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A carefully-budgeted car ferry/’cheese’ promotion from Calvita and B & I Line on RTE in 1987.
‘Second-rate edam’ hipsters.
[Steve Coogan as ‘Sinn Féin deputy leader Rory O’Connor’ in BBC’s The Day Today]
It’s 20 years since the Broadcasting Ban was lifted in the North allowing Sinn Féin members to be heard on the airwaves.
The ban was enacted in the North in 1988 and the Republic in 1971.
Any excuse. (3:32m)
Twenty years on: The lifting of the ban on broadcasting Sinn Féin (Kevin Sharkey, BBC News NI)
A nifty ‘homemade’ CG short by French director Simon Mesnard: a ‘spiritual sequel’ to his 2011 feature A Space Adventure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln5CS6nu2VQ
If it’s not Charlie (Dan Li) from ‘Amber’ shilling Whoppers.
John Joe writes:
Did you see where Charlie was deported to?… Burger King!
Deported to the UK, in our common travel area…
Every cloud has a silver limousin…
Previously: Amber Alert
…is a melon-twisting minus one twelfth.
University of Nottingham physicists Tony Padilla and Ed Copeland explain why.
And you’ll almost but not quite understand.
Doc Sweets breaks down Oscar Wilde’s tale of the pretty boy who ain’t gonna stay pretty 4 eva.
Behold the Airbus A300-600ST ‘Beluga’ – a cargo aircraft with over 1200 cubic meters of space and a carrying weight of 42 tonnes.
Not the biggest but easily the whaleiest.
For bookings call 1800-AHAB.
Airbus Beluga: Inside The World’s Strangest Looking Plane (CNN)
(All pix via CNN)
During a break in the filming of Cold Comes the Night last year, Bryan Cranston organised a writing contest among the film’s production assistants, promising to read every script submitted and then star in his favourite one.
The winner was the script for this accomplished 14-minute short by very excited former PA Brandon Polanco.
Crazy Russian Hacker dumps a kilo of dry ice into a sink full of hot water in his apartment.
Foolishness ensues.