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What a beautiful cat! I love the color of the fur.Which one? The one on the right reminds me strongly of a cat I knew back in college named “Ghost”.
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My personal favorite was the one on the second one from the right
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2006 Sonoma-Marin Fair World's Ugliest Dog Contestants
Gallery of the 2006 Ugly Dog Candidates
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After the horses moved on, the doe came for her wondering fawn. So all is well.
(No source was credited when I received.)
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The best one is the big dog robotic mule
http://www.oddpeak.com/item_60193.aspx
creepy looking
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After the horses moved on, the doe came for her wondering fawn. So all is well.
(No source was credited when I received.)My brother and I particularly enjoyed that. 
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cuddling/sleeping kittens
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Speaking of striking pictures...
[Note: Sorry for adding the associated article here in this thread, but I want to preserve it before it gets deleted from the newspaper's website.]
THE DAILY MAIL
29th September 2006
Lightning bolt throws photographer in the air
The amazing image of the thunderbolt caught on camera.
(Click to enlarge the image)
When the sky darkened and lightning began to flash, Kane Quinnell grabbed his new digital camera, hoping to snap some pictures of the approaching storm.
Not having a tripod, he balanced the camera on his car, parked under the carport of his then Old Toongabbie home, and aimed the lens southward.
It never occurred to Mr Quinnell that his new hobby - photographing storms - could be dangerous.
"In the north you could see a few stars and it wasn't raining," he recalled.
"The storm looked like it was five to 10 kilometres to the south. I thought it was perfectly safe to be outdoors, taking photos."
After setting the camera for a four-second exposure he began shooting pictures, suspecting there was little chance of lightning flashing while the shutter was open.
"I hit the button … and there was nothing. I hit the button again … and nothing. On about the fourth attempt I hit the button again and I saw this lightning and heard the thunder.
"It was like a crack. The next thing I was about two metres in the air - it scared the hell out of me."
Mr Quinnell estimated the lightning struck about 20 metres away. "I think it hit the house behind me."
Unhurt, but buzzing with adrenaline, he rushed inside to check the photo on his computer.
"I was amazed. It was the first storm picture I had really taken."
He emailed the picture to friends and suspects one of them forwarded it to the Bureau of Meteorology, because it called to ask if the shot could be published with 11 other spectacular photographs in its 2006 weather calendar.
"Kane," said the bureau's Melissa Lyne, "risked his life to take the [calendar's] August photo of a lightning strike."
Mr Quinnell, an IT technician, said that as a small boy he was frightened by thunderstorms.
"I grew up and got over the fear factor and started to really enjoy the light shows," he said.
Now armed with a tripod, he hopes to continue with his new hobby.
"I am just waiting for some rain. There haven't been may storms lately."
Phil Gordon, a truck driver, farmer and visual artist from Newcastle, said the storm he photographed at Treachery Beach, near Seal Rocks, "was like a living thing".
Although it was sunset, the eastern sky glowed so brightly "it looked like the sun was rising".
He recalled taking 60 to 80 photographs before he and his son Ryan were forced to run for cover from the 40 knot winds and the rain that flooded their camping ground. Then, 10 to 15 minutes after the storm arrived, "it was gone".
The calendar, a not-for-profit bureau project, costs goes on sale today. See www.bom.gov.au/calendar for more details.
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DAILY MAIL
29th September 2006
A spot in the sun
It looks like a speck of dust on the surface of the sun. But this spectacular picture shows the space shuttle Atlantis alongside the International Space Station (ISS) silhouetted as they orbit the earth.
The image was taken in Normandy by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. He used a digital camera attached to a £5,000 specially kitted-out telescope.
The shuttle, which returned last week from a 12-day mission, and the space station can be seen in orbit 250 miles above the earth while the sun is 93 million miles away.
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Both of those images are spectacular, nchrist.
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