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Or, for the few who actually wind up in News of the Weird, a monument to lives interestingly lived.<br/><br/><i>I hope it's not a dupe, I searched and could not find it</i>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/65860/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/65860/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mayor Bloomberg threatened with lawsuits if he doesn't add Muslim holidays to school]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of Muslims are making demands and threats that their religious holidays be recognized as official school holidays. Bloomberg is trying to stand up to them stating the logical problem of adding <i>every</i> religious holiday to the school calendar. That and the school holidays are not really &quot;christian&quot; in celebration. A Christmas tree has zero to do with Christ's birth.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/126821/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/126821/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[How weird are you]]></title><description><![CDATA[Well! I scored 50% Which is about right I think.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/1689/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/1689/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a walk on the weird side...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Searching for weirdness online is like searching for hay in a haystack. It&#8217;s everywhere. <br/>Rest assured, none of the boring or dodgy stuff has made it into Yahoo!&#8217;s trawl of the Weird Wide Web. These sites are in turn funny, interesting, curious and mind bogglingly strange. They represent the weird hobby of thousands, or the mad obsession of just a single web-head. They cover things that were strange before the Web was ever invented, and nuttiness purely of the Internet age.<br/><br/>Welcome to Yahoo UK&quot;s Top 100 Weird Web Sites]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/2839/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/2839/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Extraordinarily Weird But Beautiful Flowers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world is full of weird and wonderful flowers that sometimes look so strange that we find it difficult to imagine them actually growing in the wild. Some of these are unbelievably odd.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/124968/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/124968/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Weirdest Inventions You Never Knew You Needed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being an inventor today must be really difficult. In the olden days, you could think of something pretty reasonable and bring it to life. Now, coming up with new contraptions for everyday living is somewhat more difficult. Here's a bunch of odd inventions that you might just want to go out and buy...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/102289/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/102289/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Pulsed heartbeat of a weird new type of star]]></title><description><![CDATA[XMM-Newton has detected periodic X-ray emission, or the pulsed heartbeat of a weird new type of star. Collecting the X-rays from the so-called rotating radio transient has confirmed the nature of the underlying celestial object and given astronomers a new insight into these exotic objects.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44973/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44973/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Weird Computerised Air Conditioning !!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weird Computerised Air Conditioning !!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25358/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25358/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Weird glass grows from girls head!!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's weird, then there's weird. I feel for her. But this is weird.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1800/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1800/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Silly Up Your Christmas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tired of boring old Christmas traditions.  Want to have more fun for the holidays?  Here's 10 silly ways to have a liven it up.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/7552/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/7552/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Weird Atomic Attack Instuctions Sign!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weird Atomic Attack Instuctions Sign!!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25250/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25250/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Weird Classified Ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gumtastic is a section on Gumtree where people list their favourite Gumtree ads with sometimes weird sometimes hilarious consequences. Here are some of the best]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/128893/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/128893/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Hottest Search Terms In February]]></title><description><![CDATA[The hottest search terms in February are Celebrities, TV, &amp; Taxes according to Compete.com. They took a look at the fastest growing (and declining) terms since last month to get a better idea of the trend in consumer search interest.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/103006/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/103006/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Things that are just not as weird as they once were...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chuck Shepard has seen it all, he runs the &quot;News of the Weird&quot; and some stories have been submitted so many times that they are just not considered weird anymore...<br/><br/>1. an old, widely-advertised phone-sex number is reassigned to a church<br/> 35. dog steps on gun, shooting the master<br/> 46. unlabeled urn with loved one's ashes mistakenly stolen or sold at yard sale]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49322/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49322/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Weird Things About Newborns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some weird things that some newborns have are crossed eyes, big belly buttons, acne. <br/><br/>I know a baby with a big belly button. She's adorable.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/41177/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/41177/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush to bring home 8000 troops from Iraq in February ]]></title><description><![CDATA[One Marine battalion, about 1,000 troops, will go home in November and not be replaced. An Army brigade of around 4,000 troops will leave in February. In addition, about 3,400 support forces will also be removed from Iraq]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75366/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75366/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Weird Worms ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Worms are pretty odd compared to creatures we are more familiar with. Within that already weird group, some worms are weirder than others, like the Pig Butt Worm in the theme pic.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/97528/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/97528/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Fakes His Own Funeral To Test His Popularity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Didn't see this posted on Plime. It's sad, I think, and yeah weird too.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/13784/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/13784/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Doting Mom drives son to rob jewelry store. 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