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The Northampton tag on WindowsForum.com covers unusual local news stories from the Northampton area in the UK. Content includes a viral story about a teenager in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, who experienced a locked jaw after yawning in class, and multiple threads about Smokey, a cat from Northampton whose extremely loud purr was submitted for a Guinness World Record attempt with assistance from Northampton College. These threads are off-topic for a Windows forum and appear to be posted for entertainment or community discussion rather than technical support.
Every high school classroom holds a few slack-jawed students. One British teen, however, unintentionally took the term to a new level.
Holly Thompson, 17, of Kingsthorpe, Northampton, was in the middle of a particularly enthralling class on politics when she reacted to the subject matter like...
Smokey the cat, whose purr as loud as a Boeing 747, to make it into the Guinness world records.
Smokey's owner Ruth Adams hopes the moggy can be entered into the record books as the loudest purring domestic cat on the planet.
The 12-year-old moggy is 16 times louder than the average cat...
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Meet Smokey, the cat thought to have the loudest purr in the world – making a racket which feels ten times louder than a regular purr.
Her roars of contentment have left her owners reaching for earplugs and unable to watch television or talk on the phone when she is nearby.
‘She has...