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Dixie Chick's Natalie Maines Still Gutted Over THAT Bush Apology
from musicworld news
While performing in London in 2003 Maines expressed her distress that Bush was a fellow Texan and apologised for Bush's behaviour while at the White House.
After a huge baklash in the US Maines apologised for dissing Bush saying: "I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect".
But she didn't really mean it, and everyone knew it, after that the Chicks saw a huge dive on concert ticket sales and lack of radio airplay in some more 'southern' states.
Today Maines is still pissed off with her self for caving in and not standing by what she believed in, she said: "I did feel that the office of the president should be shown respect but I have to say sometimes you have to earn people's respect and I have none".Maines knows now that she should have just claimed to be drunk, but she didn't, she added: "I wasn't about to say, 'Oh sorry, I didn't mean it, I was drunk, let's go to rehab...' Sales probably would have been huge".

-"Yeah, sure they would have!"

Woman wallops intruder with cooking pot

MUNCIE, Ind. --A woman watching television in her nightgown raced from her bedroom and attacked a man with a cooking pot after he stole golf clubs from her porch, police said.
Sabrena Davis said she first grabbed a knife after a neighbor yelled to tell her that a man had taken the clubs, but then decided to instead attack him with a 10-inch cooking pot.
"I started beating him with it. He asked for it," she said.

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Pink plastic flamingo faces extinction

LEOMINSTER, Mass. - The day Mayor Dean Mazzarella turned 40, he got a surprise. "After I woke up and went out for my morning run, I came back and there were 40 pink flamingos in my front lawn," Mazzarella recalled. "Someone had put them there as a joke."
Now that he's 49 — "the same age as the pink flamingo," he notes — he hopes both he and the iconic lawn ornament that his city claims as its own will still be around next year to celebrate 50.
But the original version of the plastic flamingo may be singing its swan song after inspiring countless pranks — and being alternately celebrated as a tribute to one of nature's most graceful creatures and derided as the epitome of American pop culture kitsch.
Union Products Inc. stopped producing flamingos and other lawn ornaments at its Leominster factory in June, and is going out of business Nov. 1 — a victim of rising expenses for plastic resin and electricity, as well financing problems.

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Because we don't have enough variety in our fried food selections... fried drinks!

NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters Life!) - A new fast food is making its debut at U.S. fairs this fall -- fried Coke.
bel Gonzales, 36, a computer analyst from Dallas, tried about 15 different varieties before coming up with his perfect recipe -- a batter mix made with Coca-Cola syrup, a drizzle of strawberry syrup, and some strawberries.
Balls of the batter are then deep-fried, ending up like ping-pong ball sized doughnuts which are then served in a cup, topped with Coca-Cola syrup, whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry on the top.
Gonzales ran two stands at the State Fair of Texas and sold up to 35,000 fried Cokes over 24 days for $4.50 each -- and won a prize for coming up with "most creative" new fair food.
Now other fairs in North Carolina and Arizona are following the trend, and other people are trying to emulate Gonzales' recipe.
Gonzales gave no indication of the calories in his creation and said he would not patent it.
"The best I can hope for is that it's the original and hopefully the best fried Coke out there," he said.

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