Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Link of the day: Elite designers against IKEA. An idea whose time has come. http://elitedesigners.org/default.asp
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OMG! How did I miss THIS?
If I Only Had a Brain...
Prince Hassan bin Talal shot off a wonderful salvo back on Oct 2nd when speaking at an international geography festival in eastern France.
During the festivities, the Jordanian prince spoke out apparently in hopes that GW was one of the geography hounds in the audience. Hassan said, "We need respect, intellectual tolerance, Mr President of the United States, of a meeting of minds... and if you actually have one, I'd like to see it."
CAT scan & MRI on the way, buddy.
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Oooh Fun!
Let it be known that Johnny Reitz is no longer the record holder for 'most McDonalds Burgers Shoved in Mouth at One Time'. He has been deposed by 19 year old Ezra Nicholas during the Singaporean World Record contest. Folks in Singapore decided that a great way to bring attention to their island nation would be to break 10 world records this weekend. Sadly, they only broke 2 and they are not gaining the attention they wanted.
For the record: 50 year old Jeffery Koh has become the world's fastest eater of dry biscuits. He blasted through the previous record of 3 'cream crackers' in 49.15 seconds with a mindboggling 14.45 second munch.
Words from the burger victor, who shoved 3.25 burgers into his big fat mouth: "I'm on top of the world right now, because everyone's going to know that I can shove more than three burgers in my mouth!"
But can he eat a stick of butter......
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School Board May Censor Books, Hand Out Bibles
An interesting brain storming session was held this month in La Plata, MD, regarding the curriculum at their public schools. Seems the vice chairman of the Charles County Board of Eduction, Margaret Young, doesn't approve of the school system's current reading list.
Declaring that the books on the reading list are "filled with profanity and pornography, fornication and adultery", Maggie and other like-minded boardmembers have recommended banning the books and replacing them with Gideon's Bible. Also recommended is removing science books "biased towards evolution" and teaching sex ed as follows: "No sex is good sex. Abstain. That is all."
I would say they're in a Catch-22, but I don't think Maggie would understand. I feel like such an Outsider. Practically living on an Animal Farm. Then again, as Upton Sinclair said, it's a Jungle out there. Blah blah blah
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Our Very Own David Nemeth contributes the following nugget...
Making the Alamo Something to Remember
Kristine Nissel, 18, and Matthew Hotard, 19, active-duty members of the 232nd Medical Battalion stationed at Fort Sam Houston decided to truly remember the Alamo this weekend by fornicating near a public viewing area at the 'shrine of Texas independence'.
Several tourists witnessed the 5:30pm shenanigans, and at least one got miffed enough to talk to security and have the boffers removed. They have been charged with public lewdness and tossed in the clink, each with bond set at $800.
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Berlin Wall being rebuilt
Alexandra Hildebrandt, curator of the Checkpoint Charlie museum in Berlin, is having a 200-yard section of the Berlin Wall rebuilt so that people will never forget the brutality of the Communist regime.
Alexandra sees it as "a freedom memorial...I don't see the problem."
Others see it just a touch differently - for example Walter Momper, a former Mayor of Berlin: "You cannot make a tourist attraction out of an instrument of murder," he said.
Apparently, you can.
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OMG! How did I miss THIS?
If I Only Had a Brain...
Prince Hassan bin Talal shot off a wonderful salvo back on Oct 2nd when speaking at an international geography festival in eastern France.
During the festivities, the Jordanian prince spoke out apparently in hopes that GW was one of the geography hounds in the audience. Hassan said, "We need respect, intellectual tolerance, Mr President of the United States, of a meeting of minds... and if you actually have one, I'd like to see it."
CAT scan & MRI on the way, buddy.
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Oooh Fun!
Let it be known that Johnny Reitz is no longer the record holder for 'most McDonalds Burgers Shoved in Mouth at One Time'. He has been deposed by 19 year old Ezra Nicholas during the Singaporean World Record contest. Folks in Singapore decided that a great way to bring attention to their island nation would be to break 10 world records this weekend. Sadly, they only broke 2 and they are not gaining the attention they wanted.
For the record: 50 year old Jeffery Koh has become the world's fastest eater of dry biscuits. He blasted through the previous record of 3 'cream crackers' in 49.15 seconds with a mindboggling 14.45 second munch.
Words from the burger victor, who shoved 3.25 burgers into his big fat mouth: "I'm on top of the world right now, because everyone's going to know that I can shove more than three burgers in my mouth!"
But can he eat a stick of butter......
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School Board May Censor Books, Hand Out Bibles
An interesting brain storming session was held this month in La Plata, MD, regarding the curriculum at their public schools. Seems the vice chairman of the Charles County Board of Eduction, Margaret Young, doesn't approve of the school system's current reading list.
Declaring that the books on the reading list are "filled with profanity and pornography, fornication and adultery", Maggie and other like-minded boardmembers have recommended banning the books and replacing them with Gideon's Bible. Also recommended is removing science books "biased towards evolution" and teaching sex ed as follows: "No sex is good sex. Abstain. That is all."
I would say they're in a Catch-22, but I don't think Maggie would understand. I feel like such an Outsider. Practically living on an Animal Farm. Then again, as Upton Sinclair said, it's a Jungle out there. Blah blah blah
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Our Very Own David Nemeth contributes the following nugget...
Making the Alamo Something to Remember
Kristine Nissel, 18, and Matthew Hotard, 19, active-duty members of the 232nd Medical Battalion stationed at Fort Sam Houston decided to truly remember the Alamo this weekend by fornicating near a public viewing area at the 'shrine of Texas independence'.
Several tourists witnessed the 5:30pm shenanigans, and at least one got miffed enough to talk to security and have the boffers removed. They have been charged with public lewdness and tossed in the clink, each with bond set at $800.
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Berlin Wall being rebuilt
Alexandra Hildebrandt, curator of the Checkpoint Charlie museum in Berlin, is having a 200-yard section of the Berlin Wall rebuilt so that people will never forget the brutality of the Communist regime.
Alexandra sees it as "a freedom memorial...I don't see the problem."
Others see it just a touch differently - for example Walter Momper, a former Mayor of Berlin: "You cannot make a tourist attraction out of an instrument of murder," he said.
Apparently, you can.
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