Top Items About Fires
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| Anecdotes | Count Stenbock: Temper Tantrum | In a drunken rage, Count Eric Magnus Andreas Harry Stenbock once attacked a friend with the poker used to stoke the fire.... | Anonymous | 183 | |
| Images | Surgical Blooper | Denmark: A patient broke wind while having surgery and set fire to his genitals. The 30 year old man was having a mole removed from his bottom with an electric knife when his attack of flatulence was ignited by a spark. His genitals, which were soaked in surgical spirits, caught fire. The man, who is suing the hospital, said: "When I woke up, my penis and scrotum were burning like hell. Besides the pain, I can't have sex with my wife." Surgeons at the hospital in Kjellerups said: "It was an unfortunate accident." | root | 159 | |
| Jokes | Jay Leno jokes about California fires | on the eve of the Millennium"On New Year's Eve, my wife and I are going to sit in front of a roaring fire -- Glendale." --... | root | 135 | |
| Images | Street Fire Matchbox Car | ... | root | 117 | |
| Anecdotes | Melvin Laird: Stogie Blooper | When President Richard Nixon visited the Vatican in 1970 (at the height of the war in Vietnam), it was decided that... | Anonymous | 100 | |
| Anecdotes | Red Banded? | Like Hillary Rodham Clinton, who removed ashtrays from, and prohibiting smoking in, the White House, Barbara Bush was no... | Anonymous | 76 | |
| Anecdotes | Freedom of Speech? | In 1919, Charles Schenck, general secretary of the Socialist Party, was convicted of attempting to obstruct the draft... | Anonymous | 73 | |
| Anecdotes | Library of Alexandria | After conquering the city of Alexandria in 642, `Omar`s general `Amr Ibn Al-as, sent a messenger to ask `Omar how he... | Anonymous | 59 | |
| Trivia | Karl Friedrich Gauss proposes planting trees visible to aliens | The famed 19th century mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss once proposed that ten-mile strips of trees delineating the... | root | 58 | |
| Images | Technology for country folk | ... | root | 53 |
