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Remember how excited everybody got when we thought Australians were all driving flying cars? Well here in Arkansas, blazing down the I-30 towards Little Rock, we find . . . a Rocket-Powered Car! This couldn't be anything other than some…

Leaping out of the back of someone's house is a gigantic Bass fish. The record for the world's largest Bass fish ever caught was set way back in 1932, when a George W. Perry caught a 22lb, 4oz largemouth, which…

When we recently posted a Truck Crash, there was a lot of unexpected discussion in the comments regarding my use of the term "articulated lorry". I thought it was perfectly normal, but it seems that many of our American readers…

A farmer has written a giant message to the landing pilots of the nearby 549th Strategic Missile Squadron. The field says "You! America Make Proud!". I'm not sure of the exact meaning of this cryptic message, I guess the most…

In case you missed it, there was recently a spot of bother over the New Orleans images in Google Earth. Back in August 2005, just after Hurricane Katrina wrecked the city, Google updated Maps and Earth with images of the…

Welcome to the fourth in our irregular series "Keeping Up With The Joneses", where we feature communities around the globe who are trying to to get one-up on their neighbours. The requirement for social acceptance in this South Texan town…