Heh.
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I failed to pay some invoice on time and now there are employees who no longer have access to a service they need. YAY? um, no. What's better is that I cannot get the service people on the phone to verify the amount due.
Happy Birthday Kathy A & Raq!
Birthday Happies Kathy A and Raq!!
Pub evacuated after Monty Python prop mistaken for grenade
Water company engineers spotted the object when they lifted up a fire hydrant cover during work on a street in Shoreditch, east London.
The road was cordoned off and a nearby pub was evacuated amid fears that the "grenade" could explode.
But after nearly an hour of analysis bomb experts realised that the cause of the scare was in fact a copy of the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" used by Eric Idle to slaughter a killer rabbit in the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
The fictional weapon looks more like a golden ornament than a hand grenade; it was based on the Sovereign's Orb used at royal coronations.
The prop has become a popular in-joke among Python fans and replicas can be bought on eBay for as little as £14.
An spokeswoman for Islington police confirmed that the device was a toy and that had been no danger to the public
Local businesses criticised the police for taking so long to realise there was no threat.
Alberto Romanelli, owner of the Windmill put that was evacuated, said: "I lost a good hour's worth of business."
It took them an hour to figure out what it was?
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It took them an hour to figure out what it was?
I don't think you just start hacking at the thing to find out if it explodes.
But surely someone in the bomb disposal squad must have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail....
Happy Birthday Kathy!
Happy Birthday Raq!
Mary's Monday Metazoan: more slugs!
Those are some weird-ass slugs. Also, this might be a picture of hot slug-on-slug action, but I'm not sure....
The kids had their first soccer games Saturday.
They both had a really good time.
Sobering thought, that girl playing soccer looked like this when I first joined the Buffistas back in the Table Talk days.