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Notice: the jailhouse will no longer rock

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [I]n Missouri, a county circuit judge notorious for wearing an Elvis Presley wig on the bench and swearing in witnesses to Presley’s music shall no longer hold judicial office.

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How to lift the ambient mood

From Harper’s Weekly Review: “I’m alive,” said a man who was presumed to be dead, turning up at his own funeral.

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How to change the ambient mood

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [A] Ryanair flight was diverted after a passenger ripped apart his passport and ate the pages while another attempted to flush his passport down the toilet. “Suddenly,” said an onlooker, “the whole mood changed.”

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