When I lived down in Southern California, all the talk was water conservation, even as lawns where being kept green. I come back a few years later and everything is low flow. Special water saver sprinklers water lawns even when there isn’t an official drought, and they are using the same low flow toilets and [...]
Bookstore Customer: “Do people donate all these books to you?”
Me: “Yes. We show up for work every morning and there are boxes of valuable books sitting at the front door.”
Bookstore Customer: “Wow, really! I could open a book store?”
Me: “Sure!”
Bookstore Customer: “If I opened a store, how would people know where to leave the books?”
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A thief in Germany was charred beyond recognition by a 10,000 volt electric shock when he tried to steal a live copper cable, authorities said Monday.Police in the western city of Duisburg found the 32-year-old man’s blackened remains by a set of cable cutters and pile of non-live cables he had already stolen.
Only because one [...]
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The story is simple. The man went skating with his 5 year old son. A 10 year old boy shot hockey pucks at them and taunted him, asking what was he going to do. After looking and finding no authorities… no parents. He grabbed the kid and dragged him off the ring. It was just [...]
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Who says Madonna can’t be deep. Here are some good truths I thought I’d pass on.
If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If [...]
Ok… I think its in Brazil. The flag that is shown as the camera moves reminds me of Brazil, so correct me if I’m wrong. I find it interesting how quickly they are trying different things; surfing for info online, playing with the webcam, drawing a picture. I get the picture its [...]
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With my latest posts about fire arm ownership, and if it makes a difference to the crime rate I was please to come across this article about gun ownership in Sitzerland.
Guns are deeply rooted within Swiss culture - but the gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept.
The country has a [...]
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Growing up I wasn’t spared some of the “great” movies of yesteryear. And before Mystery Science Theater had lampooned them, I had seen a few of these gems. The one a lot of men will remember seeing (or at least have heard about) was Amazon Women… They could be on a mysterious island, [...]
