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Woman's name causes computers to explode / Airplane has unwanted 8-legged co-pilot / Utah dentists are about to be super busy

Plus, Beleaguered Staffers looks at the fallout from the USAID shutdown

Keith Conrad
Feb 25
 
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Woman Whose Last Name Is "Null" Keeps Running Into Trouble With Computer Systems

The very same thing happens all the time to my old friend Guy Incognito

Pilot bitten by tarantula mid-flight after it got onto plane during stop over

The pilot always wanted a good wingman, but an eight-legged co-pilot wasn’t exactly on his flight plan. Samuel L. Jackson was unavailable for comment


The Fallout from USAID’s Shutdown

BELEAGUERED STAFFERS W/ KEITH CONRAD, LAURA FINCH & SEAN MAGERS
What happens when the federal government takes a sledgehammer approach to budget cuts rather than a scalpel?

Beleaguered Staffers

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This week’s story is The Fastest Draw by Larry Eisenberg. It was first published in Amazing Stories in January of 1964

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Also Worth A Look…

  • Utah lawmakers vote to say farewell to fluoridated drinking water - About 20 years from now there are going to be a ton of people walking around Utah without any teeth

  • New ordinance in Pueblo is causing mixed feelings, prohibits sitting/lying in downtown - I mean… they’ll still be homeless even if they’re standing

  • Viral video shows massive brawl at Atlanta airport boarding gate - You expect that sort of behavior at a Southwest Airlines gate, but not Spirit Airlines

  • Astronomers discover largest superstructure in cosmos - Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

  • Study: Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy - I guess when it comes to renewable energy, these countries are more into putting than powering. Listen, I wanted to use the story but couldn’t come up with a better joke…

  • Raccoon ate my homework: Kansas man wants the state to legalize raccoons as pets - If you're going to have a midnight trash bandit, you might as well make it a family member

  • That Text About Your Unpaid Tolls? You've Been 'Smished' - Just another thing to be on your toes about

  • North Carolina man's dream correctly predicts $110,000 lottery prize - I just dream that I have to go back to high school and didn’t study

  • Mice Discovered Giving ‘First Aid’ to Unconscious Mates in Surprising Display of Empathy - That’s heartwarming and all, but they also once wiped out half of Europe’s population. Where was that mouse empathy back then?

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