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Doctors at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, have spotted what looks like the face of a screaming man in an ultrasound of a testicular tumour.

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http://www.kare11.com/news/article/945315/396/3-earthquakes-give-Oklahoma-the-shakes

OKLAHOMA CITY - A moderate earthquake early Saturday in central Oklahoma knocked pictures off walls and woke people and pets as it shook an area that stretched into Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Texas.

The U.S. Geological Survey said on its website Saturday that a 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck at 2:12 a.m., with an epicenter about six miles north of Prague in Lincoln County. That's about 50 miles east of Oklahoma City and 75 miles southwest of Tulsa.

A 3.4 magnitude aftershock was reported at 2:27 a.m. from the same location, as well as a 2.7 magnitude aftershock at 2:44 a.m.

"Oh, man. I've never felt anything like that in my life," Prague City Police Department dispatcher Claudie Morton told the Tulsa World. "It was the scariest thing. I had a police officer just come in and sit down and all the sudden the walls started shaking and the windows were rattling. It felt like the roof was going to come off the police department."

Morton said the office was flooded with calls, but no one reported injuries or major damage. She said residents told her that picture frames and mirrors fell from walls and broke, drawers worked loose from dressers and objects tumbled out of cabinets.

"We do have several damaged buildings downtown, but it's just cracks and things like that," Morton said. "Nothing is destroyed or anything like that."

Oklahoma Geological Survey researcher Austin Holland told Oklahoma City television station KOTV that the earthquake and aftershocks occurred on a known fault line.

Residents in Prague and Sparks felt an intense shaking, while farther away, the quake was more of a dull rumble, he said.

"It shakes much more rapidly when you're closer to it," he said. "Because it's a large earthquake, it's going to rumble for a while."

Holland said his office received hundreds of emails from people who felt the quake. The messages came from as far as Texas, Missouri and Arkansas, he said.

Tom Foster of Oklahoma City told The Oklahoman that he slept through the earthquake but was awakened by an aftershock.

"I know we've already had several phone calls from out of state relatives wondering what happened," Foster said. "I guess it's more interesting than anything that was dangerous."

Heather Spicer of Sapulpa said the shaking woke her son and their dog.

"At first I thought an airplane had crashed nearby," she told The Oklahoman. "But now I believe it was an earthquake because the whole house just kept vibrating with what sounded like distant thunder outside."

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck in October 2010 a few miles southeast of Norman. Two people were treated at hospitals after that temblor.

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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I actually felt it here in MN. I had just gone to bed when I felt the mattress heave back and forth ever so slightly, but enough to know it wasn't from me.
 
the participants in this thread are more likely to know whther it is true or invented that a British citizen named Rickie la Touche ( so close to douche-bag) killed his Thai wife of 8 years , Pormpilai [replace m with n] because she broke his Star Wars toys in a marital spat . Thai sounds so close to TIE and the whole seems so made up to me .

( ı have replaced m only because Turkish versions of web filters would probably ban this URL if written in full ...)
 
Hooooooly bleeeeeeeeep! :eek:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...s-eating-McDonalds-chicken-nuggets-age-2.html

Ever since she was a toddler, Stacey Irvine has eaten little else but chicken nuggets and the occasional portion of chips.

Now, at the age of 17, she has been warned by doctors to change her appalling diet or die.

The factory worker – who says she has never tasted fresh fruit or vegetables – had to be taken to hospital earlier this week when she collapsed after struggling to breathe.

Doctors found that her 15-year ‘chronic chicken nugget addiction’ has left her with anaemia and inflamed veins on her tongue.

So deficient was her body in vitamins and nutrients that she had to be injected with them.
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Wow. :eek:

Edit: Ninja'ed. Dammit. :(
 
Heretic_Cata said:
So eating junk food is bad for health ? Whoa!
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I was more surprised as to how she managed to keep that diet for so long before suffering the adverse side effects.
 
I'm more surprised that she doesn't look all that bad.
 
PlutonianEmpire said:
Hooooooly bleeeeeeeeep! :eek:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...s-eating-McDonalds-chicken-nuggets-age-2.html

Wow. :eek:

Edit: Ninja'ed. Dammit. :(
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I heard someone talking about that on Friday. I'm also surprised that it didn't have serious side effects sooner. And I can't imagine eating the same food day after day, either, even my favorite foods. But I guess this means that when those "what food would you eat if you could only eat one food" threads come up, it doesn't mean you'd necessarily croak of nutrient loss within months. I'd always kind of expected you would.
 
taillesskangaru said:
Awesome but economically unsound. Waste of a perfectly good laptop and bullets.
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It's not a waste if it gets a teenage girl to shut up. I'm forced to spend unholy amounts of time with that species on a regular basis, and anything that shuts them up without resulting in gaol-time is well-worth it.
 
If you think you need to resort to guns to settle an argument with a minor, I have serious doubts about your abilities as an educator...
 
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