387 - Two degrees of separation

One of the blogs I check is Miss Cellania. She also blogs for other blogs. So sometimes I run across her on other sites.

Well I was checking out Science Blogs and ran across the drugmonkey. It's kind of weird seeing somebody blogging on another site that you go to but think no one else does. And then to see what I would call a thesis makes it even more interesting. Makes me wonder if he found the site from my links or not. Here's his disertation.

Link - cannabis and nicotine
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386 - Worst movie - ever

Juarez, Mexico (2008) (the movie)


I had second thoughts about posting this right after my last post. The people that played in this movie must be fighting untold battles. And after trying to watch this movie I wanted to cut my own throat.

It's supposed to be a movie about girls disappearing in Mexico. It's supposed to be a drama. It's not. It's so bad it's funny. Even knowing that it's a true story about women getting murdered, you can't help but laugh at it. It's that bad.

If you ever decide you have to see this for yourself, get a bunch of freinds together and start drinking long before you start to watch it. That way you can have a good laugh at the bad acting while trying to ignore the actual story line.

Link - Review
Link - Ratings

385 - 3 quotes

- A sharp tongue can cut your own throat.

- The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.

- Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

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I like the last one best because it goes along with my blog title.

384 - Be yourself - well maybe not

This can be expanded into all other phases of our life's. Sometimes we should refrain from making an impression. (Other times it's just way to much fun.)


Link - Grimmy

(I reworded this a little. It "reached" a little too much before. This makes more sense. A little more anyway.)
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383 - To little to late

WILLITS, CA — By a 4-1 vote the Willits City Council approved a resolution recommending impeachment hearings for President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. The room was packed with impeachment supporters and about 20 speakers shared their support for the resolution before the vote.

The resolution requests Representative "Mike Thompson join with others in Congress to initiate impeachment hearings." It also requires copies of the resolution be forwarded to members of the House Judiciary Committee and to Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein.

The scope of the resolution included allegations the president and vice president misled the people of the United States and Congress about the threat posed by Iraq to justify the invasion, the continued expense for the military action has now surpassed $3 trillion, mismanaged governmental agencies crippling emergency preparedness and blocked efforts to address global climate change, conducted illegal surveillance of American citizens, authorized the indefinite detention of citizens and tortured of prisoners as well as other crimes against humanity.

Councilwoman Tami Jorgensen was the lone dissenter, expressing the view that while she supported the sentiment of the resolution, she believed the council was elected to address local issues and the resolution would have little effect on foreign policy.

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To little to late as the title says. Even though Tami is right about what the local council was elected for, it's the thought that counts. Now if we could get EVERY city to pass a resolution.....

382 - Contagion

Well I'm lost for a post today so I guess I'll go scouting other sites to see what I can find. Be back in a minute ...........................
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I found something on the WMS site. It's a quote from SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

Well that's the best I can come up with. Do with it what you want. Don't get to carried away though.

Link - WMS
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381 - Texting and driving don't mix

Yes, I would say that texting and driving don't mix. I wonder what his last message was?


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380 - Employee of the Month

This is the level of dedication we expect from
all staff members!

379 - Virgina tech, it's been awhile

Here's a USA today article about what's been happening at Virgina tech and other college campuses since the Virgina tech shootings.

One part of the story goes like this - "They burn themselves out through high school trying to have a résumé much more impressive than adults have," Lipkins says.

Competition to the max until somebody can't take it anymore and starts blowing people away.

Link - article
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378 - Email jokes

The good better best was in the email. You'll have to decide on your own if the labels fit.

GOOD
A Bloomington, IL policeman had a perfect spot to watch for speeders, but wasn't getting many. Then he discovered the problem - a 12-year-old boy was standing up the road with a hand painted sign, which read 'RADAR TRAP AHEAD'. The officer then found a young accomplice down the road with a sign reading 'TIPS' and a bucket full of money. (And we used to just sell lemonade!).

BETTER
A motorist was mailed a picture of his car speeding through an automated radar post in Peoria, IL. A $40 speeding ticket was included. Being cute, he sent the police department a picture of $40. The police responded with another mailed photo of handcuffs.

BEST
A young woman was pulled over for speeding. An Illinois State Trooper walked to her car window and flipped open his ticket book. She said, "I bet you are going to sell me a ticket to the State Troopers Ball". He replied, "Illinois State Troopers don't have balls". There was a moment of silence while she just smiled. He realized what he'd just said, closed his book, got back in his patrol car and left.


And finally 3 QUOTES -
Words of Wisdom from restroom graffiti -
"To do is to be" - Descartes
"To be is to do" - Voltaire
"Do be do be do" - Sinatra


And finally finally, my hit count goes over a thousand. Only about 4200 to catch up with John and 9300 for Bilbo. I'm on a roll!!!
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377 - A tribute

I did a search through my blog and couldn't find a reference to this site so I don't think I've mentioned it before. This is a tribute site to Numeric Life who hasn't been heard from for many days. This is a magazine site but your going to the lists page first. You can explore from there if you have time. Get ready for lots of stats.

Link - Lists
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376 - Solving an expensive problem

A man walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Bakersfield on business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000 and that he was not a depositor of the bank. The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan, so the man handed over the keys to a new Ferrari. The car was parked on the street in front of the bank. The man produced the title and everything checked out. The loan officer agreed to hold the car as collateral for the loan and apologized for having to charge 12% interest. Later, the bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a
good laugh at the man from for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral for a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank's underground garage and parked it.
Two weeks later, the man returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest of $23.07. The loan officer said, "Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out and found that you are fairly wealthy. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?” The man replied, “Where else in New York City can I park a Ferrari for two weeks for only $23.07 and expect it to be there when I return?"

375 - Friday - Lost a lot of blood today.

Friday sort of disappeared. Donating blood makes me sort of lightheaded for the rest of the day. Good excuse to kick back and do nothing but veg out.

374 - F#$& really f*%&!@g works!

I don't like to admit that I sometimes read Miss Manners but this headline caught my eye. "Cursing works (but please don't do it)" So I read the article and found out the tip of the century. Read on gentle readers, read on ......

Dear Miss Manners: A friend who is a most genteel man revealed that in a frustrated moment, after being in an hour-long loop of voice recognition commands for — I use this term advisedly — "customer service" of a major airline, he shouted the most vulgar expression in the English language into the telephone. To his surprise, he was immediately connected with a supervisor who solved his problem instantly.

Last week, after a bout with a telephone answering service that did not recognize the words "help," "operator," "live body" and the like, I too looked around to be sure my children were out of hearing and shouted an obscenity into the telephone. To my shock, this phrase worked with my health insurer.

I feel the practice of American corporations programming obscene phrases into their lexicon of recognized words, and the fact that this brings the fastest results, is truly demeaning to our culture. Would you please use your bully pulpit to request a universal, clean phrase to replace the current magic words?

How about "Customer service, please"? No doubt this is programmed to produce a recorded laugh.

Miss Manners is not so naive as to expect the argument of civility or human dignity to be effective in appealing to airlines, let alone health insurers. But she will ask them this:

Which customer would you prefer to have aboard? The one who quietly goes to another airline when yours doesn't respond satisfactorily, or the one who turns vicious when encountering a delay?

Note to Gentle Readers: Please do not use the information contained in the question as a tip. Please?

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Not a chance Miss Manners, not a F#$&*%g chance in hell.
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373 - This really happens

This cartoon is really how it happens. You get the vacuum out and the dog starts watching you. Unwind the cord and he starts getting nervous. Plug it in and poof, he's gone!


Link - Duplex
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372 - BPA

I happened across a story about BPA or "bisphenol A". This chemical has been in the news recently and has it's detractors and defenders. The following links are a recent story, which lead me to wikipedia, which lead me to a story from last year. The most interesting info was in wikipedia which says the problem with this chemical has been known since the 1930's.
Look at the bottom of the plastic bottle your drinking out of (Did I trick you into pouring something on yourself?). If it's got a '7' in the triangle, your drinking a little BPA.

Link - LA Times article
Link - Wikipedia
Link - Washington Post article
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371 - Picking on the girls

Miss Cellania was picking on the guys in one of her posts recently so when this joke came via email yesterday, it was perfect for a return post ... sort of.


This guy and his wife went to the state fair and one of the first exhibits we stopped at was the breeding bulls. They went up to the first pen and there was a sign attached that said,

'THIS BULL MATED 50 TIMES LAST YEAR'

The wife playfully nudged hubby in the ribs, smiled and said, "He mated 50 times last year". They walked to the second pen which had a sign attached that said,

'THIS BULL MATED 150 TIMES LAST YEAR'

She gave hubby a healthy jab and said, "WOW - That's more than twice a week! You could learn a lot from him". They walked to the third pen and it had a sign attached that said, in BIG capital letters,

'THIS BULL MATED 365 TIMES LAST YEAR'

The wife was so excited that her elbow nearly broke the guys ribs as she said, “That's once a day! You could REALLY learn something from this one". He looked at her and said, "Go over and ask him if it was with the same old cow".

The hospital is now saying that the husbands' condition has been upgraded from critical to stable, and he should eventually make a full recovery.
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370 - Greeting card humor

My wife and I sent this card to a friend. It's just one of those cards that struck us funny. It's a musical instrument joke. The instrument is incidental. Picture this happening at any gathering with any bad instrument player. This goes along with the saying, "Be careful what you wish for".
Here's the front and back of the card.

369 - Money out of your pocket

Here's a link to a post by the drug monkey. It's about relabeling a drug because of a minor change and then sticking it to the consumer.
Warning - foul language - but well deserved.

Link - Drug monkey
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368 - More nature

It's spring time.



The reds didn't come out very well in this picture. If you click on the picture and go to the lower right side the reds show up a little better.

367 - Street creep

Here's a video on the phenomenon known as 'street creep'. It's when the street pushes against your driveway which pushes against your house which cracks your foundation. Thinking 'don't worry insurance will cover it'. Think again.

The video is no longer on line.
Link - Street creep video

But the fix for this (or really the prevention) is to make sure your driveway is isolated from your house AND the street by a gap filled with fiber type packing to fill the gap.

366 - Now Thursday

This is now Thursday. Nothing much going on today yet. See Wednesdays post.

No wait! It's the year post. Post 365! Actually I should label it post 365 1/4. But then I couldn't do leap year post tomorrow.

Actually post 366. Nobody noticed that I doubled up on 363, even me. But it's fixed now and now this post doesn't make any sense anymor.... nevermind.

365 - This is Wednesday

This post was supposed to be on Wednesday. Missed it by an hour and 13 minutes. Been berry berry busy.

I think I just created a new shortcut saying. 4B. "Been Berry Berry Busy" The conversation would go, "Where ya' been?" "4B!"

364 - Nature talk

I'll let nature do all the talking from my front yard today. Click on the picture to make it bigger.

363 - Sunday

Well here it is Sunday and I've got over 2 hours to spare today. Posting every day can be tough!

362 - Saturday

I almost missed posting today. But I made it! 22 minutes to spare.

361 - RNW day 5

And this will be the end of the RNW. I'M getting tired of this and I'm sure you are too.

Can't say I've ever done anything like this but this sure is inventive.



I think I remember one of these a long time ago. That's me in the baseball cap. Either one.



Did you hear that the Redneck governor's Mansion burnt down?
'Yep. Prit'near took out the whole trailer park. The library was a total loss too. both books went poof ..... up in flames and the governor hadn't even finished coloring one of them.'

That's all folks!

360 -RNW day 4

Another trailer joke. Sorry but things are getting thin.
Redneck moon landing.



But this one is unique. This took some work.
The Redneck cellar.


A new Redneck law was just recently passed ..
When a couple gets divorced, they are STILL cousins.

Did you hear that the Redneck governor's Mansion burned down?
'Yep. Prit'near took out the whole trailer park. The library was a total loss too. Both books went poof ... Up in flames and the governor hadn't even finished coloring one of them.'

359 - RNW day 3

And you thought when you were done with this you could store stuff in it. WRONG. Put it back to work for life. Or until the first baseball bat comes along. But then you'll have another one soon.



This is a LOT of ice.



A State Trooper pulls over a pickup on Highway 16 and says to the driver, 'Got any I.D.?' .... And the driver replies 'Bout wut?'

Did you hear about the $3 million Redneck Lottery? ...
The winner gets $3.00 a year for a million years.
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358 - RNW day 2

This is called a Redneck garden but I have actually seen something like this in the city.



And this is just ..... awesome. I wonder what kind of licence you need to drive this thing?




Two reasons why it's so hard to solve a Redneck murder .
1) The DNA is all the same
2) There's no dental records

Who invented the toothbrush?
A Redneck.
If it had been invented by anyone else, it would have been called a teeth brush.