I've been tied up for some time planning a conference. Now that it is over, I can concentrate on other things and maybe catch up on the news. Reading my favorite magazine The Week for November 6, 2009, and watching a little TV, I found the following news items to be quite interesting:
01. GOLF. There now is an 850 mile long golf course in Australia. Par 71. (Golfers have to be wary of wombat holes.)
02. SPY. Who would have thought that Fidel Castro's sister would have been a spy for the CIA? (Mr. Cheney may not know that she "outed" herself.)
03. RATINGS. FOX News is apparently enjoying being called "a wing of the Republican Party.
04. SEX. The "US Federales" have captured 700 bad people across the country in three days. This included a lot of alleged pimps engaged in child prostitution. Some child prostitutes are as young as ten!
05. SWINE FLU. I read that some "shock" radio persons are spreading rumors that the H1N1 vaccine "is tainted with antifreeze" as part of a plot by the Government to kill Americans.
This is extremely ridiculous and irresponsible. Some people who should get the vaccine, may not get it because of this misinformation. People need to take this situation seriously and make rational decisions about the vaccine. During the Flu Pandemic of many years ago, my Grandfather served his community as a volunteer nurse. In that community, nearly every family lost a member. There was no vaccine against the flu then. (Luckily, none of his 15 children got the flu bad enough to die from it.)
06. RODENT. Once again, a small animal has panicked lots of great big humans. Three hundred people were delayed for three hours while their airplane to London was "de-miced".
07. SUICIDE Epidemic. Palo Alto, California, is having a problem with teen suicides. Four students from the same high school have stepped in front of commuter trains on purpose. Eight more have been prevented from doing so. Is this the result of "ennui" for living in such a wealthy town?
08. FLY-PAPER?. A Florida man wore a "defective" pair of underwear for two weeks and claimed that the fly flap rubbed his genitals like sand-paper. He sued for compensation. Thank goodness the judge threw this one out.
09. WATCH OUT FOR STRANGE VEHICLES. If you travel in Minnesota, watch out for a drunk guy driving a motorized recliner with a built-in stereo set.
10. BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE: If you travel in Dallas, be careful, police are ticketing motorists for being "non-English-speaking drivers." George Bernard Shaw was fond of saying that Americans haven't spoken the English language for years.
11. WHERE'S THE BEEF? The owner of the three McDonald restaurants in Iceland is closing them down because the current cost of importing ingredients would cause him to have to charge the equivalent of $7 for a Big Mac, apparently too many KRONA for folks to pay.
12. ARE YOU A NONE? A study found that 14 million Americans have no religious affiliation.. they are called "nones". Some of them believe in God, some are atheists, some agnostics, and some find labels unimportant.
13. ENDANGERED SPECIES. Several Canadian provinces have banned smoking in both public and private places, even in cars and apartment buildings! However, crackheads, who have a disease called addiction, are exempted and will have medical places where they can legally "inhale"!
14. PIE IN THE FACE. Soupy Sales died last week. He was 83. His claim to fame was that he had had 20,000 shaving cream filled pies hit him in the face over the years. If that is funny, he was a very funny man.
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Monday, November 02, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Interesting News (I think)
It's the end of April 2009 and the world is in turmoil. However, there are some news stories that one might ponder to get one's mind off of the turmoil. Here are a few:
01. Russian doctors found a fir tree growing in a man's lungs! (Wouldn't that make a great cartoon?)
02. An 89 year old man in Australia was mauled by a pack of wild mice.
03. Prince Charles met with the Pope to discuss the environment. (Papal warming?)
04. Scientists have announced that if a pulsar the size of a silver dollar landed on Earth, it would weigh 100 million tons.
05. A baby girl in New Zealand was named Zealand-New.
06. Many aeons ago, one of the Popes was named Hilarious. (look it up)
07. Years ago, Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore delivered lots of babies to indigent mothers. Usually, they would give the child a name. One of the names given to a newborn by a doctor was: Positive Wasserman Johnson. (look it up in Mencken's great book, The American Language.)
08. A man named Justin Brady changed his name to "Ynot Bubba." (Why not?)
09. A man shot his wife through the head and then killed himself. When the police arrived, she was busy making tea.
10. A cat in China adopted two puppies that she is teaching to catch mice. (needed in Australia.. see # 02 above.)
11. A woman dying of lung cancer in Massachusetts says: "Some people, like me, are just born to smoke."
12. United Airlines began demanding that people with fat butts buy a second seat.
13. There is a new scam to watch out for.. guys who enter restaurants and look for people (at table) who are ready to pay their bills, and tell them they will take the money (or credit card!) for them, and then disappear.
14. A nude man drove his pickup truck through the wall of an emergency room in North Dakota.
15. The magazine This Week reports that "Le Whif".. a lipstick sized mini inhaler shoots a calorie-free chocolate mist into your mouth for $2 for 4 puffs.
16. The @ sign for Internet use means "love him" in Chinese.
17. A New York worker is demanding pay for the lunch hour he lost when he was "locked down" during a shoot-out.
18. An overdue book returned to a Canadian library was taken out in 1899. The $9,000 fine was waived. (I have a book that I borrowed from the New Bedford, Massachusetts Public Library 50 years ago. I've been told to wait for "amnesty day" to return it... I know, I know... no excuse for my action.)
If you want to know more about these subjects, you might want to "google" them.
Auf wiedersehen.
01. Russian doctors found a fir tree growing in a man's lungs! (Wouldn't that make a great cartoon?)
02. An 89 year old man in Australia was mauled by a pack of wild mice.
03. Prince Charles met with the Pope to discuss the environment. (Papal warming?)
04. Scientists have announced that if a pulsar the size of a silver dollar landed on Earth, it would weigh 100 million tons.
05. A baby girl in New Zealand was named Zealand-New.
06. Many aeons ago, one of the Popes was named Hilarious. (look it up)
07. Years ago, Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore delivered lots of babies to indigent mothers. Usually, they would give the child a name. One of the names given to a newborn by a doctor was: Positive Wasserman Johnson. (look it up in Mencken's great book, The American Language.)
08. A man named Justin Brady changed his name to "Ynot Bubba." (Why not?)
09. A man shot his wife through the head and then killed himself. When the police arrived, she was busy making tea.
10. A cat in China adopted two puppies that she is teaching to catch mice. (needed in Australia.. see # 02 above.)
11. A woman dying of lung cancer in Massachusetts says: "Some people, like me, are just born to smoke."
12. United Airlines began demanding that people with fat butts buy a second seat.
13. There is a new scam to watch out for.. guys who enter restaurants and look for people (at table) who are ready to pay their bills, and tell them they will take the money (or credit card!) for them, and then disappear.
14. A nude man drove his pickup truck through the wall of an emergency room in North Dakota.
15. The magazine This Week reports that "Le Whif".. a lipstick sized mini inhaler shoots a calorie-free chocolate mist into your mouth for $2 for 4 puffs.
16. The @ sign for Internet use means "love him" in Chinese.
17. A New York worker is demanding pay for the lunch hour he lost when he was "locked down" during a shoot-out.
18. An overdue book returned to a Canadian library was taken out in 1899. The $9,000 fine was waived. (I have a book that I borrowed from the New Bedford, Massachusetts Public Library 50 years ago. I've been told to wait for "amnesty day" to return it... I know, I know... no excuse for my action.)
If you want to know more about these subjects, you might want to "google" them.
Auf wiedersehen.
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