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	<title>Comments on: Bombshell: Man raped by wombat may have been lying</title>
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		<title>By: srhoades</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/27/bombshell-man-raped-by-wombat-may-have-been-lying/comment-page-1/#comment-1036507</link>
		<dc:creator>srhoades</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And no, it wasn&#039;t help putting one on a wombat.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And no, it wasn&#8217;t help putting one on a wombat.</p>
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		<title>By: srhoades</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/27/bombshell-man-raped-by-wombat-may-have-been-lying/comment-page-1/#comment-1036504</link>
		<dc:creator>srhoades</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Man!  I wish we had a charge like &quot;Wasting Police Time&quot; in this country.  Maybe then idiots will stop calling 911 for help on how to put on a condom.  (Real call I kid you not!)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Man!  I wish we had a charge like &#8220;Wasting Police Time&#8221; in this country.  Maybe then idiots will stop calling 911 for help on how to put on a condom.  (Real call I kid you not!)</p>
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		<title>By: Alex_SF</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alex_SF</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Corrected for spelling and punctuation:
Wombat: eats, &lt;strike&gt;roots&lt;/strike&gt; ruts, &amp; leaves.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Uh, no.  The original was the way it was supposed to be.  You see, it&#039;s a pun.  And I was writing in Australian.  (Ask an Australian the meaning of the word &quot;root.&quot;  Hint: it can be a noun or a verb, and the verb form means the exact same thing as the word you substituted.)  And the lack of a comma creates the ambiguity that makes the pun work.

It&#039;s actually the punchline to an old Australian joke, which was bowdlerized for a book title in the US by substituting &quot;shoots&quot; for &quot;roots.&quot;
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Wombat: eats, &lt;strike&gt;roots ruts&lt;/strike&gt; twigs, &amp; &lt;strike&gt;leaves&lt;/strike&gt; berries.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Aw, the hell with it.  I give up.  Y&#039;all win.  You&#039;ll probably love this one:

&quot;Wombat: ****s you in the ***.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Corrected for spelling and punctuation:<br />
Wombat: eats, <strike>roots</strike> ruts, &amp; leaves.</p></blockquote>
<p>Uh, no.  The original was the way it was supposed to be.  You see, it&#8217;s a pun.  And I was writing in Australian.  (Ask an Australian the meaning of the word &#8220;root.&#8221;  Hint: it can be a noun or a verb, and the verb form means the exact same thing as the word you substituted.)  And the lack of a comma creates the ambiguity that makes the pun work.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually the punchline to an old Australian joke, which was bowdlerized for a book title in the US by substituting &#8220;shoots&#8221; for &#8220;roots.&#8221;</p>
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Wombat: eats, <strike>roots ruts</strike> twigs, &amp; <strike>leaves</strike> berries.</p></blockquote>
<p>Aw, the hell with it.  I give up.  Y&#8217;all win.  You&#8217;ll probably love this one:</p>
<p>&#8220;Wombat: ****s you in the ***.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Dr. Charles G. Waugh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr. Charles G. Waugh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More likely a dingbat than a wombat.</description>
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		<title>By: sulla</title>
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		<dc:creator>sulla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I sure hope Goldstein&#039;s armadillo doesn&#039;t get any ideas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I sure hope Goldstein&#8217;s armadillo doesn&#8217;t get any ideas.</p>
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		<title>By: MadisonConservative</title>
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		<dc:creator>MadisonConservative</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That guy was asking for it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That guy was asking for it.</p>
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		<title>By: inviolet</title>
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		<dc:creator>inviolet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Some mood music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbh9c0noR4s

William Amos on March 27, 2008 at 9:02 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

LOL good one. 

&lt;blockquote&gt;Wombat: eats, roots ruts, &amp; leaves.

flipflop on March 27, 2008 at 7:23 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Somebody &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuation/dp/1592402038/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1206668196&amp;sr=8-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wrote a funny book &lt;/a&gt;about that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Some mood music</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbh9c0noR4s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbh9c0noR4s</a></p>
<p>William Amos on March 27, 2008 at 9:02 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>LOL good one. </p>
<blockquote><p>Wombat: eats, roots ruts, &amp; leaves.</p>
<p>flipflop on March 27, 2008 at 7:23 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Somebody <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuation/dp/1592402038/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1206668196&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">wrote a funny book </a>about that.</p>
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		<title>By: William Amos</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Amos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some mood music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbh9c0noR4s</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some mood music</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbh9c0noR4s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbh9c0noR4s</a></p>
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		<title>By: canopfor</title>
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		<dc:creator>canopfor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wombat,Wombat candlelight...
Mojack420 on March 27,2008 at 8:51PM

Mojack420:Priceless,oh I&#039;m laughin,make it stop.
          How about the diddy by Exile,I want
          to kiss you all over,the scene swimming   
          with sharks! haha</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wombat,Wombat candlelight&#8230;<br />
Mojack420 on March 27,2008 at 8:51PM</p>
<p>Mojack420:Priceless,oh I&#8217;m laughin,make it stop.<br />
          How about the diddy by Exile,I want<br />
          to kiss you all over,the scene swimming<br />
          with sharks! haha</p>
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		<title>By: right2bright</title>
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		<dc:creator>right2bright</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;OT Does anyone know how to remove vodka from a laptop keyboard???

FloridaBill on March 27, 2008 at 8:46 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Wombats are quite efficient at cleaning things like keyboards.  They are very adept entering small cracks...harder then hell to get them out though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>OT Does anyone know how to remove vodka from a laptop keyboard???</p>
<p>FloridaBill on March 27, 2008 at 8:46 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Wombats are quite efficient at cleaning things like keyboards.  They are very adept entering small cracks&#8230;harder then hell to get them out though.</p>
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		<title>By: canopfor</title>
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		<dc:creator>canopfor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How about Bats to the theme of Radar Love!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How about Bats to the theme of Radar Love!</p>
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		<title>By: Mojack420</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mojack420</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wombat , wombat candlelight 
Doin&#039; the town and doin&#039; it right 
In the evenin&#039; 
It&#039;s pretty pleasin&#039; 

Wombat Arthur, Wombat Sam 
Do the jitterbug out in wombat land 
And they shimmy 
And Sammy&#039;s so skinny 

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed 
Singin&#039; and jingin&#039; the jango 
Floatin&#039; like the heavens above 
It looks like wombat love 

Nibbling on bacon, chewin&#039; on cheese 
Sammy says to Arthur&quot;Honey, would you please be my missus?&quot; 
And he say yes 
With his kisses 

And now he&#039;s ticklin&#039; his fancy 
Rubbin&#039; his toes 
Muzzle to muzzle, now anything goes 
As they wriggle, and Arthur starts to giggle 

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed 
Singin&#039; and jingin&#039; the jango 
Floatin&#039; like the heavens above 
It looks like wombat love 

La da da da da ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wombat , wombat candlelight<br />
Doin&#8217; the town and doin&#8217; it right<br />
In the evenin&#8217;<br />
It&#8217;s pretty pleasin&#8217; </p>
<p>Wombat Arthur, Wombat Sam<br />
Do the jitterbug out in wombat land<br />
And they shimmy<br />
And Sammy&#8217;s so skinny </p>
<p>And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed<br />
Singin&#8217; and jingin&#8217; the jango<br />
Floatin&#8217; like the heavens above<br />
It looks like wombat love </p>
<p>Nibbling on bacon, chewin&#8217; on cheese<br />
Sammy says to Arthur&#8221;Honey, would you please be my missus?&#8221;<br />
And he say yes<br />
With his kisses </p>
<p>And now he&#8217;s ticklin&#8217; his fancy<br />
Rubbin&#8217; his toes<br />
Muzzle to muzzle, now anything goes<br />
As they wriggle, and Arthur starts to giggle </p>
<p>And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed<br />
Singin&#8217; and jingin&#8217; the jango<br />
Floatin&#8217; like the heavens above<br />
It looks like wombat love </p>
<p>La da da da da &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: CliffHanger</title>
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		<dc:creator>CliffHanger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rough wombat love - now that&#039;s Dude! worthy...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rough wombat love &#8211; now that&#8217;s Dude! worthy&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: canopfor</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/27/bombshell-man-raped-by-wombat-may-have-been-lying/comment-page-1/#comment-1035936</link>
		<dc:creator>canopfor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And with that in the imagination a good old fashion
Robot Humping is needed.

Kini on March 27,2008 at 7:59PM.

Kini: LMAO,the bike,the lava lamp,it never ends,
      thanks for that,nice hearing from you again!HeHe</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And with that in the imagination a good old fashion<br />
Robot Humping is needed.</p>
<p>Kini on March 27,2008 at 7:59PM.</p>
<p>Kini: LMAO,the bike,the lava lamp,it never ends,<br />
      thanks for that,nice hearing from you again!HeHe</p>
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		<title>By: LimeyGeek</title>
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		<dc:creator>LimeyGeek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I’ve been drinking for 40 years&lt;/blockquote&gt;
You must be King Hammered</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I’ve been drinking for 40 years</p></blockquote>
<p>You must be King Hammered</p>
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		<title>By: CliffHanger</title>
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		<dc:creator>CliffHanger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A wombat up the arse is not the most ideal way to remove hemmoroids.  Or so I&#039;m told...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A wombat up the arse is not the most ideal way to remove hemmoroids.  Or so I&#8217;m told&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: FloridaBill</title>
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		<dc:creator>FloridaBill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Allah:

This post is without question one of the funniest you have ever posted (IMHO). Comments were also awesome (Some quite twisted, but funny nonetheless - CED, in particular).

I guess it pays to be &quot;All Seeing and All Knowing&quot;, thanks for the laugh.

OT Does anyone know how to remove vodka from a laptop keyboard???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Allah:</p>
<p>This post is without question one of the funniest you have ever posted (IMHO). Comments were also awesome (Some quite twisted, but funny nonetheless &#8211; CED, in particular).</p>
<p>I guess it pays to be &#8220;All Seeing and All Knowing&#8221;, thanks for the laugh.</p>
<p>OT Does anyone know how to remove vodka from a laptop keyboard???</p>
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		<title>By: Indy Conservative</title>
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		<dc:creator>Indy Conservative</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;

Come and clean now…
Indy Consevative on March 27,2008 at 8:03PM.

Indy Conservative:Ha ha,oh the horror,when will it end!

canopfor on March 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

It won&#039;t end. GrRrRrrrrrrr

&lt;strong&gt;Here&#039;s another true story.&lt;/strong&gt;

But this one has a twist. 

No animals were involved or injured.

Read on:


&lt;strong&gt;Married &#039;man&#039; claims to be five months pregnant&lt;/strong&gt;

By James Macintyre

Thursday, 27 March 2008

A man who used to be a woman before having gender reassignment surgery claims he is five months pregnant and expecting a baby girl in July.

Thomas Beatie, who is married and from the US state of Oregon, has written an article in the gay magazine Advocate, saying it feels &quot;incredible&quot; to be a &quot;pregnant man&quot;. He adds: &quot;Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am.&quot;

Born Tracy Lagondino, Mr Beatie kept his female organs when he changed genders. He turned to home insemination after what he says was discrimination from doctors. He says he is carrying a child on behalf of his wife, Nancy, because she has had a hysterectomy. The couple have been together for 10 years.

&quot;Doctors have discriminated against us, turning us away due to their religious beliefs,&quot; Mr Beatie explained in the article.

&quot;Healthcare professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognise Nancy as my wife. Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive; most of Nancy&#039;s family doesn&#039;t even know I&#039;m transgender,&quot; he added. &quot;Sterilisation is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights,&quot; he said. &quot;Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire but a human desire.&quot;

The couple, who manage a custom screen-printing business in the town of Bend, lived a normal life &quot;until we decided that I would carry our child,&quot; Mr Beatie wrote. A previous insemination ended in a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy with triplets, requiring surgery, resulting in the loss of all his embryos and his right fallopian tube.

&quot;I will be my daughter&#039;s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family,&quot; Mr Beatie wrote. Advocate says it has confirmed with Mr Beatie&#039;s doctors that he is indeed pregnant.

©independent.co.uk</description>
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<p>Come and clean now…<br />
Indy Consevative on March 27,2008 at 8:03PM.</p>
<p>Indy Conservative:Ha ha,oh the horror,when will it end!</p>
<p>canopfor on March 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM
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<p>It won&#8217;t end. GrRrRrrrrrrr</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s another true story.</strong></p>
<p>But this one has a twist. </p>
<p>No animals were involved or injured.</p>
<p>Read on:</p>
<p><strong>Married &#8216;man&#8217; claims to be five months pregnant</strong></p>
<p>By James Macintyre</p>
<p>Thursday, 27 March 2008</p>
<p>A man who used to be a woman before having gender reassignment surgery claims he is five months pregnant and expecting a baby girl in July.</p>
<p>Thomas Beatie, who is married and from the US state of Oregon, has written an article in the gay magazine Advocate, saying it feels &#8220;incredible&#8221; to be a &#8220;pregnant man&#8221;. He adds: &#8220;Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am.&#8221;</p>
<p>Born Tracy Lagondino, Mr Beatie kept his female organs when he changed genders. He turned to home insemination after what he says was discrimination from doctors. He says he is carrying a child on behalf of his wife, Nancy, because she has had a hysterectomy. The couple have been together for 10 years.</p>
<p>&#8220;Doctors have discriminated against us, turning us away due to their religious beliefs,&#8221; Mr Beatie explained in the article.</p>
<p>&#8220;Healthcare professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognise Nancy as my wife. Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive; most of Nancy&#8217;s family doesn&#8217;t even know I&#8217;m transgender,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Sterilisation is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire but a human desire.&#8221;</p>
<p>The couple, who manage a custom screen-printing business in the town of Bend, lived a normal life &#8220;until we decided that I would carry our child,&#8221; Mr Beatie wrote. A previous insemination ended in a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy with triplets, requiring surgery, resulting in the loss of all his embryos and his right fallopian tube.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will be my daughter&#8217;s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family,&#8221; Mr Beatie wrote. Advocate says it has confirmed with Mr Beatie&#8217;s doctors that he is indeed pregnant.</p>
<p>©independent.co.uk</p>
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		<title>By: canopfor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Come and clean now...
Indy Consevative on March 27,2008 at 8:03PM.


Indy Conservative:Ha ha,oh the horror,when will it end!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Come and clean now&#8230;<br />
Indy Consevative on March 27,2008 at 8:03PM.</p>
<p>Indy Conservative:Ha ha,oh the horror,when will it end!</p>
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		<title>By: canopfor</title>
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		<dc:creator>canopfor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wheres Anita Hill when stuff like this goes down!</description>
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		<title>By: kingaljr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A couple shots too many of V8, Muskrat Love on the Ipod, what&#039;s a marsupial to do.</description>
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		<title>By: logis</title>
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		<dc:creator>logis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;He pleaded guilty in Nelson District Court to using a phone for a fictitious purpose and was sentenced to 75 hours’ community work.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

That&#039;s it; blame the victim.

If Mike Nifong had been handling this case, at least five wombats would have been arraigned by now!

And you can bet your ass all this all this talk of substance abuse (and a few overly convenient alibis about being in a zoo on the other side of the country at the time of the incident) would have brushed aside in the rush to justice.</description>
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<p>That&#8217;s it; blame the victim.</p>
<p>If Mike Nifong had been handling this case, at least five wombats would have been arraigned by now!</p>
<p>And you can bet your ass all this all this talk of substance abuse (and a few overly convenient alibis about being in a zoo on the other side of the country at the time of the incident) would have brushed aside in the rush to justice.</p>
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		<title>By: canopfor</title>
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		<dc:creator>canopfor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lets be rational about this...
locomotivebreath1901 on March 27,2008 at 8:08PM

locomotivebreath1901: Maybe he passed out,he was
                      v i c t i m i z e d !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lets be rational about this&#8230;<br />
locomotivebreath1901 on March 27,2008 at 8:08PM</p>
<p>locomotivebreath1901: Maybe he passed out,he was<br />
                      v i c t i m i z e d !</p>
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		<title>By: canopfor</title>
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		<dc:creator>canopfor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve seen Hitchcocks &quot;The Birds&quot;,and now me thinks 
a gaggle of them gives new meaning to a gang----,
ick,watch the sky as well!haha</description>
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a gaggle of them gives new meaning to a gang&#8212;-,<br />
ick,watch the sky as well!haha</p>
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		<title>By: TexasJew</title>
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		<dc:creator>TexasJew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It reminds me of that Neil Hamburger joke:


What do you get when you cross Sir Elton John with a Saber-toothed tiger?

I don&#039;t know, but you sure don&#039;t want it near your ass!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It reminds me of that Neil Hamburger joke:</p>
<p>What do you get when you cross Sir Elton John with a Saber-toothed tiger?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know, but you sure don&#8217;t want it near your ass!</p>
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