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Or will he just settle for the money?

And whilst I'm here: hello police? I appear to be drink driving. I will note that the amusing headline is quite unfair to the young lady involved - it appears that she is having a difficult time and is trying to get help.

Recognising that you need help can be hard, and asking for help is usually harder still so I think the lady deserves some applause.

OK, so there's this sauna in Austria designed to look like a human skull. Odd, but kinda cool, especially when you consider that there's supposed to be steam coming out of the eye sockets. Except it isn't being allowed to run:

Although the skull was built to be fully functional, visitors won't be able to try it out or witness steam emanating from its eye sockets - something that only happens when the sauna, which fits eight people, is in use.

Snaffled rom Snopes Daily of course. :)

Sired by High Yield,  Subprime just paid $6.30 on a $2 bet. Courtesy of Snopes Daily of course.

That would be the horse though. :)

Since it seems to be something of a recurring theme for me I've added a News of the Weird tag to pick up on the things I link to from Snopes Daily.

And speaking of which the advice for today is: Don't drive a stolen car to court. Especially not to be convicted of another car theft.

I'm not going to bother with the links to Snopes this time (I might edit them in later) but here are the current urban legend tallies:

Barack Obama: 38 (but really 36 as his page repeats both of Joseph Biden's)
Sarah Palin: 10 (second!)
John McCain: 9
Joseph Biden: 2

And, yes, Obama has more than the other three combined...

...you can always fail again.

Courtesy of Daily Snopes of course. :)

As per Snopes today the tally is:

Obama: 33* + a virus email in circulation
McCain: 6
Palin: 5
Biden: 1 but -1* for having to share Obama's page on Snopes.

Biden still isn't trying hard enough, and Palin is making a strong charge for 2nd. :)

Remember how I said that Sarah Palin would soon have her very own page on Snopes? Was it only two days ago?

Voila! Oh, and there's already a third, false, legend about a list of banned books up.

EDIT 09/09/08: + 1. A fourth, false, legend about various quotes attributed to Palin that are actually sourced from a satirical site. :)

The first photoshopped Sarah Palin urban legend is up on Snopes.

However Obama's urban legend tally of 31 is still way ahead of McCain's 5.