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Wed, 4 Aug 1999 14:33:33 +0100


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OFF THE WIRE
News We Just Couldn't Pass Up

Chinese authorities have forbidden the use of polyester in national
flags used for celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the founding of
the Communist state.

When Pamela Bowers looked out of her kitchen window she was stunned to
see her border collie Brenna's kennel flying through the air - with the
dog in it. A freak tornado near Sudbury in eastern England lifted the
kennel and a dozing Brenna about three feet in the air and sent them
spinning about 20 feet. The dog was shaken but unhurt.

What do you get when you mix topless dancing with house cleaning?
Charlene Benavidez of Santa Fe, N.M., has proposed an unorthodox maid
service, saying she has five friends eager to start work semi-nude or in
bikinis. Lawyers say they can't find anything in the city law against
the proposal.

A Sco Paulo, Brazil resident reeled when his bank rang him over his
March telephone bill. It totalled $43 million. After a hasty call, the
Sco Paulo telephone company mailed him a correct bill for just $31.

Fire-fighters were called in to evict a family of rattlesnakes that had
slithered across the ceilings and walls of Brazil's Justice Ministry for
two weeks fraying the nerves of anxious civil servants.

Rio de Janeiro has one of the world's worst telephone systems, but
Francisco de Assis Ferreira Neto stopped complaining the day his
cellular telephone stopped a stray bullet headed for his chest. "This is
the lucky telephone. Thanks to it I'm alive," the cab driver said.

Compiled by Ivan Weiss, The Seattle Times, April 17, 1999


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