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  • Mick Jagger: Monty Python 'are wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth'

    07/01/2014 12:30:42 PM PDT · by jimbo123 · 68 replies
    CNN ^ | 6/30/14 | Peter Wilkinson
    Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger poked fun at the Monty Python stars on Monday ahead of the comedy troupe's reunion concerts this week as "a bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth and make a load of money." Appearing in a video shown at the Monty Python Live (mostly) news conference at a central London theater, Jagger is asked by his assistant if he wants tickets for the shows. The singer, who is watching the World Cup football on TV with bandmate Charlie Watts, replies: "Who wants to see that again? It was funny in the 60s."...
  • Woman arrested carrying 266 dead parrots

    05/18/2004 5:35:43 PM PDT · by Rebelbase · 53 replies · 1,912+ views
    reuters UK ^ | Tue 18 May, 2004 17:56 | Tansa Musa
    YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon has arrested a Nigerian woman who was found carrying more than 200 dead parrots and rare Bannerman Turaco feathers, a customs official says. The central African country has recently stepped up its fight against the poaching and killing of endangered species. Officers stopped Meimuna Ahmed while she was on a bus with 266 embalmed grey parrots and 597 red Bannerman Turaco feathers in the northwestern town Bamenda. "The red feathers must have been extracted from some 60 to 70 Bannerman Turacos, given that each of the birds has about 10 red feathers," Edwin Nuvaga Fongod, chief...