What weird news stories make you either laugh out loud, or just say "huh?'
Every now and then during my travels through the Weird Universe archives, I come across a story I just gotta share.
Here's mine. I knew I'd heard of this guy a while back. In the annals of Forgery Masters, this guy is legend (remember the 'Hitler Diaries'?). Apparently it runs in the family....
Quis Fabricariet Ipsos Fabricares? [The great man at work]
Dresden art dealer Petra Kujau was found guilty of forgery this week, after passing off three hundred paintings she had come into possession of as the work of her "great-uncle", Konrad Kujau. The 51 year-old singer turned dealer would add a facsimile of Kujau senior's signature to the paintings, then sell them on at a greatly inflated price.
So far, so mundane. What makes this story particularly WU worthy is that Konrad Kujau was himself a forger, and his self-proclaimed niece was selling her forgeries as "genuine forgeries" created by her famous uncle Konrad. It all begins to make sense once you learn that Mr. Kujau did not limit himself to forging paintings, but was also known to forge the odd diary or two, specifically those of one Adolf Hitler. Although ultimately unsuccessful, his forgeries of the Hitler Diaries were good enough to fool not just many newspapers and magazines, but also at least two historians, and the unmasking of the hoax caused many a journalist and editor a red face. But the notoriety afforded Konrad Kujau as the man "behind" the Hitler diaries meant that he could command considerable sums for something a small as Hitler's signature on a card, and original "Kujau forgeries" soon became enough of a collector's item that he could make a comfortable living from them after his release from prison in 1987.
After his death in September 2000 his business was carried on by Petra Kujau, who evidently decided that one forgery was as good as another, and began importing cheap copies of famous works from Asian suppliers and passing them off as eminently more desirable "Kujau forgeries", which in one sense they were. But soon the sheer volume of Kujau forgeries on the market aroused the suspicions of at least one collector, who tipped off the police to the double forgery.
Which just leaves the question, just where can I get hold of a genuine Petra Kujau double forgery? Now that's something I'd like to own!
Ok...this brought to mind the "anti-anti-missile-missile-missile" (Bullwinkle, circa 1962)
Rowen, that's something that I had no recollection of at all. Fascinating!
55 children, seriously? What was it that 54 did not tip the authorities off, but 55 did? :)
From the Yahoo! News, "Odd News" section.
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PARIS (Reuters) – A Paris man who registered 55 children by 55 different mothers faces up to 10 years in jail and fines for suspected paternity fraud and for helping to obtain residency under false pretences, police said on Friday.
The 54 year-old of African origin, who authorities did not identify, was arrested in his two-room flat in Paris during a police raid which yielded documents showing more than 50 people were registered as living at that address.
Police suspect the man was involved in a social benefits scam which could have been costing the state over 1 million euros ($1.27 million) annually in claims by the mothers.
"At the moment 42 women have been identified and each claim that the man is the biological father of their child," Paris police said in a statement.
Authorities said the man claimed he met the women at bars, night spots and occasionally during visits to their home countries, including Senegal, Cameroon and Mali.
OMG!!!!!!! I guess 55 was just tooooo much.
why didn't 30 tip them off do you normally see a person with 30 children from 30 different woman?
Huh? This is just disgusting.
MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. (WXYZ) - Jennifer Tesch's six-year-old daughter has been removed from the Madison Heights Wolverine flag football cheer team.
The Madison Heights mom contacted Action News last month because she was upset about the words to one of her daughter's cheerleading chants.
The cheer she objects to says "our backs ache, our skirts are too tight, we shake our booties from left to right."
League members were outraged, saying it cast a bad light on the league and she should have handled it internally. They say she overreacted by going to the media.
"This is like a family and to me, if you trust your family, what are you going to do? People are going to be upset. It's a terrible situation, a lot of upset parents," Susan Murdock said.
Tuesday night the team held a meeting to discuss the cheer and to come up with a solution. The team voted to keep the cheer and voted unanimously to remove the child from the team. The family will get a full refund and they can come back next year on probation if they want.
Jennifer was almost in tears Tuesday night saying her daughter loves the cheer team. She says she never meant to hurt anyone but was just standing up for what she felt was right.
"I feel terrible. It's the worse thing that I have had to deal with in the 12 years of my league. I have never seen anything like that," said league president John Pastula.
Rowan, it kind of makes you want to put the parents out of our misery....
When I was in High School we had the following cheer:
Tree, Tree............... Kick'm in the Knee
Grass, Grass............. Kick'm in the other Knee
Quote from: BubbleWright on September 20, 2010, 04:39:08 PM
When I was in High School we had the following cheer:
Tree, Tree............... Kick'm in the Knee
Grass, Grass............. Kick'm in the other Knee
Yeah, that's about as racy as any school cheer should get. What I can't get over is that the parent and the kid were
punished for complaining.
Remember this?:
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/05/14/2010-05-14_little_girls_provocative_dance_routine_to_single_ladies_sparks_fears_of_growing_.html
WHAT THE HAY DAY!!!!!!!
if my neices or younger cousins danced like this i would so taken them over my knee an spanked them
This is one of the reasons for not allowing my girls in dance. What happened to age appropriate actions?
I don't have a link to it, because it's fairly old, but a year or so ago this article ran in the Seattle Times.
"Man runs into bear with bicycle."
No, the bear wasn't on a bicycle, the guy was. And he literally RAN INTO the bear while riding his bike before heading into work. Both he and the bear went flying. The startled bear ran off. The startled biker landed on his head (yay for helmets!), and was later quoted as saying "bike helmets save you from run-ins with bears!"
OMG, the visual I just had. LOL.
I don't know why that strikes me as funny; the bear could have turned on his assailant, and the story would have gone downhill from there. I'm a sick puppy.....
Oh, here ya go:
My title-'This will end badly' or 'The future Fail Picture'
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/864633--u-of-t-student-makes-history-with-human-powered-flapping-wing-plane?bn=1
Just found on Google news-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/23/woman-scares-charging-bear-courgette
BTW- a 'courgette' translates to 'zucchini'. Yep, she beat the bear with a squash! It was attacking her 12 year old collie.
Priceless Irony....
TAIPEI (AFP) – A Taiwanese man who won a poster design competition to promote copyright protection has been stripped of his prize after he was exposed as a copycat, officials said Thursday.
The man, identified only by his surname Wu, apologised and admitted that his winning design was copied from a work by Dutch artist Dennis Sibeijn featuring a paper plane and, ironically, titled "Truth".
Wu was ordered to return to the Intellectual Property Office the 50,000 Taiwan dollars (1,600 US) prizemoney he won in the contest last year when he was a university student.
His deception surfaced after a commuter recognised the work on a billboard carrying Wu's prize-winning design at a Taipei subway station and reported to the office.
The authorities have removed all the posters from the subway stations, but officials warned that if the Dutch artist filed a lawsuit against Wu, he could face a jail term of up to three years or a fine of 750,000 Taiwan dollars.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/video/22865809/index.html
Frank Fontana of Pittsburgh. I found this to be extremely funny.
Gina
wow
Quote from: arbcoind on September 24, 2010, 09:26:24 AM
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/video/22865809/index.html
Frank Fontana of Pittsburgh. I found this to be extremely funny.
Gina
*Snerk* 'His hand was on my leg, I thought it was a friend of mine who had keys, but he didn't look like her'. *hoot*
Thanks!
http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/ap/september/154500/Police:-Conn-man-stole-flag-put-up-hippo-toy (http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/ap/september/154500/Police:-Conn-man-stole-flag-put-up-hippo-toy)
Rowen, I peed myself when I saw Frank on the local news!!! Did you notice his bed sheets?
Gina
The owner of Segway was killed this weekend when he lost control of his Segway and ran it off a cliff.
talk about irony. lol
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100923/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_bear_attack_zucchini_1
I have got to wonder what she is using for fertalizer.
Quote from: LadyStitch on September 27, 2010, 03:17:19 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100923/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_bear_attack_zucchini_1
I have got to wonder what she is using for fertalizer.
The next thing you know, you're going to have to register your zucchini! When zucchini are outlawed, only outlaws will have zucchini!
Quote from: arbcoind on September 27, 2010, 11:39:13 AM
Rowen, I peed myself when I saw Frank on the local news!!! Did you notice his bed sheets?
Gina
Looks like Cheetah spots! LOL
Oh yeah, Frank is into the animal print. It still makes me laugh.
Gina
Quote from: arbcoind on October 04, 2010, 12:17:15 PM
Oh yeah, Frank is into the animal print. It still makes me laugh.
Gina
He's such a Studmuffin. He doesn't look that old, but I bet they had bachelor pads just like that in the 70's. LMAO.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on October 03, 2010, 06:20:51 AM
Quote from: LadyStitch on September 27, 2010, 03:17:19 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100923/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_bear_attack_zucchini_1
I have got to wonder what she is using for fertalizer.
The next thing you know, you're going to have to register your zucchini! When zucchini are outlawed, only outlaws will have zucchini!
Next: Zucchini safety locks, and you'll have to paint the end of your squash orange to identify it as a food item and not a weapon. I'd hate to get tazed in the produce aisle for non compliance.
In honor of Halloween: The 10 grossest candy treats out there....
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33507802/ns/today-today_halloween_guide/
The strap-on plastic nose with candy boogers that you can squeeze out onto your tongue gets my vote.
Who comes up with this stuff!?
I wish I wouldnt have looked at that. The eye and the nose do it for me. Yuck!!
...there went my breakfast...
'Will edible dirt make you clean your plate?'
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019612,00.html
I thought, Worms and Dirt, or Kitty Litter... some of my favorite Halloween snacks.
This is something else. I don't think this would taste very good. Like eating powdered baby food or something.
Justice Elena Kagan's first vote is against an execution
"The newest member of the Supreme Court is in the minority in backing a stay of execution over questions about the safety of a drug to be used in a lethal injection. Shortly after the stay was overturned Tuesday, Arizona executed Jeffrey Landrigan."
WTH? Safety of a drug used for killing someone!? My poor head...our tax money at work...
Full story here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sc-dc-1028-court-execution-20101027,0,5707237.story
Obviously, saner minds prevailed in the end
Cool stuff like this never happens in my town*sigh*
Que the Monty Python music..
Moose chased by police, cows
Oct. 19, 2010 at 4:31 PM
SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Authorities in Washington state said a moose spotted running through Spokane was chased by police, news crews and a herd of cows.
The moose was first spotted heading east on 37th Street about 10 a.m. Saturday and police caught up to it near Ferris High School nearly an hour later, KREM-TV, Spokane, reported Tuesday.
The animal was briefly cornered near the Southside Soccer Complex where hundreds of children were playing around 11:30 a.m. but it jumped into a pasture near the complex and found itself being chased by a herd of cows.
The moose escaped into a satellite communications yard, where it charged and nearly struck a KREM news camera.
The animal made its escape by barreling through the soccer complex, a neighborhood and the Manito Golf Course. Authorities said they lost track of the moose in the Manito Place neighborhood.
OK. This made me spray my screen with coffee, LMAO, and cry.....OMG.
http://guyism.com/humor/toys-that-will-permanently-screw-up-your-kid.html
Ha! I want the "pole dance"!!!
Gina
Quote from: arbcoind on November 09, 2010, 12:50:03 PM
Ha! I want the "pole dance"!!!
Gina
That and the 'You can shave the doll' Are wrong on so many levels.
The Dora Aqua friend is just.....WTH?
LOL Rowen! The shave the doll one is completely creepy.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/fayette/s_708568.html
ha!
Gina
LOL Gina!
LOL! At hospitals around here, anything you smoke will get you arrested....
Pot head dad missed the birth of his child. I hope the kid never finds out!
Gina
Recently, one of the guys I knew in High School posted that on the evening News in Little Rock, Arkansas, there was a report of a man who had escaped Police custody and was thought to be in a stolen Dump Truck, headed for his mamma's house in Missouri. :o ;D
Hmmm... That's home turf, David. I must have missed that one, but we get a lot of strange things happening and the more sane things like that just don't attract much attention around here. :D
Pet spider kills owner
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article152044.ece
U.S. Dept.of Agriculture bombing Guam with dead mice
Dead mice packed with acetaminophen, strapped to pieces of cardboard and dropped from helicopters may help control one of the big headaches for the Pacific island of Guam – the brown tree snake.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/07/tylenol-loaded-mice-dropped-from-air-to-control-snakes/
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/offbeat/2010/11/18/moos.griping.over.groping.cnn
I saw this last night on CNN and can't stop laughing...
Gina
I gotta watch that with sound. I have it turned off here at work...
Sarah Palin's says that she is confident she can beat President Obama in 2012. She needs more than those "Mama Grizzlies" to vote for her. :D
She'd be smarter to stay where she is. She makes much more money as a speaker/fund raiser. She's also more useful rallying the faithful with half truths and propaganda, and in her current role she doesn't have to debate anyone head-to-head, or be interviewed by what she calls "gotcha" journalists
Can't actually say it's weird, but it sure makes me feel my age.... Billy Joel just had his hips replaced...
In amazing news, they found 3 14-15 year-old kids that have been adrift in the south Pacific for 50 days ALIVE! Awesome! They had long pronounced them dead and held a memorial.
Scared Senseless
The primary-school principal in England who last year famously banned parents from taking photos during school events on the off-chance that kids' pictures would somehow wind up in online pornography has struck again. For a class yearbook for 4-year-olds, so petrified of pornography was she that parents received customized books with only their own kids' photos unaltered. The rest of the photos in the yearbook have black bars over the kids' eyes. (Bonus: Elsewhere in The Country Afraid of Everything, a contractor that runs public swimming pools has prohibited the use of water floats recreationally because one kid somehow choked on one.)
~Daily Mail /// Daily Telegraph
The really scary part is; I can see this happening here before too long.....
More spooky then weird... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/7298562_harvard_university_doctor_turns_back_time_on_aging_will_an_antiaging_pill_be_available_soon;_ylt=AmTPg8Wk3oIyv1F_oqxNbJgPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTUwcGRrbG1sBGFzc2V0A2FjLzIwMTAxMTI5LzcyOTg1NjJfaGFydmFyZF91bml2ZXJzaXR5X2RvY3Rvcl90dXJuc19iYWNrX3RpbWVfb25fYWdpbmdfd2lsbF9hbl9hbnRpYWdpbmdfcGlsbF9iZV9hdmFpbGFibGVfc29vbgRwb3MDMjMEc2VjA3luX3N1YmNhdF9saXN0BHNsawNoYXJ2YXJkdW5pdmU-
Yeah, that is spooky. If the drug does what it's supposed to (suppress the genetic trigger for natural senescence) not only will people not age, they will get younger.
Nasty side effect #1: any cancer cells or tumors will go crazy.
People will have to give serious thought to population control if no one dies of old age.
When the Tea 'ban all earmarks' Party asked for over 600 earmark projects totalling more than $1bil, I go 'Huh?'
Hypocrites.
::)
Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin to be auctioned.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101201/od_nm/us_coffin_auction
I saw this within the last year...two women stole four calves, stuck two in the trunk and two in the back seat of a Honda Civic....then took them to the sales barn. But forgot to remove the ear tags!!!!!!!!!!!! ::) ::) Not the brightest crayons in the box...
"The bomb squad couldn't be sure if the robot was safe or not, and so remotely detonated it at about 5:30 p.m. to "render it safe"."
It was an 8-inch tall figurine and they blew it up?!?!
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16752786
I think it's really sad that it's come down to this. People have been conditioned to be afraid of their own shadow. I felt safer in the days without all the "protection."
Giggle....
300 pound chimp (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/20/pound-chimp-wrecks-havoc-kansas-city-neighborhood/)
too much Christmas? (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101203/od_nm/us_christmas_display) :-\
http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/06/news/economy/100_bill_trouble/index.htm
oops...
Quote from: DonaCatalina on December 07, 2010, 10:08:40 AM
too much Christmas? (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101203/od_nm/us_christmas_display) :-\
I'm glad the neighbors weren't total grinches. One of the biggest displays that used to be in my area was outlawed by the city because the neighbors complained. The following year, the only decoration they had on their (mansion) property was a giant grinch pointing at the one neighbor. By the following year, the neighbor had moved, but they still weren't allowed to put up their displays. And I think they had donated most of it to various community locations.
here's a video of his house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKlEYuTklE
Africa's "terrible hairy fly" found in Kenya!
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Scientists in Kenya have located one of the world's rarest and oddest-looking flies after a long hunt for an insect dubbed the "terrible hairy fly," experts said on Wednesday.
Scientists first stumbled across the yellow-haired fly in 1933 and then again in 1948. Since then, at least half a dozen expeditions have visited a site between the towns of Thika and Garissa to find it again.
At about one centimeter long and so far found on a single 20-meter high rock, the Mormotomyia hirsuta looks more like a spider with its hairy legs, scientists said.
Unable to fly and partial to breeding in bat feces, the fly is thought to live only in the dank, bat-filled cleft of an isolated rock in the Ukazi Hills. It also has non-functional wings that resemble miniature belt-straps, and tiny eyes.
Dr Robert Copeland of the Nairobi-based International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology said the fly's physical appearance had left scientists bamboozled about where exactly it belonged in the entire order of Diptera, or "true flies."
"We have collected fresh specimens for molecular analysis to see where exactly the 'terrible hairy fly' fits into the evolutionary process," Copeland told Reuters by telephone.
"The fly has no obvious adaptations for clinging onto other animals for transfer from one place to another. With its long legs, it could perhaps wrap itself around a bat and get a ride ... but it's never been found elsewhere."
The Mormotomyia hirsuta is the only member of its biological family and some fly experts reckon the fly will eventually prove to be the only family of fly completely restricted to Africa.
Quote from: Lady Kett on December 06, 2010, 08:26:09 PM
Giggle....
300 pound chimp (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/20/pound-chimp-wrecks-havoc-kansas-city-neighborhood/)
I thought it was illegal to keep chimps at home nowadays. Those critters are
dangerous. The owner was lucky 'Susie' didn't decide to take exception to someone or someone's pet.
Quote from: DonaCatalina on December 07, 2010, 10:08:40 AM
too much Christmas? (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101203/od_nm/us_christmas_display) :-\
I can feel for the neighbors, we've got the same thing here in Papiliion.
Our guy is a wealthy investor that lives on a large lot in a 100 yr old restored farmhouse. Our neighborhood was literally built
around his 3/4 acre property, so he has plenty of space for the $100,000 (and growing) display that he started working on in about 2002. He has even installed special electrical boxes around the yard last year to power this mini Las Vegas, which is put up by his landscaping contractor the day after thanksgiving each year.
Besides the basic house lights, wreaths and bunting, two of his 80' pine trees are completely covered in lights/with a star on top of each installed by high lift trucks. He has a life size Santa, sleigh and reindeer on top of his 5 car garage/guesthouse. The rest of the yard is surrounded by 8 foot box hedges covered with light nets. 5 foot lighted candy canes edge the circular drive leading up to and surrounding the fountain leading up to at least 20 life sized Nutcracker soldiers standing in formation.
I have had to hang light blocking curtains on my bedroom windows on that side of the house just to sleep at night, and I nearly back-ended someone last weekend who had slowed abruptly to 10 mph to gawk at his display.
The limos that include the house in the 'Christmas Wonderland' tour are becoming a nuisance; they just stop in the middle of the street (in a no passing zone) to allow the passengers to stare and I've seen cars stopped there for a 5 full minutes, blocking traffic.
I used to put up decorations on my house, but what's the point? It would be like putting on a church carnival next to Disneyland.
One of our locals used to have a display on a major thoroughfare...people slowing down to look...drifting into head-on traffic...you can see the problem. I almost got hit head-on one evening. It wasn't the idea, it was the location! People were parking their cars on the neighbors' lawns. The power draw was more than the neighborhood's infrastructure could handle, and caused a blackout for several days in the dead of winter. He even bought the houses on either side of his so he could expand the display.
Property values plummeted. Finally, a lawsuit, then a court decision limiting his display size, and when it could be turned on. It wasn't Christmas spirit...it was narcissism.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on December 08, 2010, 03:15:46 PM
One of our locals used to have a display on a major thoroughfare...people slowing down to look...drifting into head-on traffic...you can see the problem. I almost got hit head-on one evening. It wasn't the idea, it was the location! People were parking their cars on the neighbors' lawns. The power draw was more than the neighborhood's infrastructure could handle, and caused a blackout for several days in the dead of winter. He even bought the houses on either side of his so he could expand the display.
Property values plummeted. Finally, a lawsuit, then a court decision limiting his display size, and when it could be turned on. It wasn't Christmas spirit...it was narcissism.
Should have rented a generator and worked with the city to do this. Going off all independen like this is what got him. Same thing happenned in my toen of Roseville, MN. Eerily similar.... City got the courts to tell him to tone it down. He decided to do nothing at all. Has not for over a decade.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on December 08, 2010, 03:15:46 PM
One of our locals used to have a display on a major thoroughfare...people slowing down to look...drifting into head-on traffic...you can see the problem. I almost got hit head-on one evening. It wasn't the idea, it was the location! People were parking their cars on the neighbors' lawns. The power draw was more than the neighborhood's infrastructure could handle, and caused a blackout for several days in the dead of winter. He even bought the houses on either side of his so he could expand the display.
Property values plummeted. Finally, a lawsuit, then a court decision limiting his display size, and when it could be turned on. It wasn't Christmas spirit...it was narcissism.
Do you mean Jennings Osborne's house on Hwy 10/Cantrell Rd? That pretty close to where I used to live in Little Rock.
Google Maps location of Jennings Osborne's house (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=34.783569,-92.37883&spn=0.001566,0.002411&t=h&z=19)I believe he started doing the elaborate Christmas lights even before I moved to Texas in 1986, and certainly had them up until the lawsuit in 1993. After that, he began doing (or paying for) the Christmas lights at Disney World. I don't know if he took a break from doing that, but they're back this year -
Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights (http://www.wdwinfo.com/holidays/osbornelights.htm).
Take Care,
David Baldock
Yes, that's him! I realize he was trying to do something special, but it was just in the wrong place, and a lot of people suffered for it. He moved a display to Hot Springs for a year or so, then went to Disney with it, if memory is still working. You could see his display from Petit Jean Mountain (mountains in Arkansas are tall hills), and it was used by VFR pilots!
The annual Tacky Lights Tour....The best and worst over the top Christmas decor. Actually some of these are quite pretty ;D
http://www.elledecor.com/image/tid/4332?page=8&pause=1
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on December 08, 2010, 05:05:06 PM
Yes, that's him! I realize he was trying to do something special, but it was just in the wrong place, and a lot of people suffered for it. He moved a display to Hot Springs for a year or so, then went to Disney with it, if memory is still working. You could see his display from Petit Jean Mountain (mountains in Arkansas are tall hills), and it was used by VFR pilots!
I love the Osborne spectacle of dancing lights! They decorate the Streets of America section of Hollywood Studios, and have all the lights up on all the buildings, plus music playing, and "snow" falling. It's really pretty awesome. Apparently the Osborne family came for the first night, but I didn't get to see the lights until after the first weekend. They had a large crew of technicians setting them up every night starting back in the beginning of Oct, though, and they didn't turn them on officially until the 2nd week of Nov.
I know they had to limit people at Reed's Springs, Missouri. The guy owned an estate right on the road that went into Branson. One the road is clogged anyway due to holiday Branson traffic, but add in people stopping on the highway gawking and even getting out and taking pictures drove people mad for years. Don't know if he is still doing it though. :-\
Found in the archives....Which flavor would you try? I can't believe I missed this last spring ;D
Haggis crisps, anyone? Gary Lineker promotes the World Cup flavours.
This being Easter Monday, what better way to celebrate than a column devoted to describing the flavour of assorted novelty snacks? It's what Christ himself would've wanted. Although I suspect even the messiah himself might prefer crucifixion to the horror of tasting Walkers BBQ kangaroo crisps. The moment the first sliver of fried potato hit his tongue, delivering its payload of marsupial flavouring, he'd moan "forgive them father, for they know not what they do" through a mouthful of wet crumbs.
Last year's "Do us a Flavour" campaign, in which the company launched six temporary new varieties, was eventually won by the hideous "Builder's Breakfast", which tasted like a fried egg in an envelope. This year, they're celebrating the World Cup by launching 15 – yes, 15 – new flavours, each ostensibly representing a different nation. I was alerted to this exciting development by an email from Walker's PR agency – I'm presumably on their radar after reviewing the "Do Us a Flavour" varieties last year. On that occasion, I went out and bought the crisps myself. This time I'd get them for free. Following a brief phone call, a courier delivered a mock suitcase full of crisps to my door. So you can view everything that follows as essentially free publicity for Walkers, albeit the kind of publicity that explicitly states that their new crisps taste revolting. Well, most of them. A couple of them are quite interesting, as you'll see in a moment:
Japanese chicken teriyaki
The first ones I tried, and not a good start. There's no identifiable teriyaki element – just a whiff of chicken stock. They should've tried tackling a sushi-themed salmon-and-wasabi flavour. Instead they've created something that tastes about as authentically Japanese as Lenny Henry. Cowards.
Scottish haggis
After a bad start, another step down. These tasted of nothing, yet somehow managed to make that "nothing" deeply unpleasant. It's like a small piece of fried potato failing to recall a repressed abuse memory while sitting on your tongue.
Argentinian flame-grilled steak
At last a vague stab at accuracy: there's a faint whiff of steak, although identifying the "flame-grilled" aspect would require a leap of the imagination so vast you might as well use it to imagine something more exciting, like sex with a movie star or a holiday on Venus. Still: the Argentinians take the lead.
English roast beef and yorkshire pudding
Did Rio Ferdinand create this himself? The beef hits you first: not dreadful, but quickly overpowered by the oleaginous "yorkshire pudding" element. The result is a mixture of cold Sunday roast and stale grease: like inhaling from a pub dustbin on Monday morning. Also, it's surely not wise to use the word "roast" in any product that notionally represents the England World Cup squad. It's not looking good for our boys.
German bratwurst sausage
Ah. These actually taste like sausages. Not suitable for vegetarians either. Glancing at the ingredients reveals no pork, although they do contain the downright sinister "poultry extract". What exactly is "poultry extract"? And how is it "extracted"? Walkers must tell us. Preferably in the form of a televised re-enactment starring Gary Lineker.
Dutch edam/Welsh rarebit
Yeah, whatever: these are both just "cheese flavour". The former is mild, but still tastes more like "real" cheese than edam itself does. The rarebit offering tastes like a flattened Wotsit with a splash of Worcestershire sauce. Perhaps that's a traditional Welsh dish too.
South African sweet chutney
South African what? They've made this one up, surely. It's actually OK-ish: a bit like spicy ketchup flavour.
Italian spaghetti bolognese/ Brazilian salsa
Tomato time. These both taste like scratch'n'sniff pizza aroma: a lame committee meeting of watered-down herbs. The "Brazilian salsa" has a slightly more sugary feel, but otherwise I couldn't tell the difference. My face was openly sobbing by this point, mind.
Spanish chicken paella
It would've been fun to annoyed the Spanish by releasing "maltreated donkey" or "slaughtered bull" flavours instead, but no: chicken paella it is. Amazingly, these actually taste like rice. And slightly like chicken. But they don't taste like chicken paella: more like chicken fried rice. Maybe Walkers were expecting China to qualify.
Irish stew
No.
French garlic baguette
Garlic Bread diluted by a factor of approximately 10,000. So weak and ineffectual, it's almost homeopathic. They missed a trick: a novelty "snail" or "frog's legs" flavour would at least have grim curiosity value, much like . . .
Australian BBQ kangaroo
See? You want to know what these taste like, don't you? A: watery barbecue sauce with a dim hint of meat. There's no actual kangaroo in them, so the "kangaroo" is delivered entirely by your subconscious. They could call it "boiled pilot's leg" and the effect would be similar.
American cheeseburger
By far the most interesting entry, if only for the sake of accuracy: these precisely capture that instantly recognizable McDonald's aroma. Not Burger King. Not Wendy's. McDonald's. If they were an official McDonald's product, you'd begrudgingly admire their authenticity. Instead, you're left wondering whether Walkers will get sued.
So that's the lot. If these crisps are in any way representative of their associated national squads, the World Cup itself will be an underwhelming kickaround which the US will eventually win on points. Presumably the company's crisp technicians are already working on a series of stunt flavours to honour the 2012 Olympics. Here's hoping they steer clear of yet more bastardised takes on national dishes and go for topicality instead. How about American tea party flavour? Iranian uranium? Chinese dissident? Give it your best shot, Walkers, and with any luck you'll start a war.
If a camel falls in the pew... (http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/Camels-Church-Belly-Flop-Caught-on-Tape-111670719.html)
I'm such a critter lover...glad to read that the camel was okay!
Must have been a good sized church!
A live camel in a church? Seriously, who thinks up this stuff?
I guess it beats smoking a Camel in church... ;D
Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_chernobyl_tourism)
Quote from: Lady Kett on December 13, 2010, 06:41:58 PM
A live camel in a church? Seriously, who thinks up this stuff?
You have not seen some of the "Baptist Cathedrals" and "Metho- Domes" that I have. There is a church in my home town that has 3 camels, a donkey, and sometimes real sheep. They cover the floor in a thick plastic. Just in case, but trust me when they do a full nativity scene.... they do a FULL nativity scene. Anything less and they consider you a blasfemer. ::)
Quote from: NoBill Lurker on December 13, 2010, 08:58:39 PM
Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_chernobyl_tourism)
Check it out on google earth. Huge swaths of the ground are still devoid of live vegetation. No thanks.
Quote from: LadyStitch on December 14, 2010, 08:57:58 AM
Quote from: Lady Kett on December 13, 2010, 06:41:58 PM
A live camel in a church? Seriously, who thinks up this stuff?
You have not seen some of the "Baptist Cathedrals" and "Metho- Domes" that I have. There is a church in my home town that has 3 camels, a donkey, and sometimes real sheep. They cover the floor in a thick plastic. Just in case, but trust me when they do a full nativity scene.... they do a FULL nativity scene. Anything less and they consider you a blasfemer. ::)
And, then there's the
Bacon Nativity Scene (http://walyou.com/nativity-scene-bacon/). :o ;) ;D
Quote from: DonaCatalina on December 14, 2010, 09:19:59 AM
Quote from: NoBill Lurker on December 13, 2010, 08:58:39 PM
Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_chernobyl_tourism)
Check it out on google earth. Huge swaths of the ground are still devoid of live vegetation. No thanks.
yeah i'm with you i can see it now hey this happened in 1986 it's 2010 it should be just fine to open it in 2011 yeah right
Quote from: dbaldock on December 14, 2010, 09:23:07 AM
Quote from: LadyStitch on December 14, 2010, 08:57:58 AM
Quote from: Lady Kett on December 13, 2010, 06:41:58 PM
A live camel in a church? Seriously, who thinks up this stuff?
You have not seen some of the "Baptist Cathedrals" and "Metho- Domes" that I have. There is a church in my home town that has 3 camels, a donkey, and sometimes real sheep. They cover the floor in a thick plastic. Just in case, but trust me when they do a full nativity scene.... they do a FULL nativity scene. Anything less and they consider you a blasfemer. ::)
And, then there's the Bacon Nativity Scene (http://walyou.com/nativity-scene-bacon/). :o ;) ;D
looks tasty what temp do we cook that on
Quote from: NoBill Lurker on December 13, 2010, 08:58:39 PM
Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_chernobyl_tourism)
Makes you wonder what kind of 'tourists' would be wanting a visit. I can go online and see all I could ever want to of that area. The sarcophagus
still looks scary to me.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on December 14, 2010, 10:03:18 AM
Quote from: NoBill Lurker on December 13, 2010, 08:58:39 PM
Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_chernobyl_tourism)
Makes you wonder what kind of 'tourists' would be wanting a visit. I can go online and see all I could ever want to of that area. The sarcophagus still looks scary to me.
Bet the tours get glowing reviews. Should be a hot ticket.
Quote from: NoBill Lurker on December 13, 2010, 08:58:39 PM
Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_chernobyl_tourism)
I've seen pictures of people in those area, and with geiger counters.
First thing I think of is a picture of John Wayne and his son Patrick, outside Las Vegas after an A bomb test, kneeling by a geiger counter laughing.
John Wayne died of stomach cancer and his son has had cancer. Bet they aren't laughing now.
Not to mention other people involved in the filming of the Conqueror.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/374/did-john-wayne-die-of-cancer-caused-by-a-radioactive-movie-set
I can't believe they'd encourage tours.
Ferret
do people sit there and think hmmm wonder what will happen if we send people to these places for fun?
i mean hello i wouldn't doubt the tour guides and 90% of the crazy people who tour that place wind up with some sort of issue
Quote from: Lady Christina de Pond on December 14, 2010, 11:30:49 AM
do people sit there and think hmmm wonder what will happen if we send people to these places for fun?
i mean hello i wouldn't doubt the tour guides and 90% of the crazy people who tour that place wind up with some sort of issue
People might be doing it for money, and don't care if there is risks to others.
That dead city near Chernobyl was stripped of a lot of things that ended up in markets in Kiev and other cities. Not to mention the initial fallout and areas it effected like Belarus.
My ex was from Sumy, way east of there, and she started having tumors.
I'd prefer to be a tourist away from the whole area.
It might be a one in a million chance, but if it's you, the odds don't matter then.
Ferret
Quote from: iain robb on December 14, 2010, 10:40:07 AM
Bet the tours get glowing reviews. Should be a hot ticket.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
http://www.onecoolthingaday.com/today/2010/12/14/art-by-typewriter.html (http://www.onecoolthingaday.com/today/2010/12/14/art-by-typewriter.html)
Wow! That must take so much patience!
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/12/14/vo.florida.school.shooting.WJHG
Man opens fire at school board meeting. Crazy!
Gina
Quote from: arbcoind on December 15, 2010, 08:54:49 AM
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/12/14/vo.florida.school.shooting.WJHG
Man opens fire at school board meeting. Crazy!
Gina
That's just sad. Too, too much of that these days.
This might be a little too John's Inn, but I found this (http://gawker.com/5713245/eiffel-tower-tourists-treated-to-enormous-snow-penis) pretty funny.
The comments are pretty funny too!
Gina
Quote from: arbcoind on December 15, 2010, 12:30:25 PM
The comments are pretty funny too!
Gina
That's what I thought. My favorite is the one that said 'this is funny until it gets cross-posted....'
LMAO. Thanks Lady R, :D
Embalmed head of King Henri IV found. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101215/od_nm/us_king_head)
Quote from: DonaCatalina on December 17, 2010, 01:16:20 PM
Embalmed head of King Henri IV found. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101215/od_nm/us_king_head)
I read that last night.....waaaaay cool.
Girl, 4, Faces Negligence Charges, Judge Gives Suit the OK
Although most 4-year-olds probably can't even say the word "negligence," apparently, they are old enough to be sued for it.
That's right, 4-year-olds.
In April 2009, 4-year-old pals, Juliet Breitman and Jacob Kohn, were racing their bicycles on a sidewalk in Manhattan, The New York Times reports. Failing to channel their newly-developed fine motor skills, they crashed into an 87-year-old woman. The injured woman needed hip surgery and died three months after the surgery.
Her estate proceeded to sue the clearly experienced cyclists and their mothers for negligence. Juliet's lawyer, James P. Tyrie, argued that "courts have held that an infant under the age of 4 is conclusively presumed to be incapable of negligence."
Judge Paul Wooten decided that these rulings do not apply to Juliet Breitman because, after all, she was a whopping 4-and-three-quarters at the time of the accident. He has ruled that she is old enough to be held liable and is allowing the suit against her to move forward.
Tyrie said that his young client should not be held responsible because her mother was supervising the race. Again, Judge Wooten didn't buy the excuse. His reasoning, according to The Times, is that "any 'reasonably prudent child,' who presumably has been told to look both ways before crossing a street, should know that dashing out without looking is dangerous, with or without a parent there." Because, of course, kids only need to be told things once.
Sure, Judge Wooten.
However, Wooten added, if the parent were to encourage dangerous behavior, the child would not be liable. But because Juliet's mother did not seem to have any "active role" in the accident, she is off the hook, and her 4-year-old is to blame. And because there was no evidence of Juliet's "lack of maturity," the trial goes on.
If Juliet is found guilty, we wonder if she will have to declare a criminal record on her kindergarten application.
~My bet is Mom is trying to avoid liability here and the kid is being tossed under the train for this....
Not exactly news, but....got it from a link of a link on Rowen MacD's post in the Gift Ideas thread
World's Strangets Laws (http://www.bspcn.com/2007/08/18/the-worlds-strangest-laws/)
My favorites are:
In Hastings, Nebraska, USA, the law says that hotel owners have to provide a clean white cotton nightshirt for each guest. Also no couples are allowed to have sex in the hotel unless they are wearing these nightshirts.
In Birmingham, England, it is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex on church steps after sundown. [apparently it's ok during the day]
Quote from: Lady Kett on December 30, 2010, 06:53:32 PM
Not exactly news, but....got it from a link of a link on Rowen MacD's post in the Gift Ideas thread
World's Strangets Laws (http://www.bspcn.com/2007/08/18/the-worlds-strangest-laws/)
In Birmingham, England, it is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex on church steps after sundown. [apparently it's ok during the day]
This is a problem there? ;D
From the local news-good for a chuckle... :D
Burglar Breaks Into Iowa Radio Shack-Makes Off With Broken Stereo System
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The smash-and-grab thief who tossed a cinder block through a window at a Des Moines electronics store is in for a shock:
The stereo system he or she grabbed doesn't work.
According to The Des Moines Register, an alarm went off a little after 12 a.m. Thursday at the Radio Shack store. A broken cinder block was found later on the sidewalk outside.
A store worker called to the scene did a quick check of the inventory and said only a display model of a stereo system appeared to be missing.
And it doesn't work.
Reindeer regularly eat magic mushrooms
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/851202-reindeer-regularly-eat-magic-mushrooms-in-the-wild-research-finds
Drunk Kills Shark, Saves Egyptian Beach Resort
http://www.newser.com/story/107820/drunk-kills-shark-saves-egyptian-beach-resort.html
Quote from: groomporter on January 01, 2011, 05:42:30 PM
Reindeer regularly eat magic mushrooms
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/851202-reindeer-regularly-eat-magic-mushrooms-in-the-wild-research-finds
Drunk Kills Shark, Saves Egyptian Beach Resort
http://www.newser.com/story/107820/drunk-kills-shark-saves-egyptian-beach-resort.html
I wonder if the deer actually get high on the mushrooms, but I wouldn't drink their urine to get the second hand rush...eewwwww .
I was just about to share that shark story on facebook when I read the disclaimer on the bottom.....I really wish the story was true too. LMAO.
Rofl guess they now know better about getting new stories from any page that has issues with credability
http://a11news.com/4516/owen-honors-video/
I've never been in the Navy, so I don't know what to think of this...
Gina
Quote from: arbcoind on January 05, 2011, 12:04:35 PM
http://a11news.com/4516/owen-honors-video/
I've never been in the Navy, so I don't know what to think of this...
Gina
I seriously doubt the intelligence of
anyone (famous or not) who is dumb enough to knowingly make a video of themselves doing something they know will destroy them if it gets out. It just takes a special kind of dumb (or an incredibly inflated ego) to potentially expose yourself in that way, certainly not a good character trait for anyone in a position of responsibility. Thankfully these people tend to get culled like this.
Witches of Romania curse government over new tax law....
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/916967--witches-of-romania-curse-government-over-new-tax-law
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-11/justice/missouri.ferret.fingers_1_baby-boy-pet-animal?_s=PM:CRIME
Ok I'm calling serious "bull crap" on this one. If anyone knows a ferret there is not WAY a ferret could do that.
On the micro fine chance a ferret COULD do that they don't have that big of stomaches. If they even thought about doing that it would take DAYS for them to do that. Where were the parents while this was happening?
The family had a rottwiler, have they thought to check THAT animal's stomache? Have they thought, maybe it could be rats that did it?
I'm sorry but the weasels I know would no way do what these people are suggesting, even if they WERE starving to death!
7 fingers gone before the parents heard the baby crying. That calls for suspicion right there.
Quote from: LadyStitch on January 13, 2011, 10:54:23 AM
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-11/justice/missouri.ferret.fingers_1_baby-boy-pet-animal?_s=PM:CRIME
Ok I'm calling serious "bull crap" on this one. If anyone knows a ferret there is not WAY a ferret could do that.
The family had a rottwiler, have they thought to check THAT animal's stomache? Have they thought, maybe it could be rats that did it?
I'm sorry but the weasels I know would no way do what these people are suggesting, even if they WERE starving to death!
I thought the same thing. My bet would be the dog or rats.
I have owned ferrets on and off over the years; and I have never received more than an irritated nip. Truly tamed ferrets are not disposed to bite, and if it wasn't trained, what the heck would you be thinking to let a feral animal loose around the house!?
The kid had to have been screaming it's head off the entire time it was being bitten. Where the He!! were the parents!?
According to the news reports one was 'asleep' in the same room with the child. If a child is screaming as much as you would think it would if it was having that done to that, why didn't they hear it sooner?
The way they say they threw the ferret into the fridge or dishwasher and killed it, the child had to be near the food sources, so it is possible of wild rats or maybe opossums.
It is just all around fishy to me. However i know 'someone' is going to use this as a case study for why ferrets are vicious and dangerous animals.
I'm going to wait for more information on that story about the ferret. It was so far out there, I looked it up to make sure it hadn't shown up on Snopes.
But if I may divert your attention for a moment...I'm sure you have heard of the rain (not reign) of birds in Beebe, Arkansas a few days ago, when 4-5000 blackbirds fell dead from the sky in a 1-square mile area.
There have been some pretty nutty "explanations" for the event, but this one takes the cake:
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2011/01/10/bird-death-mystery-solved
Be sure to read the comments after you watch the video. I find it really hard to believe that someone really thinks along those lines...
"Pat Robertson: Snow Is God's Way of Punishing Americans Planning To Drive to do something Gay"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20110101/cm_uc_crabox/op_4716464
Can't decide whether this belongs in the Weird News or the Rant thread....But WTF? You would have thought that these folks at least would choose a British porcelain company since the Chinese are already making a killing on this churning out cheap souvenirs.
What could have been an excellent 'PC' moment for the Firm, turned into a public relations fiasco.
I don't know why but I expected better of the Royal Family than this....
Made in China porcelain for British royal wedding...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110116/lf_nm_life/us_britain_royal_porcelain
This dumb girl falling in water fountain while texting!
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Quote from: groomporter on January 13, 2011, 06:30:24 PM
"Pat Robertson: Snow Is God's Way of Punishing Americans Planning To Drive to do something Gay"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20110101/cm_uc_crabox/op_4716464
Gawd
that's funny.....
lady Joyce Ann, that's what is known as poetic justice.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on January 07, 2011, 08:14:15 AM
Witches of Romania curse government over new tax law....
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/916967--witches-of-romania-curse-government-over-new-tax-law
I laughed and laughed and then called my mom to asked her if is true.
I wonder how high you can get off of this?!?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/20/florida.snort.ashes/index.html?hpt=T2
RE: the texting woman who fell into the fountain... she is now going to sue the Mall for having an unprotected fountain, Mall Security for not coming to her aid and Youtube for posting the video, holding her up to ridicule. Of course, if she had not gone on Good Morning America, no one would have known who she was. Good thing she wasn't texting at the Grand Canyon... she would be suing the United States as land owner and God as the creator of the canyon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0umR74nFZuM&feature=watch_response (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0umR74nFZuM&feature=watch_response)
If that lawsuit is allowed to go forward, the judge should be taken out and thrown into the fountain himself. You are so right, though, BW. From the video, she was completely unrecognizable. She should have kept her big mouth shut and stayed off of TV!
Quote from: BubbleWright on January 20, 2011, 07:50:32 AM
RE: the texting woman who fell into the fountain... Good thing she wasn't texting at the Grand Canyon... she would be suing the United States as land owner and God as the creator of the canyon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0umR74nFZuM&feature=watch_response (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0umR74nFZuM&feature=watch_response)
Where is the like button? LOL
But if she had been texting at the Grabd Canyon the gene pool would be a lot cleaner now.
Quote from: Sir Ironhead on January 20, 2011, 06:25:38 PM
But if she had been texting at the Grabd Canyon the gene pool would be a lot cleaner now.
We could just add a
lot of bleach to the fountain...
Not precisely a news story, although on a newsy website...and not to make fun of the cause it is supporting (hey, I know Lance Armstrong's Mom...ok she's not inviting me to the country club any time soon but I do know her!)...but this commerical made me LOL.
Kudos to the agency who created this one.
Family Jewels (http://www.cbs.com/cbs_cares/testicular_cancer/)
That another family values conservative got implicated with a hooker. That makes 1 baby out of wedlock, drug use, and a hubby with a hooker. All in 1 family.
Sheesh, momma grizzly. Time to get yer arse home to care for your cubs!!!
Quote from: Lady Kett on January 20, 2011, 10:50:12 PM...
Family Jewels (http://www.cbs.com/cbs_cares/testicular_cancer/)
...Brilliant...simply brilliant.
Naked 'King of the World' Gets Taser Treatment in Florida Keys
Wednesday January 19, 2011
"I'm king of the world... king of the ARRGGHHHHH!!!!"
I don't know if that's how this one unfolded... but that's how I picture it anyway.
Police in Florida's Big Coppitt Key near Key West say a Pennsylvania man ran naked through the streets shouting about his apparent global royalty.
Someone apparently forgot to tell the local law enforcement about the ascension of 43-year-old Richard Gervasi to the world throne.
When deputies arrived, he allegedly charged after one... so cops called to the scene shot a taser at him.
But his majesty would not go down easy... in fact, after being tased, he pulled the taser prongs out of his skin and got up,
So they tased him again... and again.
Not surprisingly, police believe generous portions of alcohol and a helping of LSD played a role.
For some reason I keep hearing in the back of my mind " excuse me, while I whip this out" shoot him again Jonny!
http://www.wtae.com/westmoreland/26608166/detail.html
Walmart excites this man.
Gina
Quote from: arbcoind on January 26, 2011, 08:31:02 AM
http://www.wtae.com/westmoreland/26608166/detail.html
Walmart excites this man.
Gina
Funny...it has the opposite effect on me. I stay away from Wally World.
Smugglers with "medieval catapult" nabbed at border
PHOENIX (Reuters) – In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said..
The Mexican military seized 45 pounds of marijuana, a sports utility vehicle and a metal-framed catapult just south of the Arizona border near the small town of Naco last Friday, following a tip-off from the U.S. Border Patrol.
Surveillance video taken by National Guard troops deployed to support the Border Patrol caught a group of men apparently attempting to pull down a metal beam and load or test the catapult, which was powered by powerful elastic and mounted on a trailer close to the metal border fence.
"It looks like a medieval catapult that was used back in the day," Tucson sector Border Patrol spokesman David Jimarez told Reuters.
Arizona straddles a furiously trafficked corridor for human and drug smugglers from Mexico.
The U.S. Border Patrol seize hundreds of tons of marijuana and other drugs each year, smuggled over or under the line using a variety of means, including trucks, clandestine tunnels, horseback and even micro-light aircraft -- although the catapult was new, Jimarez said.
"I have not seen anything like that in my time before as a Border Patrol agent ... although we are trained to handle any kind of a threat that comes over that border," he added.
Maybe they should have used a horse
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/01/seventh-circuit-rules-dungeons-dragons-a-threat-to-prison-security/ (http://abovethelaw.com/2010/01/seventh-circuit-rules-dungeons-dragons-a-threat-to-prison-security/)
All I have to say to this is "So are all the geeks I know gang members now?"
Quote from: LadyStitch on January 28, 2011, 04:23:19 PM
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/01/seventh-circuit-rules-dungeons-dragons-a-threat-to-prison-security/ (http://abovethelaw.com/2010/01/seventh-circuit-rules-dungeons-dragons-a-threat-to-prison-security/)
All I have to say to this is "So are all the geeks I know gang members now?"
Lawful Evil decision...snicker. That's great.
QuoteIn a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said..
Wonder how soon it will be before they start tossing illegals over the fence?
Quote from: BubbleWright on January 29, 2011, 08:11:05 AM
QuoteIn a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said..
Wonder how soon it will be before they start tossing illegals over the fence?
See
MythBusters - Episode 35: Border Slingshot (http://mythbustersresults.com/episode35), where they busted the myth that a giant, portable slingshot had been built and used to
sling people over the border from Mexico into the USA.
Take Care,
David Baldock
Souvenir condoms rolled out for UK royal wedding (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110129/od_afp/britainroyalsweddingsexoffbeat)
No comment... ;D
Hey David... I was aware of several attempts to use a trebuchet to toss a human being, usually involving serious injury or death to the aeronaut. Check out the link below. While you are there, peruse the rest of this interesting web site... Felix the Bubble Wright
Clicky>>>> http://sirguillaume.com/RideTrebuchet.html (http://sirguillaume.com/RideTrebuchet.html)
Quote from: Lady Kett on January 30, 2011, 09:48:13 AM
Souvenir condoms rolled out for UK royal wedding (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110129/od_afp/britainroyalsweddingsexoffbeat)
No comment... ;D
"lie back and think of England"
(http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c353/Knoty-Dragon/FUNNY/24.gif)
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/08/handbag.heroine.england/index.html
"Supergran"
Gina
Tulare County man dies after being cut by knife attached to cockfighting rooster's leg
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/articl ... /110207016
The Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession. The app takes users through the sacrament - in which Catholics admit their wrongdoings - and allows them to keep track of their sins.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12391129
(Next generation confessional...? Just a plug your phone into the USB jack in the confessional box and iPriest will upload your penance to your phone and give you the option to buy an indulgence through your Paypal account.)
Quote from: groomporter on February 09, 2011, 12:00:38 PM
...The Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession. The app takes users through the sacrament - in which Catholics admit their wrongdoings - and allows them to keep track of their sins.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12391129
I saw that this morning...bet it doesn't have enough memory for me...
Quote(Next generation confessional...? Just a plug your phone into the USB jack in the confessional box and iPriest will upload your penance to your phone and give you the option to buy an indulgence through your Paypal account.)
As a former Catholic,
that I would believe.
Could relieve the shortage of priest problem...
I can just imagine the routine Bob Newhart would work up for doing an iPhone confession !!!!! ;D ;D ;D
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/02/09/exp.jk.christopher.lee.resigns.cnn?hpt=Mid
Fit, Fun, Classy...NOT!
Gina
Council suggests using crematorium to heat pool
By Lynn Curwin.
Redditch - A council has proposed that heat generated by a crematorium be used to heat a swimming pool and leisure centre, in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and save money.
Redditch Borough Council, in Worcestershire, said that about £14,000 per year could be saved by using heat from the nearby facility to heat the Abbey Stadium sports centre, but some people are upset about the idea.
"Redditch Borough Council recognizes this is a sensitive proposal and is therefore keen to ensure everyone interested fully understands the details," BBC News quoted a council spokesman as saying.
He pointed out that the heat would otherwise be exhausted into the atmosphere.
"I'd much rather use the energy rather than just see it going out of the chimney and heating the sky," council leader Carole Gandy told The Guardian. "It will make absolutely no difference to the people who are using the crematorium for services.
"It's only a proposal at the moment but personally I'm supportive of it because I think it will save the authority money and, in the long-term, save energy which is what we're all being told we should do."
Roger McKenzie, the West Midlands regional secretary for the union Unison, is against the plan to make use of the heat.
"It goes to show yet again that the Conservatives know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Sky News quoted him as saying.
"Unfortunately, local authorities are increasingly pursuing desperate policies in a reaction to the unprecedented spending cuts imposed from Whitehall."
The BBC reported that energy from crematoriums in Scandinavia is being used for heat, and that Oakley Wood Crematorium uses the energy produced by cremation to heat on-site buildings.
Public consultations and debate on the proposals will take place in February.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/302926#ixzz1Da8Z4NpB
Frugal suckers ain't they?
When I visited Blackpool in 2009, I went to visit the rose garden where my grandmother's ashes are spread. There was a funeral finishing up, and as the mourners departed, the on site crematorium retort kicked on just as we walked past the building (scared the begees outta me). It sounded like a jet engine igniting. We stopped and watched the chimney for about 15 minutes. No smoke, just a lot of heat distortion (retorts get up to 2100 deg F). They must have very good scrubbers in their exhaust stacks, not so much as a wisp of steam.
As long as the people using the pool don't care how it's heated, I don't see why anybody would make a big deal about it. Energy is energy, and we saw a lot of wasted heat from the gas retorts just go up the chimney.
Rowen, to my way of thinking, once I'm gone, whatever is done with my body is fine by me. If I'm fresh enough, they are most welcome to harvest any and all parts. If nothing is usable, they can either let the med students use me for practice, or send me to the Body Farm. However my remains can do the most good, that's what I want done. If they need to use me to heat the pool, then let's get to it!
By the way, when I die, I'm leaving money for a party...the drinks will be on me!
My father in law always said we should use his casket as the bar so we could have the last drink on him...
Yup, part me out, incinerate the rest, and find some pleasant oak grove to fertilize. The idea of a "Viking funeral" sounds neat but seems like a waste of a good boat...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harry-baals-respect-fort-wayne-politicians-jack-spratt/story?id=12884857
Mayor Harry Baals
Quote from: arbcoind on February 11, 2011, 09:14:44 AM
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harry-baals-respect-fort-wayne-politicians-jack-spratt/story?id=12884857
Mayor Harry Baals
They were talking about that on Regis and Kelly this morning. :)
Just so you know, the one thing that duct tape is not good for is ductwork. But it does have the unique ability to fix just about everything else... check this out: The Best Duct Tape Story Ever (http://www.impactlab.net/2010/01/11/the-duct-tape-plane-best-duct-tape-story-ever/)
This one wins my big WTF? of the day. I am truly dumbfounded that this ad even gotto the billboard in the first place. The need to demand their money back from whatever moron thought this up. Then fire the morons who bought it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110222/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_billboard_flap_jonestown_3
Trio held over $1.5m condom heist
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/trio-held-over-15m-condom-heist/story-e6frf7jx-1226008185698
Would you call that a short-armed rubbery? (sorry...I'm tired)
Shaving Bikini Area While Driving (http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=12107993) has got to be really interesting, but...
Don't have a link, since I heard the story on the radio this morning, but...
Muammar al-Gaddafi, the leader of Libya, has apparently been saying that the uprisings in his country are caused by Al Quedda slipping hallucinogenic pills into the young people's coffee!
I think that right there is proof that the man is crazy. Can't be the fact that people don't like him or what he's been doing. That's WAY too far-fetched. It's because everyone who's protesting has been drugged.
???
:D
What he's trying to get those poor buggers to believe is 'All will be forgiven if you just stop protesting, because you weren't in your right minds' .... Until he's back in power and the reprisals begin. I could almost hear the collective snort of disbelief from here. Gaddafi is on drugs to to think his people are stupid enough to take that bait. They know he's on his way out and he's a liar many times over. Karma's a bee-atch.
Personally, I want to see the proof that is now being offered that he ordered the Pan Am flight 103 bombing. Then I want to see him tried and executed for the criminal he is.
This isn't a news story, but when I saw it, I really said, "Huh?"
I just went on Ebay & there is a used Moresca fairy bodice with a starting bid of $350. The reason for the "Huh?"
You can buy it new from Moresca for $250.
Anything Charlie Sheen.
Gina
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110301/ap_on_re_us/us_hummingbird_drone
Quote from: arbcoind on March 01, 2011, 08:14:18 AM
Anything Charlie Sheen. ... Gina
Ain't
that the truth...
Quote from: Lady Renee Buchanan on February 27, 2011, 09:29:33 PM
This isn't a news story, but when I saw it, I really said, "Huh?"
I just went on Ebay & there is a used Moresca fairy bodice with a starting bid of $350. The reason for the "Huh?"
You can buy it new from Moresca for $250.
Yer
kidding me.
Edit: Nope, Yer right, they want $350.00 for a used corset that sells new for $250.00...
What a waste of posting fee. LOL
http://cgi.ebay.com/Moresca-Faerie-Fairy-Steel-Boned-Corset-/130490466813
Maybe she really is that dumb. check this listing out.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Hello-Kitty-Steel-Boned-Corset_W0QQitemZ130492638880QQihZ003QQcategoryZ11522QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
No bids on the Moresca, but the hello kitty corset is still available. LOL
Quotehttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110301/ap_on_re_us/us_hummingbird_drone
The article also mentions camera laden insects. Last summer there was an onslaught of Stink Bugs throughout the United States. Co-incidence ? ???
1st Amendment protects military funeral protesters-
Westboro Wins-everybody loses.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110302/ap_on_re_us/us_supreme_court_funeral_protests
That is a huge bunch of BS. Freedom of speech or not they should not be allowed to do that.
Unless there is some law that will make them move back further there really isn't a way to stop them. Just as it is our right to wear our garb and enjoy our opinions, they have a right to have their signs and express their opinions. Like it or not you have to take the good with the bad. Soldiers fought and died to give us (and them) the right to have our own opinions. It is one of the things that makes the USA what it is.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/karen-woolley-finds-missing-diamond-encrusted-ring-inside-puppy-dog/story-e6frev20-1226014201405 (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/karen-woolley-finds-missing-diamond-encrusted-ring-inside-puppy-dog/story-e6frev20-1226014201405)
How is that for expensive puppy chow?
Interesting: spiders cause recall of Mazdas http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/03/autos/mazda6_spider_recall/index.htm?hpt=T2
Ewww! I hate spiders!
Gina
GAH I hate spiders! Glad I have a Miata and not an M6!
Quote from: Lady Kett on March 03, 2011, 09:27:21 PM
GAH I hate spiders! Glad I have a Miata and not an M6!
I own a 1992 Miata that I bought in San Antonio in ... 1992. It takes it's Texas heritage very seriously: It refuses to leave the garage if the temperature is below 50 degrees or if the sun is not shining.
Do we need to change the date of RenDezvous? Road Trip to the End of the World (http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.caravan/index.html?hpt=C1)
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on March 06, 2011, 07:27:22 AM
Do we need to change the date of RenDezvous? Road Trip to the End of the World (http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.caravan/index.html?hpt=C1)
My favorite part was "But avast, ye scurvy readers..."
We may have to celebrate our anniversary early this year.
My sister believes this stuff.
Gina
You mean I only get 2 faires in this year before The End? Pisser.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2011/03/08/moos.intruder.calls.911.cnn?hpt=C2
WTF!?
Gina
You barely beat me to posting that link, Gina! That's a riot! The drunk call is just as funny.
If all the guy wanted was a shower that is the least of any crimes he could have done. Nothing was taken except for maybe some water for the shower.
It's old news but always makes me laugh.
For a funeral.
Willie the Wimp.
Need I say more?
http://gregengland.com/2006/01/18/willie-the-wimp/
And immortalized by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLZI2z19vbQ
Quote from: Welsh Wench on March 10, 2011, 10:39:43 PM
And immortalized by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLZI2z19vbQ
Dunno about "immortalized." Still seems plenty dead to me. ;D
I'll take Twists on Words for 200.00, Iain.
The answer is--
1. to give everlasting fame to, as by treating in a literary work Macbeth was immortalized by Shakespeare
The question is--
'What is immortalization?
So do I get my case of Turtle wax? :D
My little burg has an overinflated opinion of itself - evidenced this event:
On Monday afternoon, a shopper at our local mall reported seeing a man with a gun - the entire police force converged on the mall and hastened its evacuation. They searched all night for the man with the gun - they reported that "20 on duty officers" will be present upon the mall's opening the next morning. They published the security photo of the "man with the gun" on Monday evening news and again most of Tuesday.
On Tuesday evening after seeing the security photo the "man with the gun" reported to the police and informed them that what they were looking at was his umbrella..... What I really love, is that "ITS AN UMBRELLA" was Wednesday mornings front page headline. (Perhaps it should have been followed with "yes, Virginia, we are that stupid")
Oh, and forgot to mention -he was one of the people that was evacuated!
Yeah... it's like the time they evacuated the student center because someone had spilled some Sweet and Low... in a small college town in central Arkansas...an obvious primary terrorist target!
Personally, I refuse to give in to the fear mongers any more. It was enough that I had to wear dog-tags in elementary school so that they could identify my body after a nuclear attack. I'd rather live with the danger than the fear. Despite the nutcases mouthing off out there, everyone is not out to get you.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on March 16, 2011, 09:13:56 AM
... Despite the nutcases mouthing off out there, everyone is not out to get you.
Better watch your back, some of us may be out to get you... ;) :D
Thanks, David. I knew I could count on you! :D
Squirrel attacking residents of Vt. neighborhood
– Wed Mar 16, 10:58 am ET
BENNINGTON, Vt. – A Vermont neighborhood is being stalked by a renegade gray squirrel.
Several people in Bennington say they've been attacked by a squirrel over the last few weeks.
Kevin McDonald tells the Bennington Banner he was shoveling snow when the squirrel jumped onto him. He says he threw the animal off, but it twice jumped back onto him. A game warden says there have been other reports, too.
One woman is being treated for exposure to rabies, but Vermont Public Health Veterinarian Robert Johnson says there's never been a case of a squirrel passing rabies to a human.
Johnson says it's possible the squirrel was raised as a pet and lost its fear of humans. He says the squirrel might "go ballistic" when it encounters people it doesn't recognize.
*Aren't gray squirrels were native to the UK?*
At least the headline did not read "Squirrel Attacks Nutcase".
I was in Epcot last week, and there was a lady in a scooter sitting there eating some nuts she had just bought, and a squirrel climbed up the side of her scooter, and almost made it to the nut bag. But unfortunately, someone pointed out to her that there was a squirrel on her scooter, and she screamed and sent him flying. Poor little guy.
And a few years ago, when I was walking in Central park, I stopped to chat to a squirrel on the ground. He came within a foot of my shoe, then decided to crawl up a lady's leg, who was also watching him.
Also, one time when I was walking across campus (in OKC), my friend and I were walking, and I stopped to chat to a squirrel in a tree, and another squirrel started pelting acorns at my friend's head.
I love squirrels!
Rani thinks I pretty much of a squirrel...but, sorry! I'm taken. ;)
The squirrels (and crows) at the zoo my husband works at will steal snacks out of strollers. And no, your cooler is not squirrel-proof. They've actually had people complain about the "vagrants" coming to the zoo and rifling through the strollers for food. :)
Quote from: Lady Rebecca on March 17, 2011, 01:21:39 PM
I was in Epcot last week, and there was a lady in a scooter sitting there eating some nuts she had just bought, and a squirrel climbed up the side of her scooter, and almost made it to the nut bag. But unfortunately, someone pointed out to her that there was a squirrel on her scooter, and she screamed and sent him flying. Poor little guy.
And a few years ago, when I was walking in Central park, I stopped to chat to a squirrel on the ground. He came within a foot of my shoe, then decided to crawl up a lady's leg, who was also watching him.
Also, one time when I was walking across campus (in OKC), my friend and I were walking, and I stopped to chat to a squirrel in a tree, and another squirrel started pelting acorns at my friend's head.
I love squirrels!
Here's a
link to a Squirrel story (http://www.renaissancefestival.com/forums/index.php?topic=7242.msg156628#msg156628) from a few years ago at TRF, related by
eloquentXI.
Take Care,
David Baldock
And then of course, there's this timely article, which came out today:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8388349/Prince-Charles-We-must-save-the-squirrel.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8388349/Prince-Charles-We-must-save-the-squirrel.html)
That Charles; always looking after his subjects..LOL
In other breaking news...........
Town to limit conjugal visits for randy roosters
– Mon Mar 21, 7:50 am ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Can you feel the love? Some roosters in the state of New Jersey may not feel it too often as a township plans to limit their conjugal visits with hens.
"It's a noise issue," said John Hart, a farmer who helped draft the chicken ordinance in Hopewell Township, which border on Princeton.
The measure would limit mating between roosters and hens in backyard farms to 10 days a year and no more than five consecutive nights.
Crowing is strictly prohibited in the relatively rural town but Hart said it could that could pose a problem.
"That's basically their mating call. In the morning, they wake up the hens and say, 'It's time for me to take care of business,'" Hart said.
The chicken ordinance has been under discussion for three years, ever since a family wanted to erect a backyard coop but was told by the town health department it would be illegal.
Meanwhile, Hart said, hundreds of chickens and roosters have been living in town under the legal radar as the proposed ordinance nears a final vote on March 28.
Some people mistakenly think a rooster is needed for a hen to lay eggs, when the rooster is only necessary to fertilize eggs to hatch live chickens, Hart added.
They really think that roosters will stop crowing??
thats just kinda sad
Utah has become the first state to pass a bill designating a state firearm (http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/18/utah.state.firearm/index.html?hpt=Sbin). I like guns, but give me a break! No wonder we have budgetary problems...we're wasting time and money on stuff like this.
Quote from: Auryn on March 21, 2011, 01:19:18 PM
They really think that roosters will stop crowing??
thats just kinda sad
Well, judging by the rooster who lived behind the co-op I lived in one summer, there's something that can be done to make the roosters quieter, at least. That, or he had some sort of problem with his vocal cords. I got to wake up every morning to a rather strangled sounding, croaking, squawk. :-\
http://www.aolhealth.com/2010/11/03/mom-in-spain-happy-her-10-year-old-gave-birth/?ncid=txtlnkusheal00000002
This just bothers me on so many levels. When one of my friends was saying she had a 13 year old boy in her 6th grade class who got his 12 year old 'girlfriend' who was in another class pregnant. His reason for why, "He wanted to be like his 17 year old older brother. ::)
I can guarantee you that if they had to pay for the costs of her giving birth in the public hospital, they might not be so happy about it.
Whats the problem when the tax paying public pays for all your welfare, no sense in worrying about it.
This was just too weird. ???
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/03/16/mattels-waxing-shaving-monster-high-doll-sparks-outrage/
Quote from: LadyStitch on March 23, 2011, 10:52:34 AM
http://www.aolhealth.com/2010/11/03/mom-in-spain-happy-her-10-year-old-gave-birth/?ncid=txtlnkusheal00000002
This quote mystifies me:
"She also said she didn't understand the attention the case was generating because she and her daughter are Romanian Gypsies, or Roma, and their custom is to allow girls to marry young even though that's against the law in Romania."
Where on earth does marriage come into this case!? She also says her daughter and the 13 year old baby daddy are not 'going out' anymore. WTF? She
knew her daughter was out boinking that kid!?
Gaaahhh.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on March 23, 2011, 03:19:12 PM
This was just too weird. ???
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/03/16/mattels-waxing-shaving-monster-high-doll-sparks-outrage/
Werewolf Barbie??? :o
There wolf Barbie! (Thanks, Marty...)
Not exactly a news story, however it fits the "Huh?" requirement. Or at least a WTF?!
Natural Harvest (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/natural-harvest---a-collection-of-semen-based-recipes/5198959)
The interwebs are scary sometimes.
Kett, just what were you looking for when you found this? :o You may count my official "huh?"
Bahaha!
Reading the comments and loving that there is a "flag as inappropriate" button.
I think this was written by Sweet, Sweet Connie H. of We're an American Band fame.
Dinner at my place anyone? I have some Natural Harvests! Yes, please flag as inappropriate.
Gina
Are you inviting us to... ahem... attend?
Merlin, only if YOU are a fan of this ingredient.
Gina
No thanks, luv... methinks you overlooked my implied pun, tho' :D
Quote from: Lady Kett on March 24, 2011, 07:28:20 PM
Not exactly a news story, however it fits the "Huh?" requirement. Or at least a WTF?!
Natural Harvest (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/natural-harvest---a-collection-of-semen-based-recipes/5198959)
The interwebs are scary sometimes.
OMG. ewwwwwwww *memory beach please*. However, I am LMAO at the comments!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110324/us_yblog_thelookout/wwii-vet-discovers-hes-not-a-u-s-citizen
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42264620/ns/today-books/
There are worse things to be recognized for.
?!?! Bombproof Your Horse ?!?
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110323/NEWS13/110329812 (http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110323/NEWS13/110329812)
Which will get you in more trouble? The rip or the story?
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on March 25, 2011, 11:15:47 AM
?!?! Bombproof Your Horse ?!?
I think it means to make your horse not likely to freak out in certain situations. Basically to make them so they are tollerant to anything, and nothing with make them go nuts.
Then again, who would put a bomb on ole trigger? :)
Lol, I have to agree with LadyStitch. I've used that term as far as bombproofing dogs. I used to be in speech and debate and we would call it "hitting" when you would go up against someone in a round. We probably should have changed it after we gave ourselves a bad rep for beating up our competitors. :P
Quote from: LadyStitch on March 25, 2011, 11:18:26 AM
Then again, who would put a bomb on ole trigger? :)
Dale Evans. Roy loved that horse more than her.
Ferret
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDoQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww1.whdh.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Flocal%2F12003880493293%2Fabercrombie-fitch-sells-padded-bikini-tops-to-young-girls%2F&ei=7tORTcLQN4mE0QGglIzNBw&usg=AFQjCNFBE3-YTfMvnYpU3cZZQz9igrfW0w
What parent buys this for their daughter????
Gina
The kid was 7 years old! Sweet jeebus when I was that age, if I even thought about picking up a 2 piece I got my backside tanned. I agree why would a parent want that for a 9-10year old , much less a 7 year old.
I have NO idea. Why would a parent put their daughter in a tiny triangle bathing suit top that is molded to look like breasts?
I hope they sell exactly zero. Even more so, I hope I don't see little girls running around with "boobs" this summer!
Gina
You know who will buy these.. those people that put their 3 year olds in beauty pageants and cover their kids in makeup and make them strut like a peacock,
thats who.
All those parents should have psych evaluations done
I agree, these are the same parents that send their 3rd graders to school with fake nails, lipstick and skin tight daisy duke shorts. I actually saw one of these kids tottering about on 2 inch heels!
Sheesh, who makes high heels for kids? Probably A&F.
Oh I had 2 inch heels when I was 6 years old. I called them Click Clacks, they were for my dress up trunk, and not to be worn out of the house!
It get's me that parents will dress their kids in these outfits, and THEN get upset when an older man/teenager whisles or makes some comment. ::)
I'm sorry when my 19 year old actress is wearing a size -2 pair of jeans, which equates to a child's size 10, and she can easily pass herself off as a 10 year old with no problem. It makes you wonder if a guy would accidently hit on a 10 year old thinking she is 19.
It happened to me when I was 12 (I developed early) and scared the living crud out of me. /shutter
That's like when target or walmart were selling the girls (like little girls) panties that has "eye candy" and "hot stuff" on them. Worrying.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on March 29, 2011, 03:02:32 PM
I agree, these are the same parents that send their 3rd graders to school with fake nails, lipstick and skin tight daisy duke shorts. I actually saw one of these kids tottering about on 2 inch heels!
Sheesh, who makes high heels for kids? Probably A&F.
It probably doesn't help that Tom Cruise and Katie Holms put their little girl Suri in high heels- she is all of, what, 3? 4 maybe?
Any clothing with writing on the butt is disturbing. Well, except for at Faire when Denise wears her "Wyde Lode" sign, that is pretty funny- but other than THAT (and she isn't a young child!)
A&F took the "push-up" description off of the site but the actual PRODUCT still exists and that is just WRONG!
Parents that not only allow their daughters to dress like tarts but actually HELP them look like that need to be educated about all of the dangers of encouraging that. There is NOTHING CUTE about any of this!
Sidekick says it won't fit in the garage. :-\
HMS Ark Royal For Sale (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110329/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_aircraftcarrier_sale;_ylt=Aqppr22iY_40Wl8V5t0cYSPtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTNiZ2tzb2VoBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwMzI5L291a29lX3VrX2JyaXRhaW5fYWlyY3JhZnRjYXJyaWVyX3NhbGUEcG9zAzExBHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDcnVsZXRoZXdhdmVz)
http://www.cnn.com/video/#
a big fat "huh"?
Was that a mooo-ving violation?
Sounds like Vietnam has their own version of 'The Lady of the Lake'. interesting story....
Vietnam finally nets legendary turtle for treatment-Reuters
By John Ruwitch John Ruwitch – Mon Apr 4, 5:19 am ET
HANOI (Reuters) – Experts in Hanoi captured a legendary giant turtle for medical treatment on Sunday, a milestone in a case that has grabbed national attention and cast a spotlight on environmental degradation in Vietnam.
Several dozen people including special forces soldiers swam and used boats to pull three rings of nets around the rare beast the size of a car door with a head as big as a human's, in Hoan Kiem Lake in the heart of the Vietnamese capital.
In recent months the turtle has surfaced almost twice as frequently as in previous years, according to state-run media, and what appear to be pink sores have been photographed on its shell, neck and feet, raising alarm.
Experts believe the turtle, weighing some 200 kg (440 lb), may be suffering the effects of pollution, snaggings by fish hooks, attacks from smaller red ear turtles that have proliferated in the lake, or all three.
"Generally, the turtle is fine and stable," turtle expert Ha Dinh Duc, part of the capture operation and a member of a steering committee set up to make decisions about the elderly animal, said after it was ensnared.
Thousands of people crowded around the lake to watch.
According to Vietnamese legend, a giant turtle in the same lake -- some believe even the same animal -- reclaimed a magic sword given to king Le Loi in the 15th century that he used to win independence from China's Ming Dynasty.
The lake was thereafter named 'Ho Hoan Kiem', or 'Lake of the Returned Sword', and Hanoi has been built up around it.
Scientists have said they believe the turtle caught on Sunday may be more than 100 years old and a member of the critically endangered 'Rafetus Swinhoei' family of turtles, although others have dubbed it an independent sub species, 'Rafetus Leloii'.
"You could say it is a representative of the country so bringing the turtle up for treatment is a necessity," said 78-year-old Hanoian Luu Tien Xuan.
"The people are concerned. The leaders are concerned... It would be sad if Ho Guom didn't have the turtle in it anymore."
The case has made headlines in the local media for months, sparking some criticism over the state of the environment in fast-developing Vietnam.
"We have been too apathetic with regard to the turtle in the past as we rolled along with the speed of industrialisation and modernisation and forgot to protect its habitat... Save Ho Guom, save the environment, save ourselves!" a person named Le Tuan posted on the popular news website Vnexpress.vn.
Critics also say it took scientists and the government too long to decide how to care for the animal.
"Nobody wanted to take responsibility if it died," said one Hanoi resident who lives near the local government office facing the lake and declined to give her name.
The reptile tore a hole in a net on March 8 and escaped when workers waded into the algae-green waters of the lake, also called Ho Guom, in a first attempt to catch it.
On Sunday the turtle appeared to get past two of the nets, but a shirtless swimmer believed to be from special forces grabbed the shell and rode the animal a short while to prevent it from getting past the third net, television footage showed.
It was put into a pen on an island in the middle of the lake that has been dubbed its hospital and sanatorium.
Elf Ears Are the Rage Among Quirky Young Adults
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ear-pointing-surgery-elf-ears-mr-spock/story?id=13317198
Anyone remember the ER(?) episode where the guy comes in after giving himself "doberman" ears? :D
Colorful Poo Could Give Health Warning
Parents have long divined their child's health by reading the contents of toilets. But future humans who spot brightly colored poo could take it as a warning from genetically-engineered bacteria in their gut that they should go see a doctor.
Such a colorful scenario comes from the scientists and designers of E.Chromi, according to Co.Design. They transformed ordinary E. coli bacteria into biosensors that could change color in the presence of certain chemicals – perhaps water pollutants or chemical signals related to certain diseases.
That opens up all sorts of future possibilities. E.Chromi envisions humans gulping down special probiotic yogurt containing their bacteria in 2039. The bacteria could then colonize the gut and serve as frontline sentinels for human health and future medicine.
E.Chromi's open secret comes from using standardized DNA sequences, called BioBricks, which allow the bacteria to create colors such as red, yellow, green, blue, brown or violet. Other genes helped create a sensitivity tuner that tells the bacteria when to change color.
Such efforts won the Grand Prize at the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM). Since then, the original team from Cambridge University in the UK has joined with designers Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and James King to explore the possibilities of their technology.
The open-source work for such designer organisms is included in the iGEM database hosted by MIT. It's just one example of a growing synthetic biology movement that aims to make or redesign living organisms with human-created genetic code not found in nature.
If E.Chromi can make the application a reality, health surveillance at home could become as easy as going through the usual morning routine.
This article was provided by InnovationNewsDaily, a sister site of LiveScience.
Just the title was enough: Well-Endowed Apollo Statue to Be Re-Erected in France (http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/12/well-endowed-apollo-statue-to-be-re-erected-in-france/) (my emphasis)
Iceland's Phallological Museum finally gets human specimen (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110412/ap_on_fe_st/eu_iceland_penis_museum)
Okay then. I seem to be hitting a recurring theme in my interwebs-search-fu.
The museum is subsidized by Peter Piper who packed his pick of pickled peckers...
Returning to that Abercrombie and Fitch push up bra debacle....An outstanding Ed OP on the subject!
Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps
By LZ Granderson, CNN Contributor
April 19, 2011 8:52 a.m. EDT
Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- I saw someone at the airport the other day who really caught my eye.
Her beautiful, long blond hair was braided back a la Bo Derek in the movie "10" (or for the younger set, Christina Aguilera during her "Xtina" phase). Her lips were pink and shiny from the gloss, and her earrings dangled playfully from her lobes.
You can tell she had been vacationing somewhere warm, because you could see her deep tan around her midriff thanks to the halter top and the tight sweatpants that rested just a little low on her waist. The icing on the cake? The word "Juicy" was written on her backside.
Yeah, that 8-year-old girl was something to see alright. ... I hope her parents are proud. Their daughter was the sexiest girl in the terminal, and she's not even in middle school yet.
Abercrombie & Fitch came under fire this spring for introducing the "Ashley," a push-up bra for girls who normally are too young to have anything to push up. Originally it was marketed for girls as young as 7, but after public outcry, it raised its intended audience to the wise old age of 12. I wonder how do people initiate a conversation in the office about the undeveloped chest of elementary school girls without someone nearby thinking they're pedophiles?
What kind of PowerPoint presentation was shown to the Abercrombie executives that persuaded them to green light such a product?
That there was a demand to make little girls hot? How young is too young to be sexy?
I mean, that is the purpose of a push-up bra, right? To enhance sex appeal by lifting up, pushing together and basically showcasing the wearer's breasts. Now, thanks to AF Kids, girls don't have to wait until high school to feel self-conscious about their, uhm, girls. They can start almost as soon as they're potty trained. Maybe this fall the retailer should consider keeping a plastic surgeon on site for free consultations.
We've been here with Abercrombie before -- if you recall, about 10 years ago they sold thongs for 10-year-olds -- but they're hardly alone in pitching inappropriate clothing to young girls. Four years ago the popular "Bratz" franchise introduced padded bras called "bralettes" for girls as young as six. That was also around the time the good folks at Wal-Mart rolled out a pair of pink panties in its junior department with the phrase "Who Needs Credit Cards" printed on the front.
I guess I've been out-of-the-loop and didn't realize there's been an ongoing stampede of 10-year-old girls driving to the mall with their tiny fists full of cash demanding sexier apparel.
What's that you say? Ten-year-olds can't drive? They don't have money, either? Well, how else are they getting ahold of these push-up bras and whore-friendly panties?
Their parents?
Noooo, couldn't be.
What adult who wants a daughter to grow up with high self-esteem would even consider purchasing such items? What parent is looking at their sweet, little girl thinking, "She would be perfect if she just had a little bit more up top."
And then I remember the little girl at the airport.
And the girls we've all seen at the mall.
And the kiddie beauty pageants.
And then I realize as creepy as it is to think a store like Abercrombie is offering something like the "Ashley", the fact remains that sex only sells because people are buying it. No successful retailer would consider introducing an item like a padded bikini top for kindergarteners if they didn't think people would buy it.
If they didn't think parents would buy it, which begs the question: What in the hell is wrong with us?
It's easy to blast companies for introducing the sexy wear, but our ire really should be directed at the parents who think low rise jeans for a second grader is cute. They are the ones who are spending the money to fuel this budding trend. They are the ones who are suppose to decide what's appropriate for their young children to wear, not executives looking to brew up controversy or turn a profit.
I get it, Rihanna's really popular. But that's a pretty weak reason for someone to dress their little girl like her.
I don't care how popular Lil' Wayne is, my son knows I would break both of his legs long before I would allow him to walk out of the house with his pants falling off his butt. Such a stance doesn't always makes me popular -- and the house does get tense from time to time -- but I'm his father, not his friend.
Friends bow to peer pressure. Parents say, "No, and that's the end of it."
The way I see it, my son can go to therapy later if my strict rules have scarred him. But I have peace knowing he'll be able to afford therapy as an adult because I didn't allow him to wear or do whatever he wanted as a kid.
Maybe I'm a Tiger Dad.
Maybe I should mind my own business.
Or maybe I'm just a concerned parent worried about little girls like the one I saw at the airport.
In 2007, the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls issued a report linking early sexualization with three of the most common mental-health problems of girls and women: eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression. There's nothing inherently wrong with parents wanting to appease their daughters by buying them the latest fashions. But is getting cool points today worth the harm dressing little girls like prostitutes could cause tomorrow?
A line needs to be drawn, but not by Abercrombie. Not by Britney Spears. And not by these little girls who don't know better and desperately need their parents to be parents and not 40-year-old BFFs.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of LZ Granderson.
Bravo, LZ Granderson!
Our sons are grown, and we never had to deal with that type of stuff (if I bought it, they wore it, since it meant they didn't have to go shopping - shudder!).
LZ Granderson's article should be copied and passed out by every teacher to every parent of every child in school. And by the PTA. And by the pediatrician's office. And etc., etc.
The ability to procreate does not necessarily go hand in hand with parental responsibility and good judgment. It's sad that common sense has gone by the wayside.
I read that article yesterday and agree 100%. I live in a neighborhood with alot of kids, you woudn't believe what I see getting on and off the elementary school bus. I have a teen son, thank goodness. He's jeans and t-shirts and skate shoes.
Gina
If you don't think the death penalty is a deterrent to murder...read the last paragraph.
Man accused of stalking woman before killing her in Oak Brook
By STEVE SCHERING Sun-Times Media Apr 15, 2011 02:11AM
A 20-year-old Canadian man methodically stalked and tracked a Westmont woman before killing her Wednesday night in Oak Brook — even stopping to reload his gun and continue shooting during the attack.
DuPage County Judge Michael Wolfe denied bail Thursday for Dmitry Smirnov of Surrey, British Columbia, who is charged with the first-degree murder of Jitka Vesel, 36.
In court Thursday, DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said Smirnov met Vesel in 2008 through an Internet dating site. After they met, Smirnov moved to the United States.
But the relationship soured, and Smirnov moved back to Canada. Since 2009, Berlin said, he has been harassing Vesel. She filed a complaint that year with the Berwyn Police Department over harassing e-mail and telephone calls, Berlin said.
About two weeks ago, Smirnov decided to leave Canada, returning to the United States, Berlin said. He first stopped in Seattle to buy a .40-caliber handgun and ammunition.
Smirnov arrived in Chicago last weekend, using the Internet to locate Vesel's home, Berlin said. He then used a GPS tracking device, which he glued to Vesel's car, to track her movements via the Internet, Berlin said.
He was waiting for Vesel when she went to her car in the parking lot of the Windsor Office Park in Oak Brook, Wednesday night.
"He ran up to her, he began shooting, he reloaded and shot her some more," Berlin said. "She fell on the ground and he kept shooting. He shot her numerous times."
Smirnov then fled the scene, calling Chicago police to tell them he had killed a woman in Oak Brook, Berlin said. Chicago police contacted Oak Brook authorities, and Smirnov turned himself in to a Romeoville police officer.
Eleven shell casings were recovered at the scene, Berlin said, and investigators found the gun in Smirnov's car.
Berlin said Smirnov had done research on the Internet to determine if Illinois had the death penalty, deciding to go through with Vesel's murder when he discovered it does not.Smirnov could face up to life in prison. His next scheduled court date is May 9.
Oddly enough, years ago a similar case ended up with a successful insanity plea. The "logic" was that the number of shots expended to kill the person was not the doings of a sane person. Go figure.
The restaurant owners need to quit putting this stuff out next to the dumpsters for pickup, it might help.
Fryer grease rustling rises due to oil price hikes
By David Hendee David Hendee – 2 hrs 44 mins ago
OMAHA, Neb (Reuters) – Rises in fuel prices have led to an increase in the number of used fryer grease rustlers roaming restaurant alleys in the United States.
Grease thefts have spiked whenever fuel prices climbed during the last four years and this spring is no different, according to Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association.
"It's on the rise and it's because of higher oil prices," Cook told Reuters in a telephone interview. "I have one member who told me it's costing his business $1 million a year."
Recyclers typically contract with restaurants to pick up the waste product. The grease is cleaned and sold for use as biofuel, livestock feed and other products.
An Omaha recycler has filed theft reports with police in Omaha and Lincoln in Nebraska, and Sioux City, Iowa. Thieves recently stole about 4,200 pounds (1,909 kgs) of used grease from six Lincoln fast-food restaurants.
Processed fryer oil is not trash. It is called yellow grease and is traded. Its value is driven by higher prices of gas and ethanol.
Recyclers and collectors pay restaurants about 18 cents a pound for grease. After further processing, it can be sold for 42 to 45 cents a pound, said Cook, who is based in Alexandria, Virginia.
Yellow grease was trading for less than 8 cents a pound in 2000.
Cook said he plans to conduct an industrywide survey to determine the extent of the losses. Many restaurant owners don't realise what they are losing and local law enforcement agencies have other crime-fighting priorities, he said.
One way to curb demand for stolen grease is to alert potential buyers, especially in the feed industry, to only buy from known sources to ensure the product they receive is free of impurities and moisture, Cook said.
"The price (of yellow grease) is real good right now," he said, "and those who steal it are really getting a good deal because they're not paying for it."
OK we gotta draw the PC line right here. The reference to 'owners' in particular gave me a WTF moment.
I thought pets were property. I have to license my dogs like I license my car, I have to provide regular care and maintenance; again like my car.
In return all my 'pets' have to do is just exist (so actually I expect more from my car than my dogs)....read on.
Calling animals 'pets' is insulting, academics claim
Animal lovers should stop calling their furry or feathered friends "pets" because the term is insulting, leading academics claim.
Dogs are cleverer than cats because their friendly character has helped them develop bigger brains, a study set to end the argument between pet lovers has shown.
Domestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be re branded as "companion animals" while owners should be known as "human carers", they insist.
Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as "free-living", the academics including an Oxford professor suggest.
The call comes from the editors of then Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication devoted to the issue.
It is edited by the Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, a theologian and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, who once received an honorary degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury for his work promoting the rights of "God's sentient creatures".
In its first editorial, the journal – jointly published by Prof Linzey's centre and the University of Illinois in the US – condemns the use of terms such as "critters" and "beasts".
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It argues that "derogatory" language about animals can affect the way that they are treated.
"Despite its prevalence, 'pets' is surely a derogatory term both of the animals concerned and their human carers," the editorial claims.
"Again the word 'owners', whilst technically correct in law, harks back to a previous age when animals were regarded as just that: property, machines or things to use without moral constraint."
It goes on: "We invite authors to use the words 'free-living', 'free-ranging' or 'free-roaming' rather than 'wild animals'
"For most, 'wildness' is synonymous with uncivilized, unrestrained, barbarous existence.
"There is an obvious prejudgment here that should be avoided."
Prof Linzey and his co-editor Professor Priscilla Cohn, of Penn State University in the US, also hope to see some of the more colorful terms in the English language stamped out.
Phrases such as "sly as a fox, "eat like a pig" or "drunk as a skunk" are all unfair to animals, they claim.
"We shall not be able to think clearly unless we discipline ourselves to use less than partial adjectives in our exploration of animals and our moral relations with them," they say.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on May 03, 2011, 07:00:22 PM
OK we gotta draw the PC line right here. The reference to 'owners' in particular gave me a WTF moment.
I thought pets were property. I have to license my dogs like I license my car, I have to provide regular care and maintenance; again like my car.
In return all my 'pets' have to do is just exist (so actually I expect more from my car than my dogs)....read on.
Calling animals 'pets' is insulting, academics claim
Animal lovers should stop calling their furry or feathered friends "pets" because the term is insulting, leading academics claim.
Dogs are cleverer than cats because their friendly character has helped them develop bigger brains, a study set to end the argument between pet lovers has shown.
Domestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be re branded as "companion animals" while owners should be known as "human carers", they insist.
Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as "free-living", the academics including an Oxford professor suggest.
The call comes from the editors of then Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication devoted to the issue.
It is edited by the Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, a theologian and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, who once received an honorary degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury for his work promoting the rights of "God's sentient creatures".
In its first editorial, the journal – jointly published by Prof Linzey's centre and the University of Illinois in the US – condemns the use of terms such as "critters" and "beasts".
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It argues that "derogatory" language about animals can affect the way that they are treated.
"Despite its prevalence, 'pets' is surely a derogatory term both of the animals concerned and their human carers," the editorial claims.
"Again the word 'owners', whilst technically correct in law, harks back to a previous age when animals were regarded as just that: property, machines or things to use without moral constraint."
It goes on: "We invite authors to use the words 'free-living', 'free-ranging' or 'free-roaming' rather than 'wild animals'
"For most, 'wildness' is synonymous with uncivilized, unrestrained, barbarous existence.
"There is an obvious prejudgment here that should be avoided."
Prof Linzey and his co-editor Professor Priscilla Cohn, of Penn State University in the US, also hope to see some of the more colorful terms in the English language stamped out.
Phrases such as "sly as a fox, "eat like a pig" or "drunk as a skunk" are all unfair to animals, they claim.
"We shall not be able to think clearly unless we discipline ourselves to use less than partial adjectives in our exploration of animals and our moral relations with them," they say.
Methinks some people have too much time on their hands to think up garbage like this. Why don't they work on trying to solve the REAL problems in the world?
Quote from: Lady Renee Buchanan on May 03, 2011, 09:17:17 PM
Quote from: Rowen MacD on May 03, 2011, 07:00:22 PM
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Animal lovers should stop calling their furry or feathered friends "pets" because the term is insulting, leading academics claim.
...
Prof Linzey and his co-editor Professor Priscilla Cohn, of Penn State University in the US, also hope to see some of the more colorful terms in the English language stamped out.
...
Methinks some people have too much time on their hands to think up garbage like this. Why don't they work on trying to solve the REAL problems in the world?
I guess we now have a new colorful phrase to use, "
As disconnected as an academic." ;) :D
Wow, really?
I think those "academics" need to spend more time outdoors and/or watching nature shows if they think "wild" is not an appropriate word for non-domesticated animals.
Interestingly, I saw this headline while browsing through the newspaper the other day and didn't bother to read the article because I thought it was another stupid "hey, everybody, look at me!" stunt by PETA, not an actual journal article.
Also, I have yet to see my cat react poorly to being called my pet. I'm pretty sure she's convinced that she owns me, anyway. :)
I know what you mean, Elennare. My Malamute doesn't seem to worry about being politically correct when he takes me for a walk.
... Definitely a WTF/facepalm moment right there. I'd like to see the study behind this with some pretty graphs showing me that my pets itty bitty little hearts are crushed when I refer to them as such.
Perhaps these academics should talk to some of the free range animals to get their opinions- Lions, and Tigers, and Bears- OH MY! ...crunch, crunch, slurp, slurp! .......end of discussion. ::)
This is a local (to Omaha, Ne) story.....Sad
'Pirate' may have been suicidal
By Jason Kuiper and Emerson Clarridge
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITERS
The 38-year-old Omaha man who dressed as a pirate and armed himself with a sword was drinking and apparently suicidal when he made the 911 call that brought police to his house Thursday night.
Jonathan F. Martis' mother said Friday that her son told people he wanted to die. Martis was shot by police while wielding his sword.
Ruth Martis said she was told that Jonathan was upset when he woke up and realized he had survived the shooting.
The bizarre confrontation and shooting unfolded about 6:20 p.m., after Martis reported a disturbance at his home, 3312 X St., then met police armed with a sword. Officers commanded him to drop the sword, but he refused and advanced on them, said Officer Michael Pecha, a police spokesman.
An officer fired a Taser that appeared to have no effect on Martis. The costumed man continued to advance and was shot in the torso by Officer Troy Hiller, Pecha said.
Martis had told witnesses that he was going to harm the responding officers, Pecha said.
Ruth Martis, who lives in Washington County, said she has not talked to her son since the shooting, but she did have a phone conversation with him about an hour before.
"He was having a bad day but I told him it was just that, a bad day and that tomorrow would be better," she said.
Jonathan had threatened suicide in the past, and recently had been very down, she said. He also might have stopped taking his medication for attention-deficit disorder in recent days and started drinking more, she said.
Martis had gone to a store about 4:30 p.m. Thursday to make his usual purchase — a 12-pack of Keystone Ice, said Martis' 24-year-old friend William Settje.
By Thursday night, Ruth Martis said, her son was calling family members "like he was trying to say goodbye."
Jonathan's brother got one of the calls and went to the South Omaha house, Ruth Martis said. Jonathan was wearing the pirate costume his mother made for him.
It had multiple layers, which she speculated might have reduced the effectiveness of the Taser.
Jonathan's brother told Ruth Martis that when Jonathan was hit by the Taser, he shook a little, then "cut through the (Taser) wires with his sword and came back at cops."
Police are still interviewing people close to the situation and were not able to immediately confirm Ruth Martis' account of events.
Hiller, who has been with the department since the fall of 2004, is on administrative leave while the investigation continues.
As evidence technicians worked the scene Thursday night, pieces of Martis' maroon costume were collected in a pile in the street in front of the home. The clothing was next to a pair of handcuffs.
Martis operates an engine repair business from the home. Ruth Martis said he was having trouble at work and had been fighting with his girlfriend.
He had been glum since his girlfriend suffered a miscarriage about 2½ weeks ago, Settje said.
Settje said he met Martis last Halloween at the Brass Monkey bar, where Martis spent the evening with his girlfriend.
"He was the captain, and she was his wench," Settje said.
Settje became fast friends with Martis, whom he referred to as his "mate."
Martis had a penchant for dressing as a pirate at parties. He did not sport an eye patch but often used pirate-related makeup and carried a sword, Settje said.
He was docile and never violent, he said.
"It's just so out of the norm. It's not like Jon. But for him to wield a sword toward an officer, I just can't see that," Settje said.
He said Martis owned two swords, one purchased recently, that he kept hanging on a wall on the second floor of the home where he lived with his girlfriend.
Settje said when Martis bought the 12-pack of beer, he was not wearing the costume.
Douglas County Court records showed that Martis has a long criminal history.
He served a little over a year in prison for attempted first-degree assault and was released in March 2002.
He was sentenced to 90 days in jail in 2001 for driving under suspension, was sentenced to serve 270 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to third offense driving under the influence in 2000 and 90 days in jail for a protection order violation in 1999.
"It's sad. ... I'm not faulting the cops," Ruth Martis said. "When he gets better, I hope he goes to a mental health hospital and not jail."
His condition was not being released Friday by Creighton University Medical Center.
The Martis shooting was the second time in eight months that Omaha police shot a man wielding a sword.
Abraham A. Dawson, 25, was shot by police Sept. 10 after he threatened his 2-week-old baby at the Pine Tower apartments, 1500 Pine St.
Police said Dawson, who suffered from mental illness, was standing over the infant and refused to drop the weapon.
Officer Paul Milone shot Dawson, who died at the scene. A grand jury ruled that there was no criminal conduct in the shooting.
Calling animals 'pets' is insulting, academics claim
really?
my furr babbies don't seem insulted when i call them pets nor are they treated badly all of them seem very comfortable to me
When the pets are well treated, it's an ideal life to be a 'pet'. No need to worry about money, food, housing. Nothing is expected of you but to be a companion to the person who supports you. You are spoiled, pampered and showered with expensive and unnecessary gifts.
Sounds more like like a trophy wife than a pet.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/17/california.schwarzenegger/index.html?hpt=T2
10 years? Really? How do you hide something like this?
Gina
how do you explain the money?
i mean she's gotta notice that the same amount keeps reaccuring over and over again and there is not a new car in the drive way
When I heard about it I am sad to say it didn't totally surprise me. Why would you do this to your 8 year old child?
http://globalgrind.com/news-politics/botox-mom-gets-her-child-taken-away-her (http://globalgrind.com/news-politics/botox-mom-gets-her-child-taken-away-her)
Because she is not perfect enough. That mom should be arrested and charged with a crime.
Gina
She already is. They took the child away because they felt it was child abuse. A growing child does NOT need botox!
Quote from: LadyStitch on May 17, 2011, 11:52:38 AM
She already is. They took the child away because they felt it was child abuse. A growing child does NOT need botox!
Nobody really
needs Botox, it's a vanity product. ::)
Quote from: dbaldock on May 17, 2011, 11:57:24 AM
Quote from: LadyStitch on May 17, 2011, 11:52:38 AM
She already is. They took the child away because they felt it was child abuse. A growing child does NOT need botox!
Nobody really needs Botox, it's a vanity product. ::)
You got
that right, David. She's so vain, she probably thinks this thread is about her...
Annnd now that song is lodged in my head.
I really hope they throw the book at her. There are too many mothers that are in a hurry to have their little girls grow up too fast, Trust me I know the type I work for one of those moms she hasnt gone that far but some days I wouldnt put it past her.
One of my friends in grade school did kids pagents, but her parents would only enter her in one's called "natural" pagents. You weren't allowed hair dressers, tanning, maicures, make up, dental appliances. You were only allowed certain beauty products (hair spray and the like). They also did their walks in a uniform style outfit that was dictated by the pagent. The idea was that the kids were judged for now naturally pretty/ cute they were NOT by what they were made out to be. She did it until she was in high school, when playing sports had more appeal than spending her weekend at parents. She was happy and well ajusted. Those pagents, I 'could' agree with, but only if the kid is honestly haveing fun.
BERLIN (Reuters) – One in three university students in the German capital would consider sex work as a means to finance their education, a study from the Berlin Studies Center said on Wednesday. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110518/lf_nm_life/us_germany_odd_prostitution)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/ (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/)
Quote from: LadyShadow on May 19, 2011, 07:26:54 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/ (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/)
Love it!
I'm glad to see that somebody in the government has a sense of humour...
Hey if it works, it works. ;D
Quote from: LadyShadow on May 19, 2011, 07:26:54 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/ (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/)
OK, for a minute there I was thinking they were talking about this Saturday, May 21st,2011. That's the latest estimate for when the world is supposed to end (again).
Heres one for Judgement Day. For those leaving the Earth that day rest assured you pets can be taken care of.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110518/od_afp/usreligionanimalsoffbeat_20110518180405 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110518/od_afp/usreligionanimalsoffbeat_20110518180405)
Quote from: LadyShadow on May 19, 2011, 06:24:06 PM
Heres one for Judgement Day. For those leaving the Earth that day rest assured you pets can be taken care of.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110518/od_afp/usreligionanimalsoffbeat_20110518180405 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110518/od_afp/usreligionanimalsoffbeat_20110518180405)
ROFL, that's great.
BWAAHahahhaa... Those people will get rich! I wish I'd thought of that.
my thing is they act like your going on vacation and will be back hello if your leaving your not coming back
Weird accident....The insurance report had to be interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110525/ap_on_re_as/as_new_zealand_human_balloon
ok :o
errr 0_o
Mythbusters sould try that out lol
Uh.... I have heard of doctors using compressed air in abdominal surgery, but this.... Ouch! Thankfully they have socialized medicine but still....I think this qualifys as a "untold story of the ER"
Quote from: Adriana Rose on May 25, 2011, 02:21:23 PM
errr 0_o
Mythbusters sould try that out lol
I would soooooo tune in for that episode.....
While not really weird, this stuck me as a bit disconcerting.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112839/stores-stock-new-light-bulbs-switch-wsj
While I use CFL's where ever I can, there are still more than a few instances where they cannot (according to the manufacturer) be used that really makes you stop and see that they are not the %100 perfect replacement for incandescant bulbs that the manufacturers, advertisers and of course the environmentalists would have everybody think they are. Sure they are cheaper to use, and have a much longer life, but there are quite a few limitations to their usage.
For example:
Dimmer switches-though apparently you can now buy special CFL's for those at a signifigant increase in price.
Ceiling fans-According ot the manufacturer, you should not use CFL's on fans, any other light fixture that could vibrate, or any enclosed fixture.
This restriction may be a deal breaker for a lot of folks. In my home, practically allthe ceiling lights in my house are also fans, and/or sport one of those frosted glass dome covers, and just about everybody I know has the same issue. In fact my very pretty dining room fan/light (installed just last fall) cannot take CFC's because it is a fan and it has a bulb enclosure/decorative cover. You should not use a CFL in a bathroom fan/ceiling light for the same reason. Ditto the light in my exhaust hood over my stove (though I do have a CFL in there right now).
Recessed lighting fixtures-Apparently CFL's have an optimal operating temperature range and if you put one in your recessed light fixture like the one over your shower or kitchen sink you void the warranty. Once again you can buy one suitable for this purpose. I did, and it wasn't cheap.
You can't use them in Easy Bake Ovens.
Note: I have no experience with LED bulbs, since $20.00 each is a bit out of my price range. I am sure they are the bulb of the future, but they will need to get waaay cheaper before they catch on with the average consumer.
Another thing with the CFL's a lot of people don't realize is they've got Mercury in them and need to be disposed of as hazardous waste. Also, you're not supposed to use them in places where the base is above the bulb - the minimal heat it produces goes up into the electronics that make them work and kills the bulb much faster than it's supposed to.
I really like the LED lights as a replacement, aside from the prices, and the current difficulty in finding bright enough ones in shapes/sizes that fit a standard light socket. I really hope they catch on, rather than the CFLs. Sadly, the CFLs seem to have all the marketing behind them. :(
Quote from: Elennare on June 06, 2011, 02:51:11 PM
I really like the LED lights as a replacement, aside from the prices, and the current difficulty in finding bright enough ones in shapes/sizes that fit a standard light socket. I really hope they catch on, rather than the CFLs. Sadly, the CFLs seem to have all the marketing behind them. :(
I have been surfing the web off and on since I saw this article, and I am concerned at all the hyperbole vs fact about CFL's. You have to dig to find any unbiased blogs/articles or anything else purporting to be 'fact' that even mentions any of the above concerns or drawbacks of these light bulbs. In fact, I dug up all of the 'negative' points I listed in my original post from the manufacturers website, not the sites the regular Joe would read. Seems there are few willing to point out that there might actually be
drawbacks to CFL's. According to the media hoopla, it's the best thing since sliced bread, which automatically makes me suspicious.
The companies marketing these and (of more concern to me) environmentalists are pushing CFL usage extremely hard. I can't count how many times I have read or heard 'Just pop one of these babies in
any place you currently use a regular light bulb' like there isn't tons of fine print about the dangers and restrictions on their use. Right now the only benefit that I can see is that they save electricity and (theoretically) space in the land fill, but the fact is most of us won't bother to collect and recycle them (which I do, but then I recycle shopping bags too) and will just chuck them in the trash the same way we do with regular light bulbs which are not toxic. So much for being better for the environment.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/06/anthony-weiner-twitter-new-photos_n_871817.html
What a ....Weiner.
Gina
http://blog.chron.com/hottopics/2011/06/boat-named-titanic-ii-sinks-on-maiden-voyage/
Boat named Titanic II sinks on maiden voyage
If you name your boat Titanic II, you're asking for it.
LOL... OMG, sooo awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs&feature=player_embedded
Lady Dracolich, that is the best thing I have heard in a while! I may be getting crotchety in my old age, but I absolutely hate the rudeness that cell phones have brought out in people.
Blue Lobsters, who knew? (http://beta.news.yahoo.com/blogs/newsroom/once-blue-lobster-045831966.html)
hmmm he would go nicely with my blue obsession
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/cursed-number-39-haunts-afghan-car-owners-065317414.html
it's just a number
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2011/06/15/pkg.moos.married.mannequin.cnn?hpt=li_t3
Very weird!
Strawberry, chocolate, vanilla ... cicada?
By Lili Ladaga
If you're an adventurous diner, you might want to get yourself over to Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream in Columbia, Mo., to see if they have any leftover cicada ice cream. Yes, cicada as in the BUG. As in BUG ice cream.
Sparky's employees are allowed to get a little crazy when it comes to new ice cream flavors, so they may have been inspired by all the 13-year cicada corpses lying about after they emerged last month.
Boiled, then coated in chocolate, the crunchy buggers taste like nuts, apparently. (You know what else tastes like nuts? NUTS.) The shop discontinued the "flavor" after the Health Department advised them to quit serving bugs-n-cream.
Apparently 'class entitlement' is taught at Yale. She must be a grad student in the subject....
Woman says she's too 'educated' to be kicked off New York train
By Liz Goodwin
By Liz Goodwin liz Goodwin – Fri Jun 17, 10:20 am ET
Loud cell-phone talkers strike again!
A woman traveling on New York's Metro North train line was recorded by a fellow passenger telling train employees that she is too "well-educated" to be told to quiet down and not use profanity in her cell-phone conversation.
"Do you know what schools I've been to? How well-educated I am?" she asks the train employee, who is seen explaining to another employee that she asked the passenger to stop using the "F-bomb."
"I'm sorry do you think I'm a little hoodlum?" she asks, then demands her money back and dares the conductor to stop the train.
The person who originally uploaded the video to Youtube (who has since removed it) said in the description that the woman "was talking too loud on the train when the conductor politely asked her to keep it down and stop using profanity or to take it to the vestibule." After the altercation, the conductor came on the loudspeaker and reminded people to keep conversations quiet, "especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport."
Last month, a woman was escorted from a quiet car in an Amtrak train by police after she chatted loudly on her cell phone for most of the 16-hour journey, and then became angry when passengers asked her to stop.
http://youtu.be/Huw3RvaACvI
Oh, Lord Have Mercy! She should have be let off the train...in fact, pushed off when the train was going over a large body of water.
Why is it that people on cell phones do not understand that their conversations are public?!?! "I was having a private conversation," she says. Uh-huh! Cell phones=Evil Invention!
cell phone = electronic leash
Quote from: Lady Christina de Pond on June 17, 2011, 03:52:00 PM
cell phone = electronic leash
You've got that right! This "dawg" ain't gonna be on a leash!
I went in the bathroom today at work & could hear a woman obviously using the rest room talking on her cell. Wonder how she explained the whooshing noise.........
Ewwwwwww......
Steak Made from Human Excrement: Is It Safe?
LiveScience.com
LiveScience.com livescience.com – Fri Jun 17, 4:50 pm ET
The mere idea is stomach-churning: creating food from human feces.
But researchers in Japan say they have done just that. They have synthesized meat from proteins found in human waste, according to news reports.
While the concept of chowing down on steak derived from poop may not exactly be appetizing, we wondered: is this meat safe?
In theory, yes, experts say. But the meat must be cooked, which will kill any noxious pathogens before you eat it.
"In the food safety world we say, 'don't eat poop,'" said Douglas Powell, a professor of food safety at Kansas State University. "But if you're going to, make sure it's cooked."
The Japanese researchers isolated proteins from bacteria in sewage. The poop-meat concoction is prepared by extracting the basic elements of food — protein, carbohydrates and fats — and recombining them.
The meat is made from 63 percent proteins, 25 percent carbohydrates, 3 percent lipids and 9 percent minerals, according to Digital Trends. Soy protein is added to the mix to increase the flavor, and food coloring is used to make the product appear red.
The researchers came up with the idea after Tokyo Sewage asked them to figure out a use for the abundance of sewage in mud, Digital Trends says.
Powell is not familiar with the researchers' method, but said he guesses that they are first heat-treating the sewage before they reap its resources.
Powell said the idea is not all that different from eating plants that have been fertilized with manure or other excrement, because the nutrients in the poop become part of the plants.
"Theoretically, there's nothing wrong with this," Powell said. "It could be quite safe to eat, but I'm sure there's a yuck factor there," he said.
However, Powell said there is the potential for cross contamination in the laboratory where the poop meat is made. That's why it's a good thing the meat will eventually be cooked.
But what if the final product was not going to be cooked?
"I wouldn't touch it, " Powell said.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on June 18, 2011, 08:09:02 AM
... but I'm sure there's a yuck factor there," he said. ...
Can you say
DUH?!? I knew you could!
It appears that the "privy monster" is alive and well in Colorado: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110622/us_nm/us_colorado_toilet_crime
All I have to say is YUCK....... and that the privy behind my shop is SO getting locked!
http://gabbysgab.com/?p=2052
ikini
bikini that charges gadgets
my question WHY?
I need the can of beer chiller!
Gina
I'm not sure who is weirder, Stephen Moyer, hsi wife or the fans of True Blood.
http://celebs.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979494733
Ghost city that Appears Above Chinese River
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/27/lost-civilization-appears-above-chinese-river/?test=faces
The giant mirage appeared across the skyline in East China earlier this month after heavy rainfall and humid conditions covered the Xin'an River.
As mist settled over the river at dusk, tall buildings appeared to rise from nowhere, leading residents in nearby Huanshan City to speculate that the vision may be a "vortex" to a lost civilization.
**
video is below the story.
That is beyond cool. It's a reasonably rare phenomenon that some meteorologists believe is responsible for the 'Flying Dutchman' sightings. You can imagine how a sailor of a few centuries ago would react to this....
NetRule#1~Never send an email that you wouldn't want everybody on the internet to see~
I have not seen the entire message and will reserve judgment until I do, but since the excerpts looked a little biased to me, I went to the link below.
Though the email here is stillnot shown in it's entirety; it does look like the future (step) Mom-in-law went way over the line. Seems she is more concerned that her step-sons' choice of bride will bring her social status down, more than she is concerned about her prospective daughter in law's manners.
Is she is trying to get the couple to call it off by showing how vicious she is?
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23965571-in-the-white-corner-the-bride-in-the-pink-the-mother-in-law-from-hell.do
Stepmom is way out of bounds. Also, I had to Google Ladette to Lady....interesting!
Gina
"You regularly draw attention to yourself. Perhaps you should ask yourself why. No one gets married in a castle unless they own it. It is brash, celebrity style behaviour."
Wait. You mean, it's uncouth behaviour to get married in a castle? I think the MIL is crazy!
This is just too odd.
What the hey does being gay have to do with anything except sexuality? I don't recall history books emphasizing the sexual preferences of some general or other historically important figure one way or the other....This is just so irrelevant.
http://news.yahoo.com/california-lawmakers-pass-bill-teach-gay-history-012938470.html
Quote from: Rowen MacD on July 06, 2011, 12:46:23 PM
This is just too odd.
What the hey does being gay have to do with anything except sexuality? I don't recall history books emphasizing the sexual preferences of some general or other historically important figure one way or the other....This is just so irrelevant.
http://news.yahoo.com/california-lawmakers-pass-bill-teach-gay-history-012938470.html
I think it was just kind of a preemptive strike against the sort of bill that Tennessee passed. You're right. Gay
should only be about sexuality, but so many people try to make it out to be so much more, and are completely irrational when it comes to discussing the difference between one person and another, be it sexuality or anything else. It's so ridiculous to have to go to these lengths just to convince people that this is
supposed to be a free country. Sometimes, we fail miserably.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/vegetable-garden-brings-criminal-charges-oak-park-michigan/story?id=14047214 (http://abcnews.go.com/US/vegetable-garden-brings-criminal-charges-oak-park-michigan/story?id=14047214)
Woman Faces Jail Time For Growing Vegetable Garden in Her Own Front Lawn
Ok she as a rather nicely landscape vegtable garden in her front lawn because the city tore up her front lawn due to sewage drain issues. And you are sending her to jail why?
yeah i don't understand either i mean it is her front yard and they did tear it up why can't she plant what she wants?
I have heard of home owners associations raising a ruckus over how some people's yards are land scaped , or some ornament that has been put there , but never a city.
I knew there was a case a while back where a guy in texas cultivated his front yard so it had blue bells, and other protected wild flowers, and used native grasses. Because his lawn was done with 'special' flowers he couldn't legally mow his front lawn or be arrested. Very odd case, but nothing like what this lady is facing.
Some places are a lot stricter than others, but believe it or not, in some areas, there is even a minimum percentage of your front yard that must be grass...the non-intoxicating variety. It can be ridiculous at times. Subdivisions in my neck of the woods (literally) are not allowed to have chain-link fences. Only wrought iron or wooden fences are permitted. What really blows is that there is no requirement for keeping your wooden fence in good repair, consequently, you'll see them with slats missing, support posts missing, or whole sections missing, yet they will cite you for having non-cultivars in excess of 6 inches in height.
Seriously this dude needs to be removed from 'office'.
When her case goes to trial the judge should toss it out immediately and force this ding bat to personally pay all her legal fees, pay back the city's fees for undertaking this madness and then fire him.
People like this guy who have a power complex are whats wrong with this country- good grief.
If I were her neighbor I would have already planted my entire front lawn full of vegetable boxes.
Since his defense is that its not 'suitable' because noone else is doing it, if half of the neighborhood has vegetable boxes he can stick his excuse up his nose.
Sorry this really got on my nerves.
http://t.co/7RcFFQl
Man in dress gets kicked out of Pizza Hut. Try a kilt next time!
Gina
Well, if he'd had the legs for it, it would have been different... ;D
the dress was too short and made him look pregnant, he should have gone for something with a lower waist
shorter heels too, he looked like an idot.
Quote from: Adriana Rose on July 14, 2011, 01:01:40 PM
shorter heels too, he looked like an idot.
ROFLMAO!! Yeah! The heels would have made all the difference in the world! You crack me up, Adriana!
Accused sex offender allowed to watch child porn in jail
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/125454238.html
What the.....
:o
wouldn't you be trying to get him away from that?
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/Australia_Mom_eBay_Auctions_Kids_20110718.shtml (http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/Australia_Mom_eBay_Auctions_Kids_20110718.shtml)
Quote from: Rowen MacD on July 18, 2011, 03:11:39 PM
Accused sex offender allowed to watch child porn in jail
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/125454238.html
What the.....
:o
OMG That is just wrong. Stupid loopholes need to be fixed. And what he's doing needs to be stopped.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parentdish.com%2F2011%2F03%2F30%2Fbreast-milk-baby-doll%2F&ei=e38lTqqUKYnf0QG8uuDuCg&usg=AFQjCNGk8TueAsn0elW4avkKoAH4c25Heg
Breast milk baby doll. Can we all say WTF?
Gina
Quote from: arbcoind on July 19, 2011, 08:01:43 AM
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parentdish.com%2F2011%2F03%2F30%2Fbreast-milk-baby-doll%2F&ei=e38lTqqUKYnf0QG8uuDuCg&usg=AFQjCNGk8TueAsn0elW4avkKoAH4c25Heg
Breast milk baby doll. Can we all say WTF?
Gina
I like the comment one woman made: "Can't we just let little girls be little?", kinda puts it in a nutshell.
I noticed there were a few 'Commandos of the La Leche League' out there warning folks not to say anything negative about this doll. Heaven forbid that common sense should get in the way of being PC ::).
Time for a road trip. *sigh*
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/mystery-mansion-rises-in-the-ozarks.html
I'm glad they didn't put it in Branson. So much of the area's natural beauty has been destroyed by devlopers in the 1980's & 90. I can see what they are trying to do, and would make a great show piece. Worst case, if this doesn't work they can turn it into a retreat location for conventions and such.
I mean think about it what Clan/Family wouldn't give to have a house that size available to hire out for a weekend? 14 bed rooms , 13 bathrooms, all surrounded by beautiful natural beauty.
Given that Brad Pitt is from Springfield, and DOES own a community just south of Springfield that he and a few other stars have been known to have getaways to, it isn't a big surprise for people to speculate that the house might have belonged to them.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on July 20, 2011, 05:25:47 PM
Time for a road trip. *sigh*
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/mystery-mansion-rises-in-the-ozarks.html
If you want to see a really BIG mansion, visit the
Biltmore House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Estate) in Asheville, NC. It's
100,000 square feet larger than the one that's being built in the Ozarks. It's been 116 years since it was finished (built from 1889-1895), and it is
still the largest privately-owned home in the USA. While the estate is currently 8,000 acres, it was originally 125,000 acres.
A study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that soldiers carrying armour in Medieval times would have been using more than twice the amount of energy had they not been wearing it.
website has a short video of someone walking and running the armor: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/2259/heavy_metal_hardens_battle
**
this may not be the 'correct' thread but I laughed with a slight 'duh' observation...
Quote from: redkimba on July 21, 2011, 10:25:03 PM
A study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that soldiers carrying armour in Medieval times would have been using more than twice the amount of energy had they not been wearing it.
website has a short video of someone walking and running the armor: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/2259/heavy_metal_hardens_battle
**
this may not be the 'correct' thread but I laughed with a slight 'duh' observation...
LOL, yes, definitely a DUH moment.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20072270-71/japanese-scientist-creates-poop-burger-surely-not/ (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20072270-71/japanese-scientist-creates-poop-burger-surely-not/)
http://www.ky3.com/news/ktvi-80-year-old-woman-shot-in-face-with-arrow-20110726,0,5099202.story?track=rss (http://www.ky3.com/news/ktvi-80-year-old-woman-shot-in-face-with-arrow-20110726,0,5099202.story?track=rss)
She is one lucky, and tough old lady that is for sure.
There are plenty of humans that will do this for free......and no bears will be harmed!
Bears saved from forced vodka drinking (Reuters)
Wednesday, 03 August 2011 09:47
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine's Environment Minister Mykola Zlochevsky vowed on Wednesday to free all bears kept in restaurants for entertainment purposes and often forced to drink alcohol, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
Captured and tamed bears were often used for entertainment in the Russian Empire, which included Ukraine, turning the animal into a national symbol.
The practice appears to have also survived Ukraine's emergence from Soviet rule, but Zlochevsky said it was inhumane and unacceptable today.
"On television, they keep showing bears suffering in restaurants and roadside hotels," Interfax quoted him as saying. "How long can we tolerate animal torture in restaurants where drunken guests make bears drink vodka for laughs?"
Zlochevsky said his ministry was building a large enclosure in a wildlife sanctuary where it would place about 80 bears it planned to liberate.
This one speaks for itself . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYjtCDp8Yxg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYjtCDp8Yxg)
I watched this on CNN two nights ago. Scary stuff.
Gina
Full story here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2011/08/10-year-old-vogue-model-pretty-or-pretty-weird.html
This quote says it all: "There's something more than ironic about all this, coming as it does just after an international crackdown on child pornography led by the U.S. Justice and Homeland Security departments."
These pictures are ridiculous. I don't care what Vogue says; these pics are of a child tarted up to look like she was going to a nightclub, and that's just wrong.
There should be minimum age for fashion models preferable older than 16. I guess they can't find enough boy-like waifs to model their 'women's wear'.
Heaven forbid models should have breasts and hips, it just ruins the line of the clothes.
I've quit paying attention to any female that is either not gray-haired or showing some other indication of age. I started this procedure many years ago when one of my band-mates brought a girl to rehearsal with him. I ogled her until he told me that she was his 13-year-old daughter (luckily, he didn't see the ogling). She wasn't wearing a lot of makeup, but she was definitely handling herself as someone much older...I had her pegged as being 20-ish.
There's enough bad stuff happening in this world to youngsters without fanning the flames. Think back a few years to the case of JonBenét Ramsey. You look at a head shot of her, and she looks like a gorgeous 19yo model. I cannot shake the idea that the reason she was murdered at the age of 6 was somehow related to this. I view with disdain any parent that would do this to a young child. I don't think any child should be subjected to the rigors of competition until the teens, and then very controlled. That puts me in a very tiny group, I know...
Not a tiny group. I agree with you Merlin.
WTF are this child's parents thinking? What is she selling? Who is her audience? I don't get it. It's no wonder I stopped reading/looking at Vogue magazine a long time ago.
Gina
I can't watch 'Toddlers and Tiaras' for longer than 2 minutes for the same reason. It just creeps me out. It makes me acutely uneasy to see babies in makeup, spray tans and hairpieces, winking at the judges and wiggling their butts at the audience.
I just keep imagining there is some sicko out in the TV audience who is enjoying that show for all the worst reasons.
The Moms have the audacity to say that the kids 'want this' and all but demand to be allowed to compete.....um....sure.
Orange goo washing up on shores in Alaska
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/05/orange-goo-kivalina_n_919182.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/05/orange-goo-kivalina_n_919182.html)
Hmm. Not petroleum based. Travel time by ocean current via Japan ?
Quote from: Rowen MacD on August 05, 2011, 12:38:44 PM
Full story here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2011/08/10-year-old-vogue-model-pretty-or-pretty-weird.html
This quote says it all: "There's something more than ironic about all this, coming as it does just after an international crackdown on child pornography led by the U.S. Justice and Homeland Security departments."
These pictures are ridiculous. I don't care what Vogue says; these pics are of a child tarted up to look like she was going to a nightclub, and that's just wrong.
There should be minimum age for fashion models preferable older than 16. I guess they can't find enough boy-like waifs to model their 'women's wear'.
Heaven forbid models should have breasts and hips, it just ruins the line of the clothes.
Beyond creepy. And apparently in France there are photos that were published with the girl topless except for some beads hiding well... yeah, as well as the girl topless in bed with an adult male. Way beyond creepy.
Quote from: Archer on August 03, 2011, 11:55:21 PM
This one speaks for itself . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYjtCDp8Yxg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYjtCDp8Yxg)
OMG. That's scary....
Things that make you say hmmm, or huh ?
others. . . ah ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R81JeuqeRkc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R81JeuqeRkc)
This is one show I don't watch. The Ewwwwww factor is way up there.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2023818/Woman-eats-husbands-ashes-Is-strangest-addiction-all.html
Rome police arrest Colosseum 'gladiator' gang
http://news.yahoo.com/rome-police-arrest-colosseum-gladiator-gang-000250682.html
Italian police have arrested 20 gladiator impersonators in an undercover sting aimed at ending a violent racket operating around Rome's most famous tourist sites, Italian press reported on Thursday.
Police disguised as gladiators, dustbin men and members of the public raided the gang made up of seven families working with five tourist agencies.
**
how does one describe getting robbed? "No, seriously, Officer; a Roman gladiator mugged me. Hello? Hello..."
These fit the topic header . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haeh3L1kcII (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haeh3L1kcII)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSbRCg0B4g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSbRCg0B4g)
mainstream news collage . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=awwCfyXRj3Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=awwCfyXRj3Q)
Finale, Italy . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=o1515ujK7AI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=o1515ujK7AI)
Quote from: Archer on August 13, 2011, 10:20:47 AM
These fit the topic header . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haeh3L1kcII (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haeh3L1kcII)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSbRCg0B4g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSbRCg0B4g)
mainstream news collage . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=awwCfyXRj3Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=awwCfyXRj3Q)
Finale, Italy . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=o1515ujK7AI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=o1515ujK7AI)
footnotes to the news broadcasts . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k7FS8yEiU8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k7FS8yEiU8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGOMd8j_0A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGOMd8j_0A)
Given the artestry we all know and love, I can not understand why someone would steal one of these. The one posting where a homeless person broke into her house and took her quilt in the middle of winter, THAT I can understand, but the other people? Why?
http://lostquilt.com/ (http://lostquilt.com/)
Houston man must pay child support for kid who is not his
A new state law that says men don't have to pay child support for children proven to not be theirs has come too late for one Houston man.
KHOU is reporting Ray Thomas must pay $52,000 in support of a girl DNA tests has proven is 100 percent not his biological child.
Men, if you believe you're not the biological father of a child you'll want to act fast to clear that up.
The change to the Texas Family Code allows men who are listed as fathers without the confirmation of DNA tests to protest their paternity. If the test proves they are not the father the court will issue an order of termination.
However, the termination order will only eliminate any future child support payments. Men who find themselves victims of mistaken paternity will still be responsible for any past child support orders.
Men have until September 1, 2012, to file for the petition regardless of when they became aware they were not the father. After that date a man will have just one year from the date he found out he was not the father to file the petition.
The law does not apply to adoptive fathers or those who participated in assisted reproduction/gestational agreements.
This topic/idea seems to be in the news . . . like a good bit, lately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F_10Me1p8w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F_10Me1p8w)
Then, an alternate point of view on the same subject/topic. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ALLUuvsVkM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ALLUuvsVkM)
Ferry runs aground after captain stuck in toilet
Reuters By Jussi Rosendahl
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish ferry has run aground while its captain was stuck in the bathroom.
One member of staff managed to slow the island-hopping tourist ferry down, but the vessel, carrying 54 passengers, slammed onto a rock near the shore of Helsinki, the Finnish coastguard said on Friday.
The captain got stuck in the bathroom because of a jammed lock and yelled for help, the coastguard said.
Some passengers were bruised and tableware was broken in the incident. The coastguard is investigating whether the captain's actions amounted to criminal endangerment.
"He was stuck in the toilet. As soon as the staff member got the door open, it was too late," said Jan Sundell, head of investigation.
The phrase that immediately comes to mind is, "Ain't that the sh*ts?"
The head of investigation needs to investigate the head! :P
A sad story. . . :-\
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/paul-wu-abandoned-dog-note_n_933343.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/paul-wu-abandoned-dog-note_n_933343.html)
:'( :'( :'( thats horrible
My heart goes out to the youngster who gave up the dog. Too often children of divorce feel they are resposible for the divorce. Been there, done that, got the baggage. :(
Let the wise cracks commence....
Bull semen spill causes scare, closes highway
ReutersBy Tim Ghianni | Reuters – Wed, Aug 24, 2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - A spill of frozen bull semen bound for a breeder in the state of Texas triggered a scare on Tuesday that temporarily shut down a U.S. interstate highway during the morning rush hour.
The incident began when the driver of a Greyhound bus carrying the freight alerted the fire department he had lost a part of his load while negotiating the ramp on a highway near Nashville.
"We didn't know what it was, but we were told (the canisters) were non-toxic," said Maggie Lawrence, a fire department spokeswoman.
When firefighters arrived on the ramp, they saw "four small propane-sized canisters (that) began to emit a light vapor," Lawrence said.
In addition to the vapor, the canisters also let off an unpleasant odor and the ramp was closed while emergency personnel tried to determine what was in the containers.
The bus driver turned around to retrieve the canisters. Once emergency personnel learned the smoking canisters were nothing hazardous and that they simply contained frozen bull semen that had been stored on dry ice, Tennessee Department of Transportation and fire department workers cleared the ramp.
"It was no different to us than if a mattress fell off a truck," said transportation spokeswoman B.J. Doughty.
Shall I start? Better bull semen than bull "shift"
i just find that a little humorous i mean why did they put it on the bus? why not fed ex
I didn't know you could ship anything on a Greyhound Bus. Must be cheap!
Gina
Barbershop shut down due to animal sacrifices. (http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/Barbershop-Shut-Down-Dueto-Animal-Sacrifices-128010433.html)
They ship via Greyhound Bus because it is the very fastest way to get there.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on August 25, 2011, 12:50:10 PM
Let the wise cracks commence....
Bull semen spill causes scare, closes highway
ReutersBy Tim Ghianni | Reuters – Wed, Aug 24, 2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - A spill of frozen bull semen bound for a breeder in the state of Texas triggered a scare on Tuesday that temporarily shut down a U.S. interstate highway during the morning rush hour.
The incident began when the driver of a Greyhound bus carrying the freight alerted the fire department he had lost a part of his load while negotiating the ramp on a highway near Nashville.
"We didn't know what it was, but we were told (the canisters) were non-toxic," said Maggie Lawrence, a fire department spokeswoman.
When firefighters arrived on the ramp, they saw "four small propane-sized canisters (that) began to emit a light vapor," Lawrence said.
In addition to the vapor, the canisters also let off an unpleasant odor and the ramp was closed while emergency personnel tried to determine what was in the containers.
The bus driver turned around to retrieve the canisters. Once emergency personnel learned the smoking canisters were nothing hazardous and that they simply contained frozen bull semen that had been stored on dry ice, Tennessee Department of Transportation and fire department workers cleared the ramp.
"It was no different to us than if a mattress fell off a truck," said transportation spokeswoman B.J. Doughty.
Article about bull semen spill. Driver says he lost a part of his load. Transportation spokeswoman's name is B.J. Doughty. Too funny. lol
Quote from: Baron Frederick on August 25, 2011, 10:23:51 PM
They ship via Greyhound Bus because it is the very fastest way to get there.
Only if it makes it at all... :o
Quote from: Dragonlord on August 25, 2011, 11:37:11 PM
Article about bull semen spill. Driver says he lost a part of his load. Transportation spokeswoman's name is B.J. Doughty. Too funny. lol
Careful where you go with that... ;) :D
guess they will think twice before they ship via greyhound bus again
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on August 26, 2011, 07:40:41 AM
Quote from: Baron Frederick on August 25, 2011, 10:23:51 PM
They ship via Greyhound Bus because it is the very fastest way to get there.
Only if it makes it at all... :o
Quote from: Dragonlord on August 25, 2011, 11:37:11 PM
Article about bull semen spill. Driver says he lost a part of his load. Transportation spokeswoman's name is B.J. Doughty. Too funny. lol
Careful where you go with that... ;) :D
Some poor farm worker with an AV is mourning a good collection day here.....
Quote from: Lady Christina de Pond on August 26, 2011, 08:32:09 AM
guess they will think twice before they ship via greyhound bus again
I never would have considered putting a bull and a greyhound together to start with...
Yesterday drove home from PARF in the rain. Later in the evening Irene hit Delaware with a vengence. Today I watched TV coverage (Philly station). Best laugh of the day... an emergency response worker was explaining the dangers of walking in flooded streets, noting that many man hole covers were lifted up by the flood waters, leaving the man holes uncovered. The blonde (really) TV reporter said "So the man hole covers are floating around loose causing a hazard...". HUH!??? Yeah, gotta watch that those covers don't bang into you as they float along!!!!!
Quote from: BubbleWright on August 28, 2011, 05:41:59 PM
Yesterday drove home from PARF in the rain. Later in the evening Irene hit Delaware with a vengence. Today I watched TV coverage (Philly station). Best laugh of the day... an emergency response worker was explaining the dangers of walking in flooded streets, noting that many man hole covers were lifted up by the flood waters, leaving the man holes uncovered. The blonde (really) TV reporter said "So the man hole covers are floating around loose causing a hazard...". HUH!??? Yeah, gotta watch that those covers don't bang into you as they float along!!!!!
Hilarious. ;D
There is a rare and little known oddity of physics that may explain this phenomenon of floating manhole covers. I believe it's known as Incidence of BS. It typically occurs when a reporter (or politician) opens their mouth.
Certainly seems that way.
Insanity runs rampant . . . parents punish child to death, imposing 5 days with no water . . . for bed wetting. :'(
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/jonathan-james-dead-deydration_n_939728.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C90306 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/jonathan-james-dead-deydration_n_939728.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C90306)
If found guilty, off with their heads. (http://forum.mininova.org/public/style_emoticons/default/guillotine.gif)
What made me go HUH!!! :o This morning 2 teens suing their mom. Said she is a bad mom. I can't remember why the boy was suing but the girl said her mom texted her to make sure she would be home by curfew. And the daughter was upset that her mom wouldn't buy her an expensive dress for prom. OH WAIT IT GETS BETTER. Her husband is representing the kids in court.
Doesn't that bite your butt!!
Not so much because there is often more to the story. Family Immunity At Common Law, a child could sue a parent for breach of contract and for torts related to property. An adult could sue his or her parent for any tort, whether personal or related to property. In 1891, the Mississippi Supreme Court, in Hewllette v. George, 9 So. 885 (1891), held that a child could not seek compensation for personal injury that was caused by a parent's wrongdoing, so long as the Parent and Child were obligated by their family duties to one another. The decision was based not on precedent but rather on public policy: The court found that such a lawsuit would undermine the "peace of society and of the families composing society." Criminal laws, the court found, were adequate to protect children.
Other states fell in step with Mississippi, adopting parental immunity of varying degrees. Some parental-immunity laws prohibited only claims of negligence, whereas others prohibited lawsuits for intentional torts such as rapes and beatings. The rationale supporting parental-immunity laws includes the need to preserve family harmony and, with the availability of liability insurance, the need to prevent parents and the children from colluding to defraud insurance companies.
Unjust results have led courts in many states that espouse parental immunity to carve out exceptions to the rule. For example, a child usually (some states) can sue a parent for negligence when the parent has failed to provide food or medical care, but not when the parent has merely exercised parental authority. Most courts have abolished the parental-immunity defense for car accident claims, and many allow children to sue their parents for negligent business or employment actions. Courts normally permit Wrongful Death suits to be brought by a child against a parent or by a parent against a child, because death terminates the parent-child relationship. Most states allow a child to sue a parent for injuries suffered in utero owing to the negligence of the mother like . . .
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Its still a subject matter that occasionally causes seasoned courthouse personnel say "huh" in a few situations, mostly relating to the exceptions to the doctrine of family immunity.
Topic on this news article relates to saving the American economy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKihL6ibiQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKihL6ibiQ)
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/08/31/tsr.moos.cop.car.sex.pkg.cnn?hpt=hp_t2
A cop, a car hood, and a little dog.
Gina
I happened to watch that not 5 minutes before I saw your post. Conduct unbecoming...!
Quote from: Elennare on September 23, 2010, 10:49:33 AM
I don't have a link to it, because it's fairly old, but a year or so ago this article ran in the Seattle Times.
"Man runs into bear with bicycle."
No, the bear wasn't on a bicycle, the guy was. And he literally RAN INTO the bear while riding his bike before heading into work. Both he and the bear went flying. The startled bear ran off. The startled biker landed on his head (yay for helmets!), and was later quoted as saying "bike helmets save you from run-ins with bears!"
That story caught my eye. June before last, I nearly hit a very large brown bear while riding on a motorcycle in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It was so big that I think he would have sought some payback so I was very pleased to have missed him and that he didn't stick out a clawed paw to swipe me off my bike. It was high excitement and a close call that will stay in the memory banks. He wasn't there and then, suddenly he came out of the woods with his body mass taking up my entire traffic lane moving at his own pace. I gave him the lane and thanked me lucky stars.
I remember many years ago a motercyclist hit a black bear on Hyw 191 just north of Yellowstone Park. It killed them both. A bit before that my old boss hit a moose in the same area (Gallatin Canyon). Killed the moose and scarred up my boss pretty good.
MAN TRIED to board a flight at Miami International Airport last week with bags of exotic snakes down his pants.
There was a total of seven snakes, according to US officials at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Oh, and there were three tortoises stuffed down there as well.
Security officials spotted the nylon bags hidden in the man's pants after he passed through a body scanner at the airport last Thursday.
The man, who had intended to travel to Brazil, has yet to be identified. Local media said he was arrested at the airport by the US Department of Fish and Wildlife.
This isn't the first time the TSA has stopped snakes being snuggled on board. In 2007, officials had to stop a passenger from boarding a flight after they found a boa constrictor inside his shoe.
And it was only last week that police in Arizona revealed that a man stole several baby albino boa constrictors at a pet store by stuffing them in his shorts.
I wouldn't know where to begin speculating on how thishappened...
Hundreds of panties turn up along Ohio road
APAP – Thu, Sep 1, 2011
LANCASTER, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in central Ohio are trying to solve a panties puzzle: why hundreds of pairs of mostly women's underwear were dumped along the side of a road.
Fairfield County Deputy Gary Hummel said Thursday the undergarments were found in trees and on hillsides in several spots this week on a road in Berne Township, about 30 miles southeast of Columbus.
He says some of the panties were still folded the way they'd come in packaging, while others appeared to have been worn. There were nearly 1,700 pairs in all, in a mix of colors and patterns. Hummel says when collected, they filled 10 large trash bags.
He says investigators are "baffled" as to where the panties came from.
It is submitted that Merlin is the only one old enough to have created a special moments souvenir collection that large. :P
Should he be directed to lost and found ?
(http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqvq0zgc401qzlnx8o1_500.jpg)
FEMA and the "Waffle House Index" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/01/waffle-house-hurricanes_n_945756.html
According to the Wall Street Journal's Valerie Bauerline, the 62-year-old Southern food chain has a longstanding reputation for staying open during natural disasters. And if a storm is too intense to stay open straight through the worst of it, Waffle House has especially strong protocols for getting back online quickly.
Waffle House's tenacity and preparedness are so watertight that FEMA Director Craig Fugate has joked that he watches a "Waffle House Index" of disaster magnitude. He can tell how bad a disaster's been by how much of its menu Waffle House is serving. EHS Today specifies the exact parameters of the index, which gained credence when Washington University Business professor Panos Kouvelis conducted a study on the subject:
For example, if a Waffle House store is open and offering a full menu, the index is green. If it is open but serving from a limited menu, it's yellow. When the location has been forced to close, the index is red. Because Waffle House is well prepared for disasters, Kouvelis said, it's rare for the index to hit red. For example, the Joplin, Mo., Waffle House survived the tornado and remained open.
As FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate explained to the Wall Street Journal, "If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That's really bad. That's where you go to work."
Quote from: Archer on September 02, 2011, 01:40:15 PM
It is submitted that Merlin is the only one old enough to have created a special moments souvenir collection that large. :P
Should he be directed to lost and found ?
(http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqvq0zgc401qzlnx8o1_500.jpg)
You shouldn't be airing my dirty secrets, Archer... I was sending them back to be refilled...
If so, you'll have Nim to deal with. . . ;D
(http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkhv9crPjP1qb5tu1o1_500.gif)
and that could potentially be a news story that makes us say "huh" ?
Mkay, this strange news broadcast calls for a "huh" ?
Guatemala August 2011 . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-KNJYvLSA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-KNJYvLSA)
This just comes under the 'What the heck were they thinking!' header.
I have always had dogs in my house and raised two kids from birth around them. My heart goes out to the parents, but man, I don't care how much I trust and love my pets, they are still dogs.
Why take the chance that something so much smaller than them will 'trip their trigger' somehow?
http://news.yahoo.com/newborn-fatally-mauled-family-dog-near-houston-032623314.html
Okay...just so you know... Here in Maumelle, we are not all this kinky (or is it all this kinky?).
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/07/police-arkansas-meteorologist-found-asleep-in-tub-next-to-dead-man/?hpt=hp_t2
Merlin, I heard that news story on my way to work this morning. Yes, it made me both laugh and say huh?
Gina
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on September 08, 2011, 10:40:53 AM
Okay...just so you know... Here in Maumelle, we are not all this kinky (or is it all this kinky?).
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/07/police-arkansas-meteorologist-found-asleep-in-tub-next-to-dead-man/?hpt=hp_t2
Whoa....That was a messy end to a career if I ever saw one. Why do 'public' people do this stuff?
We have some really good TV people here in central Arkansas, and we have some real gems. I guess all markets do. For whatever reason, it seems that the weather people are the ones who get caught up in the loonies. One weatherman, years ago, was broadcasting during a major tornado outbreak. There were several tracks of tornadoes across the state, demolishing communities left and right WITH fatalities. He had the unmitigated nerve to say—on live TV!—"I've never gotten to see a tornado. I hope I get to see one this time!" At that point, I was hoping that a funnel would reach down and suck him right out of the studio and yank him apart. I couldn't believe my ears. I don't think he ever lived down that case of foot-in-mouth disease.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/08/drunk-moose-cut-loose-sweden
Poor thing is still in the neighbors' yard recovering from her hangover. :'(
poor moose
sick, drunk, or half-stupid?? Hey, I grew up with Bullwinkle. I think I know which one I'd pick...
Ok here's a happy-huh?! sort of story. At least for me...this is the stuff that fascinates me in the world!
Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution (http://news.yahoo.com/closest-human-ancestor-may-rewrite-steps-evolution-141606435.html;_ylt=ApP_ODt_c4t9wmfsL70cBE2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNybWExNDFyBGNjb2RlA3dlaWdodGVkY3QuYwRwa2cDZjE0ZDkwNDAtMzcyNS0zMTE0LTg1NWYtNzlkZGEyODY3NTQ2BHBvcwMyBHNlYwNtb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEdmVyAzA1NWUxNjI2LWRhNjItMTFlMC04MWIxLTMzNWYyYjBlOGVmOQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3)
Quote from: Lady Kett on September 08, 2011, 09:12:19 PM
Ok here's a happy-huh?! sort of story. At least for me...this is the stuff that fascinates me in the world!
Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution (http://news.yahoo.com/closest-human-ancestor-may-rewrite-steps-evolution-141606435.html;_ylt=ApP_ODt_c4t9wmfsL70cBE2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNybWExNDFyBGNjb2RlA3dlaWdodGVkY3QuYwRwa2cDZjE0ZDkwNDAtMzcyNS0zMTE0LTg1NWYtNzlkZGEyODY3NTQ2BHBvcwMyBHNlYwNtb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEdmVyAzA1NWUxNjI2LWRhNjItMTFlMC04MWIxLTMzNWYyYjBlOGVmOQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3)
Very interesting stuff. Thanks for posting that. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/australopithecus-sediba-bones_n_954212.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/australopithecus-sediba-bones_n_954212.html)
Quote from: Archer on September 08, 2011, 10:14:06 PM
Quote from: Lady Kett on September 08, 2011, 09:12:19 PM
Ok here's a happy-huh?! sort of story. At least for me...this is the stuff that fascinates me in the world!
Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution (http://news.yahoo.com/closest-human-ancestor-may-rewrite-steps-evolution-141606435.html;_ylt=ApP_ODt_c4t9wmfsL70cBE2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNybWExNDFyBGNjb2RlA3dlaWdodGVkY3QuYwRwa2cDZjE0ZDkwNDAtMzcyNS0zMTE0LTg1NWYtNzlkZGEyODY3NTQ2BHBvcwMyBHNlYwNtb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEdmVyAzA1NWUxNjI2LWRhNjItMTFlMC04MWIxLTMzNWYyYjBlOGVmOQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3)
Very interesting stuff. Thanks for posting that. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/australopithecus-sediba-bones_n_954212.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/australopithecus-sediba-bones_n_954212.html)
Thank YOU, Archer! <3 that stuff. :)
medieval skeletons reveal fear of the "undead" (for the zombie lovers out there)
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/medieval-skeletons-reveal-fear-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29
According to reports, Percy Foster, a 35-year-old dwarf adult film star known for his resemblance to celebrity chef GOrdon Ramsey, was found partially eaten in a badger's den in Wales
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2011/09/g ... dgers.html
Quote from: groomporter on September 15, 2011, 07:36:26 AM
According to reports, Percy Foster, a 35-year-old dwarf adult film star known for his resemblance to celebrity chef GOrdon Ramsey, was found partially eaten in a badger's den in Wales
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2011/09/g ... dgers.html
Said he had ordered a BMW and a Diamond encrusted Soda Stream in anticipation of a very successful career.......
What's a soda stream (or should I ask)?
If I remember right, a soda stream is a system you can buy to mix your own sodas and is supposed to be a lot cheaper than buying them premade in the the stores.
It's a gizmo for making your own soda.
http://www.amazon.com/Sodastream-Fountain-Soda-Maker-Starter/dp/B001KYT6CS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316097326&sr=8-1
i could have done without seeing the mankini and the manties but i thought mirts were kilts
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/mankinis-murses-and-man-bags-a-glossary-of-mens-fashion-terms-2550341#photoViewer=1
Science ? Fact ? Fiction ? Fear mongering ? History repeats itself ? What happens when a planet "flushes" . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOes02aanHE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOes02aanHE)
If so, map projections after a "pole shift" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5m65EPHLg0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5m65EPHLg0)
and the projected remainder of this speck ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-qyLfw1Qs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF-qyLfw1Qs)
Quote from: Lady Christina de Pond on September 15, 2011, 12:05:09 PM
i could have done without seeing the mankini and the manties but i thought mirts were kilts
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/mankinis-murses-and-man-bags-a-glossary-of-mens-fashion-terms-2550341#photoViewer=1
I call shenanigans on "manties." Just because tighty-whities now come in colors does not mean they're new, or need a new name. :)
Also, guys in heels is not new. They're just reviving a really OLD style!
Yeah and it's not like men wearing sandals or jewelry is anything new. and of course Prince wore heels, he's supposedly only 5'-2"!
Women's 'sex strike' ends fighting in Mindanao villages
Women ended armed clashes in 2 Mindanao villages by not having sex with their husbands unless the men laid down their weapons, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The success of the "sex strike" allowed families to start rebuilding their communities, the UN's refugee agency said.
video (of the news story) at http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/09/15/11/womens-sex-strike-ends-fighting-mindanao-villages-unchr
**I will remove this post if the opinion here is that it's inappropriate.
Certainly not inappropriate, RedKimba. I think it's brilliant. Sex is better than war any way you look at it.
I guess Lysistrata must be popular in those Mindanao villages.
Just say "wow" what a find.
The Archimedes Palimpsest—the oldest surviving copy of works by the greatest mathematical genius of antiquity. The exhibition Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes will tell the story of The Archimedes Palimpsest's journey and the discovery of new scientific, philosophical and political texts from the ancient world. This medieval manuscript demonstrates that Archimedes discovered the mathematics of infinity, mathematical physics and combinatorics—a branch of mathematics used in modern computing.
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/lost-and-found-secrets-of-archimedes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29 (http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/lost-and-found-secrets-of-archimedes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29)
* * * At Scotland's William Wallace Monument, they're doing some digging . . .archaeologists are leading volunteers in a four-day dig to uncover the hidden history beneath one of Scotland's most famous landmarks.
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/archaeologists-probe-abbey-craig.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29 (http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/archaeologists-probe-abbey-craig.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29)
Made me cringe...
China bans dog-eating "carnival" after online uproar
By Ben Blanchard | Reuters – 3 hrs ago
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government has banned a traditional carnival in the east of the country in which dogs are eaten after being chopped up alive in the street following a public uproar that the festival was cruel, state media reported on Wednesday.
The tradition in Qianxi in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang dates back 600 years to celebrate a local military victory and is normally held every October, the official Xinhua news agency said.
"The ancient fair was replaced by a modern commodity fair in the 1980s, but dog-eating has been kept as a tradition," it reported.
"However, vendors began to butcher dogs in public a few years ago to show their dog meat is fresh and safe, as a way to ease buyers' worry that the meat may be refrigerator-preserved or even contaminated."
Pictures which circulated online via popular microblogging sites had such an impact that the government gave into demands the festival be banned, Xinhua said.
"The government's quick response should be encouraged. I hope eating dogs will not be a custom there anymore. It's not a carnival, but a massacre," it quoted one internet user as saying.
Despite once being banned as a bad bourgeois habit, dog ownership has become increasingly popular with China's growing middle class in the past few years, as has online activism.
While the government has encouraged people to take to the internet to expose corruption and abuse of power, it keeps a tight reign on what can be said online, deleting comments it objects to and arresting those who criticise too much.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
That was interesting for me as a dog lover. Not so much bothered by human dietary selections but, the part about "deleting comments it objects to" can cause a veteran's blood to warm up, ever so slightly.
Silence the speaker, is an unfortunate solution/choice. In the good old US of A, we don't need goverment to do it. We do it to each other or ourselves . . . sometimes. More preferable that those who are offended by what they view or read to just follow the ancient teachings that if their eye offends them that they just go ahead and . . . pluck it out.
I like your finds, Rowan.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/09/21/moos-tsa-afro-searched.cnn?hpt=hp_c2
TSA and big hair do not get along.
Gina
uhhh i don't like the TSA
7000 millionaires paid no personal income tax in 2011 (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/09/buffett-rule-rorschach-7-000-millionaires-paid-no-income-taxes-in-2011/245469/?google_editors_picks=true)
Is Nicolas Cage a real vampire? (http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/09/20/civil-war-era-photo-eerily-resembles-nicolas-cage-sparks-vampire-rumors/)
Wow, that photo is crazy! It does really look like him. :)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (NBC News Channel) -- Sheriff's deputies in Oklahoma are looking for a sneaky squirrel that's sabotaging their squad cars.
For the past few weeks some Oklahoma County patrol cars have had the wiring inside the engines chewed through, literally. Now, $700 dollars in repairs later, authorities are looking for a perpetrator videotaped by one of the deputies.
Animal control has been called in to set traps to help catch the furry felon.
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Sneaky-squirrel-sabotages-squad-cars/JoY_PQT2tUSJxtFWZVp1WQ.cspx
Further reports of felonious wildlife. What's the world coming to?
http://www.thecutereport.com/index.php/2007/10/12/so-this-bird-walks-into-a-store/
A seagull in Scotland has developed the habit of stealing chips from a neighborhood shop.
The seagull waits until the shopkeeper isn't looking, and then walks into the store and grabs a snack-size bag of cheese Doritos.
Once outside, the bag gets ripped open and shared by other birds.
The seagull's shoplifting started early this month when he first swooped into the store in Aberdeen, Scotland, and helped himself to a bag of chips. Since then, he's become a regular. He always takes the same type of chips.
Customers have begun paying for the seagull's stolen bags of chips because they think it's so funny.
Castle under seige, a news report, ;D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSfcVyUCVI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSfcVyUCVI)
Quote from: Archer on September 24, 2011, 03:01:07 PM
Castle under seige, a news report, ;D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSfcVyUCVI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSfcVyUCVI)
That was fun! BBC comedies are awesome.
I love Horrible Histories!
Scientists at CERN in Geneva say they have discovered sub-atomic particles that move even faster than the earthly accepted rate of 300,000 kilometres a second.
If confirmed, this game changer would blow Albert Einstein's theory of relativity out of the water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POiR5yEk3LA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POiR5yEk3LA)
the BBC story on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFzM16w9UOM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFzM16w9UOM)
15,000 tests and CERN now opens this information to world scientists to find any flaws in their testing results: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R5M27T8RNU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R5M27T8RNU)
Huh ? Duh ? Double Duh ?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/26/iraq-withdrawal-us-bases-equipment_n_975463.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C98903 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/26/iraq-withdrawal-us-bases-equipment_n_975463.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C98903)
How to recognize a "lucky day" :
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/bulgarian-man-stumbles-across-ancient.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29 (http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/bulgarian-man-stumbles-across-ancient.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29)
In case you missed it, largest pyramid on the planet discovered, CNN news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voY8jNcuGe8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voY8jNcuGe8)
related article of, Sep 26, 2011: http://news.yahoo.com/mayan-film-documentary-claims-proof-aliens-183325515.html (http://news.yahoo.com/mayan-film-documentary-claims-proof-aliens-183325515.html)
Found in Europe / Bosnia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGM-_gS3E90 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGM-_gS3E90)
This just kills me.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/petco-managers-leave-scores-of-animals-to-drown-in-flood-waters
I didn't like Petco before...now I can promise you I will never go in one again.
The face of a 14th-century former Archbishop of Canterbury has been revealed 630 years after he was beheaded by angry peasants.
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/10/beheaded-archbishops-face-revealed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29 (http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/10/beheaded-archbishops-face-revealed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29)
http://news.yahoo.com/german-fashion-designer-makes-clothes-milk-140232057.html
This one is just plain cool.. Just think. A new, and renewable, totally biodegradable and comfortable fabric that (when not woven with other fibers) does not involve petrochemicals. Loving this!
Some like it hot....
http://news.yahoo.com/uk-curry-competition-proves-too-hot-handle-100116958.html
Why the heck you'd want to eat curry that gave you a nosebleed is beyond me.. Shocked
http://www.wtae.com/news/29416641/detail.html
This story has been BIG news 'round da 'burg.
Gina
The importance of a. Always being professional and b. Being really careful when using "reply all".
http://www.businessinsider.com/pr-guy-curses-blogger-brandlink-communcations-2011-10 (http://www.businessinsider.com/pr-guy-curses-blogger-brandlink-communcations-2011-10)
Amish Men's Beards Cut Off; Police Suspect Amish-On-Amish Violence. Big "HUH?!!"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/amish-beards-cut-off-amish-violence_n_999118.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%7C102654 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/amish-beards-cut-off-amish-violence_n_999118.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%7C102654)
That looks like it should have been in The Onion. The guy's name was Mullet? I smell something fishy... :D
Sad...
Dog Thrown From Window After Fight
OMAHA, Neb. -- A fight ends with the family pet thrown out of a window.
Police said it happened at the Jackson Tower Apartments near 28th Street and St. Mary's Avenue on Thursday night.
Police said 28-year-old Metrelle Dailey and his girlfriend had been arguing. In the process, Dailey picked up Domino -- a rat terrier mix -- pulled off a window screen and tossed the dog out, police said.
The dog fell nine stories and died from its injuries.
"It's terrible. We see instances of this a lot, where people get very upset, domestic violence ensues and pets are oftentimes victims," said Pam Wiese, of the Nebraska Humane Society.
Dailey is charged with torture to animals, a Class 4 felony.
big %^&#$%^*&
he should have thrown himself out the window and done the whole world a favor
My thoughts exactly. That building is part of the low income housing (putting it nicely) projects and I doubt the BF was supposed to be in the apartment in the first place. I thought there were guards required an all windows above the first floor. I hope she loses her apartment over this.
On the weird front. This:
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2011/09/29/20110929holy-smoke-loved-ones-ashes-ammo.html
PULL! :D
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on October 11, 2011, 02:26:11 PM
PULL! :D
No kidding. That one takes today's cake as I concede that I can find nothing to top it . . . so far. :P
I can think of no better way for my son to honour my memory than to shoot a perfect round of trap with a load of #8 shot and Ash-of-Pop.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on October 11, 2011, 02:55:41 PM
I can think of no better way for my son to honour my memory than to shoot a perfect round of trap with a load of #8 shot and Ash-of-Pop.
I am satisfied that mine ash loads would have the last laugh. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7GyYrJMd4s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7GyYrJMd4s)
even unto the time and day of expending the final round . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqi-CfxG560 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqi-CfxG560)
Remember Hunter S. Thompson ? I loved 'Where the Buffalo Roam'.....
"On August 20, 2005, in a private ceremony, Thompson's ashes were fired from a cannon atop a 153-foot (47 m) tower of his own design (in the shape of a double-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button) to the tune of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" and Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man."[35] Red, white, blue, and green fireworks were launched along with his ashes."
Johnny Depp financed the funeral over the objections of the Aspen City council. ;D
It was attended by Jack Nicholson and Bill Murray..
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
~Hunter S. Thompson
Quote from: Archer on October 11, 2011, 03:37:14 PM
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on October 11, 2011, 02:55:41 PM
I can think of no better way for my son to honour my memory than to shoot a perfect round of trap with a load of #8 shot and Ash-of-Pop.
I am satisfied that mine ash loads would have the last laugh. . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7GyYrJMd4s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7GyYrJMd4s)
even unto the time and day of expending the final round . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqi-CfxG560 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqi-CfxG560)
What's scary is, I used to have a gun shop with my dad. In that first video, I've seen or known folks that every one of those incidents have happened to. I could tell some stories you would not believe...
(http://www.blogcdn.com/green.autoblog.com/media/2011/10/2011-concept-chevrolet-en-v-051.jpg)
General Motors' vision of a zero-emissions future – is officially underway.
It could be a bad day for one of these phone booth models to get in a contact conflict with my beast Hummer. :P
http://green.autoblog.com/2011/10/12/development-of-next-gen-chevrolet-en-v-electric-concept-underway/?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl11%7Csec3_lnk2%7C103803 (http://green.autoblog.com/2011/10/12/development-of-next-gen-chevrolet-en-v-electric-concept-underway/?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl11%7Csec3_lnk2%7C103803)
I'm all in favor of low/no emission cars, but why do all of them do away with cargo and people room in the process? How am I supposed to take my son (still a baby, so requires car seat and various other bags and such) and my 6' tall husband camping in something like that? I don't think I could even fit me, my laptop bag and purse, and a second person into that car!
The article link in that post on the phone booth car discusses the plans for a model or version that will have cargo capacity and other options. :D
Unless it grows considerably, it still would be like a speed bump for some things still on the road. I think these are good for like 25 miles and more for the idea of urban area transport.
U.S. troops in Afghanistan discover the charms of eyebrow-shaping
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/latest-male-grooming-craze-afghanistan-145210300.html
i thought troops well men in the army were suposed to rugged
Not so funny...actually kind of scares me.... :o
http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/28/nissan-car-reads-drivers-mind?cat=technology&type=article
I need one of those to help me with Nimue. Maybe between me and the car, ONE of us will be able to read her mind... ::)
some minds are too complex to read ;D
Ya that is a little too scary for me
Quotesome minds are too complex to read
and some minds your better off not even trying ;)
Salute to those diggers showing that everything you know and were taught is wrong about the location for the "cradle of civilization" . . .
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/10/gobeklitepe-site-unveils-mystery.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29 (http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/10/gobeklitepe-site-unveils-mystery.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29)
Weird Al has been telling you all along, Everything you know is wrong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssT7NkDDsC0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssT7NkDDsC0)
OK, maybe it's wrong to laugh, but sometimes epic incompetence is just plain funny.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/2-5-million-chinese-yacht-goes-straight-down-161517593.html
Monkeys and Footballs ;D
Thats very funny
although that is totally not a yacht, thats a ferry ( I work on real yachts every day).
Whoever approved those designs is an idiot, the thing had no hull.
They deserved to have it sing straight down.
Man in UK lives off eating roadkill for 30 years :P :P :P
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/jonathan-mcgowan-roadkill_n_1016108.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%7C105154 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/jonathan-mcgowan-roadkill_n_1016108.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%7C105154)
That may explain the origins of hospital food...
HUH!???? Chinese toddler run over twice by trucks, ignored by people passing by. Humanity at its worst.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/china-toddler-run-over-by-van_n_1016187.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C105154 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/china-toddler-run-over-by-van_n_1016187.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C105154)
... and in the US- http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/oct/18/mom-teen-with-ties-to-kidnapping-suspects-found/ (http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/oct/18/mom-teen-with-ties-to-kidnapping-suspects-found/)
Quote from: Archer on October 18, 2011, 07:00:29 AM
Man in UK lives off eating roadkill for 30 years :P :P :P
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/jonathan-mcgowan-roadkill_n_1016108.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%7C105154 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/jonathan-mcgowan-roadkill_n_1016108.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk3%7C105154)
Granny Clampett anyone?
Quote from: BubbleWright on October 18, 2011, 07:16:28 AM
HUH!???? Chinese toddler run over twice by trucks, ignored by people passing by. Humanity at its worst.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/china-toddler-run-over-by-van_n_1016187.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C105154 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/china-toddler-run-over-by-van_n_1016187.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C105154)
... and in the US- http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/oct/18/mom-teen-with-ties-to-kidnapping-suspects-found/ (http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/oct/18/mom-teen-with-ties-to-kidnapping-suspects-found/)
China does not place much value on human life (outside of Party bigwigs) and it should not surprise anyone that passersby would ignore or avoid a wounded child. The 'anti-good Samaritan' ruling handed down by that court a couple of years back certainly didn't help.
I hate to think that the child being a girl had anything to do with her being left to die like a dog in the street.
I would like to know how a woman with a criminal record of abuse against disabled persons was able to get close to some more victims. It appears she was a 'caregiver' of some sort.
China doesn't hold the exclusive on not caring, but I also think you generalize too much in your assessment. Similar laws have caused similar problems in other countries, including the U.S.
http://www.wtae.com/news/29525497/detail.html
I think someone let these animals out on purpose after killing the man.
Gina
thats was my thoughts too
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on October 18, 2011, 04:54:34 PM
China doesn't hold the exclusive on not caring, but I also think you generalize too much in your assessment. Similar laws have caused similar problems in other countries, including the U.S.
Sad but true. Now that China is getting a taste of capitalism, they will need to go through the same growing pains as the rest of us.
Looks like they may need a cell phone while driving law too:
Update:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/yue-yue-chinese-toddler-run-over-in-hit-and-run-believed-to-be-stable/2011/10/18/gIQAb83kuL_blog.html
Quote from: arbcoind on October 19, 2011, 08:32:11 AM
http://www.wtae.com/news/29525497/detail.html
I think someone let these animals out on purpose after killing the man.
Gina
Sure looks that way. The news said that a chimp and orangutan stayed in their cages (which I assume were also open)-smart primates.
Edit: Police are now saying he opened the cages then killed himself.
On the local news....
Police Warn Of Gummi Bears Soaked In Alcohol-Officials Concerned Candy Could Lead To Alcohol Poisoning
POSTED: 9:42 pm CDT October 13, 2011
Police Warn Of Gummi Bears Soaked In Alcohol
OMAHA, Neb. -- Local law enforcement officials are warning parents about the dangers of kids getting their hands on gummi bears soaked in alcohol.
"Kids are just taking gummi bears and putting alcohol in them and eating them, and they can take them into football games or school in little baggies and they look just like candy," said Joan McVoy, public education specialist for the Nebraska Regional Poison Center.
Known as "boozy bears," these pieces of candy could create serious medical issues like alcohol overdose poisoning, poison control officials said.
"It tastes good -- it's just candy -- it tastes good, and they keep doing it, and then we have an overdose alcohol poisoning; that's our biggest concern for our kids," Bellevue Police Department Capt. Herb Evers said.
Evers said the issue goes beyond the danger to teens and extends to small children.
"That 2- or 3-year-old who is walking, or at least pulling themselves up on couches and tables, getting into that candy -- how quick could we cause a death of a 2- or 3-year-old with just a little bit of alcohol," Evers said.
Washington Father Arrested for Forcing Daughter Into Renaissance Battle
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2011/10/18/washington-father-arrested-for-forcing-daughter-into-renaissance-battle/
What began as a man's attempt to discipline his child turned into a sordid case of abuse when police say a Washington man forced his 16-year-old daughter to don Renaissance armor and engage in a wooden sword battle for two hours.
**
hope someone in jail forces him into a 'duel' for 2 hours...
Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 19, 2011, 08:56:09 AM
Quote from: arbcoind on October 19, 2011, 08:32:11 AM
http://www.wtae.com/news/29525497/detail.html
I think someone let these animals out on purpose after killing the man.
Gina
Sure looks that way. The news said that a chimp and orangutan stayed in their cages (which I assume were also open)-smart primates.
Edit: Police are now saying he opened the cages then killed himself.
The really sad part of this is that a bunch of endangered animals were killed (I believe the news this morning said 18 tigers!). The police called for people (from zoos and such) with tranq guns, but by the time they arrived decided it was too dark out and didn't give them a chance to do their job and just shot the critters. :'(
i know they killed most of them poor animals
Most of the animals were shot and killed including 18 Bengal tigers.
http://www.wtae.com/news/29525006/detail.html
Gina
Couldn't there been a smarter way to contain the animals?
Tranq them, the put them back into the cages they were release from-pending distribution to other zoo's?
You know....I just realized that nearly every story I read makes me go 'huh?'. Mostly this is because the comments at the end show an absolute lack of comprehension of the written word for a large portion of the populace.
Quote from: DonaCatalina on October 20, 2011, 02:31:20 PM
You know....I just realized that nearly every story I read makes me go 'huh?'. Mostly this is because the comments at the end show an absolute lack of comprehension of the written word for a large portion of the populace.
I'm not sure folks even read the articles they comment on. I think they just read the headline and blame whatever on Bush or Obama. :-\
huh, hummm ? ? ? . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3KMM9QUasA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3KMM9QUasA)
How bizarre . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ylk8-LV2HY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ylk8-LV2HY)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016569872_apwatoiletride.html
Good thing it didn't tip over...
http://news.yahoo.com/turkish-quake-survivors-camp-plead-tents-000727342.html
glad they rescued the baby
Controversial HPV shot now recommended for boys, too (http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_19190830)
"Officials acknowledged the disappointing rate in girls encouraged them to take a new, hard look."
Translation = the company that makes this vaccine wasn't selling enough when it was marketed just to girls, so a few more 'campaign contributions' later and voila, the vaccine is now recommended for boys also.
<big sigh>
This is the best "I don't remember anything after the 3rd drink" story I've read in a long time ;D
Zimbabwean man claims prostitute turned to donkey
AFPAFP – 3 hrs ago
A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now "seriously in love" with the animal, state media said Wednesday.
"I think I am also a donkey. I do not know what happened when I left the bar, but I am seriously in love with (the) donkey," Sunday Moyo told the court, according to The Herald newspaper.
Moyo, 28, was arrested in the town of Zvishavane, about 300 kilometres (185 miles) south of the capital Harare on Sunday.
He said he had paid $25 for a prostitute, and was surprised Sunday morning when he heard people accusing him of having sex with a donkey.
Moyo has been charged with bestiality. The court has ordered him to undergo a mental examination, The Herald said.
^^^That has to be the worst case of "beer goggles" I've ever seen!!!
Gina
The World at 7 Billion-What is your number? I was #2,785,720,545th
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
(http://lib.lbcc.edu/handouts/images/Vikings/vikings3.jpg)
Hmmmm and huhhh are pretty close. This news is from the source, Archaeology News Network. Not actually "wierd" but also, not a typical find.
Metal detector finds what is called a signifcant Viking buried treasure . . . . (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WZZoR95a5ao/Tqrvhf8YopI/AAAAAAAAQl4/sEKykQ3HrnY/s400/viking-treasure.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wTrnra3C--c/TqrvmuQobcI/AAAAAAAAQmA/Icol4udcKIs/s400/viking-treasure_02.jpg)
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/10/metal-detectorist-finds-viking-treasure.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29 (http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/10/metal-detectorist-finds-viking-treasure.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29)
Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 29, 2011, 10:09:34 AM
The World at 7 Billion-What is your number? I was #2,785,720,545th
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
I was off the chart, but extrapolating, I'd probably be somewhere in the first couple hundred million. My current mundane persona was 2,633,982,658. I remember when I was in the 5-6 grade, thinking that the point in time when we hit 6 billion was soooo far off, and now we're approaching 7 billion.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on October 29, 2011, 05:48:28 PM
Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 29, 2011, 10:09:34 AM
The World at 7 Billion-What is your number? I was #2,785,720,545th
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
I was off the chart, but extrapolating, I'd probably be somewhere in the first couple hundred million. My current mundane persona was 2,633,982,658. I remember when I was in the 5-6 grade, thinking that the point in time when we hit 6 billion was soooo far off, and now we're approaching 7 billion.
And the Duggers keep coming...
Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 29, 2011, 08:23:57 PM
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on October 29, 2011, 05:48:28 PM
Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 29, 2011, 10:09:34 AM
The World at 7 Billion-What is your number? I was #2,785,720,545th
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
I was off the chart, but extrapolating, I'd probably be somewhere in the first couple hundred million. My current mundane persona was 2,633,982,658. I remember when I was in the 5-6 grade, thinking that the point in time when we hit 6 billion was soooo far off, and now we're approaching 7 billion.
And the Duggers keep coming...
Don't even get me
started on that subject. That is so wrong on so many levels.
Hearing this bird in the news, as he wakes up and then, sings a different song, lol.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/30/richard-muller-global-warming_n_1066029.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C108718 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/30/richard-muller-global-warming_n_1066029.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C108718)
The topic is not funny however; the crow consumption process is a moderate knee slapper. :P
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The swamp gas is active again. The Air Force claims these do not exist but, they have written regulations on how to report them.
(at page 37 of official regulations)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/air-force-deletes-ufo-rep_n_982128.html?ref=ufo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/air-force-deletes-ufo-rep_n_982128.html?ref=ufo)
That, causes a giggle. :)
Now something totally "mundane" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4E_oltD4bc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4E_oltD4bc)
The mundane world news indicates the White House responds to a Petition with adequate signatures . . . . "huh" ? ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAY2ii767aw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAY2ii767aw)
Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 29, 2011, 08:23:57 PM
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on October 29, 2011, 05:48:28 PM
Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 29, 2011, 10:09:34 AM
The World at 7 Billion-What is your number? I was #2,785,720,545th
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
I was off the chart, but extrapolating, I'd probably be somewhere in the first couple hundred million. My current mundane persona was 2,633,982,658. I remember when I was in the 5-6 grade, thinking that the point in time when we hit 6 billion was soooo far off, and now we're approaching 7 billion.
And the Duggers keep coming...
Told you so.... :o
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/michelle-jim-bob-duggar-expecting-20th-child-144832226.html
There is something seriously wrong with those people...REALLY!
Archaeology News Network, beats a drum . . .
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/11/us-government-says-it-has-no-evidence.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29 (http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/11/us-government-says-it-has-no-evidence.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29)
"Opinion polls now indicate more than 50 per cent of the American people believe there is an extraterrestrial presence and more than 80 per cent believe the government is not telling the truth about this phenomenon."
Huh ? 80 percent believes their government lies to them ? Astonishing revelation, no ?
Permit her to "make it so" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqGqDnb9S_Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqGqDnb9S_Q)
Poop transplant saves man's life....
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/11/poop_transplant_could_save_ari.php?stolenfromreddit
related reading...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy
http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-news/pilots-bathroom-break-triggers-terror-scare.html
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at that, Lady Christina. It truly sucks that we have gotten so paranoid.
Oh, the humanity!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/burglar-high-bath-salts-breaks-family-home-puts-christmas-decorations-article-1.977254?localLinksEnabled=false
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.980558.1321855244!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_485/image.jpg)
Jennifer Lopez and rapper pitbull on the AMA say, put the kiddies to bed early. I suppose regular TV is not all entirely boring these days. :P
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wtae.com%2Fnews%2F29837601%2Fdetail.html&h=lAQFF2PBf&site=wtae.com&type=R&plugin=R&social=false&pos=1%2F5&signature=21d2228e8d430d9b&cb=2
I know it was very dark and raining, but really? No one noticed this for miles and miles?
Gina
News on a new toy . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HZGRaAHZXY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HZGRaAHZXY)
Get ready to pull out the hankies folks....
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/heartbroken-dog-refuses-leave-owner-grave-facebook-rewrites-162733131.html
You might get by with just a box of tear tissue on this topic . . . (or plan to eat the dog).
Global Food Crisis: National Geographic Takes A Look At The World's Dwindling Crop Supply (PHOTOS)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/global-food-crisis-world-dwindling-crops-national-geopraphic_n_884093.html#undefined (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/global-food-crisis-world-dwindling-crops-national-geopraphic_n_884093.html#undefined)
(http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/30682/slide_30682_297265_huge.jpg?1322135653)
Not a laughing story.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/19/national/main20122803.shtml?tag=re1.channel
Category, interesting thoughts out of the United Kingdom . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fVA3MOU9-w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fVA3MOU9-w)
Another tear jerker. Dogs aged 4-7 yrs old and never allowed outside, or have any contact with their own kind...I wonder how well these dogs will do in new homes....
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/video-rescued-beagle-dogs-experience-sunlight-first-time-221217299.html
Rowen...pass me the Kleenex, please... so sad, but I'm glad they're free now.
Horses for meat and coming to a food store near you . . .
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/story/2011-11-30/Horses-could-soon-be-slaughtered-for-meat-in-US/51495306/1 (http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/story/2011-11-30/Horses-could-soon-be-slaughtered-for-meat-in-US/51495306/1)
Congress quietly lifts ban on USDA horse meat inspections, opens door for horse slaughterhouses. . . .
http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20111130/NEWS/311300027/Congress-lifts-ban-USDA-horse-meat-inspections-opens-door-horse-slaughterhouses (http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20111130/NEWS/311300027/Congress-lifts-ban-USDA-horse-meat-inspections-opens-door-horse-slaughterhouses)
Perhaps these ideas go along with the hints of the global food crisis story covered by National Geographic posted above (and others out there). :P
Strange when radicals and conservatives begin to agree on a topic, in the news . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QceWDSdBVhc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QceWDSdBVhc)
Now one can decide to laugh out loud, or . . . . just say "huh" ?
meh, you didn't hear it from me but, U.N. Climate Conference: Geoengineering Could Save Earth -- Or Destroy It
Landmark climate change talks going on right now . . . only important enough, for 194 nations, to be involved.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/geoengineering-un-climate-conference_n_1125240.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl4%7Csec3_lnk1%7C117202 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/geoengineering-un-climate-conference_n_1125240.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl4%7Csec3_lnk1%7C117202)
When Glen Beck talks about common sense you have to wonder...how on earth does he recognize what it is?
Agreed. The contrast of thought and unity of thought is the interesting point of reference.
I see that Jurasic Park ideas are in progress . . . http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/12/japan-russia-see-chance-to-clone.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29 (http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/12/japan-russia-see-chance-to-clone.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29)
Just too good not to pass on...Folks: Don't try this at home.....
http://news.yahoo.com/mythbusters-accidentally-shot-cannonball-someones-home-145559380.html
The Three Kings of the Nativity story were actually sorcerers. They were magicians, priests of the Zoroastrain religion of Persia. The word "magi" (as in the Three Magi) is the plural of magus, meaning "wizard" in Old Persian. It is from this root that the word "magic" is derived.
Quote from: Lavender on December 07, 2011, 01:48:40 PM
The Three Kings of the Nativity story were actually sorcerers. They were magicians, priests of the Zoroastrain religion of Persia. The word "magi" (as in the Three Magi) is the plural of magus, meaning "wizard" in Old Persian. It is from this root that the word "magic" is derived.
Cool...You wonder if the Church has any comment ;D
The Deathstar is here!.... Nah.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious-planet-sized-object-spotted-near-mercury-154443870.html
That was interesting. Swamp gas . . . with robust muscles. (http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/upload/2009/04/weekend_diversion_do_tinfoil_h/tinfoil_hat_antenna.jpg)
They kill women for adultery just on the on the word of the husband or the husbands' family; this should not surprise me.
Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery'
APAP – 2 hrs 59 mins ago
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.
The Saudi Interior Ministry says in a statement the execution took place Monday, but gave no details on the woman's crime.
The London-based al-Hayat daily, however, quoted Abdullah al-Mohsen, chief of the religious police who arrested the woman, as saying she had tricked people into thinking she could treat illnesses, charging them $800 per session.
The paper said a female investigator followed up, and the woman was arrested in April, 2009, and later convicted in a Saudi court.
It did not give the woman's name, but said she was in her 60s.
The execution brings the total to 76 this year in Saudi Arabia, according to an Associated Press count. At least three have been women.
This one is a week old but didn't see it so had to post it.
I guy tried to rob and carjack from a ufc mma fighter. The mug shot is priceless
http://www.mmamania.com/2011/12/5/2613893/convicted-felon-carjack-mma-fighter-chicago-beat-up-shot
Karma is a beach.
This one may get a "huh" out of a few . . . http://www.aclu.org/indefinite-detention-endless-worldwide-war-and-2012-national-defense-authorization-act (http://www.aclu.org/indefinite-detention-endless-worldwide-war-and-2012-national-defense-authorization-act)
Quote from: Rowen MacD on December 12, 2011, 10:26:23 AM
They kill women for adultery just on the on the word of the husband or the husbands' family; this should not surprise me.
Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery'
...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.....
Kinda reminds me of pre-Revolution America ...
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on December 12, 2011, 06:14:38 PM
Quote from: Rowen MacD on December 12, 2011, 10:26:23 AM
They kill women for adultery just on the on the word of the husband or the husbands' family; this should not surprise me.
Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery'
...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.....
Kinda reminds me of pre-Revolution America ...
Long, long ago, in a little town called Salem...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/patients-bottles-cell-phones-buzz-lightyear-stuck-inside/story?id=15124289
Don't know about anyone else, but I've never been this 'lonely and bored'. ;D
Rowen, I have run across several people with their head stuck up their...well, you know what I mean. It's apparently a lot more common than you might think. I've never been that lonely or bored either...
And the Midwest crime spree continues!
Thief Gets Away With Truckload Of Margarine
1:31 pm CST December 13, 2011
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The search is on for a thief who slipped away with a truckload of margarine bound for a Target warehouse in Cedar Falls.
A semitrailer packed with the spread, about $50,000 worth, disappeared last weekend from a truck stop in Elks Run, near Waterloo.
The Black Hawk County sheriff's office says the driver left the trailer at the truck stop to wait until the warehouse had space. Another truck was slated to pick up the trailer for the last leg of the journey.
Authorities say sometime Saturday night, a thief hooked up the trailer and drove off with the margarine. The theft was discovered Sunday morning.
No arrests have been reported.
How do you collapse a nation's economy and why was this story not all over every mainstream news source until there were some answers ? huh ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttSmZknU9mI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttSmZknU9mI)
Pardon me, but if it's coming from Glen Beck, I'm not even considering it to be accurate information. I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on December 14, 2011, 10:14:57 AM
Pardon me, but if it's coming from Glen Beck, I'm not even considering it to be accurate information. I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
(http://ncsustudyabroad.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/p1060122.jpg?w=540&h=404)(http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/unequallyyoked/files/2011/11/fingers-in-ears.jpg)
I'm not a fan of his either and that was not a purpose for showing the source. That story was on some other media sources also but it dried up. No answers provided from media that I could find, if those bonds were forged; if another nation was responsible or if they were real and being dumped from the inside. FOX news is not presented as reliable in any way. The story of the movment of those bonds, (stolen, dumped or forged) in Europe itself is what we should be interested in knowing answers about. For that one to go quiet should cause some "huh". If they were forgeries, why not have media say so ? The years of origination is interesting also. How old the bonds were and from what time period, did you catch that info ? Informants are not always likeable people yet, they still solve crimes and produce some gems of value from time to time. 8)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/indefinite-military-detention-bill-passes_n_1152114.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/indefinite-military-detention-bill-passes_n_1152114.html)
Ahhhhhh ! ! ! (http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/10/27/128695828834768500.jpg)
I had no idea that bodies could spin that fast... :-\
This seems blatantly un-Constitutional. And terrifying!
Am I remembering correctly that in order for something like this to be overturned, it has to be challenged in court, and that can only happen if you have a case against it (i.e. are a "terror suspect" being held indefinitely under this)? If so, it seems like we're really screwed, because how can you show up in court to challenge it when you've been "disappeared"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMZ7v5XI0SQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMZ7v5XI0SQ)
In consideration of the Bill of Rights anniversary, a complimentary refresher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYG_f-y8-VY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYG_f-y8-VY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM6FWnPBU5o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM6FWnPBU5o)
A short history to set the stage for the chip, chip, chip (as of 2006) for educational purpose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfOUAsBYsYg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfOUAsBYsYg)
for more detail . . . and what remains of the Bill of Rights (see this next one to the end to get an idea of what remained as of 2006).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaXH9mgRNns (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaXH9mgRNns)
all news that may call for a "huh" ?
Quote from: Elennare on December 16, 2011, 04:51:26 PM
This seems blatantly un-Constitutional. And terrifying!
Am I remembering correctly that in order for something like this to be overturned, it has to be challenged in court, and that can only happen if you have a case against it (i.e. are a "terror suspect" being held indefinitely under this)? If so, it seems like we're really screwed, because how can you show up in court to challenge it when you've been "disappeared"?
The answer to the question regarding ideas developing to control the third branch, is not pretty (some more "huh") :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/18/gingrich-judges_n_1156405.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/18/gingrich-judges_n_1156405.html)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21CbptyoQXY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21CbptyoQXY)
No honor among thieves ;D
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/shoplifters-robbed-while-stealing-grocery-store-192530012.html
A great ink pen commercial opportunity, just ripe for the picking:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/woman-swallows-pen_n_1160209.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D121782 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/woman-swallows-pen_n_1160209.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D121782)
Just precious....
Man Eats Cocaine From Brother's Butt, Dies
Police: Man Trying To Hide Drug Evidence In Squad Car
POSTED: 9:13 am CST December 20, 2011
North Charleston Police Department:
A South Carolina man's brother died after police said he was forced to eat cocaine hidden in his brother's backside.
Both brothers were taken into custody on allegations they had drugs in their car.
But police told Charleston, S.C., TV station WCIV there were additional drugs hidden in 23-year-old Deangelo Mitchell's backside.
Officers said Deangelo Mitchell convinced his brother, 20-year-old Wayne Mitchell, to swallow the ounce of cocaine to hide the evidence. He died soon afterward.
"It's sickening," North Charleston Police Chief Jon Zumalt told WCIV. "I got upset when I saw the thing. I was pretty shocked on it."
Deangelo Mitchell already bonded out of jail on the drug charge, but now police are looking for him again on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
Whale sperm, orgasmic feet top 2011 bad science list ;D
ReutersBy Kate Kelland | Reuters – 16 hrs ago
LONDON (Reuters) - From whale sperm to colon cleansers to the shape of a woman's foot when she has an orgasm, celebrities did not disappoint during 2011 with their penchant for peddling suspect science in the world's media.
In its annual list of what it considers the year's worst abuses against science, the Sense About Science (SAS) campaign named U.S. reality TV star Nicole Polizzi, Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann and American singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro as top offenders, with their dubious views on why the sea is salty, the risks of cervical cancer vaccines and the colon.
"I used to get a lot of sore throats and then one of my sisters told me that all illnesses start in the colon. I started taking a daily colon cleanser powder mixed with fresh juice every morning and it made an enormous difference," Quatro told the Daily Mail newspaper.
But SAS was keen to dispel such myths. It asked qualified scientists from various disciplines to comment on some of the worst celebrity science offences.
"The colon is very important in some diseases, but it certainly is not the cause of all illnesses," said Melita Gordon, a consultant gastroenterologist said in the review.
"Sore throats do not come from your colon; they are caused by viruses that come in through your nose and mouth. Taking 'colon cleansers' has no beneficial effect on your throat - or on your colon."
While the review is partly about entertainment, the campaign group stresses it also has a serious aim - to make sure pseudo-science is not allowed to become accepted as true.
After Bachmann used an appearance on a U.S. television show to tell a story of a woman from Tampa, Florida, who said her daughter had become "mentally retarded" after getting an HPV vaccine designed to protect against cervical cancer, doctors said they feared the damage done may take many years to reverse.
"It's tempting to dismiss celebrity comments on science and health, but their views travel far and wide and, once uttered, a celebrity cancer prevention idea or environmental claim is hard to reverse," said SAS's managing director Tracey Brown.
"At a time when celebrities dominate the public realm, the pressure for sound science and evidence must keep pace."
The review also highlighted a bizarre quote from U.S. TV personality Polizzi, who declared recently: "I don't really like the beach. I hate sharks, and the water's all whale sperm. That's why the ocean's salty."
Simon Boxall, a marine expert and oceanographer dismissed Polizzi's suggestion. "It would take a lot of whale sperm to make the sea that salty," he said.
Some of the most intriguing pseudo-scientific suggestions came via repeated second hand information picked up at parties - never the most reliable source.
Christian Louboutin, a French footwear designer, was taken with something a fellow party guest told him about shoes.
"She said that what is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms. So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation," he explained.
Kevan Wylie, a consultant in sexual medicine, responded drily that it's important to differentiate cause from effect.
"A woman's foot may be in this position during orgasm, but that does not mean that putting her foot into this position under other circumstances will result in orgasm," he said.
~Suzy Quatro a celebrity? Huh?
Quote from: Rowen MacD on December 28, 2011, 10:23:25 AM
~Suzy Quatro a celebrity? Huh?
Kinda almost used to be 40 years ago, perhaps? I had no idea she was still around. I listened to both her and her brother in the early 70s. She also had a recurring role on
Happy Days as Leather Tuscadero (`77-`79).
Edit: Maybe this should have gone on the Useless Fact thread...
Yeah, I remember the song 'Stumblin' in' but figured she was dead or living in a van somewhere by now. Per wiki- she hasn't been popular in the US since 1975. Looks like she has a FB page too.
That statement that Suzi was a celebrity just kinda made me go 'Whaaat?' I don't think she even rates the 'B' list now days.
The rest of the article was hilarious, especially the quote by Nicole Polizzi: *snerk*.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on December 28, 2011, 01:17:11 PM
Quote from: Rowen MacD on December 28, 2011, 10:23:25 AM
~Suzy Quatro a celebrity? Huh?
Kinda almost used to be 40 years ago, perhaps? I had no idea she was still around. I listened to both her and her brother in the early 70s. She also had a recurring role on Happy Days as Leather Tuscadero (`77-`79).
It's pretty sad when your greatest claim to fame is a recurring role on Happy Days during the show's "Somebody please put this series out of its misery" period.
However, I guess that's better than where most of us are, having never been famous and now only hoping we don't end up infamous. ;)
LOL. Suzi could get 'infamous' if she keeps making comments like she did.
Lordy, I dont' think I laughed that hard since a co worker made almost the same comment (accompanied by an offer to share her copy of a colonic cleaning article in a 'health' magazine) a decade ago.
The practice is quackery at it's best, but still funny as...you know what. There are still people who swear by it, but mostly for weight loss. Same as taking laxatives as a version of purging.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/31/obama-defense-bill_n_1177836.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D124161 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/31/obama-defense-bill_n_1177836.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-sb-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D124161)
no laugh, just say "huh" or something.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M7Rp_Ghv6k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M7Rp_Ghv6k)
http://www.bangstyle.com/2011/12/man-left-bruised-and-battered-after-attempting-to-mug-mma-fighter/
I saw that in the news. That's guys face will take a while to heal..
Man, shoplifters being robbed, muggers getting beat up, what's the world coming to? Tsk.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on January 03, 2012, 01:12:48 PM
I saw that in the news. That's guys face will take a while to heal..
Man, shoplifters being robbed, muggers getting beat up, what's the world coming to? Tsk.
Yeah...ain't Karma a beach? ;)
One question.... How the ^%@$????????
http://www.digtriad.com/news/article/206912/1/Car-Lands-Of-Roof-Of-Fresno-Apartment-Complex
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on January 05, 2012, 07:22:02 AM
One question.... How the ^%@$????????
http://www.digtriad.com/news/article/206912/1/Car-Lands-Of-Roof-Of-Fresno-Apartment-Complex
(http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/files/2010/11/ufo-abducts-car-ad.jpg)
;D Parking rules are a difficult concept for visitors to grasp. ;D
(http://www.pixpow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ufo-parking.jpg)
.... and where do you leave the ticket when there are no wipers ?
Quote from: Archer on January 05, 2012, 07:32:24 AM
.... and where do you leave the ticket when there are no wipers ?
Shove it up their...er..umm...exhaust pipe?
Would not want to be unemployed in Germany
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1482371/If-you-dont-take-a-job-as-a-prostitute-we-can-stop-your-benefits.html
Lost object with a value of 14 arses
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/roman-brothel-token-discovered-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29 (http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/01/roman-brothel-token-discovered-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheArchaeologyNewsNetwork+%28The+Archaeology+News+Network%29)
Quote from: DonaCatalina on January 05, 2012, 03:48:40 PM
Would not want to be unemployed in Germany
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1482371/If-you-dont-take-a-job-as-a-prostitute-we-can-stop-your-benefits.html
Wow...I'm speechless! So, by trying to reduce trafficking of women, Germany has (inadvertently?) turned their job centers into traffickers. If they want to make prostitution legal, and allow brothels to advertise for workers, fine. But to *force* women to take those jobs?!?!? That's just sick! :o Also, how is it "too hard" to tell brothels apart from bars?
That (german article) is ridiculous,
how have they not already corrected this??
Someone's most expensive divorces list . . .
Rupert Murdoch's divorce from Anna Murdoch; "the most expensive divorce in history" at $1.7 billion
Adnan Khashoggi's divorce from Soraya Khashoggi; estimated at $874 million
Craig McCaw's divorce from Wendy McCaw; estimated to exceed $460 million
Mel Gibson's divorce from Robyn; estimated at $425 million
Michael Jordan's divorce from Juanita Jordan; estimated to exceed $150 million and was considered by Forbes Magazine to be "the most expensive celebrity divorce" in history, as of April 2007
Charles Edgar Fipke's divorce from Marlene Fipke; estimated at $200 million
Neil Diamond's divorce from Marcia Murphey; estimated at $150 million
Harrison Ford's divorce from Melissa Mathison; estimated at $118 million
Greg Norman's divorce from Laura Andrassy; estimated at $103 million
Tiger Woods' divorce from Elin Nordegren; estimated at $100 million
Steven Spielberg's divorce from Amy Irving; estimated at $100 million
Madonna's divorce from Guy Ritchie; estimated at $90 million
Kevin Costner's divorce from Cindy Silva; estimated at $80 million
Kenny Rogers divorce from Marianne Rogers; estimated at $60 million
James Cameron's divorce from Linda Hamilton; estimated to exceed $50 million
Paul McCartney's divorce from Heather Mills; estimated at $48.6 million
Michael Douglas' divorce from Diandra Douglas; estimated at $45 million
Ted Danson's divorce from Casey Coats; estimated at $30 million
Donald Trump's divorce from Ivana Trump; estimated at $25 million
Lionel Richie's divorce from Diane Richie; estimated at $20 million
Mick Jagger's divorce from Jerry Hall; estimated between $15 and $25 million
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dConQiDAr0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dConQiDAr0)
I wonder if Rupert Murdoch would marry me... I'd divorce him for a lot less than $1.7 billion.
This is 2012, not 1640 right?
Relatives Accused in Witchcraft Killing
ABC NewsBy Timon Woodward
Relatives who suspected a British teenager of practicing witchcraft beat and drowned him Christmas Day 2010 as he "begged to die" because of the pain they were inflicting, prosecutors alleged in a London court.
Kristy Bamu, a 15-year-old boy from Newham, east London, allegedly died at the hands of Eric Bikubi and his partner, Magalie Bamu, Kristy's sister. Both of them have denied the charges.
Bikubi and Bamu allegedly forced Kristy's four siblings to join in the attack.
The alleged attackers hit the teen with sticks, metal bars, a hammer and chisel, prosecutors said, and he "begged to die" because of the pain from the beating.
"It was only when he [Bikubi] realized that he [Kristy] wasn't moving that he stopped what he was doing ... by then it was too late," prosecutor Brian Altman said.
Kristy suffered more than 100 injuries.
Kristy and his siblings had arrived in London from Paris to see the East London couple for Christmas. But Kelly, Kristy's elder sister, said the trip turned sour when Eric Bikubi accused her and Kristy of practicing witchcraft and sorcery. Eric Bikubi also accused them of influencing his 3-year-old son.
"Despite her own siblings' denials that they were sorcerers, Magalie Bamu joined her boyfriend in repeating these fantastic claims and participating in the assaults," Altman alleged.
"They beat them, refusing to let them eat, drink or sleep for days while the punishments being meted out became increasingly violent, with them using many implements found in the flat as weapons of torture," Altman said.
"However, it was Kristy Bamu who became the focus of Bikubi's attention and, in a desperate attempt to prevent any further suffering, he and his two sisters were eventually to admit to being sorcerers. Wickedly, the defendants also recruited sibling against sibling as vehicles for their violence," Altman told the court.
A little bit of "huh" in the news . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_gzHXxf3c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY_gzHXxf3c)
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Ice-storm-blankets-Washington-day-after-snowstorm-2623913.php
Charles Hetrick wears a kilt as he plays with "Zeus," his Chow-German Shepherd mix in the snow, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash. Hetrick says he has worn kilts for last six years and didn't think twice about going with bare legs Wednesday despite the cold.
news out of Wales, unexplained, so far . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbtYr1aNvX8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbtYr1aNvX8)
It may be weird news to some that at the end of the fiscal year 2010 there were 5,135 inventions that were under secrecy orders restricting their publication if disclosure would be detrimental to the national security. Thanks to the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, these inventions that produce free energy are deemed detrimental. What a shame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2l5Z9T_x8A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2l5Z9T_x8A)
Would it not be a boost to the economy for the populations to retain what they spend for their electric bills; fuel expenses and such ? Would it really be detrimental to national security or detrimental to a select group ? Thanks to those who are making these decisions for us because, we are apparently not smart enough to make decisions for ourselves.
More news to provide a "huh" . . . Largest Solar Flare since 2005 . . .
First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons.
Then, finally the coronal mass ejection — that's the plasma from the sun itself — hits. Usually that travels at about 1 or 2 million miles per hour, but this storm is particularly speedy and is shooting out at 4 million miles per hour, Biesecker said.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-01-23/solar-storm/52754706/1 (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-01-23/solar-storm/52754706/1)
More information ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30TXQkNBB9k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30TXQkNBB9k)
A massive sunspot released a M9-class solar flare (one step below the most powerful x-class flares) on January 23, 2012. The resulting coronal mass ejection may set off geomagnetic storms on Earth by January 24th or 25th. - (so we are told).
View it ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5FVFDGz60 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5FVFDGz60)
Scientists watching the sun with a new NASA satellite launched in 2010 — during the sun's quiet period — are excited.
"We haven't had anything like this for a number of years," Pulkkinen said. "It's kind of special."
Breaking out the sun screen while posting this . . . "huh"
Have you tried Bing Maps (Microsoft's version of Google Maps)?
Paste in these grid coordinates 32.82829, -97.21896 into www.bing.com. Now search. Now click on Maps at the top. Then click on "Aerial". Do not click on "Birdseye View" yet.
Zoom in. Now, what you see is vacant mall land. You can see a mall footprint. Now click on "Birdseye View". Viola! North Hills Mall appears. What happened to North Hills Mall you ask?
North Hills Mall was built in the 1970s. Across Loop 820 to the east was their competitor – Northeast Mall, in Hurst.
Hurst, in its infinite wisdom, condemned an adjacent 102-home fully occupied residential subdivision, then turned the land over to the Northeast Mall owners so they could expand the mall area. Hurst did this on the basis that the mall expansion would generate 10x the property and sales taxes hence, the Public Good would be served (a requirement under Condemnation Law).
And it worked. It is today a commercially successful regional mall generating big tax revenues for the city of Hurst.
Unfortunately, the demographics of the surrounding neighborhoods could not support two regional malls. North Hills Mall lost tenants and traffic to the expanded Northeast Mall.
North Hills Mall finally closed in 2007-8, and the city of North Richland Hills had to sue the mall owners to force them to clear the land at considerable expense.
This is one of the unintended consequences of allowing a government to take the private property of one private person in order to give it to another private person on the basis that the Public Good is served through greater tax revenues.
North Richland Hills lost its tax base however, and the North Hill Mall owners lost their shirts.
http://www.castlecoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=460&Itemid=130
Icky, Ick Ick Ick!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/drone-pilot-finds-river-blood-outside-dallas-meatpacking-155450010.html
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x71/Dona_Catalina/Generic%20Stuff/UKnews_n.jpg)
DonaCatalina
that is awesome,
i am going to have to send that to my dad and his aviation buddies
I love it!
UPDATE: While it's still a fun story, it turns out that it's naught but urban legend. According to Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp), it never occurred. ...such a great story, though!
There are sooo many funny things you can say....I don't know where to start ;D
http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/01/17/virgin-sperm-donor-video/
In a casket no less. Must have been cheaper than burying her.
http://www.bangstyle.com/2012/01/grandmas-body-found-in-storage-unit-after-17-years/
Edit: Darn, it would have made for a really interesting 'Storage Wars'
Quote from: Rowen MacD on January 30, 2012, 12:38:35 PM
There are sooo many funny things you can say....I don't know where to start ;D
http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/01/17/virgin-sperm-donor-video/
Did you notice how much bigger his right arm was than his left? :o
Something found in the Baltic Sea causing "huh" factor . . .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/ufo-found-in-baltic-sea-update_n_1241646.html#s648718&title=Sunken_Ship_in (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/ufo-found-in-baltic-sea-update_n_1241646.html#s648718&title=Sunken_Ship_in)
Thanks Eurpean Union. Your money may provide a plan that will allow humans to attend many future festivals . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2zDl9Or4pM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2zDl9Or4pM)
Nerds attack! Lordy this had to have been funny as you-know-what.....
Man dressed as Depp's Jack Sparrow pepper-sprayed
Associated Press – 12 hrs ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say several people dressed as movie characters on Hollywood Boulevard got into a brawl that ended with a man dressed as "Pirates of the Caribbean" character Capt. Jack Sparrow being pepper-sprayed.
Officer Rosario Herrera says it's unclear why the Sparrow character, made famous in the movies by Johnny Depp, got into a fight with people dressed as Catwoman and an alien in front of the Kodak Theatre Thursday evening.
Officers responded to a call that there was a disturbance on the stretch of Hollywood Boulevard known to host costumed characters who hustle tourists for a few bucks in exchange for a photo with a celebrity lookalike.
Sparrow was treated for minor injuries. No arrests have been made.
On Yahoo! News - Burglar Caught Inside Grocery Store Wearing Only Boots, Chocolate and Peanut Butter (http://news.yahoo.com/burglar-caught-inside-grocery-store-wearing-only-boots-182600779.html).
Wonder if he was stealing Reeces? ;) ;D
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/congressman-thought-parody-article-planned-parenthood-real-113439270.html
LMAO (while I burn my GOP card)
"The Onion is satire. How exactly did you get elected?" What a question! I would really like to know the answer....
It is sadly way too frequent that people believe total B.S. I get emails daily warning me about this, or that, or telling me I'll make a million bucks the easy way by **enter stupid as hell method here**
I truly wish that people would stop and think, that they would verify facts before passing some idiocy along to me in email.
I love the Onion!
TV "huh" news out of Kentucky, channel 14 . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqyUtWmst4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqyUtWmst4)
I don't even have kids and this is getting me all riled up
its a slipper slope
http://www.nccivitas.org/2012/state-inspectors-searching-childrens-lunch-boxes-this-isnt-china-is-it/
Quote from: Auryn on February 16, 2012, 12:38:36 PM
I don't even have kids and this is getting me all riled up
its a slipper slope
http://www.nccivitas.org/2012/state-inspectors-searching-childrens-lunch-boxes-this-isnt-china-is-it/
Ugggh. Someone already said it better than I can . . . . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFSNpjbVN4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFSNpjbVN4)
Sad that 37 years later, nothing has changed. Makes us all look like ostriches; sticking our heads in the ground and hoping the nastiness will just go away.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on February 17, 2012, 10:18:24 AM
Sad that 37 years later, nothing has changed. Makes us all look like ostriches; sticking our heads in the ground and hoping the nastiness will just go away.
Very true Rowen. So, the question on the nation's media lips becomes, what would William Shatner do (
skip add for lyrics) ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR6aKR6Rvws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR6aKR6Rvws) ;D
Heck, we're all living in a merry car . . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y4vIzEkd6s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y4vIzEkd6s)
In the news: Archaeology Anomolies of Ancient America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNxS3Lwlho (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNxS3Lwlho)
Caucasians in pre-Columbian America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCBa6Ve6FU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYCBa6Ve6FU)
These raise some doubts about the accuracy of ancient history we are taught.
The deeper we dig . . . the more "huh" factor . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6xctSVcOAk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6xctSVcOAk)
A news source reports that a banker in California left a 1% tip at a restaurant with a message written on the ticket that says, "Get a real job."
Having worked in the hospitality industry, I have to state that being a waiter, waitress, dishwasher, cashier, bartender, hostess, cook, chef—whatever—IS a real job. Otherwise, you would not have been served that delicious hot meal and refreshing cocktail on a clean plate.
If you don't appreciate your meal for some reason, there are ways of making it known, and sometimes a crappy tip is the proper response. There's no denying that. But to say that it's not a "real job" is an insult of major proportions. If I were that person, I would never dare set my foot in that restaurant again. Once you really anger someone in food service, you can never, ever really be sure that a "special" ingredient hasn't been added to your meal. Yes, it would get the perpetrator fired, possibly jailed, if it were discovered, but you would have already consumed something you probably wish you hadn't.
An appetizing thought . . . not. Being a shart just can't be helped by some. Some just insist on being a shart as their purpose in existing.
Now for some swamp gas and weather balloons found in central Mexico ? . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5preiVeBF3k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5preiVeBF3k)
... and news from closer to home . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5l3Qh2vl-0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5l3Qh2vl-0)
Just say "huh".... :P
Ye tax dollars at work . . . or play . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV1SbEuzFU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV1SbEuzFU)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmuteEWkwiA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmuteEWkwiA)
Gah. How the heck does this caca occur in this day and age?
Maybe this is just the retired Air Force ground crew in me getting really pissed...But nobody should just be able to just drive through a fence to get onto a busy airport runway. I would think by now all the major airports would have those concrete barriers along every fence accessible by non-flight line traffic.
Don't know why terrorists haven't exploited that by now...but you can bet they will.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46591129/ns/local_news-philadelphia_pa/t/rogue-jeep-drives-philly-runway/
Thieves steal preserved heart of St Laurence O'Toole
By Don Lavery
Sunday March 04 2012
THE 12th-Century preserved heart of of the patron saint of Dublin, St Laurence O'Toole, was stolen from Christ Church Cathedral yesterday.
Shocked staff at the cathedral discovered the theft yesterday and said they were "absolutely devastated".
Gardai are now hunting for the missing relic.
"It has been a major site of pilgrimage and a major tourist attraction," said Nuala Kavanagh, director of operations at the cathedral.
The heart -- which has been in the cathedral for 800 years -- was kept in a wooden container sealed within a small iron-barred case.
It is understood three security guards were on duty and CCTV footage was being examined by gardai last night.
Gardai said they believed the theft from Saint Laud's Chapel in Christ Church Cathedral happened sometime between Friday evening and 12.30pm yesterday.
The small iron-barred case was forced open by the thieves who left it behind and escaped with the saint's heart.
No alarms were activated and there was no sign of a break-in at the cathedral when it was opened at 9.30am yesterday.
Staff said they had never seen the heart, which is kept in the wooden heart-shaped container, which is itself sealed within the iron case.
The one-time archbishop St Laurence O'Toole, born Lorcan Ua Tuathail in Castledermot, County Kildare, in 1128 and who became known as Laurence O'Toole, died in November 1180 in Normandy, France.
Staff said O'Toole was known as an ascetic. He wore a hairshirt, never ate meat and fasted every Friday on bread and water.
When he entertained, his guests lacked for nothing while he coloured his water to look like wine so as not to spoil the feast. Each Lent he went to Glendalough where he lived in St Kevin's Cell, a sort of cave over the Upper Lake, for 40 days.
Due to the number of miracles that occurred at his tomb, he was canonised in 1225 by Pope Honorius III.
In 1442, his skull was brought back to Britain by Rowland Standish (a relative of Captain Myles Standish, the British military adviser to the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony arriving off the Mayflower) who fought at Agincourt. His bones were interred at the Parish Church of Chorley, now called the Church of St Laurence.
However, the bones disappeared in the Reformation under Henry VIII's rule.
His heart has been preserved in Christ Church Cathedral since the 13th Century and has been a major pilgrimage site since the medieval period.
The Dean of Christ Church Cathedral and the diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, the Most Reverend Dermot Dunne, said: "I am devastated that one of the treasured artefacts of the cathedral is stolen.
"It has no economic value but it is a priceless treasure that links our present foundation with its founding father, St Laurence O'Toole."
Staff at the cathedral appealed to the thieves to return the relic.
Gardai said they wished to speak to anyone who may have visited Saint Laud's Chapel in Christ Church Cathedral between Friday evening and 12.30pm yesterday and may have seen anything suspicious to contact them at Kevin Street garda station at 01- 6669400.
- Don Lavery
Ladies, just my opinion... breast augmentation is a waste. It's as ridiculous as a bald guy with a comb-over. Case in point: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/my-giant-boobs-saved-my-life-woman-679293
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on March 04, 2012, 03:20:46 PM
Ladies, just my opinion... breast augmentation is a waste. It's as ridiculous as a bald guy with a comb-over. Case in point: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/my-giant-boobs-saved-my-life-woman-679293
LMAO-The Duckface was icing on the cake.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on March 04, 2012, 04:48:27 PM
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on March 04, 2012, 03:20:46 PM
Ladies, just my opinion... breast augmentation is a waste. It's as ridiculous as a bald guy with a comb-over. Case in point: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/my-giant-boobs-saved-my-life-woman-679293
LMAO-The Duckface was icing on the cake.
(facepalm) This woman is from our area. ::) ::) ::) ::)
heheh...yeah, I noticed that, Bonny Pearl! What kind of nuts are you growing down there? ;) ::) :P
I think I was totally distracted by her other "assets," Rowen. I didn't even notice the face.
Quote from: Bonny Pearl on March 04, 2012, 07:16:30 PM
Quote from: Rowen MacD on March 04, 2012, 04:48:27 PM
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on March 04, 2012, 03:20:46 PM
Ladies, just my opinion... breast augmentation is a waste. It's as ridiculous as a bald guy with a comb-over. Case in point: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/my-giant-boobs-saved-my-life-woman-679293
LMAO-The Duckface was icing on the cake.
(facepalm) This woman is from our area. ::) ::) ::) ::)
My sympathies...Let's hope she doesn't decide to dress up and start hanging out at TRF.... ::)
I can't figure out which is more appalling. That someone would feel the need to mutilate themselves in that fashion, or the grammar in that article.
Calif. woman killed by cannonball fired by husband
03/06/2012
POTRERO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in California say a 33-year-old San Diego County woman has been killed by a cannonball fired by her husband and another man.
The woman was found dead at about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday after the ball slammed into her home at the Twin Lakes Resort mobile home park in Potrero, a tiny community near the Mexican border.
Her name hasn't been released.
State fire Capt. Mike Mohler says the men told authorities they were working on the cannon nearby when it went off. Mohler says one man was treated at a hospital for injuries he suffered when the cannon went off.
Mkay, admitting some of these news clips cause me to say "huh" . . . ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh0XckvfX_I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh0XckvfX_I)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNp4MSb9k2k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNp4MSb9k2k)
Mantyhose? Brosiery?
Fashion has come full circle (again)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2111246/Brosiery-mantyhose-men-seek-warmth-comfort--fashion-statement-patterned-tights.html
How embarrassing :-[
Marie Osmond sprinkles when she tinkles on stage
The Daily Caller – Mon, Mar 12, 2012
Marie Osmond had a bit of an accident on stage during a performance on a Bahamas cruise ship March 2 after an audience member's question had both her and her brother, Donny, laughing hysterically.
We don't know what made her laugh so hard, but Marie erupted into such a fit of laughter that she peed on herself and on the stage.
Osmond wasn't ashamed. Instead, she exclaimed, "I just peed my pants!" and wiped the stage where her little accident took place.
Laughing even harder than before, Donny told the audience: "You really did. We promised you an experience. You got it!"
~On an unrelated note: Stephen Hawking will guest star on 'The Big Bang Theory'
Geek-out ensues!
I thought this was a rather "oh neat!" version of the "huh?" requirement!
Canada Issues Glow in the Dark Dinosaur Quarter (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/canada-issues-glow-dark-dinosaur-quarter-173052860.html;_ylt=Atv6BuYtNan4L9a2IdcJ.dis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtbGMxMmJsBG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBGUARwa2cDZGFiNTY2YWItZDI4Yi0zMmZhLThiZmEtM2YyMDRjZjZlN2FmBHBvcwMxNgRzZWMDdG9wX3N0b3J5BHZlcgMwNTRmM2Y2MC04NGNjLTExZTEtYTVmZS02YzdjNTQyN2MxYTU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFrM25vcXFyBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc2VjdGlvbnMEdGVzdAM-;_ylv=3)
Quote from: Lady Kett on April 12, 2012, 06:32:58 PM
I thought this was a rather "oh neat!" version of the "huh?" requirement!
Canada Issues Glow in the Dark Dinosaur Quarter (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/canada-issues-glow-dark-dinosaur-quarter-173052860.html;_ylt=Atv6BuYtNan4L9a2IdcJ.dis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtbGMxMmJsBG1pdANUb3BTdG9yeSBGUARwa2cDZGFiNTY2YWItZDI4Yi0zMmZhLThiZmEtM2YyMDRjZjZlN2FmBHBvcwMxNgRzZWMDdG9wX3N0b3J5BHZlcgMwNTRmM2Y2MC04NGNjLTExZTEtYTVmZS02YzdjNTQyN2MxYTU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFrM25vcXFyBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdAMEcHQDc2VjdGlvbnMEdGVzdAM-;_ylv=3)
That is way cool-too bad the queen doesn't have a glowing skull ;D
According to the story, Canada might be the first country to start using another sci fi staple- the 'digitized currency' system called the Mint Chip.
Soon the world will run on 'Credits' instead of coins and paper money.
Makes me think of something one of my old history professors said. "Our money used to be a gold standard, then we ran out of gold and went to silver certificates, then we ran out of silver. Now it just says 'In God We Trust', as in we trust that it may actually be worth anything"
An old radio news broadcast that still calls for a "huh" ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNsj3yQUQXA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNsj3yQUQXA)
Meet the man who sells testicular implants for dogs: 'People thought I was nuts'
Would you buy your dog a pair of testicular implants?Gregg Miller says he's well aware that his business selling testicular implants for dogs invites just as many jokes as it does clients. That's because Miller's job is creating artificial dog testicles for canines that have been neutered.
"Dogs aren't stupid," he tells Business Week. "They would know if their eye was gouged out, or their foot was cut off. Why wouldn't they know if their testicles are now missing?"
But laugh all you want, Miller, 59, says his business has become a big success. He says 517,223 dogs in all 50 U.S. states and 49 countries are now wearing "Neuticles" manufactured by his company. Though, as Business Week notes, even Miller can't avoid slipping into unintentional humor when discussing his unusual business.
"When Neuticles were introduced commercially in 1995," he says, "people thought I was nuts," he said.
But as the comedian Joan Rivers asked Miller, "What do they do?"
Miller claims the Neuticles gives dogs a sense of restored pride. Though he recommends the "very lifelike" (and more expensive) silicone version of his product (up to $600) compared to the "easily detected" though more affordable "rigid polypropylene version (about $150).
"Generally pet owners think (Neuticles) are genius and non-pet owners think we're insane," he says.
And while Miller offers several different styles and sizes, he also requires customers to include information about their dog's age, weight and breed before matching them with the right pair. "Going larger can create short- and long-term complications and discomfort for the pet," he said.
Abraham Lincoln tried to patent Facebook concept (http://natestpierre.me/2012/05/08/abraham-lincoln-patent-facebook/)
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/150603785.html
Quote from: Lady Kett on May 08, 2012, 07:34:25 PM
Abraham Lincoln tried to patent Facebook concept (http://natestpierre.me/2012/05/08/abraham-lincoln-patent-facebook/)
That's pretty funny.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/05/teacher-in-dog-house-for-punishing-students-with-pet-collar/1#.T6voNVKh0zk
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/103-old-man-buried-coffin-made-tree-fought-191232137.html
Not so much odd as heartwarming...
Herbie fought to protect New England's tallest elm until it collapsed from dutch elm disease. He was unaware that a local furniture maker had set aside some of the wood to make a coffin for the 103 year old caretaker. Now the man and the tree he loved will be together forever...
Quotehttp://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/05/teacher-in-dog-house-for-punishing-students-with-pet-collar/1#.T6voNVKh0zk
...just imagine the trouble he would have been in if he used electric shock dog collars![/size]
Quote from: Rowen MacD on May 15, 2012, 04:26:01 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/103-old-man-buried-coffin-made-tree-fought-191232137.html
Not so much odd as heartwarming...
Herbie fought to protect New England's tallest elm until it collapsed from dutch elm disease. He was unaware that a local furniture maker had set aside some of the wood to make a coffin for the 103 year old caretaker. Now the man and the tree he loved will be together forever...
Awwwww. Agree, very heartwarming. Nice to see nice human interest stories now and again. The world is so full of crazy stuff, it's nice to know it's not ALL crazy!
Speaking of human interest, some "huh" for ye . . . . 8) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUavYfPqfA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUavYfPqfA)
http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2012/02/02/skip-schumaker-rally-squirrel-topps-card-sells-for-600-on-ebay/ (http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2012/02/02/skip-schumaker-rally-squirrel-topps-card-sells-for-600-on-ebay/)
Really? Panda suits...? I can't find a link to a full story, just a photo and caption on Yahoo. The caption is:
Researchers dressed in panda costumes carry a cage as they transfer giant panda Tao Tao to a new living environment at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan province May 3, 2012. REUTERS/China Daily
(http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2Sb8wy.NqOcqwMysm6DwNg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MDE7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/152/2012/05/03/RTR31JQB-jpg_182932.jpg)
Who says nothing interesting ever happens in Iowa?
DUI suspect had zebra in truck
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Police charged an eastern Iowa man with drunken driving after stopping him outside a Dubuque bar, where he was in a truck beside a small zebra and parrot.
Officers arrested 56-year-old Jerald Reiter on Sunday night in the parking lot of the Dog House bar. Officers gave him a field sobriety test and charged him with drunken driving.
Reiter, of Cascade, disputes the arrest, saying he was about to let a passenger begin driving.
He says the zebra and macaw parrot are pets and like riding in the truck. Sometimes the bar lets them inside, but they had to stay outside this time because the business was serving food.
People were taking photos of the animals, and Reiter says he thinks a spectator reported him to police.
Pooper scooper duel ends with attacker on the run
By Jill Blocker KOMO News Published: May 15, 2012 at 10:33 AM PDT Last Updated: May 15, 2012 at 1:01 PM PDT
Pooper scooper duel ends with attacker on the run
SEATTLE, Wash. - A woman defended herself with a "pooper scooper" for nearly a half hour while a man tried to hit her with another pooper scooper in Plymouth Pilliars Park early Thursday, according to the Seattle Police Department.
Police say the woman was with her dog at park, near Boren Avenue and Pike Street, around 2 a.m. when a man approached her complaining she was making too much noise, which he said was keeping his friend from sleeping.
He then picked up a pooper scooper and began swinging it at the woman, trying to hit her, according to police.
Police say the woman also picked up a pooper scooper to defend herself, fighting off the attacker for about 30 minutes before being able to leave the park.
Police searched the area, but were unable to find the attacker, according to the police department.
O.K. This sounds like a scene from Dawn of the Dead....
Witness says naked attacker was chewing man's face
MIAMI (AP) — A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop.
Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami (http://bit.ly/L6kwWt) that he was riding his bicycle Saturday afternoon off the MacArthur Causeway that connects downtown Miami with Miami Beach when he saw the savage attack on the bridge's off-ramp.
"The guy was, like, tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get off!'" Vega said. "The guy just kept eating the other guy away, like, ripping his skin."
The slain man was identified by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's office as Rudy Eugene, 31, Miami television station WFOR (http://cbsloc.al/LZlxol) reported.
Vega flagged down a Miami police officer, who he said repeatedly ordered the attacker to get off the victim. The attacker just picked his head up and growled at the officer, Vega said.
As the attack continued, Vega said the officer shot the attacker, who continued chewing the victim's face. The officer fired again, killing the attacker.
Miami police have released few details about the attack, other than confirming that there had been a fatal officer-involved shooting. The victim's name had not been immediately determined by authorities, said Detective William Moreno. Messages left Monday for a police spokesman were not immediately returned.
The victim was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital. A spokeswoman said Monday that the hospital would not be releasing any information about him.
A surveillance video camera from The Miami Herald building nearby captured images of the men's naked legs lying side by side after the shooting.
Vega said the victim appeared gravely injured.
"It was just a blob of blood," Vega said. "You couldn't really see, it was just blood all over the place.
Ok, so first of all I just think this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh271FAVZ0o) is a cool video of something you rarely get to see.
But at about 35 seconds, tell me that doesn't look like a frozen wooly mammoth popsicle sinking into the water...
[I have had only ONE glass of wine tonight! If I am seeing things, leave me in the happy place in my head please! LOL :))
PS I put it under the "news" thread b/c that's where I saw the link...
Wow....that was pretty neat! :D
Quote from: Captain Teague on May 31, 2012, 09:19:13 PM
Wow....that was pretty neat! :D
10-4 on the neat...You may remain in your Happy Place, Lady Kett. You were not seeing things...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_bfrc5tPNI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_bfrc5tPNI) speaks for itself . . . huh ?
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on June 01, 2012, 05:40:19 AM
Quote from: Captain Teague on May 31, 2012, 09:19:13 PM
Wow....that was pretty neat! :D
10-4 on the neat...You may remain in your Happy Place, Lady Kett. You were not seeing things...
Yeah, I saw it too, tusks and all. Weird.
Cool video of the ice berg! Where am I supposed to look to see this mammoth popsicle, though? I seem to have missed it. :(
Quote from: Elennare on June 01, 2012, 09:49:41 AM
Cool video of the ice berg! Where am I supposed to look to see this mammoth popsicle, though? I seem to have missed it. :(
Well, be warned that the happy place in my head is probably a scary place for others...but...if you watch the timer on the video, when you get to 35 seconds in, look at the blob of ice that's starting to sink into the ocean. The right(ish) side of it, looks like the tusks, trunk and front legs to me, which then morphed into the rest of the mammoth popsicle in my head. It's sort of like cloud watching tho, not everyone's eyes see the same thing! :)
I forgot to even watch for the mammoth, I was so watching the iceberg doing its thing.
A must read....Still LMAO.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/sex-toy-fools-entire-chinese-village-142914102--abc-news-topstories.html
Uhhhhhmmmmmmm.......... nevermind......
Not weird or funny-
Sometimes a crime is so horrific, there is no other option than to just say-Justice Was Done in Texas.
Huzzah Texas.
Father who beat daughter's alleged attacker to death won't be charged
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – 5 hrs ago
A grand jury in Texas has decided not to indict a father who beat to death a man he found allegedly sexually abusing his young daughter.
"Under the law, deadly force is justified to stop a sexual assault," Lavaca County District Attorney Heather McMinn said on Tuesday at a press conference announcing the grand jury's decision. "All the evidence presented by the sheriff's department and the Texas Rangers indicated that was in fact what was occurring when the victim's father arrived at the scene."
McMinn added: "The substantial amount of evidence showed that the witness statements and the father's statement and what the father had observed was in fact what had happened that day."
Jesus Mora Flores was beaten to death on June 9 in Shiner, Texas, after the 23-year-old father allegedly discovered the 47-year-old Flores in a pasture on the family's ranch on top of his 5-year-old daughter with his pants and underwear down. (News organizations, including Yahoo News, are not naming the father in order to protect the identity of his daughter.)
A witness who saw Flores—a Mexican who legally worked at the ranch—"forcibly carrying" the girl into a secluded area of the property alerted the father, who followed his daughter's screams to the pasture, pulled Flores off her, and "inflicted several blows to the man's head and neck area."
After beating Flores, the father called 911.
"I need an ambulance," the father told the dispatcher, according to 911 tapes released by police. "This guy was raping my daughter and I beat him up and I don't know what to do. This guy is fixing to die on me, man, and I don't know what to do."
"Come on! This guy is going to die on me!" he continued during the frantic, five-minute call. "I don't know what to do!"
Emergency workers, as well as the daughter's grandfather and aunt, tried to revive Flores but could not. Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said he found the distraught father crying, saying that he had not intended to kill Flores.
"He's a peaceable soul," V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney, said. "He had no intention to kill anybody that day."
The case has sparked a debate about whether the killing was justified.
"There are those ... who feel that as abominable as the actions of Flores were, he did not deserve a death sentence delivered through vigilante justice," Diane Fanning wrote on Forbes.com. "If I found a half-naked man on top of my 5-year-old daughter, I might not have the strength to kill him. But I do know I would jump on his back and try to rip his eyes right out of his head."
A Time magazine reader even suggested "lifetime free passes to Disneyland" should be awarded to the father for protecting his child: "Touch a kid. Die. Done."
Local residents in Shiner—which has a population of about 2,000—supported the father, too.
"I think it was a good decision," Lamont Matthews told the Victoria (Texas) Advocate. "I would have done the same thing."
"The father has gone through enough," Gail Allen, another resident, told The Associated Press. "The little girl is going to be traumatized for life, and the father, too, for what happened. He was protecting his family. Any parent would do that."
"It's sad a man had to die," Michael James Veit said. "But I think anybody would have done that."
"In our opinion," Huser said Tuesday, "the story is over."
Indeed, HAZZAH!
I can not imagine any father, worthy of the title, doing anything else when his child is threatened.
Other sources reported that the girl's young brother witnessed the beginning of the attack and went to find his father. It was confirmed at the hospital that the girl had in fact been sexually assaulted.
According to section 9.32 of the Texas Penal Code, any person can use deadly force for the reasons covered in section 9.31 (Self-Defense). This means that the individual may use deadly force to protect himself or another person only if he reasonably believes that the individual posing a threat will not retreat and that deadly force is the only means to protect himself or another person. An individual can also use deadly force to protect himself or others from aggravated kidnapping, murder, aggravated robbery, robbery, aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault. Section 9.33 similarly states that an individual may use deadly force in defense of a third person if the individual reasonably believes that the third person is in immediate danger and the intervention by use of deadly force is the only way to protect the third person.
Read more: Texas Penal Code Laws on the Use of Deadly Force | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_6656468_texas-laws-use-deadly-force.html#ixzz1yR0nYMt8
Debate? What debate? The only debate should've been over whether if the guy died slow enough. Sick piece of s**t got off easy... it should've been a lot more lingering. >:(
Dona, thanks for the info on the witness that called the dad. The little boy is a hero.
I was wondering why another person would have let the guy go past him with a screaming kid, but if it was another small child, the attacker would have ignored him as a non threat. An adult would have most probably made the attacker abort his plan in one way or another.
I only regret that the father had to go through the BS he had to, he is not much more than a kid himself, but
we all know that if he had to do it over again, it would have gone down the same way.
There are some choices that are not choices at all.
This one is an "awwww" :)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/it-aint-over-the-business-secret_n_1607385.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1229452,b=facebook
Feel Good Friday!
Quote from: Lady Kett on June 21, 2012, 10:38:10 PM
This one is an "awwww" :)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/it-aint-over-the-business-secret_n_1607385.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1229452,b=facebook
Yeah... I liked that one.
And if you want a Mamaw Ruth Pound Cake of your very own....
http://happiness-happens.com/catalog/c4_p1.html
They put vodka in everything!
I think I'll order one just because I like why they're doing it...and because I like cake...with vodka...
Wow...the world just got weirder...
http://news.yahoo.com/nj-woman-hit-ball-sues-little-league-player-170958657--spt.html
That is just outrageous. He is just a little kid, it is not his fault... the things people would do to get money.
I want to see this go to a Jury, where they will lose.
Then I want to kids' family to counter-sue.
This why we need legal reforms to make it so the plaintiffs and the lawyers both have some skin in the game. If the plaintiff loses, they should have to pay the defendant 1/2 the amount they were suing for.
To be fair (and to discourage the lawyers from filing frivolous lawsuits in the first place) the lawyers should be liable for 1/2 the amount their clients owe.
Right now is costs them nada to bring a frivolous lawsuit, waste taxpayers' money, and tie up the courts to try to make a quick buck.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on June 23, 2012, 09:17:13 AM
I want to see this go to a Jury, where they will lose.
Then I want to kids' family to counter-sue.
This why we need legal reforms to make it so the plaintiffs and the lawyers both have some skin in the game. If the plaintiff loses, they should have to pay the defendant 1/2 the amount they were suing for.
To be fair (and to discourage the lawyers from filing frivolous lawsuits in the first place) the lawyers should be liable for 1/2 the amount their clients owe.
Right now is costs them nada to bring a frivolous lawsuit, waste taxpayers' money, and tie up the courts to try to make a quick buck.
<shrug> People come up with strange ideas that further limit the poor man's key to the courthouse. If you worry about wasted taxpayer money, you're looking at the smallest cut of the entire bleeding system. The large bleeding would be in other locations. The "third" branch of government is just a slow drip. Look for the larger bleeding areas to apply pressure to the wound. ;)
I'm not sure the issue is the "poor man's keys to the courthouse" as much as it is some poor slob being talked into a contingent lawsuit. The plaintiff has no risk, but the defendant has to shell out money to fight a ridiculous lawsuit. Sometimes a deep-pocketed attorney for the plaintiff can hang in there longer, and that's the only requisite for a win.
You know it as well as I do, Archer...not all attorneys are straight-shooters.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on June 26, 2012, 03:46:03 PM
You know it as well as I do, Archer...not all attorneys are straight-shooters.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
William Shakespeare
Henry the Sixth, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2
Considering that nearly all the 'lawmakers' are lawyers... I don't expect the system that is their bread and butter to change anytime soon. Right now it's a win/win situation. They can sue all day long for nothing more than their time investment, and even if there is a counter suit, the plaintiff takes the fall, while the lawyer walks off.
However, if reforms are to be made: I would ask that the lawyers and plaintiffs bringing these frivolous lawsuits risk something besides wasted time.
It costs money for the defendant to defend himself, and to be fair, the least the plaintiff/lawyer team can do is pay all or some of the legal fees for bringing the suit if they lose it. Furthermore, this should be be a default judgement, and not subject to a second lawsuit by the defendant to sue for legal fees (the way it is now), since trying to recover the court costs from the plaintiff 'poor' is just about nill, of which I'm sure the lawyers are aware.
To provide for the truly wronged poor, there could be a bond system (similar to a bail bond), that holds money in escrow should the suit be unsuccessful, but would provide a way to continue to allow the 'poor' to sue if warranted. The point would be to make the plaintiff/lawyers aware that they are taking a potentially expensive risk, and perhaps reconsider bringing a case to court that might be better off mediated elsewhere, or better yet, settled between the two parties without a lawyer involved at all.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/man-bites-dog-eats-dog-high-spice/story?id=16660512
Gah! People are Morons.
misconceptions float around out there. A typical nursing home neglect or abuse case takes more than the attorney's time (which is quite valuable) but also his money. A typical nursing home case prosecution will require an attorney to put up in excess of 20k out of his own pocket (in middle America) and it will be tied up there for about two years (which includes his time). It is high stakes gambling to play this game. Alot of folks whine about it while knowing nothing about how it works; never did one themselves and never would have the kahunas to do it themselves .......... to benefit or to help another person who could not do it for themselves. Ignorance is soooo bliss. ;)
This is an honest to God Ebay listing. Read the whole description... you will be rolling on the floor laughing. As Benjamin Franklin said "Fart Proudly". Can't wait to see your comments on this one!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FART-GONE-Flatulence-Deodorizer-Pad-GOES-UNDERWEAR-LET-EM-RIP-/270939971385?_trksid=p4340.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D555001%26algo%3DPW.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D7%26meid%3D440720524169622696%26pid%3D100009%26prg%3D1004%26rk%3D3%26 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/FART-GONE-Flatulence-Deodorizer-Pad-GOES-UNDERWEAR-LET-EM-RIP-/270939971385?_trksid=p4340.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D555001%26algo%3DPW.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D7%26meid%3D440720524169622696%26pid%3D100009%26prg%3D1004%26rk%3D3%26)
As Jumpin' Jack Flash would say, "It's a gas, gas, gas!"
I truly am speechless on this one, but I let one rip as I laughed....
That's great ^_^. I heard about these a couple years back-they are very popular in Japan, a country known for being seriously uptight about 'personal noises and odors'.
Unsurprisingly, these haven't caught on in the US or most of Europe. ;D
Note: Japan is also were you can find public ladies restrooms that have loud music or bird chirps to cover natural sounds. :-[
They had to do that because some women would constantly flush the toilet to cover the sound of making water or whatever else might happen. It was was so prevalent, that the water bills were of concern.
Carbon filters for flatulence was a natural progression.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jun/04/orvillecopter-flying-helicopter-dead-cat
Ok, the Dutch have weird ways of remembering dead pets.
I ran across this one when looking for Roger Corman's 'Bucket of Blood' on a dare.
Quote from: Rowen MacD on August 03, 2012, 08:35:42 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jun/04/orvillecopter-flying-helicopter-dead-cat
Ok, the Dutch have weird ways of remembering dead pets.
I ran across this one when looking for Roger Corman's 'Bucket of Blood' on a dare.
That is a little creepy!
Wonder if it can fly ??
Quote from: Baron Frederick on August 04, 2012, 05:45:19 PM
Wonder if it can fly ??
According to the site; yes.
It has 4 props, I figure it hovers, but not much else.
He would need to adjust the pitch of the rotors to move laterally.
Or put another rotor in a certain place
If the artist can control the speed of the rotors front to back and side to side, he might be able to impart forward motion and bank right or left. RC boats with 2 props and no rudder maneuver by just using one or the other props to turn. Just guessing.
Quote from: Baron Frederick on August 04, 2012, 05:55:27 PM
Or put another rotor in a certain place
I went there. LOL. :o
You would classify that as rear propulsion.
Sword-wielding knights rob medieval festival (http://failblog.org/2012/08/03/epic-fail-fail-nation-probably-bad-news-getting-medieval-on-your-weed%20puller/#comments)
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/us/2012/08/15/car-mechanics-in-kilts.kotv
Oklahoma mechanics wear kilts. "like"
Gina
like! ;D
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/bestoftv/2012/08/22/drew-bts-too-sexy-too-soon.hln
This news story makes me say "what the fa...."!
Gina
'Wiki Weapon Project' Aims To Create A Gun Anyone Can 3D-Print At Home:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/08/23/wiki-weapon-project-aims-to-create-a-gun-anyone-can-3d-print-at-home/
This is bizarre enough on its own merit. The fact that this was one of our program's grads weirds me out a little more...
That's just freakin' scary.
The potential for a whole bunch of homemade mayhem.
Interesting. I would be a bit worried about the plastic not being able to stand up to the stress of firing, though. There certainly are options that would work, but I wonder if anyone has researched if this printer uses one? If not, best case scenario is the thing deforms the first time you shoot it and won't work again (better hope you didn't miss if you printed it to use for home defense...). Worst case is it explodes in your hand.
I will avoid any comments on the political side of the discussion to help keep from dragging the thread off-topic. :)
Ebola Phone Theft: Man Steals From Quarantined Uganda Hospital Patient, Contracts Virus (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/ebola-phone-theft-steals-infected-patient_n_1832927.html?ncid=wsc-huffpost-cards-headline)
From The Independant in GB: The Vigilantes should have consulted a dictionary before they grabbed the pitchforks and lit the torches.... :-[
Vigilantes have forced a doctor from her home after daubing her walls with anti-pedophile graffiti.
Vigilantes have forced a doctor from her home after daubing her walls with anti-pedophile graffiti.
Yvette Cloete, who works at Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, found her home daubed with the word "Pedo".
Police said they believe vigilantes confused the words pediatrician and pedophile.
A spokesman said: "There is nothing to justify what was written on the walls and door of Dr Cloete's home. These people should think long and hard about what they have done to a member of the community who has devoted her life to helping children."
Dr Cloete confirmed she had left because of the attack last weekend. "For the time being I have moved out... We removed the graffiti within hours but what happened was a terrible thing and it has been extremely distressing."
A Royal Gwent Hospital spokesman said: "This... has been a pointless and distressing event for Dr Cloete. She is a valued and respected member of the pediatric team, where she has worked for the last two and a half years."
"Missing" Tourist in Iceland helps to "find" herself... :o
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/28/missing-woman-searches-for-sel.html (http://boingboing.net/2012/08/28/missing-woman-searches-for-sel.html)
The first thought that crossed my mind was, didn't anyone think to count the people on the Tour Bus, before setting out with a Search Party? ;) ;D
Rowen, that is just downright pathetic, and frightening. Very sad, indeed.
On the other hand, David's story is hilarious!
OK-How old is too old to drive?
He backed slowly into the crowd, but said his car was out of control because his brakes failed? WTF?
wanna bet there is nothing wrong with his caddy?
Police: 100-year-old driver hits 11 near L.A. school
By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES – A 100-year-old man backed his car on to a sidewalk and hit 11 people, including nine children, across from an elementary school in South Los Angeles just after classes had ended Wednesday, authorities said.
Four of the children were in critical condition when firefighters arrived but they were stabilized and were in serious condition at a hospital, city fire Capt. Jaime Moore said. Everyone was expected to survive, he said.
The powder blue Cadillac backed slowly into the group of parents and children buying snacks from a sidewalk vendor, and the crowd banged on his windows and screamed for him to stop, but not before some of the children were trapped under the car, witnesses said.
L.A. County-USC hospital spokeswoman Rose Saca said one child remained in critical but stable condition, another would remain for observation overnight and another would likely go home later in the day. Others were treated and released.
Children's backpacks, shoes, candy and loose change were strewn about the scene behind a discount grocery store across from Main Street Elementary.
Police identified the driver as Preston Carter and said he was being very cooperative.
Carter talked to television reporters after the crash some five miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. He said he has a driver's license and will be 101 years old Sept. 5.
"My brakes failed. It was out of control," Carter told KCAL-TV.
Asked about hitting the children, Carter said: "You know I'm sorry about that. I wouldn't do that for nothing on earth. My sympathies for them."
Carter was pulling out of the grocery store parking lot, but instead of backing into the street, he backed onto the sidewalk, police Capt. George Rodriguez said.
"I think it was a miscalculation on his part. The gentleman is elderly," Rodriguez said. "Obviously he is going to have some impairment on his decision making."
Older drivers have been involved in other tragedies. In 2003, an 86-year-old man mistakenly stepped on the gas pedal of his car instead of the brake and then panicked, plowing into an open-air market in Santa Monica. Ten people were killed and 63 injured.
According to California's Department of Motor Vehicles, people over age 70 must renew their driver's license in person, rather than via the Internet or by mail. Older drivers can also be required to take a supplemental driving test if they fail a vision exam, or if a police officer, a physician, or a family member raises questions about their ability to drive.
Rodriguez said the collision was being investigated as an accident, and Carter was not under arrest. He has a valid driver's license, Rodriguez said.
There is a difference between " letting a saucer like balloon go in your backyard " to " stepping your silly a$# out onto the highway at night to incite sightings."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/us/montana-big-foot-accident/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/us/montana-big-foot-accident/index.html)
Quote from: scarletnyx on August 30, 2012, 03:31:55 PM
There is a difference between " letting a saucer like balloon go in your backyard " to " stepping your silly a$# out onto the highway at night to incite sightings."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/us/montana-big-foot-accident/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/us/montana-big-foot-accident/index.html)
The latest entry into the Darwin Awards. A little less debris in the gene pool.
...I don't think that was debris, Rowen. I think someone .... in the gene pool.
Quick, everybody head to Minneapolis, Minnesota! ;) ;D
http://news.yahoo.com/internet-cat-video-film-festival-underway-minnesota-195016358.html (http://news.yahoo.com/internet-cat-video-film-festival-underway-minnesota-195016358.html)
Meanwhile, the online gaming Universe mourns the passing of 'Vile Rat' of Eve: Online.....
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/murdered-state-department-official-sean-smith-influential-online-185547152.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-observes-international-talk-pirate-day-193121889--election.html
Quote from: Rowen MacD on September 19, 2012, 08:48:08 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-observes-international-talk-pirate-day-193121889--election.html
I want to know who the pirate is!??!!!!!???
Roadkill Cafe is real!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/kentucky-restaurant-shut-down-roadkill-kitchen-160225525.html
I'm a fan (not a rabid one, but I like some of it) of Anime, but man, It's scary that there are people out there who can't accept the difference between a cartoon character and what is attainable by a normal human being....Her fans constantly gush about how gorgeous she is.
"A real-life anime girl named Anastasiya Shpagina has turned herself into a living, breathing cartoon character. She is even considering having surgery on her eyes to more closely resemble the animated characters that she loves so much.
The 19-year-old girl goes through a painstaking process to get the look. It takes her hours to apply her makeup including 30 minutes spent on each of her eyes, but her methods get amazing results. She looks exactly like a real-life anime girl, and she has adopted a Japanese-inspired name to complete her image, Fukkacumi.
According to a Daily Mail report dated Sept. 29, 2012, Shpagina's tiny waist, purple hair, pouty lips and oversize eyes all contribute to the illusion that she is nothing more than a life-sized anime character come to life.
The diminutive Ukranian girl stands just 5'2' and weighs only 85 pounds after losing weight specifically to look more like the Japanese anime characters on which she models her unique look. From photos of the real-life anime girl, it appears that she also uses colored contact lenses to achieve the look. The Huffington Post reported, "But the icing on the creepy cake definitely has to be that she's actually friends with the real-life Barbie doll."
Anastasiya Shpagina Turns Herself Into Real-Life Anime Girl (PHOTOS) -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/anastasiya-shpagina-anime-cartoon-pictures-photos-surgery_n_1929012.html
Think this will change the 'Tail' as we know it?
A clip on fox tail that wags!
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-shippo-neurowear--20120924,0,7474673.story
Okay...that was totally bizarre... but, to be honest, she made my tail wag!
yeah, it happens nearly every year.
How ironic that the guys name was Porch...and that was where he died.
Denver mailman mistakes corpse for Halloween decoration
Reuters – 15 hrs ago
DENVER (Reuters) - The United States Postal Service acknowledged on Friday that one of its mail carriers did not report a corpse at a Denver home because he mistook the body for a Halloween display.
"We do know the carrier delivered mail to the house that day, and he remembered seeing something he thought was related to Halloween," the postal service said in a statement. "When the carrier learned that was not the case, he was shocked and extremely upset."
The local ABC News affiliate reported that the dead man, Dale Porch, 46, collapsed and died November 2 on his porch steps after returning home from his night shift job.
Relatives of Porch could not be reached for comment by Reuters.
The postal service called the incident "an unfortunate situation" that probably would not have happened any other time of year.
"Our carriers have a long history of assisting customers in neighborhoods across the country each and every day, and that holds true for our letter carriers here in Denver," the statement said.
The unidentified carrier is a "conscientious and dedicated employee" who remains on the job, the post office said, and any action that may be taken against him will be handled internally.
What action could they possibly be considering? There was no dereliction of duty here.
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on November 11, 2012, 07:14:44 AM
What action could they possibly be considering? There was no dereliction of duty here.
You got me there. It happens just about every year somewhere in the US.
Halloween is a crappy time of year to die in a public place, have a gory injury, or fall ill and lie moaning in the yard. The mailman probably saw a few 'corpses' on his route.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-romney-face-tattoo-disappointed-election-results-213514429.html
This one gets my vote for having given the most for the GOP.
At least you can scrape off a bumper sticker.
Please be careful what you say about this story. Anyone dumb enough to get a political tattoo of any sort, AND to get it on his face, may not be sentient enough to not realize he cannot scrape it off, and not figure it out until he was halfway through his brain.
Not sure who was dumber...This guy, or the two kids who thought he was an easy target.....
Man Killed Teen Burglars, Kept Bodies in Basement, Cops Say
A Minnesota man shot and killed two teens who he said broke into his home and placed their bodies in his basement before waiting one day to report the deaths, authorities said.
On Nov. 23, deputies from the Morrison County Sheriff's Office responded to the \home of Byron David Smith, 64, after receiving a report of suspicious activity.
"Smith immediately told the deputies that he had shot and killed two people breaking into his home the day prior," the sheriff's office said in a news release.
The bodies of an 18-year-old female and a 17-year-old male were recovered from the basement of Smith's home.
Police have not released the names of the victims, whose bodies were taken to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner's Office, however multiple sources told ABC News affiliate KSTP-TV they are cousins Haile Kifer and Nicholas Brady.
During the investigation and processing of the crime scene, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension discovered information that Smith went beyond the point of defending himself, according to the sheriff's office.
Sheriff Michel Wetzel said that "a person has every right to defend themselves and their homes, even employing deadly force if necessary," however in this case, authorities said they had reason to believe Smith may have crossed the line.
Additional details are expected to be released after Smith's initial court appearance on Monday.
Charges are pending with the county attorney's office. It was not clear whether Smith had hired an attorney.
I hope we're not going to find out that this guy was a necrophiliac....
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/11/north-korea-says-they-unearthed-unicorn-lair/59483/
"Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom
**
I'm not sure if they are serious or not, but it's a definite change from the usual headlines I'm seeing right now...
http://shine.yahoo.com/the-thread-how-to/meggings-male-leggings-wearing-them-185200978.html
Next Years' trend...The Codpiece!
http://www.examiner.com/article/speeding-ticket-for-motionless-car-from-speed-cam
LMAO.
Life imitates art....Remember those Toyota Celica commercials a couple years back..."Looks fast!"?
OK,with a headline like this, you can't not read the article.....
Giant goat-cheese fire closes Norwegian roadway for six days
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/giant-goat-cheese-fire-closed-norwegian-tunnel-week-004030955.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/giant-goat-cheese-fire-closed-norwegian-tunnel-week-004030955.html)
Nordic Nibblers-"described as having a "slightly salty and surprisingly sweet flavor with a hint of goat about it."
LOL! I just heard that on the radio coming home from work, Rowan! Very funny, at least from here!
I've got 2 of them!
First up, stealing from Girl Scouts!
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2020191302_apusgirlscoutcookierobbery.html (http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2020191302_apusgirlscoutcookierobbery.html)
Second, some really stupid people on a plane:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/inigo-montoya-shirt-leads-awkward-flight-220153812.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/inigo-montoya-shirt-leads-awkward-flight-220153812.html)
On the cheese thing, the article commented on fire extinguishing efforts being hindered by toxic fumes from the cheese. Yikes! I'm not sure I would want to eat something that makes toxic fumes when eaten, as tasty as that cheese sounds...
See what happens when you cut the cheese! (Sorry it had to be said ;D)
Cutting cheese....now there's an explosive subject.
Human Trebuchet...
• HUMAN TREBUCHET - MIDDLEMOOR WATER PARK
The trebuchet was the most advanced and powerful methods of throwing something a long distance before the invention of gunpowder, but not even the maddest, baddest, or most syphilitic medieval warlord ever thought of it as a fun way to get from point A to B.
Luckily for the suicidally bored residents of Somerset, England, the Middlemoor Water Park finally came up with the winning combination of "lethally powerful siege engine" and "super-fun amusement park ride for all ages" by selling rides on Oxford's Dangerous Sports Club period-authentic trebuchet.
As it turns out, catapults aren't the most accurate or safety-conscious devices, and after an Oxford undergrad disastrously missed the safety net the police finally stepped in, arresting the two ride operators on the charges of "operating a medieval siege weapon without a license" and "being a crazy idiot."
http://www.mandatory.com/2013/01/23/9-of-the-most-dangerous-thrill-rides-ever-built/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing6%7Cdl21%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D260526#photo=5 (http://www.mandatory.com/2013/01/23/9-of-the-most-dangerous-thrill-rides-ever-built/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing6%7Cdl21%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D260526#photo=5)
Quote from: BubbleWright on January 24, 2013, 04:46:07 AM
Human Trebuchet...
• HUMAN TREBUCHET - MIDDLEMOOR WATER PARK
The trebuchet was the most advanced and powerful methods of throwing something a long distance before the invention of gunpowder, but not even the maddest, baddest, or most syphilitic medieval warlord ever thought of it as a fun way to get from point A to B.
Luckily for the suicidally bored residents of Somerset, England, the Middlemoor Water Park finally came up with the winning combination of "lethally powerful siege engine" and "super-fun amusement park ride for all ages" by selling rides on Oxford's Dangerous Sports Club period-authentic trebuchet.
As it turns out, catapults aren't the most accurate or safety-conscious devices, and after an Oxford undergrad disastrously missed the safety net the police finally stepped in, arresting the two ride operators on the charges of "operating a medieval siege weapon without a license" and "being a crazy idiot."
http://www.mandatory.com/2013/01/23/9-of-the-most-dangerous-thrill-rides-ever-built/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing6%7Cdl21%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D260526#photo=5 (http://www.mandatory.com/2013/01/23/9-of-the-most-dangerous-thrill-rides-ever-built/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing6%7Cdl21%7Csec3_lnk1%26pLid%3D260526#photo=5)
I had to laugh--3 of the 9 "Most Dangerous Thrill Rides Ever Built" were in Action Park in Vernon, NJ, not far from where I live. "Traction Park" was forced to close in the 80s but people still talk about it to this day and just about everyone in Northern NJ has a story or two about something that happened there. The place was like a perfect storm for disaster!
Quote from: Bob of the Lake on January 24, 2013, 10:37:56 AM
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I had to laugh--3 of the 9 "Most Dangerous Thrill Rides Ever Built" were in Action Park in Vernon, NJ, not far from where I live. "Traction Park" was forced to close in the 80s but people still talk about it to this day and just about everyone in Northern NJ has a story or two about something that happened there. The place was like a perfect storm for disaster!
Had lawyers not been invented yet?!?
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on January 24, 2013, 01:25:21 PM
Quote from: Bob of the Lake on January 24, 2013, 10:37:56 AM
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I had to laugh--3 of the 9 "Most Dangerous Thrill Rides Ever Built" were in Action Park in Vernon, NJ, not far from where I live. "Traction Park" was forced to close in the 80s but people still talk about it to this day and just about everyone in Northern NJ has a story or two about something that happened there. The place was like a perfect storm for disaster!
Had lawyers not been invented yet?!?
lol. Oh yeah. They, too, are a big part of Traction Park lore!
There are sling shots... and there are SLING SHOTS! This one fires chain saws... ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0sY_IPJIQ&feature=player_embedded#! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0sY_IPJIQ&feature=player_embedded#!)
I don't know who is weirder—him for building such a contraption, or you for finding it, BW. 8)
Merlin... by nature and by nurture I skew the normal curve so far out of line as to be totally detached from it... ;D
That's what I like to hear, BubbleWright!
Pizza Hut Perfume
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/natural-beauty-fashion/stories/pizza-hut-creates-pizza-perfume (http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/natural-beauty-fashion/stories/pizza-hut-creates-pizza-perfume)
DC, I think I am going to hurl....
Let us gather at the river......News from Scotland
Thousands of litres of whisky flushed down drain in Dumbarton
The mistake happened at a Chivas Brothers bottling plant
Thousands of litres of whisky have been flushed down the drain by accident at a bottling plant in Dumbarton.
It is understood the mix-up happened at Chivas Brothers during the night shift on Tuesday while equipment was being cleaned.
Instead of draining away waste water, the workers on duty somehow flushed out thousands of litres of bulk whisky. The smell was so strong that sewage workers reported it.
Chivas Brothers - which employs 600 workers at the plant and produces the world's second biggest-selling brand, Ballantine's - said it was investigating an accidental release of spirit.
A statement said: "We are currently investigating an accidental loss on the 26th of February at our Dumbarton site, where some spirit was released to the local water treatment plant.
"There has been no release of spirit to the River Leven or any other local water course. We have informed Scottish Water and all other relevant authorities."
'Adverse impact'
A Scottish Water spokesman said: "Staff at our waste water treatment works were already aware of a problem and were working to identify the source when contacted by Chivas Brothers.
"Our trade effluent team have now visited the company to get an oversight into its failure investigation so that we can ensure all possible precautions are being taken to prevent a repeat.
"Discharging large volumes of alcohol into the sewer network can have an adverse impact on waste water treatment processes, particularly during dry, cold weather.
"We are continuing to closely monitor our Dumbarton waste water treatment works to ensure treatment has not been compromised."
Was someone at DHS listening to Tartanic? ;D
What Odd Items Did DHS Try To Purchase (And Then Suddenly Cancel)?
Well here's a bit of a mystery.
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday posted an online combined synopsis/solicitation for the following items:
LI 001: Carbon Bagpipe Drone Reed Set, 5, EA;
LI 002: Bagpipe Chanter Reeds-Easy, 12, EA;
LI 003: Bagpipe Chanter Reeds-Medium, 12, EA;
LI 004: Deluxe Bagpipe Bag Covers w/ Non-slip Grap Patch and Zipper, 5, EA;
LI 005: Drone Cords, 5, EA;
LI 006: Highland Bagpipe Tuner and Metronome with cases, 2, EA;
LI 007: Combination Tuner and Metronome, 6, EA;
LI 008: Black Polypenco Bagpipes w/ cases, 10, EA;
LI 009: Polypenco Bagpipe Chanter, 10, EA;
LI 010: Bellows Blown Blackwood Smallpipes in "A" w/ cases, 4, EA;
LI 011: Black waxed bagpipe hemp, 4, EA;
LI 012: Real Beeswax, 4, EA;
LI 013: Long Polypenco Practice Chanters, 10, EA;
LI 014: Bagpipe Tutor Book – VOL 1 C.O.P., 10, EA;
LI 015: Practice Chanter Reed, 10, EA;
LI 016: Rol of Pipe Bag Tie-In cord, 2, EA;
LI 017: Tapered Reamer, 1, EA;
LI 018: PiobMaster 2.3 CD ROM-Bagpipe music writing software, 1, EA;
LI 019: Pipe Band Base Drum Carrier, 2, EA;
LI 020: Folding Bass Drum Stand, 1, EA;
LI 021: Inverness Rain Cape, 14, EA;
LI 022: Glengarry Plain, 15, EA;
LI 023: Snare Drum Stand, 4, EA;
LI 024: Pipe Band Snare Drums-Black, 4, EA;
LI 025: Snare Carrier-Silver, 4, EA;
LI 026: 16? x 12? Pipe Band Tenor Drum, 4, EA;
LI 027: 18? Bodhran Pack w/ Beater, 4, EA;
LI 028: Deluxe triple function drum sling, 2, EA;
LI 029: Heavy Duty Tenor Drum leg rest, 2, EA;
LI 030: Drum-Mount Snare Drum stick bag, 4, EA;
LI 031: Heavy Duty Drum Key, 2, EA;
LI 032: Short Black Classic Tenor Mallets, 3, EA;
LI 033: Black Bass Beaters, 2, EA;
LI 034: TyFry Tenor Tutor Tenor Instruction DVD/CDROM, 1, EA;
LI 035: Snare Stick Set, 10, EA;
LI 036: Square Tenor/Snare Drum Case, 5, EA;
LI 037: Spats Canvas-White, 20, EA;
LI 038: Hose-Blue, 14, EA;
LI 039: Flashes-Red, 14, EA;
LI 040: Leather Day Sporrans-Black, 14, EA;
LI 041: Horsehair Sporrans, 14, EA;
LI 042: Sgian Dubhs, 14, EA;
LI 043: Shipping/Handling/Delivery, 1, EA;
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/11/dhs-cancels-purchase-request-for-bagpipes-and-drums/ (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/11/dhs-cancels-purchase-request-for-bagpipes-and-drums/)
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/cancer-fake-heroin-scam-143010101.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/cancer-fake-heroin-scam-143010101.html)
Stuff like this makes my so angry I could spit! We had 2 fund raisers for my step son (cancer 3 times) and raised about 3K total, after months of work, and he is still20K in debt for ongoing screening. It's hard enough to reach out to the public for help when a loved one is sick... then
this....piece of excrement.. raises tens of thousands on FB to feed a heroin habit! She even scammed her own Grandmother into selling her home to give her money!
GAH! We can only hope there is a special level in Hades for people like this.
Fla. Siblings Charged With Stealing Frito-Lay Chips From Factory
http://gma.yahoo.com/fla-siblings-charged-stealing-frito-lay-chips-factory-210218579--abc-news-topstories.html (http://gma.yahoo.com/fla-siblings-charged-stealing-frito-lay-chips-factory-210218579--abc-news-topstories.html)
They must have had the munchies REALLY damned bad! Who steals potato chips?!?
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on May 12, 2013, 03:34:00 PM
They must have had the munchies REALLY damned bad! Who steals potato chips?!?
I guess they couldn't eat just one - no worries 'cause they'll make more
An other chapter from the book 'Life is like a s**t sandwich'...
Wealthy Parents Have Found A Despicable Way To Cut The Lines At Disney World
Business InsiderBy Megan Willett | Business Insider – 3 hours ago
A handful of rich Manhattan mothers are hiring disabled people to pose as family members so their children can jump to the front of the lines at Disney World, The New York Post reports today.
The paper points its finger at Dream Tours, a company that helps organize vacations for people with special needs.
The company — and clients who are willing to pay — allegedly take advantage of a Disney rule that allows guests who need a wheelchair or motorized scooter to bring up to six guests to a "more convenient entrance," the Post's Tara Palmeri reports.
The company reportedly provides a disabled "escort," who accompanies the family around the park and to the front of the line at busy rides.
According to The Post:
"You can't go to Disney without a tour concierge,'' [one mom] sniffed. "This is how the 1 percent does Disney."
The woman said she hired a Dream Tours guide to escort her, her husband and their 1-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter through the park in a motorized scooter with a "handicapped" sign on it. The group was sent straight to an auxiliary entrance at the front of each attraction.
The "black-market" guides run $130 for an hour, and $1,040 for an eight-hour day, The Post reports.
Disney did not return The Post's requests for comment. You can read the full story at The Post.
Full story here:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP)
This does raise the question:
What do you do to the disabled folks making money off this scheme? I think the IRS would love to talk to them.
I think Disney will be paying more attention to the 'frequent flyers'-Those same disabled folks visiting the parks more than once per year. I figure Dream Tours is going to have to explain themselves too.
After all they're cutting into tDisney profits by undermining the lucrative 'fast pass' program..
This should be interesting.
Senior prostitution ring: Senior 'sex workers' ring at senior housing complex
A senior prostitution ring run by a 75-year-old, which included elderly residents as "sex workers", wasn't limited to just sex but also included cocaine. None of the senior prostitutes were arrested; however, the 75-year-old suspected of having run the prostitution ring has been charged with "maintaining a nuisance" and with possession of drug paraphernalia, reported 4 New York on May
The apartments which provided the safe haven for the senior prostitution ring are a New Jersey senior citizen housing complex.
"A 75-year-old resident of a New Jersey senior citizen housing complex is suspected of running a prostitution ring that employed some elderly residents as sex workers."
In addition to 75-year-old James Parham, 65-year-old Cheryl Chaney has been accused of allowing senior residents and their visitors to use crack in their apartments. Both have been charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and maintaining a nuisance. In addition, Cheryl Chaney is charged with possession of crack cocaine.
According to Englewood Police Chief Arthur O'Keefe, "Parham ran the prostitution ring through his apartments, and employed a mix of young women and older residents."
While some senior citizens welcomed the opportunity to supplement their income by doing extra work, other senior citizens at the New Jersey senior citizen complex felt rather uncomfortable with a few of their elderly neighbors working as "sex workers."
Some of the sex and drug use going on in the senior apartment complex occurred in common areas of the complex and some seniors not involved in the "business" were afraid to go into certain apartment complex areas because they were afraid for their lives.
As one of the senior residents of the New Jersey senior citizen housing complex phrased it, there was "a lot of nonsense going on."
Quote from: Rowen MacD on May 14, 2013, 04:28:04 PM
An other chapter from the book 'Life is like a s**t sandwich'...
Wealthy Parents Have Found A Despicable Way To Cut The Lines At Disney World
Business InsiderBy Megan Willett | Business Insider – 3 hours ago
A handful of rich Manhattan mothers are hiring disabled people to pose as family members so their children can jump to the front of the lines at Disney World, The New York Post reports today.
The paper points its finger at Dream Tours, a company that helps organize vacations for people with special needs.
The company — and clients who are willing to pay — allegedly take advantage of a Disney rule that allows guests who need a wheelchair or motorized scooter to bring up to six guests to a "more convenient entrance," the Post's Tara Palmeri reports.
The company reportedly provides a disabled "escort," who accompanies the family around the park and to the front of the line at busy rides.
According to The Post:
"You can't go to Disney without a tour concierge,'' [one mom] sniffed. "This is how the 1 percent does Disney."
The woman said she hired a Dream Tours guide to escort her, her husband and their 1-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter through the park in a motorized scooter with a "handicapped" sign on it. The group was sent straight to an auxiliary entrance at the front of each attraction.
The "black-market" guides run $130 for an hour, and $1,040 for an eight-hour day, The Post reports.
Disney did not return The Post's requests for comment. You can read the full story at The Post.
Full story here:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP)
This does raise the question:
What do you do to the disabled folks making money off this scheme? I think the IRS would love to talk to them.
I think Disney will be paying more attention to the 'frequent flyers'-Those same disabled folks visiting the parks more than once per year. I figure Dream Tours is going to have to explain themselves too.
After all they're cutting into tDisney profits by undermining the lucrative 'fast pass' program..
This should be interesting.
This bothers me like nothing else has for a long time. Being a "StudMuffin" rider, I can not imagine anyone taking advantage of their disability like this. I hope Disney hangs them from the yardarm and displays the bodies to serve as a deterent.
Course, I didn't like being 'forced' to cut the line at immigration but they would't allow me to wait my turn. I do admit ,I like to use preboarding on an aircraft because it speeds up boarding for all in the long run. Otherwsie I would much prefer to wait my turn. After all, I bring a place to sit..
The first thing I thought of was that the honest folks will pay the biggest price for this.
First off, I expect the 'they're with me' passes for the disabled will be discontinued in short order.
If the disabled person is by themselves, or has a medical caregiver with him they can continue to board immediately, but if they have others they wish to ride with for company they will have to wait for them to progress through the line with everybody else.
A comfortable place would still be provided for the disabled person to wait if they can't wait in line with their families, and if the families want to wait with the person, then the park could devise a way to 'mark' the place in line (time stamp, or number system) and everybody will wait until their 'place' in line reaches them. Either way, the legal line jumping would cease, and the disabled would have to deal with the long wait everyone else deals with. Disney does not take well to being cheated of revenue.
That was how Disney used to do it eons ago, I expect they will go back to it. After all, it's just an amusement ride, not a public bathroom.
Here's a crazy one: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/Colony-of-ants-jam-bell-keep-German-woman-awake-4556584.php (http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/Colony-of-ants-jam-bell-keep-German-woman-awake-4556584.php)
Ant nest so big and inconveniently placed, it makes a lady's doorbell ring continuously!
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1667922-chad-johnson-sentenced-to-30-days-in-jail-for-violating-probation?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial&hpt=hp_t3 (http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1667922-chad-johnson-sentenced-to-30-days-in-jail-for-violating-probation?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial&hpt=hp_t3)
Not a good idea to slap your attorney's arse in the courtroom.