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10 Weird Movie Titles
This is the short list of weird movie titles. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (1964) Horror | Music | Musical Jerry falls in love with a stripper he meets at a carnival. Little does … Continue reading →
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Personal Names
The following is a list of people who have received media attention because of their weird name, or are otherwise widely recognized as having names that are unusual. This list includes both names given at birth, and people who have … Continue reading →
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Ethnic Slurs
The following is a list of weird ethnic slurs (ethnophaulisms) that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnicity or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or … Continue reading →
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Political Parties
This is a list of political parties that have been created for various frivolous purposes: parody, joke, hoax, etc. Australia Deadly Serious Party (defunct) Imperial British Conservative Party (see also: Cecil G. Murgatroyd) Sun Ripened Warm Tomato Party (defunct) Party! … Continue reading →
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Awards
These are not, always, actual awards; but merely ironic, weird and funny awards. The Bald Archy. The Bald Archy is an Australian art prize, a parody of the Archibald Prize, an important portraiture award. It usually includes cartoons or humorous … Continue reading →
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Traffic Tickets
This is the list of the most unusual, superlative and odd traffic tickets. Did you recently get one? Share with us, please. The fastest speeding ticket in the world allegedly occurred in May 2003 in Texas. It was supposedly 242 mph … Continue reading →
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eBay Listings
Many weird items have been listed for sale on auction website eBay. Some sold while other auctions were stopped by eBay because the listing breached their policies. Please feel free to add any weird eBay listing that you stumble upon. … Continue reading →
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Woman Who Missed Doomed Air France Flight Dies In Car Crash |
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Saturday, 13 June 2009 |
It's the kind of story that makes you wonder about the nature of fate.
Johanna Ganthaler and her husband Kurt must have been breathing more than just a sigh of relief last week. The couple had been on vacation in Brazil and they were running late. Despite their best efforts, they missed the plane that was supposed to take them back to Europe, leaving them feeling frustrated.
It was a frustration that turned to grateful amazement - the jet that took off without them was Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people onboard, including a former Guelph resident.
The Ganthalers wound up taking an alternate flight back and arrived safely. They were driving home, when their vehicle veered off the road in Austria and into an oncoming truck.
Johanna, who had managed to avoid dying in the plane crash, was killed in the collision, while her husband was seriously injured.
It's not clear what caused their vehicle to lose control.
Meanwhile, the search for the black boxes continues in the depths, with the help of a nuclear submarine equipped with sonar. Time is of the essence - the pings from those data recorders will stop next month.
Forty-one bodies have now been recovered from the crash site. Authorities hope to use DNA to identify the remains.
Information from: CityNews.ca, http://www.citynews.ca |
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