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SWALLOWS DEPART FROM SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO DAY On October 23rd, the Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day marks the migration of thousands of swallows. #SwallowsDepartFromSanJuanCapistranoDay The famous cliff swallows of San Juan Capistrano leave town every year in a swirling mass near the Day of San Juan (October 23). They head for their winter vacation spot 6,000 miles south in Goya, Corrientes, Argentina. Each year, they return on or about March 19th - St. Joseph Day. Their migration has been marked for generations. Cliff swallows are cousins of barn swallows and purple martins. Swallows have long, narrow wings, forked...

A gigantic python snake in Florida ate a 76-pound adult deer. The 16 foot long Burmese python was one of the largest pythons discovered to date in the sunshine state. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission’s exotic species coordinator Scott Hardin, if these huge snakes aren’t killed, they could migrate northward. A government sanctioned shotgun blast stopped this snake from its potential journey to Atlanta or the Carolinas. And just how any inches around did the beast’s belly have to measure in order to covert a 76 pound Bambi into breakfast? 44 inches. Oh, and what is the average...

The Eliot Spitzer prostitution ring scandal is the PERFECT situation for jokes. I am sure there will be a plethora of such jokes. Therefore please post on this thread all Eliot Spitzer jokes that you hear. Let this be the Eliot Spitzer Joke Resource Center. Oh, and don't forget to post any such jokes made by comedians.

New York - At a hastily scheduled morning press conference at the headquarters of New York's exclusive Emperors Club prostitution ring, high priced call girl "Kristen" announced that she would  temporarily step aside in the wake of charges that she had engaged in sex with New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. "I made a serious mistake and betrayed the trust of my co-workers, my many clients, and my pimps," she said in a quiet voice cracking with emotion. "I will be taking a leave of absence to earn their forgiveness, and redeem myself in the eyes of the entire expensive whore...

Video at link. "Bringing Some Passion Back to Albany" http://www.observer.com/2008/eliot-spitzer-bringing-passion-back-albany

A distant eruption of high-energy gamma rays is evidence for a black hole swallowing another dense object called a neutron star, astronomers announced today. A neutron star is a stellar corpse with a mass equal to a few suns packed into a space no more than 12 miles across. Black holes are even denser objects, so dense that matter and even light can't escape once inside their spheres of invisible influence. Scientists have long suspected collisions between these objects are common. Other recent bursts have looked similar, but observations from NASA's orbiting Swift satellite and other telescopes, recorded July 24...

As the author of children's classics such as Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome established himself as a literary favourite and earned a considerable fortune. But the one-time Observer journalist also led a double life as a British secret agent. By Guardian Newspapers, 7/20/2002 Revealed: the double life of children's author Arthur Ransome. As the author of children's classics such as Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome established himself as a literary favourite and earned a considerable fortune. But the one-time Observer journalist also led a double life as a British secret agent. Newly disclosed records have confirmed what his supporters had...