BBC Bits

[tealin]

This is very funny and stereotypically appropriate:

Irish Fishermen Make Strange Catch

And a documentary on Project X-Ray, a strategy devised by the US military in World War II to fit bats with incendiary devices and use them to burn down Japanese cities – the inspiration for Sunwing.

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Irish and sharks

[ianfinerty.livejournal.com]

That's a brilliant story about the irish sailors. It almost seems like fate- with the liquer coming with miraculously unbroken glasses.
The second story almost reminds me of an old batman film i had in which the joker force feeds a shark a grenade and sets him sfter batman. After the shark bites the dark knight, Mr. Wayne asks Robin to hoist him out of the sea in the bat-mo-copter or something of the like. Unfortunately the beast still clings on so batman comes out with one of my favourite lines in cinema history,
"Quick Robin, fetch me my anti-shark spray!"

Re: Irish and sharks

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I bet the prawn catchers were chuffed!

There was a wee bit about that at the end of Sunwing. They blew up several of their own buildings, didn't they?

[rosynose.livejournal.com]

Kind of like the dogs the Soviets fitted with bombs and trained to run under enemy tanks (WW2, must have been). Only the dogs had been trained with native tanks, so, of course, completely ignored the enemy tanks and ran under the Soviet ones.

Ah, the whimsy of BBC reporting. I wonder if the grateful liqueur company donated any of the haul to the fishermen :)