News from The Smoking Gun

Dear Friends:


Forget Wayne Gretzky, Celine Dion, and Loverboy. The best thing to come out of Canada in years is a quarterly report prepared by the country's vigilant Customs agents. The border boys, you see, are responsible for deciding whether certain raunchy DVDs, books, and videos are suitable for importation. And every three months, they list which productions got okayed and kayoed (for instance, “Have Some Cannelloni, Tony!” recently made the cut). Story at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0725052canada1.html


A 16-year-old pianist is suing a New Jersey music teacher for allegedly shutting a piano keyboard cover on his fingers as he played a Chopin composition during a Carnegie Hall recital last month. Fittingly, the instructor was miffed because the boy had refused to play Beethoven's "Pathetique.” Details at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0726051fingers1.html


Bad Santa, the prequel:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0725051xmas1.html


Prize contest closes today, so hurry up and enter now for a shot at some fine loot:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/contest/contest.html


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Regards,

Your pals at TSG



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