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Linkfest: Airplane Stops Skeleton Luggage

In Munich, Germany, a woman was stopped at the airport after baggage control handlers found the skeleton of her brother sealed in a plastic bag in her luggage, police said Wednesday.

After authorities questioned the woman, they discovered that she trying to fulfill the last wish of her brother -- who died 11 years ago in Sao Paulo, Brazil -- to be buried in Italy.

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Airplane stops skeleton luggage/ Copper theft stops Australian trains Asparagus mystic/ Lil Jon Winery

Will Hoffman

7:01 AM ET | 03-13-2008 | permalink

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In your feature about asparamancer Jemima Packington (three words I've been striving to put in a sentence for years), she claims she doesn't remember what the actual first prediction was that she received upon dropping a batch of asparagus.
Allow me to speculate:
The date: October 19, 1987
The place: the kitchen of future asparamancer Jemima Packington.
While preparing asparagus, they fall to the ground - noisily, as they are still al dente. Someone calls from the front room to see if everything is OK. Frustrated, Jemima answers loudly, "the stalks have dropped!"
Suddenly, on the telly in the front room, breaking news, um, breaks, about what is being termed "Black Monday": a massive Stock Market crash in the U.S., or as the commentator reads: Today, in the United States, the stocks have dropped."
Soon Jemima walks into the room, greeted only by the astonished stares of everyone in the room.
And the rest is history. Or is it - - the future?
Only Ms. Packington, and her asparagus, know.

Sent by Glenn Wonacott | 1:46 AM ET | 03-14-2008

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