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Two Pennsylvania men have been charged with cutting up a steel bridge and selling it for scrap. Why is the US in the grip of a destructive rash of metal thefts?
Teachers, get ready to weep. The latest update of the "definitive record of the English language", the Oxford English Dictionary, has some new additions that texting teenagers will be happy about. LOL, OMG, ♥, and FYI are now official initialisms—"abbreviations consisting of the initial letters of a name or expression." Whether or not you agree with the decision to add them, what is interesting is the way the OED documents the history of words and the way our use of language changes.
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 :: 12:01 am Buttersafe is now sponsored by the International Helicopter Pilot’s League, so just FYI: you’ll be seeing a lot more helicopter-related comics and anti-hang gliding propaganda.
In one scene he summons the spirit of wisdom (in a state Godzilla-breeding farm run by a mystic kung fu master) by pouring a bottle of Stolichniya into a mystic cauldron to summon Darth Vader, who uses the flaming heart of democracy to turn the Russian Bear Spirit into Dmitri Medvedev. There was not a single metaphor in that sentence.
A Southern Baptist minister and his wife have staged a bed-in on the roof of their church to encourage parishioners to put the zing back in their marriages - by having sex for seven days straight. Inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono's infamous protest bed-ins for peace in 1969, Reverend Ed Young and his wife Lisa snuggled up on top of the Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas for a 24-hour 'Sexperiment'.