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Three Scottish delicacies - the Arbroath smokie, haggis and shortbread - are being turned into ice cream flavours….”I can’t imagine there’ll ever be queues of people wanting to buy it.” [Bob Spink, Arbroath councillor]
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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Ice cream adopts Scots flavours
The 17 Tastes of Britain? (It’s a 20 scoop cone!!!)
Arborath smokie, haggis, shortbread, Yorkshire pudding, sausage and mash, Worcestershire Sauce, black pudding, Cornish pastry, Welsh Rarebit + seven mystery flavors….
I really hope they capture the essence of the “fry bar.” There’s really nothing quite like sitting down to a nice slice of fried pizza, a fried hamburger, or a fried Mars bar. Mmmm….fried Mars Bar ice cream…
How could this go wrong?
Who’s left for the Dark Knight?
Christopher Nolan is screwed. Sure the Batman is blowing away the box office with opening sales toppling Spiderman 3 (some $155 million).
But that doesn’t mean Gotham is safe. We should be worried that Batman will have no new foes to face.
It’s no secret—with all the talk of a post-humous Oscar for Heath Ledger—that Nolan has set his Joker up as a recurring catalyst of terror and destruction throughout his bleak Gotham. But Ledger’s Joker is so downright creepy and defining, it’s impossible to recast the part.
That means there has to be a brand new demon for Bruce Wayne to fight, begging the question: Who’s next for the Dark Knight? The Harlem Globetrotters?
While other series have relied on the hokey—like Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy—Nolan has crafted a universe that’s eerily believable. Batman’s feats are fantastical, but not implausible (especially with a billionaire’s piggy bank funding RND). Even the Scarecrow’s nerve agent isn’t wholly unimaginable.
That means no Killer Croc. No Clayface. No Penguin. Even Catwoman and the Riddler lack the gravitas needed to blend into Gotham’s seedy underbelly.
That’s a predicament Nolan better take seriously because god help him if he resorts to neon and rubber nipples.
The film, however, is excellent.
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I remember finishing Toy Story and thinking that they’re going to be able to make video games that look as good as this,” said Stanton. “And it’s WAY passed that now. Now it’s at this scary place where it’s just lapping at the heels of what we do for the films. And it’s only because of the manner in which they’ve got to use the technology so interactively that it’s keeping it at all from matching or exceeding what we do. I think we’re maybe months, years away from it being indiscernible.
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If “Battlestar Galactica,” a show on the Sci Fi channel for God’s sake, is able to create characters as compelling and troubling as race traitor Gaius Baltar and tackle issues as profound as genocide and religious fanaticism without once losing its thrill-factor, GTA should be able to do the same. Niko, as a character, doesn’t surprise, and the choices he confronts don’t make me want to put the game on pause in order to mull things over; they don’t implicate me or reveal me in any way.
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