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BEACONSFIELD, Australia (AP) -- Two Australian miners trapped for more than a week in a tiny cage more than a half mile underground were given iPods Wednesday to help them while away the hours as rescuers prepared to start drilling them an escape tunnel.

I can't take full credit for this, because it was something I brought up at lunch that my coworkers embellished with much gusto. But picture the following... You're trapped in a tiny area deep underground. After more than a week someone finally drills a little hole to you. You get some nourishment, and... a couple of iPods. Here's a list of songs to consider that might not be appropriate in that venue:

• Working in a Coal mine - DEVO
• Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
• Don't Fear the Reaper - BOC
• Canary in a Coal mine - the Police
• anything by Journey
• anything by Loretta Lynn
• Cemetary Gates - the Smiths

Ok well this list can go on and on in the most gratuitous manner, but you get the point. Still - you have to wonder about what they did put on that play list and who got to choose the selections. You figure it had to be a "shuffle" anyway...