Do You Remember When…..

Over the course of the last few months—we’ve told you about a lot of stuff…

Now—it’s time for an update on a few items…

 

GNOME MAN’S LAND….

It seems a tiny gnome-like creature spotted a few weeks ago in a remote Argentinian town is now the focus of a major police investigation there..

We first told you about the “creepy gnome” in this post—which included cell phone video of the creature taken by some teens.

 

Now—as you can read here, it appears the gnome has been terrorizing the town of General Guemes for decades…

 

 

Apparently 90% of the people in the town of 30,000 believe gnomes are stalking the streets at night…

Hundreds of people in General Guemes claim to have seen gnomes at one time in their lives —including the Police Commissioner…

 

Guess you won’t have to work hard to convince him the need to send in Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the matter….

 

PUPPY TALES….

There’s still no word on the status of the military investigation launched following a soldiers posting of a video on the Internet showing a U-S marine throwing what appeared to be a puppy off a cliff in Iraq.

 

We first told you about that video in this post—-and in the next few days it spread—creating a stir world-wide…

 

In that post, we railed about the bad impression of the U-S military it created..

 

But now—we want to tell you about the OTHER SIDE of the story..

 

There’s a rescue effort for dogs called Operation Baghdad Pups—that brings dogs who’ve been saved by our G-I’s overseas here to the United States..

 

Baghdad Pups is an outgrowth of the efforts of Mark Feffer—who brought his dog “Cinnamon” stateside after a long struggle.

 

You can read the details of his ordeal here…

Mark also shows up briefly in this clip—which shows the work that Operation Baghdad Pups is doing in conjunction with our guys and gals overseas.

 

 

JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES…..

The man who has the  ” voice of doom delivery”  that has narrated thousands of movie previews almost ended up on the great cutting room floor in the sky…

 

Don LaFontaine—who gained on-camera fame with the general public as the “movie announcer guy” in a Geico commercial—was one of several famous voice over artists we profiled in this post last year…

 

Don’s voice was silenced—and his life almost cut short after a routine bit of elective surgery went bad.

 

You can read his own words here about what happened—and how he’s now recovering ..

Just like the movies he promotes—Don’s on his way toward a happy ending…

—Steve

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