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Homemade Tofu "Turkey"
Offbeat  (tags: culture, custom, animals, vegan recipe, health, goodnews, food )

Tierney
- 5 days ago - upc-online.org
Save a Turkey this year from cruelty and death. Try a Tofu Thanksgiving instead. It may seem strange at first but after the first time it gets easier and more enjoyable! It is much healthier too. Try it you may like it . Start your own cruelty free feast!
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Chinese Traffic Cop's Funny Lecture on Helmet Safety (Video)
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, culture, custom, funny, humans, humor, interesting, off-beat, unusual, society, world )

Daphna
- 8 days ago - treehugger.com
When Beijing Policeman Tan, the star of his very own local news segment, stops a motorcyclist because his passenger isn't wearing his helmet, we get an earful on gender norms, hairstyles, and one of our favorite topics -- helmets! See the video below.
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What Is Gentle Thanksgiving?
Offbeat  (tags: food, goodnews, turkeys, thanksgiving, custom, kindness )

Tierney
- 18 days ago - gentlethanksgiving.org
Gentle Thanksgiving is an effort to encourage friends, family and neighbors to adopt compassionate alternatives to unnecessarily cruel turkey dinners. We accomplish this by demonstrating the great taste and superior nutrition of gourmet vegan recipes and
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Rapping at McDonalds Not Allowed in Utah, Apparently-- Watch Video
Offbeat  (tags: children, teens, bizarre, environment, culture, crime, off-beat, performance, interesting, police, safety, society, unusual, ethics, funny, goodnews, custom )

Suzybell
- 21 days ago - metro.co.uk
A McDonalds restaurant in Utah called the police because four teenagers were rapping their orders at a drive-through window.The police, taking this sort of heinous crime very seriously, issued disorderly conduct citations to the teenagers. The teens said
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Treading Gingerly Across the Lost Bridges of the Inca Empire
Offbeat  (tags: world, unusual, pictures, photos, humans, environment, culture, design, custom )

Daphna
- 33 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
Sagging severely in the middle and swaying in strong winds like spider's silk in the breeze, the bridge was all that stood between travellers more worn out than the vines and certain downfall. Barely concealed below the massive cables of woven grass, the
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EBay Stops 10-Year-Old From Selling Grandmother
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, odd, humans, culture, bizarre, crime, design, custom, children, humor, interesting, society, performance, safety )

Suzybell
- 54 days ago - metro.co.uk
You've all heard the phrase 'willing to sell your own granny' - but do you know anyone who's actually tried to do it? Well, meet 10-year-old Zoe Pemberton, who put her gran up for sale on auction website eBay. She described her grandmother as 'annoying'
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Core Blimey - It's the Red and Green Apple
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Suzybell
- 58 days ago - metro.co.uk
A Golden Delicious apple split perfectly down the middle into red and green is the talk of the town in Colaton Raleigh, Devon. People have been queuing up to take pictures of the rarity grown by Ken Morrish. 'It's absolutely phenomenal,' said the 72-year
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Grandma Made Village Out of Tens of Thousands of Bottles
Offbeat  (tags: women, unusual, pictures, off-beat, interesting, design, humans, culture, custom )

Daphna
- 58 days ago - inhabitat.com
Grandmas make some pretty awesome things - pies, sweaters, and techinically, you. But can you say that your grandma ever made a village??? Ours certainly didn't. Between 1956 and 1981 Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey built Bottle Village using tens of thousands
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Mass. Postal Worker Admits to Stealing 30,000 DVDs
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Suzybell
- 62 days ago - hosted.ap.org
A former postal service employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 30,000 DVDs that moved through a western Massachusetts post office.Myles Weathers, formerly of Springfield, took DVDs that were mailed by Netflix to customers for a year beginning
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Girl, 10, Fined $50 For Lemonade Stand At NY Park
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Suzybell
- 97 days ago - kdka.com
It's a summertime tradition for kids everywhere - setting up a lemonade stand and hoping to make a few bucks off of thirst passersby.That is, unless you do it on city park property - as did one little girl who was ticketed for trying to serve up summer
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Peace Makers Through the Agesl
Offbeat  (tags: children, culture, custom, humans, interesting, society, unusual, women )

Bee Hive
- 102 days ago - adventurefilmproductionscanada.com
History of Peace Making Endeavors through the Ages. Peace Making since 1500 AD, Individual Peace Making. Women;s Choices. Home Birthing
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20 Blind People Test Drive Student-Designed Car
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, odd, humans, cars, culture, bizarre, environment, design, interesting, safety, society, custom )

Suzybell
- 113 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Several blind people were able to get behind the wheel of a new high-tech vehicle designed by Virginia Tech engineering students.Twenty blind people took turns maneuvering the retrofitted dune buggy Friday in a parking lot at the University of Maryland.
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Tattooed Gangster Forced to Look Like Tom Selleck
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Suzybell
- 118 days ago - metro.co.uk
A gang member has been told by his lawyer to grow a Magnum PI-style moustache to hide the name of a gang tattooed on his lip.Richard Rodriguez's lawyer feared jurors would judge him on his 'Flores' gang tattoo.
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Rev. Al's Prominence Grows Despite Overdue Taxes, Other Baggage
Offbeat  (tags: americans, business, culture, custom, environment, ethics, government, humans, interesting, news, odd, off-beat, performance, society, unusual )

CA
- 189 days ago - nydailynews.com
Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion.
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Decorated Swine Flu Surgical Masks in Mexico
Offbeat  (tags: arts, bizarre, culture, custom, design, funny, health, humans, humor, interesting, news, photos, society, unusual, world )

Teresa
- 194 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Some Mexicans have reacted to the swine flu crisis with humour and creativity.
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