Tuesday, June 15, 2004
This Day in History: June 15, 1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle instructed a student to spell "potato" with an "e" on the end during a spelling bee. He had relied on a faulty flash card that had been written by the student's teacher.
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Quick Dry
Roger Daniel was clocked at 120km/h in a 50km/h zone this past Sunday, and when the cops pulled him over he had quite the creative explanation: he had just washed his car and was trying to dry it off. In court, he explained: "I have a bad back and just thought I would do that (drive at speed) to dry the car instead of having to chamois it dry." He was fined $300 and had his license suspended.
He's a thinker, that one.
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Hey Buddy Can Ya Give Me A Lift?
David Bowman, a mature 41 year old male, appeared before Judge Thomas Higgins on charges of violating probation by smoking crack, charging $6000 on his mommy's credit card, and then threatening to burn her house down when she said she'd turn him in.
He didn't mind that the Judge deemed him guilty and sentenced him to more prison time.
But he DID mind the thought of riding on that nasty prison bus all the way back to the slammer.
So he asked Judge Higgins for a ride to prison, if you please sir.
Higgins said, uh, no. And slapped on an extra 4 months to his term simply due to his audacity.
"I think part of the problem is that Mr. Bowman doesn't do as much thinking as maybe you or I would like him to," Higgins said.
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We Know Who Wears the Pants in THIS Relationship.
So there's this Malaysian guy named Yap (yup: Yap) whose wife told him he had to go to bed early so he could take the kiddo's to school the next day. He did indeed retire early, like a good little husband. But then later that night he snuck out of bed to watch England's Euro 2004 opener.
Wifey freaked out to find that she had been left in bed for a soccer game, when she had TOLD Yap to stay in bed, so she grabbed the remote control and bludgeoned him about the head with it. Then she grabbed the 'smart card' out of the pay TV service so he couldn't watch any more soccer EVER.
Yap went to the cops, explained what happened, and they helped her to change her mind. He's allowed to watch soccer now.
Yeesh.
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Bombay Not Ready for Lesbians on Film
There's a new Hindi film out, "Girlfriend", about two women's relationship and it has....lesbian scenes. Well, that's not gonna float with members of Shiv Sena, a group of hard-line Hindus. About 100 Shiv Sena activists pitched a major hissy about the bad message being sent by the film: smashing windows, ripping up posters, and burning effigies in a successful attempt to stop the screening of it.
They won. The film has been suppressed.
Now THAT's how to stage a protest, I guess.
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Those Crazy Canadians
The Marijuana Party of Canada has an interesting (and appropriate) way of raising political funding for the national elections: they're selling Pot Seeds. Up for grabs are the $7.40 pack of 10 nonviable decorative seeds all the way up to the $296 'Thoroughbred, Cannabis Cup-Winnning" varietals.
They're able to do this because, while the possession, cultivation or sales of marijuana itself is illegal, sales of the seeds that lead to such actions is not.
Party on.
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Quick Dry
Roger Daniel was clocked at 120km/h in a 50km/h zone this past Sunday, and when the cops pulled him over he had quite the creative explanation: he had just washed his car and was trying to dry it off. In court, he explained: "I have a bad back and just thought I would do that (drive at speed) to dry the car instead of having to chamois it dry." He was fined $300 and had his license suspended.
He's a thinker, that one.
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Hey Buddy Can Ya Give Me A Lift?
David Bowman, a mature 41 year old male, appeared before Judge Thomas Higgins on charges of violating probation by smoking crack, charging $6000 on his mommy's credit card, and then threatening to burn her house down when she said she'd turn him in.
He didn't mind that the Judge deemed him guilty and sentenced him to more prison time.
But he DID mind the thought of riding on that nasty prison bus all the way back to the slammer.
So he asked Judge Higgins for a ride to prison, if you please sir.
Higgins said, uh, no. And slapped on an extra 4 months to his term simply due to his audacity.
"I think part of the problem is that Mr. Bowman doesn't do as much thinking as maybe you or I would like him to," Higgins said.
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We Know Who Wears the Pants in THIS Relationship.
So there's this Malaysian guy named Yap (yup: Yap) whose wife told him he had to go to bed early so he could take the kiddo's to school the next day. He did indeed retire early, like a good little husband. But then later that night he snuck out of bed to watch England's Euro 2004 opener.
Wifey freaked out to find that she had been left in bed for a soccer game, when she had TOLD Yap to stay in bed, so she grabbed the remote control and bludgeoned him about the head with it. Then she grabbed the 'smart card' out of the pay TV service so he couldn't watch any more soccer EVER.
Yap went to the cops, explained what happened, and they helped her to change her mind. He's allowed to watch soccer now.
Yeesh.
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Bombay Not Ready for Lesbians on Film
There's a new Hindi film out, "Girlfriend", about two women's relationship and it has....lesbian scenes. Well, that's not gonna float with members of Shiv Sena, a group of hard-line Hindus. About 100 Shiv Sena activists pitched a major hissy about the bad message being sent by the film: smashing windows, ripping up posters, and burning effigies in a successful attempt to stop the screening of it.
They won. The film has been suppressed.
Now THAT's how to stage a protest, I guess.
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Those Crazy Canadians
The Marijuana Party of Canada has an interesting (and appropriate) way of raising political funding for the national elections: they're selling Pot Seeds. Up for grabs are the $7.40 pack of 10 nonviable decorative seeds all the way up to the $296 'Thoroughbred, Cannabis Cup-Winnning" varietals.
They're able to do this because, while the possession, cultivation or sales of marijuana itself is illegal, sales of the seeds that lead to such actions is not.
Party on.
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