on the road

From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Somewhere on the road

The Sundance Bar & Restaurant

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Somewhere on the road

It’s still cold up in the hills.

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It is now official.
According to Mario Dumont, leader of an opposition party, the language spoken in France is merely a dialect and not an “official” language in the Province of Quebec because
his children were unable to understand the Parisian dialect used in the French version of Shrek the Third. — globeandmail.com
Unfortunately for M. Dumont, the [...]

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One of the original Indiana Jones characters, whether or not the writer of the movies intended it to be so.
Rahn, small and weasel-faced, with a hesitant, toothy smile and hair like a neatly contoured oil slick, undoubtedly served as inspiration for Ford’s most famous role, Indiana Jones. — John Preston, telegraph.co.uk

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Remember seeing this? Have you heard the commercial on xmradio?

That guy has a smug smile on his face because he’s taking money from people who think that he can protect their identity.
Well, I’ve got news for you. He can’t, according to a class action lawsuit. In fact, that guy’s identity has been stolen — using [...]

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Updated below
My informant tells me that on Tuesday evening, May 20, the venerable Rock Cafe in Stroud, Oklahoma, burned to the ground. All that remains are the outer stone walls holding up sections of a collapsing roof.
The Rock was a quaint little place in the sleepy town of Stroud, Oklahoma, where once-busy Route 66 passed [...]

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Oh yes it is!
An 82-year-old man, a recipient of open-heart surgery and breathing oxygen while in his hospital bed, was tasered three times by the ever-omniscient RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in British Columbia.
…officers resorted to taser use as a last resort, even attempting to knock the knife out of the man’s hand with a [...]

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