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Post  Tabby Wed May 23, 2012 2:17 pm

So, seems a woman named Katy had her iPhone stolen while on a Disney cruise in April. Then, just recently, a bunch of mysterious photos started showing up in her Facebook account. They appear to be the person with her phone - a crew member on the ship. She put together an album complete with captions, and, at the urging of her friends, made the album public so everyone could see. The news media have picked up the story, and, as I write, there are nearly 3,500 over 3,500 shares. (The number went up as I was typing this post. Heh.)

Someone's going to have a hard time finding new employment. And I hope Katy gets free passes to Disney World for life.
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Post  Instant Monkeys Wed May 23, 2012 3:45 pm

That is HILARIOUS.
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Post  mialoubug Wed May 23, 2012 8:59 pm

Could she have just lost it and he found it and he didn't turn it in? Stole seems pretty harsh. Plus how dumb is he to post his photos to her Facebook page?
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Post  biakbiak Wed May 23, 2012 9:14 pm

Plus how dumb is he to post his photos to her Facebook page?

It's because of how she had her photostream set up, it went to the cloud and then went to her facebook page, so it wasn't like he was doing it intentionally.

Her phone has been recovered and he has been put on administrative leave while they investigate.

It seems at there very least he would be violating a policy of what an Employee should do with anything they find on the ship.
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Post  particle_person Wed May 23, 2012 9:34 pm

Instant Monkeys wrote:That is HILARIOUS.
I love the captions. ("Nelson likes to take pictures of buildings in Mexico with stolen phones.") I am reading them in this sing-song voice.
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Post  mokey75 Tue May 29, 2012 10:51 am

Zombies!
Well, one guy in a drug craze so far. But this is how it begins, people! Hee. And also, gross.
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Post  Francie Nolan Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:31 pm

Yacht explosion hoax. Looks like Gob Bluth's made another huge mistake.

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Post  mokey75 Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:01 pm

Mother dog saves pups from house fire.

WHY IS IT SO DUSTY IN HERE ALL OF A SUDDEN?!?!?
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Post  particle_person Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:40 pm

Grip this quote with your cerebral tentacle, dudes:
“The rugged West of mythic stature has long been a regulated place, if only because the federal government is such a presence as to public lands, public employees, public agencies, the military,” said William Francis Deverell, a University of Southern California history professor and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. “And the notion of the Edenic West was one that had to be sculpted, in minds and in measures, hence myths and regulations.”

WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? From this article.
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Post  big chicken Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:32 am

10 million punds of maple syrup missing from the global strategic maple syrup reserves. The global strategic maple syrup reserve sounds like something HIMYM would make up but it's a real thing. People seem to think the barrels were empty rather than someone actually stealing 10 million pounds of syrup. I think that's something only the Leverage gang can pull off.

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Post  mrinsouciance Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:40 am

Elliott would definitely be into liberating a large quantity of real maple syrup.

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Post  draco vulgaris Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:52 pm


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Post  Tabby Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:40 pm

The 2012 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced!

I think the Literature Prize is my favorite, but they are all examples of outstanding research and scholarship.
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Post  particle_person Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:53 pm

The Literature Prize was up there, but I think my favorite was the one for MRIing the brain of a dead salmon...and finding activity. My reasoning is that the salmon study had a real and important point to make about poor use of statistics, as well as being hilarious.
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Post  Cynara Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:46 am

I actually think the one about turning ammunition into lab diamonds is pretty awesome.

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Post  Miss Moneypenny Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:38 pm

particle_person wrote:The Literature Prize was up there, but I think my favorite was the one for MRIing the brain of a dead salmon...and finding activity. My reasoning is that the salmon study had a real and important point to make about poor use of statistics, as well as being hilarious.

Yeah, from the title it looked like part of it was about the importance of multiple data points and methods of measurement. One thing I love about the IgNobels is that they reward ridiculous studies, but it's always actual, real science.
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Post  slmader Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:09 am

A moose was seen wandering the streets of Halifax this morning. Even though we are in eastern Canada, this is not a common sighting. Most people have only seen a moose on TV or in a zoo or wildlife park. The moose was finally cornered in a Halifax backyard, sedated, and is now on his way to the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park where hopefully he will meet a nice lady moose and have lots of moose babies. Here are some pictures, and I am killing myself laughing at some of the comments.

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Post  katesti Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:50 pm

HAH. One of my favorite bands just put out a kids album this week, featuring a song called "Moose on the Loose." What a publicity tie-in!

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Post  dinahmoe Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:23 am

katesti wrote:HAH. One of my favorite bands just put out a kids album this week, featuring a song called "Moose on the Loose." What a publicity tie-in!
I WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS! Just arranged to have Amazon send a copy to my nephew.
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Post  katesti Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:30 am

IT IS THE BEST. The wee one agrees.

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Post  dinahmoe Fri Sep 28, 2012 1:08 am

katesti wrote:IT IS THE BEST. The wee one agrees.
When they (Ozomatli, for those playing along at home) came out with "Gay Vatos in Love" I thought I could not love them more. Now I'm all, "yep, love them more."
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Post  mrinsouciance Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:58 pm

Kentucky restaurant shut down after roadkill found in kitchen.

The roadkill was apparently a deer stuffed into a trash can. "There was actually a blood trail they were mopping up behind the garbage can," customer Katie Hopkins said. "There was like a tail, and like a foot and a leg sticking out of the garbage can, and they wheeled it straight back into the kitchen."

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Post  Carrie Ann Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:06 pm

In case you'd forgotten that someday octopi will rule us all.
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Post  Instant Monkeys Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:10 am

OK, so I kinda skimmed this, and I saw the sentence "Several types of sharks, including a great white, are among the predator species to have been tallied..."

And I read it as "tailed," instead of "tallied." And between that and references to a videocamera, at first I thought the octopi had FIGURED OUT HOW VIDEOCAMERAS WORKED and were like, stalking sharks with the camera, I don't know, to get dirt on them or something. I realize this is ridiculous, and I reread it and quickly realized that was way off base, but I am not kidding you guys, I felt a little frisson of genuine fright. Goddamn octopi. YOU JUST NEVER KNOW.
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Post  particle_person Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:30 am

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That is an octopus paparazzo invading the privacy of a shark. You just know some French magazine would buy that shit.
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