Sad

The photographer of the saddest picture of "a bird and a childer during war" comitted suicide shortly after.

Baseball cards now worthless.

How baseball cards lost their luster. Good!

Fortune #1

Don't repay a kindness, pass it on.
Lucky numbers 16,27,38,20,5,34
Lean Chinese - Ice Skate = Liu-bing

I now how this story ends

Runaway circus kangaroo on the loose ... cat hurt when he mistakes it for large mouse.

Webisodes of The Office now online

As promised NBC has started offering the webisodes for The Office. As advertised, it shows the accountants ( Angela, Kevin and Oscar) discovering that money is missing from the company account and they are going to find it.

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Virtual entertainment, psychoactive drugs and contraception will do in civilization?

An interesting proposition on Why we haven't met any aliens (yet).

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?