{"id":810,"date":"2003-07-11T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2014-11-28T13:01:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T17:01:32","slug":"pirates-gentlemen-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"Pirates, Gentlemen &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>&#8220;Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> went looking for early box office gold and found it<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> by digging up an estimated<strong> $23.8 million<\/strong> in its <strong>first two days<\/strong> in theaters. When I first heard about this one I thought it would sink&#8230; now I wouldn&#8217;t mind seeing it!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>&#8220;The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,&#8221;<\/strong> on the other hand, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">was one that I wanted to see<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8230; but now I think I&#8217;ll wait for dvd.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>&#8220;Go Inside: Animal House,&#8221; <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> will air on <strong>TNN<\/strong> in <strong>August<\/strong>. <strong>&#8220;Animal House&#8221;<\/strong> was a &#8220;must-see&#8221; movie when it came out &#8212; and I&#8217;ll be watching for this special as well!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>VIENNA<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; A round of <strong>&#8220;schnapps&#8221;<\/strong> on the house landed an <strong>Austrian waiter<\/strong> and his customers in hospital after <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">he <strong>served them dishwasher fluid<\/strong> that left them with internal burns<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. I&#8217;d love to be the lawyer on this one.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>LIMA, Peru<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; Lacking the proper instruments, a <strong>Peruvian doctor<\/strong> at a state hospital in the Andean highlands <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>used a drill and pliers<\/strong> to <strong>perform brain surgery<\/strong> on a man<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. Give that doc some duct tape and there&#8217;s no telling what he could accomplish!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>LONDON<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; <strong>Scientists<\/strong> are lobbying to <strong>build <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>the world&#8217;s most powerful microscope<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, an instrument <strong>so advanced<\/strong> that it <strong>can see individual atoms moving<\/strong>. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>MOSCOW<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; <strong>Two Russian nudists<\/strong> have been <strong>struck by lightning<\/strong> at a beach on the <strong>Moscow river<\/strong> while taking cover from a thunderstorm under a tree. Ouch! I&#8217;ll bet that left a mark!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; In the <strong>1950s Americans<\/strong> were told to <strong>hide under tables<\/strong> if a <strong>nuclear bomb went off<\/strong> &#8212; an infamous warning that became the butt of endless jokes. Now amid a high terror alert, <strong>New York<\/strong> is giving its residents<strong> the same advice<\/strong>. Well&#8230; that advice is better than &#8220;go to the light! [Although not much]<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>SANTIAGO, Chile<\/strong> (Reuters) &#8211; <strong>Chilean scientists<\/strong> say that a<strong> huge blob of flesh<\/strong> found on a <strong>Pacific beach<\/strong> about three weeks ago <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>is the carcass of a sperm whale<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>ATHENS, Greece<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Greece<\/strong> has <strong>declared war<\/strong> on <strong>bad cheese<\/strong>. Quick, somebody warn <strong>Big Beatty<\/strong>!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Last night I finished reading <strong>Andy McNab&#8217;s <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743406273\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Firewall<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">. It&#8217;s the <strong>third <\/strong>in his<strong> Nick Stone series<\/strong> and well worth a look if you like action and intrigue!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl&#8221; went looking for early box office gold and found it by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11194,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/11194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}