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It's Tuesday October the 10 around 5:51AM and

Vancouver Papers: Ghetto Nukes, Canuck Tumbles

Well, we're back. Thank the maker for the long weekend, the holiday which was described by Wonkette as, "Canadian Thanksgiving! It’s like 9/11 and Halloween all rolled into one." Seems about right. Then again, the thought that, "North Korean bomb was mad ghetto, their 'nuclear scientists are now officially the worst ever' doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence. On with the news:

The Vancouver Sun goes for the big story, the afformentioned ghetto nuke and the "World leaders condemn North Korea" cover story. Certainly this trumps the story about clerical errors being blamed for some wrongful arrests and time in the slammer. But leave it to Iain Macintyre to write the line of lines in today's edition about the Canucks: "The Vancouver Canucks walked like runway models for two games, all bold and stylish. Not much need for talking. Then, Sunday in Denver, they walked like a sleepy one-year-old, or Charlie Sheen after happy hour."

The Province tries really hard to take the story about some seniors who's doctors have retired and they have to pay a fee to retreave their medical files from some storage facility in Toronto into something massive. But is it worth the "Patients 'held to ransom' for their own files" headline? And boy we'd hate to be Brendan Morrison this morning he's on the back cover with the "Benched" headline and the story about how he and Jan Bulis were playing like crap and sat much of the third period like a couple of kids in the dog house. Brilliant.

24 Hours goes for the post-turkey hangover guilt trip by covering the Union Gospel Mission's Thanksgiving. And then there is this gushing look at The Penthouse: "The dank second floor of the Penthouse Nightclub endures like a time capsule: dust covers on a plush red chair - designed art deco-style in the shape of a stiletto heel; an abandoned storeroom houses bottles of booze that likely were shelved when '60s-crooner Jack Jones watched from the stage as a hooker armed with a pistol attempted to ... well, cancel her date."

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Posted by: Luke McCullum

October 10, 2006 12:34 PM

I have had Korean BBQ before and the next morning I too could have claimed it was an Atomic Bomb, the remains. I even broke the wax ring which the man at Home Depot felt deserved a high five.