# Strange News

**URL:** <https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** reactions\
**Created:** [November 25, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294 "2020-11-25T01:38:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/breadmaker/32/83065_2.png) [@Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Breadmaker)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/21 "2020-12-28T04:49:51Z")

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> **[Verifying Device](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13585373/man-bathrobe-slippers-clears-snow-flamethrower-kentucky/)**

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**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/22 "2021-01-03T15:27:06Z")

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Now Toronto:  
[https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/12/mysterious-monolith-toronto/?fbclid=IwAR0Ae4msOXa44toOEYdTbGjqQpbE7YdYvHV4fjrwb6SMtwm9WLCTn7of0ac](https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/12/mysterious-monolith-toronto/?fbclid=IwAR0Ae4msOXa44toOEYdTbGjqQpbE7YdYvHV4fjrwb6SMtwm9WLCTn7of0ac)

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**Author:** ![SpaceLobster](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/spacelobster/32/38216_2.png) [@SpaceLobster](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SpaceLobster)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/23 "2021-01-03T19:28:11Z")

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> **[Collective of Artists Claim Responsibility Over Recent Mysterious Monoliths](https://hypebeast.com/2020/12/the-most-famous-artist-mystery-monolith-reveal)**
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> A fourth one appears in Joshua Tree.

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**Author:** ![dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@dr\_t\_non-fan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/dr_t_non-fan)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/24 "2021-01-03T20:39:01Z")

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So, they weren’t really a mystery. Someone put them there, as a gag. As was predicted in the first place. No one wants to investigate, since solving the “mystery” leads to fewer eyeballs. better for business to keep this charade up.  
Collective had to come clean, because no one bothered to look deeper. Which is sad.

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**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/25 "2021-01-04T12:08:55Z")

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Everybody knew it was some kind of gag.

And nobody really cared who did it.

It’s sad for the people who did it who thought other people might actually care who did it.

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**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/26 "2021-02-02T16:48:40Z")

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> **[Ancient mummies with golden tongues unearthed in Egypt](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55902631)**
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> It is thought the dead were given the tongues 2,000 years ago so they could speak in the afterlife.

 ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/2X/3/39378598a91e5b42c8c5359765fce4cfd4b82b19.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/soyleche/32/42_2.png) [@soyleche](https://community.goactuary.com/u/soyleche)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/27 "2021-02-18T23:58:05Z")

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> **[DR Congo's mysterious metal monolith destroyed by mob](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56112310)**
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> People set fire to a big shiny pillar that appeared in Kinshasa sparking fears over its origins.

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**Author:** ![SpaceLobster](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/spacelobster/32/38216_2.png) [@SpaceLobster](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SpaceLobster)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/28 "2021-02-19T00:45:24Z")

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Jeez, that’s like something out of the Simpsons.

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**Author:** ![Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/breadmaker/32/83065_2.png) [@Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Breadmaker)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/29 "2021-03-02T00:17:41Z")

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[https://news.yahoo.com/indian-man-killed-own-rooster-145502223.html](https://news.yahoo.com/indian-man-killed-own-rooster-145502223.html)

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**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/30 "2021-03-02T23:35:46Z")

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Wtf

 ![Screenshot_20210302-183420](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4a2901e40103ece3067030a0d71ca986c4225e77.png)

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**Author:** ![meep](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/meep/32/44_2.png) [@meep](https://community.goactuary.com/u/meep)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/31 "2021-03-03T02:41:14Z")

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> <https://twitter.com/mattysino/status/1366662675564883978>

Evidently this map ran on a Sri Lankan news program

 ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b28c1f16bbfa9f714f3d95ae20efc742071d54d9.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/1695814/32/38506_2.png) [@1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/u/1695814)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/32 "2021-03-05T20:05:55Z")

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What do American pundits say about China? …that it’s all one big state? I know nothing about China…not even what American pundits say about it.

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**Author:** ![Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/breadmaker/32/83065_2.png) [@Breadmaker](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Breadmaker)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/33 "2021-03-05T20:08:43Z")

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What’s a pundit??? Izzat someone like ViceFleeble???

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**Author:** ![NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/normaldan/32/1013_2.png) [@NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NormalDan)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/34 "2021-03-05T20:50:48Z")

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Poor Chicago

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**Author:** ![1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/1695814/32/38506_2.png) [@1695814](https://community.goactuary.com/u/1695814)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/35 "2021-03-05T21:05:40Z")

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> [@Breadmaker](#):
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> What’s a pundit???

An indigenous surveyor who explored regions to the north of British India for the British.

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**Author:** ![Actuary321](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Actuary321](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Actuary321)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/36 "2021-03-06T21:34:56Z")

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To be fair, China only has one timezone. So there aren’t even those lines to divide it up by.

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**Author:** ![ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/arthuritas/32/63_2.png) [@ArthurItas](https://community.goactuary.com/u/ArthurItas)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/37 "2021-03-14T20:47:26Z")

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The NCAA has filed an appeal with the US patent and trademark office to block a group of urologists from using the trademark “vasectomy mayhem”. Allegedly that sounds too much like “March madness”. 🤣

Virginia Urology’s use of “Vasectomy Mayhem” will “result in confusion, mistake or deception with petitioner and/or the goods and services marketed in connection with the NCAA,” according to Chicago-based lawyer Douglas Masters, representing the NCAA.

['Vasectomy Mayhem' at Virginia urologist draws trademark complaint from NCAA](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1260729)?

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**Author:** ![Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/lucy/32/8802_2.png) [@Lucy](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Lucy)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/38 "2021-03-16T02:21:25Z")

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I wonder if that’s because so many men time their vasectomies to stay home and watch march madness?

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**Author:** ![NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/normaldan/32/1013_2.png) [@NormalDan](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NormalDan)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/39 "2021-03-16T12:19:55Z")

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That makes a lot more sense now 😆

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**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/strange-news/1294/40 "2021-03-16T12:52:52Z")

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> [@Lucy](#):
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> I wonder if that’s because so many men time their vasectomies to stay home and watch match madness?

That was actually the pitch they were using. Get the procedure and rest up during the tourney.

There was also a lot of other basketball imagery in the ads and on the site.

I can understand where the NCAA might think lines could be blurred.

Whereas I think a guy MIGHT say, hey, I was thinking of getting this done, so why not do it when I can watch hoops all day and not have my wife nag me about it. But I doubt that a guy is making that decision thinking: Hmmm, the NCAA thinks its a good idea to get snipped. I’ll do it!

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