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Archive For The Month: April, 2009Fun fact for the day…
In Arizona, there are two different classifications of stripper.
If you are under 21, you can “perform” in full nudity as long as alcohol is not served.
If you are over 21, you can only “perform” in partial nudity (covering the southern girl parts) in a place where alcohol is served.
Source: Confidential, but no- I am NOT in the market for a career change…
Because you are all avid readers of the Something New Every Day blog, you are all aware of what symptoms indicate the flu. If not, familiarize yourself with the chart here.
Well, today, Joe Biden was on The Today Show and told people that he’s recommended to his friends and family that they stay off the Subway and well… read for yourself:
I would tell members of my family, and I have, that I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, if I had another way, another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.
In what has become a regular occurrence, WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sought to “clarify” what the VP really meant to say. But he went on to clarify by misstating flu symptoms. “Coughing, Sneezing and Runny Nose” are not typical flu symptoms. Those would indicate the common cold.
Maybe we can get Gibbs to clarify his clarification.
The final word (Tom Maguire via Hot Air): They told me that if I voted for McCain we’d have a Vice President who was a moron… and they were right!
Doris Day, or Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff, if you will, was an American actress and singer who was active between the 1940s and the 1970s. She appeared in about 40 films and has recorded over 600 songs. She also had a TV show (more on that later).
Unlike Ms. Bardot from the previous post, Ms. Day cultivated a more wholesome image, at one time being labeled “the world’s oldest virgin” in a nod to her more traditional roles. (She turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson on moral grounds.)
In 1968 her third husband died and Day discovered that she was broke. Her husband and manager had lost all of her money. She sued the manager and eventually won a $22 million settlement.
(Incidentally, there is evidence that her ex’s involvment with Christian Science may have contributed to his death, as he failed to seek medical care.)
But the fact that her husband had lost all of her money was not the only surprise she got when he died- he had also signed a contract for her to work on a TV show without her knowledge or consent.
Since she was under contract, she went to work on the show, which ultimately lasted 5 years. After the show ended she mostly retired from acting. She made one last foray into the music business in the 1990s.
Some Doris Day Pics:
Source: wiki
Brigitte Bardot was a French actress and singer from 1952-1973. She starred in 48 films and recorded 80 songs during that period.
In 1973, just before her 40th birthday, she retired from the entertainment industry and became an activist.
She has been convicted 5 times in France for “inciting racial hatred” for her strong stance against what she calls The Islamicization of France. Her most recent conviction was in 2008.
Some Bardot Pictures… 2 from her entertainment days, and one from the activism days. I think you’ll be able to tell which are which.
Source: wiki
By finally, I of course mean that this came out in 2003 and I just read about it today.
It’s a “brain itch:”
“Certain songs have properties that are analogous to histamines that make our brain itch.“The only way to scratch a cognitive itch is to repeat the offending melody in our minds.”
If misery loves company, then feel good about the fact that having a song stuck in your head affects 97-99% of the population. Musicians get it more than others, however.
And it can affect people to different degrees. Mozart, for example, had an extreme case:
Mozart’s children would “infuriate” him by playing melody and scales on the piano below his room – but stopping before completing the tune.“He would have to rush down and complete the scale because he couldn’t bear to listen to an unresolved scale,” Mr Smith related.
As for how to get it to stop… you really can’t.
However, like hiccups, some people prescribe remedies anyway.
Some people swear by the “replacement method” where you try to get a less annoying song stuck up there, while others, like Mozart, favor the “completion method” where hearing the completed tune solves the problem.
As for me, I try to figure out who let those dogs out. That always seems to work.
Source: BBC
Nancy Pelosi’s take on the Arlen Specter debacle:
“Very exciting, very exciting for the American people, because now we can get things done without explaining process,” Pelosi told CNN’s Candy Crowley.
Don’t you hate it when those annoying constituents get in the way of governing? How annoying for her to have to “explain process” to us little people.
Since we moved to AZ we’ve been blasted with these commercials for kudzu.com. I went there once and found the experience akin to navigating Craigslist. I quickly left.
Turns out kudzu is a plant- a vine, actually. And a rather ferocious one, at that. The vine can grow up to one foot per day in the summer, and up to 60 feet per year.
It is originally from Japan, and was imported into the US in 1876. However, none of the plant’s natural predators were imported with it.
During the great depression the US government advocated using kudzu for erosion control projects. Because the south-eastern US provides the perfect climate, efforts were focused there. Since then the plant has virtually devoured the south.
The plants grow so fast that they can strangle forests. They also interfere with roads and highways. And they are impervious to herbicides. Some herbicides actually make it grow faster.
Where once farmers were paid to plant it, now teams of government employees work to eradicate it.
But in true American fashion (and I mean that in a good way), some people have figured out how to profit from it. Kudzu can be used to make baskets, jelly, syrup, paper, and animal feed. And since it’s a weed, the raw materials are free.
Source: Passing mention on The History Channel’s Life After People, where they noted that without people around kudzu would basically take over the South. Then this site for details.
I bet after all that she wishes she paid $5 more and went to the Target across the street.
Yep, Wal-Mart gives you low prices, but it’s still Wal-Mart.
Source: Click Orlando
Intensely High Solar Activity + Huge Hole in Magnetic Shield + Mayan Prophecy = End of the World as we know it.
The money quote:
Wired.com: Do you live your life differently now?Joseph: I’ve been following this topic for almost five years. It wasn’t until the report came out that it began to freak me out.
To boil it down, solar activity will short out the electric grid, causing $2 Trillion in damages in 1 year and taking 4-10 years to recover.
You see, we’ve been unwittingly building a giant geomagnetic antenna in our power grid, and that will make things worse.
It won’t be too bad. I mean, it’s not like we use electricity for too much, right?
Source: Wired
Edgar D. Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, feels that it is time for the US Government to finally release all the information they have on visits from Space Aliens.
Mitchell belongs to the Paradigm Research Group, which has given the Obama administration until May to release all classified documents relating to Alien encounters, or else they will “make it as difficult on them as possible” by releasing their own documents to the media.
But don’t think of that as a threat. As the founder of the PRG says “you don’t threaten the United States government, they’re heavily armed …“
I think in an new era of hope and change, the government should release the documents. I mean, we’re already releasing CIA memos- what possible damage could Alien memos do?
(Here’s hoping that President Pantywaist addresses this in his weekly prime time television address.)
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