feedle alerts me to the existence of the JBX Grill, the attempt by Jack in the Box to enter the “upscale fast casual” world where people will spend $12.95 for 50 cents worth of Extrude-A-Fude™.
Not sure whether this is brilliant, or soon to be a hilarious failure like the Mac Tonight Supper Club.
Probably the former, since 99 44/100% of restaurants now serve whatever Sysco brings in the truck whether they charge ten or a hundred dollars for the experience.
But they have a fireplace!
Just to get y’all in the mood. The story should have been headlined AREA CLICHE GUY FULFILLS HIS STEREOTYPE. “Arrested at his mother’s mobile home” indeed. Also “favored tie-dyed t-shirts”. Any bets on Tevas?
Dead chickens hit Australia homes
By Phil Mercer
BBC, Sydney
Australian police are investigating how and why homes near Sydney have been bombarded by dead chickens.
Residents in the city of Newcastle believe the birds may have fallen from an aircraft or been fired by pranksters using a slingshot.
Two homes have been damaged since the mystery began.
When a headless chicken crashed on to a suburban house in Newcastle last month, most people thought it had fallen from a low-flying aircraft.
That theory is now in doubt after a second bird fell on to another home nearby at the weekend.
Such was the damage to the roof that experts are convinced the carcass must have plummeted at least 1,600 feet (490 metres).
A physics professor at Newcastle University has pointed the finger at local wags, armed with a giant slingshot or catapult.
The mystery has delighted headline writers around Australia.
Among the gems were “It’s raining hen” and “Crashing chooks ruffle residents’ feathers”!
The police have admitted they do not have much to go on – apart from two very squashed chickens.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/4253209.stm
Published: 2005/02/10 10:47:13 GMT
© BBC MMV
Villagers furious with Christian Missionaries
Samanthapettai, Jan 16 (ANI): Rage and fury has gripped this tsunami-hit tiny Hindu village in India’s southern Tamil Nadu after a group of Christian missionaries allegedly refused them aid for not agreeing to follow their religion.
Samanthapettai, near the temple town of Madurai, faced near devastation on the December 26 when massive tidal waves wiped it clean of homes and lives.
Most of the 200 people here are homeless or displaced , battling to rebuild lives and locating lost family members besides facing risks of epidemic,disease and trauma.
Jubilant at seeing the relief trucks loaded with food, clothes and the much-needed medicines the villagers, many of who have not had a square meal in days, were shocked when the nuns asked them to convert before distributing biscuits and water.
Heated arguments broke out as the locals forcibly tried to stop the relief trucks from leaving. The missionaries, who rushed into their cars on seeing television reporters and the cameras refusing to comment on the incident and managed to leave the village.
Disappointed and shocked into disbelief the hapless villagers still await aid.
“Many NGOs (volunteer groups) are extending help to us but there in our village the NGO, which was till now helping us is now asking us to follow the Christian religion. We are staunch followers of Hindu religion and refused their request. And after that these people with their aid materials are leaving the village without distributing that to us,” Rajni Kumar, a villager said.
The incident is an exception to concerted charity in a catastrophe that has left no one untouched.(ANI)
This evening at D’s, Jack was talking about China where he’s been spending some time lately. His family is Chinese-American and there are lots of relatives in Taiwan, but there are also family members who have businesses on the mainland. He visited someone’s factory, where they make patio umbrellas.
There was a room of people there, maybe 15-20 of them, around a low table seated on milk cartons. Each of them had a big plastic bucket on their left and right sides. They’d take a bolt out of the left bucket, inspect it, and then file away with a big carpenter’s file for a long time. Periodically the worker would inspect the bolt. At the appropriate length, the bolt was dropped into the bucket on the right.
Why was this happening? Because they needed lots of bolts that were slightly shorter than the ones they had. And in China, it’s much less expensive to have people laboriously shorten bolts by hand than to have a machine do it or order new bolts. So there they sit, filing down bolts all day.
This reminds me of genericus and his fruit rollups job, which I’m not sure he’s LJ’d about but he should if he hasn’t.
So that was depressing, but Jack’s account of his brother’s geeky addiction to high-end flashlights was pretty funny. The guy is obsessed and buys flashlight after flashlight, all from some incredibly expensive company that claims (as all phallic marketers claim) that theirs is the product the SEALs use. There is apparently some “Police” flashlight that has spikes on it to JAM INTO SUSPECTS FACES YARR which no police department would actually permit, and other Sharper Image-style marketing nonsense. It’s as though every kid who couldn’t stop shining a light in other peoples’ faces was 35 years old and had a six figure income. Wait, that’s my country.
Please post: what’s the worst mixed drink you’ve ever had, and why? Mine was a nasty-ass martini that had a deadly bubble of vermouth at the bottom.
from Defamer:
Hollywood Out of Ideas, What the Fuck? Edition: Producer Tony Thomopolous and George Hamilton are developing a sequel to the 1979 vampire comedy Love at First Bite. Finally, all those 25-year-old loose ends will be tied up!
I mean.. that’s something I would think up to make my friends say “SHUT UP!”
Can I get a witness?
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