I once did a sketch where I walked on stage with a wooden pizza paddle (thin round thing on a stick that they take out the pizzas from the oven with). I said "kekkoken, kekkoken, kekkoken".  and got a good laugh. It was my first joke in Finnish...

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

President Bush said today that he was pleased that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales had acknowledged mistakes surrounding the dismissals.

• Gonzales Concedes `Mistakes' on Prosecutors

• The Caucus: Gonzales Says Fate Rests With Bush

I had to clean up the list mark-up on the NYT example (as you said above would probably be necessary). Otherwise, perfect.

What did happen that I don't understand : I had the sidebar open. I copied in the NYT piece. I wasn't sure I had it right, so I copied it a second time (ie chose Copy html etc in the right-click menu, for the second time.) Nothing happened. I supposed Copy 2 had pasted over Copy 1 and moved on to select a piece from a page in The Independent. Clicked the Copy html etc choice in the right-click menu. Got Copy 2 of the NYT in the sidebar. (ie I now had two copies visible of the NYT). Clicked Copy html etc again on the Independent selection. Got four copies from the Independent in the sidebar (above the two from NYT). Got worried about geometric progression and stopped...

I also have a Windows clipboard extension running (Ditto) that stores all clipboard entries in a file. Could there be interference?