:lol: that episode was on Monday night.

In honor of Vets Day UK style I give you a living memorial:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ooed-body.html

God Bless to all those in the UK who served in one of the Armed Forces on this day as well.

There are people looking, but its tough to know at what.

This stinger is in the last paragraph.

Lets see... three bottles by five floors by two jumps = 30bottlefloorjumps. That should be enough to kill anyone. Must be Rasputin's great-grandson.

OOOh interesting fail here..........lol!!! This is weird and funny at the same time..

http://failblog.org/2009/11/13/friday-rewind-cop-fail/

I put it here because I found it so weird and a bit shocking as well. I have never heard this before. Is this commonly known? It was in the NYT today.

Australian Leader Apologizes for Child Migrants

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/wo...ef=global-home

It's pretty well-known over here. Or, has been for a few years.

There was a BBC/ABC documentary called "The Leaving of Liverpool" about that particular group, but the apology covers many Australian-born, institutionalised peple too. It puts the treatment of Aboriginal children into a slightly less shameful perspective.

Not that it makes it any better, but weren't the circumstances for these unfortunate kids generally the same back in Britain? I guess maybe there was more starving going on in the overcrowded orphanages, and less abuse?

One thing I read was it might also have been an attempt to lessen the burden on the social system that was straining.

Also, Australia was in a "populate or perish" mindset, after WWII.

It must have seemed like such a good idea at the time.

Yes, with good white stock.

Definately racially motivated.

Absolutely.

There was a big contention about taking migrants even from Italy and *gasp* the Balkans. I guess we were more afraid of the "Yellow Peril" than we were of the wogs.

"They do not assimilate, the do not learn our language, they will from ghettoes where criminal gangs will rule..." which turned out to be 98% BS but is still being repeated about Chinese and African migrants today.

Might just as well say migrants, period. It hardly differs with any ethnic group at all -- it's always the in-group bashing the out-group until such time as the out-group eventually becomes some sort of in-group too, over a generational time span. Several obvious examples can be drawn from US immigration history. The 19th-century Irish immigration will serve as a well-plumbed example.

We did a little resettling too.

Orphan Trains

Regular Rides for Pussy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8176971.stm

Defender of constitution.

;)

I've never heard of it. Thanks.

$15,000 a gallon???!!! America, your economic salvation is right in front of you! And some of you are indeed sitting on a goldmine!

Mmm... I love fishtacos.

I read an article many years ago, in Smithsonian magazine, but haven't seen anything about it since. I had to Google it, to find the story to link to. Just one of those things that happened in history, with mixed opinions and mixed results. Would probably make a good Ken Burns, PBS special. :)

Project Mayhem is a go, Mr. Durden.

Phil Cody has a good song about the orphan trains. That was the first I heard of it. I think I included it on one of the CMEPs.

Ummm.. why? Wouldn't any one of a variety of animal fats work as well, and be cheaper & legal and not require murder???

The first rule of Soap Club.........

Maybe PETA members need moisturizer too?

I would guess it's a question of scale. Most animals don't tend to get grotesquely overweight. If they do, it's because a human takes the time to keep them and habitually overfeed them, something which takes effort and money. But there's no shortage of humans that will habitually overfeed themselves, and then they conveniently go wandering in dark alleyways...

Given the demand for organ donations, just what is the break-up value of a human body, if it is in reasonably good condition?

I'm just wondering. No particular reason.

MadSci Network:
General Biology Query: Re: What is the monetary value of the human body?

Date: Wed Jan 26 06:08:17 2000
Posted By: Eric Maass, MadSci Admin
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 945925110.Gb Message:

In 1985, Arthur Porges science fiction story "1.98" was published in the "Best Fantasy Stories from Fantasy and Science Fiction
Magazine" (edited by Edward L. Ferman, Octopus Books Limited); this book included a comment that the monetary value of the
human body was $1.98. If we allow for inflation, that would put the current monetary value at about $4.00

However, the value of minerals and other chemicals does not necessarily increase, and not necessarily at the rate of inflation.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives...8889.Gb.r.html

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How much is my body worth? http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/expla...ages/worth.gif You're worth more than you think!
A great number of people have spent a great deal of human and financial resources calculating the composition of, prior to the decomposition of, and the worth, or worthlessness of, the human body.
When we total the monetary value of the elements in our bodies and the value of the average person's skin, we arrive at a net worth of $4.50!
This value is, however, subject to change, due to stock market fluctuations. Since the studies leading to this conclusion were conducted by the U.S. and by Japan respectively, it might be wise to consult the New York Stock Exchange and the Nikkei Index before deciding when to sell!
The U.S. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils invested many a hard-earned tax dollar in calculating the chemical and mineral composition of the human body, which breaks down as follows:

65% Oxygen
18% Carbon
10% Hydrogen
3% Nitrogen
1.5% Calcium
1% Phosphorous
0.35% Potassium
0.25% Sulfur
0.15% Sodium
0.15% Chlorine
0.05% Magnesium
0.0004% Iron
0.00004% Iodine

Additionally, it was discovered that our bodies contain trace quantities of fluorine, silicon, manganese, zinc, copper, aluminum, and arsenic. Together, all of the above amounts to less than one dollar!
Our most valuable asset is our skin, which the Japanese invested their time and money in measuring. The method the Imperial State Institute for Nutrition at Tokyo developed for measuring the amount of a person's skin is to take a naked person, and to apply a strong, thin paper to every surface of his body. After the paper dries, they carefully remove it, cut it into small pieces, and painstakingly total the person's measurements. Cut and dried, the average person is the proud owner of fourteen to eighteen square feet of skin, with the variables in this figure being height, weight, and breast size. Basing the skin's value on the selling price of cowhide, which is approximately $.25 per square foot, the value of an average person's skin is about $3.50.
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/worth.asp

That is if you break it down into its component atoms. That's just poor business practice. A single functioning kidney can fetch 5 to 50 thousand; a heart-lung set should be much more (everyone wants matching decor); eyes, blood, pancreas, skin .... and all that delicious fat.

Anything less than $100,000 is a rip off.

Sure and what of the alcohol and caffeine content? :) Oh wait that's just me....

:lol:

Dude who got stuck upside down for 28 hours in a tight squeeze in a
cave and died will be left there, and the cave sealed.

story

Sweden woman's 'murder' committed by elk not husband

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8384143.stm

Is that part of the initiation, or is it the moose I'm thinking of...?

I know my weird news is pretty lame usually but oh well.
It's how my weird operates.

The Sun-Maid Girl

http://www.sun-maid.com/en/about/sunmaid_girl.html

Many people want to know if a real person was the original "Sun-Maid girl." The answer is "Yes," and her name was Lorraine Collett Petersen. In May 1915, she was discovered drying her black hair curls in the sunny backyard of her parents' home in Fresno, California. She was then asked to pose for a painting while holding a basket tray of fresh grapes. This striking image was first applied to packages of Sun-Maid raisins in 1916. Over the years, this image has been seen on millions and millions of packages and has been taken into homes throughout the world.
The treasured original watercolor painting is today kept safely in a concrete vault at Sun-Maid’s headquarters in Kingsburg, California.


Just recently they changed her image which has earned it some weird remarks.


Naturally, the revamped look hasn't gone unnoticed, rankling both ends of the political spectrum. The blog for conservative magazine The Weekly Standard noted that the new Sun-Maid girl looks "as if Julia Roberts decided to don a red bonnet and start picking grapes," while the feminist website Jezebel.com remarked that it looks as if she's had “some implants.”

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/fi/26/21/30.jpg

These idiots should just join scientology.

More at the link.

Gods can't sin, they must not be very faithful for thinking their God is a sinner.

looks like she had a reduction first, though:

http://www.sun-maid.com/images/sunma.../1916_logo.jpg
Original 1916 version of the Sun-Maid trademark.

http://www.sun-maid.com/images/sunma.../1923_logo.jpg
The Sun-Maid trademark in 1923

the 1916 version looks like her boobs are bigger.

So the feminists are only looking at her boobs? Don't they pretend to get pissed when men do that?

More Bad news for Tiger

Perhaps he should have used a driver.

feminists are annoying

I'm just not so into computer images.

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Weirder than the crash is the cash Elin Woods is negotiating for.
or is it T.W.'s idea?


Elin and Tiger Woods had a prenuptial agreement, as expected. The couple is undergoing marital counseling, as you'd also expect. And now The Daily Beast is reporting that Elin Woods is renegotiating that prenup to get an immediate $5 million payout from her husband and as much as $55 million more to stay with him for two more years.

The initial prenup was worth $20 million after 10 years of marriage. However, the Chicago Sun-Times' Bill Zwecker has reported that Elin Woods will receive an immediate payment "into an account she alone controls," and that the 10-year timeframe -- which began when they married in 2004 -- has been shortened and the value increased "substantially."

But apparently there's also a behavioral component to all this: Elin Woods must "be a dutiful wife in showing up with him at social events and in public as if they were still the perfect couple, and sign a nondisclosure form that will prevent her from ever telling her story."

It's important to note that to date, there's no concrete evidence that Elin Woods has ever been anything but the perfectly dutiful golf wife. I'm sure the Woodses would like nothing more than to portray domestic calm to the world, and Elin Woods now apparently has several million more reasons to do just that.
http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/de...rn=golf,206529

The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...=hp:mainpromo1

With 300 MILLION - why would she ever need to sell her story?

Meanwhile more weird news from the Woods household

Sheesh.

If my wife were worth 300 million, she could cheat all she wanted! Just leave that checkbook on the credenza on your way out, hon!

Police: Amish man found drunk, asleep in moving buggy. Link

Out loud laughter man!

That happens about every weekend, the incident, not the arrest. The horse knows the way home, but can't read a stop sign.

Teh debbil made him do it.

Teenage girl dug up to be 'corpse bride'

Woman calls 911 when husband refuses to eat dinner

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

I bet they voted for Obamy. :lol:

Ok, that looks like it would suck...

Couple stranded 3 days after GPS leads them astray

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091229/D9CSLA2O0.html

:rolleyes: You are well on your way to becoming a caricature, Merc.

They couldn't have. They own a car with GPS. :lol:

Mr Palin. :rolleyes:

:lol:

I'd hit it Two Times.