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Oh man do I need a life or what? Somehow the weekend doesn't seem full without an off topic thread. With Halloween just around the corner my creativity is pointed in another direction at the moment. This got me thinking (can you smeel the smoke?) post your ideas for Off Topic threads to get us started in the future for when we come up dry like we have this weekend? Or how about for all those who like to hijacking threads we could just call this a potpourri and follow the latest wind?
well lets ask this
how many days can you stay away from your computer and the internet??
me? NOT EVEN ONE DAY
Perhaps to follow on from last weeks excellent OT topic on books just what other sports/pastimes take up VDR members spare time apart from computing ?
Also perhaps as its Halloween soon some recipes/ideas/stories to keep both Children and Adults in the spirit of the event.
http://www.humour.com/images/images/HALLOWEENFLASH.jpg
Or for those who want to put off tricker treaters:
http://wwwedu.ge.ch/po/chavanne/clic...lloween_02.jpg
:D :D :D
Hope you don't mind if I save the two pictures in your post 104456. I 've got to show these to my wife. hehe :):)
Well here in Australia we don't take much notice of Halloween, but there have been two notable events this last week, the President of the US and the President of China each visited and addressed the National Parliament on two successive days.
President Bush first and President Hu next, but I'll leave out all the political stuff, but a letter to the editor sugested that perhaps the Australian National University, (that's the one in Canberra, the Capital, where the Presidents each spoke) should award the President of China with an honary doctorate, then he'd be Dr Hu, :D BF
Well since this is gonna be a potpourri type of thread I thought I would share this with you all :D BJ
First Place - The 2003 Darwin Award Winner --
When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim
during a holdup in Long Beach, California, would be robber James Elliot
did something that can only inspire wonder: He peered down the barrel
and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
And now, the honorable mentions --
The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting
machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his
insurance company. The company, suspecting negligence, sent out one of
its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine out and lost a
finger. The chef's claim was approved.
A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during
a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had
taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.
After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver
found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting
from Harare to Beltway had escaped. Not wanting to admit his
incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone
waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the
mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable
and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3
days.
An American teenager was in the hospital recently recovering from
serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he
received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to
see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.
A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, puts a $20 bill on the counter,
and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man
pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk
promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled,
leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got
from the drawer? $15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you
money, was a crime
committed?)
Seems this Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that
he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some
booze, and run. He lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head
at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief
on the head, knocking him unconscious. Seems the liquor store window was
made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed
her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was
able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within
minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car
and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and
told to stand there for a positive ID. He replied, "Yes, officer, that's
her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."
The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger
King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded
cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the
cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings,
the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man,
frustrated, walked away.
Kentucky: Two men tried to pull the front off a cash machine by running
a chain from the machine to the bumper of their pickup truck. Instead of
pulling the front panel off the machine, though, they pulled the bumper
off their truck. Scared, they left the scene and drove home. With the
chain still attached to the machine. With their bumper still attached to
the chain. With their vehicle's license plate still attached to the
bumper. They were quickly arrested..
A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER!
When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a
Seattle Street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived
at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near
spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying
to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's
sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press
charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
The Guest Quarters at Camp Muir
http://home.comcast.net/~jim-B22/GuestQuarters.jpg
Last hike the wind bounced me off of that Big boulder. No we did not try to summit Mt Rainier that day. No one did.
A google search on Camp Muir
Just a thing a old man likes to do. :D
How about:Quote:
Originally posted by Calpitor
post your ideas for Off Topic threads to get us started in the future for when we come up dry like we have this weekend?
i) Who do you think is or has been the best comedy actor/actress of all time?
ii) Have you ever been in a place or situation where you feel 'I've been here before' when in fact you haven't?
iii) The scariest moment so far in your life.
iv) Help and advice in finding employment now 'I'm retired/between jobs'.
Anybody been watching?
Who do you support?
Who do you think will win?
Probably more of a question for the Europeans, we are busy watching our Rockem Sockem NFL here in the States. Go Kansas City Chiefs, "undefeated so far this year" ;) BJQuote:
Originally posted by TJolly
Anybody been watching?
Who do you support?
Who do you think will win?
What about
Your fave Films of all time
Fave Musical Artists and bands of all time
and basically fave of all time stuff :):)
A letter to the Editor
I recently read your column on "tough love" for grandparents of misbehaving children, whose own parents let them run wild. I have followed your advice, and enclose a picture demonstrating my technique when my grandson just won't behave while I'm babysitting. His parents (my son and his wife) have told me not to spank him, so I just take him for a ride and talk to him. He usually calms down and stops misbehaving after our little car ride together.
Signed,
"The Tough Love GrandPa"
http://home.comcast.net/~jim-B22/toughlovegrandma.jpg
Seems your a bit of a part time masochist Train and I don't mean the Grandchildren :D
Camp Muir seems a nice place to visit [at the right time of year] largest hill we have here in the UK is 1085Mts a pimple by those your used to.It makes a nice fast down hill run though and they have a yearly race to the peak and back for those energetic enough:D
Heres a live web-cam from around Snowden.
http://www.boomspeed.com/snarfll/Goofy_bat.gif
QUICK!! CLOSE THE WINDOW!! IT"S GRAMPA :eek:
Happy Halloween all!!
For those involved,,don't ferget to set your clock(s) back tonite.
And,,be sure to plug it in properly too. Instructions below...
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mjhk/brazil/brazil.htm
:p :D
Which ways back-wards [scratches head] :D
http://rikkus.info/gfx/real_backward_clock.jpg