Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Gentleman Walks on the Outside (cartoon) – Clown with Knife (UK) – Flat Earth Bet (New Zealand)



News Shopper [UK]
20 August 2019

Clown waving knife chases kids in Mottingham, mum warns

Terrified kids screamed for their parents after a fully grown man dressed as a clown "ran at them with a knife". Zoe Woodward said her kids, Frankie, eight, and Stephen, six, were chased by a "fully grown man" with a knife while playing in a garden. The frightening ordeal happened on Sunday, August 18, at around 6pm on Sennen Walk in Mottingham. […]

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Otago Daily Times [New Zealand]
20 August 2019

Threat to kill alleged over $10k flat Earth bet

$10,000 bet between two Queenstown men over whether the Earth is flat or round resulted in one being charged with threatening to kill the other. Jamie Mathew Sutherland (36), car groomer, of Frankton, denied threatening to kill Louie Lanz in Queenstown on February 14 - an incident which resulted from a dinner the pair had a couple of months earlier, during which the bet was made. […]

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Good Times (San Francisco), vol. 3, no. 18, 1 May 1970, p. 8. “The custom of the gentleman walking on the outside originated as a method of determining whether or not a lady was a prostitute.” Note how the shrewd “gentleman” in the middle manages to avoid being splashed by the wagon and the chamber pot.



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