Odd / Tags / Newspaper

ODD / NEWS Thu Feb 22, 2007 @ 9:28am mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- One of the city's most prominent restaurateurs took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Wednesday, accusing the newspaper's chief food critic of lacking the bona fides to do the job. ``Your readers would not expect your drama critic.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jan 15, 2007 @ 9:42am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A wealthy Portuguese bachelor who had no children left his fortune to 70 strangers who he selected at random from a telephone book, a newspaper reported... Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Apr 1, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been appointed by Gordon Brown to inject more style and glamour into British life -- if you believe a report in the UK's Guardian newspaper. She is set to join British Prime Minister Brown's "government of all talents" and move to.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:39pm neoform

FOX News -- A 59-year-old German woman has had most of a pencil removed from inside her head after suffering nearly her whole life with the headaches and nosebleeds it caused, Bild newspaper reported. Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when s.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 12:16pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A German bus driver threatened to throw a 20-year-old sales clerk off his bus in the southern town of Lindau because he said she was too sexy, a newspaper reported on Monday. "Suddenly he stopped the bus," the woman named Debora C. told Bild newspaper... Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Feb 20, 2007 @ 9:38am mrmdc

Reuters -- Fed up with spending too many weekends going to weddings, an Argentine couple took out a paid announcement on the social pages of a major newspaper expressing their desire for some social neglect. "We thank you ahead of time for understanding this peti.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Dec 18, 2006 @ 9:56am mrmdc

Associated Press -- A recently appointed member of the Pennsylvania gaming board was a longtime critic of gambling when he was a legislator but he has won thousands of dollars at casinos, a newspaper reported Sunday... Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Nov 8, 2006 @ 3:14pm mrmdc

Reuters -- A condom seller has been ordered to shut his shop for displaying his wares without Chinese instructions and in "inappropriate packages," including ones bearing a likeness of Mao Zedong, a state newspaper said... Read More