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Old Nov 18th 2017, 1:34 pm
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Originally Posted by robin1234
Something vaguely wrong about the title of that video - Evolution's Achilles' Heels. Shouldn't Achilles have just the one "Achilles' heel?" (Maximum two, anyway.)

Achilles, yes; but these heels belong to Evolution, which is allowed to have more than one!
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Originally Posted by mikelincs
Maybe this was a test of faith?
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L.A. Democratic donor's home was littered with drug paraphernalia after man died, coroner says - LA Times
The West Hollywood apartment of a prominent Democratic donor where a 26-year-old man was found dead of an overdose this summer was littered with drug paraphernalia, according to the man's autopsy report.
The Los Angeles County coroner's report, which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times on Friday, says that Gemmel Moore died from an accidental methamphetamine overdose July 27 in the Laurel Avenue home of Ed Buck. The drug was injected into his body.
Paramedics found Moore naked on a mattress in the living room with a "male pornography movie playing on the television," the report states.
Coroner's officials ruled Moore's death an accident, and an initial review by sheriff's deputies found nothing suspicious. In August, Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detectives launched a new investigation after Moore's mother and friends questioned whether the drugs that killed him were self-administered.
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Amateurs!

Cap'n Pugwash never had these problems...
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Originally Posted by zzrmark
Amateurs!

Cap'n Pugwash never had these problems...
The article lists several other recent incidents involving US naval vessels in the Far East, and I don't even think it is a complete list, because a minesweeper ran around on a coral reef a couple of years ago. ..... But anyway, I guess that should be expected when you let a US driver loose with a ship!
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Old Nov 20th 2017, 8:16 am
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Originally Posted by zzrmark
Amateurs!

Cap'n Pugwash never had these problems...
What with seaman stains and roger the cabin boy, he couldnt see straight at the best of times...
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Originally Posted by uk_grenada
What with seaman stains and roger the cabin boy, he couldnt see straight at the best of times...
https://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/pugwash.asp
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Old Nov 20th 2017, 12:54 pm
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Shows how little you / snopes knows, whats this then?

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Incidentally, rainbow, tellytubbies and blue peter all did far worse... Remember the gay gene was string in most uk tv companies, esp the bbc. They had to remove the doors from the mens toilets to reduce cottaging in tekevision centre in shepherds bush, and the medical rooms [the ones with beds] were known as knockers fot the sounds emanating from them...
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Originally Posted by Boiler
Amusing, but 'adapted' from the original versions.
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Old Nov 20th 2017, 1:35 pm
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Originally Posted by excpomea
Amusing, but 'adapted' from the original versions.
Ask yourself by whome?

Im telling you - it is the originators, i used to work for disney, the animators regularly produced in house dodgy work, but it was thankfully very much under wraps, not like the uk, all those tv outtake shows were the offspring of the original ‘christmas tapes’. The cutting room floor gaffs swearing nudity etc was all kept and edited into internal use only shows, most could never be seen on tv even today, they showed the celebs doing very naughty things. I worked there and have a collection...
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Originally Posted by uk_grenada
Shows how little you / snopes knows, whats this then?

https://youtu.be/7XIIO-fyUEw
"In 1991 Ryan won libel damages from two newspapers after they had published stories that the BBC had taken Captain Pugwash off the air because of the risqué names of some of the crew aboard the Black Pig, namely Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. In fact, these were names dreamed up by students in the 1970s for university “rag mags”, and which had somehow managed to pass into the realms of urban myth. "

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Old Nov 20th 2017, 1:47 pm
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"In 1991 Ryan won libel damages from two newspapers after they had published stories that the BBC had taken Captain Pugwash off the air because of the risqué names of some of the crew aboard the Black Pig, namely Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. In fact, these were names dreamed up by students in the 1970s for university “rag mags”, and which had somehow managed to pass into the realms of urban myth. "

John Ryan - Telegraph
Nothing to do with the video then, see my last update above...
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