Weird News Thread Part III

Some of the girls were pretty heavy drinkers in HS. I can only assume that didn’t go away in college [emoji23]

We had one tournament within driving distance of home and some of the girls went home Saturday night for prom. One was too hung over to come back Sunday and another would play 5 minutes, puke, drink Gatorade and go back in.

 

I had to post this one somewhere. @yossarian

Farewell José pic.twitter.com/ug7DbHxpko

— swedemason (@swedemason) December 18, 2018

 

Runaways bassist Jackie Fuchs kickin butt on Jeopardy right now:

Former Runaways bassist Jackie Fuchs (fka Jackie Fox) is making her second appearance as a contestant on tonight’s episode of Jeopardy!

https://www.stereogum.com/2026562/the-runaways-jackie-fuchs-jeopardy/news/

 

British Army campaign targets 'snowflake' millennials

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46747862

 

Lol, hey is worth a shot.

 

And your keen fashion sense (this skit wouldn't fly today)

 

I actually thought of that skit. But while I was looking for it, I came across the Australian philosophy department slketck, AKA The Bruces. The faculty rules are hilarious...

SEVEN FACULTY RULES at the University of Woolamaloo:

1. No poofters.
2. No member of the faculty is to maltreat the "abos" in any way whatsoever—if there's anyone watching.
3. No poofters.
4. I don't want to catch anyone not drinking in their room after lights out.
5. No poofters.
6. There is no rule six.
7. No poofters.

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Graham Chapman was openly gay, which makes it even better. They got a letter saying that he should be stoned to death. They wrote back saying they found the member and proceeded to stone him to death.

 

I just read the Eric Idle autobiography. The Germans asked the Pythons to come over to do a special for Bavaria TV. For some reason the German hosts wanted to show them Dachau. So they're driving around looking for it. The locals they asked pretended it didn't exist. They finally find it but it's late and about to close. Graham Chapman yells out "tell them we're Jewish!"

 

I'm pretty sure the famous "philosopher football match" was put together for that show.

Damn glad they made the trip.

 

Hey @crazypete13 ....how did the interview go?


CTV News reporter interviews man in a hole

 

Taiwan's "famous" Bikini Hiker/Instagram model dies of hypothermia after falling into a ravine.

 

You name a famous comedian or musician from the late 60s through 80s and Idle was likely friends with them. George Harrison was such a good friend & fan that he mortgaged his mansion to finance Life of Brian

 

I'm pretty sure those people in the waiting cars had to check their shorts after that!

 

I haven't read Idle's book yet, nor for that matter Terry Gilliam's, but I've read pretty much every other book by the Pythons (Including Terry Jones' book on Geoffrey Chaucer, which LSU Press published shortly before I worked there). My favorite so far is Graham Chapman's A Liar's Autobiography. Cleese's is pretty good, too.

 

That's real? I saw it on some linked articles I read on bigsoccer, and assumed it was clickbait along the lines of Tom Arnold's Plane Crashes: No Survivors.

 

FYP

 

Comet Pizza back in news. Someone set a curtain on fire. Cops looking for crazy white dude.

Comet Ping Pong, the Washington, DC pizzeria at the center of the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory a few years ago, is back in the news this week after a suspected arsonist attempted to set it ablaze.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Friday released a photo of the man they suspect of attempting to set restaurant curtains on fire on Wednesday night. According to The Washington Post, citing police reports, investigators found several burned matcheson the floor of a back room, along with a bottle of lighter fluid. Staff at the restaurant, which is located in northwestern Washington, was able to extinguish the blaze.

https://splinternews.com/someone-tried-to-set-comet-ping-pong-on-fire-1832081211

 

DC needs a wall built around it but crazy white dudes would probably use ladders to get over.

 

Masshole road ragers

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c4e9207e4b0e1872d45466b