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WEIRDNUZ.M136 (News of the Weird, November 15, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* For some consumers, good environmental citizenship is
important even when choosing among sex accessories. No longer
will they tolerate plastic personal vibrators made with the softeners

WEIRDNUZ.M135 (News of the Weird, November 8, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Procter & Gamble announced in October that it will once again
create and host a public restroom for the holiday season in New
York City's Times Square, as a promotion for Charmin tissue. Last

WEIRDNUZ.M134 (News of the Weird, November 1, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Recent Precision-Tuning of the Fruitfly Brain: (1) Scientists at
England's University of Oxford know how to make fruitflies scared
of things they weren't scared of previously by implanting

WEIRDNUZ.M133 (News of the Weird, October 25, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* The human brain's 100 billion neurons may have such specific
functions that a few electrically charge only upon recognition of a
single celebrity, such as Oprah Winfrey or Bill Clinton. UCLA

WEIRDNUZ.M132 (News of the Weird, October 18, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Love Can Mess You Up: Before Arthur David Horn met his
future bride Lynette (a "metaphysical healer") in 1988, he was a
tenured professor at Colorado State, with a PhD in anthropology

WEIRDNUZ.M131 (News of the Weird, October 11, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Beneath the luxury hotels on the Las Vegas Strip is a series of
flood tunnels that are home to dozens of people who work odd jobs
such as hustling leftover change in casino slot machines.  A

WEIRDNUZ.M130 (News of the Weird, October 4, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
* What is believed to be the world's only commercial lounge
openly serving cocaine operates in La Paz, Bolivia, though the
owners of "Route 36" have to change locations from time to time,
depending on the moods of the bribed authorities. An August

WEIRDNUZ.M129 (News of the Weird, September 27, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* A male Swedish college student, Ragnar Bengtsson, 26, has
begun pumping his breasts at three-hour intervals in a 90-day
experiment to see if he can produce milk. If he succeeds, he said,

WEIRDNUZ.M128 (News of the Weird, September 20, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* If society were ever attacked by zombies, we would probably be
doomed, and quickly. That was the conclusion of two university
researchers in Ottawa, Ontario, who set up mathematical models

WEIRDNUZ.M127 (News of the Weird, September 13, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Breakthroughs in Eye Hair: The pharmaceutical company
Allergan has introduced eyelash-thickener Latisse, a $120 per
month prescription "medication" to help a woman overcome

WEIRDNUZ.M126 (News of the Weird, September 6, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* A woman offering child-care services in Melbourne, Fla., was
dismayed to learn in August that a scam pulled on her by a diaper-
wearing man in his 40s was not illegal. A man called her, on

WEIRDNUZ.M125 (News of the Weird, August 30, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Lonely Japanese men (and a few women) with rich imaginations
have created a thriving subculture ("otaku") in which they have all-
consuming relationships with figurines that are based on popular

WEIRDNUZ.M124 (News of the Weird, August 23, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Donald Duck may be a lovable icon of comic mishap to
American youngsters, but in Germany, he is wise and complicated
and retains followers well past their childhoods. Using licensed

WEIRDNUZ.M123 (News of the Weird, August 16, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* World-Class Adolescent Endeavors: Japanese engineer Takuo
Toda's paper airplane was certified in May as the Guinness Book
record-holder for the longest flight from a single folded sheet of

WEIRDNUZ.M122 (News of the Weird, August 9, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* A Whiff of Injustice: William Dillon was released in November
after 26 years in prison when a DNA test ruled him out as the
murderer. He was the second Florida man recently freed by DNA

WEIRDNUZ.M121 (News of the Weird, August 2, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
* Apparently believing that religious competition in the Middle
East is not exciting enough already, the television station Kanal T
in Istanbul, Turkey, is preparing a reality game show for September
release in which 10 certified atheists try to resist conversion by a

WEIRDNUZ.M120 (News of the Weird, July 26, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Unconventional Medicine: British construction worker Martin
Jones, 42, who lost one eye and was blinded in the other in a 1997
explosion, regained his sight this year as a result of surgery in

WEIRDNUZ.M119 (News of the Weird, July 19, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Scientology trains its leaders a good deal more aggressively than
other religions do, judging by the revelations by four former
Church officials, to the St. Petersburg Times in June. In an

WEIRDNUZ.M118 (News of the Weird, July 12, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Americans Fantasize, Germans Act: Two formerly well-off
retired couples in Speyer, Germany, whose nest egg was largely
wiped out by investments in sub-prime Florida mortgages, vented

WEIRDNUZ.M117 (News of the Weird, July 5, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* A 48-year-old immigrant from Malta regularly hangs out in
various New York City bars, but always on the floor, so that he can
enjoy his particular passion of being stepped on. "Georgio T." told