At last someone has come up with a musical answer to the mystery of how Santa actually gets all those presents to all those good little boys and girls on time and without exploding in a fatal fireball due to the friction of the atmosphere at high speeds.
Transcript coming up in a day or so. I’m not a speedy typist,and my success on translating their Bohemian Rhapsody was mixed, at best.
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(God, I love alliteration!)
Controversial expat British teacher Gillian Gibbons, who was jailed in Khartoum for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear “Muhammad,” is to be freed, having been granted a presidential pardon.
The Guardian has the hairy details:
The breakthrough came after a meeting between two British Muslim peers, Lord Nazir Ahmed and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, with Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir.
Lord Ahmed said al-Bashir had agreed to pardon the teacher.
Asked whether Gibbons had been pardoned, a presidential adviser told Reuters: “Definitely, yes.”…
Reacting to the news, Khalid al-Mubarak, of the Sudanese embassy in London, said: “Congratulations. I am overjoyed.
“She is a teacher who went to teach our children English and she has helped a great deal and I am very grateful. What has happened was a cultural misunderstanding, a minor one, and I hope she, her family and the British people won’t be affected by what has happened.
There is, at this time, no word on whether the Americans now intend to place her in custody for referring to the problematic plush in question as a Teddy Bear.
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“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” – Ernest Hemingway
A fine quote of the day, particularly after a period of abstemiousness such as we have recently endured around these parts; ah, I have been in this position (barring the gender) far too many times. Let it just be said that I bear it with ill grace, and am given to asking, with the earnest expression of a dedicated seeker after mysteries, “why is it that are you are all so incredibly stupid?”
quote and image from Saturday Night Souse on Constitution Club
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Well, not in so many words. But you were clearly employing what the experts know as “reverse sickology” and we at the ol’ raincoaster blog have no choice but to obey. The following is yet another Workplace Safety PSA, albeit one from the Eisenhower Era, enhanced with MST3K‘s finest snark. Click to enjoy over twenty minutes of pure Workplace Safety Public Service Announcement pleasure!
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