Shipwreck with 22 Tons of Gold Treasure Identified off Portugal Coast
Greek Reporter | December 27, 2024 | Luis Mendoza

Marine archaeologist Alexandre Monteiro has said that the coast of Portugal between the Azores and Madeira islands holds golden treasure-laden shipwrecks. This region is said to contain close to 8,620 ships, and 250 of them are said to hold a significant amount of gold treasure.

… For instance, he claimed that near Troia there is a Spanish ship called Nossa Senhora do Rosário, which according to Monteiro was carrying 22 tons of gold and silver. Unfortunately, the exact location of this ship remains undiscovered.

That’s Called “Projection”

Or your basement?

Have you noticed an unusual amount of small alcohol nip bottles scattered around your house?

Gave me a chuckle. Not sure about zzyzx:

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I just had to pad them out to a thousand words or more, per the publisher’s contract. So I named you.

I then counted up the words. Still fell well short of the target.

Then I tried to tell an anecdote, but got lost in the details, and panicked: it ended with a summary of a Gilligan’s Island episode that would never have made it to film.

In the end, my memoirs were slightly more interesting than Hillary’s and Obama’s. And rather more truthful, if I do say so myself.

Oh, and my apologies to DamnCat. I added a few other unnecessary expletives.

Also, don’t run afoul of the mob.

Bill Maher Confronts Jay Leno With Gambling Debt Rumors
Daily Beast ^ | December 27, 2024 | Matt Wilstein

Bill Maher confronted Jay Leno, 74, with a “conspiracy theory” that the former Tonight Show host’s spate of accidents in recent years were the result of a gambling addiction gone wrong.

“It’s a conspiracy theory since you’ve had three accidents that you actually have gambling debts and are being beaten up by the mob,” Maher told Leno, who laughed off the suggestion as he appeared on the Club Random podcast.

“I love the idea that the mob would drive to Greenberg, Pennsylvania, wait outside the Hampton Inn on a kind of sleety, rainy day to throw me down a hill,” Leno joked, referring to the most recent accident—which left him with a bruised face and sporting an eyepatch after he says he rolled down a steep hill and hit his eye on a rock.

Before that, Leno suffered multiple injuries related to maintaining his classic car collection, including one in which he set his face on fire and another that resulted in multiple broken bones.

All of this led to speculation that Leno, whose net worth is estimated to be north of $450 million, was the victim of loan sharks to whom he owed money.

After Maher explained that no one thinks the mob threw him down a hill, but rather that he is coming up with elaborate “cover stories” for his bad luck. However, Leno calmly assured him that all of his injuries have perfectly reasonable explanations.

The comedian went on to recount that his Tonight Show predecessor Johnny Carson did actually run afoul of organized crime after he was caught “hitting on” a pair of mob girlfriends.

“They put a hit out on Carson. So Carson stops The Tonight Show for the week. He just goes, he leaves, because this is real.”

I found the bit about Carson interesting.