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Oh my goodness. I hope they can get this settled without military intervention.

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Lobster diver survives brief entrapment inside whale's mouth
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A commercial lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., on Friday morning said he thought he was going to die.

Michael Packard, 56, of Wellfleet, Mass., told WBZ-TV after he was released from Cape Cod Hospital that he was about 14 metres deep in the waters off Provincetown, Mass., when "all of a sudden I felt this huge bump, and everything went dark."

He thought he had been attacked by a shark, common in area waters, but then realized he could not feel any teeth and he wasn't in any pain.

"Then I realized, oh my God, I'm in a whale's mouth ... and he's trying to swallow me," he said. "And I thought to myself OK, this is it — I'm finally — I'm going to die." His thoughts went to his wife and children.

He estimates he was in the whale's mouth for about 30 seconds, but continued to breathe because he still had his breathing apparatus in.

Then the whale surfaced, shook its head, and spit him out. He was rescued by his crewmate in the surface boat.
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Charles "Stormy" Mayo, a senior scientist and whale expert at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, told the newspaper that such human-whale encounters are rare.

Humpbacks are not aggressive and Mayo thinks it was an accidental encounter while the whale was feeding on fish, likely sand lance.

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As one of my friends put it, "He got Jonah-ed!"

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I posted about the floods in Edinburgh, but it looks like they got off lightly compared to Germany and Belgium:

More than 20 dead, dozens missing in heavy Europe floods

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Oh gosh, it's dreadful...I know the region(s) quite well as I've vacationed in Valkenburg twice and visited the Ahr Valley and Eifel region over the years.

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German lawyers wrangle over pensioner's WW2 tank in basement

The man also had an anti-aircraft gun and torpedo in his basement, along with smaller weapons.

Reminds me of a joke.

"How do I get a license to drive a tank?"

"Oh, just go ahead, who's going to stop you?"

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I don't know if any of you read Not the Bee, but for anyone who doesn't know, I just want to make one thing clear before I share from it. The Babylon Bee is a satire site; Not the Bee is its sister site with genuine news that sounds like it should be satire.

First, I'm sure some of the Canadians here would totally do this if they could:
https://notthebee.com/article/canadian- ... cream-cake

Second, cool history!
https://notthebee.com/article/archaeolo ... ojan-horse


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Sounds quite reasonable to me - acquiring ice cream is a perfectly legitimate use of a helicopter.

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Unfortunately, the non-joke site isn't all that accurate, either.

Update: Dr. Christine Morris Confirms She Has Not Found the Trojan Horse
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I emailed the real Dr. Morris using the email that is listed on her faculty webpage for Trinity College Dublin. She has very kindly taken the time out of her presumably very busy schedule to reply to my email. She has confirmed that she has never been affiliated with Boston University in any way, that she has never excavated at Troy or worked there in any capacity, that she has never claimed to have found the Trojan horse, and that the story that has been published by Greek Reporter and all these other news outlets is completely fabricated

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Aww, I'm disappointed. Huh, that's weird that it was a repost, but I can't blame the Bee for that mistake if it was being published all over the place. Unfortunately I can't comment on the article to let people know, either.


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Imagine you're a construction worker and one day you happen to uncover a set of Roman statues in surprisingly good condition...

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Restaurant reviewer talks of his experience at possibly the worst Michelin-starred restaurant in the world
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The travel writer and her friends recently spent a memorable evening at Bros', a posh Italian restaurant, where they were served a 27-course meal that included rancid cheese, shot glasses of vinegar, droplets infused with meat molecules, and a plaster cast of the chef's mouth dribbling orange foam.
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"Reconstituted orange slices" were served on a plate with an actual orange, which they were told was only for decoration.

One of the tastier courses consisted of tiny fried cheese balls, which the servers insisted were made from "rancid" ricotta. When DeRuiter suggested that perhaps they meant "aged" or "fermented," she was told: "No. Rancid."
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Nothing could be remotely described as a main dish, DeRuiter said. At one point, a server swirled several rich sauces onto their plates, and she thought for sure they would heap something substantial atop it.

"And someone came by with an eye dropper, and they proceeded to squirt a sort of gelée onto the sauces, and they said, 'This has been infused with meat molecules.' And then they walked away," she said.

"A friend of mine at the table said, 'Those are two words you never want to hear together — meat and molecules.'"
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They waited for spoons, and were horrified to learn none would be coming.

"You had to slurp it out," DeRuiter said. "And at some point I think I accidentally made eye contact with a friend of mine across the table while I was doing that. That brought our friendship to a new level that I wish we had not reached."
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Asked for comment, Bros’ restaurant sent a 3-page PDF about the meaning of art, complete with horse drawings
The linked article contains pictures of some of the food. Not to be missed, if you have a taste for the bizarre.

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Don't forget to not go there when you make it to Italy!

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Perhaps I'd enjoy the meat molecules, though.

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Perhaps I'd enjoy the meat molecules, though.

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Such philistines. Don't you appreciate ART???


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