Friday, December 7, 2018

News for Week Ending Friday, Dec 7, 2018


1.   Rania Youssef, an Egyptian actress, has been charged with public indecency for wearing a revealing dress and thereby “inciting debauchery and temptation.”   ***  The young woman is in a heap of trouble, but sales of the dress have skyrocketed.

2.   An 85 year old man at Florida’s Cypress Lakes Retirement Community was bitten on the foot by an alligator.   ***   How demoralizing—the guy’s already got one foot in the grave, and then an alligator tries to bite off the other one. 

3.   In London, workers found a 500 year old skeleton of a man near the River Thames, and he was still wearing his thigh-high leather boots.   ***   You know, it must be discouraging when you hang on to your favorite pair of boots for 500 years and they still haven’t come back into style.

4.   Richard Branson says his Virgin Galactic space travel company will be taking visitors to space by Christmas.  ***  In fact, they’re in final stages of training all the reindeer.

5.   A blind man in New York is suing Playboy’s website because it’s not compatible with his screen-reading app.  ***  Previously, he sued the magazine version because he kept cutting his finger on the centerfold staple.

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