Weird News

[J. T./Jessica]

Fine, here's the second. But no more just yet!

Kim - excuse me, at the time she was still just Kimberly, the biggest pain in my neck that I knew - was none of the above. I was a confusing case, I was smart, worked in the school library in my free periods, and yet I still managed to get along with most of the different types of students. Kimberly was one of the few who I didn't get along with and unfortunately for us both, we were both student librarians and that meant we had to deal with each other on a near-daily basis.

[J. T./Jessica]

NEWS FLASH!

Reader's Digest recommends sex as weight loss tool.

"50. Make whoopee Instead of a bowl of ice cream as a bedtime snack, have a robust tussle with your spouse. Burns 300 (calories)"

("50 Habits of 'Naturally Thin' People", Reader's Digest, Jan. 06, p. 99)

(I did have it in quote tags, but the quote tags cancelled out the bold tags. - J.T.)

[Enigma!]

... Yet another reason why Amanda and I MUST be together. I can lose weight!

[Enigma!]

From "Quick Takes" by Zay N. Smith, The Chicago Sun-Times Thursday,Dec. 22, 2005)

News Item: "A Santa attacked by a gang of thugs fought back with a Christmas tree."

Ho, ho, ho!


From the QT Archive of Knowledge:

*Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of children, pawnbrokers and thieves.

*It takes the average American six months to pay off holiday credit-card bills.

Ho, ho, ho!

[JP Gibb]

NAPEAGUE, New York (AP) -- A boat captain who sent a message out to sea in a bottle
says he received a reply from Britain -- accusing him of littering.
"I kind of felt like no good deed goes unpunished," Harvey Bennett, 55, told the East Hampton Star.
The plastic bottle was one of five that Bennett placed in the ocean off New York's Long Island in
August.
Last month, he excitedly opened a letter from England, and was stunned by the reply:
"I recently found your bottle while taking a scenic walk on the beach by Poole Harbour. While you may
consider this some profound experiment on the path and speed" of "oceanic currents, I have another
name for it, litter.
"You Americans don't seem to be happy unless you are mucking about somewhere," says the letter,
signed by Henry Biggelsworth of Bournemouth, in the southern county of Dorset.

[J. T./Jessica]

That's why the two times America and England fought they lost (and why we had to help them out in both World Wars); we have the better sense of humor.

[Enigma!]

I wouldn't say we have a better sense of humor, but we have more of it.

[J. T./Jessica]

That reminds me of a quote...

"You can't say Americans are not more violent than other people."
"No."
"All those people killed in shootings in America?"
"Oh, shootings, yes. But that doesn't mean Americans are more violent than other people. We're just better shots."
- Fred, "Barcelona"

[JP Gibb]

turbomagnus said:

That's why the two times America and England fought they lost (and why we had to help them out in both World Wars); we have the better sense of humor.

It's not even about sense of humor. Why would you send a letter like like that? I thought reaching out to the rest of the world was a good thing?

I mean, what's wrong with just saying: "Hi, I found your bottle. Have you heard from anyone else?" That sort of thing.

They even mentioned that the ancestors of the guy sending the bottle left from the same area where the jackass... er, gentleman, found the bottle. Why do people always have to bring geopolitics into things they don't belong in?

Can't we all just get along?

[Enigma!]

Clearly not, Gibb.

[J. T./Jessica]

Sure we can.

We can all settle our differences, find peaceful solutions to all our problems, and never have to fight again. In fact, the world as a whole can disband its military forces...

Then, about next Tuesday, someone who'd otherwise be a penny-ante wannabe will rise up, form an army, and grind us all into the dust beneath their heel.

I see it simply that, as long as people are fighting, they still believe there are things worth fighting for. When they forget that, or don't care anymore, and stop fighting, then pretty soon there's nothing left of that breed that "ain't gonna study war no more".


But that's just my own personal opinion, and I'm no political major.

[JP Gibb]

Hey J.T., check this out:

www.hlj.com/product/tak66906

[J. T./Jessica]

*Shrugs*

Your point being?

It might surprise you, Gibb, but technically that's Pepsi Convoy (Convoy is the Japanese name for Optimus Prime) version TWO. The original one was released... I'm not exactly sure how long ago. The only real difference? The original Pepsi Convoy's trailer was Optimus Prime/Convoy's trailer repainted to look like the trailer from a Pepsi delivery truck and this one's seems to be able to carry Pepsi.

[JP Gibb]

Saw it and thought I'd share; I was thinking it was more like the version you were talking about when I read it the first time though.

[J. T./Jessica]

Ah, France, land of my grandfather...

Thank God he got out when he did, because this is rediculous, they're being raised to be killed, it's not like someone's gonna buy them as pets. There's a difference between caring about animals and being an idiot...

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