Thursday, July 4, 2019

Cement Milkshakes – Restaurant's Secret Code Order for Sex – Don’t Look Now – Dog Eats Homework



Daily Dot
1 July 2019

Portland milkshake dealer denies adding concrete to drinks to harm Proud Boys

“We didn’t buy $800 worth of fancy vegan ice cream just to mix it with something gross.” This was Pop Mob’s response to a question from the Daily Dot about whether the sweet treats the group handed out at Saturday’s protests in Portland, Oregon were laced with quick-drying concrete. […] While it is true that some milkshakes were thrown during the protests, there is no evidence that there was anything but frozen nondairy delights in those cups, nor has anyone claimed to have been hit with a cement milkshake. […]


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Kingstonist [Kingston, ON]
2 July 2019

A brief guide to the urban legends of Kingston

[…] Last, and most certainly not least, is the rumour that is still brought up to this day, though the restaurant has been closed for about 20 years, is that ordering a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at Lino’s was a secret code (that everyone knew) for spending time in an upstairs room with a sex worker. The other Lino’s rumour was that actually trying that trick would get you kicked out of there in a heartbeat.

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The Telegraph [UK]
4 July 2019

Did they or didn’t they? The truth about Don’t Look Now’s infamous sex scene

[…] Don’t Look Now (1973), one of the finest films in Nicolas Roeg’s underappreciated body of work, is often remembered for the sex alone – its four-and-a-half-minute central scene between the married couple John (Donald Sutherland) and Laura (Julie Christie), which has, in the four decades since, become one of cinema’s most prurient legends. […] [D]id the sex look that good because it wasn’t acting – because it was real? […]

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Paul Gilligan, Pooch Café, 4 July 2019. "I'm making a fortune eating kids' homework for them for five bucks a pop." First panel of three.




Kate Vasquez, “My Dog Ate My Homework – And Now He’s a Genius!” Weekly World News, 4 Oct. 2004, p. 38. “Astounded animal experts say a 5-year-old Great Dane has turned into a certifiable genius since chewing and swallowing his master's academic research paper.”



Patrick McDonnell, Mutts, 12 September 2019


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