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March 23, 2005
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A Canadian teenager was arrested earlier this week for violating a Greek law
against illegally possessing antiquities for picking up a rock at the
Acropolis. While she mistook it for a simple rock, Greek authorities claimed it
was marble, confirming the age-old theory that a Greek will think that any rock
that comes from Greece is marble. As strictly enforced as this law is and
carrying the potential for a rarely imposed ten-year prison sentence, it makes
us wonder how many counts we violated for all the dust and rocks that followed
us home on our last visit to the Acropolis. Closer to home, it reminds us of
the world of trouble a friend of ours got in third grade for having a millipede
“follow him home” from a field trip lunch to Theodore Roosevelt Island.
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A study of over 1100 Greek villagers revealed that living in the mountains is
healthier than living in a valley. The results of the 15-year study published
in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health showed lower incidents of
death from heart disease due to the increased physical activity from chasing
after sheep and goats in the mountains and adaptation to thinner mountain air.
Not studied was the effect that taking longer for the Greek mountain
sheep-herders to get back home to their wives had on both the husband and
wives’ collective mental health.
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More strange news out of Canada, as a Greek man is suing the humane society for
allowing his dog, Pluto, who was being watched by his accountant while he was
in Greece, to be adopted by someone else. Upon his return to Canada, Demetre
Papadopoulos found that the Dalmatian had been taken by the humane society when
his accountant failed to communicate with the dog. Papadopoulos told the
Toronto Sun, "The person I thought was a friend got fed up with Pluto and
thought he was stupid and took him to the humane society. He's not stupid, He
doesn't understand English." Papadopoulos claims the dog only responds to
commands in Greek – a great line that you should be filing away to explain your
buddy or boyfriend’s behavior after getting hammered at the next Greek Night.
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Has anyone noticed the new Cingular March Madness themed commercials, which
feature the line of gyro cones that are supposed to represent reception bars?
Completely unrealistic. Anyone knows that any place that can justify cooking
five gyro cones at once would be too busy and chaotic to have its employees
watching basketball on TV without a fire on their hands.
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