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ABC News: England parties likes its 1605 as Joe Biden win triggers fireworks extravaganza
Joe Biden is declared President of the US of A – and the country’s ABC News reports that the skies over London, England, have erupted in an explosion of light and sound to mark the happy occasion. Keen historians with access to big books and bigger brains (or just the internet – ed) will find it uncanny that the celebration for Catholic Biden should coincide with what Englanders call “Guy Fawkes’ Night”, an event that remembers when Fawkes and a group of fellow English Catholics launched a failed attempt to blow up King James I (1566-1625) and the Parliament on November 5, 1605.
Says one American reporter: “I’m getting rumours of a huge celebration on December 24, with bells, tinsel and a play to be performed in all English schools in which Joseph ‘Joe’ Biden and Mary Trump give birth to a new beginning for all mankind.”
Says no-one: “Are those drones?”
ABC Hires Reporter Jack Meoff: Nominative Determinism At Work
GOOGLE says that ABC News has a new blogger with a very interesting name: “Jack Meoff.” It’s nominative determinism, readers.
As our Man in LA writes:
No, seriously. The byline showed up on Google searches this week and was spotted by the website RawStory.com.
In actuality, the blog in question was written by the alphabet network’s White House reporter Jake Tapper (whose brother Didja Tapper works for Hustler magazine – kidding).
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Posted: 9th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
