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July 24, 2005

I DON’T KNOW IF I’D CALL THE BRIDE “BEAUTIFUL” EXACTLY: 
Desperate to put an end to the blazing heat wave that has engulfed Khochakandar, India, villagers there have joined two giant toads in
matrimony in hopes of appeasing the rain gods.
The toads were dressed in bright red clothes for their wedding and
brought to the temple where 400 guests (human) awaited.
After the traditional Hindu ceremony, the newlyweds were thrown into a
pond.

WHATEVER POPO WANTS, POPO GETS:  
Villagers in the Zanzibar spice islands are living in fear of the evil spirit monster, Popo Bawa, a bat-like ogre with enormous lust who forces himself sexually upon the people.
Since he prefers to do his molesting behind closed doors, at night,
entire villages have taken to sleeping outside. Local witch doctors have
thus far been powerless to stop him.

NO WONDER HE’S LONELY; PEOPLE DON’T LIKE HIM:  
Moved by his pleas for company in a classified ad, a family in Bergamo,
Italy, took a lonely 80-year-old retired professor into their home. While
there, he had $2,860 worth of dental work done, then left before the bill
came. He later sent the family two checks to cover the costs, but it turns
out he had stolen those checks from another family that had taken him in
previously.

MMMMMM, THAT’S MIGHTY FINE EATIN’: 
A Danish newspaper has reported that workers at the Copenhagen Zoo have been slaughtering some of the animals in their care, cooking them up and feeding them to their friends and family.
They have feasted on antelope and muskrat as well as rabbits, pigs and
chicken from the petting zoo.
A crackdown is expected.

COOL AND SAFER FROM IMPERIALIST SWINE: 
Because of a heat wave in Chongqing, China, city officials have opened up 24 cool, underground bomb shelters, which were built in the 1960s and 1970s, where people can go to escape the summer heat. The shelters could
accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
http://www.bostonherald.com/columnists

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