Funny/Strange News Stories

[Pupik]

Who's a good boy? That's a good Mississippi Retriever!

A black Labrador Retriever used its keen sense of smell and brought home something unexpected after a morning bathroom run. Only what was found inside the bag Miley brought home was illegal. The bag contained marijuana. Miley's owner immediately called the Jones County Mississippi Sheriff's Office about the drugs.

 

[JKgo]

Who's a good boy? That's a good Mississippi Retriever!

....So the Retriever retrieved? Well okay.

Oh and by the way, something else grabbed my attention from your link:

North Alabama's first amusement park opens Friday.

I mean, WUT? This is 2016, and Alabamans are only now discovering the joys of a theme park???

 

[Pupik]

....So the Retriever retrieved? Well okay.

Oh and by the way, something else grabbed my attention from your link:

North Alabama's first amusement park opens Friday.

I mean, WUT? This is 2016, and Alabamans are only now discovering the joys of a theme park???

No movie studios had a few billion lying around to create a Big Darn Thing in the fertile Big Dam area.

The catfish and hiking in the area is good, though.

 

[JKgo]

The catfish and hiking

....Two of my favoritest things in the world!! Yay.

Seriously though - man, that no amusement park thing shocked me.

 

[Carbonox]

Who's a good boy? That's a good Mississippi Retriever!

Hmm, why was it mentioned that the retriever was black? The reporter might be a tad racist.

 

[Pupik]

Hmm, why was it mentioned that the retriever was black? The reporter might be a tad racist.

Brindle and Red Merle are far less represented.

 

[eran0004]

A political party in Sweden changed their name recently, from Folkpartiet ("the people party" in English, or in German "das Volkspartei") to Liberalerna (the liberals). Maybe because they were tired of being mistaken for a communist / nazi party?

Anyway, now they revealed a new logo and, well, it wasn't a huge success... They say it's in the shape of an L, while Twitter says it's certainly the shape of something, but an L is not the first thing that comes to mind...

Some commentators even take this new logo as a nod to the Reddit "battle" between the Donald Trump fans and Sweden.

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/l-s-nya-partisymbol-vacker-kanslor

 

[ryzno]

Who's a good boy? That's a good Mississippi Retriever!

Bad owner! Bad!!

 

[TenEightyOne]

A political party in Sweden changed their name recently, from Folkpartiet ("the people party" in English, or in German "das Volkspartei") to Liberalerna (the liberals). Maybe because they were tired of being mistaken for a communist / nazi party?

Anyway, now they revealed a new logo and, well, it wasn't a huge success... They say it's in the shape of an L, while Twitter says it's certainly the shape of something, but an L is not the first thing that comes to mind...

Some commentators even take this new logo as a nod to the Reddit "battle" between the Donald Trump fans and Sweden.

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/l-s-nya-partisymbol-vacker-kanslor

Oh dear

 

[Carbonox]

The internet strikes again as a school is looking for a new name.

 

[TenEightyOne]

The internet strikes again as a school is looking for a new name.

I quite liked "Bleeding Heart Liberal Elementary", gives a real sense of community. However, I was disappointed with "Boaty McBoatface Elementary School", surely "Boardy McBoardFace" would have been better?

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

 

[Carbonox]

I quite liked "Bleeding Heart Liberal Elementary", gives a real sense of community. However, I was disappointed with "Boaty McBoatface Elementary School", surely "Boardy McBoardFace" would have been better?

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

I would go with "Hypothetical Perfect Person Memorial Elementary School".

 

[TenEightyOne]

Bernie Clifton is fuming* after his new CD accidentally had a death metal band's tracklist printed on the back. BBC.

It's hard to say if this was a cataloguing error as suggested or something altogether more philosophical.

Wind Beneath My Wings became Eternal Repulsion, while The Sunshine Of Your Smile was listed as Echoes of the Vortex.

Works for me.


*and still ****

 

[LeMansAid]

Too bad it wasn't the more poetic clash of Bernie Clifton and Cliff Burton (RIP).

Spoiler

 

[TenEightyOne]

There's macabre comedy in this story somewhere; 23 people die after eating celebration sweets from a sweetshop in Punjab, Pakistan.

Investigators have found that the pesticide shop next door was being renovated and so was storing its stock in the sweetshop. Genius.

BBC.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

China has built daleks:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-27/chinese-security-robot-draws-dalek-comparisons/7361540

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Minister wishes to avoid a repeat of Boaty McBoatface, and it takes the internet all of thirty seconds to come up with something new:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...cebreaker-will-avoid-boaty-mcboatface/7364842

 

[TenEightyOne]

It can race Le Mans but it can't get out of The Mews in 5 minutes... £10m Ferrari 512 gets parking ticket. Beeb.

 

[JKgo]

It can race Le Mans but it can't get out of The Mews in 5 minutes... £10m Ferrari 512 gets parking ticket. Beeb.

...Wait, is the Ferrari even road-legal? With those racing slicks I don't think it is. Isn't there a technicallity, a legal loophole the owner might exploit to not pay the ticket?

And is it just me, why does the car look a bit... tipsy?

 

[m8h3r]

Minister wishes to avoid a repeat of Boaty McBoatface, and it takes the internet all of thirty seconds to come up with something new:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...cebreaker-will-avoid-boaty-mcboatface/7364842

My vote goes to Fat Penguin..... "just breaking the ice". *Gets coat*

 

[TenEightyOne]

Couple book holiday in Vegas, plan to fly from Birmingham UK, accidentally book flights from Birmingham Alabama. BBC.

 

[Touring Mars]

Man bets 50p on Leicester City to win the EPL at 5000/1... cashes in stake after the first game of the season - Leicester now 7 pts clear with 3 games to play

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36154211

 

[TenEightyOne]

Man bets 50p on Leicester City to win the EPL at 5000/1... cashes in stake after the first game of the season - Leicester now 7 pts clear with 3 games to play

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36154211

A friend has £50 on them, as he does before every season. He tells me it's his only bet that's ever broken even over the years. And then some. I think he might be my best friend now.

In other news, happy Ed Balls day (BBC). #EdBallsDay

 

[Touring Mars]

A friend has £50 on them, as he does before every season.

Sweet...

 

[TenEightyOne]

Further to the phenomenon that is Ed Balls Day...

 

[GTP_Ingram]

Judging by that photo, apparently a slightly squashed Ed Balls face looks like Louis van Gaal.

 

[TheCracker]

Man punched in the face for looking like Shia LaBeouf

 

[TRGTspecialist]

Microsoft's "Get Windows 10" notification is now even invading weather reports:

 

[Pupik]

In other news, happy Ed Balls day (BBC). #EdBallsDay

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Thank you for explaining the meaning behind 1/3 of today's Twitter feed. Being on the other side of pond meant having a question mark over my head for the moment...after all, if your name ends with "Balls", you just need to be a man and roll with it.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

227 years after the mutiny on the Bounty, the descendants of the mutineers stage their own mutiny:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...k-islanders-fight-australian-takeover/7369434