have very effective customs services.
Just donā€™t try it in Australia, they have dogs that sniff for not just drugs, but dirt/ animals/ food from specific geographic locales !

Is a birdsong the same as a bird call?

Letterman did a segment with bird callers every year, IIRC.

Are they just dinos? You make the call !

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The article says-

Songbird competitions have been a pastime in the Caribbean for centuries. Aficionados judge the animals on such factors as how many times they chirp or sing.

Who knew?

Well, people from the Caribbean obviously, but who else?

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Blink 182 Wtf GIF

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Not that funny a story, but I love the headline.

ā€˜Incredibly intelligent, highly elusiveā€™: US faces new threat from Canadian ā€˜super pigā€™

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Before you know it those pigs will have occupied northern Montana and that weird little strip of Idaho and declared the Porcine Republic of No Bacon for You

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We cannot abide by a ā€œPig- Gapā€, we must weaponize !

Quick, to the training facility !

Dog Pig GIF

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From the No-More-Room-in-Hell-the-Sewers Dept.:

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ā€¦is this New York or Florida?

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Oh, it is definitely New York City, the alligator is the one that had to be rescued.

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Didnā€™t you know New York had alligators in the sewers?

100 alligators every year in New York City, so this isnā€™t even special.

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At this point, when they captured Lyle Lyle Crocodile, it wasnā€™t even newsworthy.

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I mean, yes but ā€œweird story about alligatorsā€ is a Floridian specialty.

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