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Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Raccoon with jar stuck on head draws a crowd
3/30/2011
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RONKONKOMA, N.Y. — A New York raccoon found itself in a sticky situation over the weekend.For eight hours on Sunday, the scavenger sat with its head inside a peanut butter jar while perched atop a Long Island utility pole.
The unusual sight brought out dozens of curious residents on a Ronkonkoma street. Children quickly nicknamed him Skippy.
Newsday says Debbie Sullivan spotted the raccoon outside her house at 7 a.m. She called Suffolk police, the town of Islip and the state Department of Environmental Conservation. They all said little could be done.
The raccoon's ordeal finally ended around 3 p.m. when a crew from the Long Island Power Authority came to its rescue. The jar fell off as they used a pole to grab the animal.
Skippy quickly scampered off.
Source: MSNBC
Amazing (and down right unacceptable) Facts
3/16/2011
Slumber Party Barbie of 1965 came with her own “How to Lose Weight” book. One of the tips: “Don’t eat.”
Teams Whose Names Don’t End in ‘S’: Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Utah Jazz, Oklahoma City Thunder (NBA); Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox (MLB); Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning, Minnesota Wild (NHL).
The tall fuzzy hats worn by Britain’s elite infantry regiments (including Buckingham Palace guards) are made of North American black bear fur.
The Beach Boys were the founders of surf rock; however, only Dennis Wilson knew how to surf, and he died of drowning in 1983.
At the 2000 Samsung Open, a furious Goran Ivanisevic smashed three rackets and was forced to withdraw. Why? Because he didn’t have a fourth on hand.
Those few folks who have survived a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge report that it takes about four seconds to hit the water, which is plenty of time to re-think and regret the decision.
Even though he hated their taste, Mel Blanc insisted on chewing real carrots to provide the chomping sounds when he voiced the cartoon character Bugs Bunny.
When the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Dallas Cowboys in sweltering heat in September 2000, many Eagles credited all the ice-cold pickle juice they had guzzled.
Immune to charges of “looking goofy,” basketball player Rick Barry shot his free throws underhanded. The technique was as successful as it was dorky: Barry retired in 1980 with a combined ABA/NBA rate of success of 89.3% at the free-throw line—the best in history.
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Thin Mint Thrashing Lands Woman Behind Bars
2/23/2011
Stay away from Hersha Howard's Thin Mints!The Collier County woman was arrested Sunday after a savage beatdown of her roommate over a box of the delicious Girl Scout cookies that were apparently off limits to her kids, according to naplesnews.com.
The brawl began when the 31-year-old cookie monster confronted her sleeping roommate and accused her of eating the box of treats, police said. The roommate told Howard she'd given the cookies to Howard's kids, who were awake and hungry around 1 a.m.
The roommate offered to pay $10 for the cookies, but Howard wasn't having it, and began fighting with the other woman, police said. The roommate's husband pulled Howard off her so she could escape, but Howard took off after her.
According to a police report, Howard grabbed a pair of scissors and threatened the woman. When the woman started to run down some stairs, Howard allegedly dropped the scissors, picked up a board and hit the woman as she ran down the stairs.
Howard caught up to the woman again and knocked her to the ground and started to hit her. When the roommate managed to get outside the house, Howard grabbed a sign and started hitting her again, police said.
Police finally arrived and arrested Howard, charging her with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
No word on what dessert was served in jail.
Source: MSNBC
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Crate & Barrel's Wooden Spoon Packaging Is Very Efficient
2/12/2011
I recently ordered two wooden spoons, a wooden spatula and a silicone spoon rest from crateandbarrel.com - all in the same transaction. Today I received these two big boxes! One box (10x7x20) held ONE 13.5" spoon. The other box (13x13x7.5) held the other spoon, spatula and spoon rest.It's obvious that all four items could have fit in the big box along with the big spoon. The amount of bubble pack, honeycomb paperpack and tissue paper was unbelievable.
Source: The Consumerist
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Guess who's coming to dinner: a mountain lion
2/09/2011
PALOMAR MOUNTAIN, Calif. — A Southern California family is trying to get over the shock of a would-be weekend dinner guest: a mountain lion that broke through the back door of their rural home apparently in pursuit of a cat.David Robarts of Palomar Mountain, about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, told the North County Times that the mountain lion briefly scared him and his wife, Nancy, and son, Nathan, before escaping.
No one was injured during the brief encounter, said the recently retired state park maintenance worker.
The cougar burst through an unlatched glass patio door at around 10:40 p.m. Sunday, Robarts told the times.
He and his wife were in the living room and his son was upstairs, he said.
"I just jumped off the couch and started yelling at the top of my lungs," he told the Times.
His wife, a fifth-grade teacher who was sitting a few feet away grading papers, also started screaming, he said.
The lion got within 2 feet of Robarts but swiftly ran out of the house, apparently startled by the screaming, the Times reported.
"This has never happened ... and I've lived here for close to 30 years," Robarts told the Times.
Robarts told the Times he did not call authorities because the seconds-long encounter did not threaten the family's safety.
"I think (the mountain lion) was more surprised than I was," he told the Times. "It saw the cat as prey and went after it as food. And as soon as it realized it was in a house, it left immediately."
Kevin Brennan, a state Fish and Game wildlife biologist, told the Times mountain lions reportedly entered Southern California homes twice during the past 19 years.
No one was hurt in either of those incidents, he said.
Robarts and his wife both told the Times they recognized their intruder was a mountain lion. David Robarts served for 32 years as a park maintenance worker for California State Parks before retiring in December 2010. Nancy Robarts has taught an outdoor education camp for sixth-graders in Palomar Mountain for 25 years.
Source: MSNBC
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