When you say dud

Published 3:28 pm Wednesday, December 10, 2014

You missed a clump, boys: Loyal customers of a small brewery in Bend, Oregon, are upset that 10 Barrel Brewing has been sold to the world’s largest brewer and maker of Budweiser. The former owners, who will stay on, promise nothing will change.

Although their new duties include mucking out the stables for the Budweiser Clydesdales.

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Check again with the Sultan of Brunei; maybe he wants another: Having possibly misjudged the market, Airbus is considering ending its A380 line, the double-decker super-jumbo jet, after 2017.

Our suggestions for unsold A380s: Lop off the wings and sell them as cruise ships or double-decker buses or make an aerospace turducken by stuffing a Cessna in an A320 in an A380.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1964, Marxist and Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara told the United Nations that “the final hour of colonialism had struck.”

Capitalism’s clock kept ticking, however, as millions were made selling Che posters and T-shirts to college students.

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