WHITE HOUSE: 2000 Trick-or Treaters beat on the White House door and were handed out treats by the residing family, a Mr. and Mrs. Obama. The Trick-or-Treaters were not too thrilled when they were handed stock certificates for General Motors. Six year old Bobby Washington (no relation) was quoted as saying, "I wanted a Hershey Bar, not this worthless piece if paper." He had apparently just accessed the latest stock quote on his cell phone. The Obama's were quick to retort, "If these little beggars want a handout they should have failed in big business."
TIME CHANGE: Did you change your clocks Sunday? I changed mine to 5pm and am now having a Jack Daniels for breakfast.
SAN JOSE: Southwest Air apologized for throwing bad mother, Pamela Root and her screaming 2 year old brat Adam off one of their flights because he wouldn't shut up long enough for passengers to hear the safety instructions. Bad move Southwest, the fear of lawsuits has made us all afraid to do the right thing.
MICOSIA CYPRUS: Just before a flight to Athens took off, a 28 year old Greek man ran to the back of the plane, opened the door and jumped down the slide. He disapeared over the fence and no one has seen him since. Could it be that young Adam Root was aboard?
HALLOWEEN WARNING: Authorities were concerned about sex offenders opening their doors to young Trick-or-Treaters this Halloween. Apparently they don't read the news, Michael Jackson is dead and Roman Polanski is being held in custody in Europe.
I RAN OVER A WHAT?: In Portland Oregon Edward Cespeda-Rodriguez was tooling down the road in his Mercedes when he dropped his cell phone. Now we all know that it's foolish to pull over and fiddle with your cell phone when you can just keep driving and eventually find it by taking your eyes off the road and spotting it on the floor, thereby saving valuable driving time. Well Edward did just that, but unfortunately a pedicab, its lights flashing away and being piloted by a young lady dressed up in a bright orange bunny costume got in his way. He claims he didn't see her. She says if Edward can't see a bright orange 6' bunny peddling a pedicab with flashing lights on it maybe he shouldn't be driving. She may have a point Edward.
THIS GUY IS A WALKING CLICHE: Rodney Bolton, 38 decided he wanted to shoplift a ferrit from a pet shop in Jacksonville Beach Florida. He stuffed it in his trousers. You can make up your own ending.
Until next time...
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009
Dear News As I See It Editor:
Sir, I think you should know that stuffing ferrets down the front of your pants is a time-honred (honoured) British pub game/tradition/drunken lunacy.
And I am not making this up. It's called ferret-legging and I think crazy drunk Brits have been doing it since the inventionof the freet.
Go here:
http://www.yorkblog.com/mikeargento/2006/02/ferrets-plus-pan ts-equals-hour.html
Otherwise,your wisdom is astonishing.
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
I lived in the UK for a few years and this does not surprise me. What's a "freet?"
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
The dictionary says this:
freet: _n_ About 1350 _furet_. Later __furret (1378), borrowed from Old French, diminutive of_fuiron_ : weasel, ferret, thief. From Late Latin _furionem_, Late Latin root -Fur_, see suffix -ET_.
(From Barnhart's Concise Dictionary of Etymology, H.W.WILSON 1988, HARPER COLLINS 1995, p 236)
But a more useful definition would probably be this "A freet is a weasel, a ferret, a typographical error by a so-called writer who can't type."
That is all one needs to know about a freet.
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
Thank you.
I don't think, "Is that a freet in your trousers or are you just glad to see me?" would ever catch on.
I don't think, "Is that a freet in your trousers or are you just glad to see me?" would ever catch on.
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
I heard about this ferret-in-the-pants business about 25 years ago from an English friend, and I didn't believe him. So I checked it out (these were pre-Google days) and discivered he was telling me the God's honest truth. The Jacsonville connection was simply funny as well, because I grew up listening the The Big Ape, rock-and-roll AM radio out of Jacksonville, WAPE -- the only r&r signal I could get on the coast of far-South Georgia. And the ferret business I just couldn't let slide past without comment. I know something about ferrtes. I know a ton about getting drunk. Shoving a ferret down my pants while drunk in a who-cal-last-longer contest makes me think two things: first, I think I'd rather light the fuse on a cherry bomb and send it into the boxer-briefs than shove a sharp-toothed sneaky animal near my teeny but most treasured possession. And B: I'm _never_ going back to England.
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
Some r&r critics argue that they're about half dead. (Keep an eye on the jury box, would you? Long, serious thing from me to be posted before noon, 11/whatever, Wednesday.)
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
I don't think Happy Jack's Pie 'n Burger has WiFi, but I'll check the docket first thing tonight.
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
If there really is a place called Happy Jack's Pi 'n Burger, I'm moving in and will never leave.
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
They close at eight and only take cash. I'll put it all on twitter for you today at lunch.
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