Some sort of poster you’d get from calling into Tilton’s show I suppose.

Sweet collection of Tilton related photos…

Winner of ‘Hairiest Back at the Ballpark’ will win laser hair removal

WOODBRIDGE, Va. - The Potomac Nationals of the Carolina League are ready to let the fur fly later this month.

The Class-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals will hold its first-ever “Hairiest Back at the Ballpark” contest before their game against Salem on Aug. 25. According to the team’s press release, the winner will receive a complimentary laser hair removal service valued at $2,500.

In addition, there will be a drawing for a complimentary laser removal service worth $1,200 for those fans who do not want to participate in the contest.

From Sharp as a Marble…

Crawford Tx. – Thousands of people gathered today to try to catch a glimpse of a grilled cheese sandwich that supposedly sported the likeness of Mother Sheehan, the Patron Saint of Left Causes. Mrs. Sheehan is grieving her lost son Casey, who was killed in combat after apparently being forced to volunteer for military duty, and currently camping near President Bush’s vacation ranch to protest the war. Mrs. Sheehan was recently bestowed the highest honor the Left can give: Victim.

“There’ve been rumors of Mother Sheehan’s apparition showing up on the sides of insurance buildings and even around leaky cracks beneath over passes, “ said one Chairman of the Democratic National Committee who requested his name be withheld. “But this is the real deal. Mother Sheehan has spoken to us through Parkay, whole wheat and two slices of Kraft Singles. I swear I could almost feel her pain when some of the cheese dripped onto my finger.” The chairman refused to comment on speculations that the resulting burn resembled Howard Cosell.

Since her epic trek to Crawford several weeks ago, Mrs. Sheehan has developed a large, practically religious following. Many members of the Church of Grief held candlelight vigils, praying for another message from this holy warrior. “Even though we hear about her in the news every ten minutes, set up twenty or thirty interviews a day, and relentlessly protect her from the rabid Right Wing Smear Machine, it is important that miracles like seeing her face seared into the side of bread keep us focused on what’s real,” explained Cordelia Codswallow.

“President Bush has no reason to ignore this woman, “ said Petunia Bellweather, a local beautician who said she was there because of her faith in Sheehan and that her attendance had nothing to do with her own radical, anti-war group, Code Pink. “She has asked him a simple question. Bush has answered that question in public speeches, but it’s not the answer Cindy wanted. So she’s braving possible power outages and luke warm sodas from the vending machine to make sure Bush gets the message that until he publicly hangs himself, she just won’t be satisfied.”

The sandwich’s estimated value was rocketing up into the millions due to heavy bidding on eBay, but sadly that came to and end when film maker Michael Moore’s ravenous appetite got the better of him in an interview with the grieving widow.

Calls to Cindy’s PR agency on whether or not the sandwich was actually made on Jewish rye went unanswered.

Complaint from Seat 29E
An actual note written by a Continental Airlines passenger sitting in seat 29E from 12/21/04. Constructs stink sheild for his seat next to bathroom.

World’s Worst Credit Card
Account Set-up Fee: $29.00 (one-time fee), Program Fee: $95.00 (one-time fee), Annual Fee: $48.00, Participation Fee: $72.00 Annually, Additional Card Fee: $20.00 Annually per card. Card is offered by First Premier Bank.

DIY Egg McMuffin
From a company called Back to Basics: Egg and Muffin Toaster. $49.99 at retailers in September.

So where did all the big bills go?

Today, the currency of the United States, the U.S. dollar, is printed in bills in denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100.

At one time, however, it also included five larger denominations. High-denomination currency was prevalent from the very beginning of U.S. Government issue (1861). $500, $1,000, and $5,000 interest bearing notes were issued in 1861, and $10,000 gold certificates arrived in 1865.

- $500 bill: featured a portrait of William McKinley
- $1,000 bill: featured a portrait of Grover Cleveland
- $5,000 bill: featured a portrait of James Madison
- $10,000 bill: featured a portrait of Salmon P. Chase
- $100,000 bill: featured a portrait of Woodrow Wilson

Printing of other high-denomination bills was discontinued in 1946, but continued to circulate until 1969, when they were officially withdrawn.

Circulation of high-denomination bills was halted in 1969 by executive order of President Richard Nixon, in an effort to combat organized crime.

Source: Wikipedia

A Liger Named Patrick

Maryann Mott
for National Geographic News
August 5, 2005

It’s half lion, half tiger, and completely real. Now thanks to a cameo in the 2004 cult movie Napoleon Dynamite, the liger has leaped into the limelight, prompting fans to ask, What are they really like?

The faintly striped, shaggy-maned creatures are the offspring of male lions and female tigers, which gives them the ability to both roar like lions and chuff like tigers—a supposedly affectionate sound that falls somewhere between a purr and a raspberry.

Weighing in at about a thousand pounds (450 kilograms) each, they typically devour 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of raw meat in a meal.

“For the most part they’re really laid back,” said Jason Hutcherson, vice president of Wild Animal Safari in Pine Mountain, Georgia. “They like to swim and play in the water.”

The drive-through wildlife park is believed to have the country’s largest concentration of ligers, housing ten of the massive cats.

Since 1999 the park has bred its male lion and female tiger many times, producing about 24 cubs.

Not all of them have been healthy, though.

“We’ve had 3 out of 24 that, for all practical purposes, were normal but developed as they grew older some kind of neurological disorder,” Hutcherson said.

Continue Reading about ligers…

National Geographic Photo Gallery

No doubt, someone received some inspiration from Jesus Swimming.com

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Remember the illiterate Alabama auto worker story?See July 12 post for original story

Here’s more about the Canadian who made the statements…

Some story appearantly ran in the NY Times…and here’s where it goes…

Donald Luskin, contributing editor at National Review, contacted the New York Times about the Krugman column. Luskin told Business Alabama that Byron Calame, the public editor of the Times, was sufficiently concerned about Krugman’s column to discuss it with Gail Collins, editorial board chief at the paper.

From NationalReview.com

“Paul Krugman, America’s most dangerous liberal pundit, has his own little Rather-gate on his hands. In his New York Times column on Monday, Krugman wrote about Toyota’s decision to locate a new automobile plant in Ontario, Canada, rather than in Alabama. According to Krugman, workers in the South are too unskilled to build cars, because taxes aren’t high enough to throw more money at education. And according to Krugman, we need socialized health care like they have in Canada so that employers won’t have to bear those costs themselves.”

Krugman never mentions the fact that there are other foreign auto manufacturers already operating successfully in Alabama (I just bought a new Mercedes Benz SUV made there, and I can tell you it’s a far finer car than the German-made lemon that it replaced). And Krugman never mentions the fact that Toyota itself is building a new plant in Texas.

What Krugman does mention, instead, is a hateful statement from Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association in Toronto. Krugman writes that Feldchen

claimed that the educational level in the Southern United States was so low that trainers for Japanese plants in Alabama had to use “pictorials” to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech equipment.

But Fedchen never actually said those things, and Krugman should have known it. Fedchen denied that he made such statements, in the strongest possible terms, in a letter to the editor published in Alabama’s Birmingham News on July 15, ten days before Krugman’s column was published. Fedchen wrote,

I never used the word “illiterate,” nor would I. I have been in this industry a long time. The use of diagrams and illustrations is common. I was horrified that my remarks were reported as they were.

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Partial list of ingredients added to tobacco of Philip Morris cigarettes manufactured for sale in the United Kingdom:
Complete list

-cardamom seed oil
-carob bean
-celery seed oil
-citric acid
-cocoa and cocoa products
-coffee extract
-dill oil
-licorice extract
-maple syrup
-oakmoss absolute
-peppermint oil
-prune juice concentrate
-rum
-vanilla extract

Note: I love the peppermint addition…it must help with the smokers breath and the prune juice…I never knew that smoking made you regular. Of course you’d have to smoke a lot to get enough prune juice out but it might be worth it.