[News] Chuck’s Links for Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Almost No Longer Weird: 911 calls for [restaurant didn't serve enough shrimp in the fried rice]. Associated Press via Yahoo
A gov't fire and rescue service in Britain requires firefighters to use long poles to test ceiling alarms . . because stepladders are dangerous. Daily Mail
Recurring: Vero Beach is the latest F State jurisdiction to use what has become the standard state definition of the area of the ass that must be covered in public (easier to understand if you're good at geometry). TCPalm.com
Sounds Like a Joke (just like other reality-show concepts once did): Someone's Gotta Go (in production at Fox), where employees of an actual small company decide which one of them actually gets laid off. Washington Post
Americorps volunteers in Denver fan out . . to help people with that analog-to-digital TV thing. KUSA-TV
A trotters' track in Paris is giving away bags of horse manure (but it's champions' poop—only the best!). Agence France-Presse via Yahoo
Alfonso Rizzuto walked into the post office in Kingston, Pa., on business, not realizing that right there on the wall was a wanted poster for fugitive Alfonso Rizzuto. Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre)
$9/hour entertainment charge at one of 39 Tokyo "cat cafes," where trendy or lonely people get to pet the kitties while they sip tea. GlobalPost.com
The Pentagon has been dressing pigs in body armor, strapping them into Humvees, and setting off roadside bombs to see if armor helps/hurts with brain injuries (because pigs' brains are like ours!). USA Today
[Jury Duty] Daniel Alexander, 39, charged with killing his mobile-home roommate [top photo is the victim; Alexander's underneath]. Palm Beach Post
Today's Newsrangers: Scott Langill, Cassie Sperry
A gov't fire and rescue service in Britain requires firefighters to use long poles to test ceiling alarms . . because stepladders are dangerous. Daily Mail
Recurring: Vero Beach is the latest F State jurisdiction to use what has become the standard state definition of the area of the ass that must be covered in public (easier to understand if you're good at geometry). TCPalm.com
Sounds Like a Joke (just like other reality-show concepts once did): Someone's Gotta Go (in production at Fox), where employees of an actual small company decide which one of them actually gets laid off. Washington Post
Americorps volunteers in Denver fan out . . to help people with that analog-to-digital TV thing. KUSA-TV
A trotters' track in Paris is giving away bags of horse manure (but it's champions' poop—only the best!). Agence France-Presse via Yahoo
Alfonso Rizzuto walked into the post office in Kingston, Pa., on business, not realizing that right there on the wall was a wanted poster for fugitive Alfonso Rizzuto. Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre)
$9/hour entertainment charge at one of 39 Tokyo "cat cafes," where trendy or lonely people get to pet the kitties while they sip tea. GlobalPost.com
The Pentagon has been dressing pigs in body armor, strapping them into Humvees, and setting off roadside bombs to see if armor helps/hurts with brain injuries (because pigs' brains are like ours!). USA Today
[Jury Duty] Daniel Alexander, 39, charged with killing his mobile-home roommate [top photo is the victim; Alexander's underneath]. Palm Beach Post
Today's Newsrangers: Scott Langill, Cassie Sperry
Comments
Jury Duty - I don't know. Daniel looks like he wasn't put together quite right: his hair's off-center, his ears looks too big, his eyes are too close together. Whoever assembled him must have gotten a stern talking to.
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 04/08/09 at 08:55 AM
You know what I'd like to see, Chuck? A reasonably comprehensive list of some of the most outlandish and asinine things to be officially No Longer Weirded. I think it would be a good landmark of how far gone our civilization is.
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 04/08/09 at 09:20 AM
Vero Beach So, basically, what the good folks of said town are saying is that they don't need tourism, thank you very much.
Someone's Gotta Go Not to plagiarize You're Fired! or anything.
Horse poopie just ain't horse poopie! Great stuff for the flower bed and veggie garden. Snails love it too.
Cat Cafe Here in Athens we only charge $4 an hour but you have to get them before they hit the grill.
Pig Brains Wasn't one of Obama's campaign promises to cut out the pork?
Jury Duty Bobby & Danny sittin' in tree; K I L L I N G
Someone's Gotta Go Not to plagiarize You're Fired! or anything.
Horse poopie just ain't horse poopie! Great stuff for the flower bed and veggie garden. Snails love it too.
Cat Cafe Here in Athens we only charge $4 an hour but you have to get them before they hit the grill.
Pig Brains Wasn't one of Obama's campaign promises to cut out the pork?
Jury Duty Bobby & Danny sittin' in tree; K I L L I N G
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/08/09 at 09:36 AM
We all miss the old guy, NotBarbie, but he's off on a mission of higher calling that, I'm sure, will benefit us all in the end. (Or, at least, make Chuck rich.)
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/08/09 at 11:14 AM
someone's gotta go- as an HR person, I think all companies should do this. gets rid of the dead weight. At Whole Foods, the department employees get to vote on candidates to be their boss.
PETA members..come on down for your bacon sandwiches!
PETA members..come on down for your bacon sandwiches!
Posted by mrjazz on 04/08/09 at 11:30 AM
British firefighters - Are people that voluntarily run into burning buildings to save other people THAT concerned about falling off a ladder?
Vero Beach - They have also banned mud, oil and jello wrestling, even though no such establishments exist or are planned there. BUT they forgot to ban pudding wrestling. I smell a business opportunity.
Fox reality show - and following that show, "Guess who has The Clap?"
Champion horse poop - how is it better than regular horse crap?
Tokyo cat cafe - only the japanese could ruin the idea of a "Pussy bar"
Jury duty - GUILTY
@NotBarbie - We the readers will try our best to keep the razor-sharp commentary flowing.
Vero Beach - They have also banned mud, oil and jello wrestling, even though no such establishments exist or are planned there. BUT they forgot to ban pudding wrestling. I smell a business opportunity.
Fox reality show - and following that show, "Guess who has The Clap?"
Champion horse poop - how is it better than regular horse crap?
Tokyo cat cafe - only the japanese could ruin the idea of a "Pussy bar"
Jury duty - GUILTY
@NotBarbie - We the readers will try our best to keep the razor-sharp commentary flowing.
Posted by Matt in Florida on 04/08/09 at 11:40 AM
"cat cafes"
Damn! I was hoping for a different kind of "kitty" petting.
Damn! I was hoping for a different kind of "kitty" petting.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 04/08/09 at 12:33 PM
Almost No Longer Weird
I have a friend who never sends anything back at restaurants for fear of what the kitchen staff might do because she complained. I can't imagine what she would say about calling the police.
I have a friend who never sends anything back at restaurants for fear of what the kitchen staff might do because she complained. I can't imagine what she would say about calling the police.
Posted by Madd Maxx on 04/08/09 at 12:35 PM
@ Expat ~ Cat Cafe ~ "get them before they hit the grill"?? Nooooooooooooooooo.... :sick:
Posted by Skitt in SW USA on 04/08/09 at 01:34 PM
@Madd Maxx - I have a friend also who refuses to return anything at a restaurant and when asked by the waiter if it is OK he always says yes regardless of the situation. He is absolutely convinced that if he says something negative he will get "extra seasonings" on his food...it cracks me up every time!
Posted by vegas_girl in Vegas Baby!! on 04/09/09 at 12:35 AM
the reality of the food/waiter/chef/complaint problem is that it is such a commonality.
when I was in the supermarkets, if someone asked for meat or cheese at the deli to be 'shaved thin' (a few extra swings of the slicer and an extra 30 seconds of time for the employee) some of the miserable pricks behind the counter would press some weight on it so it couldn't be pulled apart except in clumps.
it is remarkable how spiteful people can be.
when I was in the supermarkets, if someone asked for meat or cheese at the deli to be 'shaved thin' (a few extra swings of the slicer and an extra 30 seconds of time for the employee) some of the miserable pricks behind the counter would press some weight on it so it couldn't be pulled apart except in clumps.
it is remarkable how spiteful people can be.
Posted by mrjazz on 04/09/09 at 01:12 PM
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