Kid Nate’s Off-Topic No MMA Open House: Coffin knockers and funeral fakers

This week’s off topic topics

Hey y’all, welcome to our weekly open thread discussion post where the BE community can discuss anything and everything that doesn’t involve our regular MMA conversations. It’s been another week of crazy news.

• Woman who was declared dead knocks on her coffin at her funeral Sky News
  “There were about 20 of us there…. After about five hours of the wake, the coffin started to make sounds.”
• TikToker fakes his own death to find out who cares and then shows up at the funeral – Sky News
  “I wanted to give them a life lesson, and show them that you shouldn’t wait until someone is dead to meet up with them.”
• Jack Daniel’s wins big in challenge to spoofing “Bad Spaniels” dog toy SCOTUS Blog
  “Thursday’s decision in Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products firmly rejected the use of the Jack Daniel’s trademarks by a manufacturer selling a line of dog toys that mock various beverage manufacturers.”
• Twelve Brutal Truths about AI Music The Honest Broker
  “… if I’ve learned one thing about litigation, it’s that nothing is crazier or more unpredictable than. . . . a jury. Let them brood over AI music even for just a few hours, and they’re liable to do anything.”
• Virginia teacher shot by 6-year-old student not returning to her job at the school NBC
• Cormac McCarthy, Whose Sentences and Cynicism Reshaped American Letters, Dies at 89 Publisher’s Weekly
  “Considered one of the preeminent prose stylists of his generation, McCarthy’s blood-drenched tales of society’s margins, mostly set in Appalachia or the American Southwest, catapulted his work, and arguably the western genre, into American literature’s empyrean. His work was often compared to that of William Faulkner, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain, as well as to the King James Bible.”
• US Has 12 Or More Alien Spacecraft, Say Military And Intelligence Contractors Public
  “…an Air Force whistleblower contradicted the Pentagon’s claim, telling The Debrief and News Nation that the U.S. government is in possession of “quite a number” of alien spacecraft. “I thought it was totally nuts,” David Grusch said. “I thought at first I was being deceived.”

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Nate Wilcox

Nate Wilcox is the founding editor of BloodyElbow.com. As such he has hired every editor and writer to work for the site. Wilcox’s writing for BE is known for its emphasis on MMA history, the evolution of fighting techniques and strong opinions. Wilcox developed the SBN MMA consensus rankings which were featured in USA Today from 2009 to 2011. Before founding BE, Wilcox was a political operative working for such figures as Senators John Kerry and Mark Warner and an early political blogger. He is the co-author of Netroots Rising, a history of the political blogosphere from 2003 to 2007. Wilcox also hosts the Let It Roll podcast on music history for the Pantheon Podcast Network.

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