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Some English beers are made with fish guts.
http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/03_03/urban_myths_4.htm

Slime Mystery Finally Solved
Wisconsin State Journal :: LOCAL/WISCONSIN :: D1
Sunday, May 4, 2003
George Hesselberg
There were stakeouts lasting into the early morning hours. Experts were consulted. There were postcard mailings to the entire neighborhood. There were visits and inspections of area businesses and dumpsters.
Neighbors talked about it, joined the stakeouts, puzzled and pondered the evidence, but […]

Man Slices Own Head Off in Supermarket Suicide
Wed May 7, 2003 09:17 AM ET
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African man died trying to cut his own head off with a butcher’s band saw in a major supermarket, police said on Wednesday.
Superintendent Jay Naicker said the Shoprite Checkers store in Richards Bay had been […]

Shrimp Creole
2 large onions, chopped
1 cup celery, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 6-oz. can tomato paste
1 and 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 15-oz. can diced tomatoes
1 8-oz. can tomato sauce
2 bay leaves
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
2 tsp. red pepper
Pinch of salt
1/4 cup flour
2 pounds shrimp, peeled and deveined
Combine onions and next 3 ingredients in a […]

On a special teacher’s day, a kindergarten teacher was receiving gifts
from her pupils. The florist’s son handed her a gift. She shooked it,
held it over her head, and said, “I bet I know what it is - flowers!”
“That’s right!” said the boy, “but how did you know?”
“Just a wild guess,” she said.
The next pupil was […]