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As for me, I rather look forward to seeing a big old gas station come roaring down from the sky in flames, its donuts and hot dogs and RESTROOM INSIDE sign trailing behind it. Just so long as it doesn’t hit me in the head.
from the film are being shot in Malta, England and Scotland and the movie is scheduled for release on December 21, 2012.
DOG COMMERCIAL So you’re watching TV with your dog. During a break, a 23-second commercial comes on for Beneful dog food. A dish of it is brought out and set in front of two dogs, who are now wagging their tails and running over. And at that moment, your dog leaps up, his ears perk up, and he runs over. Effective, no? That is what the Nestle Company, which makes the dog food Beneful, thinks too. The secret, however, is not the dog food, but a high-pitched whistle (too high for you to hear, but not so high that your dog can’t hear it) that can be emitted by the sound system of your TV set. The whistle is a similar to the squeak a dog toy makes. This is disgraceful, if you ask me. Nestle, instead of bragging about this, should clean up its act and pull this commercial off the air. WEAPON CACHE DISCOVERED So Brad Pitt is in Hungary, making an action-horror movie called World War Z, and there’s been a delay. “We can confirm that weapons were confiscated at an airport,” Hungary AntiTerrorism Unit director Hajdu Janos said at a press conference.
What this SWAT team uncovered was a cache of 85 automatic military-style assault rifles that were to be used in a scene where the fighters show up with them, go rat-a-tat-tat at hordes of people, killing almost all of them, and then retreat to a waiting group of huge helicopters. “This morning a private plane brought guns from a company to an individual,” Janos continued. “Guns like these are highly illegal. We are interrogating witnesses now, getting closer to solving the firearms story.” The movie stars not only Brad Pitt, but also Matthew Fox, David Morse, Mirielle Enos and Elyes Gabel. It’s based on the Max Brooks’ bestseller by the same name. None of the actors were involved in the raid, which took place in a warehouse up at the Franz Liszt Airport in Budapest. Other scenes
GARBAGE FLOTILLA The tsunami and nuclear accident in Japan are over, but the aftermath is not. As you recall, the great tsunami came in, tore everything loose, floated much of it around, and then retreated back to sea. Apparently, it retreated back to sea with a whole lot of stuff. And it is coming to America. Scientists at the University of Hawaii, studying ocean currents, are predicting that all this debris will be carried along eastward along the northern Pacific, on to Hawaii, then to the western coast of the United States and then back to Hawaii. Eventually, it is going to wind up in this huge swirling area in the Pacific known as the Garbage Patch, where lots of other debris and effluvia from modern society is already located. The debris has already been seen by mariners heading along its predicted course. A month ago, a Russian ship sailing to Vladivostok came upon an abandoned fishing boat with the name Fukushima on the stern, also a TV, a refrigerator, fishing floats, rope nets and other crap floating along. It will make its first landfall this winter in Midway Island, then go to Hawaii and land on the West Coast in 2013. I imagine that various travel agents will soon be putting together week-long trips to the beaches for tourists interested in obtaining souvenirs of the catastrophe.
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