"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'." Groucho Marx
As promised we continue to provide a wide variety of news and information about many different topics. Here is a post with links to different stories that caught my eye.
Circuit City to stay open in bankruptcy – Great. Just made a few purchases there.
Space Station Gets Second Toilet– Recycled waste as a cold beverage coming soon.
Nurse from Times Square Photo Sees The Navy Again– Iconic picture
Fantasy Books That Should be Made into Movies– Eddings is one of my favorites.
Schwarzenegger tells backers of gay marriage: Don’t give up– The Gov. is right.
What the hell is wrong with these men. Every few months I read another story about a fool who has decided that it might be fun to insert himself into some sort of object. Park bench guy was stupid, but the hero from this story is right up there.
“CITY OF NEWBURGH — A Newburgh firefighter became an ad hoc surgeon Friday, called upon to use a pneumatic saw to cut a piece of steel pipe off a 73-year-old man’s penis.
Firefighters were dispatched to the Newburgh campus of St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital shortly after 9 p.m. for a public service call, Assistant Chief Scott Mandoske said. Hospital personnel asked them for tools to cut off a ring. The fire department has a ring cutter used to clip wedding bands from swollen fingers, but firefighters learned that wouldn’t be enough. The pipe was an inch long, an inch in diameter and made of quarter-inch-thick steel.
Authorities said the pipe was apparently an erotic aid, but did not elaborate.
Medical personnel weren’t able to perform typical medical procedures”
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One of my great pleasures in life is providing people with tips and useful information that they can use to improve their lives. Our current topic is how to recognize signs that your relationship with your significant other is doomed.
If you have a disagreement about dirty dishes and engage in any of the following activities you might consider looking for a new place to live.
Any one of these actions is probably a good indication that things are not good, but if you hit the magic trifecta of all three you can pretty much kiss him/her goodbye.
Inspiration for this post comes from the good people at MSNBC.
We have covered this sort of news before.
The 2008 contest attracted nominations from a wide cross-section of businesses, including restaurants, hotels and casinos. Five finalists were selected based on exceptional hygiene, style and open access to the public.Ten of thousands of votes were cast at the program’s web site, which produced the following results:
1. The Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, TN (Click Here)
2. 21C Museum, Louisville, KY (Click Here)
3. Brio, Rockford, IL (Click Here)
4. The Signature Room at the 95th, Chicago IL (Click Here)
5. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (Click Here)
On the weirder side are people trapped in balloons. All I have to say is “It was The MOOPS!
Flying the friendly skies is getting to be more interesting by the day. Apparently
some people are utilizing the down time to enjoy adult entertainment. I don’t have a problem with porn provided that the actors/actresses are consenting adults and no one is being hurt. (We’re going to keep it simple and not get into the complexities of whether porn hurts people or not.)But I can’t help but wonder about people who think that it is ok to watch skin flix in the midst of 350 strangers. Something about that seems awfully strange to me. I wonder where this discussion will lead; as I am sure that there are plenty of action/horror/thriller/comedies or what we call films in general that blur the lines of what is appropriate for display in public.
Or should we say that given the cramped quarters of airline seats it is questionable as to whether anyone really has privacy on a plane.
I drove one of these cars a while back, it was a lot of fun.
And in the category of overpriced and probably unnecessary is the Table Top Photo Studio. As described:
Ideal for photographing items such as jewelry and collectibles for online auctions or insurance records, or for providing the proper environment for enhancing the hobby of photography, this is the complete tabletop photo studio for use with your own camera that includes two backdrops, a compact light box with an integrated diffuser screen, and two high output lights with adjustable, retractable legs. It comes with two background color choices to provide suitable contrast for both light and dark objects, and the light diffuser balances light while softening distracting shadows for crisp, clear photo lighting.
The backdrop folds flat for storage, and the set includes a handle and a built-in
carrying case for convenient portability.
Sorry, but a hundred bucks for this is ridiculous. There are a million ways that you can do the same thing with things that you already own.
Miriam Shaviv’s blog- Miriam’s old blog Bloghead was one of the first blogs I discovered and one of my favorites. So I was pleased to see that she has a new blog. You can find it here.
One of the liberators of Buchenwald has died. Thank you James Hoyt.
Hoyt had rarely spoken about that day in 1945, but he recently opened up to
a journalist.“There were thousands of bodies piled high. I saw hearts that had been taken from live people in medical experiments,” Hoyt told author Stephen Bloom in a soon-to-be-published book called
“The Oxford Project.”
“They said a wife of one of the SS officers — they called her the Bitch of Buchenwald — saw a tattoo she liked on the arm of a prisoner, and had the skin made into a lampshade. I saw that.”
It is TU B’Av– Let the loving begin.
They call it Smart. I call it a Death Wish.
A Japanese Fiddler On The Roof– Still cracks me up. Sushi and Gefilte fish, a match made in heaven.
Who wants to play Pac Man.
Excuse me, I have to go buy some bread.