*** Niouzes insolites ***

Crazy Horse" est vivant, mais il lui faut le prouver

LONDRES (AFP) - Un Nord-Irlandais répondant au patronyme de Crazy Horse Invincible a dû se déplacer en personne aux guichets de la compagnie aérienne Jet2.com à Belfast afin de prouver son identité à des employés dubitatifs.

Crazy Horse Invincible ("invincible cheval fou"), 26 ans, a dû présenter son passeport afin de convaincre le personnel de cette compagnie aérienne à bas prix, surpris que le paiement par carte bancaire de cet étrange passager ait été accepté et qui commençait à flairer une arnaque.

Contrainte d'admettre l'existence en chair et en os de ce client au nom farfelu, le personnel de Jet2.com a également appris à l'occasion que Crazy Horse Invincible avait l'intention de se rendre à Prague le 20 décembre pour passer les fêtes de Noël avec un certain "Spaceman Africa", l'un de ses meilleurs amis.

Les deux hommes, supporteurs de l'équipe de football anglaise de première division de Middlesbrough ("Boro", pour les intimes), qui portaient auparavant des patronymes beaucoup plus banals, ont décidé de changer d'identité auprès de l'Etat civil britannique après une soirée trop arrosée, en 2003.

"C'était une nuit -je crois que +Boro+ avait gagné- et, avec mon pote, on arrosait ça. Mais après quelques verres de trop, vous commencez à vous lancer dans des projets un peu fou et le mien était littéralement fou (crazy)", a expliqué vendredi Crazy Horse Invincible, anciennement Jeremy Brown, au comptoir de Jet2.com.

Décidés à changer de nom pour une identité plus originale, les deux hommes ont mené leur projet jusqu'au bout, "Crazy Horse Invincible" et "Spaceman Africa" obtenant leurs nouveaux passeports fin 2003.

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BALE, Suisse (AP) -- Armée de son balai, une femme de ménage a mis en fuite jeudi soir un voleur dans une confiserie de Bâle. Tandis que deux employées de la confiserie empruntaient la cage d'escalier pour aller déposer la recette du jour dans le bureau, un inconnu les a agressées à l'aide d'une bombe au poivre et s'est emparé de l'argent, a annoncé vendredi le parquet de Bâle. Alertée par les cris des victimes, la femme de ménage est accourue sur les lieux.

Elle a frappé l'agresseur avec son balai jusqu'à ce qu'il lâche son butin et prenne la fuite. AP

la Suisse tip-top en ordre :s236:

Mina a écrit:

Ole a écrit:

Le sac renfermait 150 grammes environ de plastic. Au moment du changement de chien le sac a été reposé par un bagagiste sur le tapis roulant et a ainsi rejoint les bagages enregistrés des passagers.

:s236: mais

oui.. rigole.. rigole.. tu rigoleras plus de savoir qu'on les cherche ENCORE!! Je te dis pas comment ils sont conetents les Americains..... quand on leur a dit qu'il fallait foullier certains avions arrivant de la France car risque d'explosifs poses par les services de securite Francais....
De quoi nourrir la "love story" Amerique - France

Ole a écrit:

oui.. rigole.. rigole.. tu rigoleras plus de savoir qu'on les cherche ENCORE!! Je te dis pas comment ils sont conetents les Americains..... quand on leur a dit qu'il fallait foullier certains avions arrivant de la France car risque d'explosifs poses par les services de securite Francais....
De quoi nourrir la "love story" Amerique - France

:s161: :s193: :s193: :s193: magnifique

18 foot (capture en Zimbawe..) Ca fait environ 6 metres de long...

grrr.. mais ca me gene qu'on tue ces betes... eux aussi on le droit d'avoir un coin au monde ou elles puissent exister en paix.....

J'ai lu ca Samedi:
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Woman Auctions Father's Ghost on eBay

HOBART, Ind. - A woman's effort to assuage her 6-year-old son's fears of his grandfather's ghost by selling it on eBay has drawn more than 34 bids with a top offer of $78.



Mary Anderson said she placed her father's "ghost" on the online auction site after her son, Collin, said he was afraid the ghost would return someday. Anderson said Collin has avoided going anywhere in the house alone since his grandfather died last year.

In a description titled "This isn't a joke," Anderson told Collin's story on eBay:

"I always thought it was just normal kid fears until a few months ago he told me why he was so scared. He told me 'Grandpa died here, and he was mean. His ghost is still around here!'"

Lest the boy's fears scare off potential bidders, Anderson added, "My dad was the sweetest most caring man you'd ever meet."

Some of the prospective buyers have posted their own messages.

"Your story brought tears to my eyes," one bidder said. "I just wonder how this will turn out for your son. I'm sure his Grandfather loved him very much."

Anderson also put her father's metal walking cane up for auction so she would have something to actually send the winning bidder. The proceeds from the auction will go to buy Collin a special present, she said.

Anderson makes one special request of the winner bidder: "I would like to ask you to write a letter after you've received the cane (and the ghost) to my son letting him know that he's there with you and you're getting along great."

The bidding is due to close Monday afternoon.

A message left with San Jose, Calif.-based eBay Inc. in San Jose, Calif., was not immediately returned Saturday.
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et aujourd'hui j'ai trouve qur'elle a vendu la cane pour 65,000 dollars!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19270&item=5539709069&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW




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Brain Grown From Rat Cells Learns To Fly Jet
By Philip Sherwell in Washington
12-6-4


It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of "living" computer. In ground-breaking experiments in a Florida laboratory, however, that is exactly what is happening.

The "brain", grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a single rat embryo, has been taught to fly an F-22 jet simulator by scientists at the University of Florida.

They hope that the remarkable research into neural computation will help them develop sophisticated hybrid computers, with a thinking biological component.

One target is to install living computers in unmanned aircraft so that they can be deployed on missions that are too dangerous for humans because of the risk of attack or hazardous terrain. They could also be used in remote bomb-clearance machines. Separately, it is hoped that the research will provide the basis for developing new drugs to treat brain diseases such as epilepsy, by investigating what happens when cells stop working together normally.

The brain-in-a-dish is the idea of Thomas DeMarse, a 37-year-old assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida. His pioneering work has been praised as a significant insight into one of the universe's most complex devices - the brain - by leading American academics and scientific journals.

The 25,000 neurons were immersed in a specialised liquid suspension to keep them alive and then laid across a grid of 60 electrodes in a small glass dish, measuring only about an inch across.

Under the microscope they looked at first like thousands of grains of sand, but soon the cells begin to connect to form what scientists are calling a "live computation device" (in effect, a brain). The electrodes measure and stimulate neural activity in the network, allowing researchers to study how the brain processes, transforms and stores information.

In the most striking experiment, the brain was linked up to the jet simulator. Manipulated via the electrodes and a desktop computer, it was taught to control the flight path, even in mock hurricane-strength winds.

"When we first hooked them up, the plane 'crashed' all the time," said Dr DeMarse. "But over time, the neural network slowly adapts as the brain learns to control the pitch and roll of the aircraft. After a while, it produces a nice straight and level trajectory.

"The network receives the information about the aircraft's pitch and roll in the form of stimulation pulses and its responses change over time. We are its external teachers as it learns."

Previously, scientists have been able to monitor the activity of only a few neurons at a time, but Dr DeMarse and his colleagues can study in laboratory conditions how thousands of cells conduct calculations together. It is still a long way from a human brain, which contains about 10 billion neurons.

"The goal is to study how cortical networks perform their neural computations. In these experiments we are using living neurons to perform the computation required to fly an aircraft. The implications are extremely important," said Dr DeMarse.

The first result could be to enable scientists to build living elements into traditional computers, enabling more flexible and varied means of solving problems. Although computers today are extremely powerful, they still lack the flexibility in working things out that humans take for granted.

Computers, for example, find it difficult to spot the difference between items such as a table and a lamp if they are unfamiliar with them. More importantly, they will sometimes fail to recognise the same table if viewed from different angles, an ability possessed by the simplest animals.

"The algorythms that living computers use are also extremely fault-tolerant," said Dr DeMarse. "A few neurons die off every day in humans without any noticeable drop in performance, and yet if the same were to happen in a traditional silicon-based computer the results would be catastrophic."

These studies and the technologies use to investigate neural function are important for the understanding of neural computing but also for investigating when that computation goes awry.

"For example, with neural disorders such as epilepsy we can study how neural activity evolves from a normal to a diseased state," he said. "Understanding these processes is important not only for basic science, but can lead us down new avenues toward better medical treatments."

The work by Dr DeMarse and his team is attracting interest from scientists around the world. The US National Science Foundation has awarded them a $500,000 grant to produce a mathematical model of how the neurons compute, and the US National Institute of Health is funding research into epilepsy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/05/wbrain
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Des touristes américains préfèrent se faire passer pour des Canadiens

Une entreprise du Nouveau-Mexique, dans le Sud-Ouest des Etats-Unis, a trouvé une solution pour les Américains qui souhaitent partir en vacances en Europe sans avoir à répondre à des questions désagréables sur la politique de leur pays: se faire passer pour canadien...

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/041207/5/468w9.html

arf ! :s206:

ah oui... je l'ai ecoute a la radio hier (hier j'ecoutais une radio de Utah :s190: ). Parfois c'est interessant d'ecouter les "talk radios" americains (specialement quand on connait lesquels sont de droite et lesquels de gauche... on rigole parfois avec les extremismes..... (bien sur, je supporte que 5 minutes Rush Limbaugh... apres il faut que je change de radio tres vite... ouff.. et penser qu'autrefois j'ecoutais l'emission en entiere.... ).

Mais bon, c'est bien qu'on le disse a la radio de droite! Le probleme c'est que ces cons la vont vite dire que cette entreprise vend que a des gens de gauche car les democrates sont des traitres et "unpatriotic"

http://www.nbc10.com/news/3968497/detail.html

décidément

hermione a écrit:

http://www.nbc10.com/news/3968497/detail.html

décidément

j'crois que j'vais commencer à mettre tous mes cacas sous cadre, on sait jamais !

hermione a écrit:

http://www.nbc10.com/news/3968497/detail.html

décidément

et alors.. il va s'arrecher la dent et il va la mettre en vente sur ebay????
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Ah.. sinon ce qu'on a trouve sur ebay vous avez ecoute??? les uniforms du service de securite des aeroports de Canada!!!

et oui... .. 1000 uniforms s'etaient perdus et on a trouve la vente sur ebay!

vala:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/canada/articles/2004/12/06/1000_canadian_airport_uniforms_disappear/

Angels photographed over nation's capital?
Hanukkah mystery: Eerie blue images caught on camera at menorah lighting

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41819

après ça:



ça :s207:

trop du chocolat ou pas assez de maquillage pour Britney?

Video des news...

qqun a Jette un gateau sur le visage de Bill Gates
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tiens.. je viens d'ecouter qu'on a trouve une bombe datant de la 2eme guerre mondiale a Massy st Leger
bien sur on a evacue tout le monde...
c'est effrayant... deja il y a pas longtemps on avait evacue tout un village (au nord il ma semble...). C'est souvent que cela arrive...

UFO 'explodes' in China


Beijing - An unidentified flying object, or UFO, passed across the large north-western Chinese city of Lanzhou and apparently exploded in the suburbs, state media said on Monday.

The unusual sighting of two bright trails of light, reported by several witnesses, took place on Saturday shortly before midnight, the China Times reported.

Police, working on the theory that it was a meteorite, went to investigate the matter, but as of early Monday they had found no evidence of what caused the nightly phenomenon, an officer said by telephone.

A taxi driver told the paper he was in his car when everything suddenly became "as bright as day."

When he pulled over, he saw a fireball with a tail of about three metres darting across the sky, he said.

One witness who was on the late shift at his company reported the courtyard outside his office was suddenly bathed in a ghostly red light as the object passed overhead, the paper said.

Others said they heard a huge explosion and felt as if an earthquake had struck.

China has been hit by several waves of UFO sighting in recent years, and the country has a research association devoted to the study of possible extraterrestrial visits.
http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/Offbeat/0,,2-1343-1347_1635191,00.html


les chinois qui font des essaies d'armes ou un truc comme ca???
ou les satellites espions americains qui se cassent la gueule sur la chine?

DAVID & VICTORIA BECKHAM ARE MARY & JOSEPH - BUSH & BLAIR WISE MEN

Madame Tussaud's most famous faces have joined forces for a Christmas nativity.
The tourist attraction decided to put the attraction together so visitors could get into the festive spirit.
David and Victoria Beckhams' waxworks take the role of Mary and Joseph. President Bush, Tony Blair and The Duke of Edinburgh are the Three Wise Men and Kylie Minogue is the Guardian Angel.
Other celebrities to feature in the nativity are Graham Norton, Samuel L Jackson and Hugh Grant as shepherds.

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ca me gene beaucoup d'avoir Bush et Blair comme "wise men" (roi mages mais bon.. en anglais wise=sage grrrr).
J'espere que qqun va aller a ce mussee de cire et leur coller un moustache ou qqchose a ces 2 !!

South African Philip Rabinowitz made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest 100-year-old to run 100 meters.

Rabinowitz made his run at the Green Point stadium in 30.86 seconds, beating the previous record of 36.1 seconds.

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pas mal hein?? je me demande combien de metres je peux faire moi meme en 30.86 secondes....

Gail Devers



c'est sur qu'elle ne fait pas la cuisine.. mais comment elle fait pour se laver? laver ses cheveux etc etc..... ?

Encore la censure?? (c'est a cause des histoires comme ca que les gens apres n'arrivent pas a aprecier le cote artistique de la statue de David....)

The Federal Communications Commission has asked for a tape of NBC's broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics after it received at least one indecency complaint. The Aug. 13 tape-delayed broadcast, featuring the history of Athens and Greece, also included male performers representing ancient Greek Kouroi, life-size stone figures of naked young men dating to the sixth century B.C. It wasn't clear whether the images were broadcast.

incroyable!! Julio Iglesias a un petit frere.... euh... qui vient de naitre....



oh la la .....



et voila le papa....

Un faux ben Laden blessé par balles au Costa Rica

SAN JOSE (AFP) - jeudi 16 décembre 2004 - Un homme qui portait un masque d'Oussama ben Laden et qui tentait d'effrayer des automobilistes avec une carabine à plomb à San José de Costa Rica a été blessé par balles par un conducteur qui a cru être la cible d'une attaque.
Le faux ben Laden, un ouvrier de 50 ans qui jouait avec des enfants au bord d'une route, s'est approché d'un véhicule et a reçu deux balles dans l'estomac. Il a été transporté dans une état grave vers un hôpital de San José, mais ses jours ne sont pas en danger.

sont fous ces ticos

Un Français gagne plus de 26 millions d'euros à l'Euromillions

PARIS - Un boucher de la région de Bordeaux, seul joueur à avoir trouvé les cinq bons numéros et les deux bonnes étoiles du tirage de l'Euromillions de vendredi, a gagné 26 215 627 euros (près de 40 millions de francs), a annoncé dimanche la Française des Jeux.

Pascal, boucher à Bègles, près de Bordeaux, pourra abandonner son étal et ses couteaux après avoir empoché son chèque la semaine prochaine à Paris. Il pourra, s'il le souhaite, garder l'anonymat, ou au contraire manifester son bonheur devant micros et caméras.

sans blague :s236: