The Prostitute Permit and Other Tales

The news isn't always as silly as it ought to be. That's where we come in.

Vital Statistics

Date: August 31, 2011

Appearing: Graham Stark, Paul Saunders and Kathleen De Vere

Editing: Graham Stark

Synopsis

• News Word of the Week: Ruse
• A small town in central Italy has decided to become a principality and start printing their own money.
• A drunken Russian woman staged erotic dances on a plane.
• Germany has set up a parking-meter-like machine in one German city in order to tax prostitutes.
• Paul and Matt have to figure out what Graham is talking about.
  • A man boarding a plane was stopped because he had several nylon bags in his trousers filled with what?
• People reported a clown driving a stolen golf cart.
• Paul and Kathleen dress like Vikings. It works better this time.

Trivia

• A transcript of this episode is available here.

Hatistics

It was on this episode that the fateful haturation point was reached. 50% of all shots contained hats.

Shots with Hats: 50.00%.

Shots with Wigs: 6.25%.

Shots with Prescription Eyewear: 67.19%.

Shots with Other Eyewear: 0.00%.

Shots with Hatless: 28.13%.

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