<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : weird : Popular Links : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://weird.plime.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : weird : Popular Links : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://weird.plime.com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Swine Flu Cheerleader Who Can Only Walk Backwards]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135396/1/</link><description><![CDATA[DESREE JENNINGS is a woman &#8220;convinced that a flu shot given to her has lead to a rare disorder which means she can only walk backwards&#8221;. Video in article.<br/>I couldn't find more reputable sources for this, and it's not really about the flu, but the predicament itself is heartwrenching.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathalyzer Man Busted]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135377/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Miller's costume, which retails for about $30, includes three sobriety levels: Boring, Life of the Party, and Sotally Tober. It also includes a well-placed plastic tube with the instructions &quot;Blow Here.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vets baffled by bald bears]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135360/1/</link><description><![CDATA[All the female bespectacled bears at a zoo in Leipzig Germany have lost almost all their hair. The reason for this dilemma is not fully understood yet although various ideas are being floated]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd Organizations &amp; Movements that only Thrive Online]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135309/1/</link><description><![CDATA[One of the most celebrated functions of the Internet is an unprecedented ability for people to connect. This has led to social networks, online dating, and, it turns out, a lot of people connecting over really strange things. Here are some of the more interesting clubs that the internet has helped give life to.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why can't you tickle yourself?]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135213/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A nice study paper explaining why you can't tickle yourself.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singer killed by coyotes]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135210/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Wile. E Coyote was not available for comment after a singer was killed by coyotes while hiking in an east coast national park.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Library complains of crossed-out curses]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135161/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Workers at a Tennessee library said someone has been using blue ink to completely scratch out curse words from books in the collection.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colonel Sanders Meets the President of the UN]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135146/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Red-faced United Nations officials on Monday admitted to a major security lapse after a UN guard helped Kentucky Fried Chicken's &quot;Colonel Sanders&quot; gain access to restricted areas.<br/><br/>Apparently they didn't know he was decades dead.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whisky on (Antarctic) Ice, Anyone?]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/135112/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Conservators in Antarctica are toasting to a fascinating discovery: buried under the frozen Antarctic ground , they found two intact cases of Scotch whisky left behind a century ago by Sir Ernest Shackleton from a failed expedition in 1907.<br/><br/>The cases of Charles Mackinlay &amp; Co. whisky won't be retrieved until January, when the Antarctic Summer sun can melt the ice around them. In the meantime, we will all be left to wonder what century-old, Antarctic-iced Scotch tastes like.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ice Skating Bear Kills Trainer]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134994/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another. A visiting Russian troupe was rehearsing for a show in Bishkek when the attack occurred Wednesday.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear Heads Straight for the Beer]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134839/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Shoppers in a Wisconsin grocery store got an unexpected surprise when a 125-pound black bear wandered inside and headed straight for the beer cooler.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man tries to euthanize dog -- dog's owner tries to euthanize man]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134810/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A motorist hit a dog and tried to &quot;put the dog out of its misery&quot; using a hammer and a machete. The dog's owner ran over, grabbed the implements and started attacking the motorist, police say.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killer Wears Picture Of Victim On His Shirt During Sentencing]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134804/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A man convicted of killing his girlfriend apparently decided that the best thing to wear at his sentencing was &quot;a T-shirt with his victim's picture and the words 'R.I.P. Love You Forever.'&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dead Man Mistaken for Halloween Decoration]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134756/1/</link><description><![CDATA[For four days, 74-year-old Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed was seen slumped over his balcony in Marina del Rey. Neighbors, who saw him on Monday, didn't think much of it--it was a dummy for Halloween, after all.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever Dream This Man?]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134741/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.<br/><br/>That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyson, Holyfield to meet again &#8212; on Oprah Friday]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134736/1/</link><description><![CDATA[*Three and a half ears*(Dave Letterman)<br/>It will be the first television interview with the fighters since Tyson bit off a chunk of Holyfield's ear in their infamous June 28, 1997 bout.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate ]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134674/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Could it be that the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/q/hadron/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Large Hadron Collider</a> is being sabotaged - from the future!?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bizarre 'Independence Day' cloud spotted over Moscow]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134621/1/</link><description><![CDATA[In scenes reminiscent of Independence Day, a ring-shaped luminous cloud was seen above Moscow city's Western District on Wednesday, last week.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Incredible Myth Behind the Feejee Mermaid]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134607/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The 19th century: surely the age of the showman and the hoaxer as much as it was the age of scientific discovery. For every Darwin who stepped forward to enlighten the public by dispelling superstition, there was a Barnum who was happy to provide them with some wonder &#8211; for a special discounted fee, of course.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaza zoo replaces zebras with painted donkeys]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134548/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The Zebras died of hunger earlier this year during the Israel-Hamas war, so the keepers decided to design a pair of donkeys with black and white patterns instead]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a Fork, It&#8217;s a Spoon, It&#8217;s a ... Weapon? ]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134531/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Zachary Christie is a six-year old student in Newark, Delaware who is facing 45 days in reform school because he brought his new Cub Scout eating utensil to school for lunch. The utensil includes a knife, and this violates the school's <strike>brainlessly, robotically enforced</strike> zero-tolerance policy on &quot;weapons on school property.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revival of the ancient Indo-European language for modern use]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134522/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A group that seriously intends to revive the reconstructed 5000-year-old Proto-Indo-European language for modern use, as the official language of the European Union.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[More bad ideas to put on your skin(careful@work)]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134517/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Tattoo hell.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[One gay man, two lesbians, a three-legged cat and a poisoned curry plot  ]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134506/1/</link><description><![CDATA[And A Partridge in a pear tree.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmonica attack ]]></title><link>http://weird.plime.com/weird/l/134502/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Officers took the harmonica as evidence.]]></description></item></channel></rss>