[SOC] [OT] Offbeat

[Ian C. Purdie]

SHEEP HIDES OUT IN MUTTON COVE, ESCAPES DINNER PLATE

"What was once a Monty Python joke has become reality with a renegade sheep
eluding live export now set to live happily ever after.

The Monty Python team once joked about the most dangerous of creatures - a
clever sheep called Harold who escaped after realising his life was about
standing around and then being eaten...."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1202279.htm


REPORTS OF MY DEATH WERE EXAGGERATED, MAN SAYS

"Gathered to pay their last respects, the mourning relatives were surprised
when the dearly departed telephoned the funeral home to say that he was alive
and well.

The family of Dane Squares, 48, who lived on the streets, was convinced he had
been killed by a commuter train in the Toronto suburbs on September 10...."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1202275.htm


MELBOURNE TEAM WINS HENLEY ON TODD REGATTA

"A Melbourne team sponsored by a Swedish-Finnish company has won the main race
in the Alice Springs Henley on Todd regatta.

The event features people running in bottomless boats in a dry river bed and is
a parody on the annual regatta between universities on the Thames River in the
United Kingdom...."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1202224.htm


72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords S33°14', E151°34'
VK2TIP "I'll give ya the TIP mate" QRP-L #1978. SOC #171 FP#91
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