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As some of you know, I work in the newsroom of a mid-sized daily paper.
Right now, on the police band, I'm listening to firefighters battle a call in a grocery store. Somebody set a fire in the toilet paper aisle.

I'm laughing so fucking hard.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 5 June 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

note: said grocery store is almost exactly midway between two tonier high schools.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm glad you found some humor in this situation, Horace, lest some poor innocent boxes of tissue got hurt in the melee. ;)

For me, real news has become, "Roxy Music's announced some tour dates!" And damn it, the five dates they've played have been nowhere near me. Hmph. Guess I'll just have to wait for more dates.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite story of the day is "child hit on head by discus during school sports day".

I'm sure every other speccy unhealthy kid nationwide enjoyed that one as well.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 5 June 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

the answer!.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"THIS IS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!"

Man, I'm happy to see that again...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

For me, real news has become, "Roxy Music's announced some tour dates!"

This was good news for me, then I saw the ticket prices. They're playing in the city I live in, right over at the OC fairgrounds, and with service charges I would still be paying almost $60 per ticket, and those would be the cheap seats -- anywhere else would be over $90. It would be the same case with Duran Duran. Frankly, no.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a news report on the radio today about how supermarket sandwiches aren't very nice.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Thursday, 5 June 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. But I feel they bigged up Greggs too much.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The worst tuna sandwich in the test was the tuna and sweetcorn offering from M&S, which was described as an unpleasant combination of wet bread, string, dark tuna, and too much mayo.

String?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, no kidding?!?! You live in Costa Mesa?!?! Actually in Costa Mesa?!?! OMG. If I were you, I'd be sacrificing bigtime. Not only is Roxy Music going to be playing there August 2, the "reformed 'Fab Five'" Duran Duran are going to be playing their first concert since Live Aid on July 16!!

Oh man. You are living in what I'd consider to be this summer's concert paradise!!!

*sighs* Oh well. I'm going to have to wait to see any Duran Vegas dates. They pretty much always hit Vegas. With a little luck, they'll be at the MGM Grand this time, and I can have an actual seat this time rather than the "general admission" "seating" I had the last few times I went to see them. And maybe with a little more luck, Roxy Music will play Vegas shortly thereafter. I will faint if that happens.

*sighs again*

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 6 June 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Please note above that I mention turning down Duran for the same reason as Roxy. ;-)

Trust me, I still fly the flag for both Duran and Roxy and then some. Both great bands, Duran was essentially the soundtrack for middle school for me and Roxy is, well, Roxy. But I have to draw the line -- I've seen three day festivals with about forty bands or so for cheaper than the individual tickets being sold here. A friend of mine here in CM (she's actually just a block or two over from where I live) was a huge and hardcore Duran fanatic when she was growing up, far more than I (over the last few years she's made quite a bundle selling off slews of DD memorabilia from the megastar days). She saw the prices and decided against. I would have been willing to shell out at $30, $40, maybe even a smidgen higher. But the prices they're asking, no, no, and no again. If some sort of cheaper seats turn up on the day itself or whatever, bring it on, but otherwise, fuck it. Hell, it costs only $7 to attend on the day itself for both shows, I could just go and hear the darn shows for that, or even less -- it's an open air venue, and you can pretty much hear it from a few blocks around anyway.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

And for what it's worth, here's the comparison in the other ticket prices in the series:

http://www.ocfair.com/2003/PacAmp/index.asp

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite local news story of the last day or so is a drug dealer who took his stash of meth and jumped in a river and refused to be rescued. It took the cops a couple of hours to get him out and appearantly parts of his stash kept washing up on shore.

― earlnash, Friday, 6 June 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It's official, the grocery store toilet paper fire has been ruled deliberate.
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
No one was hurt.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite story of the day is "child hit on head by discus during school sports day"

Er, he died.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 8 June 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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