The Spagnostics and the Pastafarians follow the Spaghedeity and believe in the sanctity of pirates. What's not to like?!
More info: Homepage: http://www.venganza.org/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Sept 19th is coming fast.
These quickie news channels really need more communication between the ad department and the news department.
'Guerdon' rewarding word in spelling bee
Sameer Mishra won the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington on Friday by correctly spelling the word guerdon, which appropriately means reward.
Sameer Mishra, after winning the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington on Friday. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)
Mishra, 13, from West Lafayette, Ind., won $35,000 in cash, a $2,500 U.S. savings bond and thousands of dollars worth of reference books.
He's a reader, enjoys video games, has played the violin for four years in his school orchestra and wants to be a neurosurgeon.
It was his fourth appearance at the bee, after moving up the rankings from ties for 98th, 14th and 16th place in the previous three competitions.
He beat first-time contestant Sidharth Chand, 12, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Sameer was coached by his sister, Shruti, a high school student and three-time bee contestant.
The last seven Canadian contestants were eliminated earlier Friday for flubbing such words as accordatura (the notes to which a stringed instrument is tuned), tonneau (an early style of touring car) and otacariasis (an infestation of the ear with mites).
"Seven up, seven down," said Pam Penny of Ancaster, Ont. Her daughter, Veronica, was one of the seven.
Frank Neuhauser, 94, who won the first bee in 1925 with gladiolus (a flower), said : "It was a lot easier back then." He only had to beat seven others; Mishra vanquished 287. " I'd never make it now," Neuhauser said.
He won $500, and was honoured with a parade in his hometown, Louisville, Ky.
by jgr80
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." - Andy WarholBob Barr is running for President of the United States. Recently, he won the right to run on the well-known Libertarian ticket.
by jgr80
Check this out:
Two major supermarkets were cordoned off by police today after a man shocked shoppers by spraying urine on the food.The raider entered Morrisons in Glevum Way, Gloucester at around 11.20am and fired a "foul-smelling substance" - thought to be urine - on meat, salad and fruit (continue ...)
I am always amazed by the ingenuity of weird criminals. This is clearly just gross. But I still need a little more from the article. The shortcomings of structure, style, and the picture aside-- where is the info about methodology?
I was thinking originally that it would have been a classy spray bottle, intricately prepared before the trip to the supermarket, exhaling a fine mist over the unsuspecting produce with each gentle squeeze. But then there's the innocuous mention of a tube. This could obviously be a hundred different things.
They say that the man's actions posed no danger. I wonder what kind of punishment he can get just for being gross.
Call CSI.
by jgr80
Cosmic Carousal is not a hockey blog. Just so happens I've been spending a lot of time at the rink. There are actually a few other writers signed on to post, who will likely never mention hockey unless it is to make fun of my earlier posts. They will be here shortly.
This post is also related to hockey.
There are a lot of breaks in the games. There are the regular ones that anyone who understands hockey would expect... goals, whistles, period ends, etc. But with televised games, there are also commercials.
For all the millions of people watching around the world, there are thousands of people in the game arena. There's not enough time during a commercial to go for a beer. There's nothing happening on the ice. It's just enough time to make those drunk fans I blogged about the other day really upset.
Well, the jumbotron usually gets in on the action. Most of the time its a generic animation telling the fans to "make noise" or "get loud" or "clap hands." Some people pay attention to these (drunk fans), and the others (non-drunk fans) turn to whoever they're sitting with and jock-talk about the game.
Those pesky jumbotron guys likes to switch it up though. They do a 50/50 announcement. They do advertisements. They do replays. My personal favorite is the "Kiss Cam." Insert video here.
This was not even one of the more entertaining episodes of the IIHF "Kiss Cam." It was just the one that I was prepared to video. The things come without warning. I had been planning on it for a few games.
There is always a build-up in tension... Somehow the camera men are able to keep the funniest couple to the end.
During one game, they decided to put the two guys doing the stats work in the penalty box on the cam. Which was only funny to the people who knew them. I was lucky enough to be one of the people who found it funny.
One time they put two drunk male fans on screen. They didn't bite.
One time they put two females on screen. They bit. For about five seconds. It was cool.
Sometimes they put up people and no one realizes they're on screen. Like five couples in a row. No one kissing. The bit nosedives from the jumbotron right to centre ice. Then they go to canned footage of Homer and Marge making out at various times throughout The Simpsons.
But one time... they put a couple up on screen... one of the first ones, too, so it wasn't the big finish by any means... The guy on camera turns to the camera man, looks straight into the camera and says "SHE'S MY SISTER!" Dude was horrified. The crowd laughed harder than at anything else in any other game I was at.
