April 2012

If I Could Turn Back Time

This year it’s 100 years since the Titanic sank.  In Lucan, they’re marking the anniversary with a couple of black-tie fund-raisers for the local museum and historical society.  Guests at the Titanic Ball will enter through a giant replica bow of the ship, dine on what the first class passengers ate that fateful night and enjoy other surprises including a giant iceberg!  And we will be joining them.  …

Prank Gone Wrong

Happy April Fool’s Day!  While this story isn’t about an April Fool’s joke it is about an attempted prank on the unsuspecting fools who followed doomsday nutbar Harold Camping.  You might remember Camping.  He is the ancient preacher who kept predicting the end of the world and then changing the date when it didn’t happen.  From This Is True, the weekly round-up of wacky news I subscribe to, comes the story of a man who just wanted to illustrate how idiotic the whole thing was but unfortunately, it’s now causing him grief.  Read on: