http://wcbstv.com/local/nyc.transit....2.1042905.html

Headline: Baby Born On NYC Mass Transit For 2nd Straight Day

wow, it took two days!!! Couldn't they have got the mom to a hospital in that time?

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To me, it sounds even worse, like the baby was born twice. Maybe it didn't like the sound of the subway, and crawled back in for another day.

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lol that was my thought too.

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'Rod Blagojevich Superstar'

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Officials Looking For Sex Offender Believed To Be With Girl
Takes one to know one?

(edit) Let me add this one to go with tdvances slow baby.

Ohio woman feared baby would arrive with diploma

I'd probably worry that my baby would outsmart me too.

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I would hope that the birth is after the graduation ceremony. I wouldn't want to have the pass the square graduation cap pass through the birth canal.

Ow. That's a mental image I didn't need.

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Stab Proof Knife.

I don't actually have any problems with the article or the invention, just this last line from the inventor:
Can't inflict a fatal wound? I beg to differ. It may impede the process a bit, but if I really want to kill you with it, I'm confident I could.

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"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

It looks like you can inflict a fatal wound without even impeding the process a bit.

What percentage of knife wounds are stabs vs slashes?

I think "stab-proof" and "ineffective as a weapon" is false advertisement although that may just be the reporter's flurishment.

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Well, stabs are the dangerous types of wounds, as you get the organs involved in the party. Slashes obviously *can* be dangerous, but usually are less sever. I don't see why I couldn't stab and slash with that knife though. It doesn't have a point, but it's still a relatively thin metal blade. Might take a little more force, but doesn't seem like it would be any unreasonable amount to still get it to penetrate. I see where the "notch" might keep the clothes from tearing, I guess impeding the puncture-process.

Where's Mythbusters when you need 'em?

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"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

Excellent use of a misspelling (or typo).
I was thinking the same way. Although; I was thinking if they ever tested it on ballistics gel.

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Ballistics gel to start. To find out how safe they really are, you finalé would have to be dropping a few into a local prison population.

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"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

I wonder about the reference to "reduc[ing] the risk of accidental injuries."

Wouldn't you think most accidental injures involving kitchen knives are cut fingers, which this design wouldn't alleviate at all?

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The majority, yes. But again, the most serious injuries are from accidental stabbings. For instance, I went to school with a girl who fell on top of the open dish-washer drawer, and came out quite punctured. Serious injury, but she recovered.

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"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

I can definitely see how that design could reduce an accidental stab injury. I can also see where bouncing off that rounded tip and onto the back of the sharpened edge right at the tip might make a ripping, jagged wound.

The idea that it would be safer if someone were to grab it out of a drawer and use it in an attack is laughable. You can't stab anyone with a meat cleaver or marble rolling pin either.

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Oh, yeah. Looking at that, I can think of all sorts of ways to hurt someone (or yourself) with one. And anyway, rounded knives are hardly a new concept. According to legend, Cardinal Richelieu demanded them at his dinner parties.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

'Surprise' prostate result probed. That could benefit from some better choice of words, IMHO.

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And after that headline, I have to apologize to Gillian for my comment upthread from a few days ago. I'm going to go think about something else now.

I agree. Unfortunately, I think that the choice of words was carefully chosen.
I don't remember a medical trial ever being referred to as a probe in other stories.

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I'm either in that kind of mood today, or the reporters are just getting more puzzling. (I'll accept "both" as an answer too).

Body Left In Casket For Years
Interesting quote, but the reporter never established the "they". Other Zombies? I can only assume the funeral home owners, but then again, that brings up many other questions.
then...
Ok; that establishes that they prepared the body, but the statement just sounds odd.

Man Accused Of Killing Kids Says Jail Food A Problem
Vegetarian? Because he doesn't like the thought of killing animals?
Ok; there may be other reasons, but in lieu of an explanation, it sounds like a whine.

Then, just a few headlines.
Cruise Ship Returns Without Missing Woman
Would she be missing if it returned with her?

New Miss Ohio Almost Took Crown 2 Earlier Times
A chronic crown crook?

I wonder if this means the prettiest ones are leaving the state.

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I sure hope not!!!

. . . I mean, I'm attached so I don't care either way.

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"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

So you're saying your girlfriend isn't one of the prettiest ones?

(Yes, I'm teasing; no, I don't think you should have to think your significant other is the most attractive person around if they're not. If they're attractive to you, that should be all that matters.)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Hmm . . . it now occurs to me how lucky I am that she doesn't visit BAUT.

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"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."

One would hope that to be the norm, to return without missing a woman. But apparently it is newsworthy if it does happen. Hope they take better care of men

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I noticed one the other day while I was playing "Guitar Hero: World Tour" - actually, I guess I noticed it a while ago but I never thought to post it before now.

If you change your difficulty level within a playlist, you are given a message that says, "Your difficulty level has been permanently set to <whatever> until you change it."

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Or she finally grew into her looks.

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Well, there is a scenario where that would make sense. The cruise ship actually went on a voyage to rescue a woman who was missing in the jungle of Guatemala. But they failed to find her, and returned without completing the mission. Although somehow I doubt that is what happened...

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Duh. But then she would have been found woman.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I don't know what you mean. If they didn't find her, she'd still be missing, wouldn't she? Suppose that an expedition went to look for Tarzan, but failed to find him, and returned home empty-handed. Couldn't you say "Expedition returns without missing boy"?

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Maybe what they meant is there was some guy on board who went on the cruise without his spouse, and he had soo much fun that he never missed his wife. So when they returned, they did so without him missing the woman?

Makes perfect sense.

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"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."