This section is sort of hard to explain. It's kind of a "Miscellaneous" section.
The title comes from the trademark Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch opener. We begin with...

Rather Strange, But True: In Japan, two former television comedians won the governorships of major cities Tokyo and Osaka... In Suriname, a large piece of what looks like a rocket fell out of the sky and landed near a village. This isn't that exciting, but we liked the district commissioner's name: "Mohamed Dim Mohamed."... In Pennsylvania, two parishioners at a Greensburg church were sent messages by a judge to quiet down. Apparently, they repeatedly drowned out the choir with their "loud, raucous prayer."... In Portland, Oregon, firefighters were called to rescue a woman and her two children who were trapped in their upside-down car after a one-car accident. While being extricated from the vehicle via the "Jaws of Life" tool, the woman paused to take a call on her cellular phone, then proceeded to have an argument with her husband... In South Africa, President Nelson Mandela once again fired his estranged wife from her Cabinet position Friday. Apparently, she contested the action the first time, and Mandela reinstated her long enough to fire her constitutionally, thus removing the threat of legal challenge... And this last item from Discover magazine: Tokyo researchers trained pigeons to recognize certain paintings-either Picassos, which are cubist, or Monets, which are impressionist. Not only did the birds learn to identify the paintings they were shown, they were also able to differentiate between other paintings that they had never seen before, depending on the pigeons' individual training. In fact, the Picasso-trained group responded correctly 90% of the time to other cubist works, such as those of Braque, while the Monet-trained group reacted with equal accuracy to Renoirs.