That's a difficult question. I wouldn't call it twins, but rather a person with two bodies, in the same way that we say a person has 11 fingers, for example. In my mind at least, it's the brain that defines the person.

A google search revealed that there people close to that. It's called dipygus (have no idea how you pronounce that). There's an article here.

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5 Signs You Might Be A Nag
Interesting, but it also sounds like the same 5 signs that your partner may be a no-good, do-nothing, lazy bum.

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That's because I still don't understand what you said. Say it in a different way. Keep it up only if you're taking a written driving test so you can drive a cab.

I've often repeated the requests many, many times--because Graham doesn't hear me the first three times.

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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!"

Perfume Sends 34 Workers To Hospital

It may sound like it should be strange news...
But...
How's that for caring for workers. There's a problem making people sick, but keep working until you pass out.


And here's a catchy headline.
Dog Killer Wanted in Conneaut
Something in my mind thinks this isn't in the help wanted ads.

Edit: Saw another one...I expect a report from Fazor...
Sponsors hope to spur action by grim Ohio State Fair exhibit showing home of poor family
We all know that as your poverty level goes up, that your home starts losing outlets...

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Who needs the fair, that describes a good percentage of the houses in my neighborhood. Seriously.

But we were considering going to the fair, if we do I'll have to make a point to stop by there, just so I can see what it's like to be a field reporter.

"This just in! 'Fair exhibit seen by some shows things'." Is that ambiguous and confusing enough to sound professional?

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"Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"
"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything! 14% of people know that!"

"No"

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Man testifies he expected God to heal his child

Despite the heart-breaking subject, this line stuck out at me:

So not only could the poor girl not talk, she couldn't speak either.

There's a meeting going on across the hall from my office, and I just heard the conference-call system speak a programmed line:

"There are ... one ... participants on the line, including you."

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Sometimes it takes the right frame of mind, or something nearby to trigger the thought.

Earlier, I saw this headline very close to one about the Buick Open.
Tiger found wandering on Vegas streets

Immediately, I'm thinking he did too much celebrating for a good putt or something.

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No, I went to exactly where they wanted me to. That's . . . well, I suspect at least one person thought it was a hallucination from their intoxicant of choice.

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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!"

Some of you may have heard about the England man who's building a house completely out of Legos. Construction has started. Unfortunately, the reporter spruced up the writing a little too much, IMO.
(Bold mine.) The second instance of "bricks" refers to the Lego "pieces" in the first sentence. One or two other synonyms are used in the article. Wouldn't it have been better to stick to one for the sake of clarity?

No; then the reader would figure out it was 3 million legos, and not some horribly higher number based on the number of legos in a brick.

Those assembled bricks look like they are about 1/4 sqft of wall each.
So; about 1000 legos per sqft, or 3,000 sqft of wall makes a lot more sense than what they are implying.

Intentional Bad reporting, in my opinion.

The referenced quote is bad enough. What constituted an unwanted Lego?

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Following that link, I wound up with this headline:
"Lakewood Exiles Taser Dog"

I was wondering why they were exiled, and why they tasered a dog. Turns out it's the dog, previously tasered by police, that's being kicked out of the city.

http://www.newsnet5.com/home-backup/20262273/detail.htm

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I'm actually tired of hearing that story since it's absolutely ruffled my feathers. It's been all over the news here, and completely skewed against the cops.
They have video of the dog getting tazered (because the tazer has video), but not once, did anyone go beyond the fact that the dog was acting viciously and the cop thought he was in danger.
They kept concentrating on "he was a nice doggie, and wouldn't hurt anyone".
Then the story turned to "It's a boxer, not a pit bull". Sorry, but a dog's growling at me, I'm not going to check it's DNA.
And now that things are getting resolved, notice in the story you linked that it's the protesters that are demanding action not the dog owner. The owner agrees that the cop acted properly.

I'm getting tired of cop bashing.
Today's news, a 16 year old rides his bicycle across a busy road from the sidewalk and hits the side of a police car. And what do we get?
Cop Car Hits Bicyclist

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Cops are bad. Blah blah blah. Too much power. Blech blech blech.

I get sick of it. The worst part is that Police and Police action does need to be watched by the public, as there is a huge opportunity for abuse, and the abuse does happen. The problem is, when people and news decide to pick on everything ever cop does in a day, that makes it really hard for the true abuses to get noticed over all the noise.

And I don't get everyone's problems with tasers. This same situation 10 or 15 years ago would mean the dog would be dead, or at least recovering from gunshots. The tasers hurt (a lot!) but not as much as a bullet ripping through your body and puncturing and shattering everything in it's path.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"
"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything! 14% of people know that!"

Reminds me of the minor brouhaha a year or so ago about the tenor of Time magazines headlines regarding motorcycle officers who were killed in accidents while taking part in political motorcades. The details are probably too political to post here, so I don't even know why I'm mentioning it.

As for your link, I like the comment from the person who says (capitalization and spelling are the commenter's), "DID THE COP GET A TICKET! PEDESTERIANS ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY!" First, no, pedestrians don't "always" have the right-of-way. Second, bicycle riders generally aren't considered pedestrians anyway.

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a very dangerous myth, that I've heard often "pedestrians always get right of way"! Some at work thought that and a memo to all had to be sent by security explaining Maryland laws with regard to pedestrians after several accidents on grounds (and some were the vehicle's fault, but not all). And I heard it in college a lot too--who teaches them this!!!!

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Well, that statement is correct according to Newton's third law of motion.

I agree with you in regard to cop bashing. I can't think of more to say that I could phrase in a non-political way, unfortunately.

Wouldn't matter what its DNA showed anyway. You can't tell a dog's breed by it in the first place.

In my case? The Washington State Drivers' Handbook.

No, I'm a big fan of cops, myself. Of course, one victim of a rather famous serial killer was picked up on the campus of my alma mater. Every once in a while, we get people get all "police are tools of The Man!" Inevitably, someone rebuts with the Bundy reference.

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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!"

Maybe the laws are different there--in Maryland, certainly, cars have the right of way (with a few exceptions) when there is no crosswalk. The same is true in Virginia. In WV, nobody has "right of way" as the state policeman emphasized in our driver's ed class, but when there is no crosswalk, pedestrians "must yield" to cars. Of course, in practice, that means cars have right of way even if the law is careful not to say so.

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

Heck, up here, it's not jaywalking if you cross in the middle of the street, so long as the place you're crossing is between two intersections that don't have traffic lights.

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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!"

Maybe the story has changed, but when I just read it, it said the bicyclist hit the front of the police car. And the article implies that the police car was moving. If so, then the cop did hit the bicycle.

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In Salt Lake City, if the street has a crosswalk a pedestrian has to wait for the light to change before stepping off the curb. Once the pedestrian has the legal right to be in the crosswalk, no car can cross the crosswalk as long as any pedestrian is still in it. This holds even if the road has 7 total lanes and the person is on the far side while a car turns right.

There are also flag buckets at most downtown intersections. Pedestrians are encouraged (I don't think it's required) to carry a flag high obove their head when crossing the street.

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Here, you're not supposed to go if you're within one lane of a pedestrian. Obviously, a lot of people seem not to know that. Or possibly care. I've been just about clipped at the heels by people who slow down just enough so they don't actually hit me.

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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!"

Every culture has its quirks - but please tell me you are joking here.

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Love to. However...

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Then the media must be passing around the magical DNA reference. They referred to DNA testing to determine if "viscious dog" type charges applied.

That's my point. This particular story is implying the wrong thing.
It was not the front as far as a "face" of a car is concerned. It was the side of the car toward the front.
Another station's story that says "front" but does clarify.

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The thing is, if he suddenly attempted to cut across the road, it doesn't matter if he hit the side of the car, or if the front of the police car hit him. If you dart in front of a car, you cannot expect the car to always be able to stop. It doesn't matter if it's a private vehicle, a cop car, or a Delorian driven by Doc Brown.

Cops can hit pedestrians; they don't have superhuman reflexes and cars that defy the laws of physics.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"
"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything! 14% of people know that!"

Well, sure--DNA solves everything!

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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!"