Funny/Strange News Stories

It really isn't. The joke is that the lawyers are being pedantic about the use of the image. But it's not funny when you have to explain the joke.
 
FoolKiller
While looking for info on eating strange things I ran across this story.

The mayor of Seattle pardoned a Tofurky at Thanksgiving.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...le-mayor-pardons-tofurky-because-its-seattle/
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Since my hometown - rich, booming, progressive Seattle and our gay mayor have been mentioned - I'll drop this interesting article on you.
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/seattles-left-coast-formula

Seattle’s Left Coast Formula
James N. Gregory ▪ Winter 2015
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Downtown Seattle, as seen from Amazon’s former headquarters (Wonderlane / Flickr)
Contemporary Seattle is a city with a dual personality. On one hand, a dramatic building boom is underway. Towering cranes crowd the skyline as scores of new office and apartment buildings race to accommodate the thousands of code warriors whom Amazon and other tech companies are hiring. Since the start of the twenty-first century, the city’s population has grown by 14 percent and its workforce by at least that amount. Median income is now the third highest in the nation among big cities, behind only San Jose and San Francisco. New restaurants, trendy stores, massive new transportation projects and waterfront developments add to the feeling that a new Seattle is taking shape—a richer, younger, denser, faster city that may loom larger in the world of commerce and culture than the old one. It is a Seattle re-engineered by billionaires, especially Jeff Bezos and Paul Allen.

But boomtown Seattle is also a progressive city, with loud echoes of a more radical past. The city council recently passed the most liberal minimum wage law in the country, raising the floor to $15 per hour in stages over the next several years. This followed the election of Ed Murray,the city’s first openly gay mayor, and passage of statewide ballot measures legalizing marijuana and supporting marriage equality.....
 
Our shambolic political scene of late has been embarrassing to say the least, but there is a silver lining - it's effectively turned into one giant Open Mic Night for political commentators, who have wasted no time filling their articles with acid wit, such as this:

In other words, this procurement process has been a lengthy, embarrassing, expensive, opportunistic stink-bungle. Codename: Situation Normal.
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Australia will compete in Eurovision, despite being nowhere near Europe. Ostensibly it's because of the competition's sixtieth anniversary this year, but also because the organisers are aware that Australia loves Eurovision. Unfortunately, they seem to be completely unaware of why we love Eurovision - most of the coverage we get comes with snarky commentary. This article will illustrate that attitude:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...-collette-aussie-picks-for-eurovision/6086182

Meanwhile, our government has faced criticism for refusing to put a proposal for a new fleet of submarines to an open tender, arguing that if they do, Kim Jong-il might build our submarines (despite being dead and the government having the final say as to who builds them):

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-...lt-in-kim-jong-il-class-submarines-pm/6086374
 
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FoolKiller
There is an airline that serves macadamia nuts? I must be flying on the wrong planes. I can't even get peanuts these days. It's usually some weird "savory mix" that is loaded with carbs and sodium.
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She was flying first class.

Though US airlines tend to skimp the most on amenities and services of all the major full service airlines from the developed world.
 
Crash
She was flying first class.

Though US airlines tend to skimp the most on amenities and services of all the major full service airlines from the developed world.
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I wonder if that's why Ryanair haven't tried cracking the US market. 💡
 
I sympathize with shovelling, but I also lived with street parking for about a decade, which is why I think the idea of "saving" a spot (for up to 48 hours?!) is asinine, unless you have assigned parking. If parking is limited enough that you'd want to save your spot like that, it's limited enough that you shouldn't be allowed to do it. This is only the second time I've heard of such a thing, and the first was also on the east coast.

Sure, if you clear a spot before parking in it, by all means, its yours until you get your car in there. But...48 hours on a public street?? What the hell, Boston?
 
The funny story is actually in the comments of the article. The same thing happened to a man, however it happened to be someplace where they had assigned parking. He also had the mean streak in him to not only bury the car in snow, but to turn on the water hose to ice it up. As a result, he (the owner of the car) accrued a parking ticket for every day the car was there until the ice melted.
 
Sanji Himura
The funny story is actually in the comments of the article. The same thing happened to a man, however it happened to be someplace where they had assigned parking. He also had the mean streak in him to not only bury the car in snow, but to turn on the water hose to ice it up. As a result, he (the owner of the car) accrued a parking ticket for every day the car was there until the ice melted.
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If that was real, I am sure he can plead his case to the city that he was unable to move the car due to it being iced up.

People need to have their license revoked if they use the "GPS made me do it" excuse



A New Zealand woman filmed driving into the path of an oncoming car has blamed her GPS for directing her onto the wrong side of the road.

Dashcam footage shows the unidentified woman making a left-hand turn in the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill on Thursday, before crashing head-on into Ian Mander's Subaru Forester.

Mr Mander told 3News the young driver informed him she was simply following the navigator's directions and was not to blame for the bingle.

Luckily, no one was injured in the accident, though Mr Mander's car was written off.

It is not clear if the woman will face any charges over the incident.
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http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/02/17/14/21/woman-blames-gps-for-wrong-way-car-crash
 
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I guess this ludicrous quote fits here.

http://i.imgur.com/S90PZDt.jpg

Gotta wonder if those 'statistics' that are nowhere to be seen take into account the ultra-religious families with a bundle of kids, all of whom with that forced fake smile of an abused soul on their faces...
 
I don't know, it was single women in their 40's that were the stupid 🤬 that tried to turn a newspaper article about my health into a case of me giving my wife no credit for the support she has given me through all my health stuff, and required me to make a huge Facebook post to shut them up.

That tends to be the demographic I see drum up issues where they don't exist to make everyone else feel miserable. That's usually the sign of an unhappy person. However, I think the issues those women deal with are more because of the type of person they are, not because they are ignoring biology.
 
The Chuck Jones art exhibit is in my area, and in honor of that, may I publish the holy bible to his greatest work, coyote and Road Runner cartoons. Surprisingly, the bible is quite short compared to TV shows like Lost, and so forth, but it is as funny as the cartoons themselves.

Rule 1: The Road Runner can not harm the Coyote except by going "BEEP-BEEP!"

Rule 2: No outside force can harm the Coyote. Only his own ineptitude or the failure of Acme products.

Rule 3: The Coyote could stop anytime - If he were not a fanatic ("A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim" - George Santayana)

Rule 4: No dialog ever, except "BEEP-BEEP!"

Rule 5: The Road Runner must stay on the road - Otherwise, logically, he would not be called Road Runner.

Rule 6: All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters - the Southwest American desert.

Rule 7: All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.

Rule 8: Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote's greatest enemy.

Rule 9: The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/chuck-jones-road-runner-rules-112898494205.html
 
The original run was perhaps the best offering Looney Tunes had, though much of Bugs and Daffy's stand-up schtick is still immensely watchable today.

It's sad that they watered it down with the cheaply made TV run in later decades.
 

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