To: ~digs who wrote (3870 ) 11/22/2000 5:40:03 PM From: Bucky Katt Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 48461 A must read, I know people who have been to this place and done it. More holiday nuttiness Tavern Serves Up Turkey Testicles HUNTLEY, Ill. (Reuters) - A delicacy unlikely to grace Thanksgiving tables -- turkey testicles -- were gobbled up by the dozen at an Illinois tavern on Wednesday as part of the pub's pre-holiday tradition. Patrons of the Parkside Pub in Huntley feasted on more than 800 pounds of the nuggets that had been deep fried in a secret batter created by proprietor Mark McDonald, who began serving testicles the day before Thanksgiving nearly two decades ago. ``They taste something like a mushroom,'' bartender Martha Kagel said amid the noontime hubbub. ``I've had a couple already. They're good.'' Hoping to satisfy an expected crowd of 3,000, McDonald purchased more around 30,000 of the high-fat testicles from an Iowa turkey farm, which normally removes them from inside the birds for export. dailynews.yahoo.com Back to business, this from todays WSJ> Bearish investors continued to increase their bets on a pullback in the stock market. Short-selling activity through mid-November on the New York Stock Exchange hit a record for the third consecutive month. The level of short sales not yet closed out, known as short interest, rose 2.2% to 4,591,354,587 shares in the latest month through Nov. 15, from 4,494,751,764 shares on Oct. 13, statistics released Tuesday showed. On the American Stock Exchange, owned by the National Association of Securities Dealers, the short-interest figure also rose, increasing 5.3% through Nov. 15 to 212,894,328 shares from a revised figure of 202,227,704 in mid-October. Figures for both exchanges reflect transactions through Nov. 10 with extra days to complete settlement. And 3 ipo's that came out today all finished lower, gasp!