Saturday/Sunday, January 23-24, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, January 23-24, 2010)
(1)- LEMONY SNICKET – This top-selling author produced tales of the Baudelaire orphans, and their tribulations at the hands of the evil Count Olaf, making him a publisher’s dream, a phenomenon beaten only by JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.

(2)- ESSENTIAL -- Whale sperm, pickles and the pain reliever codeine will be considered essential goods in Venezuela and receive a preferential exchange rate under President Hugo Chavez’s new currency structure.

(3)- POOR PHILLY -- An awful odor blanketed South Philadelphia and parts of South Jersey overnight, awakening some residents and triggering a flood of phone calls to emergency lines and news organizations. The smell came from an oil refinery spill.

(4)- BEHAVE!! -- Smoking, spitting and using flammable liquids would be among activities banned in Seattle's parks under a proposed code of conduct being considered as well as unattended backpacks, and abusive or harassing behavior.

(5)- PERILS OF GIVING A GUY A RIDE -- A Scott Bar man is in custody after he allegedy threatened to kill a fellow Scott Bar resident who offered him a ride when he ran out of gas, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office.

(6)- EMERGENCY RATIONS – Just in case you may feel the need, this is being offered to those who can and are willing to go online.

(7)- HAZARDOUS NEW HAMPSHIRE -- Air pollution will reach unhealthy levels in the valleys of southwestern New Hampshire, particularly in Keene because cold, stagnant air; temperature inversions, and the use of wood burning stoves and boilers.

(8)- IT FIGURES -- The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Växjö in south central Sweden collapsed beneath a group of about 20 participants in the diet program. The dieters gathered in the group’s facilities to see how much weight they had lost.

(9)- DIRTY DANCING -- Inappropriate behavior by students at Bangor High School dances prompted school officials to suspend school-sponsored dances. Kids reportedlu engage in a hip-hop dance style known as grinding and “dirty dancing.”

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