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<link><id>12930</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12930/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mortuary Puts Funerals on Webcasts]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Ireland, they bury people quickly _ and now they're harnessing the speed of the Internet to help families grieve across the globe.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>50</score><crdate>3/12/2007 5:18:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-12T17:18:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>29522</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29522/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Exhumation threatened in funeral bill flap]]></title><description><![CDATA[A New Zealand funeral home director allegedly threatened to dig up a teenager's body because his family hadn't paid for his funeral.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>124</score><crdate>7/30/2007 12:38:04 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-30T00:38:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58293</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58293/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Man dies Playing at Funeral]]></title><description><![CDATA[The organist at a funeral died while playing.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>95</score><crdate>4/15/2008 1:07:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-15T01:07:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64322</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/64322/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Texas woman wins a free funeral at baseball game]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elaine Fulps was unusually happy for a woman who just got her funeral all lined up. 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They targeted those with out of state license plates figuring they would have more valuables in their cars.<br/>Where is a good old fashioned lightning bolt when you need one?]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>282</score><crdate>11/25/2007 8:29:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-25T20:29:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>76152</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76152/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Paper's Decision to Twitter 3-Year-Old's Funeral Sparks Outrage]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Colorado newspaper's decision to live blog the funeral of a 3-year-old boy with Twitter has prompted a flurry of criticism from the local media, bloggers and media ethicists.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>94</score><crdate>9/14/2008 2:47:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-14T14:47:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45506</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45506/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Funeral home donates headstone for slain girl]]></title><description><![CDATA[Funeral home donated a headstone for a murdered child, saying everyone should have a monument marking their time here on Earth.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>152</score><crdate>12/29/2007 11:45:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-29T23:45:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46782</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/46782/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Dead Bug Funeral Kit ]]></title><description><![CDATA[We hope the Dead Bug Funeral Kit will provide some consolation. You may preorder this Kit for yourself or a loved one. We are working as briskly as we can to make these Kits, but there is a lot of grief in this world.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>231</score><crdate>1/10/2008 8:29:24 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-10T20:29:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80206</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80206/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bodies removed after Pontiac funeral home foreclosure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gerds said he didn&#8217;t know if families had already paid for funerals slated to be held at Burns &#8211; or whether they would have to pay another funeral home, too.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>22</score><crdate>10/24/2008 10:10:38 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-24T10:10:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>64961</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/64961/1/</url><title><![CDATA[China holds funeral for panda killed by earthquake]]></title><description><![CDATA[WOLONG, China - Nearly a month after China's devastating earthquake, the Wolong Nature Reserve held a funeral Tuesday for a panda that was crushed in the temblor.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>180</score><crdate>6/10/2008 3:15:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-10T15:15:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57981</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57981/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dog Finds Way to Owner's Funeral]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam leaves home by himself, embarking on a two-day trek to a funeral service.<br/><br/>*I hope this works, ABC video are flash driven and hard to copy/post.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>321</score><crdate>4/12/2008 9:44:12 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-12T09:44:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20774</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20774/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Organ donor? Save money on your funeral]]></title><description><![CDATA[Funeral company in the Netherlands offer discounts on funeral costs if the deceased is a registered organ donor.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>61</score><crdate>5/18/2007 11:16:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-18T23:16:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>63327</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/63327/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Wants For Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[A genius artist couple started a website where they paint the various things they want, then sell the paintings for the real life cost of those things, then buy the things with the money from the paintings.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>344</score><crdate>5/27/2008 9:52:55 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-27T09:52:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44349</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44349/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Stuff]]></title><description><![CDATA[That's it really - some pictures of some things.  Things that straddle that line between cool and pointless.<br/><br/>I reckon there'll be at least one thing on here you'll want.  And those stairs/drawers combo that keeps cropping up.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>234</score><crdate>12/15/2007 10:02:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-15T22:02:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45691</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45691/1/</url><title><![CDATA[32 Dead in Suicide Bomb at Iraqi Funeral]]></title><description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated an explosives-rigged vest at a Shiite funeral in Baghdad, killing 32 people gathered to mourn the death of an Iraqi army officer killed in a car bombing, police and ambulance officials said.<br/><br/>Isn't it the height of bad taste to bomb a funeral?  What if it turns into a geometric progression?]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>147</score><crdate>1/1/2008 12:15:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-01T12:15:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>2044</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2044/1/</url><title><![CDATA[List Of The Most Popular Funeral Songs]]></title><description><![CDATA[And the number 1 most popular funeral song is 'Goodbye My Lover' by James Blunt.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/4/2006 11:01:59 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-04T11:01:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>56777</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/56777/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The $2 Bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[A guy stops off at his local Taco Bell after work and decides to pay with a $2 bill instead of a $50 to make things easier for the cashier.<br/><br/>Hilarity and Asshatery ensue.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>264</score><crdate>4/2/2008 3:04:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-02T15:04:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>24571</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/24571/1/</url><title><![CDATA['Dead' man woke up at funeral]]></title><description><![CDATA[The man's relatives were in a Buddhist mourning hall, reciting prayers over the dead body, when it gasped and woke up, the Shanghai Daily reports.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>42</score><crdate>6/20/2007 10:05:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-20T22:05:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>73369</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/73369/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Police hold formal funeral for dog killed in the line of duty]]></title><description><![CDATA[King Luther, Rutland, VT's only police dog, died during the pursuit of a stolen vehicle.<br/>R.I.P. King Luther.<br/><br/>More pictures and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=8884806" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">video here.</a>]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>486</score><crdate>8/23/2008 3:51:54 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-23T15:51:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>1987</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/1987/1/</url><title><![CDATA[And the most requested funeral song is...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not my pick but the article has a listing of the top 10 as well.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>37</score><crdate>10/3/2006 5:36:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-03T17:36:22+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>