Archive for November, 2009
t.m.i.
apparently the administration at middletown, pennsylvania’s three mile island nuclear power generator thought it it was too much information to inform the town’s inhabitants about the radiation leek that occured there saturday ’cause the people in the town found out about the leak watching the national news.
if you’re too young to remember, three mile island [...]
messed with the wrong tiger
there’s been considerable outrage overseas related to the world cup qualifying match between france and ireland. seems that france won in the last minute, avoiding a shoot off, but only because hotty-pants player thierry henry slipped a hand ball by the refs and into the net. henri says that while he’s sorry for ireland, the [...]
news you can use: the weekend edition
oh how the days go by. it’s the 3rd week of november and the world continues to bring us news we can use here at sacred bird. here’s the week that was ending november 20, 2009.
anderson cooper celebrated somebody’s 40th (not his, he’s already in the over 40 crowd)
speculation about where lou dobbs would land [...]
bill hemmer loves his purple
i predict.. that bill hemmer will be wearing a purple tie for this friday’s broadcast of fox news american’s newsroom . i know this not because i’m some kind of psychic but because it’s friday and he wears a purple tie every friday (which explains why he has more than one). he does so for his [...]
the burka and…pants?
everyone loves (or hates) the french and particularly the parisians because they are so, how do you say, eh, progressive? get a load of this–there’s a law on the books that prevents women from wearing pants–a law that’s been around in some form or another since 1800 (they modified it to allow for bike rides). [...]
‘dick’ isn’t a great name in english
a recent story profiled a company in the uk that, for close to $1,700 bones, will do research on baby names to make sure that a name isn’t offensive or weird in other languages. for the fee, “the company’s linguists will carry out a ‘basic name translation audit’ of names, checking their meaning in [...]
it’s never too early to start holiday shopping
if you’re one of those who like to personalize all the holiday gifts, you might want to check out the personalized fragrances from my dna fragrance. customers send in a swab of their dna and the company creates a fragrance that is “engineered from” the genetic code which allows one to leave “a fragrant imprint” [...]
