Never mind those tiresome enemy combatants. Get the troops out there to blast those dandelions and thistles to kingdom come. Perhaps they can formulate a regimen for how best to do so.
I remember a North Georgia, USA local newspaper headline in the 1970s telling of a forest ranger's airplane crash on an oddly named mountain. The copies sold out in hours:
I remember a North Georgia, USA local newspaper headline in the 1970s telling of a forest ranger's airplane crash on an oddly named mountain. The copies sold out in hours:
Despite appearances, it turns out that it was the buffaloes who were fleeing, not the lions. The BBC love of using quote marks for no particular reason strikes again.
Not exactly a headline flub, but I am amused that the BBC website currently has running both: "US stock markets rally after slump" AND "Stock markets resume downward slide."
(The time stamp on the first is 18h and on the second is 2h--so both are accurate headlines; just confusing!)
What parent would let their child have access to their credit cards?
I was only able to read the first few sentences, but noted "American court documents indicate that the social media giant encouraged games developers to allow children to spend on cards linked to their parents’ Facebook accounts..."
I'm not on the Book of Face, but does one need to register a credit card with them?
[tangent] Apparently back in the 60s, Soupy Sales encouraged the children in his television audience to sneak some “little green pieces of paper” out of their parents’ wallets and send them to him. [/tangent]
Today's front page headline in the Aberdeen Press & Journal "Tractor with three legged dog on board smashed into house at 4am"
According to the story, the tractor driver was showing off to his friends by speeding, overcorrected to avoid a lamp-post, ended up inside someone's bathroom, reversed and made good his escape. However "he left a one mile trail of rubble and broken parts from the tractor for police to follow."
Looks like something out of the original "Star Wars" movies. Maybe a cousin to the Imperial Walkers? Or something that Luke's relatives could use on the ranch/farm?
And a wonderful mix of journalese from "Wales Online":
It's something of a cliche to talk about dressing room rockets from the coach, but never mind tea-cups, Gatland would have been justified chucking the urn in the direction of some of his players after what they served up before the break.
Call me hopelessly naive, but I actually read the headline to mean that people in Wales are enjoying George North seals (a new species, heretofore unknown) swimming off the coastline once again, after France employed measures to chase them away from their shores.
When temperatures fall below about 20 degrees, the salt no longer melts away the snow.
The reason: science.
No - the reason is: reality.
So when the roads are bad, stay home and blame science.
Shouldn't that be, this is how nature works. Science has discovered this. (So whoever you feel the need to blame, that's how it is.)
Forgive me: I'm really not trying to start a pond war here or getting into any lengthy arguments in this playful place. This is Circus, and should be fun. However: in view of the strange denial of some people of many scientific facts, and only when it suits them, couldn't these lines be misconstrued?
(If there is a similiar theme in Purg or elsewhere, I'd be glad for a link. Thanks!)
When temperatures fall below about 20 degrees, the salt no longer melts away the snow.
The reason: science.
No - the reason is: reality.
So when the roads are bad, stay home and blame science.
Shouldn't that be, this is how nature works. Science has discovered this. (So whoever you feel the need to blame, that's how it is.)
Forgive me: I'm really not trying to start a pond war here or getting into any lengthy arguments in this playful place. This is Circus, and should be fun. However: in view of the strange denial of some people of many scientific facts, and only when it suits them, couldn't these lines be misconstrued?
(If there is a similiar theme in Purg or elsewhere, I'd be glad for a link. Thanks!)
The journalist who wrote the article would have done well to have minored in a science. Or at least to have paid attention in high school physics.
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Does Friday need a storm to transform itself into Saturday and Sunday? It seems to have happened quite unrelated to the weather until now!
Plan your weed killing regiment now
Never mind those tiresome enemy combatants. Get the troops out there to blast those dandelions and thistles to kingdom come. Perhaps they can formulate a regimen for how best to do so.
"" Forest Ranger goes down on Chunky Girl"
Holy moly.
Man shot by passing car
Lord help us. Even the cars are packing heat now.
Despite appearances, it turns out that it was the buffaloes who were fleeing, not the lions. The BBC love of using quote marks for no particular reason strikes again.
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Man killed after hitting tree
Hey, them trees don't take no guff from nobody!
(What the article is really about is his support for various urban renewal schemes).
Is it related to the wicked apple trees in "The Wizard Of Oz"?
(The time stamp on the first is 18h and on the second is 2h--so both are accurate headlines; just confusing!)
Suspect shooting police officer here illegal
And where is it legal, pray tell?
A guy holed up in a house in PA, having shot some police cars, demanded a SWAT cop sing White Christmas to him.
"We’re live on @CBSPhilly at 4, 5, and 6p with how a Christmas Carrol lead to the man being taken into custody"
You ask, what's a Carrol? You know.... like Sillent Nighht
I'll see myself out ...
Sounds fishy!
Though we do not know whether the man - who was found dead - was already dead when he followed the hefty call of gravity, or if he died later.
"South Korea sees boost in banana crop"
Better a boost in bananas, than a banana skins slide.
Facebook used games to make millions off children in ‘friendly fraud’
I'm not sure if this is behind a paywall but in the hopes that it isn't here it is.
Of course, if Facebook was saying "Go get Mommy's Visa card out of her purse and don't let her see you doing it," that's a different problem.
I'm not on the Book of Face, but does one need to register a credit card with them?
[tangent] Apparently back in the 60s, Soupy Sales encouraged the children in his television audience to sneak some “little green pieces of paper” out of their parents’ wallets and send them to him. [/tangent]
No. Certainly not.
According to the story, the tractor driver was showing off to his friends by speeding, overcorrected to avoid a lamp-post, ended up inside someone's bathroom, reversed and made good his escape. However "he left a one mile trail of rubble and broken parts from the tractor for police to follow."
You're a triskipedicaniphobe.
Sorry - I'll stop being tangential now.
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From the WaPo:
It's something of a cliche to talk about dressing room rockets from the coach, but never mind tea-cups, Gatland would have been justified chucking the urn in the direction of some of his players after what they served up before the break.
No - the reason is: reality.
Shouldn't that be, this is how nature works. Science has discovered this. (So whoever you feel the need to blame, that's how it is.)
Forgive me: I'm really not trying to start a pond war here or getting into any lengthy arguments in this playful place. This is Circus, and should be fun. However: in view of the strange denial of some people of many scientific facts, and only when it suits them, couldn't these lines be misconstrued?
(If there is a similiar theme in Purg or elsewhere, I'd be glad for a link. Thanks!)
Sounds reasonable. If a dragon gives me advice I take it.
Here's a way it could happen. Parents set up a payment method to buy things off Facebook ads. Kids discover it works for them, too. And The journalist who wrote the article would have done well to have minored in a science. Or at least to have paid attention in high school physics.