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June 27, 2005
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With the temperatures soaring this month, the return of the Greek beach cop has
an undisclosed number of undercover (or barely covered) men and women
patrolling the seashore for pickpockets and other petty criminals. How do you
spot a Greek undercover beach cop? Is a girl wearing a top on an otherwise
topless beach automatically suspected to be a cop? (How embarrassing would it
be to be busted by a topless cop?) Is he packing heat or is he just … well, you
know.
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US MasterCard holders and elsewhere were recently warned of a massive security
breach at a US processing center after the theft of private information from
more than 40 million credit card holders around the world. Surprisingly none of
the almost 5000 MasterCards in Greece were affected, probably because any
potential thieves didn’t want to deal with a long name or remembering a Greek
mother’s maiden name.
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Greek geologists last week discovered the fossilized remains of prehistoric
rhinos, mastodons, gazelles and other carnivorous mammals near Grevena in
northwestern Greece. Notable among the find were mastadon tusks measuring 4.39
meters. “All the evidence we examined suggests these tusks are the longest
found in Europe,” assistant geology professor Evangelia Tsoukala told Ta Nea.
"We have contacted the Guinness Book of Records, and are expecting an
answer by the end of summer. We are confident the Grevena mastodon will occupy
the place it deserves in the book of records," she said. In the meantime, we
are confident that guys from Grevena are already practicing pick-up lines based
on this discovery.
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While we’ve always known the air around Athens to be bad, the European Union
has finally approved Greece’s plan for CO2 emissions trading for the
next three years. Under the plan, Greece will be given 223.3 million tons of CO2
allowances until 2007. Under this EU system, European plants that under-pollute
can sell pollution credits to those who over-pollute, and are fined if they
exceed their credit count. Guess which side of the line Greece is probably
coming in on?
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Athens investigators are looking into 24 tons of bad Canadian turkey meat that
Greek veterinarians say was infected with salmonella. Does anyone find it
strange that in Greece the veterinarians are the ones in charge of figuring
this sort of thing out? Last time we checked, veterinarians are supposed to
keep animals alive, not check on how tasty they are? Kind of makes you think
that maybe there was some truth to the urban legend of why they stopped selling
gyros back in the day in Greece. Isn’t that right, Fido? What do you think,
Felix?
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