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Please Mind the Gap Between Your Job and Being Fired
1 minuteWhat happens when you mock the London Underground (affectionately known as the Tube) and make spoofs of the announcments and post them on your website? Most likely nothing, unless you are the official announcer, aka Emma Clarke. You may have heard that today she was relieved of her duties for criticizing the London Underground. An Underground spokesman had this to say, "Some of the spoof announcements are very funny. But Emma is a bit silly to go round slagging off her client's services." Read more of the story here. I was only able to download one of the spoof…
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Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation (1863)
3 minutesIn the middle of the American Civil War President Lincoln found it meet to establish as a national holiday that Thursday in November which since 1863 we have celebrated as Thanksgiving. The following is his Thanksgiving Proclamation calling the nation to give thanks and “praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens” starting […]
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Capricious Case Studies
2 minutesA new study says some alcohol OK for pregnant women, or so says the news. Referencing “the British research,” the news video goes on to say that new research suggests that it may be OK for pregnant women “to occasionally overindulge in a night of drinking.” Apparently their tests show that a-once-in-a-while binge doesn’t hurt […]