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More Things to Worry About on Wednesday
Security at Tampa Int'l Airport arrested incoming passenger Robert Christianson, who went quietly . . on a fugitive warrant . . from Canada . . for not licensing his dog. Tampa Tribune
A 45-yr-old nun who was dismissed from a nunnery in northern Greece (clash with the mother superior!) went to court to demand the equivalent of about $325k for 23 yrs of back pay for all the grunge work she did. Agence France-Presse via Reuters
As usual with public opinion polls, what's interesting is not what's at the top, but what's at the bottom: 10 percent of Americans, I guess, think the country's on the right track. ABC News
Burundi is the latest African country with albinos an endangered class (hunted down for their blood, organs, and limbs, which are highly prized by sorcerers because somehow using them in rituals enhances sorcerers' credibility). Agence France-Presse via News24.com (Johannesburg)
Imagine Kobe Bryant getting a moderately long suspension from the NBA, and Jack Nicholson protesting that by becoming a monk. Well, superfan Mei Nansheng just headed off in disgust to the Shaolin Temple to change his life after a Chinese soccer league suspended star player Li Weifeng. Reuters via Yahoo
German boxing champion Vitali Klitschko claims that he pampers his fists by, er, wrapping them in his baby's diapers (wet diapers, as in "used") Reuters via Yahoo
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Security at Tampa Int'l Airport arrested incoming passenger Robert Christianson, who went quietly . . on a fugitive warrant . . from Canada . . for not licensing his dog. Tampa Tribune
A 45-yr-old nun who was dismissed from a nunnery in northern Greece (clash with the mother superior!) went to court to demand the equivalent of about $325k for 23 yrs of back pay for all the grunge work she did. Agence France-Presse via Reuters
As usual with public opinion polls, what's interesting is not what's at the top, but what's at the bottom: 10 percent of Americans, I guess, think the country's on the right track. ABC News
Burundi is the latest African country with albinos an endangered class (hunted down for their blood, organs, and limbs, which are highly prized by sorcerers because somehow using them in rituals enhances sorcerers' credibility). Agence France-Presse via News24.com (Johannesburg)
Imagine Kobe Bryant getting a moderately long suspension from the NBA, and Jack Nicholson protesting that by becoming a monk. Well, superfan Mei Nansheng just headed off in disgust to the Shaolin Temple to change his life after a Chinese soccer league suspended star player Li Weifeng. Reuters via Yahoo
German boxing champion Vitali Klitschko claims that he pampers his fists by, er, wrapping them in his baby's diapers (wet diapers, as in "used") Reuters via Yahoo
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Albinos - Well sure, that makes total sense. Body parts from albinos hung over a gold mine makes all the gold float to the top, completely logical to me.
Posted by Ryan in Philly on 10/15/08 at 09:04 AM
back pay - A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab, and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won't stop staring at her.
She asks him why he is staring. He replies: "I have a question to ask, but I don't want to offend you."
She answers, " My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive."
"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."
She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that: #1, you have to be single and #2, you must be Catholic."
The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes, I'm single and Catholic!"
"OK" the nun says. "Pull into the next alley."
The nun fulfills his fantasy with a kiss that would make a Chattanooga hooker blush.
But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.
"My dear child," said the nun, "Why are you crying?"
"Forgive me but I've sinned. I lied and I must confess; I'm married and I'm Jewish."
The nun says, "That's OK. My name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween party."
She asks him why he is staring. He replies: "I have a question to ask, but I don't want to offend you."
She answers, " My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just about everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive."
"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."
She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that: #1, you have to be single and #2, you must be Catholic."
The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes, I'm single and Catholic!"
"OK" the nun says. "Pull into the next alley."
The nun fulfills his fantasy with a kiss that would make a Chattanooga hooker blush.
But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.
"My dear child," said the nun, "Why are you crying?"
"Forgive me but I've sinned. I lied and I must confess; I'm married and I'm Jewish."
The nun says, "That's OK. My name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween party."
Posted by Madd Maxx on 10/15/08 at 10:03 AM
I missed the deal here with the nun but it sounds about right. We had a priest a few years ago forbid men and women to swim at the same beach and admonished men to wear long sleeved shirts because mens' hairy forearms turned women on! (Ladies photos of mine available on request)
Vote the religious ticket!
Vote the religious ticket!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 10/15/08 at 10:03 AM
Expat - the backpay story was about a 45-yr-old nun who was dismissed from a nunnery.
Sorry, but I used that as a segway into a poor excuse of a joke.
Sorry, but I used that as a segway into a poor excuse of a joke.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 10/15/08 at 10:15 AM
Licensing his dog Thank god security caught this mad man! :roll:
Back Pay So can I sue my husband for all the work I do around the house while he plays his X-Box 360?
10% of Americans I guess they had to go poll some people living under rocks?
Albinos I'm extremely fair-skinned and have light eyes. I guess I should cancel my vacation plans to Burundi.
Expat - I'd like to see those pics!
Back Pay So can I sue my husband for all the work I do around the house while he plays his X-Box 360?
10% of Americans I guess they had to go poll some people living under rocks?
Albinos I'm extremely fair-skinned and have light eyes. I guess I should cancel my vacation plans to Burundi.
Expat - I'd like to see those pics!
Posted by KW in Dallas, TX on 10/15/08 at 10:43 AM
Holy crap I would be hunted down and dismembered in Burundi too. We seem to have an high concentration of very nearly albino people commenting on WU - what's up with that?
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/15/08 at 10:48 AM
Maybe something to do with sitting in front of the computer all day commenting for you folks, but I'm actually incapable of getting tan.
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/15/08 at 10:49 AM
Jules - I was just going to say the same thing... perhaps if we weren't all inside on WU all the time we WOULD tan. But I don't tan either. I burn, peel, repeat. Good morning, btw 😊
Posted by KW in Dallas, TX on 10/15/08 at 10:50 AM
morning darlin' 😊
Just goes to prove even further we were separated at birth! Well, a couple years apart but that makes no nevermind.
Just goes to prove even further we were separated at birth! Well, a couple years apart but that makes no nevermind.
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/15/08 at 10:52 AM
Jules - am I older than you? I feel so old lately. 😛
Posted by KW in Dallas, TX on 10/15/08 at 10:54 AM
Last I check you're 30 and I'm 27 - close enough though. You can be 27 too if you want 😊
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/15/08 at 11:00 AM
how about if we both pretend to be 25 and call it even??
Posted by KW in Dallas, TX on 10/15/08 at 11:02 AM
Fine by me!
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/15/08 at 11:03 AM
Yes they should be Gary. Cheerios in the toilet. It works like a charm.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 10/15/08 at 12:34 PM
As a redhead I never was able to tan. In the past couple of years though, for some reason, I have started tanning to some degree (at least I don't blind people when I take my shirt off anymore). Maybe the freckles are just closing in.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 10/15/08 at 12:45 PM
MM - that's what I've been telling people for years...closest I get to a tan is when my freckles merge
Posted by Jules in Connecticut on 10/15/08 at 01:03 PM
Albino: I burst into flames at the slightest hint of sunlight. With my blonde, hair, not even my scalp is immune. You haven't lived until you've gone to work with a peeling scalp. I'm still referred to as Leprosy Girl by some insensitive coworkers.
Expat: There used to be a law in Cleveland, OH (maybe it's still on the books) that men with hairy backs had to wear shirts at all times in public. Personally, I wish that was still the law everywhere. My last boyfriend was like Chewbacca!
Expat: There used to be a law in Cleveland, OH (maybe it's still on the books) that men with hairy backs had to wear shirts at all times in public. Personally, I wish that was still the law everywhere. My last boyfriend was like Chewbacca!
Posted by BikerPuppy on 10/15/08 at 03:50 PM
None taken. I've been called worse.
Posted by BikerPuppy on 10/15/08 at 07:42 PM
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