Behold: the 1991 Isdera Imperator 108i, built by designer Eberhard Schulz when Mercedes rejected his supercar concept, the rotters.

Thirty of these coupes were built between 1984 and 1993. Beneath the sci-fi-looking wedge-shaped bodywork, a 5 litre Mercedes V8 mated to a ZF five-speed gearbox accelerates to 100km/h in five seconds and on to a top speed of 283km/h.

Yours at this month’s Bonhams Monte Carlo auction for between €500,000 and €700,000.

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Then Minister for Health Micheál Martin (second left) in Maguires, Baggot Street, Dublin 2 on March 29, 2004

Where are your masks?

G’wan the nanny state.

*wheeze*

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This afternoon.

Meanwhile…

Look at him there: happier times, with the whole world looking up to him

Mmf.

To wit:

A spacesuit floated away from the International Space Station 15 years ago, but no investigation was conducted. Everyone knew that it was pushed by the space station crew. Dubbed Suitsat-1, [but also known as Mr. Smith, Ivan Ivanovich, RadioSkaf, Radio Sputnik and AMSAT-OSCAR 54], the unneeded Russian Orlan spacesuit filled mostly with old clothes was fitted with a faint radio transmitter and released to orbit the Earth. The suit circled the Earth twice before its radio signal became unexpectedly weak. Suitsat-1 continued to orbit every 90 minutes until it burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere after a few weeks. Pictured, the lifeless spacesuit was photographed in 2006 just as it drifted away from space station.

(Image: ISS Expedition 12 Crew, NASA)

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This/morning afternoon.

Anyone?

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