"Each armoured glass panel is over 6 centimetres thick and weighs 1.5 tonnes."- which, if it's effective, the glass wall might make some potential tourists feel a lot safer when visiting the Eiffel tower, but others may decide to stay away rather than be used as unwitting guinea-pigs in unplanned/random real live effectiveness testing scenarios, but at least the glass will offer photographers a relatively less obscured view of the tower and any nearby carnage than the existing protective steel fencing (which probably looked a bit ominous and not very visually appealing anyway) had done.
Copied from: post at CBA.CA News dated 2018-06-16 <http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/eiffel-tower-walls-1.4709276>

A woman is mourning her husband at a funeral, and a stranger asks "Would you mind if I said a word?"
"No, go ahead" she replies.
He stands, clears his throat, and says "plethora" and sits back down.
The woman cries and says, "Thank you, that means a lot."

Liberals
Please continue on I-40
until you have left our GREAT STATE OF TEXAS
From: Texas billboard tells liberals to keep driving until they leave the state
<http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-billboard-tells-liberals-to-keep-driving-until-they-leave-the-state/ar-AAySLNr>
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end."Apparently this was the/a winning entry in a 2007 A&M competition to come up with the best definitions of things.
(Texas A&M website)
There's a part of me that hopes this obtuse clock is a real thing:That doesn't seem to be quite correct - some of those clock-face images have acute angles.
http://archishere.info/26-love-and-marriage-cartoons-that-are-hilariously-accurate
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