Eclectic Vindaloo

A scantily clad, 32-year-old man was found dead early Monday in a pool of blood in an owl cage at the Moscow Zoo. [...] "The owl is still in a state of shock"

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Somebody stuck up the Jackson MS zoo.

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Principal steals zoo trip money.

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Free animal ringtones! You have to give 'em an email address, and of course your phone number, but it seems a reputable charity. Tons of Frog and Toad sounds, as well as some Birds, including the remarkably-named "Ash Breasted Tit Tyrant", described in the information sheet as possessing a 'jaunty crest'. It'd be worth having that one just so you could tell people what it was.

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Penguin gets spinal surgery. This isn't that terribly different from what was being proposed for me last year.

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It's been pretty much a year now since I went though that awful episode with my spine. I'm much better now. My left arm still doesn't have all of its feeling (it always tingles a bit - right now it feels kind of cold and fizzy) and now and again it burns or hurts, but that's a world of improvement. About three weeks ago my back just completely tensed up, on the anniversary of when it started. I'm pretty sure that was just psychological. If it can be triggered off like that, it gives me increased conviction that I can eventually overcome the entire thing with physical therapy.

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"The Ash Breasted Tit Tyrant" sounds like a character from an ambitiously bad porno-SF movie.

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A lovely collection of British pulp SF covers of the '50s.