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Where did the expression "Boobies" come from and why all the interest in this word?
OHH MY GOD! Santa Claus I would like but no ps3, but your b******! Thumbs up if you want the same ”
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Top This One For A Speeding Ticket
Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar .One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill. The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour. The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then turned off.
Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet (Northrop Grumman aircraft) which was engaged in a low flying exercise near the location.
Back at the CHP Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander.
The reply came back in true USMC style:
Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet (Northrop Grumman aircraft) which was engaged in a low flying exercise near the location.
Back at the CHP Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander.
The reply came back in true USMC style:
Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
Here is the glorious winner:
1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach , California would-be robber James W did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
And now, the honorable mentions:
2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company, expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.
3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space.. Understandably, he shot her.
Here is the glorious winner:
1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach , California would-be robber James W did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
And now, the honorable mentions:
2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company, expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.
3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space.. Understandably, he shot her.
If you ever feel a little stupid, just dig this up and read it again; you'll begin to think you're a genius.
(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"
--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
--Mariah Carey
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,"
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign
(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"
--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
--Mariah Carey
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,"
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign
Do you remember the scene? The Senate. Barbara Boxer hearing from a Brigadier General? Silly General! He addresses Barbara as "Ma'm", and she CORRECTS him, telling him she's "worked SO hard to earn the title, "Senator", so please to use that when speaking to her.
Get a load of this letter!
Read the letter sent to Sen. Barbara Boxer from an Alaskan Airlines pilot below.
Many of us witnessed the arrogance of Barbara Boxer on June 18, 2009 as she admonished Brigadier General Michael Walsh because he addressed her as "ma'am" and not "Senator" before a Senate hearing.
This letter is from a National Guard aviator and Captain for Alaska Airlines named Jim Hill. I wonder what he would have said if he were really angry. Long fly Alaska !!
Get a load of this letter!
Read the letter sent to Sen. Barbara Boxer from an Alaskan Airlines pilot below.
Many of us witnessed the arrogance of Barbara Boxer on June 18, 2009 as she admonished Brigadier General Michael Walsh because he addressed her as "ma'am" and not "Senator" before a Senate hearing.
This letter is from a National Guard aviator and Captain for Alaska Airlines named Jim Hill. I wonder what he would have said if he were really angry. Long fly Alaska !!
Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.
(Give this some time to load before watching...otherwise you won't have smooth playback)
The main tank called the "Kuroshio Sea" holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world's second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters. Whale sharks and manta rays are kept amongst many other fish species in the main tank.
This was shot using a Canon 5DMKII with a 28-135mm lens.
THERE IS SUCH INCREDIBLE LIFE IN OUR OCEANS....WE MUST PROTECT THEM!
You gotta love this one... This is a ceiling mural in a smoker's lounge!
HINT!
He is one of the thousands of unemployed workers, Ecuadorian emigrant Mauricio Coyago can not longer pay his mortgage, therefore it occurred to him to organize a raffle.
His idea is making him famous. Ecuadorian Mauricio Coyago 41 is now a familiar face through many Spanish media sources. He is an immigrant that represents the hundreds of stories result of the crisis in Spain’s economic trouble.
He worked until last July in construction, but the backlash of the strike also hit him and left him without his monthly income which reached 1,300 Euros, - His wife, also an Ecuadorian from Quito is currently unemployed and caring for their three children, ages 9, 6 and 5, the middle child, their daughter, has a disability.
Mortgage debt of their apartment which they bought four years ago for an undisclosed amount, has prevented them from paying their dues, and money he charges for the strike is not enough. "It is less than 1,000 Euros. Some people ask me how five people can live with that? – Well, with the thigh economy, by buying only what the body needs,” Coyago said.
But he ads, he is not the kind of person that "gets defeated easily" I always tell my kids: “you have to be like eagles, -learn to fly high and don’t let anybody take your dreams away from you."
Now, when the crisis tightens, he applies to himself the same principle: to dream.
To save his place he has devised a lottery, calling people's attention with this message: "I sell my apartment for one Euro."
He worked until last July in construction, but the backlash of the strike also hit him and left him without his monthly income which reached 1,300 Euros, - His wife, also an Ecuadorian from Quito is currently unemployed and caring for their three children, ages 9, 6 and 5, the middle child, their daughter, has a disability.
Mortgage debt of their apartment which they bought four years ago for an undisclosed amount, has prevented them from paying their dues, and money he charges for the strike is not enough. "It is less than 1,000 Euros. Some people ask me how five people can live with that? – Well, with the thigh economy, by buying only what the body needs,” Coyago said.
But he ads, he is not the kind of person that "gets defeated easily" I always tell my kids: “you have to be like eagles, -learn to fly high and don’t let anybody take your dreams away from you."
Now, when the crisis tightens, he applies to himself the same principle: to dream.
To save his place he has devised a lottery, calling people's attention with this message: "I sell my apartment for one Euro."