Amazing what passes for news these days. :) http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_738475.html
Gas masks may be issued to zoo keepers Zoo bosses say they are considering issuing their keepers with gas masks after a group of odorous orang-utans developed a real taste for sprouts. The apes have left keepers at Dudley Zoo gasping for air after munching on out-of-date supplies of the festive vegetable. The primates have been causing a stink after a local supermarkets donated a bumper post-Christmas batch of sprouts to the Black Country zoo. Monkey keeper James Harper told the BBC: "Orang-utans are windy animals but because of all the brussels sprouts they are eating there is quite a pong around here at the moment." He added: "Whoever gets the short straw gets to muck them out." Story filed: 19:15 Friday 10th January 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Pong"? Jon "Starbucks opened its 3,453rd store, the first one in the whole state of Iowa. Early customers at the Des Moines location were heard to say, "You want HOW MUCH for coffee?" ~Joe Bob Briggs _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
