From the Newspaper
Not any newspaper but The Gray Lady herself, the NY Times, touted for their staid demeanor, and lack of sensationalism or hyperbole.
This is so wrong it should be illegal. I pity the salesmen who have to deal with the idiots.
Never mind the obfuscation, chicanery and snake oil, there's a misplaced apostrophe in 'Sentra's'. :eek:
I are confused.
So I walk out the door with a '91 Sentra for $4190? Or is it $8,380? Or $2095?
I are confused.
So I walk out the door with a '91 Sentra for $4190? Or is it $8,380? Or $2095?
$8,380. The price quoted in the advert is $4190 and that price is ½ the price you pay.
I think.....
E&OE. ;)
"All New" 1991 Sentra? I need one of those RIGHT NOW, and by right now I mean 25 years ago!
$8,380. The price quoted in the advert is $4190 and that price is ½ the price you pay.
I think.....
E&OE. ;)
Exactly. :thumb:
Oh, they would get a brick through their nice plate glass window.
I wonder if it was an April 1st ad?
I'd walk out with a car for $1.00 because the "price I see" is .50. The ad doesn't say "the price printed here." They can't tell me what I see.
New Jersey is a big state, but when just one man decided to move away, the state legislature’s budget office director warned that the loss of that man’s taxes might lead to state revenue problems. Billionaire hedge-fund manager David Tepper evidently pays a bundle, and the budget office director pointed out that the state’s reliance on personal income taxes means that even a 1 percent drop in anticipated tax could create a gap of $140 million over forecasts.
linkMaybe immigration fucked it up and he wanted to correct it but was afraid to open that can of worms before he was a citizen. Or he wanted to sound more Jewish. :haha:
Actually there were more people involved, including some husbands, but the woman with the rifle alerted the hood by firing 5 shots. They had complained about these perps to the police, and were
told to get better armed.
Wow, this guy sure is picky. :lol2:
hahahahaha. I'm guessing they've had some interesting employees in the past.
That is me, but with a different phone number.
You could have your personal assistant take it for grooming and walkies.
"rent a permanent head of hair"
The hair in permanent, but if Big Tony don't get his rent, you're head might not be.
The first post prohibition load of beer in Chicago...
1971 Physiologist babble-speak. :rolleyes:
Sometimes ya gotta look at the big picture. :facepalm:
Sad the newspapers are disappearing, they were the place to find serious reporting of important news...
In the same vein as posts #23, #24, and #25, I give you my humble submission from the Bowling Green Daily News:
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Man, I hate when that happens...at first.:D
hahahaha!
dumb bunny. it's supposed to go
up the nose, not up the butt.
Today the Seattle Police Department, together with The Marah Project and the University of Washington announced an initiative equipping bike officers with Nasal Naloxone (also known as Narcan) in an effort to decrease deaths from opiate overdoses. This program updates dispatch protocols and allows bike officers in the East, West and North precincts to administer Narcan reversing the effects of a heroin or pharmaceutical opioid overdose.
Under the new policy, 60 bike officers will be trained to administer Narcan on scene for a six to eight month initiative. Upon use, officers will monitor the subject until the Seattle Fire Department (SFD) arrives and inform SFD of the Narcan application. The SPD joins a number of departments across the country issuing Narcan.
since that announcement in march of last year, spd officers have saved the lives of eight OD victims. Nice.
Oh Noes, not Scotland! Greater danger than TV! 1958
Ford doing some post-war chest beating about the planes they built...
In 1948 three Brit scientists test wild bird eggs the people could eat in case there was another war...
His eggs?!
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HIS?!?!
I think I might know why the taste was off...:yelsick:
That's correctly-written English, up until about 30 years ago... the other languages decided to give half the nouns to the feminine gender in order to make peace early
but that didn't work out, as anyone knows who has tried to learn one of those languages
it says here the French word for vagina is le vagin... "le", means it's masculine
nice work, french people... the spanish got it right "la vagina"... the germans got it right "die vagina"... well except for the unfortunate english meaning of "die"...
That's "long live vagina".
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I hear the forum has chartered a tour bus to Atlantic City for the half price hooker sale. Who is going?
tarheel
Bah, I'm taking my truck in case I want to bring some home. ;)
Hell yes, I'd run away. My discriminatory instincts say that a white guy who looks like that is reasonably likely to be off his meds and have an arsenal in the car.
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Wow ... That 2nd one is a killer.
Saint Louis 1902... Obviously she didn't poke him in the nuts with that broom.
Man a foot taller than she.
Was stylishly dressed and used no offensive language.
I love that. What a fantastic description
I love that. What a fantastic description
Sounds like a scene from a Cary Grant movie
These people from NY and NJ are dumb.
Not like the geniuses in PA.
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Not from a paper but surely belongs here.
I think the disorderly conduct kind of puts the screws to her.
I think the disorderly conduct kind of puts the screws to her.
Yep. Cops are willing to look the other way a lot of the time if you aren't causing a problem. Don't attract attention unless you know you are kosher.
Don't attract attention.
FIFY.
To be fair, sometimes cops add on other things to justify wonky citations.
fuuuck. just.. wtf.
people, I tell ya.
I've been involved with enough churches that are stretched so thin and trying to do so much that I can totally see how this happened. Many churches are dying in this country, but still feel like they are supposed to do all the stuff that they always did. You have the same small number of active members who are willing to help out on something, but when the reality of making 200 sandwiches sinks in and passing the plate yet again to pay for them, and then the people who show up don't even say thank you and expect that you serve them and give them more. The volunteers are human and are like "fuck this shit."
You need a better spokesperson though to talk to the press and explain that it's a resource issue. The church doesn't have the resources to continue doing this, but is going to continue to collect food to pass along to the food bank. The pastor was probably on sabbatical, and Alrene, who normally leads these things was getting her foot amputated because the diabetes was progressing. She would have known what to say.
[And re-reading the article, I was clearly wrong about the pastor being away, since she is quoted at the start of the article. but the quote at the end of the article is somebody who wasn't even there. It was just some weigh in quote the reporter used to get the story to go in the direction they wanted.]
A lot of the people who go to church today are not there to worship God, it's become a social occasion, a place to see and be seen.
But it was always that way, the church(s) was the center of social life, and attending Sunday was the dues.
You need a better spokesperson though to talk to the press and explain that it's a resource issue.
That wouldn't have been better wording, it would have been a completely different reason than the one the pastor gave. I'm all for giving the benefit of the doubt, but in this case you would have to do so by including facts not present in the article.
The pastor herself said:
It was to prevent poor people from hanging out near the church
The congregation didn't like that
Their church is not oriented towards social service
Another "benefit of the doubt" can be applied to the "made the decision ... after receiving an email"; Just because it was "after" doesn't mean "because", and we don't know the context in which the existence of the email was revealed to the reporter.
But the email is a pretty bog-standard "poor people are lazy moochers". Whether it says anything about the Winnipeg church or not, it doesn't reflect well on the one in Victoria.
St Louis news headline...
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But when you get into the story it was voted in a reader's poll, "The best free attraction"
Yes there's a difference.
But it was always that way, the church(s) was the center of social life, and attending Sunday was the dues.
Not the churches I attended.
The journalist's headline and opening sentence are not at all what the church representatives said. They made a distinction between people they could help, and people who needed more than food. They used the phrase "street people," which was not the greatest euphemism, but to me that says the mentally ill, the drug addicts, the people who start yelling when you don't give them a second sandwich because then someone else won't get one. Poverty comes with social ills, and this little church was naive about that when they started the program. Let's ask UT if he'd like to start a free food stand outside the pawn shop, eh?
Not the churches I attended.
You're contemporary, I'm talking about from 1566 to WW II, before Radio, before TV, Before motion pictures reached the sticks. There were two forms of entertainment, bars and churches. Married men could sometimes do both, but usually had to do the bar on the sly. What do you think your folks and grandfolks did in their courting days? Out in the sparsely settled areas the church is still a social center.
What do you think your folks and grandfolks did in their courting days?
They attended square dances. That's how mine met.:jig:
...and beat them with their own limbs.
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I read about an exhibit at some early zoo where they put too many monkeys on an "island" and they killed each other. They are very territorial.
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Newspapers used to be so much more fun...
Found a cool
background article on that case.
I remember this weekend very well. Friday evening two classmates and myself were driving from school in Boston to my folks for the weekend. We heard on the radio about the Alaska quake which concerned me because of family in Anchorage. Then over the weekend we had access to TV, which was a treat we didn't have in the dorm, and saw bits about the Mods and Rockers fighting in England. But it wasn't until I saw the pictures in Life Magazine I realized the scope of this battle.
"The entire population of Seaside is driven mad trying to fold/unfold beach chairs. Pandemonium erupts. Some flee. Some attack fellow beach goers. Beach chairs attack indiscriminately. Chaos ensues."
I, on the other hand, learned about it from
Quadrophenia.
I saw Quadrophenia live, up close and in person. It sucked. Not the Who's fault, but the guy in charge setting up the sound system in the Spectrum, Brownie. I told him to his face one night when he was here. He was pissed but he needed me because more bands were coming including what would be his big customer Aerosmith.
I guess it's an ad but a damn clever one.
Found a cool background article on that case.
Fascinating.
...so they took turns to suck out the venom from the wound...
Uh-huh, yeah, sure, done that lots of times, no telling how many women's lives I've saved that way...:rolleyes:
That's fish tacos on the beach right there!
Notice that,
at no time, did the victim's friends say anything like "The doctor says you gonna die.":eaty:
And they took turns.:jig:
well, maybe just a *little*.
But they nobly put their personal feelings aside to help their friend. Despite there being no venom, it still took her mind off the vicious attack. True friends.
well, maybe just a *little*.
Heh..."Well, maybe just this once."
Made me think of a Kid Rock lyric, from '
Rock 'n' Roll':
♪ ♫Youve never done this before♪ ♫
♪ ♫But you feel like tryin♪ ♫
♪ ♫Ive done this plenty of times♪ ♫
♪ ♫And I know your lyin♪ ♫Psssst, wanna buy a house... delivered. ;)
I love shit like that.
I mean, you know, when it happens to other people.
When does the riot start?
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Don't spare the rod on him...
"For himself and a friend"...
German newspaper prints two double pages of Christmas wrapping paper.
That's kinda cool.
I've used the comics section before, when I had one more gift to wrap.
Must have been the alcohol...
Alcohol?? Have you never heard an accordion in an enclosed space????
It is said that a gentleman is a man who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
Evidently the accused was not a gentleman. :eek:
Do you know the difference between an accordion and a trampoline?
You take your boots off to jump on a trampoline.
I like this thread's opinion of accordions.
And I really like V's joke.
I like this thread's opinion of accordions.
And I really like V's joke.
Back in the 1980s in the Bay Area, there was a bus ad campaign paid for by KFOG radio (classic rock). One of the bus banners read, "Use an accordion. Go to jail."
:D
"No, but it's been fucked in twice at every KOA in the 48 states!!!"
One two three fou... wait, one two three fo... no, one two three????
Well, Chris had three brothers, and Demo had three brothers, and .....
Well, you get the picture. :)
One two three fou... wait, one two three fo... no, one two three????
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Nashville NC page101. Google Books
So Chris was the runt of the litter. ;)
Or he had better self control.;)
WTF, isn't there some kind of law against cooking guide dogs?
WTF, isn't there some kind of law against cooking guide dogs?
What did you
think they did with old, blind, deaf guide dogs? Send them upstate to arthritically stumble through fields and chase bunnies they can't see?
:rolleyes:
I though a decent burial if not a bronze likeness in the park.
WTF, isn't there some kind of law against cooking guide dogs?
If there is, I'm sure their owners haven't seen it.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:lol2:
Outstanding.
I can see how that might happen, I believe him.:yesnod:
I can see how that might happen, I believe him.:yesnod:
Former Brisbane Freemason Glenn Langford apologises after being found naked in broken pipe organ, surrounded by cheeseburgers.
A former Brisbane Freemason has apologised after allegedly being found naked inside a damaged historic pipe organ, surrounded by the remnants of a cheeseburger, in the the city’s Masonic Memorial Centre.
Glenn Langford allegedly broke into the heritage-listed building and flooded it on Wednesday night and was found alongside the burger, a remote-controlled police car and a toy gun.
He told 7 News he was sorry for any damage he had caused - to the pipe organ and the reputation of the Freemasons.
The Freemasons have since told 7 News that Mr Langford is no longer a member.
“Things just got a little bit loose - I can’t explain it at the moment,” Mr Langford said.
“I apologise to all the righteous Freemasons everywhere. I did have a lot of cheeseburgers to give to the homeless.
“I was out of it. I’m going to see a shrink and I won’t drink. But I might try to give out some more cheeseburgers to the homeless.”
Mr Langford said he hoped the organ - reportedly worth millions of dollars and insured - would emerge unscathed from the ordeal.
But he’s unable to return within 100 metres of the centre as a condition of his bail and a caretaker told 7 News they believed the damage could not be repaired.
“Hopefully it’s not that damaged and I am sincerely sorry,” he told 7 News.
According to 7 News, Mr Langford’s lawyer told court he had downed a bottle of Johnny Walker and had been drinking heavily after losing his job and the break-up of his relationship.
The West Australian.
There's an on the hoof video interview with Mr Langford in the above link.
He seems genuinely contrite and embarrassed, although who wouldn't be?
The embarrassed bit, I mean. :)
That link has other interesting stories, like "French ice dancer suffers wardrobe malfunction", and "Man’s five wheelbarrows of copper coins to pay tax bill". :haha:
I like the one with the snow plow train and the xl chicken egg in Queensland.
Sell the Saturday Evening Post and you can have a trained pony and cart... in your apartment.
'Posed to say 'roles'...
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I think I woulda liked Sybil.
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I think I woulda liked Sybil.
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That pic on the right is Melissa McCarthy!
Good Boy, he's a good boy...
I guess not everybody likes hot pussy, then?
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Sigh...
These are my people.:facepalm:
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I bet they wonder why the dog never comes when called...
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But I found the 7-11 clerk’s statement most interesting.
From WHDH-TV
A “visibly shaken” store clerk, with tears in her eyes, told officers that she was “horrified” at the sight of Walsh’s exposed genitals as he approached the register “with a smile on his face,” police said.
“It’s not funny at all. In fact, it’s very scary when you have someone come in, completely naked in the middle of the day,” said the 7-Eleven employee, who did not want to be identified. “He was extremely comfortable in the store, handed me the Coke, and smiled, never said anything. It’s absolutely the worst thing that ever occurred in my life. I really think this man should have to register as a sex offender. What he did is horrible. What his girlfriend did was horrible, and she should be charged as well.”
Sounds over the top to me, and she's possibly too young to be on the register at 7-11.
Maybe when she told friends about it they laughed, so she ramped it up for the TV interview.
Not to self: 60 year old guys with a 29 year old girlfriend, and a black Mercedes, is a recipe for trouble.
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