A man playing as a single at Pebble Beach was teamed with a twosome. After a few holes, the twosome finally asked why he was playing such a beautiful course by himself. He replied that he & his wife had played the course every year - for over 20 years - but this year she had passed away and he kept the tee time in her memory.
The twosome commented that they thought certainly someone would have been willing to take her spot.
"So did I," he said, "but they all wanted to go to her funeral."
Switzerland's Freddy Nock broke a rather unusual world record on Sunday - he managed to walk a 3,264-foot (995 metres) long cable car line to the top of Germany's highest mountain. (Aug. 31)
A TV crew got more than they bargained for, when they went to a home in Coca Beach, Fla. for an interview. A woman there chased the crew off the property with a garden hoe, striking at a cameraman. (Aug. 23) Slug:
Two diamondback rattlesnakes joined at the neck will soon be separated in a delicate surgical procedure. Vets say the snakes cannot survive together. (Aug. 26)
A goat spray painted for the Minnesota Vikings and shaved with the number of quarterback Brett Favre gets a new home. The animal was found in the trunk of a car at a repair shop. (Aug. 26)
A chance to jump off the tallest landmark in the Brussels, Belgium is drawing in daredevil visitors to the Atomium landmark where risk-takers can ride a cable zip line, or aerial runway, dubbed the "Deathride". (Aug. 25)
What makes a good love story? The world's first international conference on romantic fiction took a long, hard look at the genre that generates millions of dollars annually. (Aug. 22)
There was a new type delay in the ninth inning of Wednesday night's Frontier League game between the Lake Erie Crushers and the Southern Illinois Miners, a skunk delay. (Aug. 20)
The home of a wheelchair bound man burned to the ground recently, and he says he would have gone with it if it wasn't for one uncommon hero, the neighbor's five-year-old German Shepherd. (Aug. 19)
More than 60 pet dogs were the guests of honour as dog-loving couple Viviana Siviero and Davide Michelini tied the knot in the northern Italian town of Verizzi on Sunday. (Aug. 16)
No longer chicks, four new adolescent penguins waddled to their new home at "penguin Island" at the San Francisco Zoo, joining the rest of the colony of Magellanic penguins. (Aug. 12)
Dogs taking part in the Purina Dog Challenge Regional Semifinals, also got the chance to attend a mini-training camp and coached by Blue, the Indianapolis Colts mascot. (Aug 12)
A fish at the front of a Chinese restaurant in Georgia is creating quite of stir. The fish repeatedly jumps at customers. Vets believe the fish is jumping in an effort to protect other fish in the tank. (Aug 12)
