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(NBC News) -- We've had our share of natural disasters and dire headlines over the past year. But regardless of the circumstances, people (and animals) always seem to find ways to have fun.
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NBC's Chris Clackum takes a look back at the wild and wacky of 2005.
With 2005 no longer a child and the world ever shrinking,
We race to the end of this calendar page and practice New Year's drinking.
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Beasts took to games in curious ways, like tennis, track, and swimmin',
While some hit the haberdashery shops and dressed up much like women.
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A turkey turned terror flew the coop and cruelly the trooper tormented.
The trooper learned fast he couldn't outlast a beaked barnyard bully, demented.
“Fowl" moods got fouler as masters of sky became roadside givers of grief.
But in Norway we find, a tux and a beak gets you bumped up to Colonel-in-chief.
The best laid schemes of mice and men end in watery pain.
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With drivers like these on roads and rivers, you might want to take the train.
Some people throw food or chase a cheese or make fine sculpture from butter.
Extreme gourmets choose to dine where the maitre'd can flutter.
Einstein said in a famous quote, "Dancers are athletes of god,"
Though some of these dances are less than artistic, and some are a bit too mod.
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Bad athletes dress up, who can't make the team, and learn to say "squawk" over "hut!"
The fleet-footed flight of this counterfeit lion
Stopped with a dart in the ….
You've seen the strangest of 2005, and by now you could be thinking
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With potty-trained pachyderms and monkeys online, was it a dream or was it the drinking?