Its tough being a patron of the arts.
Driver used the excuse that she had no recollection of the events that led to the accident.
Driver used the excuse that she had no recollection of the events that led to the accident.
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Broken_Erika
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Paper airplane designed by Boeing engineers breaks world distance record
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a paper airplane!The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total of 289 feet, 9 inches (88 meters), nearly the length of an American football field.
They beat the previous record of 252 feet, 7 inches (77 meters) achieved on April 2022 by a trio in South Korea. Prior to that, the record had not been broken in over a decade.
“It really put things on the map and it’s a really proud moment for family and friends,” said Dillon Ruble, a systems engineer at Boeing and now paper airplane record holder, in a release. “It’s a good tie in to aerospace and thinking along the lines of designing and creating prototypes.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/world/paper-airplane-boeing-engineers-world-record-scn/index.html
Broken_Erika
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Black bear breaks into vehicle, guzzles 69 cans of pop
Sharon Rosel watched from balcony in Earls Cove, B.C. as bear devoured can after can, but stopped at diet soda
A woman on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast awoke to a sticky situation last Thursday when she found a bear with a sweet tooth had broken into her car and crushed dozens of cans of soda she had left there overnight.Sharon Rosel said she was awakened by her dog around 3 a.m. PT Thursday and looked outside to see a black bear surrounded by shattered glass from her car window.
"He was drinking massive amounts of soda," said Rosel.
Rosel said she watched from her balcony in Earls Cove, B.C., for an hour and a half as the bear used its teeth to break open the cans and slurp their contents while making a sweet mess of her car's interior.
She said the bear started with orange soda before making its way through cola and root beer and only stopped when it reached the diet soda.
Rosel said she had 72 cans of soda in total in the car, and the bear drank 69.
She said she tried throwing cold water on the bear from her balcony but to no avail. She then tried reasoning with him, explaining she needed her car to get to work the next morning.
"Then I tried psyching him out by telling him I was a bear hunter. That didn't do anything either, so I had to stand by and just watch him devour my car," said Rosel.
Rosel took photos of the bear break-in and its aftermath the next morning.
She says the bear ripped the car's leather interior, broke the window roller handle from standing on it, and spilled soda everywhere, including inside the gear shifter.
"Of course, white leather interior goes really good with orange Crush," Rosel said sarcastically, noting that the bear also knocked over a pack of paper towels but didn't consider using them to clean up the mess.
She's hoping her insurance will cover some of the damage.
Bear aware
Rosel, who owns a food truck, says she had purchased the soda for her business the previous evening.Because she lives in a remote area, she says she deals with bears on a daily basis and is normally hyper-vigilant and careful to not leave food in her vehicle.
But she never expected the bear would be attracted to soda.
"I've been around bears since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, and I have never seen them go after pop," said Rosel.
The non-profit Sunshine Coast Bear Alliance notes bears are highly skilled at gaining entry to cars and can cause significant damage.
"[Bears] can be attracted to the slightest aroma in your car, such as a candy wrapper or scented air freshener. Please keep your vehicle windows closed and locked and doors locked to avoid damage and a surprise encounter," its website says.
CBC News contacted RCMP for more information, but they directed us to B.C.'s Conservation Officer Service, which was unable to provide details in time for publication.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/soda-car-bear-1.6812541
Sofista
Deity
Eh, I wouldn't know. No mentions were made of signs of consumption, but maybe they were mindful of the family.
To clarify: I'm talking about a recent story, the first time a bear has killed someone in Italy in the last 150 years. According to the newspaper, they used apples and honey as bait.
To clarify: I'm talking about a recent story, the first time a bear has killed someone in Italy in the last 150 years. According to the newspaper, they used apples and honey as bait.
There are some bears here, but only in protected batches of area.
Better that way. I don't see the fascination with keeping dangerous and useless animals around; bears seem to have a very small effect on biological sustainability.
Better that way. I don't see the fascination with keeping dangerous and useless animals around; bears seem to have a very small effect on biological sustainability.
Sofista
Deity
You're lucky, you must have a wonderfully disciplined ursine population!Try as we might, we can't get them bears to correctly respect reserve limits.
And yet we keep people around.
I don't think you can. The article that coined the phrase the author will have copyright of.
Trademarking it just means only Rooney will be able to use it to market products.
Still ridiculous ofc.
From the article:
Three years, six months and 13 days ago, I tweeted the words “Coleen Rooney: Agatha Christie”. Well, that’s not quite what I tweeted. I inserted a “W” before the Agatha, creating a disposable pun that somehow went viral. To my bemusement the joke was emblazoned across countless headlines worldwide. You may be wondering why have I introduced my famous pun in such a tortured fashion. Well, I’m trying to avoid getting sued.
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It was Coleen who was called Stagatha Crispy. (Sorry. I’m going to have to be creative if I’m going to write about a phrase that I can’t legally commit to print.)
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Here’s the legal bit: you can trademark anything that doesn’t have copyright. There is a possibility that I do hold the copyright to the phrase “Flabatha Wristie” (this is starting to annoy even me now), but it’s also possible that you can’t copyright a short phrase; in which case Mrs Vardy is free to sell all the branded meat tenderisers God sends.
It’s a legal grey area. And legal grey areas turn lawyers into panting cartoon dogs with pound signs in their eyes, salivating over potentially years of eye-wateringly expensive arguments about whether or not a pun is copyrightable. You know how explaining a joke renders it unfunny? Try having it picked apart over several years by barristers. I know that’s why I got into comedy!
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It was Coleen who was called Stagatha Crispy. (Sorry. I’m going to have to be creative if I’m going to write about a phrase that I can’t legally commit to print.)
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Here’s the legal bit: you can trademark anything that doesn’t have copyright. There is a possibility that I do hold the copyright to the phrase “Flabatha Wristie” (this is starting to annoy even me now), but it’s also possible that you can’t copyright a short phrase; in which case Mrs Vardy is free to sell all the branded meat tenderisers God sends.
It’s a legal grey area. And legal grey areas turn lawyers into panting cartoon dogs with pound signs in their eyes, salivating over potentially years of eye-wateringly expensive arguments about whether or not a pun is copyrightable. You know how explaining a joke renders it unfunny? Try having it picked apart over several years by barristers. I know that’s why I got into comedy!
Its not really a grey area, if it was comedians couldn't make jokes about Ronald Macdonald or Mr Whippy.
I am not convinced. I am no lawyer, but the use of a trademark to identify a product or company is descriptive fair use. Using the phrase "Wagatha Christie" in a joke about the court case would not be descriptive use.
It wasn't unintentional.
WAG stands for Wives and Girlfriends and was combined with Agatha.
The guy is not exactly celebrating. He made a joke, it went viral, and someone else now owns that joke. I am not sure how I would feel if my 15 minutes of fame got bought and monetised by someone who has more fame.
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