Karenluvs6
12-30-2000, 12:01 PM
Bizarre Holidays
JANUARY
January is... National Fiber Focus Month
January 1 is...First Foot Day
January 2 is...Run Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes
It Day
January 8 is...National JoyGerm Day and Man Watcher's Day
January 10 is... Peculiar People Day
January 11 is... National Step in a Puddle and Splash
Your Friend Day
January 12 is... Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
January 22 is... National Answer Your Cat's Question Day
January 23 is...Measure Your Feet Day
January 24 is... Eskimo Pie Patent Day
January 28 is... National Kazoo Day and Rattle Snake Round-Up Day
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AUSTRALIA - Women's shopping impulses are starting to make
some scents. Australian researchers claim the scent of a
sexy man can send a woman on a shopping spree. Scientists
have discovered male pheromones can send subliminal messages
which influence a woman's spending habits. Research suggests
that the sales staff in department stores may be able to
tempt female shoppers into buying products by wearing perfume
spiked with male pheromones. Iain Waller, who presented the
paper, stated that the use of pheromones to try to influence
customers' behavior could have legal and ethical implications
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OREGON - An airman who allegedly deserted Ellsworth Air Force
Base where he was stationed, survived in his car for 16 days
under four feet of snow. Thomas Truett, 29, left his post in
South Dakota on December 3rd and drove West, through North
California, until his 1982 Mazda sports car became stuck in
the wilderness of Oregon. He attempted to walk out of the
woods, but weather conditions were too severe. He survived
in his automobile for 16 days with only a bottle of orange
juice and a package of M&Ms. When he was finally found Truett
had lost more than 20 pounds. Upon release from the hospital
he is to be turned over to the Air Force where he will face
federal desertion charges.
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AURORA, Illinois - A 22-year-old man died Christmas Eve when
a friend tried to shoot a plastic cup off of his head William
Tell style. Police are searching for Adrian Lorenzo Quintana-
Galindo, 22, who put a plastic cup on his friend Manuel
Dominguez-Quintero and then fired a shot from a .25-caliber
semi-automatic pistol at it. However, the bullet hit Dominguez-
Quintero in the head and he was dead by the time police
arrived. Meanwhile, Quintana-Galindo apparently dropped the
gun and ran away. Investigators are still trying to calculate
how far apart the two men were when the shooting occurred
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FAIRFAX, Va. - A 12-year-old boy sent to the principal's
office for misbehaving walked out of the school and made his
way to the airport where he boarded a plane without a ticket
and flew to St. Louis. No one knew where Christopher Peregory
had gone until he called his mother from the St. Louis
airport later that day. "He was practically hysterical," said
his mother, Renee. She said he had never run away before.
"He's a very good child. It was just an adventure." Peregory
walked out of Belle View Elementary School Wednesday, hopped
a Metro train to Reagan National Airport and picked the Trans
World Airlines flight to St. Louis at random. How he boarded
without a ticket or boarding pass has not yet been
satisfactorily explained
JANUARY
January is... National Fiber Focus Month
January 1 is...First Foot Day
January 2 is...Run Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes
It Day
January 8 is...National JoyGerm Day and Man Watcher's Day
January 10 is... Peculiar People Day
January 11 is... National Step in a Puddle and Splash
Your Friend Day
January 12 is... Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
January 22 is... National Answer Your Cat's Question Day
January 23 is...Measure Your Feet Day
January 24 is... Eskimo Pie Patent Day
January 28 is... National Kazoo Day and Rattle Snake Round-Up Day
------------------------------------------------------------
AUSTRALIA - Women's shopping impulses are starting to make
some scents. Australian researchers claim the scent of a
sexy man can send a woman on a shopping spree. Scientists
have discovered male pheromones can send subliminal messages
which influence a woman's spending habits. Research suggests
that the sales staff in department stores may be able to
tempt female shoppers into buying products by wearing perfume
spiked with male pheromones. Iain Waller, who presented the
paper, stated that the use of pheromones to try to influence
customers' behavior could have legal and ethical implications
------------------------------------------------------------
OREGON - An airman who allegedly deserted Ellsworth Air Force
Base where he was stationed, survived in his car for 16 days
under four feet of snow. Thomas Truett, 29, left his post in
South Dakota on December 3rd and drove West, through North
California, until his 1982 Mazda sports car became stuck in
the wilderness of Oregon. He attempted to walk out of the
woods, but weather conditions were too severe. He survived
in his automobile for 16 days with only a bottle of orange
juice and a package of M&Ms. When he was finally found Truett
had lost more than 20 pounds. Upon release from the hospital
he is to be turned over to the Air Force where he will face
federal desertion charges.
------------------------------------------------------------
AURORA, Illinois - A 22-year-old man died Christmas Eve when
a friend tried to shoot a plastic cup off of his head William
Tell style. Police are searching for Adrian Lorenzo Quintana-
Galindo, 22, who put a plastic cup on his friend Manuel
Dominguez-Quintero and then fired a shot from a .25-caliber
semi-automatic pistol at it. However, the bullet hit Dominguez-
Quintero in the head and he was dead by the time police
arrived. Meanwhile, Quintana-Galindo apparently dropped the
gun and ran away. Investigators are still trying to calculate
how far apart the two men were when the shooting occurred
------------------------------------------------------------
FAIRFAX, Va. - A 12-year-old boy sent to the principal's
office for misbehaving walked out of the school and made his
way to the airport where he boarded a plane without a ticket
and flew to St. Louis. No one knew where Christopher Peregory
had gone until he called his mother from the St. Louis
airport later that day. "He was practically hysterical," said
his mother, Renee. She said he had never run away before.
"He's a very good child. It was just an adventure." Peregory
walked out of Belle View Elementary School Wednesday, hopped
a Metro train to Reagan National Airport and picked the Trans
World Airlines flight to St. Louis at random. How he boarded
without a ticket or boarding pass has not yet been
satisfactorily explained