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If Ridley Scott wants to make a Monopoly movie so bad, he should scrap his plans for a straight adaptation of the board game and film this instead: the ingeniously crazy and TRUE tale of how British soldiers in German POW camps during World War II used Monopoly to escape from prison. Historians are now saying that thousands of British military personnel could have literally gotten “out of jail free” and safely out of Nazi clutches… with a little help from Parker Brothers.

During World War II, as the number of British airmen held hostage behind enemy lines escalated, the country’s secret service enlisted an unlikely partner in the ongoing war effort: The board game Monopoly.

It was the perfect accomplice.

Included in the items the German army allowed humanitarian groups to distribute in care packages to imprisoned soldiers, the game was too innocent to raise suspicion. But it

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(Not Marcus after slaughter and sectioning, but an incredible simulation)

Elementary students in Kent, Great Britain have elected to send a lamb they reared as a school project off to be slaughtered and rendered into succulent ribs and chops.

The decision to dispatch the lamb, which the students had named Marcus, has met with outcry from “grown-ups”…

Marcus the six-month-old lamb has now been culled, the head teacher of the primary school in Kent confirmed on Monday, after the school’s council — a 14-member group of children aged 6 to 11 — voted 13-1 to have him killed.

The decision has provoked fury among animal-loving celebrities, animal and human rights campaigners and the parents of some of the children, and led to threats against Lydd primary school and its teachers, according to a member of staff.

Around 250 children at the school take part in a program designed to

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The big fish in the photo is a nearly 9-foot long catfish weighing 193 pounds.

And that grinning lil’ girl holding it is Jessica Wanstall, 11 years old, 4-feet 10-inches tall and weighing 83 pounds. She’s the young lady who caught the fish on the River Ebro in Spain.

Bet ya it won’t be no ordinary fish tale Jessica tells her mates when she comes back from holiday…

Click here to reel-in the story of Jessica and her record catch!...

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DARN it!!

There are way too many talented people who are leaving us lately. And just after I had finished noting the passing of Karl Malden, now comes word that Mollie Sugden has die at the age of 86.

I say again: DARN it!!!

It’s just been in the past few months that I have finally gotten into watching Are You Being Served?, the classic BBC comedy series that ran from 1972 to 1985. Every Sunday at midnight I now tune into North Carolina Public Television, and for the next hour I enjoy the mad hijinks of the Grace Bros. Department Store clothing staff.

And Mollie Sugden, as the uproariously bossy Mrs. Slocombe, never fails to make me honk with laughter. Especially all those hilarious double entendres when she talks about “my pussy”!

Sugden was a profoundly talented lady and by all accounts, a terrific person off-camera. She ...

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My filmmaking partner “Weird” Ed Woody found this story and passed it along here…

Hasta la vista, baby

Wed Mar 4, 1:20 pm ET

LONDON (Reuters) – A Mexican national who told airport immigration he was visiting Britain to see a friend was swiftly deported after a search unearthed a good-luck card in his luggage wishing him well for his “new life in the UK.”

UK Border Agency officers at Manchester Airport routinely stopped the 40-year-old chef after he arrived on a flight from Los Angeles last Friday.

The man told them he was on a short trip to see a friend who was opening a restaurant in the area.

“However, a search of the passenger’s baggage revealed a huge collection of Mexican food recipes and a good-luck card from his church wishing him well for his ‘new life in the UK,'” the agency said in a statement.

The

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Leopold Wrobel of Wingerforth, England has been remanded to gaol by the constabulary for a period of twenty weeks after being found guilty of harassment and violating an “antisocial behavior order” that was sought against him by his neighbors.

Apparently, what Michael and Kathleen Sharpe found so offensive is that Wrobel would constantly whistle the theme music from The Addams Family whenever he saw them.

In his defense, Wrobel claimed that he was only whistling at his dog. But “closed-circuit TV footage shown to the court depicted him repeatedly whistling when the couple left their house or arrived home.”

I don’t know what’s more disturbing: this guy’s whistling fetish, or the fact that England now has so many surveillance cameras that one was looking out for Wrobel’s performance....

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In a radio interview about the effects of the global recession on Great Britain, that country’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown has admitted that one of his heroes is Autobot leader Optimus Prime from the Transformers franchise…

Listeners to the show seemed to agree. One said that “Optimus Prime would be one hell of an advisor to the PM. He stands for honour and justice and I would vote for him as Prime Minister if he were real.”

Personally I think that if Mr. Brown is heartfelt about his admiration for Optimus Prime, that the British people are generally in good hands. Not too many mythic figures from the past few decades that are as virtuous and upstanding as Optimus Prime.

Thanks to Phillip Arthur for passing along the story!...

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Proportionally it’s a much a bigger event than a season finale of Lost, or the series finale of The Sopranos. In the annals of television history it’s set to rank up there with the revelation of who shot J.R., or the very last episode of M*A*S*H…

At least ten million people in Great Britain tonight are expected to watch “Journey’s End”, the season finale of Doctor Who. Last week’s episode “The Stolen Earth” ended with the biggest cliffhanger in the show’s nearly half-century of history: The Doctor (currently played by David Tennant) was shot clean through the chest by a Dalek. And then, with Donna and Rose and Captain Jack watching, he began to regenerate.

If Tennant is leaving the show and another actor is about to take his place as The Doctor – a very big deal and something that has happened 9 times already ...

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Before this past week, the last time that Davros had been seen was the 1988 Doctor Who story “Remembrance of the Daleks”. Two decades later and the BBC decided that fiction’s most murderous villain ever deserved an upgrade for the revived series.

The Telegraph in London has an in-depth feature on how Davros was brought back to life. In addition to several conceptual drawings of both Davros and the new red Supreme Dalek, it also talks to the BBC’s artists and engineering team members, who decided early on that Davros’s new look should draw from how the character first appeared in 1975, when Michael Wisher was in the role. From the design of the chair to the sculpting of the prosthetics (which can only be worn once) that Julian Bleach wears for the two-part finale, the BBC staff held nothing back from intentionally making Davros “bigger and scarier” than ...

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