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There’s a classic joke about a hunter who killed a duck that landed on a farmer’s land. The farmer proposes to settle the property dispute over the prize bird by kicking each other in the testicles until one party relents. It’s a pretty great joke. Here’s Buddy Hackett telling it.
Anyway, in today’s version of the joke, Elon Musk is the guy repeatedly kicking Floridians in the balls.
At the urging of Musk’s SpaceX lobbyists, Florida legislators just passed House Bill 221 with the relatively innocuous opening “An act relating to recovery of spaceflight assets.” But read a little further, and what’s actually going on here is a wild instance of corporate back-scratching instituting a criminal penalty on anyone who finds space junk lodged in their roof from an exploded Tesla rocket. It seems only fair that someone narrowly dodging a Donnie Darko ending should be subjected t
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In Yarmouth History
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This page was created by the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth in cooperation with The Register Newspaper in 2002 to promote the study of history in the Mid-Cape region.
150 Years Ago: March 1871
March 4th Osterville - A daughter of Mr. James Codd, aged ten years, on Friday last, picked up a loaded pistol in the street, she took it to school with her, placing it in her cloak pocket. In some way, one of the charges was exploded, the ball entering the upper part of her bowels. A surgeon failed to reach the ball by probing, and though the child lived there was little hope of her recovery.She died on Thursday.
The 59-year-old star used to be a ""big props guy"" and took random objects along to make him memorable to casting directors, but he admitted it wasn't always a successful approach