Reggie Watts performs his take on the perennial interweb meme for YouTube’s Comedy Week.
All together now:
Bwe no tweyndyaz doo lu-uh-ub,
Doo no-daa dweewz an-doh doo ahhh…
Now We Know
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High-tech DNA sequencing techniques allowed them to decode ancient DNA from the pathogen in samples stored as early as 1845.
These were compared with modern-day genetic types from Europe, Africa and the Americas, giving an insight into the evolution of the pathogen.
“This strain was different from all the modern strains that we analysed – most likely it is new to science,” Prof Sophien Kamoun of The Sainsbury Laboratory told BBC News.
“We can’t be sure but most likely it’s gone extinct.”
Irish potato famine pathogen identified (BBC)
Thanks Beastly
Today’s Connaught Telegraph.
Thanks Andrew Newman
You may recall last week’s soft-core, then orange-coloured 1984 D635 parked at the Malahide, Co Dublin, beach terminus.
Well, the bus went on to have several lives as a ‘mature’ double decker.
Before radio’s Simon Maher (above) and Steve Conway fell for the x-rated charms of the retro bone rattler.
Simon sez:
Following on from your picture of myself and Steve Conway’s bus, This is her (centre) taken this week as she awaits restoration to her former glory :) Capital D [presented By Ann Cassin] also did an item on her (video above).
Filthy.
Previously: Vintage Dublin Bus Porn
Because Men
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By highlighting suicide in abortion legislation is the state legitimising it?
HE (above) decided,
University College Dublin professor of psychiatry Kevin Malone in a letter (top) to Jerry Buttimer TD [who is chairing the Oireachtas hearings on the matter] suggests:
Such legislation could accelerate suicide rates in younger men in Ireland (where the real problem lies).
Anyone?
Via: Jillian van Turnhout
(Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland)
Cute Herr
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Anything gut on German telly?
German TV station Spiegel is spending four days with Danny Healy-Rae to document his “passion” and support for rural dwellers.
A three-man Hamburg-based TV crew also captured Mr Healy-Rae’s contributions at yesterday’s monthly meeting of the county council. Mr Lehberger said he was impressed by Mr Healy-Rae and, particularly, his passion about representing rural people.
German TV to film Healy-Rae’s rural ‘passion’ (Anne Lucey, Irish Examiner)
Previously: To The Pitchforks
(Irish Examiner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPtDf_GguAY
What you may need to know:
1. After the longest farewell lap this side of Meat Loaf, Steven Soderbergh has officially retired. We hear he’s developing a TV show.
2. Soderbergh’s last movie was produced for cable TV bohemoth HBO. In Europe, it’s getting a cinema release.
3. BTC just premiered at Cannes. The reviews are rapturous.
4. Just a few years ago, Michael Douglas had stage 4 cancer. Now that’s a comeback.
5. The supporting cast includes Dan Aykroyd, Rob Lowe and Singing In The Rain (1952) star Debbie Reynolds.
6. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatt Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamon.
Release Date: June 7
The masses, including Bola Saadulahi from Zimbabwe (top in orange), huddle Inside the Convention Centre, Dublin, yesterday, to become officially citizens of the Republic of Ireland/The Irish Republic/Eire/Auld Sod.
They then went out on the total rip.
Previously: The New Irish
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)