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- From: lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Truth is stranger than Fiction
- Message-ID: <65915@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 11:33:47 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Sep14.191549.119265@marshall.wvnet.edu>
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- YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA
- A paraplegic who lost the use of his legs in a climbing accident nine years
- ago, is currently attempting a climb of Half-Dome's sheer wall, and is
- attracting much media attention here in California. Unfortunately, he fell
- off today, and doctors say he has lost the use of both his arms.
-
- Our reporter jocularly asked the man whether this sent a message to others
- that "some people never learn". The man is reported to have snarled back
- "Fuck off, bubba, or I'll bite you in the knee".
-
- ANTARCTICA
- NASA has sent up an ozone-monitoring satellite today, responding with some
- urgency to reports that massive ozone depletion here has caused widespread
- genetic mutation in the blue whale population. Initial assessments indicate
- that the average IQ of the mammals has increased five-fold, and that the
- beasts are now routinely intercepting and decoding human communications
- from a variety of sources. This is believed to account for recent radical
- behavioural changes in the population, which is massing in large numbers
- off Tierra del Fuego, and is rumoured to be about to invade Argentina
- in what is described as "a massive reprisal for 150 years of bullshit".
-
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA
- Anthropologists from Oxford University made what they believed to be first
- ever contact with one of the last "lost tribes" on the planet today.
-
- The Yum, a jungle/hill people, were located by chance from a helicopter
- and an expedition immediately despatched on foot, taking over two weeks
- to establish contact with this shyest of peoples.
-
- Researchers were initially dumbfounded when members of the tribe took apart
- their Sony camcorder and commented that "they really screwed up on the dynamic
- range of the input stage" - in perfect French.
-
- Police worldwide are now mounting a massive global campaign to ascertain
- the whereabouts of Flamenque Q. Nastie, the infamous renegade criminal
- anthropologist. In the past, M. Nastie has been responsible for corrupting
- the native technologies of several "virgin" peoples in the Amazon basin.
- In one incident, he spent considerable time converting the Wanami's habit
- of using the blowpipe for hunting. The tribe now relies exclusively on
- Patriot Missiles, exported illegally from Peru. Other abuses include
- dietary radicalisation - one river people subsists, due to Nastie's
- pernicious meddling, entirely on Diet Pepsi and Twinkies.
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