A TWITTER visit can bend your mind. Here are some of the things I encountered on a visit there tonight:
01. A Kansas City auto dealer is offering an AK-47 with every truck purchase!
02. The Pope broke his wrist. (Now how will he write encyclicals?)
03. Judge Sotomayor got through her ordeal by being boring. This was a great strategy, in my opinion. (It has served some of us well for years).
04. Walter Chronhite died at age 92. Another American Icon is gone!
05. New Senator Al Franken asked Sotomayor if she remembered a Perry Mason mystery where Perry loses a case. She didn't remember. Neither did Al.
I seem to remember a case where Hamilton Berger won over Perry Mason. I think it might have been: The Case of the Deadly verdict. ........From season 7.
06. I thought that I was hearing things today.. I heard a Republican Congressman praising Massachusett's own, Barney Frank.
07. DC's former mayor and current councilman, Marion Berry, is back in the news. He swears that he did not give a plush job to his girl friend.
08. The famous Watergate Hotel will be auctioned off!
09. Starbuck says: "Looking into Ahab's eyes cons a fearful exercise. An abyss of fire ice, colder than an inferno, a frozen hell".. by TwitterFon (and probably not Melville). From_the_Pequod Twitter site.
10. Headline: Croc shoe company stumbles during recession. (Elaine won't like that.)
How about all that??!
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Friday, July 17, 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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