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  1. Associated Press

    12/12/2005 9:37:17 AM

    MADRID, Spain (AP) - Roy Keane could be back playing with former teammate David Beckham at Real Madrid this week.

    Spanish sports papers said Monday that Madrid is on the verge of signing the former Manchester United captain.

    Leading sports daily Marca said Madrid had given the go-ahead to sign the Irish midfielder pending the result of a medical checkup. The paper said Keane, 34, would sign for six months, or the rest of the season, with an option to sign for another year.

    Keane would not be eligible to play for Madrid in the Champions League since he already played in that competition this season for United.

    Keane, who left Manchester United in November after 12½ years at Old Trafford, has also been linked with several English clubs.

    For most of his time at United, Keane was a teammate of Beckham. The England captain left the English club for Madrid in 2003.

    Madrid hopes Keane could give the club a mid-season boost similar to the lift which Edgar Davids gave Barcelona two seasons ago when he helped the ailing side finish in second place.

    Real Madrid is in third place, six points behind leader Barcelona. Vanderlei Luxemburgo was fired as manager last week.

  2. :)

    A few months ago, mabey longer I discovered an early M-art lighter in my backyard..this makes zero sense and I still can't figure it out...I bet it could lead to a castle somehow.

    This castle?

    heman_1280.jpg

  3. Montreal man trading paper-clip for house

    Last Updated Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:50:27 EST

    CBC News

    A Montreal man is grabbing international attention for his increasingly successful quest to barter a single red paper-clip for a house.

    Five months ago, Kyle MacDonald looked at a red paper-clip on his desk and decided to trade it on an internet website. He got a response almost immediately – from a pair of young women in Vancouver who offered to trade him a pen.

    "It was a fish-shaped pen. And I got it from a pair of vegans. So it was a great exchange. They didn't want anything to do with fish," he said.

    MacDonald, 25, then bartered the fish pen for a handmade doorknob from a potter in Seattle.

    "It was a ceramic doorknob that had been hand-shaped by, I believe the person I traded with, her son, and she had been trying to get rid of it for quite some time," said MacDonald.

    Annie Robbins, the Seattle potter who now owns the fish pen, says she loves the idea.

    "I think the whole concept really flips the idea of consumerism around. How we value things, and what things are really worth," she said.

    In Massachusetts, MacDonald traded the doorknob for a camp stove. He traded the stove to a U.S. marine sergeant in California for a 100-watt generator.

    In Queens, N.Y., he exchanged the generator for the "instant party kit" – an empty keg of beer and an illuminated Budweiser beer sign.

    On Thursday, MacDonald traded the keg and sign for a Bombardier snowmobile, courtesy of a Montreal radio host.

    "If I get up to larger items, I'm going to need a larger base of people to pick from. There is someone out there with a surplus house. I just have to find them," said MacDonald.

  4. , but I'd like our government to be prepared and willing to send troops to Iraq [or anywhere else, for that matter] if there was a justified need.)

    Aloha,

    Brad

    Who's justification? Yours? Canada? UN? Public Opinion?

  5. So this is rearing it's head again and I was wondering if anybody has some good information/links on this. I'm looking more for the logistics of how they will accomplish this (ex. will there be a corridor through Quebec that links Canada? - what currency will they use? - What do the Natives throughout northern Quebec feel? etc..etc)

    Basically, if they separate how will they accomplish it?

  6. This happened today.

    Brothers die in traffic crashes minutes apart

    Thursday, December 8, 2005 Posted: 1842 GMT (0242 HKT)

    LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) -- Sheriff's deputy Andy McDowell was forced to live a parent's worst nightmare twice in a matter of minutes.

    After he was taken to the site where one of his two sons was killed in a car crash early Wednesday, McDowell was driven past another fatal accident. Only later did he learn that the fiery wreck took the life of his only other child.

    "You take the most unimaginable hell that a parent could be told and double that," Warren County Deputy Coroner Dwayne Lawrence said.

    Rory McDowell, 23, and Cory McDowell, 21, both died within a couple of miles from the home they shared with their father in southern Kentucky's rural Warren County.

    Rory McDowell lost control of his pickup truck coming out of a curve and the vehicle struck a tree shortly before 1:30 a.m., authorities said. There was no visible sign of alcohol involved, sheriff's Capt. Brent Brown said Thursday.

    The father told authorities he had been talking with Rory McDowell on a cell phone about the time of the crash, Brown said. He said that might have been a factor in the crash, as well as excessive speed on a narrow road. He had no further details.

    About 15 minutes after the first crash, Cory McDowell's 1984 Porsche veered off another rural road, went into a spin, struck a tree and burst into flames, authorities said.

    The crashes remained under investigation, police said.

    Authorities said the father had always doted on his sons. "That's all he talked about was his boys," said sheriff's department Sgt. Tim Meyer. "He lived for his boys."

    Warren County is about 110 miles southwest of Louisville.

  7. will john doe be required to hose down the forming icicles on his garage eaves trough, simply because they're "dangerous"? c'mon.

    Isn't John Doe an adult movie star? If so, then your statement is even funnier. :grin:

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