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(Charlotte.com)   Kansas home mistakenly overvalued by more than $200,000,000. House now worth more than entire state.   (charlotte.com) divider line 59
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2002-08-20 04:50:34 PM

I wish there were an easier way to cut/paste FARK headlines.

This is my attempt at posting the headlines (not the actual links) from the NEWS category for the past hour and a half in Total Fark. This leaves out Adult, Sports, Entertainment, Politics, Misc, etc. (you get the idea).

US Navy giving warships away to non-profit organizations; In other news, Greenpeace activists took out two oil drilling rigs using a guided missile frigate. (0)

Melting glacier 'false alarm': Greenpeace jivin' (0)

Turns out ginkgo does not have any benefit to healthy people at all, and doesn't improve your... um... what's that thing called? (0)

Satanist may be 1st tried under new death penalty (1)

Mom faces charges after kids get severely sunburned (0)

Video of al Qaeda gas test on a puppy (0)

(Some Guy) ISP denies RIAA access to their network due to RIAA's plan to access personal computers without users' permission. (0)

Pictures from the latest seized al Qaeda videotapes showing a dog being gassed (0)

(robotwisdom.com) Final prototype for next device to be smashed into Mars completes testing (with pic) (0)

(Fargo Forum) Devils Lake High School to drop the knickname Satans. Offer your idea for a new mascot (0)

Teens: Pot easier to buy than cigarettes, beer (0)

(Janesville Gazette) A picture of the previously posted football cornmaze. (Oh yeah, and the Bears still suck!) (0)

15:00 hours

Amber Alert issued for missing girl in California (0)
Police end siege at Iraqi Embassy; hostages freed (0)

(TBO.com) Woman charged with child endangerment after children get severely sunburned (2)

(local6.com) What should be in your First-Aid kit (with list) (0)

German police storm Iraqi Embassy, all hostages released. (0)

(local6.com) ATV deaths, injuries rise (0)

(WashingtonTimes) Rappers in Cuba hate the police too. (0)

(The Guardian) German police storm Iraqi embassy to free hostages. France surrenders. (0)

Hostage crisis over as police storm Iraqi embassy. (0)

(local6.com) Woman gets $13.8 million after being dragged 200 feet by drunken driver (0)

Turn a loved one into a diamond after they die. (0)

Haiku to stop spam. Embedded in your email. Spammers surrender. (0)

German police storm Iraqi embassy to free the hostages. (0)

Martha plans to hand over ImClone docs -- As nicely shredded centerpiece by 5p. (0)

(FAS) U.S. using 3.8B of taxpayers dollars to fund military equipment purchases for 67 countries. Human rights and security for future American generations surrenders. (0)

South Dakota catches fire. Both residents evacuated. (0)

(ClickOnSA.com) Man found guilty in murder trial. Had claimed that stabbing person 42 times and stuffing them in their trunk was self-defense. (0)

(via Plastic submission queue) Palestinian gays face threat of torture or murder from.. well, pretty much everyone. (0)

Justice: Nigerian Style The crime: Being raped. The Punishment: Death by stoning (0)

Missing: 10 year old girl from Riverside, CA.. In other news... (0)

(Some Guy) Honest former CEO of Andersen dies at age 77. Honesty dead at Andersen already. (0)

(Some Guy) Guide to efficient pr0n surfing and storage. (1)

(Some Guy) "Pure Evil" creeping through West Virginia backwoods. (0)

Police end siege at Iraqi embassy. (0)

French red-light districts mull surrendering (0)

(Click2Houston.com) Man steals car, chased by cops. Man dumps car, runs on foot. Cops chase man on foot. Man circles back, steals cop car. Man still missing. (0)

Australia to distribute "suicide bags".DR.kevorkian surrenders. (0)

Pilot sues over Bosnian escape movie. (0)
32! (0)

(Some Guy) Armed Russian oil baron seizes vodka distillery. Again. Action considered "typical corporate conflict". (0)

(NORML) Canada growing the kind - using seized seeds. (0)

Telemarketer pays Denver man for violating the "no-call" list


Whew!

 
2002-08-20 04:54:53 PM
"Riley County Appraiser Sam Schmidt's staff uncovered the error last week while preparing for next year's valuations. The staff found the valuation on a single $59,500 property east of Kansas State University inadvertently had been changed to $200,059,000.

Now they are faced with fixing a shortfall that's likely to reach at least $2.3 million."


No wonder the people out there refuse to believe they evolved from apes. That would be a case of BACKWARDS evolution.
 
2002-08-20 05:15:21 PM
Numberz

Some of those headlines aren't too shabby at all but as you noted, you can't post everything.

I have had a grand total of *1* article posted. The headline?

"New survey indicates that the Canada-US border is like outer space for an awful lot of Americans."

That was the highlight of my career; it's been all downhill since...
 
2002-08-20 05:19:10 PM
Actually we didn't evolve from apes. Humans and apes have a common ancestor. Besides those people are in Kansas City not Manhattan they're like over 200 miles apart. :)
 
2002-08-20 05:23:33 PM
dammit...

As you can see from my shoddy html :)
 
2002-08-20 05:25:52 PM
It could have been this Missle Silo House. What's funny is I grew up in Wamego and us kids used to climb the fence to that place. It was of course abandoned way back then.
 
2002-08-20 05:58:28 PM
Jeff has said that fewer than 6% of submitted articles are accepted. Y'all shouldn't take it personally when your article doesn't make it.

I would hazard a guess that Fb- had upwards of 2,000 rejected to get his 500 accepted.
 
2002-08-20 10:52:07 PM
whoo hoo, no wonder they are charging us more tution at Kansas State University.
 
2002-08-23 02:59:05 PM
DANGIT.

I miss out on reading FARK for a couple of days and I miss the story about my very own town!!

Yeah, it's quite a screw-up. And I know y'all are havin' a good laugh about the "value" of the state, but let me remind you of some businesses that are either Kansas based or started out in Kansas:

Pizza Hut
White Castle
Lee Jeans
Boeing
Koch Industries
Dixie Cups


Plus...OH YEAH, we grow a clownboat-load of your FOOD. And finally, the modern flyswatter was invented in the great state of Kansas. And I'm very proud of that. *SMACK*
8)
 
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