Friday, January 18, 2019

News for Week Ending Friday, Jan 18, 2019


1.   Members of an Australian airline flight crew have been charged with smuggling millions of dollars in heroin and methamphetamines.   ***   Authorities became suspicious after passengers complained there was never any room left in the overhead bins.

2.   A Paris restaurant that opened in 2017 to serve people in the nude is now closing due to a lack of customers.   ***   With apologies to 1992 presidential candidate Ross Perot, that giant sucking sound you hear is actually naked people getting up from vinyl seats.

3.   According to a recent study at Princeton, Facebook posts of fake news are shared seven times more often by people over 65.   ***   The university researchers said they were shocked by the results; they had no idea that seniors actually knew how to share a post.

4.   Kroger announced it is recalling most of its shrimp products.  ***  They sell special food for short people?

5.   The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church says smart phones are paving the way for the Antichrist.   ***   Wow—These days there’s an app for everything.

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