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Gibbs's handy note pokes fun at Palin ... Thieves targeting toilet hardware ... Wild chickens move into neighborhood ... Fiberglass cow stolen from school ... Watercooler stories from UPI.

Billboard asks if Bush is missed ... Couple to be paid for 'death' error ... Message in bottle yields response ... Man aims for chocolate construction record ... The world as we know it from UPI.

UPI horoscopes for Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- My son and I are collaborating on a song. That might be strictly local news everywhere else but to me it's one of the top stories of the week.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010.

MALMO, Sweden, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The Swedish tax agency has been ordered to pay damages to a 79-year-old woman who was mistakenly classified as dead.

WYOMING, Minn., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A billboard along an interstate highway in rural Minnesota has a simple message -- a picture of former President George W. Bush and the question "Miss me yet?"

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A group of California fishermen who sent a message in a bottle two years ago said they were delighted when someone found the bottle and even sent a reply.

AURONZO DI CADORE, Italy, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- An Italian man said he is vying for Guinness World Record fame by creating a 26-foot scale model of Venice's St. Mark's bell tower completely out of chocolate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's use of crib notes written on her hand during a speech became humorous fodder for White House spokesman Robert Gibbs Tuesday.

BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Police at a California university said thieves have stolen necessary flushing hardware from more than three dozen campus toilets.

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Residents of a New York neighborhood said a flock of about a dozen chickens has descended on the area.

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The principal of a New York school has a message for whoever took the facility's life-sized fiberglass cow: You made the children cry.

NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A group of New York urban artists are decorating city poles with satirical messages disguised as actual road signs.

DULCE, Ind., Feb. 9 (UPI) -- An Indiana man lost for four days after his car became lodged in deep snow said he survived on Mountain Dew and mountain snow.