Wishfire

I wonder, at first, how often one of them said "To boldly go where no man has gone before!" while using whatever they jury-rigged.

So... could coke users do a line of it an repair their nasal cavities?

"It Won't Be Long" by the Beatles.

and they "confiscated" them so they can eat them while on duty lol...i mean thats what i'd do lol.

You'd eat a piece of junk food that some homeless dude threw at someone else, and then sat on the ground for god-knows how long? Eww.

I want to be a Borg

I want to a former Borg. Then I could be all, like, "Hey, baby, want to see me implants? ...no, no! They're right here, on my face!"

"Poison" by Beborn Beton.

"Midnight Garden" by And Also the Trees.

May 26

1232 - Gregory IX issues the bull Declinante jam mundi, bringing the Papal Inquisition to Spain.

1647 - Alse Young, a widow, is hanged for witchcraft in Hartford, Connecticut. Her daughter Alice is accused of the same offense 30 years later, in Massachusetts.

1868 - In England's last public execution, Michael Barrett is hanged at Newgate. All subsequent hangings are held behind prison walls. Presiding over the event is executioner William Calcraft, who frequently supplements his income by selling the clothes and noose worn by the condemned.

1960 - America's UN Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge charges the Soviets with having bugged the Moscow embassy. He shows off a large wooden carving of the United States seal which had been hollowed out to conceal a sophisticated resonant cavity transmitter. Less than 30 years later a newly-rebuilt Moscow embassy is determined to be "structurally riddled with eavesdropping devices."

1978 - A safety officer at Northwestern University opens a suspicious package which had been delivered to a professor. The object explodes in Terry Marker's hands, making him the first victim of the Unabomber.

1980 - By orders of military dictator Chun Doo Hwan, and with the blessing of the Carter administration, the South Korean government massacres 2,000 pro-democracy protesters in Kwangju city.

1994 - "Price Is Right" host Bob Barker admits to having had an 18-month sexual relationship with former co-host Dian Parkinson. The onetime Playboy model was suing the game show's host and its production company for sexual harassment. Barker denies that the sex had been anything but consensual, claiming that "she volunteered the hanky-panky." Parkinson later drops the suit.

1994 - Dogged by rumors of pedophilia, Michael Jackson weds Lisa Marie Presley in the Dominican Republic. The couple keeps their marriage secret for six weeks, then files for divorce 18 months after that.

I mentioned drones earlier... I mentioned that they can do all the same stuff the unmarked helicopters can. Well, we all have a good idea how big a heli is. Ever see a drone? Here's one...

Are they dropping out? Does that mean I can take over?!

it's part of the job description to be "extremely comfortable with your body" and "able to work in theme costumes, bikini, pasties, and aprons and not much more!!!

Reminds me of a part one of my exes played on stage once... Well, not so much the "and not much more" part, but that's how I pictured her. Hey, a goth chick with double Ds in a French maid costume gets those creative juices... and a few other... flowing.

"Ready to Go" by Republica.

1895 - British playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons," to wit: getting busy with some rent boys. For his crime, Wilde is sentenced to two years of hard labor in Reading jail.

1925 - John T. Scopes is indicted by a grand jury for violating Tennessee's anti-evolution statute, which he claimed to have broken by teaching Darwin's theory of natural selection in a Dayton high school. Later, on July 10th, the "Scopes Monkey Trial" begins.

1979 - Immediately after flight 191 takes off from Chicago's O'Hare Airport, engine number one tears loose from its wing and falls off. A few seconds later, the DC-10 rolls onto its left side and impacts the ground. All 271 aboard the plane are killed in the explosion, along with two bystanders.

1980 - Televangelist Oral Roberts senses an "overwhelming holy presence" and hallucinates a 900-foot-tall Jesus Christ. The deity reaches down and picks up 60-story hospital, bragging to the Oklahoman preacher: "See how easy it is for Me to lift it!"

1985 - 11,000 people are killed in Bangladesh when a cyclone hits the Bay of Bengal. A 10-to-15 foot wall of water surges over the Ganges delta, devastating a wide area and drowning half a million cattle.

1996 - The body of Bradley Nowell is discovered in his room at San Francisco's Ocean View Motel. Nowell, lead singer for radio trio Sublime, was killed by an accidental smack overdose.

2006 - Enron CEO Kenneth Lay is found guilty on six counts of conspiracy.

This is stupid. Why don't they just use drones, like some cities want, which will do everything that this chopper can and cost only a fraction of what they're paying now in fuel and maintenance?

I voted. I think...

Actually, African Greys are probably the mist intelligent of the parrots. My dad had one when I was growing up.

I believe that crows and/or ravens are the smartest. African Greys are close, though.

I don't quite think that that's what GoMH meant...

Well, from a strictly contractual point of view, Wal-Mart promises to provide water and ice if Andre Johnson purchased 750 bicycles. Mr. Johnson then bought less bikes. He didn't meet his end of the bargain, so Wal-Mart wasn't obligated to meet theirs.

From a regular every-day point of view, that's pretty lame.

At Camp Nelson, near to where I was in the mountains over the weekend, it's 80. Back here at home, it's 86, though it feels at least 10 degrees warmer.

I'm going up to the mountains! ( Speaking of which, I'm leaving in an hour or two, so see y'all! )

"Tauschung" by the Crüxshadows.

"Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Slower? It seems to me that it's going a bit faster.

But where did you get the $100 figure from? Is there another article somewhere?

 

$54 is a bit much for shoes the baby will grow out of in a week or two, but I think Kor is right - if the city won't enforce it's own laws then it can hardly get mad at citizens who take the city to task over it.

Those figure come from the article quoted above.

A New York woman has filed a $100 claim against Norwalk

reimburse her for $54 she spent replacing her toddler's ruined shoes and the expenses for parking and aquarium admission on April 5.