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Last November Tom Cruise and his business partner Paula Wagner took over the Hollywood film studio United Artists. They have now made their first acquisition: the rights to all the Charlie Brown television specials, including A Charlie Brown Christmas. Jimmy Kimmel showed a clip from the updated version already in the works.
h/t: Wittenburg Door
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A Whitehorse grinch was a little slow getting to work this Yuletide season. He waited until after Christmas to vandalise a nativity scene—at my church.
Joseph, Mary and Jesus Christ are missing.
Peter Williams, the rector of Christ Church Cathedral and the Anglican dean of the Yukon, said in an interview this morning someone pilfered the religious statues from the church’s nativity scene sometime over the New Year’s weekend.
“Somebody is holding Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus for ransom,” he said.
“Sometime over the past weekend, the statues were taken, there were footprints ….
We first noticed they were missing on Sunday morning. Perhaps the grinch got drunk the night before New Year’s Eve and wandered by the church.
Williams said he isn’t sure what the statues cost, but confirmed they would likely be expensive to replace.
“It would be fairly considerable,” he said.
As one who helped set the figures in the snow in front of the church, I can attest that they are irreplaceable. They appear to be older than I am. The set of about a dozen pieces was made by pasting coloured paper drawings on heavy plywood. The largest figures (the camels) are over five feet tall and quite heavy. They were built to last. Ease of storage and set-up were apparently considered irrelevant.
If anyone has any information as to the identity of the grinch, please call the church at 668-5530, Whitehorse RCMP at 667-5555 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-8477.
Hmmm. I wonder how Michael Ingham would handle this.
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The “bomb” part appears to be unintentional.
Iran Khodro, Iran’s state-owned car manufacturer, has been making Peugeots under licence since 1990, but a slight problem has cropped up recently.
Hundreds of Iranian-made cars have suddenly caught fire on Iran's roads over the past months, with police pointing to the Peugeot 405 as the main culprit, the press reported yesterday.Since March, there have been 125 incidents of cars catching fire without warning and then killing or injuring the occupants, traffic police chief Mohammad Rooyanian said.
"Around 300 people have been killed or wounded and 40 per cent of the fatalities were attributed to the Peugeot 405," he said. "We are not to going compromise on this issue. We are emphasizing the need to improve the safety of the vehicles, so that our citizens will not be worried any more."
That’s crazy! 125 cars caught on fire and 300 people killed or injured. Can you imagine the uproar—and the raft of class-action suits—if that were to happen in North America or Europe? Millions of motor vehicles would be recalled. Company sales would be in the toilet. Politicians would be agitating to have corporate executives thrown in the slammer.
But, in Iran, the traffic police chief shrugs it off. He doesn’t even say we’re working on it; he only says we’re talking about it. (But we won’t compromise on our talk.) So, stop worrying.
Is Iran Khodro still in business? Is anyone still buying their cars? Why would any sane person drive a vehicle made by criminally negligent incompetents?
Gotta love the Globe and Mail’s headline: “Deadly self-igniting Iranian-made cars causing concern”. It’s good that someone’s concerned about that.
This kinda makes me wonder how worried we should be about those inept bozos making nuclear bombs.
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