Darnit....
I told ya I hated gym!
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30 Sep 2005 |
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04 Oct 2004 |
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Vacation Tip
We'v all seen Paris, and Prague. Skip those and get your big self to the Ukraine for their lard festival.
oink!
"...All major television channels covered the event because in spite of health warnings (Ukraine has the highest incidence of heart disease) lard remains popular, due to its low price and high calorific value.
Many Ukrainians believe lard is good for them and keeps them slim.
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12 Nov 2003 |
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DYI Trunk Show
Come out and buy some gifts for Christmas! The DYI Trunk show is this Saturday November 15th at Pulaski Park Auditorium. (1419 W Blackhawk ) Admission is free, and doors open at 11:30am but close at 4:30, so you better get your shopping money and head out early before all my fabulous, one-of-a-kind, hand made scarves are gone!
Continue reading "DYI Trunk Show" »
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18 Sep 2003 |
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Hurricane Isabel
Two amazing photos, both via Scripting News.
UPDATE: And another from Q's brother, from what looks like a tanker or similar ocean-going vessel.
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27 Aug 2003 |
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Point Of Collapse
Jomo Prince considers himself a veteran of the East River bridges. As a high school student at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, he would often walk home over the Brooklyn Bridge. On 9-11, he used the Queensboro to flee the city. And today, he drives across the Manhattan Bridge "all the time."
But on August 14, the night of the blackout, the 28-year-old computer technician for the architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox experienced something he'd never felt before. Packed shoulder to shoulder with pedestrians, he could feel the Brooklyn Bridge sway so much that if he stood still he couldn't keep his balance. Then there was the groaning.
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This is an interesting piece from the Village Voice. Two other instances of the sway phenomena are the Millenium Bridge in London, mentioned in the story above, and (famously) the Tacoma Narrows Disaster (below)...
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11 Jun 2003 |
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Crafty Beavers! or She's Crafty, She get's around!
You can join a funky little craft fair on September 20th in Wicker Park for $50. FUN!
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04 Jun 2003 |
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03 Apr 2003 |
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Saving Private Lynch
The Iraqi man who tipped U.S. Marines to the location of American POW Jessica Lynch said Thursday he did so after he saw her Iraqi captor slap her twice as she lay wounded in a hospital.
"A person, no matter his nationality, is a human being," the tipster, a 32-year-old lawyer whose wife was a nurse at the hospital, said in an interview at Marines' headquarters, where he, his wife and daughter are being treated as heroes and guests of honor.
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29 Aug 2002 |
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Justin's "I Banged Britney" Webpage
Okay, everyone knows I'm the biggest defender of Brit. But I'm sorry. This is freakin' funny.
via zena
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10 Aug 2002 |
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"Perfume" Throws Off Drug Dogs
"We was real angry when they put the dogs on each end of town so you couldn't get in or out," he said, referring to incidents last year when Australian police brought drug dogs to Nimbin and nearby Byron Bay. "We figured that if the drugs were trained to smell, we'd give them something to smell all right!"
A team of awesome Aussies fanned out across the region, spraying street signs, curbsides, buildings, police cars and stations, and other locations with liquids that smelled of cannabis. (Ed. note: bong water)
Wanna make your own perfume? Try Bubblebags.
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22 Mar 2002 |
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This Is Your Captain: I Don't Know How to Land the Plane
PASSENGERS screamed when the pilot of a no-frills Go flight from Newcastle to Stansted airport said he did not know how to land in fog.
Lucky he didn't end up like this
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19 Dec 2001 |
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A Bad Year For Santa
Cheeky Santa Given The BumÕs Rush
Santa Falls Foul of Anti-Terrorism Laws
Child Santa booted out of mall
Next Year: Coal for everyone!
via Drudge
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13 Dec 2001 |
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Beef & Guns
Headin' to New York anytime soon? Be sure to take advantage of this night on the town.
via zena
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12 Dec 2001 |
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Turbulence makes horse go berserk on 747
Emergency crews were called to a Toronto airport after a horse went berserk on a Boeing 747.
Gumbo Krewe Is Sent Packing
The message from New York City officials to the Gumbo Krewe was plain: no more gumbo.
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02 Dec 2001 |
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Flashy "IT" Revealed
Time Magazine has a cool graphic explaining IT.
Apparently, it's NOT Ken, after all. His Mom and Dad are soooo relieved.
via here
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14 Oct 2001 |
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Anagrams Of Osama Bin Laden
A BANAL END, I'M SO
A SANDMAN BE OIL
I'M A NASA LOB END
A BAD SLAIN OMEN
SANDAL I BEMOAN
I'M NO SALAD BEAN
SAD ANIMAL BONE
BAD NOSE MANILA
AN SOB LED MANIA
I BE SO DAMN ANAL
AM ALONE BAD SIN
IS BAD MAN ALONE
NAIL SO BAD, AMEN
AM ON LESBIAN AD
LAID MAN ON BASE
MEAN BASIN LOAD
Add your own...
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12 Oct 2001 |
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The Most Important Weapon of All
ABOARD THE USS CARL VINSON
(Reuters) -- The essential ingredient of "beer night" was loaded Friday onto this U.S. aircraft carrier stationed in the northern Arabian Sea for the American bombing raids on Afghanistan, and one could detect a sense of relief all around.
Crates containing almost 10,000 tins of Foster's, Heineken, Coors and Budweiser beers were ferried over from a supply ship, cruising parallel to this immense floating fortress, for the night next week when those aboard can have a beer.
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11 Oct 2001 |
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03 Oct 2001 |
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mystery man seen round the world
I'm sure you've all seen that now-famous photograph of the mystery man photographed atop the World Trade Center while an airliner approaches in the background. It all seemed just a little too strange to believe. What seems really strange to me, however, is how we could have missed his presence at so many other major disasters throughout history. Take a look at a photographic history of this Zelig-like mystery man.
(Apparently that Quiet Riot/Slaughter/Warrant concert got pretty nasty)
via cameron f
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25 Sep 2001 |
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Pilot's Son to Fulfill NASCAR Wish
If you can stand another story about the attacks on the US and the nice things people do for each other, this is a pretty ok ending...
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23 Jul 2001 |
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Undersea Film Reveals Secrets of the Hood
60 years ago the cannons roared, and the HMS Hood was lost.
"Our immediate reaction has been one of surprise by the damage suffered by Hood," Mr Mearns said yesterday.
"It is far worse than any of us had expected."
Note: It sunk, didn't it?
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12 Jun 2001 |
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Guardian Unlimited: Bush renames Spanish PM
The US president, George Bush, today began his European tour with a gaffe - mispronouncing the Spanish prime minister's name in a television interview.
Mr Bush was mocked during the US election campaign for his relative ignorance of international affairs, but had always maintained he could speak Spanish.
But in the interview he referred to Jose Maria Aznar as "Anzar" and employed a mangled grammar, placing the emphasis on the wrong parts of words and confusing gender.
Can Bush say or do anything without embarrassing the country? What a fucking moron.
Note to self: watch SNL this week.
via The Morning News
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01 Jun 2001 |
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Dang of the Day
this will be my first Dang of the Day entry. hope you like it, please come again. and to mark the conception of Dang of the Day, i'd like to take a look back into the old days, retro style--yep, offline. all you have to do in order to enjoy the Dang of the Day is pick up that old telephone (that's right, the telephone!) and dial this local number (local if you live in chicago): 312.943.5397.
Dang!
via ramon brockmeyer