Quirky World ... Couple with surnames of Burger and King to marry, restaurant chain pick up the bill
Joel Burger and Ashley King have accepted the company’s proposal.
The couple live in Illinois and have been known as Burger-King since they were in the fifth grade together.
The couple announced their engagement this spring with a photo next to the sign at a local Burger King outlet.
A Burger King spokesman says the company felt an overwhelming urge to help the happy couple celebrate their upcoming marriage.
The Burger-King nuptials will be held on July 17 in Jacksonville.
.@BurgerKing to pay for wedding of Joel Burger, Ashley King http://t.co/FIj2Qz6LrB pic.twitter.com/ci6TwSDFQy
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 7, 2015
Brontosaurus has come thundering back after being sent into exile by the scientific community.
The dinosaur — whose name means ‘thunder lizard’ — has enthralled generations of children. But, since 1903, experts have believed that instead of belonging to the Brontosaurus family, it should in fact have been classified as ‘Apatosaurus’.
However, now it seems the thunder lizard is back. Scientists from the UK and Portugal have submitted evidence for resurrecting Brontosaurus in a study almost 300 pages long, published in the open access journal Peer J.
The star of a new BBC drama set in a tropical paradise told how a safety officer had to make sure the cast were not killed by falling coconuts.
Tatau tells the story of twenty-something backpackers who face trouble when they reach the Cook Islands, where the series was partly filmed.
Joe Layton, 23, who stars as Kyle, told Radio Times: “The safety officer’s job was to look up, check where the wind was coming from, and spray-paint no-walking zones — the coconut drop zone.”
The crew also had to contend with “absolutely monstrous” coconut crabs and stray dogs, Layton added.
The sculptor who created a much-maligned tribute to I Love Lucy actress Lucille Ball in her western New York home town has said he will replace the statue for free after criticism of his depiction of the beloved 1950s’ sitcom star drew worldwide attention.
Dave Poulin admits the life-size bronze statue placed in a park in the village of Celoron in 2009 was not his best work. He plans to make a new statue.
Poulin said he has received hundreds of angry emails and phone messages, including some death threats, since a Facebook campaign was recently launched to replace the statue, whose face bears little resemblance to the I Love Lucy star. Poulin said he takes full responsibility for what has become known as Scary Lucy.
Some 3,000km might seem like a long way to go for fried chicken, but two Canadian fathers who took their sons on a journey to the original home of Kentucky Fried Chicken said it was a trip they will never forget.
This was the third trip to the Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum in Corbin, Kentucky, for Brian Lutfy, one of the fathers who piled the four sons into a van for the 34-hour pilgrimage from Montreal. His tales of earlier visits inspired the trip.
The friends left on Thursday, travelling to Colonel Sanders’ birthplace and burial place before arriving at the Corbin restaurant on Saturday. For three of the sons, it was the first time they had tasted KFC.
An Oregon mother says she got more than she bargained for when she picked up an Easter gift for her toddler in the clearance section of a local Walmart.
Christina Marie Hannahs said she found three bags of marijuana stuffed inside the ‘Smart Shots Sports Center’ toy. The toy, made by VTech, is for children around the ages of one and two, and comes with multiple parts including balls to toss in a basket and a screen that lights up.
Hannahs said that as she assembled the item for her toddler, she found some parts were missing. Left behind in the box were the clear plastic bags of what she said was marijuana.
“I was shocked at first,” she said. “I would love a drug-free gift for Easter.”
Hannahs thinks the toy, which she found on the clearance section of the Walmart, might have been returned by someone who stashed the drugs inside.
“If a little bit of weed gets into packages, what else could get in there,” she said.
What should have been a fun-filled Easter egg hunt in California turned rowdy, with toddlers crying and parents pushing to snag the colourful eggs.
Organisers ordered 510,000 plastic eggs to try to break the world record of 501,000 from a 2007 hunt in Florida. The event in Sacramento became chaotic when people lunged for the eggs as soon as they hit the ground. Participants could trade in the shells for candy.
Parents argued over whether adults should be allowed to help the children. There was no record set because the eggs arrived just two days before the event, which was past the deadline for Guinness World Records certification.
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