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Here are a few things in news, sports, entertainment and pop culture that we've been talking about lately.

n Las Vegans smart from The Daily Beast's dubbing of Las Vegas as America's dumbest city. Oh yeah? Well, you're rubber and we're ... damn.

n The Las Vegas Locomotives will defend their title in the United Football League championship game in Omaha Nov. 27. Be honest: If we were making this up, would any of you even know?

n Webheads freak over a 1928 film clip that appears to show a woman talking into a cell phone. And you think getting four bars is tough now.

n Mount Everest is wired for 3G phone service. Next up in mankind's continuing attempt to suck the mystery out of everything cool: a water slide in the Mariana Trench.

JOHN PRZYBYS (jprzybys@reviewjournal.com)

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