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Saturday, May 08, 2010

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

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On this day in 1671 Colonel Thomas Blood attempted, unsuccessfully, to steal the crown jewels. Curiously, at the behest of the king, Blood was pardoned and given land in Ireland it is unknown whether this was for fear of a possible uprising, because the king fell for Blood’s fawning or if as some people claim, the whole plot was organised by the king who was very short of money at the time. All three options all sound a little unlikely to me and I wonder if it is more likely that Blood was given his pardon on the condition that he work for the crown in some unknown and secret capacity in the future.

And now, the news:

Monster colossal squid is slow not fearsome predator
Mountain lion photographed in Greene County

It’s true, they’re not ‘lion’; well they are lion, but you know what I mean….
Bringing up the subject of lions, when I was a kid and was on a family holiday to Kenya we saw ‘lion steak’ on the menu of the hotel restaurant one day. This seemed bizarre but believable given that we’d sampled ostrich and impala on previous days so we asked the waiter about it. Turned out that it was a typo and was meant to be ‘loin steak.’

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