Cubs Fan Hang Dead Goat To Ward Away Curse Posted: 8 months ago by suebe
In a repeat of a similar incident two years ago, a dead goat was found at Wrigley field. Presumably the goat was a reference to the Billy Goat curse, put on the Cubs in 1945 by Billy Goat tavern owner William Sianis after the team refused to allow his pet goat, Murphy, inside Wrigley Field for Game 4 of the World Series. The Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908.
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Tribune Sells Cubs, Wrigley Field For $845M Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
Media conglomerate Tribune Co. announced a definitive agreement Friday to sell all but a 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field to the billionaire Ricketts family, capping a tortuous selection process that began nearly 2½ years ago.
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Paternal dog Billy takes on an unusual kid Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A paternal dog has adopted an abandoned baby goat as his surrogate child. Billy the boxer has become the constant companion of the 12-day old kid called Lilly. He sleeps with the goat, licks her clean, and protects her from any dangers at Pennywell Farm wildlife centre at Buckfastleigh, near Totnes, Devon.
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Goat takes ride on TriMet bus Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A goat somehow hitched a ride on a Portland bus Monday night, surprising TriMet officials and her owner, who was baffled about how she got there. Video
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'Yeti hairs' belong to a goat Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists in the US who have examined hairs claimed to belong to a yeti in India say that in fact they belong to a species of Himalayan goat. Update on this post.
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Woman Missing for 7 Years Found Dead In Home Posted: 8 months ago by funkfrost
An elderly woman who had been missing for seven years was found dead in her own home!
The remains, nothing more than a skeleton at this point, appear to have lain undisturbed in her apartment since the day she had been reported missing.
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Swedish straw goat burnt in violent Christmas tradition ...again! Posted: 11 months ago by Bornbad
Each year the people of Gavle build a 43-foot-tall straw goat, a traditional Scandinavian symbol of Christmas. But since the yuletide tradition began in the central Swedish city of Gavle in 1966, it has also drawn vandals, who have torched the animal 23 times since it was first set up to mark the holiday season.
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Grateful Dead Fan Site to be Reborn as a Social Network Posted: 3 years ago by suebe
The new version of Dead.net, the fan site for Dead Heads, which is soon to be released, will be a full blown social network similar to Myspace.
Mershaullk, don't leave us!!!
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How I Learned to Love Goat Meat Posted: 8 months ago by kakana
Mine is the tale of the recent convert. Admittedly, I’m late to the party: goat is the most widely consumed meat in the world, a staple of, among others, Mexican, Indian, Greek and southern Italian cuisines. Moreover, it’s been edging its way into yuppier climes for a year or so now, click-clacking its cloven hooves up and down the coasts and to places like Houston and Des Moines.
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Dead Friends Posted: 2 years ago by doggylives
They're All Dead: Christopher Keeley posts lots of photos of and commentary about the many friends he has made and lost during his years in the intervention business. Everyone pictured is dead and includes the reasons they died. Some of the pictures contain nudity and are NSFW.
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Farm animals found dead, near dead at Grafton Farm Posted: 5 months ago by TraumaMamma
GRAFTON TWP. — Animal rescuers sobbed as they assisted starving farm animals found Wednesday in a barn behind a home on state Route 83. A weak brown-and-white mare was led to a trailer after rescuers from Friendship Animal Protective League responded to an anonymous complaint with assistance from the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office.
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Goat keeps sneaking onto school bus Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
The school administration has taken this whole situation in stride, even joking they wanted to make the goat an official student through open enrollment.
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Up to 150 dead animals found in freezers Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
The gruesome discoveries continued Friday as authorities found as many as 150 dead animals in basement freezers in the same Dearborn house where at least 112 live dogs -- all Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes -- were discovered in filthy conditions beginning Wednesday.
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Florida woman keeps mother's dead body in house for six years Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits.
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Mountain lion eats goat at kids camp Posted: 2 years ago by Hoosker
"It entered a camp and took a goat among 200 sleeping kids"
This happened up in the mountains where I live... thought I would share.
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Pen pals: Giraffe and goat form unlikely friendship when kept in same enclosure Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
They'll always have a very different outlook on life.
But even though Gerald the giraffe is rather lofty and Eddie the goat is more down to earth, they are the perfect pairing.
They have formed an unlikely bond after Eddie was placed with 15ft Gerald as a short-term solution to keep the giraffe company at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol.
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Goat 'condoms' save Kenyan herds Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Maasai herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the "olor", to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought.
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Long-Time Preacher Killed By Goat Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
A Clarksville preacher was killed by a goat Tuesday that he was attempting to return to a fenced-in area.
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Woman Seeks Lost Pet Goat With Bagels Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
A Bensalem woman has been walking around in the snow with a bucket of bagels and goat feed trying to locate her lost pet Buckwheat.
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Darren The Waving Goat Posted: 6 months ago by pocksucket
Darren is a goat. Who waves. Video in the comments.
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Russian rights activist kidnapped, found dead Posted: 5 months ago by nateebiinature
A prominent human rights activist was found dead after being kidnapped in Russia's troubled republic of Chechnya Wednesday, provoking outrage from President Dmitry Medvedev and the international community.
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