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Well, I'm not sure you'd call these stories news, but they are nevertheless interesting, and do pass our criteria here at nonamenews as news you never thought you could use. File this one in Ripley's Believe It Or Not . Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery - where many a star-struck dead Hollywood entertainer enters the next world - is having a devil of a time finding a crypt-mate for Marilyn Monroe. Attempts to sell the final resting spot above Ms Monroe's have failed, including two recent tries on eBay. The spot beside her is a different matter. Playboy porn publisher Hugh Hefner bought that one several years back for $75,000. I wonder if the second story one was available back then. Who more than Hugh Hefner would want to spend an eternity on top of Marilyn Monroe? I don't know how I missed this one but it appears what once was science fiction will soon become the first real listing in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy . That's right, Barc

Today dufus goes behind the headlines to bring you the most accurate analysis there is on the interwebs, this side of Fox News. In this edition of noname news we bring you the news you probably can't use, and probably weren't interested in to begin with and spiff it up in such a way to prove beyond a doubt that the 10 minutes you'll have spent reading it is 10 minutes you'll never get back. Now, something I've always wanted to say: "This just in..." Blago allowed to compete on Celebrity Apprentice - a U.S. District Judge has allowed disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to participate in the Donald Trump reality show. The show is going in a new direction this year. Rumour has it he'll go against Bernard Madoff and the former CEOs of GM, Lehman Brothers and Enron. Gosselin kids suffer as pawns in split - well that's no surprise. While Jon and Kate may think they're a King and Queen, they're more like a couple of rooks. Check,

Every once and a while I'll wander off the front pages of newspapers and turn away from prime time newscasts to, as Lou Reed so aptly put it, take a walk on the wild side. There's a whole other world out there beyond politics and current affairs and luckily for you I'm here to guide you through some of the wackier headlines and stories. Here, gentle reader, is the latest edition of... noname news. Some headline writer somewhere had a field day with this story - a pumpkin field to be precise. Giant pumpkin squashes competition in California weigh-off, sets new state record I thought that was a really gourd one! Oh by the way, the giant jack o' lantern weighed 1,658 pounds. It's owner's now a real heavyweight in the pumpkin growing business. *** Spoon in June under a bright full moon. Tin Pan Alley songwriters used to try their best to find rhymes for moon. But there was no rhyme or reason for this moon. In a story headlined Once in a black and blue moon... we ar