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Piltdown
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Posted - 06/28/2002 :  03:51:22  Show Profile  Send Piltdown an AOL message  Send Piltdown a Yahoo! Message Send Piltdown a Private Message
I defy anyone to come up with a weirder one than this:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020625/od_nm/britain_dc
quote:
An Alaskan chicken-hypnotist who cycles around the world with a traveling circus has ground to a halt after a charity clothes shop in Scotland sold her bicycle by mistake while she was in the fitting-room.

Chicken hypnotist?

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
-Robert Lindner


Edited by - piltdown on 06/28/2002 03:53:20

Edited by - piltdown on 06/28/2002 03:54:11

Edited by - piltdown on 06/28/2002 03:54:46

Gorgo
SFN Die Hard

USA
5310 Posts
Posted - 06/28/2002 :  04:03:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
Uh...Well, yeah. How did you think they got hypnotized?

quote:

Chicken hypnotist?


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Lars_H
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Germany
630 Posts
Posted - 06/28/2002 :  06:36:30   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Lars_H a Private Message
That opening sentence is almost worth an honorary Bulwer-Lytton award.
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