ODDS AND ENDS: Fishy names and other offbeat offerings

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MAN CHANGES NAME TO ‘SALMON DREAM,’ NOW HE’S STUCK WITH IT

One will do anything for free meal — including change their names.

A Taiwanese man did just that in order to win an all-you-can-eat sushi meal for himself and five friends as part of a two-day promotion on March 17 by Japanese restaurant Sushiro.

According to United Daily News, any customer whose ID card contained the word “Gui Yu” — Chinese for salmon — was entitled to the sushi feast. Looking for a free meal, a student from Taichung university legally changed his name to Zhang Salmon Dream.

Unfortunately, he has maxed out his name change quota, so he’s now stuck with that name. UDN reported upon getting his newly changed identification card, Zhang was told he had previously changed his name three times and wasn’t able to amend it anymore.

Zhang, who is majoring in traditional Chinese medicine, said he was shocked as the realization that his Salmon Dreams moniker is now stuck with him.

WOULD YOU BINGE WATCH JAMES BOND FOR $1G?

Twenty four films — that’s a lot of time spent in front of a screen.

If you’re a die-hard James Bond fan, watching all 24 films in the 007 series shouldn’t be a problem. So why not do it for $1,000?

Pop culture website Nerd Bear is putting a grand’s worth of cash on the line to anyone willing to watch all 24 James Bond films — beginning with 1962’s Dr. No and ending with 2015’s Spectre — leading up to the release of the newest feature, No Time to Die.

If you can watch all two dozen 007 films, the winner will receive $1,000 in cash, a $100 Aamazon gift card and a $50 AMC theatre gift card.

The chosen candidate will receive $1,000, a $100 Amazon gift card to rent the movies and a $50 AMC gift card to go see the latest film when it releases.

Nerd Bear requires participants to watch all the films within 30 days and complete a worksheet. People can apply online until April 16, and explain why they’re the ultimate James Bond fan.

DEAD SNAKE SNARLS LIFE OUT OF CLOTHING DRYER

Everyone has heard of snakes on a plane, but how about a snake in a dryer?

A Florida family looking to repair a faulty clothes dryer was shocked to learn what was causing the problem: a dead snake.

Alyson Pring, of Groveland, told news outlet WKMG her family contacted a repair person after the dryer began spitting out an excess amount of lint.

When a technician arrived on scene to what he thought would be an easy jammed motor repair, never did he think he’d find something scaly in the appliance.

“He just stands up, and he walks off. He’s like, ‘There’s a dead snake in there,'” Pring told the news outlet.

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Family members figured it was a pile of lint. But no, it was a snake, which had apparently travelled up the dryer’s exhaust vent.

Once the snake was removed, the dryer once again worked normally. The Prings will now be placing mothballs at the exhaust vent entrance to deter wildlife from entering.

When the package arrived, the befuddled teen wondered why the box was so much larger than a standard iPhone. The teen did receive an iPhone, sort of.

Except it wasn’t a phone, but a coffee table shaped like the device.

Pictures of the teen and his new iPhone coffee table went viral online.

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