Thursday, May 08, 2003
Are we being Punk'd by the Post?
So they say:Ashton Kutcher corrupted the Bush twins before they came of age.
Yahoo! News - Schools use txt msg to snare truants
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Two Irish schools are testing a new scheme using modern mobile-phone technology to take the temptation out of playing truant.
Under the scheme, a database records the names of absent students each day and automatically sends out a text message to parents notifying them if their child missed roll-call.
Fuk U 2!
Flaming tires explode in bridal store
WILCOX, Pa. -- A number of brides-to-be in northwest Pennsylvania may still be looking for something old, something new and something blue - but something borrowed might be an absolute necessity.
Several hundred bridal gowns were destroyed after flaming tires spun off a passing tractor-trailer and smashed through the wall of the Bauer's Brides and Belles in Wilcox, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
And to think, it could have hit the Dunkin Doughnuts, instead.
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
Wanna talk about news behind the headlines?
We're all familar with the powderpuff saga that happened earlier this week. [If you don't, stop now and scroll down to read the post.] But there's an interesting local connection to Glenbrook North High School...
The school just so happens to be a member of "The Glenbrook High Schools", a division of Northfield Township High School District #225.
The very same school district that happens to employ former a former SACS employee
You may know him better as...Dr. Dave Hales - Superintendent
Hm. Irony strikes again.
Sneezes Reveal Personality
Behavior expert Patti Wood has analyzed the ways people sneeze and says they can be broken down into for different personality types.
For instance, the "Sensitive" sneezer has a friendly personality and is likely to turn their head away from people when they sneeze.
Meanwhile, the "Be Right" sneezer is a "careful and accurate" person who makes one small sneeze and the "Get It Done" sneezer is "fast, decisive and to the point." They also try to control their sneezes by holding them in.
Finally, the "Enthusiastic" sneezer is a charismatic leader who makes a show out of sneezing multiple times -- really loud.
Awchu.
And just wait until they reveal the findings of what snot can tell us!
AFLAC duck to be quieter for Japanese tastes
In its first commercials specifically designed for the island nation, Georgia-based AFLAC has ditched comedian Gilbert Gottfried's familiar voicing of the AFLAC duck in its Japanese commercials in favor of an unnamed Japanese actor whose vocals are a little less -- shall we say -- strident.
"The Japanese culture does not like to be yelled at," said AFLAC spokeswoman Laura Kane. "Gilbert might be a little over the top."
I wouldn't be too sure that the same doesn't hold true for this country....
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Rough 'powder puff' game sends 5 girls to hospital
Whoops.
Five girls--two 16-year-olds, two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old--ended up Sunday at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Glenbrook Hospital, Waszak said. One suffered a broken ankle, and another had to get sutures on her head, he said. All were released Sunday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
A senior girl, who did not want to be named, was not at the game but said it is an annual "initiation" of junior girls involving "a lot of alcohol."
Hmm... what was the cause again?
Parent decides that he's BK all the way...
Last week, his 4-year-old son, Joey, somehow got his head wedged in between the legs of a life-size, grinning fiberglass clown -- the fast-food chain's trademark -- at the Kooser and Blossom Hill roads McDonald's restaurant. The mishap triggered an ordeal that ended when employees finally lathered the 40-pound preschooler's head with liquid soap and slipped him out.
And I should pitty them why?
Monday, May 05, 2003
Time for Prom again.... I got a few date ideas
[warning: content may be visually offensive]
Sunday, May 04, 2003
An update to the pizzaboy rant from last week....
Don't ask me if an all meat pizza has onions on it.
QDB: Browse Quotes
Take a look at this website, featuring all sorts of weird excerpts from online chat/IM sessions.
For instance:
wouldn't it be great if someone made a program where we could connect to a server and chat with each other in channels we create?
With the bare necessities, travelers take off, take it off
What organizers bill as the first nude flight took off from Miami International Airport Saturday, when a group of vacationers headed for Cancún made their privates public.
Look: It even brought the hicks out:
''How exciting. We're making history,'' said New Orleans resident Bob Hannaford, who took the flight with wife Tess. ``This will be really interesting. We once drove across the country in an RV naked. But this tops that.''
Now that is living life on the edge...
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