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It Ain’t Just “Us”: New Zealand Town Plans Bus Trip To Neighboring City After Local KFC Burns Down

See, they love it too! How much gas are YOU willing to burn to eat fried chicken ? New Zealand Town Plans Bus Trip To KFC After Fire Destroyed Local Restaurant via Stuff A colonel’s road trip is being organised to help New Plymouth fried chicken fans satisfy their cravings. The New Plymouth store caught fire at the start of the month and has been closed for two weeks while it’s stripped and re-built. Whispers about a bus trip to the Hawera store this weekend surfaced yesterday after a post appeared on the KFC Facebook page asking if anyone was interested. General manager Jamie McKaughan confirmed the speculation, saying “there was a lot of truth to the rumours”. “I want to help our wonderful New Plymouth community. We’re going to put a colonel’s coach together and offer it up in a competition. We’ll put them on a bus to Hawera let them have their meal then bus them back,” he said. “It’s probably going to be at least another four weeks before the drive-through is open and another six to eight weeks before we re-open the whole story.” Lmao! REALLY?? Is it THAT serious??? In the meantime, fans of the colonel’s secret recipe having been travelling south for a fix, McKaughan said. Committed chicken lovers did the same thing in 2010 when the New Plymouth store closed while it underwent a $1.5 million upgrade. When it did re-open, less than three months later, there was a stampede on the restaurant which caused traffic chaos and waits of up to 40 minutes. Competition details are yet to be finalised but McKaughan said he hoped they would be released to the public later this week. Not sure what the black population of New Zealand is, but if this doens’t destroy the stereotype then nothing will.

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It Ain’t Just “Us”: New Zealand Town Plans Bus Trip To Neighboring City After Local KFC Burns Down

Upside Down, Left to Right, a Short Film About Letterpress

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“Upside Down, Left To Right” by Danny Cooke is a fascinating short documentary about letterpress printing. The film focuses on the Plymouth University letterpress, one of the few remaining movable type print workshops in the UK. via The World’s Best Ever Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Laughing Squid Discovery Date : 27/01/2012 16:43 Number of articles : 2

Upside Down, Left to Right, a Short Film About Letterpress

Lenny Kravitz Had No Idea What This Hunger Games Business Was About When He Was Cast

When Gary Ross picked rocker Lenny Kravitz out of nowhere to play Katniss’s stylist Cinna in 2012’s The Hunger Games , many folks were taken by surprise. But none, perhaps, were more surprised than Kravitz himself, who admits he didn’t even know what The Hunger Games trilogy was until he got Ross’s phone call.

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REVIEW: Cars 2 Is All Chassis and No Soul

Everyone who’s ever loved a car — a beat-up Plymouth junker, a pristine ’67 Mustang, a Hot Wheels Corvette Stingray, it doesn’t matter — knows that cars have personalities of their own. But one of the nice things about cars is that they generally express their feelings in mechanical, comprehensible terms: The need for an oil change has nothing to do with deep-rooted insecurities. Cars don’t need a lot from us, emotionally speaking.

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Jesus Take The Wheel: Some A**hole Knocks Woman Into A Coma After Arguing Over A Parking Space!

What the hell is wrong with people?!? Dramatic photos show the immediate aftermath of a violent clash over a parking spot in the East Village that left a 25-year-old woman in a coma. The photos, obtained exclusively by the Daily News, paint a disturbing picture. In one photo, Lana Rosas lies on her back on E. 14th St. with her eyes closed and face bloodied. In another, paramedics try to stabilize her head, carefully affixing a neck brace. They put her on a back board and then into an ambulance before taking her to Bellevue Hospital after the attack Feb. 25. Rosas was still hospitalized Friday, as her boyfriend Joseph Oliver and her family prayed for her recovery. The spat over the parking spot near Stuyvesant Town popped off about 11:40 p.m. Police said Oscar Fuller flew into a rage because Rosas wouldn’t let him park in a spot she was holding for her boyfriend. There was an argument, police said, and Fuller punched the 4-foot-11 Rosas in the face. Manhattan prosecutors said in court papers that Fuller hit Rosas “with so much force that the woman flew off of her feet, was knocked unconscious and hit her head on the ground.” Fuller has been charged with felony assault after being busted Tuesday night at his Queens home. Through his lawyer, the suspect said the young woman was in his prayers. Then the lawyer, Thomas Kenniff, pinned the blame on Rosas. Fuller, he said, was polite, asking the woman from the seat of his Plymouth Voyager to step out of the spot on E. 14th St. She refused, and when Fuller got out of his vehicle, she socked him in the eye, then hit him several more times. When Oliver, across the street and preparing to make a U-turn, jumped out of his car and ran toward Fuller, the suspect punched Rosas in the face, Kenniff said. “My client acted on instinct,” the lawyer said. “He didn’t act on intent. We punish intent and foreseeable acts.” Fuller sped off, but witnesses gave his license plate number to cops. That led to the arrest. An electrician and father of two, Fuller was scrambling last night to post $100,000 bail. His previous arrests include busts for assault, drug possession and marijuana possession. There’s no excuse for this whatsoever, but at least tell us that she called your dead mother a “dirty c**t” or SOMETHING! Not over a damn parking space though…it CAN’T be that serious. Source

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Celebrity Pilgrims and Indians — the Festive Photos!

Filed under: Ke$ha , Juliette Lewis , Photo Galleries Check out whose famous cornucopia of fashion trends would fit right in at the first Thanksgiving dinner. They Plymouth Rock! Read more

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We Love Trees, But Can You Have Too Much Of A Good Thing?

Photo: SWNS.COM/ SWNS via the Guardian We are, after all, named TreeHugger , and have noted before on TreeHugger and Planet Green that trees are effective and sophisticated cooling devices, but perhaps one can have too much of a good thing. David Alvand, a civil engineer in Plymouth, Devon, planted a leyland cypress tree in his front yard in 1991 and it is certainly shading h… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley biography

Biography for Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Birth name Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley Date of birth 18 April 1987 (1987-04-18) Place of birth Plymouth, Devon, England Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Hair colour Brown Eye colour Blue Measurements 86-63-89 cm (34-25-35 in) Dress size 34 (EU), 4 (US) Agency Models 1 Huntington-Whiteley dated Tyrone Wood, the youngest son of Ronnie Wood, from August 2007 until October 2009,before beginning a relationship with 44-year-old French actor Olivier Martin

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New Research Shows Bleak Future for Life in Acidic Oceans By Century’s End

Photo via Science Daily, Credit University of Plymouth There’s little good news about the ocean these days, unfortunately. We’ve taken it past the point of any sort of speedy recovery, from rising shorelines to over-fished species, from plastic pollution to acidification . And for this last problem, it looks like dire consequences are inevitable within this century, according to new research from the University of Plymouth and the University of Santa Catarina, Braz… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Casper the Commuting Cat Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver

Link: http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/… England's famous bus-riding cat died yesterday when he was hit by a car (presumably on his way to or exiting from a bus).

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