It's groovy! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cary Ginell" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] I can't resist posting this > Hmm. A shellac smoothie. Might cause a stir... > > Cary Ginell > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Tait <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:30 pm > Subject: [ARSCLIST] I can't resist posting this > > > > I think it's interesting and, I hope, amusing. > > Until I retired last autumn I was an announcer at WFMT in Chicago. Part of > the job was preparing regular newscasts. We had three sources: Associated > Press; City News Bureau for local news; and Reuters. Reuters not only had the > most thorough stores; they also sent stories that verged upon the whimsical > and weird. Including the next, which I keep framed on the wall of one of the > rooms here that is filled with 78s. > > There is no year given. Probably the late '70s or early '80s. The rest is: > > DRINK > > Shepton Mallet, England, July 2, Reuter -- A magistrate's court here today > was told of the local destitutes' top drink -- boiled phonograph records. > > Scotsman Thomas Duncan, 50, said the hit beverage was made by breaking up > and boiling old 78 r.p.m. records. > > Duncan was jailed for 30 days for stealing two brass vases from a house > where he went for water to dilute his favorite drink. > > The police analyst in this town about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of > Bristol is to study Duncan's claims. > > REUTERS 1935 > > Another idea about what do with those 78s nobody wants normally, perhaps? > > Don Tait > > > > > > **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for > FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) >