Today's stories [4.11.09]

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A baffled British woman who lost a mobile phone dialed the number and 
heard it ringing inside her friend's dog.

Rachel Murray, 27, had left the cellphone under her Christmas tree as a 
surprise gift for her flatmate, The Sun newspaper reported on Friday. 

But chum Tony Dangerfield's bloodhound Charlie crept into the room and 
greedily wolfed down the mobile phone, leaving only a pile of torn paper.

After a frantic search for the phone, Murray obtained the number from the 
telephone company, dialed and heard muffled ringing from sleeping 
Charlie's stomach.

"At first I thought Charlie was lying on the phone -- then I realized 
where it was," she said. "I couldn't believe he'd swallowed it."

The dog was rushed to a vet, who advised Murray and Dangerfield to let 
nature take its course. 

Twenty four hours later the phone duly emerged -- in perfect working 
order.

Twelve men were arrested near Szczecin in northern Poland as they were 
digging up a road because they had heard a rumor that it was built with a 
large stockpile of police-confiscated hashish. The hashish had been sold 
to a chemical plant to be incinerated into ash for road construction. 

One day my  housework-challenged husband decided to wash his sweatshirt.
Seconds after he  stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me,
"What setting do I use on the  washing machine?"

"It depends," I replied. "What does it say on your shirt?"

He  yelled back, "University of Oklahoma."

And they say blondes are dumb... 

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