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July 22, 1998
INTERNATIONAL BEANIE ISSUE
As if custom agents didn't have enough to worry about. US custom officials will now allow
up to 30 Beanie Babies per family into the country. It seems that a large number of
individuals were going to Canada to sneak the collectibles across the border. The previous
limit was 1 per family, but TY has relented in allowing the additional Beanie Babies into
the US.
ALL WHALE ...ALL THE TIME
ORCA FM has signed on the air in British Columbia, Canada. The radio station plays nothing
but whale sounds/songs 24 hours a day.
NO POWER BLACKOUTS HERE
Spain's energy company has announced a new way it will produce energy for customers.
Olives. It will burn the waste from the production of Olive Oil to help generate
electricity.
CLONING THE SAGA CONTINUES
Scientists have succeeded in developing a new technique of cloning that has allowed them
to create 50 mice at the University of Hawaii. The feat is significant because it shows
that cloning on more complex species (read human) is certainly becoming a possibility.
JAPANESE FOOTBALL
For the first time in NFL history Japanese players are taking part in NFL training camps.
Two for Green Bay and two other Japanese players will be butting heads in the Kansas City
Chiefs training camp. (all four players had played in the NFL Europe league)
NINE MONTHS LATER
Last winter parts of Eastern Nebraska were thrown into darkness for as long as 10 days
during a winter blizzard. Now as you might imagine Omaha hospitals are reporting a
marked increase in the number of births during July and are expecting a surge into August
as well.
OUTDOOR FUN
Roger Duckworth is an outdoorsman and fan of the great outdoor outfitter Cabela's in
Sidney, Nebraska. Duckworth has taken his love of the outdoor store to another level,
camping out on the store's sidewalk for five days waiting for the "sidewalk
sale" that the huge store has every year.
BRUCE AND DEMI TOGETHER
OK..OK...Only for one night. They took their kids to a Spice Girls concert in Columbus,
Ohio and even got to go backstage to meet the girls.
HE PROBABLY DOESN'T LIKE GUNS EITHER!
NASCAR racing of all things has been raised as an issue in a Kentucky Congressional race.
Ken Lucas charges that Gex Williams is anti-NASCAR because he voted against a resolution
proclaiming Daryl Waltrip Days. Waltrip is an Owensboro native and Lucas says it's
downright Un-Kentuckian of Williams to vote against something like that. Williams says it
was a clerical error. "How could anyone oppose Darrell Waltrip? This is
unconscionable behavior and an insult to all Kentucky natives. Williams' votes should be a
yellow caution flag to all voters," Lucas said.
AND THE LOSER IS.... Here's the winners of this years worst
writing dishonors in the 17th Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest:
ROMANCE: "My heart skipped a beat as the bearded walrus
gently nudged me in
the small of my back with one smooth, curved tusk, expelling a warm breath of air
into my upturned face, its smell of peanuts reminding me of that precious night on
Coney Island; the night when I became a woman ... a woman and a convict." —
Alison M. Kelly, Vero Beach, Fla.
WESTERN: "It was a majestic weapon, a masterpiece of form and function,
hand-crafted by master gunsmiths, accurate to a 100 yards, its bright silver body
and long barrel glistening in the sunlight, the hand-carved ivory inlay warm against
the palm, and mom got a good dollar for it after my brother was shot in the back."
— Terry Mayer, Oshawa, Ontario.
SCIENCE FICTION: "While the technician finished his work, Elmodine Jaatrix
reflected upon how badly the evening was going: the ionizer on her Acme 2100 E-Z
Klean dishwasher had burnt out, the window-bot had developed an attitude and the
Instafashion clothing dispenser would only produce athletic supporters and Calvin
Klein IX synthawool peasant blouses, and as she stared at the gibbous moon slowly
rising in front of her, she pondered morosely, `If they can build cities in the rings of
Saturn, why can't they make pants for repairmen that don't droop?"' — Hwei Oh,
Australia.
HISTORICAL FICTION: "Hemlock wasn't all that bad, Socrates decided
philosophically: no after taste, a smooth finish, and (of course) no hangover in the
morning." — T. O. Carroll, San Jose, Calif.
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