I remember when David Letterman was so cool you HAD to watch him late at night. He’d do his charming necktie thing…it’d make me smile every time! In college, I had a slight crush on him. Now, he’s a grumpy old man and his latest rant is so off-base, I’m embarrassed for him. He now believes he’s a news maker AND a king-maker…
“Here’s how it works: you don’t come to see me? You don’t come to see me? Well, we might not see you on Inauguration Day,” Letterman said.
Did you hear the one where the family doctor says to the patient that he doesn’t really believe in physical therapy? The patient then asks why he prescribed it for her in the first place and he just shrugs his shoulders and says, “Because you asked for it.”
Of course, there’s a longer story behind that “joke”. I can’t tell it or I’ll lose some hair as I remember the unfortunate contact I had with the loser doctor. Thankfully, it really is one of my very few bad doctor experiences. Right now, I’m trying to figure out the best way to treat 2 or 3 troublesome discs without surgery. It seems that going into full abdominal surgery without your back being in top shape can lead to some back trouble in recovery. Three weeks into physical therapy, my right leg went numb and has stayed that way for three weeks now. Trying to get to the person/tests/therapy to correct the problem hasn’t been easy. I’m finally 2/3 the way there; I found a good neurologist who throughly ruled out other causes and ordered an MRI which confirmed what the physical therapist and I both suspected - disc changes. Now I get to decide if I want Physical Therapy again or Physical Medicine. The neurologist also doesn’t think much of physical therapy, much to my dismay. I’ve always highly respected that field and almost went to school to become one. Instead, he is recommending the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department. Yet, no one can really explain to me what the difference is. Can anyone enlighten me?
Somewhere along the road of life, music and fame, Blues Traveler member, John Popper, traveled (at 111 mph) a little off of planet earth…
…Popper, 39, was arrested Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 90 near the Spokane/Lincoln county line, the Washington State Patrol said.
Inside the black Mercedes SUV, officers found a cache of weapons and a small amount of marijuana, the Patrol said. A police dog searched the vehicle, finding numerous hidden compartments containing four rifles, nine handguns and a switchblade knife. Authorities also found a Taser and night vision goggles. The vehicle was seized.
Popper, who lives in Snohomish, Wash., is the owner of the vehicle, which was being driven by Brian Gourgeois, 34, of Austin, Texas, said state patrol Trooper Jeff Sevigney. The vehicle also had flashing emergency headlights, a siren and a public address system, the Patrol said.
“Popper indicated to troopers that he had installed these items in his vehicle because (in the event of a natural disaster) he didn’t want to be left behind,” the Patrol said in a news release…
I’m thinking there’s a secret award or badge of honor for any trooper who pulls in a haul like this.
Source: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070308/D8NNPABO1.html
I can hardly wait until the ACLU finds this guy and files a case against the police department for violating the “alleged” robber’s rights to a legitimate MySpace. You know that is where this one is headed! Also,I am impressed with the officer who convinced the captain to go with this idea. Just look at this creative writing:
I am around 60 years old, I robbed a bank in North Little Rock, AR on January 8th, one in Fort Smith, AR on January 24, one in Van Buren, AR on February 12, and one in Alma, AR on February 22. I always use a small caliber handgun to commit these robberies and I haven’t been caught yet. Nobody seems to be able to identify me and there is a sizable reward for information leading to my arrest but so far, I am going undetected. I am average height and weight but I have very noticable scaring on my neck and lower jaw. These scars were likely caused by acne earlier in life but there’s no hiding it. I also have a small bald spot on the crown of my head and my hair is mostly gray. I most likely live in Arkansas, Oklahoma or Missouri but could live somewhere else. If you know me, call your local law enforcement agency and tell them who I am or you can just call Crime Stoppers at 479-782-7463 and remain anonymous. I NEED TO BE STOPPED BEFORE SOMEBODY GETS HURT!!!
What’s the funniest part of all? The fact that this bank robber (whose MySpace rights have been violated) has 125 514 543 MySpace friends and counting. It seems the ladies love him! Check out the Sergeant; she’s hot! This bank robber is eventually going to crack and try to contact his hot chick friends, I think. If I had more time and nothing else to do, I’d check out those linking pages for clues. This is a movie in the making! As always, the internet never fails to entertain. Here’s the original story that led to my entertainment this morning…
Police try MySpace to nab bank robber by Jon Gambrell
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A brazen bank robber with nothing but a baseball cap and dark sunglasses hiding his face is one of the latest members of the social-networking Web site MySpace, and he wants to meet “more bank tellers so that I can continue my crime spree!!!” Even though MySpace is popular with teenagers, Fort Smith police Sgt. Jarrard Copeland created the profile Friday hoping someone will recognize the man estimated to be about 60 and suspected in four bank robberies across Arkansas. “We figure that might be one way to get this photo outside of the market,” he said. Amid a backdrop of $100 bills and a song “Citizens on Patrol” from the movie “Police Academy,” the profile displays several photos from a Feb. 22 robbery at a U.S. Bank branch in Alma in which the suspect wore a blue jacket with “FBI” lettering on the left front and a blue ball cap. “The pictures are definitely clear enough and there’s enough of his face and facial features exposed that someone who knows him will definitely recognize him and hopefully they’ll call police,” Copeland said. The photo gallery shows a series of bank security camera photographs, including comic captions like “Here I am robbing the Van Buren bank. See my little gun?” and “I’m robbing the bank in Fort Smith here…. I’m so cool!!!” Copeland said he didn’t go out of his way to ridicule the robber. “I’m not concerned about taunting him,” he said. “If it can get him flustered and it can cause him to slip up and make a mistake, it might help us apprehend him.” Steve Frazier, an FBI spokesman based in Little Rock, said his agency “didn’t have a problem” with the MySpace effort, though it would stick with its traditional bulletins to the media. Frazier said agents met with the state police and local police departments this week to discuss leads on the case. “We’re working it pretty strong,” Frazier said. “Whenever they commit multiple bank robberies, we throw a lot of resources at it.
On the Net: MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/bankrobber
2007 Fort Smith, Ark., Police Department: http://www.fortsmithpd.org/
To my credit (or maybe to Glen’s), I have been officially blocked by the Chinese government. How cool is that?
What not to read before undergoing a hysterectomy…
A woman who refused a blood tranfusion died because she chose her faith over life, an inquest heard.
Allison Mallender, a 44-year-old Jehovah’s Witness, had been admitted to hospital for a routine hysterectomy.
After years of severe abdominal pain the mother-of-one was looking forward to surgery and a lifetime without constant pain.
But during the three-hour operation at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield surgeons encountered a series of complications.
Mrs Mallender’s abdominal organs were stuck together following a previous operation and she had begun to bleed heavily…
Yikes! No offense meant, but I fully intend to accept blood products if required. The ‘organs were stuck together” part is scary to read because those most probably were adhesions, which is what I have. They can cause a lot of pain and I really can’t find a lot of information on them. Tylenol #3 is my new best friend…
Harry Harlow has been resurrected:
From The Korea Times:
EveR-1, a combination of Eve and robot, looks just like a Korean female in her early 20s including her shape that is benchmarked against the nation’s model.
The human-sized robot can understand 400 words and make eye contact while talking via her lips that are synchronized with the pronunciation of words.
Fifteen tiny motors embedded into her silicon face enable her to make a total of four expressions in tune with as many sentiments -joy, anger, sorrow and happiness.
What is their goal?
For now, EveR-1 can be employed as a guide robot at museums and department stores or as an educational model to read books to children,’
Stop the planet. I want to get off now.
hat tip to Mitch Berg over at Shot in the Dark
May 3, 2006 — King Tutankhamun’s rediscovered penis could make the pharaoh stand out in the shrunken world of male mummies, according to a close look into old pictures of the 3,300-year-old mummified king.
The formerly missing sex organ has been just another puzzle in the story of the best-known pharaoh of ancient Egypt.
Photographed intact by Harry Burton (1879-1940) during Howard Carter’s excavation of Tut’s tomb in 1922, the royal penis was reported missing in 1968, when British scientist Ronald Harrison took a series of X-rays of the mummy.
Speculation abounded that the penis had been stolen and sold.
“Instead, it has always been there. I found it during the CT scan last year, when the mummy was lifted. It lay loose in the sand around the king’s body. It was mummified,” Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, told Discovery News. Read on…
Why is this news? Were lots of people worried about it? Must be a guy thing, ‘cuz I think if all the scientists on the team had been female it really wouldn’t have been a huge deal. So a dead king’s penis is missing…does he need it anymore? No. Turns out it was laying next to his body, lost in the sand, all along. This is news? And people think I’ve been a little obsessed about American Idol this year. Ha!
Note to self: Make sure to have actual real friends and not just cyber friends. Develop a plan to avoid this:
Fellow M.O.B. member, Psycmeister, correctly links in his post, “How ’bout a thong, Ma?”.
UPPER ST. CLAIR, Pa. A 10-year-old fourth-grader is protesting a rule by her school that bans miniskirts. The girl and her mother said there is nothing wrong with the skirt, if there are shorts sewn underneath. Steams Elementary in Upper St. Clair has a policy that said skirts that rise to mid-thigh level are just too short.
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