Archive for July, 2004
July 27, 2004
Airplanes

The airborn terrors described in the recent Woman’s Wall Street article, Terror in the Skies, Again?, has apparently been relegated to urban legend status.

I’m not sure how I feel about this.

I’d like to believe that the air marshalls were in total control of the situation the whole time. I hope they did check out the bathroom to make sure nothing was amiss. I hope that the government really doesn’t want American citizens to be terrorized.

And, most of all, I hope that these air marshalls weren’t paralyzed by racial profiling laws, as was suggested in the original article.

July 26, 2004
Purses

The Netflix of … purses?

Bag Borrow or Steal

I’m definitely not interested in this particular service, but it’s an interesting business model.

Plus I needed to put a link to it somewhere so I’d remember to tell my fashion-conscious sister about it.

Dog Biscuits

Putting the Bite on Mailman-Shaped Dog Treats

Do they think that these cookies are encouraging the dogs to attack them?

Animal crackers don’t make me want to eat real monkeys, but who knows what’s going on in the minds of dogs.

Actually, I think I’d like to eat some mailman (or cat) shaped cookies.

Granny Adventures #2

Breaking News!

Supergranny’s arch-nemesis captured by police.

Future Covers

I just got back from a cruise to Nova Scotia. What a great trip.

Upon my return, I discovered that I have been assigned to cover Octothorpe’s Do the Math for the new CoverFight.

My Space Cadet will be covered by Redcar. I’m very excited to hear that.

Look for these songs on August 30.

Beer Run!

Four inmates escape, go on beer run

“I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn’t be charged with escape,” Rimer said, “but they were wrong.”

I think if you are going to make it this easy for prisoners to sneak out of the jail, then you should probably not discourage them from returning.

July 20, 2004
The Jackson Four

Michael’s plan to populate the earth with people that aren’t afraid to look at his face continues:

Michael Jackson to Be Father of Quadruplets

Pedestrians Beware

We need a guy like this here in Jersey City.

One Way of Promoting Traffic Safety…

Potty Rage

I think it’s a bad sign for Burger King that people are fighting over the bathroom.

Potty Rage: Two Charged in Burger King Bathroom Battle

First of all, I never expected to see the word john used this way in a real news story.

Second of all, part of this sounds like some weird mating ritual:

“The two men allegedly bumped chests, then chased each other around the restaurant with their weapons.”