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Christmas offense
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Dec 20, 2006 9:15 am
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It was Christmas and the judge was in a merry mood as he asked the prisoner, "What are you charged with?" 
"Doing my Christmas shopping early," replied the defendant.
"That's no offense," said the judge. "How early were you doing this shopping?"
"Before the store opened," countered the prisoner. 
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7*C
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Dec 20, 2006 1:18 am
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Current weather conditions
Kuwait.
SUNNY
Temperature: 7° C
cold makes me excited
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Mother hopes ((*L*)))
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Dec 19, 2006 10:59 pm
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"Every mother  generally hopes that her daughter will snag a  better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did."
-- Anonymous --
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A man's desire....
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Dec 19, 2006 10:40 pm
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
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bride and groom *L*)))
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Dec 19, 2006 12:18 am
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Ex-boyfriend kidnaps bride in China
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man, backed by a dozen knife-wielding accomplices, ambushed his ex-girlfriend's wedding convoy and kidnapped the bride, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
The men blocked the convoy at a crossroads in rural Shaanxi province in northwestern China on Sunday, the Beijing News said.
"They smashed the windows of the wedding cars with knives and steel pipes, dragged the bride out and put her into one of their cars before fleeing," it quoted a witness as saying.
The father of the 22-year-old nurse said he was certain his daughter's former boyfriend had staged the kidnap.
"He was being treated at a hospital when my daughter was interning there and they had been in a relationship," the father was quoted as saying.
Fifteen police officers had made little progress in finding the ex-boyfriend and the bride by Monday night, the daily said.
The groom had gone on without his bride to complete the remaining wedding rituals, which according to local custom cannot be stopped once started, the newspaper said.
He had fallen ill afterwards and been admitted to hospital, it added.
Ancient Chinese literature is littered with tales of heroic kidnappings of brides by devoted lovers rebelling against family-arranged marriages, but this real-life version, in which a woman was slightly injured, has apparently shocked some.
"It's the first time I've ever seen a bride kidnapping in daylight," the witness was quoted as saying.
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Jakarta hotel puts $110 hamburger on menu Mon Dec 18, 8:36 AM ET
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Dec 18, 2006 11:50 pm
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A hotel in Indonesia is dishing out a hamburger that costs more than twice the monthly minimum wage in some parts of the country.
The $110 hamburger offered by the Four Seasons is made of Kobe beef with foie gras, Portobello mushrooms and Korean pears -- served with french fries, of course.
They're not exactly selling like hotcakes yet, but the hotel says it has sold 20 of the 1.0 million rupiah ($110.1) hamburgers since they were launched this month.
"One burger has 225 grams of Kobe beef. It is so expensive because the flavor is really different," said Erwan Ruswandi, the chief of the restaurant offering the gourmet burger.
"The calves in Kobe get special treatment ... they drink beer mixed with milk, vitamins and eat pesticide-free grass. We add foie gras and also some Korean pears. We import all the materials, and they are high quality so it is so expensive."
The minimum wage in most parts the country of 220 million is as low as around $40 a month.
A tiny number of Indonesians are among the richest people in Asia while millions live in dire poverty in urban slums or shanty towns in the countryside.
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the happier they are, the better they taste."
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Dec 18, 2006 10:12 pm
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Farmers in Cheshire are dressing their geese in woolly hats and scarves.
They hope keeping the birds warm will help them to be happier, fatter and tastier for their Christmas customers.
Karol Bailey, of Holly Tree Fram in Knutsford, told the BBC: "Pleased poultry makes tasty poultry.
"It is important that animal welfare is of the highest standard to enable the animals to grow and produce tasty, flavoursome meat.
"During the winter months, turkeys and geese really suffer from the cold weather and consequently aren't very happy.
"By keeping our poultry warm with hats and scarves, we're more likely to produce better tasting meat."
North West Fine Foods chief executive, said: "It's lovely to see how well looked-after the animals on Holly Tree Farm are and it makes perfect sense that the happier they are, the better they taste."
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