[jon boy]

changing occupation! the one i just had was far too much stress. wont go into details but it was hard. so everyone can expect me to bother them on monday!

[Пятхъдесят Шест]

Originally Posted by jon boy

changing occupation! the one i just had was far too much stress. wont go into details but it was hard.

We know.

 

Kidding aside, good luck with your new job.

[Hip Priest]

Thanks for the kind words, Пятхъдесят Шест.

Good luck with the new job, jonboy.

[Hip Priest]

Granny finds grenade in groceries

Wed Feb 28, 11:40 AM ET

NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds.

"I found a bomb in the potatoes," Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters.

"I went to the market to buy some potatoes and that's where the bomb was. But this bomb was covered in dirt, and I put it in water and got all dirt off. And then I realized 'It's a bomb'!"

Police said the pine cone-shaped grenade, which had no pin and was still active, was the same type used by U.S. soldiers in Europe in World War Two. Authorities believe the mix-up happened at a farm in France, where the grenade was plucked from the ground along with potatoes.

To the woman's relief, police and explosives experts in the small town of San Giorgio a Cremano, near Naples, recovered the grenade and safely detonated it on Wednesday.

But Mauriello was still shaking off her close brush with death. It didn't look like a potato and it was heavier than one. But what if she had cooked it?

"If I hadn't felt its weight, I wouldn't even have realized that it was a bomb," she said.

[Hip Priest]

One of my favourite types of news story:

20 new ocean species found in Indonesia

By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Wed Feb 28, 7:39 PM ET

BANGKOK, Thailand - Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday.

The survey by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, or CSIRO, represents the first in-depth look at Indonesia's sharks and rays since Dutch scientist Pieter Bleeker described more than 1,100 fish species from 1842-60.

Researchers said six of their discoveries have been described in peer review journals, including the Bali Catshark and Jimbaran Shovelnose Ray, found only in Bali, and the Hortle's Whipray, found only in West Papua.

Papers on the remaining 14 are being prepared.

"Indonesia has the most diverse shark and ray fauna and the largest shark and ray fishery in the world, with reported landings of more than 100,000 tons a year," said William White, a co-author of the study. "Before this survey, however, there were vast gaps in our knowledge of sharks and rays in this region."

From 2001 to 2006, researchers photographed and sampled more than 130 species on 22 survey trips to 11 ports across Indonesia. More than 800 specimens were lodged in reference collections at the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense at Cibinong, Java, and the Australian National Fish Collection at Hobart.

The survey was part of a broader project working toward improved management of sharks and rays in Indonesia and Australia, researchers said.

"Good taxonomic information is critical to managing shark and ray species, which reproduce relatively slowly and are extremely vulnerable to overfishing," White said in a statement. "It provides the foundation for estimating population sizes, assessing the effects of fishing and developing plans for fisheries management and conservation."

[Пятхъдесят Шест]

Oh, how I wish this was not true:

I'm going outside to shovel the snow packed sidewalks.

[Hip Priest]

Are you going to make some snowmen?

[Hip Priest]

Snowpeople, sorry.

[Пятхъдесят Шест]

There is enough snow in my yard to make a snowmen double for the entire population of India.

But no, I didn't. Maybe if my younger cousins were over. Much too cold, and there are blowing snow warnings.

[Inhuman]

We're getting ice pellets here, and it's a really big storm. I almost crashed my van when driving to school this morning

[Green_mind]

country roads where I live have been real icy, I have a rear wheel drive too, so the front end of the car goes all over the place.
I had a funny dream two years ago, it was so vivid, it almost seems like I had it yesterday... yesterday... yesterday. I was in a fairly large house, not my own, but it was in this dream, I dreamt that thurston and kim came knocking on my door and came in, I was overwhelmed, even in a dream, they came in asking if they could stay over a night. I showed them a spare bed, double bed, with clean sheets. Then when they left I ran up stairs to the bed they were on and jumped on it to then discover they had left one giant mess of sex goo all over the sheets.
How weird is that, I never dream of these things, I think it was triggered by watching that corporate ghost vid of them kissing on a bed.
Anyone else had any bizarre dreams like this of sonic youth members or any other bands?

[jon boy]

i now have the internet at work! thank god for local councils.

[Trasher02]

Hooray!

[king_buzzo]

oy you going to shellac lee man??

[Trasher02]

Don't have any tickets yet and it's quite an annoying date.
So I think I'll have to pass.

[king_buzzo]

yeah same, its making me angry

[Prof. PoppinFresh]

I have something in my fridge called PowerBait Trout Turbo Dough.

It is chartreuse and has glitter in it.

According to the label, it is 42% STRONGER! But it doesn't say what it is stronger than.

It is made in the USA in Spirit Lake, Iowa

Here are the instructions: "Firmly cover the hook with enough Trout Bait to float for best results."

It smells like feces and play-dough mixed together.

[king_buzzo]

fo posting in my thread and upping your post count all have to rep me. ALL MUST NOW!!!!

[jon boy]

Originally Posted by Nefeli

excellent!

oh it is, it is.

[screamingskull]

i've put the heating on but it doesn't seem to be making any difference.