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There was a piece in Reuters last week about how someone is making an opera from George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984. Personally, I would rather have heard that some idiot had decided to make a broadway musical called "BROTHER!", or a Merchant-Ivory production called "Winston & Julia" (in appropriately floral font).

While we're on the topic of crack reporting, there was an Ain't Life Goofy? piece about how authorities in British Columbia had finally determined that it was a lazy teen employee who whacked off two goat heads at a local slaughterhouse, and not satanic cultists, as was previously believed. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police wanted the community to rest easy about those concerns of evil intent. I'm sure everyone was relieved to see that Live At 5 report, the Mounties standing in front of the blood-caked charnel house, telling the concerned families "There's nothing to see here..."

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