E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone.
MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com
MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com
Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com
AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com
One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com
Cardboard Box Flattener
When hitting the sealed bottom of a cardboard box to flatten it, do not punch it with your knuckles like you’re boxing—that will start to hurt real quick. Instead, strike it with the bottom of your fist, as if your hand were a gavel.
Forester
Never walk behind another person in the woods, because yellow jackets build their nests underground. The first person in line will disturb the nest when they walk over it, but it’s the poor suckers trailing behind who catch the wrath of the stirred-up bees.
Nurse
Patients will occasionally pretend to be unconscious. A surefire way to find them out is to pick up their hand, hold it above their face, and let go. If they smack themselves, they’re most likely unconscious; if not, they’re faking.
From Worth1000
This guy is using the new breath easy, Toilet Snorkel, formulated to provide a fresh air source during fires in high rise buildings.
In most fires, it’s the smoke that will get you, and a source of fresh air can be a life saver. So our inventor designed a way to snake a snorkel through the zigs and zags of your toilet, so you can breath sewer air instead of smoke.
About two-thirds of the passengers on the upper deck of Chicago’s Little Lady were doused with a brownish-yellow liquid as the tour boat crossed under the Kinzie Street bridge during an Aug. 8 architectural sightseeing cruise.
Some of the passengers suffered nausea and vomiting after the waste cascaded into their eyes and mouths and soaked their hair and clothing. Five went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for tests.
Luxury coaches like the ones leased by the band are equipped with 80- to 100-gallon waste tanks that are emptied underneath the vehicle by pushing a toggle switch behind the driver’s seat, according to the attorney general’s complaint.
Nancy Todor, an Elmhurst resident whose 43rd birthday was ruined when she got caught in the rain of waste, said a $70,000 fine seemed like an inadequate punishment for the band.
Perhaps, she said, Matthews should perform a concert for the sullied boat customers.
How does this get dumped from the bus on the boat below? Does it overflow off the bridge? Or is there a hose that shoots it up in the air?
So how do they get exact times in the Olympics?
Swimming
Sensors embedded inside the starting block record when a swimmer leaves, and an ultrathin plastic touchpad on the wall under the water can calculate within hundredths of a second when the swimmer lands. The touch pads are specially ridged to ensure the swimmer’s fingertip, not the force of the water the swimmer is displacing, trips the sensor. Cameras that take 100 pictures a second, aimed on the touch pads and starting blocks, back up the touch system.
Volleyball
This year’s newest technology is the beach volleyball radar gun. Timers will use them to clock the speed of spikes and serves. Identical to the radar guns used in tennis, the devices rely on the Doppler effect to determine the speed of the ball. The displacement speed is calculated by comparing the ultrasonic frequencies picked up by the radar and the speed at which the echo is returned.
Marathon
When marathon runners trace the historic steps of Philippides from the coastal city of Marathon to the 1896 ancient Olympic stadium, they will have microchips tied to the laces of their shoes. Every five miles, the runners will pass by an antenna that records their distance and speed.
Track and Field
The cameras used in track and field are the most sensitive. The extremely fast cameras, which take 1,000 images per second, shoot only the first 8 millimeters of the finish line. As the runners cross, the cameras capture their bodies in a series of thousands of minuscule bits, first photographing the tip of the toe, then the finger, then the tip of the nose, with resolution so fine it can pick up the hair on runners’ bodies.
All those thousands of pictures are then electronically pieced together to reproduce a photo finish. That’s why the runners’ bodies look distorted in official finish line recordings — because the picture is not an actual picture but a visual re-creation of matter crossing a point in time.
Celebrating last-place finishes at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Because they’re there, and you’re not. They have to finish: DNFs, DNSes, DQs and NMs don’t count here.
Standings to Date
1. China - 6
2. Greece - 5
3. Kyrgyzstan - 4
4. Switzerland - 4
5. Uzbekistan - 4
A young man drove up in a pickup truck to a Farmington, N.M., Chevrolet dealership Monday, walked in and demanded that he be given a new car, reports the Daily Times of Farmington.
When asked how he planned to pay for the vehicle, the man’s answer was simple: Jesus would finance it for him.
Then he became threatening.
“He said, ‘If you don’t give me the keys to the car, I’m going to drive it [the pickup] through the showroom window,’” said Webb Chevrolet Toyota Finance Officer Bob Bish.
The man, who identified himself as Ray Montano, then walked back out to the gray Ford Ranger truck sitting in the parking lot as employees and customers quickly backed away.
“He said he was going to do it,” salesman Dwayne Carlson told the newspaper.
And do it he did. Montano gunned the engine, jumped the truck over the parking-space block, picked up a little speed and went straight into the front windows, shattering glass and knocking over a chair and a plant.
Fortunately, two feet of wall at the base of the windows stopped the truck with only its nose poking into the showroom.
Then Montano calmly got out of the truck, walked back into the showroom, sat down and read the Bible he was carrying as he waited for police to arrive.
Farmington Police Patrolman Mike Archuleta said Montano was arrested peacefully and would be charged with felony criminal damage.
Since the truck was apparently borrowed, and Montano was carrying no ID, authorities weren’t even sure Ray Montano was his real name.
“Fifty years in the business — I’ve had cars go through windows but never intentionally,” said dealership co-owner Marlo Webb. “He obviously had some emotional and mental problems. Strange things happen.”
Dr. Scout Cloud Lee is one of the 16 contestants on CBS’s Survivor 9: Vanuata.
She’s a Rancher/Entrepreneur from Oklahoma. Lee has survived cancer, bankruptcy, divorce, car wrecks and horse bucks.
Most importantly, she is a graduate from Toccoa Falls College in Toccoa, GA. Other alumni of TFC include my brother and his wife.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor9/survivors/bios/scout.shtml
Survivor starts on Sept. 16.
President Niyazov of Turkmenistan has ordered the construction of a palace made of ice in the heart of his desert country, one of the hottest on earth.
It is the latest in a series of colossal building projects instigated by the all-powerful president that seem to defy the country’s environment.
“Let us build a palace of ice,” said President Niyazov, “big and grand enough for 1,000 people.”
President Niyazov made the announcement in a speech broadcast on Turkmen television, which in effect made it a presidential order.
The idea is to build the palace in the Copa Deg Mountains outside Ashgabat, now baking in the summer heat, with a long cable-car running up from the city.
“Our children can learn to ski,” Mr Niyazov enthused, “we can build cafes there, and restaurants.”
President Niyazov’s extravagant buildings are a hallmark of his idiosyncratic regime.
He is currently building one of the biggest mosques in the world, and has a chain of conventional palaces.
Ice palaces were popular in the Soviet Union, to which Turkmenistan once belonged, but they were built in the freezing cities of the north, far away.
