Monday, July 10, 2006

La. garden yields yard-long ... cuculoupe? (AP)



AP - They're a yard long and a good few inches across. The skin is waxy, sort of like a cucumber, but yellow and ridged like a canteloupe. A half dozen of them grew between the cucumbers and cantaloupes in a Houma home garden.
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World Cup rant reborn as ring tone (Reuters)

A visitor to a shopping mall walks past a seven-foot-high model of a football, on display during a World Cup promotion in Hong Kong May 1, 2006. An over-zealous TV announcer's headline-making rant has become music to the ears of Chinese mobile phone users, combining their love for mobile chatter and World Cup soccer into a single new accessory. REUTERS/Bobby YipReuters - An over-zealous TV announcer's headline-making rant has become music to the ears of Chinese cellphone users, combining their love for mobile chatter and World Cup soccer into a single new accessory.



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Mouse potatoes, himbos and googling go mainstream (Reuters)
Reuters - Mouse potatoes joined couch potatoes, google officially became a verb and drama queens finally found the limelight on Thursday when they crossed over from popular culture to mainstream English language.
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