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May. 1st, 2006 06:22 am
May. 1st, 2006
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May. 1st, 2006 06:53 amA newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise's upcoming "Mission: Impossible III" got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.
The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the "Mission: Impossible" theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers.
Sheriff's officials said they rendered the news rack in this suburb 35 miles north of downtown Los Angeles "safe" after being called to the scene Friday by a concerned individual who thought he'd seen a bomb.
Times officials said the devices were placed in 4,500 randomly selected news boxes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties in a venture with Paramount Pictures designed to turn the "everyday news rack experience" into an "extraordinary mission."
It was just that, at least for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arson squad, which destroyed the box.
"This was the least intended outcome. We weren't expecting anything like this," said John O'Loughlin, the Times' senior vice president for planning.
The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the "Mission: Impossible" theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers.
Sheriff's officials said they rendered the news rack in this suburb 35 miles north of downtown Los Angeles "safe" after being called to the scene Friday by a concerned individual who thought he'd seen a bomb.
Times officials said the devices were placed in 4,500 randomly selected news boxes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties in a venture with Paramount Pictures designed to turn the "everyday news rack experience" into an "extraordinary mission."
It was just that, at least for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arson squad, which destroyed the box.
"This was the least intended outcome. We weren't expecting anything like this," said John O'Loughlin, the Times' senior vice president for planning.
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May. 1st, 2006 07:38 amThe six versions of Beowulf coming out in the next year.
(Note: "Beowulf & Grendel" is already out (and gone again, I suspect) in Canada. It was quite good, even if Beowulf is a perfect spitting image of a buffed-out![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
iclysdale. Ian, man, if that's what you'd look like, get exercising already. Seriously.)
(Note: "Beowulf & Grendel" is already out (and gone again, I suspect) in Canada. It was quite good, even if Beowulf is a perfect spitting image of a buffed-out
iclysdale. Ian, man, if that's what you'd look like, get exercising already. Seriously.)
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May. 1st, 2006 12:46 pmFake Medal Of Honour recipients outnumber real ones by 3 to 1.
Also,
Students putting chalk peace signs on the sidewalk = dangerous criminals! Arrest 'em!
Taggers with permanent marker and spraypaint, though, they're just fine. In fact, since the restrictions against criminal records have been lifted, they're forming a big part of the US Army in Iraq.
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Am I the only one thinking "Twins, hmm? That could be hot."
Also,
One and a half people run over by a train every day. The jokes write themselves.
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Students putting chalk peace signs on the sidewalk = dangerous criminals! Arrest 'em!
Taggers with permanent marker and spraypaint, though, they're just fine. In fact, since the restrictions against criminal records have been lifted, they're forming a big part of the US Army in Iraq.
Also,
Am I the only one thinking "Twins, hmm? That could be hot."
Also,
One and a half people run over by a train every day. The jokes write themselves.
Attention all literate types.
May. 1st, 2006 01:00 pmWhy have none of you people told me of this "George RR Martin" fellow before?
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The internet displeases me.
May. 1st, 2006 01:52 pm( Because you displease me, you must suffer. )
Because TWO sets of "don't click this" and "you will be punished" are apparently not enough, this is Not Work-Safe.
Because TWO sets of "don't click this" and "you will be punished" are apparently not enough, this is Not Work-Safe.
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May. 1st, 2006 04:20 pmA picture that is truly hard to describe.
Warning: this piece is most definitely art, not porn, but it still contains a nude man.
Warning: this piece is most definitely art, not porn, but it still contains a nude man.
