New Jersey Man Is Aattacked By Bear Over Salami Sandwich–Yahoo headline, July 4, 2009

July 4th, 2009
What I saw…
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Image: (bear) via myopera.com; (paper hat) esnarf.com; (man) 3.bp.blogspot.com via feeathon.com;  (deli) via paulsfinest.com

Happy Fourth of July!

July 4th, 2009
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Images: (top) via forgottenoh.com; (bottom) Coen Bros. from film Barton Fink via mantisfists.wordpress.com

Hansel & Cindy

June 24th, 2009

St Louis Post Dispatch

Oblivious to children’s hunger.

06/16/2009

State Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O’Fallon, is staking out a strong position on child hunger: She’s for it.

“Hunger can be a positive motivator,” she notes in the latest edition of her newsletter.

More precisely, Ms. Davis is against summer feeding programs for poor kids.

They are an excuse “to create an expansion of a government program,” she says.

Ms. Davis chairs the House Special Standing Committee on Children and Families. In that position, she might be expected to have insight into child hunger in our state.

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The above photographs and text are obvious jokes.

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Images: (house) via you-are-here.com; (Cindy) stltoday.com; (forest) via slowmuse.wordpress.com

Tiny-rannosaurus Rex: Why Dinosaurs May Not Have Been As Big As Hollywood Films Suggest–Daily Mail online headline

June 22nd, 2009
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:34 AM on 22nd June 2009     

Dinosaurs

may not have been as monstrously big as scientists and Hollywood film directors would have us believe.

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I have included the Daily Mail’s headline because its inventiveness  is worth a second look.

Here are a few out-takes of the original rushes from JURASSIC PARK.

They just did not strike the fear which the final cut was able to accomplish.

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Images: (Tonka) via virginialord.files.wordpress.com; (Hot Wheels) via mrmagazine.files.wordpress.com; (stampede) (L’il Rex chasing actor) from Jurassic Park via petsmoviepage.com via modgenesis.hostingdelivered.com; (L’il Rex playing with toys) from Juarassic Park via unrealitymag.com;

Former managers say their leader beat them.

June 22nd, 2009
Scientology: The Truth Rundown,
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By Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, (St Petersburg) Times Staff Writers
In Print: Sunday, June 21, 2009

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[ Luke MacGregor | Reuters/Corbis (2006)]
After L. Ron Hubbard died, David Miscavige became Scientology’s leader.
Former church executives say Miscavige beat his staff. Church officials say the defectors are lying.

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At least Moe thought he had an excuse:

“He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!

Players couldn’t get a drink at the table! What’s the matter with you?”

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Images: (Moe Green in The Godfather) via data-allocine.blogmaniac.fr via bond123-cinema.blogs.allocine.fr; (MTV Bully Beatdown) via laist.com; (Quote) The Godfather via memory and IMDb.com for checking

Calvin Klein ‘Threesome’(?) Billboard In SoHo Too Sexy, Say Some–NEW YORK DAILY NEWS headline

June 21st, 2009
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Calvin Klein billboard in SoHo.
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Could this have been the original concept?
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J. C. Penney catalogue–The Man About Cleveland Collection
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Image: (Penney) via double3.com (Klein) via thegenderbenderblog.files.wordpress.com; (Klein plus)–(ad) images.teamsugar.com via fabsugar.com(Invaders from Mars Jar) via ihousephilly.org;(goat) animals.nationalgeograhic.com; (Beetlejuice characters) via iwatchstuff.com

The real surprise is that someone found a mailbox.

June 21st, 2009

Kitten dropped, discovered in Boston city mailbox
AP

Tue Jun 16, 9:19 pm ET

BOSTON – Officials said a two-pound, eight-week-old kitten was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston and later found unharmed among envelopes and packages. According to the MSPCA Animal Care and Adoption Center, the kitten they’re calling “Postina” likely was stuffed Friday through a small opening of the mailbox and dropped several feet below.

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By the size of the Lucky Strike pack,

Postina must weigh eighty–not eight–pounds.

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Image: (kitten) Associated Press (Luckies) 3.bp.blogspot.com via 4thefirsttime.blogspot.com

Here’s a word from our alternate sponsor.

June 20th, 2009
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Image: (Khamenei) via scrapetv.com(Bowl o’ Grits) farm2.static.flickr.com; (Package) via americansweets.co.uk; (Arabic for Shia) upload.wikipedia.org; (Ozzie and Harriet title screen) uopload.wikipedia.org;

Perception Is As Peception Does.

June 17th, 2009
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Naghshe Jahan Square, Iran, June 16 2009. (via Huffington Post)
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Idiomatic Fightin’ Words…

June 16th, 2009
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Image: (Chinese President Hu) chinadaily.com; (Hugh Beaumont) Leave It To Beaver via dijh.1964.files.wordpress.com; (Red army) chinatoday,com

They forgot to warn against blowing one’s nose with one’s thumb while being interviewed.

June 16th, 2009

Yahoo! HotJobs
On-the-job survival guide

* Avoid disaster with your boss
* How to get noticed at work
* Be a success without a desk
* Dress for summer work success

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Images: (brief case) via comparestoreprices.co.uk; (Xerox) via news.tigerdirect.com; (Bic pens) via freewebs.com; (Weightless photo) via parabolicarc.com; (Blackhawk Down movie) (top& Bottom) via rotaryaction.com; (Sonny Corleone) Paramount The Godfather via farm4.static.flickr.com;(Murdoch) images.businessweek.com;(laptop) via blog.loaz.com;
(Johnson Wax Bldg) via infranetlab.org;(USC Trojan) via usc.polo.com; (1925 accounting office) via officemuseum.com; (harem pants) via toastfairy.wordpress.com; (a/c) via global-b2b-network.com;(Fox floor) via tvweek.com (waste basket) homedepot.ca; (crumpled paper) bravenewtraveler.com;(coffee maker) & (bottle) via chilovending.com; (pocket protector) via i.techpublic.com; (papers) via myteacherpages.com & architecture411.com;  (Viking helmet) via 3.bp.blogspot.com via armorvenuesource.blogspot.com;

Some folks don’t have time to check the mirror before leaving home.

June 16th, 2009
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Image: I believe this is from huffingtonpost.com and it is a news service photo.

Little Miss Muffett…

June 16th, 2009
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Image: (Hue) enjoytravelbietnam.com;(Kurds at r & l) Michael Kamber for The New York Times; (Kurds, center) eldib.files.wordpress.com;

Price: $4,500,000; With Free Pass from Hole-In-One on the 18th–$4,499,999.

June 14th, 2009
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Images: (main house) via yahoo.com; (windmill) via kieslers.com; (golfer) via  blogs.golf.com (flagstick) cfn from a country club(hole and ball) via marketingbestpractices.files.wordpress.com; (bumper cars) funandrehobeth.com; (pool room) via freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com;(exercise room) i13.tinypic.com via menshealth.co,uk; (wine cellar) cfn. (Mad Dog) popdrivel.blogspot.com via billyocean.files.wordpress.com; (Thunderbird) via adins.livejournal.com

Reason #8425 why I avoid purchasing books at garage sales.

June 12th, 2009
The cover is bad enough,
but the author’s photograph on the back flap
really tore it.
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Images: #1–(woman) via a goodyarn.net; (flag-top left) via abytheliberal.com;(flag-bottom center) via library.usu.edu; #2–(main photo) via agoodyarn.net; (swastika) via hinduvoice.co.uk; (Messerschmitt) farm4.staticflickr.com;

We never heard Claudine Longet say masks were needed on Tall ‘Asur.

June 8th, 2009
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Image: (Hamas) via huffingtonpost.com; (2010 Logo) vancouver2010.com via blogger.am.com