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Judge gives brush-off to woman who sued over alleged mix-up in hair-colour case (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081008/koddities/oddity_hair_scare)
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a woman's lawsuit claiming L'Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products. http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/miniroflmao.gif
Charlotte Feeney of Stratford says she can never return to her natural blond hue, a shock that she claims left her so traumatized she needed anti-depressants. http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/miniroflmao.gif
She says she suffered headaches and anxiety, missed the attention she received as a blond and had to stay home and wear hats most of the time. http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/miniroflmao.gif
A Superior Court judge dismissed Feeney's 2005 lawsuit Monday.
The judge says Feeney never proved her allegation that L'Oreal put brown hair dye in a box labelled as blond.
The company also had disputed the claim.
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david uk
10-09-2008, 12:11 PM
missed the attention she received as a blond and had to stay home and wear hats most of the time.
I know how she feels.
I just want to know how this case even made it into a courtroom on such a banana brained complaint. Yeesh.
Me too. I had a lot more attention when I was thinner and younger. Who to blaim, who to sue? :D
Eva
Mary6906
10-09-2008, 12:33 PM
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a woman's lawsuit claiming L'Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products. http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/miniroflmao.gif
Charlotte Feeney of Stratford says she can never return to her natural blond hue, a shock that she claims left her so traumatized she needed anti-depressants. http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/miniroflmao.gif
I heard this story on the way into work this morning.... that was a good laugh.
She can always try... :rolleyes:
Eva
DaveM
10-09-2008, 03:03 PM
She's suing because she "needed antidepressants"? This person should be ORDERED to take some sort of medication. And get out more.
hoops
10-09-2008, 09:35 PM
i think of the number of times i was hospitalized against my will and i think, never, have i ever been that upset over my hair color. dang mine is going grey, i'm gonna sue God for making me get older. besides all of that, if she had not been so cheap and gone to a salon in the first place, she would not have this problem if she goes to a salon now, they can fix it. shell out the $50 bucks lady and gt your hair fixed. goodness knows how much you spent on your lawsuit.
peace
hoops
DaveM
10-10-2008, 01:50 AM
Good point, Hoops....the cost of the finest salon dye job available is probably less than the filing fees alone for a lawsuit.
A leaping dolphin has knocked a woman unconscious in Florida http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/_boggled.gif
Canadian Press: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EDGEWATER, Fla. - A woman was hospitalized in Florida after a dolphin leaped aboard the boat she was in, knocking her unconscious.
The Coast Guard says witnesses called 911 after seeing the dolphin jump from the Intracoastal Waterway and hit Barbara Howard of Mansfield, Ohio. Howard was sitting in a small boat with her husband, their daughter and her daughter's boyfriend.
The Howards say the dolphin jumped about two metres high and landed on the bow.
They say it slid in their laps and its thrashing tail knocked them to the deck. Their daughter's boyfriend rolled the dolphin back into the water.
Barbara Howard regained consciousness before the Coast Guard reached her at a boat ramp.
She was hospitalized in stable condition.
A leaping dolphin has knocked a woman unconscious in Florida (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/081009/K100908AU.html)
coffeegyrl
10-10-2008, 02:48 PM
1. What attorney would take such a crazy, lame, weirdo case? In my neck of the woods the attorney doesn't get paid until they collect a settlement on Personal Injury cases
2. Maybe the dolphin was being friendly and just wanted to give the family hugs.
I love these crazy stories Dee. Lots of humor out there in the midst of all the "gloom and doom" news.
I figured out a while back Sally that the media tries to keep an audience by using shock and awe tactics. They are in some sense terrorists – perpetually trying to terrorize us (or so it can seem) to keep our attention. Trouble is, nothing shocks me anymore.
Once you learn that everything isn’t the crisis that they want you to think it is, it’s a lot easier to find reasons to laugh. Even at them! Laugher keeps me going most of the time. Without it, I would have been dead years ago. Of course, the coffee as fuel helps too.
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A leaping dolphin has knocked a woman unconscious in Florida http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/_boggled.gif
Canadian Press: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EDGEWATER, Fla. - A woman was hospitalized in Florida after a dolphin leaped aboard the boat she was in, knocking her unconscious.
The Coast Guard says witnesses called 911 after seeing the dolphin jump from the Intracoastal Waterway and hit Barbara Howard of Mansfield, Ohio. Howard was sitting in a small boat with her husband, their daughter and her daughter's boyfriend.
The Howards say the dolphin jumped about two metres high and landed on the bow.
They say it slid in their laps and its thrashing tail knocked them to the deck. Their daughter's boyfriend rolled the dolphin back into the water.
Barbara Howard regained consciousness before the Coast Guard reached her at a boat ramp.
She was hospitalized in stable condition.
A leaping dolphin has knocked a woman unconscious in Florida (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/081009/K100908AU.html)
Ooops! :o So how is the dolphin doing? :o
Eva
hoops
10-11-2008, 02:11 PM
glad they are ok.
coffegyrl, i know what lawyer in their right mind....but it happens. if anyone doubts this look at the hot MCD's coffee incident...look at OJ. the elaw, just ain;t what it seems
peace
hoops
coffeegyrl
10-11-2008, 04:05 PM
Sometimes there is a huge difference in the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. Unfortunately, less than ethical folks exploit this.
Washington state woman shot by stove
SEKIU, Wash. - A woman in Washington state says her cast-iron stove shot her in the leg.
Cory Davis tells the Peninsula Daily News that she had just stoked the heating stove in her home Sunday when she heard a loud bang and was struck in her left calf.
She says she initially thought "that was one fast hot coal flying at me."
In fact, she was hit by part of a 22-gauge shotgun shell that she had accidentally put into the stove with newspapers she used to light it. A box of shells had spilled nearby a few weeks before.
Davis says she removed the metal fragment herself Sunday and sought treatment for the shallow wound the next day.
Burned! Washington state woman shot by stove (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/081008/K100811AU.html)
hoops
10-12-2008, 09:39 PM
Davis says she removed the metal fragment herself Sunday and sought treatment for the shallow wound the next day.
Sarah Palin...TOP THAT!
peace
hoops
Hot dog chow down champ takes New York pizza-eating title
NEW YORK - Chow down champ Joey Chestnut has done it again, this time proving he's a pizza powerhouse.
Chestnut downed 45 slices in 10 minutes Sunday to win the first Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship in Times Square.
He says he fasted for more than a day to prepare for the contest, and he folded and squeezed the slices to make them easier to swallow.
The 24-year-old rocketed to competitive-eating celebrity when he won Coney Island's July Fourth hot-dog eating contest in 2007. He took the title again this summer by gulping down 59 dogs in 10 minutes.
Last month, he consumed 93 Krystal hamburgers in eight minutes to win a contest in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Chestnut lives in San Jose, California.
Hot dog chow down champ takes New York pizza-eating title (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/081012/K101204AU.html)
Mary6906
10-13-2008, 02:11 PM
Hot dog chow down champ takes New York pizza-eating title
NEW YORK - Chow down champ Joey Chestnut has done it again, this time proving he's a pizza powerhouse.
Chestnut downed 45 slices in 10 minutes Sunday to win the first Famous Famiglia World Pizza Eating Championship in Times Square.
YIKES... Oh, I think I'm gonna be sick....
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Woman charged after daughter, 9, drives her home
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
OTTAWA - A Lanark County OPP officer did a double take Sunday when he saw what looked like a child slowly driving toward him on County Road 1, just south of Perth.
After pulling the car over, the officer found a nine-year-old girl driving the car home for her mother, who was in the passenger seat. The woman was concerned that she was unable to drive because she'd been drinking at a party. It was just after 10 p.m.
The 35-year-old Drummond-North Elmsley Township woman was charged with careless driving. Her name was not released.
Woman charged after daughter, 9, drives her home (http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/blotter/story.html?id=21c11c76-8812-4164-89df-6f6f690de2d2)
:mad: Where in hell are those parenting licenses?
Woman charged after daughter, 9, drives her home
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
After pulling the car over, the officer found a nine-year-old girl driving the car home for her mother, who was in the passenger seat. The woman was concerned that she was unable to drive because she'd been drinking at a party. It was just after 10 p.m.
:mad: Where in hell are those parenting licenses?
Sounds like the kid has more savvy than her mother, but they were probably safer with her driving than mom. Teach 'em young!!:cool:
hoops
10-14-2008, 09:21 PM
i bet she ( the little girl ) has done it before
peace
hoops
i bet she ( the little girl ) has done it before
Sad eh? :(
Then again... in my father's village in Hungary sometimes a horse brought someone home who was unconcious because he was drunk. Oh wait, that was a horse-and-carriage :o The man's drinkingpals dumped the guy in the carriage, the horse walked home because he knew the way. At home the wife pulled the guy out of the carriage again. Or left him there for the night, who knows. I would :rolleyes:
Eva
i bet she ( the little girl ) has done it before
Tragically, you are probably right Hoops.
aabram
10-15-2008, 11:39 AM
These are brilliant!!! :)
Amy in Vermont
10-18-2008, 10:22 PM
Police arrest Mich. man for car wash vacuum sex
October 18, 2008
THOMAS TOWNSHIP, Mich.—Police say a Michigan man has been arrested after "receiving sexual favors from a vacuum" at a car wash.
The Saginaw News reports the 29-year-old Swan Creek Township man was arrested Thursday in Saginaw County's Thomas Township, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.
Police Sgt. Gary Breidinger says a resident called to report suspicious activity at the car wash about 6:45 a.m. An officer approached on foot and caught the man in the act.
The suspect, whose name wasn't immediately released, is being held in the Saginaw County Jail.
coffeegyrl
10-18-2008, 11:11 PM
Maybe he sprained his wrist and was...
no, never mind :eek:
DaveM
10-19-2008, 01:29 AM
My brother and I were once doing a thorough wash and polish on a car with one of those self-service vacuums. The car had a bag of freshly-picked walnuts in the back seat, which proved to just fit into the vacuum hose, making a hilarious and very loud noise as they went through the tube and into the vacuum (no harm resulted, to my knowledge, though I suspect the inside of the machine was coated with black walnut stain).
Another car came along and the the driver fired up another vacuum. We were too busy feeding walnuts to our vacuum to notice him until he came walking over, at which point we were sure we were going to get chewed out.
But no...."could I have some of those?" was all he had to say. We obliged and sat there for some time, just feeding walnuts to the vacuum cleaners.
I'm not always so easily amused, but there are times....
david uk
10-19-2008, 09:51 AM
ha ha! Dave, that's so funny :p
So who's voting for this guy? :o (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
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david uk
10-19-2008, 09:55 AM
lol, Dee :p
It looks like he's reaching for Obama's butt - does he have secret homosexual tendencies?
Nah. I suspect he was just having a spasm of disgust after having to shake the hand of a Black man. Or maybe he was just trying to keep his balance and remain in the upright position.
Hartford police say that a fake cop was busted after stopping a real one
By The Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. - Police say a Connecticut man playing police officer picked the wrong person to pull over.
Israel Gomez was arrested after pulling over an off-duty Hartford police lieutenant. Police say 20-year-old Gomez turned on flashing lights and used a siren and loudspeaker to coax police Lieutenant Ronald Bair off the road.
Bair called for backup, and officers arrested Gomez and 20-year-old Esteban Cardona.
Gomez is charged with impersonating a police officer, reckless driving and improper use of red flashing lights.
Cardona, who was driving another car involved in the bogus traffic stop, is charged with reckless driving.
They were released Tuesday on written promises to appear in court. The court says their dockets do not list attorneys.
Hartford police say that a fake cop was busted after stopping a real one (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081021/koddities/oddity_fake_cop_arrest)
Mary6906
10-22-2008, 02:02 PM
What a moron!
Indeed, and it only gets worse:
B.C. man accidentally shoots himself in head with crossbow
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A Kootenay man was rushed to hospital after accidentally shooting himself in the head with a crossbow on Wednesday morning.
The accident happened just before 5 a.m. PT at a party at the man's house in Grasmere, near Fernie in southeastern B.C., according to Cpl. Andy Veltmeyer of the Elk Lake RCMP
The 19-year-old was flown to a hospital in Calgary to have the projectile, known as a bolt, removed.
The RCMP did not release the man's identity or further details about his condition, but said they suspected liquor consumption contributed to the incident.
B.C. man accidentally shoots himself in head with crossbow (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/10/22/bc-crossbow-accident.html)
* hic *
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That's a pretty good trick! CAn we see it again? Maybe the idiot will be more successful the second time around. Geeze.:p
hoops
10-22-2008, 10:12 PM
having seen a crossbow or two in my time, i'm trying to picture how this could happen accidently. those things are HUGE. and the thought of playing russian roulette is just too stupid to consider...with a crossbow. the article says drinking is said to be involved, i'm hoping it was a large amount of drinking OR this man never be allowed in the same state as a weapon again
peace
hoops
Elliott
10-22-2008, 11:08 PM
Color corrections start at $100.00 in my salon, which is cheap compared to many others. It's usually an easy fix, just bleach and the correct color, plus all of the conditioning products you need to keep your overprocessed hair from breaking. Two or three of these ladies each day are my bread and butter.... And I do love to eat.... and last night, while thinking of Eva, I got the greatest pair of black leather round-up boots. They are so choice! Sorry to digress.... I love hair!:o
and last night, while thinking of Eva, I got the greatest pair of black leather round-up boots. They are so choice!
PICS! PICS! I want pics! :cool:
Sorry to digress.... I love hair!:o
That's okay Elliott. We all have our ehm... 'hobbies' :o :D
Eva
DaveM
10-24-2008, 02:44 PM
I wonder if that fellow with the crossbow was trying to shoot an apple off his own head?
Maybe he shot upwards and the air fell on (in) his head? Really, it happens every day :rolleyes: David, I am sure Robin Hood didn't have those problems. Idiots like that died the first day so they wouldn't clutter his group of merry men. Pity it was his head. Otherwise he could have gone for a Darwin award.
Eva
hoops
10-24-2008, 08:18 PM
lucky it was his head, probably saved his life
peace
hoops
Polish driver follows GPS directions into lake
WARSAW (AFP) - A Polish driver who was too sure of his GPS road navigation device ended up neck-deep in a lake after ignoring road signs warning of a dead-end ahead, Polish police said Friday.
"The man took a road that was closed a year ago when the area was flooded to make an artificial lake serving as a water reservoir -- he ignored three road signs warning of a dead-end," Piotr Smolen, police spokesman in Glubczyce, southern Poland, told AFP Friday.
"It was still night time and he didn't notice the road led into the lake. His GPS told him to drive straight ahead and he did," Smolen said, adding the driver had not been under the influence of alcohol.
The road ran straight downhill into the lake. The Mercedes mini-van was nearly entirely submerged and was unable to back out on its own after being inundated with water.
The driver and two passengers escaped unharmed from the submerged vehicle and waited on its roof for police and fire rescue crews.
The driver placed the first call to emergency services while still inside the sinking van.
Polish driver follows GPS directions into lake (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081024/oddities/poland_accident_offbeat)
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The driver placed the first call to emergency services while still inside the sinking van.
Always the practical ones those eastern Europeans :D
Eva
When a person becomes so dependent on a tech gadget that they throw common sense out the window I can only wonder . . .
and laugh and laugh and laugh! http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/spinningeyes.gif
Hmm... but still no Darwin Award... :rolleyes:
Eva
DaveM
10-26-2008, 04:48 PM
The truly astonishing thing about this story is that a Pole was involved, but there was no alcohol in his system.
hoops
10-26-2008, 05:58 PM
the other truly amazing thing about this is that no one has made a polish joke. this is a real live one! i should know, i'm half irish half italian and half polish.
peace
hoops
DaveM
10-26-2008, 08:30 PM
I spent a month in Poland some ages ago and at some point was asked by someone with an uncertain command of English about Polish jokes--the American variety. I explained that a lot of them weren't very nice and probably wouldn't translate well and so I preferred not to tell one. Everyone insisted, and I finally gave in. Wish I could remember the joke, but it was a pretty stale one, so I was astonished when everyone began to laugh uncontrollably. It turned out that the very same joke was very popular in Poland--only they told it about the police or the Ukrainians.
As to the use of alcohol over there.....I'll just warn all of you: don't ever try to keep up with a Pole when the bottle comes out. Gisli might be able to manage it, but they've got some bottled paint thinner over there quite unlike anything I ever encountered before or since.
Poland, conversely, has more members of Alcoholics Anonymous than any other Eastern European country.
Being Irish-Italian-Polish, Hoops, you must have some great jokes. And be constantly conflicted over whether to get drunk, beat somebody up, go to church to confess, or all of the above.
Poland, conversely, has more members of Alcoholics Anonymous than any other Eastern European country.
True, the Hungarian and Finnish unhappy ones just kill themselves. I think we have depression in our genes :(
I had a Polish friend when I was 18. We skipped classes to go to a bar and shoot some wodka's together at 2 pm. After that we just went back to school as if nothing had happened. I am so glad I don't do that anymore. The drinking part I mean.
Eva
DaveM
10-27-2008, 02:43 PM
Wasn't it a Hungarian fellow who wrote the original version of "Gloomy Sunday"? The song was banned from airplay in parts of Europe for a while after a number of people killed themselves while listening to it, including the composer.
These days, of course, we have Sarah McLachlan. Who, among other things, did a beautiful rendition of the English-language version of "Gloomy Sunday".
hoops
10-27-2008, 02:48 PM
it was lovely davem, one of my favs. and yes we throw the best joks at each other. there is not a family get together that we're not ranking on one heretige or another, or anything that might happen to be PC and needs to be laughed at.
peace
hoops
Train toilet drags passenger round the bend
Mon Oct 27, 1:24 PM
BORDEAUX, France (AFP) - A Frenchman became trapped while trying to fish his mobile phone out of the toilet on a high-speed train, forcing firefighters to cut through the U-bend to free him, passengers said.
"He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off," said Benoit Gigou, who witnessed Sunday's rescue on board the 4:47 pm (1547 GMT) from La Rochelle to Bordeaux, in western France.
The service was delayed for two hours after the 26-year-old victim, hunting for his lost telephone, fell prey to the powerful suction system which drains the loos on board, the rail network's regional office said.
Train toilet drags passenger round the bend (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081027/oddities/france_transport_accident_rail_offbeat_1)
I suppose his GPS device told him to do it. :rolleyes:
hoops
10-27-2008, 07:20 PM
i don't care if it was God on the other end...once i can;t see it, it's gone. how the...who the... i... um...that arm had to be wayyyyyyyyyyyyy in that thing...i just can't...i'm at a loss
peace
hoops
Teen arrested breaking into police station
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The long arm of the law didn't have to reach too far to arrest one Australian teenager, who was caught breaking into a police station in the early hours of Monday.
Officers working in the back of the police station in a suburb of the southern city of Adelaide heard the front door glass being smashed and found the 16-year old in the front hall.
"A teenage boy has discovered the quickest way of getting arrested is to break into a police station," South Australia state police said in a statement on its website.
About A$2,000 ($1,340) of damage was caused and the boy was denied bail, the statement said.
A police spokesman added the youth did not give a reason for his actions, and may have had "a bit too much to drink."
(Reporting by Jonathan Standing; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
Teen arrested breaking into police station (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081103/odds/odd_us_australia_police)
DaveM
11-04-2008, 02:59 PM
"a bit"? Indeed.
hoops
11-04-2008, 08:59 PM
well geeze what a fool
peace
hoops
DaveM
11-04-2008, 10:10 PM
Oh, and there was an election in the United States.
Refrigerator-size piece of space junk falls harmlessly into South Pacific: NASA
By The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - U.S. officials say a refrigerator-sized piece of space junk has fallen harmlessly into the South Pacific.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says the junk was a tank full of ammonia coolant from the International Space Station that was no longer needed.
Astronaut Clayton Anderson threw it overboard during a spacewalk in July 2007. :eek:
Space station program manager Mike Suffredini said Monday that the debris splashed down somewhere between Australia and New Zealand Sunday night.
The tank had served as a reserve supply of spare coolant at the space station since 2001.
Refrigerator-size piece of space junk falls harmlessly into South Pacific: NASA (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081103/koddities/space_junk)
You mean the chemical compound in that frig is harmless? Interesting...
Eva
News to me too, Eva. Keep watching the skies!
And now for something completely different . . .
Teen compacted in Wis. garbage truck, survives :eek:
Wed Nov 5, 2008
By The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE - Police in Milwaukee say a teenage boy has survived after being accidentally dumped into the back of a recycling truck and compacted.
Police say the 14-year-old ran away from a boot camp-style school for teens Monday and hid in a recycling bin filled with cardboard. The bin was picked up by a waste management truck and dumped into the vehicle's rear compactor.
A waste management spokeswoman says the truck continued on its collection route, compacting cardboard several times.
The boy wasn't discovered until the truck dumped its load at a recycling processing centre.
He was semiconscious and was taken to a hospital, but police say his injuries aren't life-threatening.
Teen compacted in Wis. garbage truck, survives (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081105/koddities/oddity_teen_compacted)
My goodness, the poor kid. What a nightmare... :eek:
Does he finally deserve a Darwin Ward or is he not injured 'there'?
Eva
coffeegyrl
11-05-2008, 07:23 PM
You are only eligible for a Darwin Award if you completely remove yourself from the gene pool and planet earth.
Amy in Vermont
11-05-2008, 08:31 PM
You are only eligible for a Darwin Award if you completely remove yourself from the gene pool and planet earth.
I believe an exception was made for the gent who, having blown a fuse in his pick up truck, use something readily available to replace the fuse and complete the circuit so he and his buddies could continue on their drunken hunting soiree.
He survived his injuries, but will be a childless soprano forever... he use a live bullet to do the job, and when he started then engine, it blew is balls off!
hoops
11-05-2008, 09:01 PM
I'm glad the eboy is not seriously injured. the guy with the bullet, it's hard to believe he didn't consider...well... you know, as most men that is the first thought.
peace
hoops
I thought pople who made themselves unable to reproduce also could get Darwin Awards. Like the fuseblowing guy for instance.
Hoops, some guys seem to think their wiener is invincible. I am not talking about Mary here, by the way :p
Eva
Mary6906
11-06-2008, 06:43 AM
Yes, my wiener knows it's place!!
Okay now, EVERYBODY SING (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNddW2xmZp8)!
Mary6906
11-06-2008, 08:26 AM
Well, THANK YOU , Dee.... for giving me an earworm for the day!!!
Come on everybody... SING... I know you want to!!
gisli
11-06-2008, 09:21 AM
Thihihihihihihihihihi.......
Oh you are most welcome Mary. I love retro crap because I prefer to live in the past most of the time.
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Myer wiener . . . la la la . . .
I guess Eva and Sally will have to share playing the part of the non wiener wannabe Freddie. :rolleyes:
Mary6906
11-06-2008, 01:00 PM
I just love the mad expression on the little ponytailed girl's face confronting Freddie!! :mad:
Ok, now you've done it, Dee.... I also have another old commercial song stuck in my head now!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMcW6esMN3c&feature=related
You wanna hear something scary? I actually remembered all the lyrics from that song! :eek: LOL
Mary6906
11-06-2008, 01:21 PM
AFter listening to those commercials it got me thinking about one of my favorite characters in the Long John Silver restaurant commercials (sadly they don't run them anymore) ....
Pepe the King Prawn!! Here's a screen test... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VPu841BmOs
Hmmm . . . looks like a Muppet. Much less hideous than the original Ronald McDonald (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXP_TUZqsk). Yikes! Run children!
Pepe is a muppet. And as he put it: "I am not a shrimp. I am a King Prawn!"
Eva
U.S. envoy tells Canadians: You'll miss George W. Bush
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By Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - The U.S. ambassador to this country offers an audacious prediction to Canadians who might be eager to see the back of the White House's exiting occupant: You'll miss George W. Bush.
David Wilkins says he'll return home to South Carolina soon after the current president hands over the reins of power to Barack Obama on Jan. 20.
He has often described Bush as a personal friend and continues to defend his president in the face of bleak approval ratings back home and widespread contempt abroad.
Wilkins suggested in an interview Thursday that Canadians will come to appreciate this president once he's gone....
(Follow the link if you want the rest of this story. I can't even bring myself to post it here. What a knob!) http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/miniroflmao.gif
U.S. envoy tells Canadians: You'll miss George W. Bush (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/wilkins_bush_cda)
coffeegyrl
11-07-2008, 01:26 PM
Wilkins suggested in an interview Thursday that Canadians will come to appreciate this president once he's gone....
It should read "Canadians appreciate that this president is gone."
Indeed, Sally.
The man is living in Lala Land. I don't know what Mr Wilkins has been doing in Canada but he clearly hasn't been talking to any Canadians. Maybe his next career should be as a stand-up comedian. Too funny!
hoops
11-07-2008, 03:33 PM
it's bushes clone! or he has been implanted with a bush chip that can only think the way bush would. OR, it's my father lol
peace
hoops
I wonder if he can even find Canada on a map? I think he only visited here a couple of times.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Photo%20Shoebox%20III/takemetoyourleader.jpg
Bubye now!
I wonder if he can even find Canada on a map?
Canada? Isn't that some region of that country called Africa? Or was that South-Africa? Oh well... I always confuse the two... :rolleyes:
Eva
Woman charged with careless driving after crashing while eating bowl of cereal
Fri Nov 21, 5:34 PM
By The Canadian Press
WOODSTOCK, Ontario - Drivers have heard it's dangerous to drive while using a cellphone.
But now police are warning about the hazards of grabbing breakfast behind the wheel.
Ontario Provincial Police responded Friday to a single-vehicle crash and found a young woman covered in milk and cereal.
Police say the 21-year-old woman was trying to eat cereal with a bowl and spoon while driving in icy conditions on Highway 7 in Wellington County when she lost control and crashed into guide posts.
Louise Light is charged with careless driving.
Police say the woman was not hurt, but she was embarrassed.
Woman charged with careless driving after crashing while eating bowl of cereal (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081121/koddities/oddity_breakfast_charges)
Dear Idiot Woman,
I hereby forbid you to ever reproduce or otherwise attempt to raise children! End of discussion.
And it wasn't even a healthy breakfast... :rolleyes:
Eva
I guess I missed the funeral for the death of Common Sense.
RIP Common Sense. http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/deemark/Emoticons/crying.jpg
hoops
11-23-2008, 06:39 PM
Dee, you weren't even born when common sense died, so how could you know.
peace
hoops
DaveM
11-23-2008, 11:47 PM
We had a highly intoxicated blind guy get arrested some years ago for drunk driving and driving without a license (for obvious reasons, he didn't have one). His defense was that he was only a passenger in the car, that his seeing eye dog was actually driving "and he knows the way home".
The judge was not impressed.
hoops
11-24-2008, 02:54 PM
davem,
silly judge
peace
hoops
:rolleyes: Police say that a man's idea to break open a cash machine not smashing
LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (AP) - Police in Leavenworth, Kansas, say a thief who tried to bust a cash machine open like a giant piggy bank is lucky to be in one piece himself.
They say the 49-year-old pried an ATM loose from a credit union by using a stolen skid loader. Then, in a bid to break open the 1,360-kilogram cash machine, the man used the skid loader to drop it down a 15-metre wooded embankment.
Police Chief Patrick Kitchens says the problem is, when the ATM fell, the skid loader and the thief plummeted along with it.
The man was found trapped inside the battered machine and was taken to a hospital.
His injuries were not considered life-threatening, but Kitchens says he could end up facing federal charges.
Police say that a man's idea to break open a cash machine not smashing (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081124/koddities/oddity_cash_machine)
hoops
11-25-2008, 03:59 PM
dum da dum dum dum!
peace
hoops
My thoughts exactly, Hoops. Greed can make people do the nuttiest things
DaveM
11-26-2008, 03:23 PM
Surely this must fit:
My oft-mentioned housemate has gone into a state of near catatonia after what she describes as a nearly three year "online relationship" collapsed recently. Why did it collapse? Because the other participant, who claimed to be a multimillionaire, to own nine airplanes and a private island, etc., "revealed" a few days ago that he's supposedly "actually" happily married and has a girlfriend besides. And is also not a multimillionaire with any of the trappings thereof (somehow I'm envisioning Joe The Plumber).
As some of you may know, she is 56 years old, utterly without means, and seriously messed up. While I'm not terribly pleased with anyone who would take advantage of a person in such a situation, I'm also undecided as to which I find more amusing: that someone of her age has only just figured out that people who hang out on Internet pick-up sites are rarely what they claim to be or that someone with the resources this person claimed to have would be hanging around on the Internet looking for someone just like her.
She seems to think that for some reason I should be upset with her. Hell no--if the guy had been for real he could have brought one of his airplanes here and I'd have gladly helped her pack! Rather wish he had been real....
Oh lordy Dave, she's 56 years old and she's still this gullible? Me thinks your roommate is, shall we say, lacking reality. :o
And yes, this definitely qualifies as a weirdo report!
hoops
11-26-2008, 06:15 PM
Davem,
that explains EVERYTHING you have said about this woman. You know, if she can't care for herself that is a critieria for being involuntarily hospitalized. and i'm not trying to be mean here.
peace
hoops
DaveM
11-26-2008, 09:43 PM
I know, hoops, and my guess is that she'll end up in the hospital sooner or later as that is her answer to everything. Mostly I find the whole thing ironically amusing. My only concern is that she has a long history of internalizing when she has a problem and eventually exploding at the nearest available person, which tends to me be.
For the moment, however, it is one of the most delightful examples she has yet provided of what she truly is.
hoops
11-27-2008, 09:36 PM
sighhhhh, Davem, and this is why i send your rudievibes, positive thoughts and prayers everyday.
peace
hoops
DaveM
11-27-2008, 11:36 PM
I do thank you, Noel. At this point she is sleeping 22 hours a day. No family Thanksgiving this year as my mother is recovering from having a knee replaced. And we've had a pretty good case of snow 'n blow here today, so mostly it's been cabin fever time. Mind, USA has been running a "House" marathon--I always find the show a great reality check every time I feel I might not be cynical enough.
Full-size cardboard figure causes New Jersey bank standoff
By The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A standoff at a New Jersey bank is over after police learned a "person" seen inside was actually a full-size cardboard figure.
Officers went to the PNC Bank in Montgomery Township on Thursday night after an alarm went off. They saw what they thought was at least one person through the windows of the bank, which had its blinds drawn.
The area was sealed off and three nearby apartment buildings were evacuated as a precaution. Meanwhile, authorities used bullhorns and made telephone calls in a bid to make contact with whoever might be in the bank.
After repeatedly failing to get a response, a SWAT team entered the building and discovered the cardboard figure.
It was not immediately clear what set off the bank alarm.
Full-size cardboard figure causes New Jersey bank standoff (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081128/koddities/oddity_mistaken_standoff)
coffeegyrl
11-28-2008, 10:58 AM
Was it Elvis?
Surging shoppers kill New York Wal-Mart employee
Fri Nov 28, 11:47 AM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Wal-Mart employee in New York state's Long Island died on Friday when a throng of shoppers surged into the store and physically broke down the doors, a police spokesman said.
The 34-year-old man was at the entrance of the Valley Stream Walmart store when it opened at 5 a.m. local time and was knocked to the ground, the police report said.
The exact cause of death was still to be determined by a medical examiner.
Four shoppers, including a 28-year-old pregnant woman, were also taken to local hospitals for injuries sustained in the incident, police said.
The Friday after America's Thanksgiving holiday is known as Black Friday and marks what is traditionally the busiest retail day of the year, kicking off the Christmas shopping season.
U.S. stores across the country opened in the early hours of Friday to offer discounts to consumers hit by a contracting economy. Hundreds of shoppers waited on line before dawn at some locations to secure deals on holiday gifts.
Representatives at Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, were not immediately available for comment.
Surging shoppers kill New York Wal-Mart employee (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081128/us/usreport_us_usa_holidaysales_death_1)
This is just sickening.
DaveM
11-28-2008, 05:36 PM
For this reason, I don't even leave the house on the day after Thanksgiving. Of all the stupid ways to put your life in jeopardy, is there anything dumber than being among the mob fighting for the $20 DVD player at Wal-Mart?
DaveM
11-28-2008, 06:14 PM
From an article on this atrocity:
"Items on sale at the store included a Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV for $798, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28, a Samsung 10.2 megapixel digital camera for $69 and DVDs such as "The Incredible Hulk" for $9."
So there you have it, ladies and gentleman, this holiday season, Wal-Mart has succeeded in putting a price on the value of a human life.
And a bit more from the same article:
"Kimberly Cribbs, who witnessed the stampede, said shoppers were acting like "savages."
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling 'I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping.""
Peace on earth, good will to men.
hoops
11-28-2008, 07:16 PM
i read that article too...when i first saw on the headline "NewYork" i thought is was my own downtown walmart...it's sickening, it's frightening, it's inhuman. who benefits really? is it the spoiled kid who gets the latest video game that he epalys for an hour and never looks at again. is it the parent who is out there at all hours of the morning, hating being there. is it the workers who quite clearly put their lives in danger for and extra day's pay...my life is worth more than $8 an hour. even the holiday season itself suffers as people whine an complain about whether saying "Merry Christmas" infringes upon their rights. where has the holiday season gone? how do we get it back? what is left for our children? as a kid, i remember the holidays started just before thanksgiving and ended sometime in mid to late January...and it was the making of wreaths, snowball fights, days off from school, spending 50 cents on a gift for a sibling, that you just know they will love. it was the excitement of a new year, of a silent night, and singing caroles quietly in the basement with 5 other siblings till 3 am on christmas eve. it was the light of the tree when night came kids were tired and silent, and you could finally rest and just take in the sights, smells and sounds. where has this gone? and how do we get it back?
peace
hoops
"When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling 'I've been on line since yesterday morning,'" she said. "They kept shopping.""
The cattle lowing . . . or should I say stampeding?
Hoops,
Traditions are kept alive by people who keep them alive. I don't let "the world" dictate what I can and cannot do since I find in general that the collective world is an ass.
hoops
11-29-2008, 09:56 AM
the collective world is an ass.
Dee, it would certainly seem that way. I'm usually very "pollyanna" and look for the best in people and will get back to being that way, because i do believe that people are basically good. all those people are hiding out just now because they can't stand the craziness of the thanksgiving weekend shopping mess.
peace
hoops
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