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71 Butternut?
Young people in Norway are called to military duty to guard NATO’s northern borders, and until recently, were allowed to take their military-issued underwear with them when discharged. But no more, The Guardian reported. COVID-19 caused supplies to dwindle, so as of Jan. 7, people leaving ser- vice are being asked to hand over their unmentionables to be “washed, cleaned and checked,” defense logistics spokesman Hans Meisingset said. “What we distribute is in good condition.”
In other Weird reports:
Bad Alexa
91 Doughnut? 94 Drink with
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74 Folksy Guthrie
75 Abdominal scar,
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77 Earth goddess
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o building material
81 Puebl
84 Breakfast cereal magnate
89 Zigzagged, in a sport
a painful
homophone 95 Packed (with) 97 “Phooey!”
98 Family figure? 99 Kind of blanket
or paint
100 Bubbly prefix
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On Dec. 26, as bad weath- er kept Kristin Livdahl and her 10-year-old daugh- ter inside, they looked for some fun challenges to do: “... laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on your foot,” for example, Livdahl explained on Twitter.
by pulling down his trousers. Faison’s son was playing on the Lakeway Christian Academy team, the Associ- ated Press reported. Later, Faison tweeted: “Totally lost my junk and got booted from the gym. ... I hope to be able to find the ref and ask for his forgiveness. I was bad
wrong.”
A Twisted Plot
Since 2016, the publish- ing world has been baffled by a fake insider who tricks authors or editors into send- ing him unpublished manu- scripts, then apparently just keeps them for himself. On
Jan. 5, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Filippo Bernardini, 29, was arrested on wire fraud and identity theft charges related to the mystery. ABC News reported that Bernardi- ni, who works for Simon & Schuster in London, alleged- ly collected hundreds of un- published works, including those of well-known authors and a Pulitzer Prize-winner. If found guilty, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
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But when the child asked Alexa for a challenge, Fox News reported, it suggested she plug a charger cord into a wall then hold a penny to the exposed prongs. Fortu- nately, Livdahl was there with her and yelled, “’ No, Alexa, no!’” she said. Later, Livdahl received an email from Amazon, apologizing for the incident and promis- ing to follow up.
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Tennessee state Rep. Jer- emy Faison, 45, had to be ejected from the stands at a high school basketball game in Johnson City on Jan. 4 af- ter he became angry at a ref- eree and tried to “pants” him
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