Duffy's Rant Netcast » Strange http://duffysrant.com News and comment from the south suburbs of Chicago Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:49:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 ©Duffy duffy@duffysrant.com (Duffy) duffy@duffysrant.com(Duffy) 1440 News and comment from the south suburbs of Chicago Duffy Duffy duffy@duffysrant.com No no http://duffysrant.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/as3452_144.jpg Duffy's Rant Netcast http://duffysrant.com 144 144 Eastaldn disaster commemorated http://duffysrant.com/2010/07/24/eastaldn-disaster-commemorated/ http://duffysrant.com/2010/07/24/eastaldn-disaster-commemorated/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:00:37 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2010/07/24/eastaldn-disaster-commemorated/ This afternoon, along the Chicago River, there will be a memorial service for the victims of the Eastland disaster, which occurred 95 years ago, today.

The Eastland steamer was going to take Western Electric workers on an excursion cruise when it capsized in the Chicago River.

One bit of trivia with this is that the Oprah studios was one of the temporary morgues where the bodies of the victims were taken and, to some, is still haunted today.

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Elvis embalming tools withdrawn http://duffysrant.com/2010/07/24/elvis-embalming-tools-withdrawn/ http://duffysrant.com/2010/07/24/elvis-embalming-tools-withdrawn/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:34:23 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2010/07/24/elvis-embalming-tools-withdrawn/ This story really creeped me out when I read it.

Thank heavens the auction house had the good sense to pull them.

Evlis embalming articles pulled from auction

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OMG! What a circus this is turning out to be http://duffysrant.com/2010/07/01/omg-what-a-circus-this-is-turning-out-to-be/ http://duffysrant.com/2010/07/01/omg-what-a-circus-this-is-turning-out-to-be/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:54:09 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2010/07/01/omg-what-a-circus-this-is-turning-out-to-be/ With all the stuff coming out of Blagos trial, this is just incredible.

Blagos drop $400K on clothes

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Okay, now this is wierd! http://duffysrant.com/2010/06/28/okay-now-this-is-wierd/ http://duffysrant.com/2010/06/28/okay-now-this-is-wierd/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:34:07 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2010/06/28/okay-now-this-is-wierd/ If you’re a Marilyn Monroe fan, this may interest you.  Someone bought her chest x-ray for $45K.

Here’s the article: <a href=”http://tinyurl.com/22lw667″>Marilyn’s Chest Xrays Sold</a>

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Okay, now this is getting even weirder! http://duffysrant.com/2009/06/30/okay-now-this-is-getting-even-weirder/ http://duffysrant.com/2009/06/30/okay-now-this-is-getting-even-weirder/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:34:19 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2009/06/30/okay-now-this-is-getting-even-weirder/ Okay, update on the Michael Jackson saga:

We now hear (and it has been verified) that those three kids of Michael’s are NOT his biological kids AND, to make this even stranger, it now turns out that Debbie Rowe is NOT their biological mother!

YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

One report has it that the real biological father is Debbie Rowe’s DERMATOLOGIST!!!!!

How much more FUBAR can this get?  Hang on…wait till they let loose the supposed will.

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True Friends http://duffysrant.com/2009/06/06/true-friends/ http://duffysrant.com/2009/06/06/true-friends/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:11:36 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2009/06/06/true-friends/ You’ve heard of the Odd Couple?

Check this out.

Buddies

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OMFG!!! What ARE they doing in NYC??!??? http://duffysrant.com/2009/06/05/omfg-what-are-they-doing-in-nyc/ http://duffysrant.com/2009/06/05/omfg-what-are-they-doing-in-nyc/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:50:33 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2009/06/05/omfg-what-are-they-doing-in-nyc/ I can’t believe this.  Some poor guy was dead for WEEKS in a minivan that he borrowed from a friend and NOT ONE COP NOTICED THE BODY IN THE BACK????!!????

If I was the Commissioner, I’d be asking some really uncomfortable questions.  It took a freaking MARSHALL to notice the body in the back!!!!

JEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyhow, here’s the article I found on it: http://tinyurl.com/qtumd4

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Greater Love Hath No man http://duffysrant.com/2009/05/31/greater-love-hath-no-man/ http://duffysrant.com/2009/05/31/greater-love-hath-no-man/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:32:33 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2009/05/31/greater-love-hath-no-man/ Than that of one who would, of his own volition, remove his appendage in protest when his family refused him permission to marry a girl of a lower class.

Read all about it here.

Makes me REAL uncomfortable.

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Stupid Criminal Tricks http://duffysrant.com/2009/05/26/stupid-criminal-tricks/ http://duffysrant.com/2009/05/26/stupid-criminal-tricks/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 13:12:02 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2009/05/26/stupid-criminal-tricks/ A woman in Arnold, Mo. was arrested for shoplifting when she was slow in figuring out that she was trying to get out an automatic enter door and quite loud in expressing her frustration. (From News of the Weird and KSDK, St. Louis)

A guy named Nathaniel Johnson was arrested in March in Tampa, Fl. on burglary charges when the police had evidence of his presence in a neighborhood that was having a rash of break-ins.  The evidence?  He was wearing an ankle monitor from a previous arrest! (From News of the Weird and WFTS, Tampa)

SHEESH!

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I love it. http://duffysrant.com/2009/05/06/i-love-it/ http://duffysrant.com/2009/05/06/i-love-it/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 01:54:01 +0000 Duffy http://duffysrant.com/2009/05/06/i-love-it/ The Guinness Book of World Records has confirmed that a Dachshund in NY is the world’s oldest dog at 21.

Here’s the article from CBS:

http://cbs2chicago.com/watercooler/worlds.oldest.dog.2.1003298.html

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