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Home --> Daily Snopes

Daily Snopes

6 September 2004
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  Forget the Bedsheets, Just Buy a Plasma TV   (Agence France Presse)
  • Whereas once they might have been delighted with a cotton pillowcase or humble cutlery, modern couples about to get married now ask wedding guests for luxuries such as plasma-screen televisions.


    •   Two Muppets Named Top Scientists   (Reuters)
  • Muppets Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker defeated Dr. Strangelove, Dana Scully of "X Files" fame and Star Trek's Mr. Spock to be voted Britain's favorite screen scientists.


    •   Vintage Mercedes Sells for £4 Million   (Reuters)
  • A Mercedes Benz which for years was kept in a farm building has become the second most expensive car in the world after it sold for £4.1 million.


    •   Jailed Assassin 'Weds' Using Loophole   (Reuters)
  • Defying a life prison term in isolation, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin has secretly married by proxy.


    •   Swede Puzzled by British Parking Ticket   (Associated Press)
  • A Swedish mechanic said he won't pay a parking ticket that claims his snowmobile was illegally parked in Britain this summer.


    •   Bar Attacked with Mechanical Digger   (Reuters)
  • A mechanical digger was smashed into a Catholic bar in a flashpoint district of Belfast on Friday in an attack local politicians blamed on Protestants.


    •   California Academy of Sciences Holds Yard Sale   (Associated Press)
  • The California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park held a one-of-a-kind yard sale, offering rock-bottom prices on everything from antique wooden incubators to six-foot-tall prehistoric bird replicas.

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