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Tartan would be no good as it would blow up and reveal the posts.
 
Argghh! Me sporran!
 
Author of ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ Charged With Murdering Her Husband

Nancy Crampton-Brophy — author of an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband” — was arrested and charged with murdering her husband of 27 years earlier this month.

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Crampton-Brophy is the author of such romance mysteries as The Wrong Cop, The Wrong Brother, The Wrong Lover and Hell on the Heart, listed for sale on Amazon.

“Our family is just in shock,” Daniel Brophy’s mother, Karen Brophy, told ABC News. “We are just stunned.”

https://www.mediaite.com/online/aut...r-husband-charged-with-murdering-her-husband/
 
It might help sales that it was the real thing and not a hack job. :twitch:
 
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If she'd done a hack job, they might not have worked out it was her...

Some people might have an axe to grind about this innapropriate murder pun.
 
BBC said:
A small town in the US state of Missouri is stirring controversy after announcing the title of its new local newspaper, the Uranus Examiner.

The newspaper, which was "launched" in the town of Uranus on Wednesday, was threatened with a boycott by the mayor of nearby Waynesville, Luge Hardman.

"No. I'm sorry. But the innuendo of that title puts the city up for public ridicule," Ms Hardman said.

The people of Uranus, in Pulaski County, are divided on the issue.

Natalie Sanders, who has been named as the newspaper's managing editor, told local news channel KY3 that the title was carefully considered before a decision was made.

"We had thought about 'constitution', but most of the people who love us, and who were part of coming up with the name, liked the examiner better," Ms Sanders reportedly said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45519884
 
Never say never!

Scottish clan appoints first chief in centuries after 30-year search

John Buchanan’s lineage claim is upheld by court, making him first Buchanan chief since 1681

One of Scotland’s most ancient clans has appointed its first chief in more than 300 years.

John Michael Baillie-Hamilton Buchanan has assumed the chiefship of the Clan Buchanan after his claim was formally upheld by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Lyon court, which regulates Scottish heraldry.

The role was last held by his ancestral kinsman John Buchanan until his death without a male heir in 1681.

Buchanan, who is the manager of Cambusmore estate, near Dornoch in Sutherland, and will now be known as The Buchanan, said that he was “honoured and proud” to assume the chiefship. “There has not been a chief for a very long time - over 337 years - but there is a thriving community of Buchanan clansmen, clanswomen and septs around the world,” he said.

Adding that it had been a “long journey” to prove his family’s lineage, Buchanan thanked the genealogist and fellow Buchanan clansman Hugh Peskett, who traced his ancestors back to 1370 and established references in 300 documents from around the world to verify the claim.

Buchanan explained: “We first approached the Lyon court informally over 20 years ago and it has taken decades of genealogical research to back up our claim.”

Peskett, who also traced the Irish lineage of the former US president Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, described it as a historic moment for Clan Buchanan. He became a genealogist 50 years ago, after his grandmother encouraged him to find the rightful Buchanan chief.

He said: “As a clansman of the Clan Buchanan, it was absolutely fascinating to delve into the history and ancestry of one of the oldest clans in Scotland. Tracing hundreds of years of lineage and unpacking the secrets of the past is no mean feat. My research took decades to compile and unequivocally confirms the chiefship claim.”

Traditionally, Clan Buchanan can trace its line back to the early 11th century, when an ancestor received lands around Loch Lomond from Malcolm II for services in fighting the Danes.

It now has several million members across Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere.

The Clan Buchanan Society International previously flew a banner at the Highland games, which featured a lion rampant with tears of sorrow to represent the sadness of clansmen without a chief.​
 
This is the most American thing I have ever seen...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-against-Hurricane-Florences-85mph-winds.html

Florida man raises more than $600 on GoFundMe to drive to South Carolina and 'stand off' against Hurricane Florence's 85mph winds with nothing more than a flag

A man who infamously stared down Hurricanes Matthew and Irma with nothing but his underwear and an American flag, has done so again for the third time.

Video shows Lane Pittman and his flowing ginger mane posing valiantly in Mrtyle Beach, South Carolina, on Friday as Florence's winds blow up to 85mph around him.

On Facebook he said: 'YOU ARE WEAK AND SMALL FLORENCE!!!!! FLORIDA MAN IS HERE!!!!!'

Here is a short clip of our hero in action. :rockon:

Spoiler Man in his underwear, so yaknow, mild NSFW :

 
BBC said:
Baby squirrels freed from tail tangle in Wisconsin

A US wildlife centre has saved five young grey squirrels after their tails became dangerously fused together.

The siblings had become entangled with the grass and plastic strips their mother used to build the family nest.

They were handed in at the Wisconsin Humane Society's Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, which worked to save their tails and possibly their lives.

The five were cut free with scissors while under anaesthetic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45545179
 
Its a squirrel king
 
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