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REVENGE Publicised for Posterity!!! Moral Included!

November 30th 2008 23:45
gravestone headstone

This gravestone is located in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Section C, Plot: 01369.

Can you see the hidden message it contains?!

It's made a little clearer here:
secret message grave


No-one knows for sure the exact story behind the inscription, but the Montreal Mirror was able to locate the man who engraved it. The story he gave was that the dead man's ex-wife and mistress came in and ordered the stone. They said that it was a thing between the three of them. The moral of the story - think twice before you cheat on your wife!
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Things HURRICANES Have Sent FLYING!

November 12th 2008 09:47
flying cow
Hurricanes are unpredictable at the best of times, but who could have predicted these strange occurrences!

During one hurricane in the USA, witnesses noticed as a row of birds sitting on a branch had all their feathers blown off!
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Would You Bet On This Hand???

August 10th 2008 16:20
poker
During 1858, a man named Robert Fallon who was out playing poker was shot dead by other members of the table who believed his current winnings of $600 had been attained by cheating.

Because none of the other players considered the $600 pot to be lucky, Fallon's seat remained empty. However they were able to fill it at the eleventh hour with a new player and the game played on.
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EYELID TWITCHING!!!

February 1st 2008 22:45
eye
Who else here is a card carrying member of the Eye Twitch Club???

I'm sure there are quite a few of us out there. you wake up in the morning, and everything seems normal, but then one of your eyelids decides to branch out on it's own, despite any central commands from the brain.
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A Coincidental Life!

July 24th 2007 00:45
We’ve all heard amazing stories of coincidence involving identical twins separated at birth, but some, like this example, really do make you wonder.

twins
Two twin boys were born in Ohio, adopted by different families and completely unknown to each other, were both named James.
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The Most Unlikely Dog Mating!

April 21st 2007 00:25
Dachshund
Now that's what I call a Hot-Dog!

The most unlikely dog mating on record seems just a little more than hard to believe, but in 1972 over in the south of Wales, a male Dachshund, commonly known as a Hotdog, managed to creep up on a sleeping Great Dane!
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London's Strange Lost Property

April 3rd 2007 00:25
Some strange things can be found in the lost property office of London Transport. Here is just a small selection.
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* Breast implants.
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AMAZING Word Scrambles!!!

March 3rd 2007 02:20
scrambled letters
I was sent this one by email the other day and thought it was good enough to post and share!

You all know how word scrambles work - you take a word, re-arrange the letters to come up with another word.
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