Archive for August 21st, 2012

They tried to kill him with a coffee mug…

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Yeah, I’m stealing one from Weer’d and his “Gun Death?” files. I just like this one too much.

A high-ranking umpire on the U.S. professional tennis circuit arrested Tuesday in New York allegedly bludgeoned her 82-year-old husband to death with a coffee mug in Woodland Hills and then tried to make it look like he fell down the stairs, authorities said.

  1. Must have been some damn coffee mug. I have some pretty hefty ones, but not any that I’d try to bludgeon someone to death with.
  2. We must ban DEADLY ASSAULT COFFEE MUGS FOR THE CHILDREN!

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TMQ Watch: August 21, 2012.

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Joe Ely’s classic song “Fighting For My Life” contains the lyric:

I don’t mean to crash the cymbals, I don’t mean to beat the drum

I don’t want to waste your time, I’d rather save you some.

TMQ’s favorite Batman film is “Batman: Mask of the Phantasm“. You can now skip the first 335 words of this week’s column. And if that’s all you were looking for, you can skip everything after the jump, too.

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Obit watch and other random notes for August 21, 2012.

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Phyllis Diller. (NYT. LAT. A/V Club.)

William Windom: A/V Club.

This stretch of carpet mills and floor covering outlets that hugs Interstate 75 between Atlanta and Chattanooga lost 4,600 jobs, or 6.9 percent, from June 2011 to June 2012, according to a new report from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I visited Dalton some time ago, long before the recession, back when it was still a boom town. It is a very nice little city, helped by the fact that it is located in close proximity to some beautiful state parks, forests, and recreational areas. So I’m hoping things work out for Dalton’s residents and the carpet business picks up again. Or the Volkswagen business. Or something else…

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