Well, I intended this to be a March Rant.
Richard Griffiths just died at 65. If I called him Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter's guardian, the name might be more readily recognized. Not given a particularly lovable role in that series another of his qualities endears him to me. He was noted for stopping in the middle of a performance when an audience member's cell phone rang and ordering the miscreant out of the theatre. Good for him! What do you do when the offending party is the pastor during church service?
Our Canadian preteen pop sensation may have reached the age of majority but Justin Bieber has not reached maturity. Following the all-to-familiar arc of pubescent teens who attain overnight super-stardom he is on a dangerous downward spiral. Fighting with paparazzi, speeding, fighting with his neighours, arriving late for concert appearances, throwing up on stage, collapsing on stage, appearing partially clothed in public. I say again Brian Adams and Anne Murray should run a course in handling fame for all such young starlets and attendance should be compulsory.
In an item not likely to make news in urban America NPR did a story on the 200 yearly suffocation deaths that occur in corn bins when young men and teens are sent in to 'stamp down the corn' while it is being emptied below. Despite regulations and the existence of safety harnesses to prevent them this number of deaths occur in commercial settings yearly. To further disturb one's sense of bucolic serenity at least as many deaths occur yearly each fall when farmers prematurely enter silos and are overcome by CO and Methane, the by-products of the fermentation of silage. Alas this situation often results in multiple deaths when an attempt it made to rescue the first victim. By the time a local volunteer fire department arrives with breathing apparatus it is much too late to revive the victims.
I'm falling behind on my rants.
Seems obesity contributes to poorer gas mileage. It takes extra gasoline to move that 400-pound lug and his equally hefty wife around.
Highliner fish fillets are frozen in water which can make up as much as 80% of the package contents!
Top tickets to the Canadian Opera Company are $325.
Finbar in the original Irish meant fair-headed one, Anglicized to Barry.
Started listening to a Rollingstone podcast by still wet behind the ears Chris Colfer and found it too much to take. We seem to be minting pop stars fresh out of the womb and listening to them opine as if they were seasoned veterans is gag inducing.
I like this one:
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She
shouted to him:
"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a
hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
"She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be an Obama Democrat."
"I am," the man replied. "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is
technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your
information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."
The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Republican."
"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault."
Rollingstone Magazine actively supported Obama last year while slagging Romney.
Just before a Morman Tabernacle Choir Broadcast Salt Lake City Radio presented a note on violence against woman. The Morman Church's position on the status of women doesn't constitute violence against woman?
Only in Italy would they blame the messenger. An Italian Court convicted a group of scientists of manslaughter for inadequate quake information. Predicting earthquakes is even more tenuous than predicting weather, what did they expect?
Is it just me or are there a lot of hippy era rock stars issuing their memoirs lately?
Recently installed a 114 MB update for windows. At one time this would have been termed a service pack.
Denis Diderot, an eighteenth century anarchist philosopher said, "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Richard Griffiths just died at 65. If I called him Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter's guardian, the name might be more readily recognized. Not given a particularly lovable role in that series another of his qualities endears him to me. He was noted for stopping in the middle of a performance when an audience member's cell phone rang and ordering the miscreant out of the theatre. Good for him! What do you do when the offending party is the pastor during church service?
Our Canadian preteen pop sensation may have reached the age of majority but Justin Bieber has not reached maturity. Following the all-to-familiar arc of pubescent teens who attain overnight super-stardom he is on a dangerous downward spiral. Fighting with paparazzi, speeding, fighting with his neighours, arriving late for concert appearances, throwing up on stage, collapsing on stage, appearing partially clothed in public. I say again Brian Adams and Anne Murray should run a course in handling fame for all such young starlets and attendance should be compulsory.
In an item not likely to make news in urban America NPR did a story on the 200 yearly suffocation deaths that occur in corn bins when young men and teens are sent in to 'stamp down the corn' while it is being emptied below. Despite regulations and the existence of safety harnesses to prevent them this number of deaths occur in commercial settings yearly. To further disturb one's sense of bucolic serenity at least as many deaths occur yearly each fall when farmers prematurely enter silos and are overcome by CO and Methane, the by-products of the fermentation of silage. Alas this situation often results in multiple deaths when an attempt it made to rescue the first victim. By the time a local volunteer fire department arrives with breathing apparatus it is much too late to revive the victims.
I'm falling behind on my rants.
Seems obesity contributes to poorer gas mileage. It takes extra gasoline to move that 400-pound lug and his equally hefty wife around.
Highliner fish fillets are frozen in water which can make up as much as 80% of the package contents!
Top tickets to the Canadian Opera Company are $325.
Finbar in the original Irish meant fair-headed one, Anglicized to Barry.
Started listening to a Rollingstone podcast by still wet behind the ears Chris Colfer and found it too much to take. We seem to be minting pop stars fresh out of the womb and listening to them opine as if they were seasoned veterans is gag inducing.
I like this one:
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She
shouted to him:
"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a
hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
"She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be an Obama Democrat."
"I am," the man replied. "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is
technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your
information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."
The man smiled and responded, "You must be a Republican."
"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are or where you are going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault."
Rollingstone Magazine actively supported Obama last year while slagging Romney.
Just before a Morman Tabernacle Choir Broadcast Salt Lake City Radio presented a note on violence against woman. The Morman Church's position on the status of women doesn't constitute violence against woman?
Only in Italy would they blame the messenger. An Italian Court convicted a group of scientists of manslaughter for inadequate quake information. Predicting earthquakes is even more tenuous than predicting weather, what did they expect?
Is it just me or are there a lot of hippy era rock stars issuing their memoirs lately?
Recently installed a 114 MB update for windows. At one time this would have been termed a service pack.
Denis Diderot, an eighteenth century anarchist philosopher said, "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
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