STD Caught from Face Mask – Blank Town Clock Face (Kingsbridge, UK) – Elephant Sits on Car (Australia)

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/26/woman-believed-husbands-claim-caught-chlamydia-face-mask-12908829/

 

Metro [UK], 26 June 2020

 

Woman believed husband’s claim he’d caught chlamydia from face mask

 

A woman believed her husband’s claim that he’d caught chlamydia from a face mask. The woman responded to a Facebook commenter moaning about a new law ordering residents of Columbia, South Carolina, to wear the face coverings at all times while in public. She commented on the page of local TV news station WIS on June 25, and replied to another commenter who had moaned about how a mask had given her a skin infection by saying: ‘My husband had to where (sic) a mask on a business trip and now he has clamedia (sic).’ […]

 

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https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/heartbreaking-local-legend-behind-devon-4268246

 

Devon Live [UK], 28 June 2020

 

Heartbreaking 'local legend' behind a Devon town's faceless clock

 

[…] The residents within Kingsbridge are all too familiar with one tale that has been resonating within the community for many years based around the town's cuboid clock, which is missing the fourth face. Nicola Fox of Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum said: "Local legend has it that the clock's western face was left blank so that the workhouse inmates wouldn't be able to see it." The workhouse located on Union Road is only minutes away from the location of where the clock was built in 1837. […]

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https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/an-age-adjustment-for-this-unused-year-20200625-p5569r.html

 

Sydney Morning Herald [Australia], 28 June 2020

 

Column 8

 

[…] John Swanton of Coogee relates a tale from the 1980s when a travelling circus was passing through Keith in South Australia. "The small town had an overzealous young policeman from Adelaide, who drove his highway patrol Commodore into the arena with lights flashing and blasts of the siren during the grand parade at the showground. One elephant (C8) took offence and broke away, strolled over and sat on the bonnet of the police car, causing considerable damage. A standing ovation was given by the whole town." […]

 

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“The Chosen One.” Maniac, episode 1, Netflix, 21 Sep. 2018. A convenience store clerk says to a customer, “Did you know that most quarters have been swallowed and defecated by a human?”