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• 1942
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Also, this site has Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out

This happened a long time ago, but this is the first I heard of it. There was a guy that video taped Press You Luck shows and found the pattern in the spin game. He got on the show and applied it, resulting in winnings over $100K. Here’s his story.

The subject of most represetative crocheting projects seem to lean toward the hausfrau trifecta (tissue-box cozies, cats, and angels). This woman departs from that. Here you can find teeth in a jar, bloody rabbits crushed by carrots, aliens with huge genitals, and monsters with dozens of IV drips.

Book-A-Minute has an ultra-condensed versions of popular books.
Here’s the I, Robot one:

Isaac Asimov:
Here’s a logic puzzle thinly disguised as a story.

Reader:
Hurray!

THE END

They’re funnier if you read them in Electro Rock’s voice.

This has been popping up in a few cities recently. It’s a mailing-list organized ad hoc drive-in theater that uses a digital projector and a low-power FM transmitter. The other cars tune their radios like an iTrip.

Marvel got a half of a billion dollars to do 10 movies.

Marvel said the 10 characters in the arrangement are Captain America, The Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack, and Shang-Chi.

My predictions:

• Captain America – No surprise here given the current jingoistic climate. The Red Skull will be recast as a Muslim fundamentalist. Cap’s white star motif will be replaced with a looped ribbon.
• Avengers – It will attempt to be a mediocre X-Men and succeed. Whoever plays Scarlet Witch will not be as hot as the comic version.
• Nick Fury – The flying bathtub HQ could be cool.
• Black Panther – Will not be confused with Huey Newton because the target audience won’t know who he is.
• Ant-Man – Really?
• Cloak and Dagger – The costumes will be the only draw.
• Dr. Strange – This could be fantastic if they replace Dr. Strange with the parody version from Venture Bros.
• Hawkeye – One guy will be really disappointed if he doesn’t get a casting call; Orlando Bloom.
• Power Pack – I never read their books because they were used in a PSA about child molestation. What still haunts me is that creepy stare of one of the Power Pack kids in the ad. It was like his essence was drained like in the Dark Crystal. All that aside, it’ll be the film equivalent of Muppet Babies.
• Shang-Chi – No way. How many kung-fu movies come out every year? And you can’t beat Galactus with kung-fu.

There’s a billboard in Beverly that we drive by all the time. It’s usually appropriate for the area. It usually has ads for cheap liquor or bad movies. The best though, was an ad for a lawyer that specializes in defending drunk drivers. His tagline was, “When Pleading Guilty Is Not an Option”. The Globe has an article on him. What’s funny is that when he talks about his job, he assumes the guilt of his clients. From the article:

”I really like the people I represent,” says Jones, who is 48 and lives on the South Shore with his wife and two daughters. ”They are regular people. They’re your father, your sister, your neighbor, your teacher. This is somebody who has that extra glass of wine or that extra beer, the person with a buzz who gets pulled over. They are horrified and humiliated.”

Also, on the back of his business cards are tips on how to get away with drunk driving.

I suppose this could happen anywhere, but things like this seem to occur with regularity and particularly flagrant stupidity near my home town.
The front page article in this weekend’s Paducah Sun concerned the trial of a local County Attorney and his wife, who were charged with a variety of misdeeds, including providing alcohol to minors, attempting to conceal evidence from this police, attempting to use influence to prevent a police investigation, and most lurid of all, an “unlawful pelvic exam”.
Their teenage son was quite unpopular, so they decided to throw a huge keg party following homecoming to boost his social standing (country logic right there). When the party of 80+ teens got out of control (surprise, surprise) and word spread that one intoxicated girl had been raped, the mother (a registered nurse) inspected the girl’s nether regions without her consent, thus eliminating any possibility of a rape kit being performed. Then they concealed the entire incident (including from the parents of the possible sexual assault victim), and the husband tried to use his connections to stall a police investigation.
On the stand, the mother said something to the effect that she was doing what a “good parent” would.
They got off on all counts, except for those related to buying the keg. Good parents, y’all.

The full story is here.