Despite trillions annually, and more lawful authority than any human institution in all history, the U.S. federal government is still too craven to discipline even one malodorous employee: The Social Security Administration officially reprimanded an employee whom colleagues accused of continuously “passing gas and releasing an unpleasant odor” that created a “hostile work environment.” After…
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CNN’s Best Distraction Videos of 2012
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Evil Snowman
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Did Hiker Film Bigfoot, Black Bear or Blobsquatch?
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Man bites cobra to death in Nepal
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Whitewater, this snake would have been a real problem…
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Scientists at the University of Florida say the 160-pound, 17-foot-long Burmese python found in the Everglades last week is the largest one ever seen in the state, and more evidence that the “monstrous” snakes are taking over the park. Even more disturbing than the snake’s size is the fact that it was carrying 87 eggs, also a…
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What Happens When People Actually Fall for Nigerian Email Scams
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Witnesses from Separate Wisconsin Locations Report UFO Sightings
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Rhinelander benefits from the… Hodag
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For more on the Hodag — March 22nd is the birthday of Eugene Shepard, of whom the Wisconsin Historical Society offers an account — …Eugene Shepard was born near Green Bay. Although he made his career in the lumbering business near Rhinelander, he was best known for his story-telling and practical jokes. He told many…
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Now Montello Children Get in on America’s Latest Craze
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Of course they do – they’ve seen the future, and that future is in Mysterious Creatures. Last week, a Juneau County man claimed he found a hairless, mysterious looking creature along side a highway just outside Elroy. A debate ensued — was it just a sick animal, the legendary goat-sucking Chupacabra, or something else? Whatever…
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See What Happens When You Delay!?! Why Can’t Whitewater Publicize Its Own Chupacabra, Lake Monster, Giant Ape, Etc.?
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Yesterday, in a post entitled, Why Can’t Whitewater Publicize Its Own Chupacabra, Lake Monster, Giant Ape, Etc.?, I remarked on the cash-generating possibilities of a fabricated legendary creature for Whitewater: There’s no need to milk taxpayers — either in Whitewater or elsewhere — of millions, when a profitable venture in mythological animals might be started…
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Why Can’t Whitewater Publicize Its Own Chupacabra, Lake Monster, Giant Ape, Etc.?
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In Texas, a thirteen-year-old boy believes he’s shot a chupacabra, a legendary animal that supposedly sucks the blood from its prey. Looking at the video, the dead animal looks like nothing so much as an emaciated, partly hairless coyote. (It looks a coyote that because that’s what it surely is.) Yet, even this readily-identifiable creature’s…