Funny things people sent me

Hillary for president in 2008!
Fruitcakelady - telling it like it is.

Flickr set of Smokey Mountain

A must see Flickr set by user Stung Meanchey of The garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, also known as Smokey Mountain. They are beautiful and breath taking pictures of horrible and heartbreaking scenes.

I could so see this happening to me.

"Just an accident," says man who fell into museum vases.

As a Schleprock myself I think it is kind of harsh to ban him from the museum.

Thumbs up or down for....

Need some help. Thumbs up or thumbs down on the movie "Three o'clock High". Please leave a comment with your vote.

Now if they could just make green eggs....

Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs.

Monkey madness

Can a marauding colony of glue-sniffing monkeys be rehabilitated? I just wish there were pictures with the article.

It's been awhile since I posed so I thought I should put something up. Here are some links that I found interesting today -

Mummified body found in front of TV - you can't make that kind of stuff up.

Cyclops kitten lives one day - it is an AP photo so it has to be genuine, right? It's not like some photoshop job off of Fark or Worth100.

Want to order some Smallpox or 1919 Flu? - the downside of mapping the genome.

The A-Team?

How does the A-Team make a list of most missed TV series?

MOST MISSED TV SERIES

1. Star Trek

2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

3. Friends

4. Fawlty Towers

5. Blake's 7

6. The X-Files

7. Babylon 5

8. Stargate

9. Seinfeld

10. The A-Team

Source: Home Media Networks

If the levee hadn't failed?

During questioning from a House committee investigating the response to Hurricane Katrina Louisiana governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said, "There are always people who believe they are tougher than storms. And you know what, they were right, If the levee hadn't failed, they wouldn't have been in any trouble." If the levee hadn't failed? Is she serious? Shouldn't they have taken that into account when they decided to stay?

Could this be better than a giant eel movie?

What about a giant jellyfish movie?

Boy left at movies - mom says "I'm not coming ...to pick him up,"

How do you forget your 11 year old at the movies and then when called at 2:17am tell the police, "I'm not coming all the way back there just to pick him up?"

As if eating all the bird food wasn't bad enough...

I used to think my old neighbor had gone overboard when he electrified his bird feeder to keep the squirrels away. After hearing reading about a Russian squirrel pack that killed a dog I'm not so sure.

This is officer Mike, can you get naked and jump up and down?

It amazes me that there are so many people who will do whatever someone on the phone says just because they say they are a cop.

Falling manaquin

Why do I find this so interesting?

If you were wondering what to get me for Christmas.

Here are some links for some swim wear and undergarments I'd like to receive for Christmas -

Banana hammock
Mint posing suit
Trio cut-out suit

Would anyone come over to use the pool if I was sporting any of those?

This one only Jody would be [un]lucky enough to see me in.

What young kids do in Oklahoma.

I'm thinking about the "Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show" for my next family vacation.

Just in time for the holidays.

Just what you need to celebrate Christmas, a Holiday Darth Vader action figure. I'm waiting for the Michael Myers tree decoration or the Sauron nativity figure. Nothing says Christmas like evil movie characters.

Free access to newspaper archives

Have you ever searched for a article or some information on either the Boston Globe or the Boston Herald only to find it and then realize that they want $2.95 and $3.95 to get the full text of the article? If you have a valid Massachusetts library card you can get it for free. The Massachusetts Board of Library commissioners page has access to both the Herald and Globe as well as the The Republican (Springfield) and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

Best looking and dressed revolutionary

I didn't know the Hungarians had such good looking freedom fighters. If you have the time this 1960 propaganda comic is a pretty interesting read. Here is the description from the web page -

"Treasure Chest was a monthly comic book published by the Catholic Guild from 1946 to 1972. Each issue featured several different stories intended to inspire citizenship, morality, and patriotism. In the 1961, volume 17 number 2 issue, the story "This Godless Communism" began. It continued in the even numbered issues through number 20. The entire story is presented here."

If you don't have time to read the whole thing do check out the the drawing of Nikita Khrushchev. He might not have been a good looking man but if you only saw this you would think he was part wild boar.

What happens when you're a grump