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Just bop bop boppin' along

W e all know about the classic "turkey dump" Leah McLaren is describing. What I don't get is the accompanying illustration. The woman appears to be dancing in a field of bare buttocks, and shot glasses seem to be stuffed in their gluteal folds. Is it ...

From DAVID HUGHES GLASS, Globe and Mail,  1 Sep 2009
Related Topics: McLaren

The Sunday Times' Edinburgh Festival highlights

The month that shapes British comedy hasn’t started yet and already there’s talk of who’s going to win the award that used to be the Perrier. It currently doesn’t have a sponsor, proving that the recession has hit the festival before it’s even ...

From STEPHEN ARMSTRONG, ADRIAN TURPIN, DAVID DOUGILL, HUGH CANNING, Times Online,  1 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Judith Adams,  Stewart Lee,  Ricky Gervais,  Julian Clary,  Jimmy Carr

Photos of the Week: Australian Forces in Afghanistan

Above, a vehicle and soldiers from the Australian Special Operations Task Group halt while on patrol in the Oruzgan region of Afghanistan in October, 2005. Below members of the Special Operations Task Group  board a CH-47 Chinook at the conclusion of ...

From DAVID HUGHES, Aviation Week,  19 Dec 2008

Photos of the Week: Target Practice Off The West Coast of Britain

An unmanned radio-controlled Mirach target aircraft (above) was launched by 792 Naval Air Squadron based at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose from a ship's deck. These targets are used in missile training around the remoter parts of the west coast of ...

From DAVID HUGHES, Aviation Week,  12 Dec 2008

Photos of the Week: Afghan Air Force

This row of Afghan Air Force helicopters is lined up at Kabul Military Airbase. Below an Afghan Air Force helicopter technician.  All photos from the International Security Assitance Force web site with credit to Philippe De Poulpiquet, Le Parisien ...

From DAVID HUGHES, Aviation Week,  5 Dec 2008

Photos of the Week: USN Special Patrol Extraction - Gulf of Oman

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Platoon 222 perform a special patrol insertion and extraction exercise (above)  from the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Supply on November 7, 2008 in the Gulf of Oman. ...

From DAVID HUGHES, Aviation Week,  14 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Theodore Roosevelt,  John Hamilton

Nov. 11 at Paine Field -- Meet WW2 Fighter Aces

It's a good thing for the history of military aviation in the U.S. that Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, got interested in collecting war birds about a decade ago.This year on June 6, the anniversary of the D-Day Invasion, his Flying ...

From DAVID HUGHES, Aviation Week,  10 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Boeing

Marshall Aerospace of Cambridge Wins RAF TriStar MRO Contract

The British Ministry of Defense has signed a £97 million ($153.4 million), seven-year contract with Marshall Aerospace of Cambridge to provide support for the RAF's fleet of TriStar aircraft. The company will provide maintenance and engineering and ...

From DAVID HUGHES, Aviation Week,  7 Nov 2008

Photos of the Week: RAAF Flight Demonstrations

Above, a Royal Australian Air Force Hawk 127 and F/A-18 bookend a Gloster Meteor, Mustang, and a De Havilland Vampire in RAAF markings at the 2008 Defense Air Show at RAAF Base Amberley on October 5, 2008.  Australian Ministry of Defense photo by CPL ...

From DAVID HUGHES, Aviation Week,  6 Nov 2008

Photo of the Week: Army Medic Responding After IED

After being struck by an IED in Baqubah, Iraq, a Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle immediately caught fire with its occupants still inside. Spc. Christopher Waiters, a senior medic assigned to 5-20 Infanty attempts to climb into the burning BFV to ...

From DAVID HUGHES, Aviation Week,  31 Oct 2008

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