What a Weird Week Fri Dec 2, 2022: The Mystery of the MUNCLE! also So Much Guacamole! and Flossie, the Oldest Cat in the World!

What a Weird Week: the top 10 weird stories from the news. I blog the show notes for every episode at https://www.scottyandtony.com/search/label/podcast

Here's the Top Ten for Season 4 Episode 9:

❿Headline: "Every monk in Thai temple defrocked after testing positive for meth" 

❾Headline: "Rats blamed for eating 500 kilograms of cannabis stored by Indian police"

❽Headline: "Mexican city mixes up world's largest serving of guacamole"

❼Headline: ""Minnesota: 200 anglers rescued from broken ice chunk"

❻Headline: "Swiss Energy Minister suggests people shower together to save power"

❺Headline: "After renegade nurse chops off man’s foot, state finds heap of system failures"

❹Headline: "Florida woman is suing Velveeta for $5 million, claiming that her instant macaroni didn't cook fast enough"

❸Headline: "Flossie, 26, officially crowned world’s oldest living cat by Guinness World Records"

❷Headline: "San Francisco police offer more details on plan for lethal robots" or Don't worry, robots to have explosives, not guns, silly!

🏆Honorable Mention Headline:

"Teens build intricate ‘Gingerbread Cathedral,’ get out of writing essay"

🏆Honorable Mention Headline: "6-foot ‘Lobsta Mickey’ statue returns to Boston"

❶Headline: "DNA showed a mother was also her daughter’s uncle — how scientists solved this medical mystery"

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I blog the shownotes for each episode here: https://www.scottyandtony.com/search/label/podcast



Bonus Headlines:

- "Mystery saxophonist woos neighbours with a careless whisper"

(https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130551921/mystery-saxophonist-woos-neighbours-with-a-careless-whisper)

- "New Disney Movie Has Lowest CinemaScore in Three Decades"

(https://comicbook.com/movies/news/disney-strange-world-lowest-cinemascore-in-three-decades/)

- "The world's skinniest skyscraper is now complete — and its interiors are remarkable"

(https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/the-world-s-skinniest-skyscraper-is-now-complete-and-its-interiors-are-remarkable-1.6167448)

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