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Nov 12, 2007 | Newsday.com

TALKERS

Creepy cleanup DUBLIN, Texas - Jackie Bibby, the 'Texas Snake Man,' spent about 45 minutes in a see-through bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes this week, fully clothed and unbitten, shattering his own record by 12 ... via Newsday.com

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Sat Nov 10, 2007

Mercury-Register

Column: Off the Record

“I have set several world records in that bathtub.”

Sometimes when I read the news I am amazed and think, I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. via Mercury-Register

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Thu Nov 08, 2007

WAVY-TV Portsmouth

Strange News

Shake your booty in your boxers -- and possibly win five grand. Jockey is launching UnderWars. via WAVY-TV Portsmouth

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Tue Nov 06, 2007

Earth Times

UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News - November 6, 2007

“The principal and assistant principal who handled this were following the policy set out in the handbook”

Man sets record for bathing with snakes DUBLIN, Texas, Nov. 6 A man has set a world record in Dublin, Texas, by spending 45 minutes in a bathtub filled with 87 rattlesnakes. via Earth Times

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Mon Nov 05, 2007

Denton Record-Chronicle

Texan sets record with 87 rattlers in bathtub

“They can go wherever they want as long as they don't start biting”

DUBLIN, Texas - Another day, another bizarre world record for Jackie Bibby, "The Texas Snake Man." Bibby spent about 45 minutes in a see-through bathtub with 87 rattlesnakes Monday, shattering his own record by ... via Denton Record-Chronicle

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Thu Nov 01, 2007

The Austin Chronicle

Day Trips

“It is still my favorite car to drive”

The Terrill Antique Car Museum in De Leon more than makes up for its small size with some of the most unique specimens of automotive history. via The Austin Chronicle

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Related Topix: West, TX, de Leon, TX

Wed Oct 10, 2007

hosted A liberal dose | A liberal dose

Towns to test power in numbers

“It's a good way of helping citizens in rural Texas to be able to [take advantage] in the cheaper electric rates that we were all promised when dereg came into law. It's an obvious thing.”

For many of the small-town residents of Eastland, electric deregulation has fallen far short of the promise.

Electric retailers don't pay much attention to the rural area 95 miles west of Fort Worth, and many residents have not switched providers -- even though such a change could lower their electric bills, some say.

'When dereg was passed, all the rural members [of the Legislature] were patted on the head and they were told, 'Don't worry -- you'll have rates out there that will be competitive' -- but that hasn't materialized,' said state Rep. Jim Keffer, the Republican lawmaker who represents the area. 'But now something has got to be done. The time has passed.' Read more

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Comanche, TX, West, TX, Arlington, TX, Grand Prairie, TX

Mon Oct 01, 2007

Art Daily

Enrico David at Institute of Contemporary Arts

Enrico David at Institute of Contemporary Arts Enrico David. LONDON.- This autumn, the Institute of Contemporary Arts is staging the first major public exhibition by artist Enrico David. via Art Daily

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Embroidery, Painting, Arts

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