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Stranger Comes out of Family’s Attic on Christmas
Here's another reason to stay home for the holidays: you never know who might be dropping in when you go out. Like the strange man living in the attic of one Pennsylvania family. The Luzerne County family woke up, opened presents and then went out to visit family on the holiday. When they came home, they noticed a bunch of items missing. Cops...
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Lego Santa Crab Will Frighten Children Into Being Good All Year
Radio host Max Kellerman once joked that Santa was just a story children were told so that they would behave themselves. (Or something like that.) So from Gizmodo (originally from someplace else, see below for the link trail) we give you - THE EVIL LEGO SANTA CRAB!Hide the children! Unless they've been bad this year, in which case you could use...
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Baby, Or Burrito?
Boing Boing published a bizarre snippet this week from the crime briefs section of a Silcion Valley newspaper (date unknown): Wal-Mart: Police receive a report of a newborn infant found in a trash can. Upon investigation, officers discover it was only a burrito. WTF? I mean unless we-are talking foot-long burritos, I'm not sure how they look tha...
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Are Email Holiday Cards Tacky?
You know the drill. The holidays are coming and you need to get the family card ready. In my house, my wife takes the lead on this, mostly because I'm not inclined to do it. Some people are tremendously organised and take the whole process very seriously -- photos taken by a professional no later than the 1st of November, cards printed a week l...
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Most Tasteless Tree Ornament Ever
"Protect our troops - from the womb to the war. What if the foetus you were going to abort would grow up to be a soldier bringing democracy to a godless dictatorship?" I think it says something about the general state of the anti-abortion movement and who they have let speak for them that when I saw this unborn soldier ornament, I was ful...
Insight
A Very Muslim Christmas
Last holiday season my three-year old son, Zain, innocently asked me, "Mummy, what is Santa bringing me for Christmas?" I should have known that question was coming. After all, I sent him to pre-school at a Baptist church. He attended chapel every Monday and said blessing before lunch every day. Once when he was two, he waddled over to me and told...
Strollerderby
Are You Buying a Pet For Christmas?
The Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) is warning families not to surprise loved ones with a pet this Christmas. All too often, the RSPCA is left with the aftermath of impulse purchases. Last year the RSPCA accepted 161,994 surrendered, abandoned, stray or neglected animals from the community. Although the organisation tries har...
Strollerderby
Parenting Books as Presents? Um, No.
It's almost Christmas, and, my fellow mothers, what are you hoping for under the tree?I can guarantee you, the answer is almost definitely NOT "a big bunch of parenting books, thanks!" I mean really - first of all, books in general are a bad gift for your average parent because who has time to read? It takes me two days to get through a decen...
Bad Parent
