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Actor and comedian Will Ferrell told students in the US he was “literally in a glass case of emotion” as Emerson College in Boston temporarily named its School of Communication after Ron Burgundy, his character in Anchorman.
Ferrell appeared as Burgundy, the fictitious television anchorman he plays in the 2004 hit movie as well as its sequel, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, which hits cinema screens later this month.
The renaming was one of several recent promotional events for the movie.
Ferrell anchored a newscast as Burgundy in North Dakota over the weekend and then he helped cover curling trials in Canada.
A Kentucky woman whose van is plastered with political signs and trinkets has won a costly fight to have a $56 (€41) traffic ticket tossed in New Jersey.
A New Jersey judge said she wouldn’t want her grandchildren walking behind Lynda Farley’s so-called Liberty Van because of its blind spots and lack of view out the rearview mirror.
But the judge said a string of flowers bordering the windshield hadn’t unduly interfered with Farley’s vision and threw out the obstructed-view citation.
Farley lives in Edmonton, Kentucky.
She was ticketed heading home last year from New York’s Sept 11 commemoration.
She made the 1,300km drive back to north-western New Jersey several times to fight the fine.
A giant crab which escaped a cooking pot after spending five days in a fridge is making a miraculous recovery.
The edible crab was caught by a fisherman in Dartmouth, who drove it on to Weston-super-Mare in his car.
The fisherman was so impressed with the crustacean’s hand-sized claws and 22cm shell that he gave it to a sick friend to cheer him up.
The crab then spent a total of five days in the fridge.
But the family decided they could not bring themselves to cook the crab, and instead they donated it to Bristol Aquarium, where David Waines said it was recovering.
“Hopefully it will continue to get better and will be able to enjoy an unexpectedly long retirement here at the aquarium,” he added.
Christmas pudding is the UK’s least favourite part of the festive meal — and a third of people have no intention of serving it, according to a poll.
Just 54% of adults like the dessert, making it less popular than Brussels sprouts, favoured by 64%, the survey for BBC Good Food magazine found.
Instead, 12% will be serving trifle, 12% will present a chocolate cake, and 8% will make some other form of cake.
The online survey of 1,184 adults also found that 62% will sit down to turkey, although 39% say the main reason is that they have always had it at Christmas and 14% say there would be a “family uproar” if they changed the menu.
Seattle Seahawks fans rocked the stadium so hard during their NFL game against New Orleans that seismic instruments registered small tremors at various points.
A magnitude 1 or 2 quake was recorded during Michael Bennett’s 22-yard fumble return for a touchdown.
The game registered on nearby seismic instruments several other times.
Earthquake expert John Vidale said fans get the oval stadium moving back and forth by stomping their feet and jumping up and down.
He compared the action to that recorded when a car rocks back and forth.
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