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I'm surprised something like that hasn't happened down at that big building in London, you know the one, the shard Gherkin.
 
Now there’s an angle I haven’t considered. Do family ghosts and invisible friends have to socially distance if included in your gatherings and what does that do to your group numbers? Here in Ontario CA, we are allowed to congregate in groups of 10.

One might suppose the hardcore cynic's / skeptic's position would be that one's own family ghosts and / or invisible friends do not add to the distances one must maintain from other people ...

... because they're "in your head", and therefore you personally serve as the single reference point around which distancing should be evaluated.
 
Florida city known for mermaids now sleeps with the fishes

A Florida city known for its mermaid shows now sleeps with the fishes.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Tuesday dissolving the city of Weeki Wachee.

The city located about 50 miles north of Tampa was founded in 1966 to help put the Weeki Wachee mermaid attraction at a state park onto maps and road signs, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

But with only 13 residents, the city was insolvent and offered no visible services to a small business community paying its taxes. ...

The city’s demise will have no real effect on the Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, officials said.

The mermaids at Weeki Wachee State Park have been a staple of Florida tourism since 1947. Women dressed in fishtails perform underwater shows in the springs while viewed by an audience sitting in a theater on the other side of a glass partition.

SOURCE: https://apnews.com/55d0b33a713841b794efcd6605712162
 
Yow - I hope it didn't hurt his 'family jewels'. That would have made him sing even higher (if that's possible)
 
"Well, you started it"
"No we didn't!"
"Yes you did - you invaded the Czech Republic!"
 
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Paul Whelan: The strange case of the ex-marine jailed for spying in Russia
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53110087

... There were signs of problems even earlier.

Almost exactly a year before Paul Whelan's arrest, a Norwegian staying at the same central Moscow hotel was arrested and charged with espionage. A retired border guard, Frode Berg admitted to delivering envelopes of cash and spy instructions on behalf of Norwegian military intelligence agency.

His arrest and 14-year prison sentence caused a scandal back home when it emerged that civilians with no diplomatic cover were being used for high-risk espionage. There were even allegations that Norway was under pressure to obtain the information from its partners in Nato.

Former CIA officers have dismissed any suggestion that Whelan could be involved in something similar, operating without diplomatic immunity: the idea, floated by one retired Russian officer, that his arrest was a "great failure" of US intelligence.
 
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