Odd News
And here I thought all along that swing sets in parks were a GOOD idea
Remember the swing sets you played on in your local park or playground when you were a kid? I do.
Among my earliest memories are swinging in the local park in the small Nebraska town where I grew up. It had an old, dilapidated set of swings consisting of board seats hanging from chains fastened to [...]
Are body lights right for you? Another trend that leaves me in the dark
I was looking around the Internet at some odd or “novelty” fashion trends for some research I’m doing. I am well aware of the more prudish (??) stuff out there such as plain old lingerie and ho-hum (??) things like body stockings.
But body lights?? Blinking body lights at that???
Where have I been while the world [...]
Meat thief halted by ham to the face — those Brits know how to have fun
This is an amusing, sort of, story about an attempted meat theft in England. You can read the details here, about how the restaurant owner hammed it up and foiled the bad guy.
Apparently, the thief, arms loaded with 20 pounds of frozen meat — two bags of linguica, a prosciutto log and a ham — [...]
How to reward utilities customers who conserve — raise their rates, of course
I live in the third largest city in Missouri, or as we like to call it, the “big city with a small town heart” — or, as I like to call it: “The big city with a hick town mentality.”
Forgive me for being just a little angry over my fair city, but we’ve just gotten [...]
High-tech voting improvements seem to be missing the mark
My son was telling me recently that he heard of one of the primary elections recently had polling places being run by some people who were totally stumped by all the so-called high-tech improvements. He said something about one polling place where the untrained officials were handing out pointer styluses for the touch screens and [...]
Do you have tatoos or piercings? Do you think they make you sexier?
I confess up front that I have no tattoos and I have no piercings. There’s a reason for that: I find tattoos personally just generally ugly, and the only piercing I would be at all interested in might be an ear.
My older brother did what most guys did back in the 1950s and ’60s after [...]
Just what is the ‘Bilderberg group’? Are we doomed by these world dominators??
I love conspiracy theories and I hate conspiracy theories. The thing I love is that they make for fascinating story telling and interesting reading. The thing I hate is really two-fold: 1) people get alarmed about them needlessly, and, 2) sometimes they turn out to be at least partially true.
A “Reader’s Letter” to our local [...]
It’s odd the presidential primary stuff you can find through Google
I live in Missouri. Just for fun, I Googled the name of a nearby tourist trap — I mean tourist ATTRACTION, sorry — and it was really odd what I got. What I searched for was “Branson Missouri,” an odd little town that’s become a huge tourism magnet in Southwest Missouri.
Near the top of my [...]
Imagine that: A real, historic Davy Crockett document for sale on eBay
Yes indeed, friends, step right up and place your bids. Here we have (had) a genuine Davy Crockett Almanac. Right there for sale on an eBay auction. (The Crockett almanacs were a series of pamphlets written by the Tennessean who died at the Alamo.)
The one problem, however, is that you have to (had to — [...]
For all you pet lovers out there: Would you go for one of these ‘Perfect Pets’?
I posted a discussion of this “Perfect Pets” story on one of my other blogs geared specifically to news about pets and to pet lovers. (Feel free to take a look around that blog. It’s new and I could use the traffic!)
Are you a pet lover? Do you suffer pet allergies, or have problems with [...]
