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19 Jul 2010 20:50

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Culture: 4chan turns 11-year-old girl into mush, has no effect on Gawker

  • dumb A poor 11-year-old girl started crying on YouTube because people on 4chan were trolling her in a way they only know how. She became a meme.
  • dumber Upset that Gawker called them out for it, 4chan tried to attack Gawker’s site … and failed. Worse than miserably. Serves you jerks right. source
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12 May 2009 23:05

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Tech, World: The woman who named Pluto lived to see one last vindication

  • It has now been satisfactorily proven that the dog was named after the planet, rather than the other way around. So, one is vindicated.
  • Englishwoman Venetia Phair • Who, as an 11-year-old girl, named the planet Pluto in 1930. She named the planet for the Roman god of the underworld and suggested it to her grandfather, who talked to some people, and then they talked to more people, and eventually, the name stuck. Phair died April 30 at 90. • source
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01 Mar 2009 10:20

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Offbeat: He’s a minister – when he’s not in middle school, that is

  • They say, ‘How can you be a preacher when you’re so young?’ But when they listen to me, they’re shocked.
  • Terry Durham • An 11-year-old ordained minister at True Gospel Deliverance Ministry in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The “Little Man of God” preaches at the storefront church every Sunday. He doesn’t write his sermons down – he reads the Bible the day before and waits for the spirit to move him. • source
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23 Feb 2009 10:26

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U.S.: 11-year-old’s lawyer: Let him go to juvenille court instead of jail

  • I want him to be occupied and busy and back, essentially, in school. I wouldn’t say he’s in good spirits. He’s confused. He looks and acts like a typical 11-year-old.
  • Dennis Elisco • Attorney for Jordan Brown, the 11-year-old boy accused of killing his dad’s pregnant girlfriend, Kenzie Marie Houk. The prison didn’t have supplies to accommodate an 11-year-old; Brown is wearing far-too-large prison clothing, including pants cuffed up “about 10 times,” according to Elisco. • source
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22 Feb 2009 10:41

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U.S.: An 11-year-old boy allegedly murdered his dad’s gf? Yikes!

  • This is something that you wouldn’t even think of in your worst nightmare, that you’d have to charge an 11-year-old with homicide. It’s heinous, the whole situation.
  • John Bongivengo • District Attorney of Lawrence County, Pa., on the boy, who allegedly killed his father’s pregnant 26-year-old girlfriend, Kenzie Marie Houk, on Friday. The unborn child also died. • source
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