How I Learned the Truth about the State - Stefano R. Mugnaini I'll never forget my last visit to lovely Hinesville, Georgia. For it was there that I learned a valuable lesson, one I shall never forget: in a police state, we're all criminals. Think about it — how many laws have you broken today? This week? This month? In Hinesville, I was accosted for "animal cruelty." The older of my two daughters had a rash, so we stopped at Walmart to get her some antihistamine cream. You see, we left the dogs in the car, with the windows down and a dish of water to drink. I was informed that I was being charged with criminal animal cruelty, subject to appear in court at a later date. The officer informed me that I was going to have to take the dogs to the vet to be checked out before we were allowed to continue on our way. I tried another tactic. "At what point," I asked, "was I in violation of the law?" He couldn't answer, but the heroic policeman — let's just call him "Vic Maldonado" — sprang into action. The irony in all this? Stefano R.
Does It Bother You When.. - Gagful - StumbleUpon The True Friend Test When Your Friends Betray ... That Awkward Moment Smile : Lights? Who Needs Them? Putting A New Blanket On ... Epic Frightening Moment F... STRETCH 'em LEGS!! True Story - StumbleUpon Photography The Dutch photographer Maria Netsounski is famous for her fantastical landscape photography. For the photo series 'IR' she used an infrared filter that makes summer landscapes look like a winter wonderland. A Well-Planned Retirement - And no one even knows his name. Outside England's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were £1 for cars ($1.40), £5 for busses (about $7). Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent. The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility. The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll. Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day -- for 25 years. And no one even knows his name.
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Jenny vs. Spencer - StumbleUpon JENNY vs. SPENCER: SPENCER RESPONDS! I'm sure that everyone has seen Jenny quitting via dry-erase board, but now Jenny's mysterious boss has responded the same way. All The Amusing Stuff » Rude Hand Gestures of the World Rude Hand Gestures of the World by Romana Lefevre is a photographic guide to the many ways of using hand gestures to offend people in different parts of the world. The book’s photography is by Daniel Castro, and published by Chronicle Books of San Francisco. A hand gesture is arguably the most effective form of expression, whether you’re defaming a friend’s mother or telling a perfect stranger to get lost. Also see: Illustrated Guide to Italian Hand Gestures Chin Flick Meaning: Get lost Used in: Belgium, France, Northern Italy, Tunisia In France, this gesture is known as la barbe, or “the beard”, the idea being that the gesturer is flashing his masculinity in much the same way that a buck will brandish his horns or a cock his comb. Note: In Italy, this gesture simply means “No.” Idiota Meaning: Are you an idiot? Used in: Brazil A South American gesture indicating stupidity, this requires improv skills and an actorly flair. Moutza Meaning: To hell with you! Used in: Greece, Africa, Pakistan Corna
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729; That’s Where It Is I went to lunch today at a new market-slash-sandwich place that just opened in my neighborhood. It was really good! The market (and neighborhood) is the type to offer fancy organic cold-pressed juice for eleven dollars and artisanal almond milk that comes in something that looks like baby food jars, so when I got this fork to eat my side salad with, at first I wasn’t sure if it was something exotic and fancy: I used the strange fork to eat my salad and was pleased to find that it worked really well! The tiny serrations on the tip helped spear the individual salad leaves very securely. I went up and asked the guy behind the counter if all his forks were like this, and he laughed and assured me they were not. I went back to work with my head spinning. Had I been struck by the sort of coincidental circumstance that led to the invention of Post-Its, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, and representative democracy?? I began to search the patent records. REVOLVING SPAGHETTI FORK, Patent US2602996 A, 1952