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Another antivaccine zombie meme: polio vaccine and SV40 and cancer, oh, my!
The Internet has produced a revolution with respect to information. Now, people anywhere, any time, can find almost any information that they want, as long as they have a connection to the global network and aren't unfortunate enough to live in a country that heavily censors the Internet connections coming in. In addition, anyone any time can put his or her opinion out on the Internet and it might be read by people on the other side of the planet. For example, it continually amazes me that my blatherings here are read by people in Australia and New Zealand, as well as Europe and pretty much every other continent. Before the Internet, there was no way I would ever have achieved my current measure of minor celebrity status (and I do mean minor). Now, with enough good (I hope) writing and some links from some popular sources, and I can make my opinion known worldwide.
The dark side of this is that cranks can also make their opinions known worldwide, and, all too frequently, they are much better at it than skeptics are. For example, this very blog used a generic, vanilla WordPress template for the longest time, only updating it a few months ago. Meanwhile crank websites like NaturalNews.com are decked out in the latest, greatest web accoutrements, complete with video. One other problem with the democratization of information is that there now exist what I like to call "zombie memes." In the world of quackery and pseudoscience, these are pseudoscientific claims on the Internet that never die, no matter how often they are refuted. Generally, such memes/claims pop up, make a fuss, are refuted, and then disappear. Then a few months (or even a year or two) later, something will happen to resurrect them. Maybe it's a clueless mortician cremating the remains of such a zombie meme during a rainstorm and letting whatever it is that resurrected the dead meme in the first place permeate the soil of a graveyard of dead memes. Maybe it involved injecting a glowing fluid into the corpse of the meme. Who knows? Who cares that much? All I know is that these zombie memes keep popping up again and again as though they were new.
Now that the World Wide Web (at least as we know it, in its graphically browsable form) is approaching its twentieth birthday, we now have enough perspective to see these things. Steve Novella pointed out one zombie meme just the other day about the MMR, as did a certain person well known to this blog. Just yesterday I noticed another of these zombie memes arising from the dead yet again to feast on the brains of the living and thus make them cranks too. (At least, that is the goal of their continual resurrection.) This one popped up at that online repository of all things quackery, NaturalNews.com, in a post by Mike Adams himself entitled Merck vaccine developer admits vaccines routinely contain hidden cancer viruses derived from diseased monkeys. Other versions of this meme pop up from time to time with titles like CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Polio Vaccine In An 8-Year Span When It Was Contaminated With Cancer Virus.
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Junior Ballhawk of the Year
Apparently it's Award Season in the MLB community. Yeah, well I'm going to completely disregard that. I have interest in it, don't get me wrong, but if you want to read about the awards, my friend Matt Huddleston is doing comprehensive coverage of all of the awards on his blog, The Unbiased MLB Fan. No, here at Observing Baseball we are completely self-absorbed in the awards converge, covering only awards that the staff (read: me, Mateo Fischer) win.
So yes, I won mygameballs.com's Junior Ballhawk of the Year:
The subtitle phrases it perfectly when it says I am honored. If you are a ballhawk with any normalcy to your life's schedule, there are many times when it may not seem worth it to keep ballhawking. Then there's the fact that I had to do something half-way decent to be considered for the award. Then, after that, when you consider that this is a peer-voted award, it adds a whole new level of honored to the mix. To people outside of the ballhawk community (and maybe even to people inside it) this may not seem like much, but it feels pretty great to me right now. Getting back to the urge to quit that 95% of ballhawks get, there are very many things that make you want to quit, but at some point or another, unless you do in fact quit, there is something keeping you from quitting. This, although not directly, is an indication of what tips the scale back for me.
Now I'm not going to sit here and say that it was my goal to win any award at the beginning of this year, as indicated by its absence in the goals I *did* set for this year. (Psst. Link to that here.) In fact, I wasn't even considering that when I wrote the goals. I didn't even know I was going to be eligible for it at the end of the season. For those who don't know, my birthday is in October, before the award voting began, but apparently, the cutoff date was in July That said, when I did eventually win the award, it meant something to me as I have described above. It is what it is: a really cool thing that came along through the course of doing my ballhawking thing throughout the season.
Anyway, thank you to Alan Schuster for just creating mygameballs.com and the people who voted for me. I don't want this to sound like an Oscar acceptance speech or anything; I just want an entry on the blog documenting the fact that I won the award. This is a sort of awkward entry for me. On the one hand, I didn't not want to write an entry and make it seem like I'm better than the award or anything, because it does mean something to me, but at the same time, I know it doesn't mean that much to a lot of people.
Also, congratulations to all of the other ballhawks who received votes for Junior Ballhawk of the Year:
Keep your eyes glued to mygameballs.com for the next few days as the announcement for Ballhawk of the Year should be up, which is a much greater feat than this. Could it possibly be that Greg Barasch takes it and we be the first and possibly the last next-door neighbor combination to sweep the awards?
And I know this entry was both late and unrelated to the poll I'm conducting this offseason, but I felt it was necessary and I had a bunch of things that got in the way of entry writing this week. New entry up on Monday. Meanwhile, keep voting on the assortment of polls I have provided below if you have not already done so (P. S. Thanks to everyone who has voted, the main poll is over 20 votes as of me writing this):
If you have no clue what some of the entries in the first poll are, here's the link to the entry where I explain them.
Update: So Greg didn't win and the results proved to me that Ballhawk of the Year is just a popularity contest with a splash of actual stats looking. Anyway, congratulations to Zack, but a cool thing about that being announced is that there was a new addition made to the "award winners" page on mygameballs.com:
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Yes, that's very true. Most Minor league Stadiums that I have gone to are pretty good. Buffalo is great for ballhawking. It has 17,500 seats and a hill in Right Field so it's quite easy to get balls sometimes. For example,the Rochester Red Wings stadium is okay for ballhawking. The ushers and people there act like there at Citi Field or New Yankee Stadium.
Well, during the junior voting, Alan claimed Austin ineligible because his stats didn't make sense and I asked Austin and he said he thought gamers where balls that said Official ball International League and that minor league practice ball meant it was before game. So Austin emailed Alan telling him what happened and Alan made him eligible for the ballhawk of the year in which he ended up winning. I always wonder what it would be like if Danny, Austin and myself didn't ballhawk at the same stadium as we would probably put up at least 50 more balls to are stats each year as there aren't a lot of ballhawks in the minors.
Congrats Mateo!!! I came in 2nd place for junior ballhawk of the year in the minors. Danny came in 1st.
Congratulations, Mateo! I am very proud of you.
Great determination and hard work.
Congrats, again, Mateo! Your comments discussion with Nick is interesting. I didn't realize people with no balls recorded got votes. Oh, well. Anyway, I don't think there can be many complaints against the winners. In the BOY category, I was going to vote for Zack as first place initially, but then decided to go with Greg first and Zack second since Zack had already won it twice and Greg had a higher per game average this season. But Zack really went off with the homerun catches. Anyway, both Zack and Greg went off this season with crazy per game averages and competition factors. I was surprised that Greg was all the way down at #9.


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A love letter to bread
Like any love story, this one involves a power struggle — between the heart and the hips.
By Leslie Bilderback 09/01/2010
My Be-loav-ed Bread,
I love you. I love the feel of your dough in my hands as I caress you across my countertop, gently coaxing out your elasticity with each tender stroke. I love the smell of my kitchen and the yeast-heavy steam that fogs up my glasses when I open the oven to check on you. I love the sounds you make — the delicate crinkling as you cool on the counter, the salacious ripping of your crust as it ruptures to reveal your inner treasure, the slow, deliberate crunch in my jaw as I savor your essence. And oh, the taste of you. My dearest, when we are apart, I hunger for you.
Affectionately yours (and waiting eagerly in anticipation
of our next encounter),
Yes, despite Deuteronomy's warning, I could absolutely live on bread alone. Well, technically I would need water too, and probably some orange juice to prevent scurvy. But otherwise, I could totally live on bread, because I adore it.
Also, I hate it.
A contradiction? Perhaps. But I know that my precious bread is actually my enemy. We are engaged in a mano-a-mano duel to the death. You see, simple carbohydrates do not initially satisfy my appetite and thus create a further craving, which in turn leads to overeating. It is not until I am resting supinely on the floor, pants unzipped (Hold your horses! This is not meant to be titillating), in an attempt to alleviate the explosive gaseous thunderhead in my gut, that I think, "I probably shouldn't have eaten that entire bread basket." (Note to self: Find a new family motto to replace "More Bread, Please.")
Speaking of the bread basket, I blame this singular practice for the downfall of society. It is surely some sort of trick. Why else would restaurants give it away for free? Is it some kind of reward for making it to the table in one piece? No! Is it a way to fill us up so that they can put less food on our plates, therefore saving billions of dollars a year? Preposterous!
I do think, however, that the bread basket was concocted as a KGB plot to weigh down the capitalists — literally. In fact, if I am not mistaken, I think the first free bread basket was served at the Russian Tea Room in 1947. (Aha!) Of course, those commie carb-pushers never thought they'd lose the arms race, devalue the ruble and ultimately alienate the Soviet people. Nice try, comrade.
Yes, we are a country stuffed to the gizzard with bread like a turkey at Thanksgiving, but that does not mean we are ready to go totally totalitarian.
Sometimes bread has the upper hand; other times I do. Currently I am winning this affair d'honneur, but I feel certain there will come a day when I say, "To hell with it," throw in the towel and spend my final hours gorging on croissants, Indian fry bread, sourdough boules and (gasp!) hot naan, like Robert Morley in the final scene of the best movie ever, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (Oh, sorry! I should have said "spoiler alert," although I don't think it counts if the movie was made in 1978. Perhaps I should issue myself a get-a-life-and-watch-a-movie-from-this-decade alert.)
I am not the first to express loaf love. The ancient Egyptians were fans too. Bakeries unearthed at Giza date to 2600 B.C., and many grains and loaves have been found in a number of Egyptian tombs, along with drawings of busy bakeries and carvings of people kneading. (Either they're kneading bread or running an ancient massage parlor, although I doubt that is the kind of imagery they took to the hereafter.)
The process of making bread with naturally occurring yeast is a long one, but I guess when you're up for building pyramids, you are a patient people. It's not as if they had a choice. Hatshepsutiri the Baker Girl could hardly take a quick cruise down the Nile for a packet of Fleishmann's RapidRise. In those days, one had to attract and capture wild yeast (an operation that did not involve hiding in the bushes with a net). Yeast is a microscopic living organism found all around us. Like me, it is attracted to carbohydrates, and it prefers an environment that is warm and moist. When all the conditions are right, the yeast feeds, then produces carbon dioxide (CO2) and alcohol in a little process we call fermentation. Production of alcohol is less noticeable in baking than in brewing, but the longer the fermentation, the more a sour-tasting alcohol accumulates. This is the basic principle behind sourdough. (To correct a common misconception: Miner '49ers, known for their sourdough and gold-prospecting, were not bakers — they were drunks. The starters were guarded diligently so they could drink the alcohol off the top. Now, that's the kind of ingenuity that makes California great!)
The ancients probably first noticed natural yeast bubbling weirdly on the surface of some mushy fruit. They gathered it up and added it to a vat of fruit juice, which eventually produced wine, or what the ancients called "happy juice." They tried it in a tea of watery grains and created Pabst Blue Ribbon. Finally, Larry the Luxorian added some of the bubbly mass to a bowl of porridge. It was awful, so he threw it in the fire. But later that night, when the fire died out, he found a loaf of bread among the coals.
Even with the knowledge of starters, brewing and bread making, it took the invention of the microscope for man to realize that yeast was the cause of fermentation, and it wasn't until the 1860s that the commercial production of yeast began.
Sure, grain has something to do with the lusciousness of bread too, but I am afraid to launch into my Ode to Endosperm, lest I lose the two readers I have left. Suffice to say the entire process of making bread is as magical as Houdini at Disneyland on Christmas Eve.
Leslie Bilderback is a certified master baker, chef, cookbook author and lead pastry instructor at École de Cuisine Pasadena. Bilderback teaches her techniques online at culinarymasterclass.com.
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City, teachers work on new contractMay 21,2013SOUTH BURLINGTON The South Burlington School Board and the teachers union are hoping a fact-finding report can help them reach an agreement on a new contract.
Negotiations have been under way since November and a mediator from Boston met with both parties May 15 but was unable to resolve an impasse in negotiations.
The fact-finding report that is due mid-summer will disclose publicly the most recent offers each side has made.
But the Burlington Free Press reported neither side is willing to discuss the details of the negotiations.
Nothing is agreed until its all agreed, said School Board Chairman Richard Cassidy.
Chief teacher negotiator, Eric Stone, said the union wants a deal.
Nothing would please us more than getting that fair, settled contract, said Stone, a South Burlington High School math and science teacher.
The current contract expires June 30 but it includes a clause extending the terms of the contract if no new agreement has been reached.
In 2011, the board and union fought bitterly before agreeing to the current contract. The board imposed terms after the union refused to accept a proposal that would have eliminated automatic pay increases standard in most teacher contracts based on each year of service and additional education.
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Written by mz on 01.10.2013 at 12:23
whoa what a monster :| I had listened to this for maybe 15 spins during these days and it is really the most crushing fucking devastating album I've heard. Also, overall it tops the (excellent) AH. Those who found AH a little too easy should give this one a shot.
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Just occurred to me, have you ever listened to Overmars 'Born Again' album. Think you might like it.
Bandcamp if you're interested.
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Just a bad billApril 30,2014
Just a bad bill
There is a saying that I believe we should try to apply to lifes issues: Keep it simple, stupid.
In regard to the education bill pending in the Legislature, our legislators would do well to heed that saying. In simple terms, this bill will drive the costs of education in Vermont. That is the last thing we should be doing. This information comes from the Agency of Educations chief financial officer. Simply put, this bill will dilute local control further by eliminating many school boards, leaving critical functions that these boards perform to be sucked up by an increasing bureaucracy at the state level. This bill simply eliminates internal control functions.
This plan will hire more lawyers at the Agency of Education level. That is good because they will need them if this bill is passed. Why? Because in simple terms this bill will be seizing some districts assets and reallocating them to other districts. Big Brother does not know better when it comes to running our schools. This bill does nothing to fix the problems related to funding and financing education, it takes away local control and is in the keep it simple thought process, just a bad bill.
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Pam Sayler wrote this guest post earlier this year. Somehow it was categorized incorrectly in my email and I found it during holiday break. I believe this is a great post to start thinking about plans for 2012. Coaches, and if you need one is a common questions as people start pushing themselves in the sport.
While pushing the Kirby this weekend my mind drifted to the subject of coaching. Why would the average rider hire a cycling coach? What advantage would a coach have to one whose cycling ambition is less than the current world champion?
I paused vacuuming long enough to check in on my son who was practicing piano.
Jacob is in his second year of lessons and progressing nicely. But like many 9 year olds he looses focus and spends about ½ of his time just playing. While I try to take a back seat and not micro manage him I do find it necessary to step in and make sure he is completing the work of understating music theory, structure and technique. By ensuring he spends time on developmental drills I am assured that my investment has a positive
return and Jacob has a broad awareness of music, stronger hand to eye coordination and simply plays better. Even if he does not have the desire to become a concert pianist Jacob's father and I see music as a door to many future opportunities and will give him a well rounded view of life.
It took me vacuuming the remainder of the family room and down the hallway to connect those dots. Just as I stand behind Jacob seeing he stays on task a cycling coach will help me ride more efficiently – prevent injury and cycle longer. Not just that one day, but cycle longer in life.
In turning to a coach you are entrusting someone to look over your shoulder. Not to compete against, but to draw along side of you and guide you. Coaching is that special mix of relationship and expertise. One needs to trust their coach. A technical and certifiable background is necessary but equally important is the human factor; how well you interface. Before signing on with a coach, ask yourself the following:
Why do you want a coach? – specifically, what are you looking for?
What is your budget?
What is that person's experience and education?
How much interaction do you want? Individual, group, online?
During the interview process look for someone who asks these questions and has good answers for your questions. Determine how long it will take to reach your goals and make sure your to contract for a brief period first – a longer contract can be drawn up after you are confident this coach is the right one for you.
And finally, remember that no matter how good a coach you hire, and how lofty your ambition nothing will happen if you don't set aside time and stick to the plan. The investment in yourself will only pay off if you apply time and effort. Otherwise you are just throwing away money. And if you have money to throw away, please let me know. I've got a few years of piano left to fund.


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Farm diversification into energy production by anaerobic digestion
A Relu Policy and Practice Note (No. 26) that summarises a research project investigating the potential for the development of anaerobic digestion on farms, and the implications for rural development and the environment.
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Anaerobic digestion on farms can provide additional income through using the biogas to generate electricity and heat, or upgrading it to a transport fuel. This contributes towards renewable energy targets, with the option of using the energy to supply the local community. It also offers environmental benefits by reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with farming, and promotes the recycling of nutrients which can be used in place of artificial fertilisers. The process can use waste biomass, manures, slurry and energy crops and, by careful planning and adaptive land use, can maximise the use of the whole crop for food and energy.
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To get his students' attention, Rabbi Jamie Arnold starts singing a catchy, simple song. Within a few seconds, the 20 or so classmates interrupt their conversations and join in. Then the group pauses for reflection.
"Take a breath like it's your first," Arnold tells them. "Enjoy the breath like it's your last."
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In 2005, the members of Congregation Beth Evergreen took a leap of faith. The 30-year-old congregation had experienced growth, purchased land and built Evergreen's first synagogue. Now it was the time for the next step: a full-time rabbi.
After months of interviews, the board of directors hired Jamie Arnold, a young rabbi ordained in 1999 who was serving at Temple Sinai in Amherst, N.Y.
Congregation members and the community now have had a chance to see the new Bergen Park Church at 31919 Rocky Village Drive in Evergreen.
A two-day open house on Saturday and Sunday included refreshments, crafts for the kids, chances to win entertainment tickets, and tours.
"It's a pretty big deal for us," said Pastor Jim Demolar.
The new 11,000-square-foot church cost almost $2.8 million to build. The congregation pledged about two-thirds of the building cost; a bank loan covered the rest.
As Flatirons Community Church West Campus celebrates its one-year anniversary in Genesee, leaders say up to 1,600 members attend two separate services on any given Sunday.
That's close to 25 percent growth in the last year — attributable both to the church's "real and relevant" modern sermons, as well as to the church's rapid growth at its original location in Lafayette, said Pastor Jesse DeYoung.
My first and most important job in writing this essay is to invite all of my mountain neighbors to the Interfaith Thanksgiving Service at St. Laurence Episcopal Church in Conifer at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25. You will "dine" upon fine music, readings, prayers and hymn singing. You will have an opportunity to contribute to the Mountain Resource Center and Evergreen Christian Outreach.
Excavators were out Wednesday, April 2, to get the ground ready for the new $2.2 million Bergen Park Church.
The new 11,000-square-foot structure will help the congregation grow, said Pastor Jim Demolar. It will be built on a 2.7-acre parcel at 31919 Rocky Village Drive. The new church is adjacent to the existing church, which is at 1318 County Road 65. The existing church is getting a new address, too — 31880 Rocky Village Drive.
Bergen Park Church representatives bought the land in October 2010.
By Carol McKinley
For the Courier
Evergreen Rabbi Levi Brackman believes he can save a generation of baby boomers from feeling bored and useless during the transition to retirement. His Fountain of Youth retirement plan can be described with one word: purpose.
"(Purpose is) what makes me get out of bed at 4:30 every morning," says Brackman. "You're happier and satisfied with life because you feel good about yourself."
Bernie Goldman walked through the doors of the Canyon Courier in 1974 to place a want ad — he was looking for members of the Jewish faith with whom to celebrate the High Holidays. And so, Congregation Beth Evergreen was born.
"I met with him several times," Rabbi Jamie Arnold said of Goldman, who died last October. "He was friends with the editor of the Courier, and one day was joking with him about there being 19 churches in the church directory of the paper. And he said, 'You know what the 20th should be? A synagogue.' "
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Community forum in Springfield follows drug sweepJune 22,2013SPRINGFIELD A community meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Riverside Middle School to discuss the recent drug raid in Springfield and surrounding towns.
Representatives from Vermont State Police, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, and communities who have had success responding to situations similar to Springfield, will be on hand, according to Wendi Germain, director of the Springfield Justice Center, one of the organizers of the forum.
The discussion and planning session will be followed by a walk through town, according to Germain.
Its time to come up with a plan and follow through on it. To do this we need to rally as a community, she added.
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Galen E. Mudgett Sr.July 29,2013
Galen E. Mudgett Sr.
Galen E. Mudgett Sr.
WATERBURY CENTER Galen Earl Mudgett Sr., 90, of Ripley Road passed away peacefully while picking blueberries in Elmore on Thursday, July 25, 2013. Born in Randolph on October 24, 1922, he was the son of the late Mark and Ursula (Huntoon) Mudgett. On September 18, 1942, he married the former Hazel Bicknell in Tunbridge. Hazel passed away on December 9, 1994. Galen met Martha Pearl and they were married on May 11, 1996, in Waterbury.
Galen was a 1940 graduate of South Royalton High School and then continued his education at the Vermont School of Agriculture in Randolph, graduating in 1941. For the next 35 years, Galen practiced the vocation that he loved, owning and operating his dairy farm in Sharon. Following, Galen was employed by Central Vermont Railroad as a yard manager and then retired in 1992 from Green Mountain Container Co. where he designed boxes for a variety of applications. He had made his home in Waterbury Center since.
Galen served the community of Sharon as a school director for nine years, a selectman for nine years, moderator for town meeting for 11 years, as well as fence viewer, justice of the peace and was the last state representative for the Town of Sharon in 1965. In addition to his civic service, Galen was a member and past master of the Sharon Lodge #105 F&AM, the Forest-Unity Chapter #82 OES, the Windsor County Farm Bureau, Eastern States Farmers Exchange and Agway. His other memberships included the White River Grange, the Sharon Congregational Church and, while living in Waterbury Center, he attended the Waterbury Congregational Church and most recently, the Green Mountain Community Alliance Church in Duxbury.
In his leisure time, he enjoyed gardening, camping with his camper, especially with his friends in the Good Sams Club, furniture restoration and re-caning. In earlier years, he enjoyed playing trumpet with the town bands in Randolph and South Royalton.
Galen is survived by his wife, Martha Pearl Mudgett of Waterbury Center; his children, Galen E. Mudgett Jr. and his friend, James Sheehan, of Sharon, Sandra Whitney and her husband, Merrill, of Chelsea, Ruth Roy and her husband, Dr. David Roy, of Hyde Park, Lois Hayworth of Scarborough, Maine, and Lola Noyes and her husband, Dan, of Waterbury Center; 13 grandchildren, Mark Whitney and his wife, Jessica, Rebecca Roy, Christopher Noyes and his wife, Rebecca, Sonya Roberge and her husband, Tim, Erin Longchamp and her husband, Chris, Andrew Roy, Emily Hayworth and her fiancé, Robert Dombrowski, Matthew Roy, Steven Hayworth, Katelyn Liptack and her husband, Daniel, Alyssa Pearl, Nicole Pearl and Christine Pearl; six great-grandchildren, Shawn Bartney-Whitney, Matthew Whitney, John Roberge, James Roberge, Kassidy Noyes and Zoe Longchamp; a sister, Glendine Piper of Sharon; a brother, Merl Mudgett and his wife, Phyllis, of Bell, Fla.; as well as nieces, nephews and extended family. Galen was predeceased by two brothers, Jack and Solan Mudgett; a sister, Lucille Penrod; and a son-in-law, Steven Hayworth.
Memorial services will be held from the Green Mountain Community Alliance Church in Duxbury on Tuesday, July 30, 2013, at 11 a.m. with a reception to follow. Friends may call at the Perkins-Parker Funeral Home in Waterbury on Monday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. Inurnment will take place in Pine Hill Cemetery, Sharon. The family requests that flowers be omitted; rather, memorial gifts would be appreciated to the Green Mountain Community Alliance Church Steeple Fund, 4987 Vermont Route 100, Waterbury, VT 05676-9544. To send online condolences, please visit www.perkinsparker.com and Facebook.MORE IN ObituariesFrederick A. Full StoryBonnie L. Full StoryRichard E. Lemery
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CHARLESTON – The 2013 West Virginia MoneySmart Week will be observed until Saturday.
Among the groups participating in the annual observance is AARP West Virginia and the AARP Foundation, which have joined more than 30 organizations including the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Federal Trade Commission and FINRA Investor Education Foundation to promote financial wellness during MoneySmart Week.
MoneySmart Week is a multi-state campaign of the Federal Reserve Bank that stresses the importance of financial literacy, informs consumers where they can get help and provides free educational seminars and activities in multiple locations.
The highlight event for this year's West Virginia observance will be Operation Scam Jam from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 300 Court St., Charleston.
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Activities conclude with AARP's semiannual "Fight Fraud, Shred Instead" free recycling events in the Kanawha Valley and North Central West Virginia from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday at Gander Mountain, 2600 Mountaineer Boulevard, Southridge Center, Charleston, and Kroger, 198 Emily Drive, Eastpointe Center, Clarksburg.
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First movie you saw in a movie theatre
Snow White (yeah I know but I think I was 4 and my aunt took me).ReplyCancel
It was either Matilda or Grease. I can't remember which came first, but they were my first two. 1978.ReplyCancel
I think it was E.T. I cried through the whole beginning when he was running in the woods, fearing they would kill him. My older sister still gives me crap about it.ReplyCancel
The Lion KingReplyCancel
I don't think it was actually the first, but the first I remember is my gram taking me to see "The Apple Dumpling Gang" when I was 7. Don Knotts & Tim Conway! Could you ask for more?ReplyCancel
First memory of one is "Sound of Music". The Nazis in the arched doorways at the Salzburg Festival gave me nightmares for a while.ReplyCancel
The first I remember is The Goonies, which I would have been 3 yrs old to see at the drive-in.ReplyCancel
American Werewolf in London as a toddler. My dress matched the velvet seats, but I don't remember anything else. Yeah, my mother isn't the brightest in the bunch…
First one I vividly remember was Gremlins. I stood up in the theater and yelled that Johnny Carson wasn't real because he was on TV.ReplyCancel
Lady and the tramp. Hollywood gas been remaking that spaghetti / kissing scene since the. It was epic. In a cartoony sense. Glad to have been on the precipice.ReplyCancel
E.T. I was three and took my stuffed E.T. doll to the theater with me. On the way home we stopped at the grocery store (which my dad owned) because I insisted on having Reese's Pieces, even though my mom knew I wouldn't like them. I spit them out in the car. My mom went back in the store and got M & Ms to put in the Reese's bag. Everything was right with the world after that.ReplyCancel
The first movie I clearly remember is "101 Dalmations" in 1961.
But I think my parents may have taken me to see "Psycho" with them at the Miami Drive-In the year before. My mom doesn't remember it, but when I saw it years later it seemed so familiar. I can see splashes of a black and white horror film, and it was right about that time that I began having nightmares and being afraid of the dark. That went on for several years.ReplyCancel
American werewolf scared the bejesus out of me as a 9yo watching HBO after dark. I loved that movie but was sooooo scared to wander thru my house after dark…for MONTHS!
Star Wars, 1979(?) re release. The windshield on my pop's Suburban was smashed to shit when we got out.
Better question, First movie I saw in a theater that I didn't fall asleep during? I think Superman 2. I napped during Star Wars, Superman, Raiders, and Empire.ReplyCancel
Aristocats! I was 5 and wanted to be just like Marie.ReplyCancel
Class trip in kindergarten.
20 kids, all traumatized.
I think it was a rerelease of Snow White, and I was terrified. I got under the seat, screaming, when the Queen changed into a witch the first time. I must have been about four, and no, we didn't leave. My mom didn't get how traumatized I was – she thought it was funny. (Basically telling the story of my childhood here.)
I also remember Apple Dumpling Gang at the drive in.ReplyCancel
The original Jungle Book with my mother. However, with friends, Jaws, and the ticket was really expensive at $1.25. I also saw all of the great new age classics on the big screen slightly realizing at the time the significance that I was watching the future of cinematic history and future icons. Star Wars, Ghost Busters, ET, Caddy Shack, Animal House, (Revenge of the Nerds) etc. As I was still admiring all of the greats that now make up the Memorials at the Oscars.ReplyCancel
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. It was my 8th birthday.ReplyCancel
Pretty sure it was King Kong 1976 A Star was Born was playing also the adults went to that one.ReplyCancel
I wanna say Gremlins. that's the first one I remember.ReplyCancel
FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR!!ReplyCancel
Okay so I am taking copious notes of all of u young fuckers that have watched the movies that I took my son to. U make me feel ancient.
Disclaimer: not u RayN
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And with my mom!ReplyCancel
Pete's Dragon. Still one of my favorite movies. Every so often I will still randomly bust out some "Candle on the Water" or "Passamaquoddy." 🙂ReplyCancel
Lion King 1994. I was four, n completely glued to the screenReplyCancel
@jes7o Holy cow! I'd forgotten about "Song of the South!" It must have been a re-release at some point in the late '60s when I saw it, though. I remember very little, except the zippety-do-dah skipping along the road at the end, which I remember as making me very happy.
I don't remember my first movie, but I do know I still have a horrified reaction whenever I see illustrations of the Blue Meenies (or any of that groovy-style of animation,) so I believe I must have seen "Yellow Submarine" when it was released and it scared the bejesus out of me. I would have been three or four.ReplyCancel
@Allison Langston, Pete's Dragon! My sister and I were obsessed with that movie! We also liked Legend, The Dark Crystal, and N.I.M.H. We did manage to come out fairly well-adjusted people, thankfully.ReplyCancel
Cool way to know our ages, lad.ReplyCancel
Charlie and The Chocolate FactoryReplyCancel
I think it was 101 Dalmations.
I remember going to the drive-in wearing my jammies and sitting on pillows. Coke bottles in ice in a metal bucket.
Good times.ReplyCancel
It's been so long I'm not sure. But I think it was a dubbed Italian sword and sandals epic, "Goliath and the Barbarians," released in 1959. My father was making a point of spending Friday evenings with me at the time (I was six years old), and I think he took me to an old-style neighborhood theater to see that movie.ReplyCancel
Benjie The Hunted. What that poor dog didn't endure.
GENE SISKELL was wrong.ReplyCancel
Well, for me, it happened in 1962 at the old Olympia Theater in downtown Miami. The movie was Dr. No., the first James Bond movie. I remember it well. My preteen brain was forever etched with the image of Ursula Andress coming out of the ocean wearing a tight white bikini with a knife strapped to her leg. What an impressionable image on me. So, my best friend and I stayed in our seats after the movie ended and watched it again. It remains to this day to be my favorite movie and, of course, my favorite scene.ReplyCancel
The closest theatre was a drive-in, and the first movie I remember going to see was Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang.ReplyCancel
Bedknobs and Broomsticks! They let all of us kids sit on the floor in the aisles and against the walls because every viewing was sold out. Total fire hazard.
The first drive-in I remember was a triple feature: Saturday Night Fever, Carrie and Burnt Offerings with Karen Black. We always wore PJ's to the drive in, too.ReplyCancel
Fred Flinstone, Secret Agent at my hometown movie theater. This is the only time, I've seen this happen. So many kids wanted to see it, that they let us all sit in the aisles. This was about '66 or '67.ReplyCancel
"Across the Great Divide". I was little, and we arrived to the cinema late so had to be escorted by a torch-wearing attendant. I didn't know that you had to put your seat down – my mother certainly didn't help in that regard – so I sat there atop the folded-up seat, but hunched down because I felt very tall, all the way through to the first interval. When the lights went on, and my predicament became obvious to all those around me, everyone started laughing and I cried my eyes out. Thankfully the second interval was a lot kinder on my bottom.ReplyCancel
Theater: Bambi (1975 re-release)
Drive-in: Emperor Of The North
Unaccompanied by a parent: The Cat From Outer Space (1978)ReplyCancel


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Lapdog Slate Says Ryan Company "Didn't Build That"
It's obvious that Slate writer Sally Kohn didn't build her post: surely the Obama administration did
When Paul Ryan took to the stage in Mooresville, North Carolina, as Mitt Romney's running mate, he attacked President Obama's "you didn't build that" remark about the role of government in supporting private innovation. But while Republicans have been clamoring to make this election a false dichotomy between the private sector and the public sector, Paul Ryan – heir to a private fortune made by building public highways – is a gaping pothole in that plan. Paul Ryan is a living, breathing GOP example of how public infrastructure and private entrepreneurship work hand-in-hand.
Paul Ryan's great-grandfather started a construction company to build railroads and, eventually, highways. According to the Web site of Ryan Incorporated Central, the company was "founded in 1884 with a single team of mules building railroad embankments in Southern Wisconsin." And in the 1800s, railroad construction was subsidized by the federal government. Mid-century, President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act into law, providing taxpayer dollars to fund the construction of a transcontinental railway. All railroads thereafter connected to, and benefited from, that public investment.
At the turn of the century, Ryan Inc. turned to road building. A subsidiary family corporation, Ryan Incorporated Southern, states on its Web site, "The Ryan workload from 1910 until the rural interstate Highway System was completed 60 years later [and] was mostly Highway construction." The $119 billion spent by the federal government on the Interstate Highway System was, by one account, "the largest public works program since the Pyramids."
Except, the Ryan company did, in fact, build that. First, they were a privately owned company. Second, where did the money come from? She even mentions it: the taxpayer. Private citizens who had their money forcibly taken by the government. Mr. Ryan built the company, then used the company to make money by being involved with "public works" projects. Of course, Sally carries more water for the Obama administration
When President Obama said that we succeed in America "because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together," he was actually speaking in more general terms – about manufacturing companies that ship their goods on our railways and highways and thus indirectly benefit from that public infrastructure. With a net worth of up to $3.2 million and ranking as the 124th richest member of Congress, Paul Ryan very directly and very significantly benefited from the federal spending he now rails against.
A couple points. First, Obama only attempted to position his "you didn't build that" comment about infrastructure afterwards when he tried to "explain" the comments. It was quite obvious from the initial speech that he meant a company couldn't be built without the super duper awesome hand of government. 2nd, Paul made his money before entering Congress, unlike others *cough Harry Reid cough* who somehow made themselves millionaires while in federal office. 3rd, Conservatives, including Ryan, do not have a problem with government itself, they have a problem with the size and scope of government, and how money is wasted on stupid projects, and wasted in general. If a road needs building or fixing, sure go ahead, let's get that done (interestingly, who usually builds the road? A private company who wins the contract to build that road). But, if you take that taxpayer money and use it to, say, build a $10 million turtle tunnel, repaint bridges, repave roads that do not need paving, put a shrimp on a treadmill, yeah, we have a problem with that.
What we have is a difference of viewpoint: those on the Left believe things can only get done with the hand of government. Those on the right believe it's about your initiative first and foremost.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (April 7, 2011) - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore today recognized almost 700 undergraduates for academic excellence during the 58th annual Honors Convocation — among them students named to the fall and spring 2010's dean's list and an outstanding student from each of the university's four schools and 18 departments.
Seniors Luke Lee of St. Catherine, Jamaica, Agriculture and Natural Sciences; Jessica Abrantes of Scotch Plains, N.J., Arts and Professions; Stephanie Begin of Piscataway, N.J., Business and Technology; and Nicole Ouzts of District Heights, Md., Pharmacy and Health Professions, were recognized as the top students in their respective schools.
Dr. Kelly Mack, keynote speaker, professor in the Department of Natural Sciences, senior program officer for the ADVANCE Program at the National Science Foundation, said it was 20 years ago that she had sat in the seats occupied by the honorees. She addressed them saying, "If you've ever wondered whether this 'UMES thing' would work out for you, then you are in good company."
Mack continued, saying that receiving the letter from UMES to the Honors Program and its benefits were "an answered prayer for a mother who had sacrificed so much for so long." She explained the doubt her high school educators had about her decision. Could anything good come out of this small Historically Black College and University?
Mack went on to list a few of UMES' many notable alumni, including college professor Thomas LaVeist, surgeon Michael Holder and school superintendent Joe A. Hairston. She also offered some eye-opening statistics from a study conducted from 1997-2006 as to the viability of HBCUs. Although HBCUs account for only three percent of the institutions of higher education in the nation, they produce 25 percent of the baccalaureate degrees in science and engineering for African-Americans. She went on to list surprising percentages for other academic areas. HBCUs, she said, are also the top 10 producers of undergraduate degrees for African-Americans.
"How can anything good 'not' come out of UMES?" she emphasized, telling students seated before her that "people in your professional world will recognize your talents and training and will recognize the 'Hawk" in you."
To close her remarks, Mack presented a check for $1,000 to the Honors Program. "For the cost of fees, tuition, room and board, the hallowed blessings I received, and for an answered prayer—I am eternally grateful."
Recipients of departmental honors for the "Most Outstanding Student" were:
Senior Kristina Frahm of Oswego, Ill., an accounting major and captain of UMES' NCAA Division I women's bowling team, received UMES' highest honor—the Richard Bernstein Achievement Award for Excellence. The $5,000 award was named for and established by the local businessman credited with bringing the world of high technology to Maryland's Eastern Shore.
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Just now the Chinese government is focused on U.S. media, claiming they (we) have exaggerated the extent to which Chinese food products are tainted in the wake of all those dogs and cats dying horrible deaths a few weeks ago.
This aggressive defense of Chinese quality standards is considered important not only to bolster China's growing commercial importance, but is part of a longer-term effort to burnish China's image as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which will put the country on worldwide display, approach.
Unfortunately, some of the things the mainland regime is doing to "clean up" its image are hardly in line with the impression of a newly tolerant and increasingly open society that the government would like to create.
Chinese media and a few Western media, for example, have reported on plans to forcibly "return" to the countryside migrant workers — who have come to Beijing and other big cities in search of jobs — before the Games begin.
Can't have all those scruffy-looking laborers, some of whom might be tempted to panhandle, interfering with the world seeing a neat, clean and prosperous-looking Potemkin — er, Beijing.
As to the Chinese media, despite wanting to look modern and progressive, the Chinese government has been engaged in a fairly systematic program of trying to make sure the media stay under the government's thumb.
Back in the old days all media were owned by the government, and the biggest media still are. As China has sought economic growth by instituting something close to free-market economic policies, however (while maintaining tight political control), it has reduced subsidies to media outlets and told them to rely more on advertising and subscription revenue.
Many Chinese media have acted increasingly independent and also have found they don't attract readers simply by parroting government propaganda. So they have occasionally strayed, reporting on protests against government actions and environmental disasters, even undertaking investigative journalism into government misdeeds.
The government has routinely punished such transgressions by firing or demoting reporters and editors, fining media outlets that publish unauthorized stories, closing news outlets and even imprisoning journalists.
According to the international Committee to Protect Journalists, China imprisoned 32 journalists in 2005, making the country the biggest imprisoner of reporters in the world for the seventh year running. The government has installed firewalls in the country's Internet system, banning sites with offensive words like "democracy" or "Tiananmen Square."
Those who first exposed the cover-up of the SARS epidemic a few years ago were punished. Last year, when an Internet essay exposed corrupt collusion between pharmaceutical companies and the head of the government's "watchdog" agency (Zheng Xiaoyu, who was hurriedly executed a few weeks ago) the first thing the government did was to jail the man who reposted the essay onto an Internet bulletin board.
This past January, with the every-five-years Communist Party Congress coming up in the fall, the government issued guidelines for political coverage. "We should sing high praises for socialism," Li Dongshen, head of the propaganda department, told media executives. "We should sing loudly the main themes of our nation."
Three weeks ago China closed the "China Development Brief," a nonprofit newsletter that tracked the growth of civil society in China. Being oriented toward gradualism, mildly sympathetic to the government and even criticizing organizations like Amnesty International that have decried the persecution of journalists wasn't enough. The newsletter had conducted unauthorized surveys.
There are reports (still unconfirmed) that "Minjian," a quarterly focused on civil-society issues, has been closed down and that eight journalists at the "Democracy and Law" legal journal were sacked mysteriously.
Communist China has made remarkable economic progress in the past several decades. But this kind of censorship and persecution of independent journalists is hardly the way to reassure those coming to Beijing next summer or watching the Olympics on television that
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Washington wildfire burn scars turn into mudslidesthe associated press | August 23,2014ap photo
This video image shows a home in north central Washington after rains created mudslides on Friday. The land, which was left bare by wildfires, washed down hillsides, damaged homes and closed highways.TWISP, Wash. Rain in Washington state unleashed mudslides on land left bare by wildfires, washing down hillsides, damaging homes and closing highways as the threat of more storms loomed Friday.
There were no reports of injuries from Thursday nights mudslides, but specifics were hard to come by because some of the phone and radio towers that serve the remote north-central area of the state were knocked out in summer wildfires.
There were multiple slides overnight on two highways that marooned five to 12 vehicles, transportation and Washington State Patrol officials said. Troopers and sheriffs deputies worked late Thursday night to get the people out.
North of the town of Carlton, mudslides knocked a house off its foundation, pushed an occupied vehicle into a creek, trapped a dozen vehicles between slides and left a mound of dirt and debris 5 feet thick and 145 feet wide blocking Highway 153, The Wenatchee World reported (http://tinyurl.com/p8dgnps ).
It was freaky, Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers told the newspaper. There was so much water, it was amazing.
There are at least two slides on Highway 20 in the 30-mile stretch east of Twisp to Okanogan, Transportation Department spokesman Jeff Adamson said. That stretch and an 8-mile section of Highway 153 near Twisp remained closed Friday morning.
Crews were out at daylight assessing the damage to the highways and starting work, but they were at risk of more mudslides, Adamson said.
Another round of thunderstorms was forecast with a flash flood watch through Friday evening, said meteorologist Steven Van Horn at the National Weather Service in Spokane.
The Wenatchee World reported that some people whose homes survived the largest wildfire in state history this summer had damage from the mudslides. The Carlton Complex of fires burned more than 400 square miles, and 500 firefighters were still mopping up.
This flooding is in the areas that were burned, Adamson said. It brings down rocks, mud and water.
More rain and mudslide threats will prolong the highway closures, he said.
If youve got an unstable slope, you just have to pull the crew and wait until tomorrow, Adamson said.
About an inch of rain fell in an hour at about 7 p.m. Thursday around Twisp, Van Horn said, and the potential for similarly wet storms continued Friday.
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Its like another nail in the coffin, Carlton General Store owner Jeff Lyman told the newspaper. Its pretty bad down here right now.
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Finally! Voice-activated popcorn launcher created
'Popinator' aims, shoots popcorn up to 15 feet away
Most don't need it, and many of us probably couldn't afford it, but the "Popinator" may just be the most brilliant or useless snack delivery invention since cavemen shaped the spoon.
Popcorn Indiana's latest invention is the world's first fully automated, voice-activated popcorn shooter triggered by saying the word "pop."
According to the company, the Popinator Project aims to change the popcorn eating experience by making it more fun. The idea behind the Popinator is to instantly deliver popcorn into a person's mouth just by saying the magic word.
The Popinator is able to pinpoint where in the room the spoken word originated from and then shoot a piece of popcorn at it. The machine shoots up to 15 feet and is designed for inside use only.
On its website, the company said its motivation for the project, was that, "We are constantly coming up with new flavors, new packaging, and new innovations for popcorn. However, the one thing that never changes about popcorn is the way we eat it. Well, what if there was a way to change the way people eat popcorn by making it more fun?"
There's no word on when the Popinator may reach store shelves, or what it might cost, nor has the company said how it plans to prevent a rogue kernel from rifling out of control toward a victim's outstretched tongue.
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Two rising Ohio bands converge on Rumba this Friday, one from the North, one from the South.
Surging up from Cincinnati come The Sundresses, one of those rollicking garage bands distilled straight from the dust sap collecting on old 45s. Consider them less pretentious descendants of The White Stripes — all party, no gimmicks.
Swinging down from Akron will be Shivering Timbers, proteges of Dan Auerbach whose brand of art-school folk eschews the usual guitar-heavy strummage in favor of flavors like jazz, indie-pop and eerie soundtrack music.
They make for fine complementary sounds.


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Electronic Arts is buying PopCap Games, maker of popular titles such as Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled, and Zuma, for $750 million (NZ$917m) in cash and stock.
EA said in a statement it will pay $650 million in cash and $100 million in shares of EA common stock to be issued to certain stockholders of PopCap.
"PopCap's great studio talent and powerful IP add to EA's momentum and accelerate our drive towards a $1 billion digital business," EA chief executive John Riccitiello said in a statement.
"EA's global studio and publishing network will help PopCap rapidly expand their business to more digital devices, more countries, and more channels," Riccitiello said.
"PopCap has a proven financial trajectory with sustained revenue growth and double-digit operating margins," said EA chief financial officer Eric Brown said.
PopCap chief executive David Roberts said "by working with EA, we'll scale our games and services to deliver more social, mobile, casual fun to an even bigger, global audience."
PopCap games are played on platforms such as Facebook, RenRen, Google, the iPhone, iPad and Android.
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As a collector of the strange, I own enough books about homemade bombs that I won't have any fingers by the time I figure out which one is right. I have an academic understanding of how to perform anal or kill someone from a wheelchair. I know over 700,000 ways to be happy, and all of them are depressing. And if I've followed these instructions correctly, I am currently invisible by both magician and ninja standards.
Despite all these bizarre books for bizarre people, some of the stupidest ones I own are for a group everyone eventually joins -- the elderly. Here are four books for the extremely old and extremlier dumb.
41,003 Great Things About Getting Older by Lisa Birnbach, Patricia Marx, David Owen, Ann Hodgman (1997)
As I've discovered from my unanticipated scrutiny of these books, no single author can come up with 1,000 ways to do or be anything. Around 17 or 18, they run out of ideas and start typing anything that pops into their head like an asshole tweeting their lunch. To solve this problem, 1,003 Great Things About Getting Older was written by four people. Four lazy, moronic, insane people.
What makes this collaboration special is that each author has a distinctive voice. Among Lisa, Patricia, David, and Ann, one of them is absolutely a rapist, and one of them is absolutely a murderer. One of them is just some idiot watching TV, and one of them is a barely literate waste of medicine. Let's see if you can guess who wrote each of these!
I can't emphasize enough the fucking craziness of this book.
And if a box is labeled "toxic metals," no one expects you to eat it. Yet here you are, demented and trying to convince everyone that umbrellas and civic duty are a young man's game.
It seems like the cute, joke part of this one got left out. Or maybe this self-help author was simply in a lot of pain and wished they would die. That's understandable, but it also may be the worst anyone has ever been at their job.
It's my natural instinct to make fun of someone shitting in their own pants, but not when they write this well. Terrific job, author.
Whoa, two pages ago, this author watched the last of his or her enemies die. Have they killed again so soon, or has one of the other three writers taken up murder? Shouldn't all of these similar entries about dead people have been caught by the book's editor? Unless ... my God, they killed him.
So you're saying that when men get to a certain age, they instinctively know when someone wants to get raped? I'm not comfortable that you chose to call that "great."
Troublesome for whom, rapist?
Especially with you standing over her bed, sharpening your breast knife.
Jesus Christ, did someone mislabel a book of necromancer spells? I was expecting to read bad jokes about early dinner times and senior discounts, and now I'm expecting to read passages that will invite Cthugha unto our plane.
A lot of comedy is about context and timing, so when you're writing a joke, you want to immediately mention your dead parents and then nothing else.
I wish I was a psychologist so I could tell if an author was crazy for talking only about dead bodies and beating up their parents.
That's a great point, but I'm worried you might actually be chewing on rectal thermometers.
I'm shocked that among a murderer, a rapist, and two idiots, one of them has had frankly more than enough of all this damn Jewish talk.
Is that because of your age, or because no one today remembers how to destroy a warlock?
In any other book, I'd assume that this was only a stupid observation from a stupid person. In this book, it almost certainly means that beloved star Julie Andrews managed to fight off the author's sexual assault.
I'm guessing that's because police would shoot to kill if they ever saw you.
This idiot sure wrote a lot of entries about how difficult it is for him or her to be prosecuted. Maybe they think that after 50 percent of your body is made up of swallowed chewing gum, human laws no longer apply to you.
Most writers type and retype a sentence dozens of times before they perfect it. For example, before I decided that that previous inhuman idiot was swallowing chewing gum, I had them filled with everything from horse semen to stray cat blood. The point is, for every line you read, there are five or six lines you don't, most of them involving semen. Does this author do that? Was there a worse version of "There are lots of interesting nature programs on public television"? And if so, what could that have been? "My favorite color of poop is seven"? Maybe just the words "Paul Newman"?
Oh, come on.
What an oddly specific yet oddly unhelpful tip. I'm guessing the barely literate waste of medicine wrote this one, because if you took a CAT scan of this author's brain, it would generate an image of two tiny wheelchairs crashing into each other.
They're probably too busy explaining to you why your mother shouldn't have used lead paint as homemade ultrasound gel.
If you spent five years teaching an ape sign language and it said anything close to this stupid, the other primatologists would mock you for wasting everyone's time.
I hope when I'm elderly I spend less time than these authors masturbating to the obituaries.
But that jar of her teeth and finger bones will last forever.
I've said some rude things about the authors of this book, but to their credit, they went 935 entries before complaining that they should have spent their youth being harder on their slaves.
3Things to Do Now That You're ... 50 by Robert Allen (2005)
Most of this book is a list of famous tourist attractions. If you asked the world's most ordinary, uninspired person to write down 50 destination spots, it would be a word-for-word copy of the first 50 pages of this piece of trash. I'm not saying it's useless, I'm simply saying that if you need a book to remind you what a France is, you'll be just as happy climbing into that old refrigerator you found.
Luckily for this article, author Robert Allen starts to lose his mind shortly after he's done listing his boring girlfriend's dream vacations.
When you see how easy it is, you'll go from thinking you wasted $6.50 on a book to knowing it.
You might as well try it, but I think the other X-Men are going to call you a pussy, Captain Aging Spoon Bender.
Robert is both a senior citizen and an idiot, so try to be understanding when he forgets that we tested our psychic powers for free at home 20 pages ago.
This potion recipe is missing a lot of details, but don't worry about it. If I'm fussing over bedsores and gangrene at 50, following sensible advice probably isn't my thing.
I'd need a dentist to check these figures, but wouldn't someone trying this have way too many penises in his mouth to yell?
Oh crap, I already used the perfect response to this one.
Sometimes I worry about hurting people's feelings when I say things like author Robert Allen writes with all the skill and wit of a man accidentally peeing on a hornet hive. Lucky for Robert that it looks like he won't remember it.
If you want to get someone to hate you with your socks, this works even better than putting them on your hands and punching his wife.
When a man tells you to get nude at a baseball game, spontaneously tickle children, and bathe in donkey milk, follow his advice. After all, who could be wrong in that many directions at once?
Hot-air balloon rides are a terrific way to combine danger and boredom. That's probably why so many people refer to the hot-air balloon as "the unprotected sex while watching Cloud Atlas of the sky."
What a great tip! Robert Allen gets all his best ideas when he's in a hot-air balloon, and every single one of them is "hot-air balloon." You know, until I came along to make fun of it, I bet no one ever read this book, including the man writing it.
Buddy, by this point I think your family is going to see the whole hot-air-balloon thing coming.
I imagine participating in something like that created a truly lasting memory for this book's author.
Or not.