Twigz
01-02-2007, 02:47 PM
They can't take the "truthiness" of it all at Lake Superior State University in Michigan.
"Truthiness" - coined by TV host Steven Colbert to describe ideas that seem true but may not stand up to evidence, logic or facts - made the university's list of overused words for 2006. Truthiness "has been used up. What used to ring true is getting all the truth wrung out of it," a university panel reports says.
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Think deep thoughts - and if they're deep enough to get to the truthiness of it all, you could be dubbed America's Greatest Thinker.
The big question for the 15th Great American Think Off: Which should you trust more - your head or heart?
You have until April 1 to mull it over. The contest's Web site is www.think-off.org. The prize: An all-expense paid trip to New York Mills, Minn., where there are many lakes.
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Here's a gem of a vacation spot - an Arkansas state park where tourists can search for diamonds and keep whatever they find.
But visitors to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfeesboro could come up with better names for their shiny rocks.
One man dug up a 2.37-carat white diamond last week and named it the Star of Thelma, after his wife.
And an Oklahoma cop named the 4.21-carat yellow gem he found last March the Okie Dokie diamond.
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A North Carolina woman attacked a man's genitals during a Christmas party, injuring him badly enough that he needed 50 stitches, authorities said.
Rebecca Arnold Dawson, 34, was charged with malicious castration in a fight early Tuesday at a party hosted by the 38-year-old man's girlfriend, Lillington police said.
Dawson did not use a weapon, police said - but they didn't say how she inflicted the injury.
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A craving for a hot dog got a Des Moines, Iowa, man behind bars.
When James Clay went to pay for a hot dog at a convenience store, the clerk noticed he'd jammed two wieners into his bun - and camouflaged his extra-meaty snack beneath a pile of condiments.
It wasn't the first time Clay had tried to double-dog his bun, so the clerk called the cops.
Hunger was the least of Clay's worries when officers arrived. He was wanted on a warrant for failing to pay child support.
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Dig this - a pair of Colorado residents are using eBay to sell snow from the two whopper storms that just hit the state.
Starting bids were holding steady Friday at 99 cents for snow from "Blizzard I and Blizzard II" being offered by Jim and Mary Walker of Loveland.
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They'll do anything for a beer in Germany. A thirsty German sold his 6-year-old stepdaughter's beagle to the owner of a bar to pay for beer, the Bild newspaper reported.
The unemployed man offered to take the dog for a walk and then stopped at a bar where he convinced the owner to buy the 3-year-old dog for $53, which he spent quenching his thirst.
There's a happy ending to this tale: The bar owner returned the dog to its young owner.
"Truthiness" - coined by TV host Steven Colbert to describe ideas that seem true but may not stand up to evidence, logic or facts - made the university's list of overused words for 2006. Truthiness "has been used up. What used to ring true is getting all the truth wrung out of it," a university panel reports says.
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Think deep thoughts - and if they're deep enough to get to the truthiness of it all, you could be dubbed America's Greatest Thinker.
The big question for the 15th Great American Think Off: Which should you trust more - your head or heart?
You have until April 1 to mull it over. The contest's Web site is www.think-off.org. The prize: An all-expense paid trip to New York Mills, Minn., where there are many lakes.
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Here's a gem of a vacation spot - an Arkansas state park where tourists can search for diamonds and keep whatever they find.
But visitors to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfeesboro could come up with better names for their shiny rocks.
One man dug up a 2.37-carat white diamond last week and named it the Star of Thelma, after his wife.
And an Oklahoma cop named the 4.21-carat yellow gem he found last March the Okie Dokie diamond.
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A North Carolina woman attacked a man's genitals during a Christmas party, injuring him badly enough that he needed 50 stitches, authorities said.
Rebecca Arnold Dawson, 34, was charged with malicious castration in a fight early Tuesday at a party hosted by the 38-year-old man's girlfriend, Lillington police said.
Dawson did not use a weapon, police said - but they didn't say how she inflicted the injury.
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A craving for a hot dog got a Des Moines, Iowa, man behind bars.
When James Clay went to pay for a hot dog at a convenience store, the clerk noticed he'd jammed two wieners into his bun - and camouflaged his extra-meaty snack beneath a pile of condiments.
It wasn't the first time Clay had tried to double-dog his bun, so the clerk called the cops.
Hunger was the least of Clay's worries when officers arrived. He was wanted on a warrant for failing to pay child support.
****
Dig this - a pair of Colorado residents are using eBay to sell snow from the two whopper storms that just hit the state.
Starting bids were holding steady Friday at 99 cents for snow from "Blizzard I and Blizzard II" being offered by Jim and Mary Walker of Loveland.
****
They'll do anything for a beer in Germany. A thirsty German sold his 6-year-old stepdaughter's beagle to the owner of a bar to pay for beer, the Bild newspaper reported.
The unemployed man offered to take the dog for a walk and then stopped at a bar where he convinced the owner to buy the 3-year-old dog for $53, which he spent quenching his thirst.
There's a happy ending to this tale: The bar owner returned the dog to its young owner.