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Hoax Museum Blog: Pranks
Silence Killer Mystery Image —
I received this mystery image via email, and I'm trying to figure out what it is. It may have nothing at all to do with hoaxes or pranks, but I'm wondering if it's some kind of Japanese prank gadget that makes farting noises. Or is it a really badly named perfume spray? I have no idea. Click the image to enlarge.
Thu Mar 03, 2005
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McDonalds Bathroom Attendant —
Here's a fun account of a prank involving
an attempt to bring a touch of class to a New York City McDonalds
The idea was to deck out a fast food joint with all the trappings of a five star restaurant. There would be a Maitre D' standing behind a podium asking for your reservation, a hostess to seat you, a waiter to take your order, and an attendant in the bathroom. The obvious problem with this idea is that it would very likely be shut down as soon as it begins. I decided to focus on…
Sun Feb 20, 2005
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Deadly Underwater Gnome Garden Returns —
In past entries I've written about gnomes that have mysteriously disappeared from
. Now I think I know where the gnomes have gone. They've travelled to the secret
gnome garden
that lurks beneath the waters of Wastwater in the Lake District. Authorities report that a gnome garden (which even had a tiny picket fence) was removed from the bottom of the lake a few years ago after some divers died while spending too long searching for it. Now the gnome garden has…
Mon Feb 14, 2005
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Chickens From the Sky —
Residents of Newcastle in New South Wales are experiencing
a very unusual problem
. Plucked chickens are falling from the sky and crashing onto their houses. Mr. Warrick Slee had one smash through his roof. Mr. Slee observes that
"I think you know there's something unusual going on... birds or chickens or whatever it is, they don't just fall from the sky and put holes in people's roofs."
Very true. I figure the freefalling chickens could be the work of pranksters with a catapult. Or…
Tue Feb 08, 2005
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Duke of Wellington Cone Prank —
For almost twenty years Glaswegians have enthusiastically upheld a tradition of placing traffic cones on top of a statue of the Duke of Wellington that stands in the city center. You can even buy postcards and t-shirts displaying a cone-wearing Wellington. But now
the fun might come to an end
on account of art historian Gary Nisbet who claims that the cone prank threatens to seriously damage the 160-year-old statue. He's campaigning to get people who climb up on the statue charged with…
Wed Jan 26, 2005
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Missing Monkey (looks like Olsen Twin) —
Tailspinning into Tomorrow
Livejournal has posted a picture of a flyer put up by someone searching for their missing monkey. Here's the text of the flyer:
Missing Monkey Last seen in diaper carrying blue 'blankie' looks like Olsen twin (circa 1985 Full House baby) Responds to nickname 'F123' If found call: ******* Monkey is NOT trustworthy
I like how they specify that the monkey isn't trustworthy. But I'm wondering if the flyer might be an example of the classic weird-missing-pet…
Fri Jan 21, 2005
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Poo Prank —
The Sun reports
on this very odd form of political protest:
GERMAN police are hunting for a gang who have been going around Berlin sticking tiny American flags into dog poo. Officers say they are baffled by the bizarre behaviour - which does not break any laws - and have stepped-up patrols to catch the gang. Cops had initially thought the jokers were protesting about the war in Iraq, according to iol.co.nz. But the pranks continued throughout George W Bush's re-election leaving…
Wed Jan 19, 2005
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Message in a Cabbage Patch —
When 9-year-old Diamond Robinson found a Cabbage Patch Doll under the Christmas tree, she was in for
a rude surprise
. Encoded in the serial number on the doll's 'adoption papers' was the message: _UCKME. (I think the missing first letter is an F, but I'm not sure. It could be an S.) The company that made the doll says it's an innocent mistake... a computer randomly generated the serial number. But I'm not so sure. Sounds like something a mischievous employee might have done. Kind of…
Fri Jan 07, 2005
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Fart Bombs —
Hong Kong officials have
pulled from store shelves
a gag gift named the 'Fart Bomb' because the toy not only does exactly what it promises (produces a giant cloud of stench), but it also causes nausea, headaches, and eye irritation. Just imagine what schoolkids could do if they got their hands on these things. Thanks to Gary for finding this story. As he points out, it may not be the worst toy idea ever, but it's definitely in the top 100. But hey, it looks like you can
buy fart bombs…
Tue Dec 28, 2004
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Duct Tape Bikes —
Duct Tape Bikes
seem to be popping up on the streets of New York.
Here's one
. And here's
another one
. I'm assuming it's some kind of prank. Somebody leaves their bike locked up in one place for too long and eventually they return to find it covered in duct tape. Or perhaps the bikes are some kind of weird art project. (via
New Yorkish
Fri Dec 17, 2004
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You've Won A Bench —
What is it about park benches that some people find so funny? True, their comedic potential doesn't rival that of garden gnomes. But still, there definitely is an odd tradition of park-bench prankery. For instance, there's the time that legendary prankster
Hugh Troy
"stole" a park bench from Central Park. And now we have
'Congratulations You have Won a Bench'
, in which two guys knock on the doors of random people and inform them that they've won a bench. Bewilderment ensues.
Sun Dec 12, 2004
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Mister Marbles —
Mister Marbles
, the life-size prop dead cat. The attention to detail that's gone into the creation of this thing is amazing:
"Mr. Marbles is a cat who turns up dead, floating in a swimming pool. The prop is a jointed cloth construction, with pieces of plastic tubing to keep the limbs rigid, and filled with small air bladders to make it buoyant. The skull was cast in insulation foam in a silicone mold of an actual cat skull. The eyes and teeth are from a taxidermy supply company."
Wed Dec 08, 2004
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Man Boobs Prank —
This is stupid and gross, but kind of funny anyway. Here's the set-up:
"Penthouse Playmate, Kyli Ryan, came to The Bear studios for a visit and The Bear's Breakfast decided to pull a fast one. Yukon was blindfolded and was then told he would be able to "cop a feel". Bear listener "Man Boobs" was brought in for Yukon to unknowingly feel up."
The page showing the images
of the prank is safe for work (depending on where you work, I suppose), but potentially not safe for your feeling of…
Wed Dec 01, 2004
Comments (7)
Yale to Harvard: You Suck —
In a reworking of the
Great Rose Bowl Hoax of 1961
, Yale students, posing as members of the 'Harvard Pep Squad', managed to
trick Harvard fans
into holding up flip-cards reading 'WE SUCK' at the Harvard-Yale football game. I guess it's true that the great pranks never go out of style. (Thanks to Mormagli for giving me a heads up about this
on the message board
Tue Nov 30, 2004
Comments (5)
Marijuana at Target —
This is either a prank by a low-level employee, or some kind of error. Target.com apparently is
selling marijuana
for only $25.25 (how much do you get for that price?). The link might be dead pretty soon, so here's a
screen cap
. Of course, Target does have a garden department, so maybe it's real... (via
Boing Boing
Mon Nov 29, 2004
Comments (18)
Berners Street Redux —
First the police showed up at the
house on Bristol Ferry Road
to investigate a phoned-in report of domestic disturbance and narcotics. Finding nothing, they left. Then three taxicabs showed up, claiming someone had called for a pickup. Then delivery guys from Pizza Hollywood, Steve's Pizza, and Carmella's added to the crowd. It sounds like someone was trying to re-enact the infamous
Berners Street Hoax of 1810
. Although, of course, I don't think anyone has ever managed to top the crowd…
Wed Nov 24, 2004
Comments (5)
Gnomes Escape from Gnome Peepshow —
Reuters reports that
scantily clad garden gnomes have disappeared
from a "gnome peepshow" located in an East German amusement park. So what exactly is a gnome peepshow? It's an attraction where
"visitors peep through keyholes to see the saucy German miniatures in compromising poses."
Perhaps the risque gnomes will one day return, accompanied by snapshots of their globe-trotting adventures. (Thanks to Big Gary C for forwarding this story to me)
Mon Nov 22, 2004
Comments (14)
Roving Ovines Return —
Three and a half years ago Larry and Sean disappeared from their home in Norfolk. Larry and Sean were ornamental sheep. Plywood cutouts covered with a woolly coat. About a week ago
they reappeared
, much to the delight of their owner, and they brought back with them a letter marked 'Larry and Sean's Holiday Photos,' showing the adventures they had in India. Turns out that Larry and Sean had been sheep-napped by a local man,
Joe Claydon
, who saw them one night while stumbling home from a…
Mon Nov 22, 2004
Comments (3)
Bottle Cap Hoax —
When Velvet Scott twisted off the cap of a bottle of Mountain Dew and found a message beneath it that said "Winner! $10,000 Cash," she was pretty excited. But when she contacted Pepsi, the manufacturer of Mountain Dew, to find out how to collect her prize, she was in for a disappointment. They said she hadn't won anything, because they weren't holding a contest. The bottle cap was a hoax. According to this article in the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(requires registration), this hoax…
Mon Nov 22, 2004
Comments (3)
RoboDump —
Here's an ingenious office prank. Kevin Kelm's coworkers were wondering all day about that guy who had been in the bathroom for hours. You could hear him groaning away on the toilet. Was it the CFO? No, it was
. As Kevin explains:
"RoboDump is a robot. Sort of. And it poops. Sort of. Forever. A horrible, never-ending bowel movement complete with straining grunts, horrific gas, splashes, and pee sounds."
Boing Boing
Mon Nov 15, 2004
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Memery Crystal intellectual property lawyer and leukaemia survivor John Mawhood will be riding in the Fireflies Cycling Tour to raise funds for leukaemia research and treatment, along with his bone marrow donor. The 14th annual tour will take place on 10–18 June 2014.
Launched by film director Ridley Scott in 2001, the Fireflies Tour is an eight-day, 1,000km bike ride across Les Grandes Alpes to Cannes, which follows many of the same Alpine ascents as the Tour de France and arrives mid-week of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
Since its inception, the Fireflies Tour has raised more than £1.5m in aid of scientific and clinical research into the causes and treatment of leukaemia and other blood cancers at the Hammersmith Hospital in London.
Mawhood is a leukaemia survivor who underwent a successful bone marrow transplant in 2009. He completed the Fireflies Tour in 2010 and this year will be the first leukaemia survivor to ride along with his bone marrow donor (Zahar Chikishev of Israel).
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A new indicator for higher education student performance
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DOI: 10.1007/s10734-014-9737-x
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- Giada, A., Giovanni, B. & Vincenza, C. High Educ (2014) 68: 653. doi:10.1007/s10734-014-9737-x
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The debate on academic achievement is a heated issue that involves all the higher education contexts. This paper attempts to provide an indicator that can make the measurement of university student performance easier and that can be easily applied to different systems, making comparisons more fair. The Italian University System is used as a starting point to make several considerations on the current measures and to build up a new performance indicator. Then, a generalization for other marking systems is shown and finally a quantile regression is performed to investigate some determinants of the new performance indicator, also with respect to the current one.
KeywordsGPA Measurement of educational path Credits and marks Quantile regression
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The Financial Ombudsman Service confirmed that it can accept complaints from someone other than the policyholder when, as in your case, the customer derives a direct benefit from the policy. It also discovered that you should have complained to the underwriters, Hardy Underwriting at Lloyd's, rather than to the brokers.
Hardy investigated and offered to pay £357 and waive the excess charge. I did not think this was enough because of the costs you had incurred in fighting the claim. It is now sending you £855 on an ex gratia, without prejudice basis.
Credit card debt was past its 'pay-by' date
Debt collector Robinson Way has been chasing me since July 2006 about £2,406 on a Barclaycard account. I have told it the debt is statute-barred and that it has no right to pursue me for it. In January I received a new letter saying I must pay in full or legal action will follow.
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Herb Gray will be remembered as the slightly stooped figure in a suit just a little too large for his body, who met opposition questions in the House of Commons with meandering responses that were deftly crafted to say nothing at all.
It was an oratorical skill that earned him the nickname The Gray Fog.
The former Liberal MP and deputy prime minister, who held 11 ministerial positions under multiple prime ministers and led his party on an interim basis for the better part of 1990, died in hospital Monday, one month shy of his 83rd birthday.
Mr. Gray, Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister, was elected in 1962 when John Diefenbaker was in power and retired in 2002 from the government of Jean Chrétien. He was highly intelligent, a committed activist for social justice, a dedicated servant for his riding in Windsor, Ont., and a person of warm wit and humour who was undefeated through 13 consecutive elections.
Former prime minister Paul Martin, who also called Windsor home, said he met Mr. Gray when his father, Paul Martin Sr., was the Liberal MP for another riding in the blue-collar, car-making city.
Mr. Martin said in an interview Tuesday that Mr. Gray had a great belief in the power of government to do good.
"I think that's what shone through in virtually every conversation," Mr. Martin said. "When you couple that with a terrific sense of humour and somebody who, in later years, obviously had the wisdom of enormous experience, it was virtually impossible to sit down with Herb and not have it come through as a real lesson in governance."
Sharon Sholzberg-Gray was alerted to the charms of her future husband when she was a 19-year-old university student.
She had worked on the 1962 election campaign of John Turner, the future prime minister who was then vying for a federal seat in Montreal. After the vote, Mr. Turner mentioned that there was a nice 31-year-old bachelor who had won a seat in Windsor and he thought they would make a good pair. Ms. Sholzberg-Gray pointed out the disparity between her age and that of her prospective suitor and told Mr. Turner he was "crazy."
But, two years later, Mr. Turner tried again, this time introducing them at a Liberal convention in Ottawa. They had their first date six weeks later and were married in 1967.
"What made him special was his brilliance and, believe it or not – everyone's going to really laugh – his wit and charisma," said Ms. Sholzberg-Gray, a lawyer who is one of the country's leading health-care experts. "He was always underestimated. He was a brilliant orator. He gave a political speech just as good as the best of them."
Although he was known for deflecting answers in Question Period, she said, he did much more than that.
Mr. Gray would provide direct responses to the opposition when he thought answering was appropriate, Mr. Martin said, and to the other questions, "He would occasionally have a couple of extra sentences. What it meant was there were decent debates, where people took each other seriously, and there were none of the personal attacks, none of the meanness that you see today."
Mr. Gray was born in Windsor in 1931. His parents, Harry and Fanny Gray, were immigrants from Belarus who started a yard-goods store that became one of the city's best known family-owned department stores.
He obtained a law degree and decided to enter public life. For years after he first won his seat – in the riding that later became Windsor West – his mother ran his constituency office from their home on one of the city's main drags.
"He believed very strongly that an industrial city like Windsor had to have a future," Mr. Martin said. "He also believed very much in the power of government. I think if you were to say, 'Why did he run?' [It is] because he believed in the power of government to do good."
Dwight Duncan, the former Ontario finance minister, was also a Windsor boy. When he was 13 years old, then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau arrived in town as part of the 1972 election campaign tour. Mr. Duncan skipped school to attend the Liberal rally at a local shopping mall and positioned himself at the front of the crowd, hoping to get an autograph.
Mr. Trudeau passed by without noticing the boy holding out his pen and paper. But "Herb Gray was right behind him," Mr. Duncan said. "And he said 'Quick, write your name and your address and your phone number on that piece of paper and I will get you an autograph.' So I did."
The next day, Mr. Duncan got a call from Mr. Gray's campaign headquarters asking if he would like to volunteer. It was the genesis of Mr. Duncan's own political career. "But, as I reminded him as recently as about six months ago, I never did get my autograph," Mr. Duncan said, breaking into laughter.
Mr. Gray may have failed in his promise to Mr. Duncan, but he delivered on his commitments to his city.
In 1980, as industry minister, he negotiated the loan guarantees that kept Chrysler building cars in Windsor, a move that is credited with saving 10,000 jobs.
Ms. Sholzberg-Gray said it was one of the political feats of which her husband was most proud.
Many people would credit the 22 years he spent in cabinet as being his most important contribution to public life, she said. "And that was really important, of course, because it's such an honour to be a member of the government of Canada and to play a role in helping to shape our country," Ms. Sholzberg-Gray said. "But so was serving everybody in Windsor."
Until the end, people on the streets of his hometown called him Herb.
Likewise, during his time in Parliament, cries of "Herb, Herb, Herb!" would erupt on a regular basis from the Liberal backbenches in the moments before he would rise to speak.
Sheila Copps, who sat at the Liberal cabinet table with him for many years, said the chant was born at one of the annual press-gallery dinners, where Mr. Gray gave a knock-it-out-of-the-ballpark performance.
"He was such a contradiction," Ms. Copps said, "because, when you saw him in the House, he seemed so stolid and serious but he was an absolute comic in private, with dry wit and humour."
He was also a classical pianist who loved rock 'n' roll music and delighted in such artists as Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seger.
Mr. Chrétien, who named him house leader and solicitor-general and eventually deputy prime minister, said people who did not know Mr. Gray would probably be surprised by how funny he was.
"At a lot of meetings he would interject some line that would have everybody laughing,"said Mr. Chrétien, who was first elected as an MP nine months after Mr. Gray arrived in Ottawa.
"He was perfectly bilingual and he would deal with everybody in a very nice way and I didn't know many enemies of Herb Gray in my long career with him."
Mr. Chrétien also said Mr. Gray was a great Canadian who demonstrated that there is much nobility in public life. "He was a great constituency man. He was close to the people. He was always preoccupied by social problems."
Mr. Martin said Mr. Gray was the first person he remembers to have brought the issue of the treatment of children at Indian residential schools to the cabinet table – and to have recommended compensation.
Ms. Sholzberg-Gray said her husband was a liberal Liberal.
"He knew that I wanted my own career and that I was going to have to stake it out independently and I was going to have to criticize him publicly," she said. "And he welcomed that."
While he relished the time he spent in government, Ms. Sholzberg-Gray said, he was also proud of the time he spent in opposition, particularly after the Liberals were trounced in 1984.
"Herb played a major role in that rebuilding," she said. "He found it one of the biggest challenges of his life and one of the most important."
And he was extremely proud of his Jewish heritage and the fact he was chosen as Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister.
"He said in his last speech in the House of Commons that it was those values of caring, sharing and people working together to achieve community goals he thought were part of the Jewish ethic and that informed him," said Ms. Sholzberg-Gray.
"They all coalesced in him being this progressive person," she said. "He was witty and charismatic and fun and serious and a wonderful husband and father and a true feminist."
For his distinguished public service, Mr. Gray was named a companion of the Order of Canada. He also served as chancellor of Carleton University from 2008 to 2011.
Mr. Gray had a bout with esophageal cancer in 1996 but made a full recovery. He also had Parkinson's disease for the past three years but succumbed peacefully to a combination of heart and kidney problems.
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Major Forex Pairs Step Back, In-line with S&P Futures
Global equity markets have just about managed to hold onto gains, after initially moving strongly higher, and then heavily reversing. The dollar has found buyers in-line with S&P futures moving lower; with the moves into long-dollar positions creating plenty of volatility on the way. It may be that the market is waiting now for the reaction to U.S. Building Permit, and unemployment claim numbers at 08:30 EDT before making the next move.
The initial gains that the major pairs made on the dollar overnight have been retraced, with most pairs back to the lows of Wednesday as the U.S. session begins. Same story, different day; it all now comes down to where Wall Street equities trade. Long dollars will come off Short equities, and vice versa. We will signal if the ranges start to break and hold, and are prepared to trade either side of the dollar.
Cable is holding a 4 hour linnear trendline that offers good support at 1.4570, euro has just broken its 4 hour support trendline at 1.3200, the yen does not get back into a long 4 hour trend until 100.00 is broken, and aussie is holding support right at the 4 hour trendline at 7190. Swissy is moving towards the 4 hour resistance area at 1.1530, whilst cad is in a 4 hour short mode with few restrictions it seems at the moment.


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Affiliations: From the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA,
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Study objectives: The safety of home ventilators has been questioned. We collected data to study the following: frequency of home ventilator failure, apparent causes for the failure or malfunc ¬ tion, and adverse consequences following the failure.
Study design: Information on all requests to correct home ventilator failures reported to a home respiratory equipment vendor was collected prospectively between November 1991, and November 1992.
Patients: There were 150 ventilator-assisted patients aged 2 to 77 years; 44 were ≤ 18 years. They received 841,234 h of home mechanical ventilation (average, 15.4 h/d per ventilator-assisted patient).
Results: There were 189 reports of home ventilator failure. Defective equipment or mechanical failure was found in only 39% (73 reports), equivalent to one home ventilator failure for every 1.25 years of continuous use. Other causes of ventilator failure included the following: improper care, damage, or tampering with the ventilator by caregivers (13%), functional equipment improperly used by caregivers (30%), and equipment functional but the patient's condition changed, mimicking ventilator failure (3%). No problem could be identified in 16%. The following actions were required: ventilator replacement (44%), repair of a defective part (6%), replacement of a functioning ventilator for psychological comfort (14%), ventilator adjustments made (21%), caregiver reeducation (7%), caregiver anxiety or distress reduced (3%), and no action required (4%). Hospitalization was required only in two cases (1%). No adverse outcomes, deaths, or serious injuries were associated with home ventilator failure.
Conclusions: We conclude that in 150 patients requiring home mechanical ventilation, ventilator failure occurred relatively infrequently, and there were no adverse outcomes as a result of equipment failure at home. We speculate that equipment failure is not a frequent or serious problem for ventilator-assisted patients treated at home.
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|Dodgers designate former Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford for assignment
|06.06.16 at 3:00 pm ET
Five years ago, the Red Sox believed Carl Crawford was worth $142 million. On Sunday, he became unemployed.
The Dodgers designated Crawford for assignment, even though he has roughly $35 million remaining on the seven-year deal he signed with the Red Sox before the 2011 season that runs through 2017.
The Dodgers have 10 days to work out a trade for Crawford, which is unlikely, before granting him his release. They'd then be on the hook for the remainder of his deal, with Crawford free to sign anywhere for the prorated veteran minimum.
The 34-year-old never remotely lived up to his deal in Boston, waylaid first by poor performance and then by injuries, including Tommy John surgery on his elbow. He hit .260 over two years with the Red Sox before being shipped to the Dodgers in the Adrian Gonzalez deal in August of 2012.
Crawford was only hitting .185 with a .464 OPS when the Dodgers made the decision to set him loose. The four-time All-Star hit .300 with the Dodgers in 2014, but has been ravaged by injuries, missing anywhere from 30-130 games a year since 2011.
"It's one of those things where you look at the player, and Carl has had a great career, 14 years and had a lot of great moments," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told ESPN.com. "I know he was proud to be a Dodger. He will be missed. What he brought to the club in terms of experience in postseason games, the impact he had on the young players and the veteran players, the experience he brought will be missed, certainly. But it's one of those things where father time I think catches up with everybody."
|Carl Crawford on Pablo Sandoval benching: 'We bleed just like you'
|04.01.16 at 2:01 pm ET
If there's anyone who knows what Pablo Sandoval is feeling right now, it's Carl Crawford.
The former Red Sox outfielder endured torrents of criticism during his time in Boston for failing to live up to a $142 million contract. After leaving Boston during the 2012 purge to the Dodgers, he did not try to hide his feelings of hurt over how he was treated.
With Sandoval benched, Crawford was asked by Yahoo's Tim Brown for his thoughts on another player losing the support of Boston fans.
"It's extremely hard," Crawford said. "Once you have failure, for some reason people like to see it. When you get that type of money, the expectations become so unrealistic. You don't live up to the expectations, you're doomed.
Crawford would know. He struggled in Boston before undergoing Tommy John surgery. He has since performed somewhat better in Los Angeles, batting .300 in 2014, albeit in a limited role, thanks to injuries.
He knows what Sandoval is feeling.
"It definitely eats at you," Crawford said. "But, as men, we can't whine about stuff like that. We have to be professional. We can't show somebody it bothers us. But, hey, you know, we bleed just like you."
|Former Red Sox still playing baseball in postseason
|10.05.15 at 9:32 am ET
With the Major League Baseball playoffs upon us, and the Red Sox not in the picture, it's time to look at what former members of the Sox are still actually playing baseball (and what they did this season) …
Jacoby Ellsbury (Yankees, starting center fielder): 111 games, .257 batting average, .663 OPS, seven home runs, 21 stolen bases.
Stephen Drew (Yankees, out with a concussion): 131 games, .201 batting average, .652 OPS, 17 home runs.
Andrew Miller (Yankees, closer): 36 saves in 38 opportunities, 100 strikeouts, 20 walks, 2.04 ERA
Jed Lowrie (Astros, starting third baseman): 69 games, .222 batting average, nine home runs, .712 OPS.
Mike Napoli (Rangers, first baseman/left fielder vs. lefties): 35 games (with Rangers), .295 batting average, .908 OPS, five home runs.
Adrian Beltre (Rangers, third baseman): 143 games, .287 batting average, .788 OPS, 18 home runs.
Jonny Gomes (Royals, backup outfielder): 12 games (with Royals), .167 batting average, .469 OPS, four RBIs.
Jonathan Herrera (Cubs, potential odd man out for wild card game): 73 games, .230 batting average, .576 OPS.
David Ross (Cubs, Jon Lester's personal catcher): 72 games, .176 batting average, .518 OPS, home run.
Anthony Rizzo (Cubs, starting first baseman): 160 games, .278 batting average, .899 OPS, 31 home runs.
Quintin Berry (Cubs, pinch-runner): 8 games, two stolen bases, one caught stealing.
Jon Lester (Cubs, No. 2 starter): 11-12, 205 innings, 3.34 ERA, 207 strikeouts, 47 walks.
|Carl Crawford calls time in Boston 'a scar that I think will never go away'
|08.08.14 at 12:44 pm ET
Red Sox fans probably would characterize Carl Crawford's short time in Boston as forgettable.
Crawford failed to live up to the seven-year, $142 million contract he signed with the Sox before the 2011 season. In fact, he didn't come close.
The outfielder hit .254 with 14 home runs and 23 stolen bases in 161 games over less than two injury-plagued seasons with the Red Sox before being traded to the Dodgers with Adrian Gonzalez and Josh Beckett in August 2012.
If Sox fans think the Crawford experience was bad, Crawford thought the Boston baseball experience was even worse.
"That place is going to be the same forever and I don't want no part of it," Crawford told WEEI.com. "I'm happy where I'm at right now."
When was asked if it seems like a long time ago that he played in Boston, Crawford said, "Yeah, it does. I try and put that as far behind me as I can. I would like to feel like that, but it still feels fresh at times. Just because it was one of the toughest times of my life. That's a scar that I think will never go away. I'll always remember that feeling."
Coming from such a small market in Tampa Bay, Crawford clearly wasn't ready for the expectations and media presence that comes with playing in a market such as Boston.
Crawford expressed regret toward signing with the Red Sox despite such an appealing offer money-wise and said he wished he had spent more time doing research on the teams that were interested rather than letting money be the determining factor.
"It was just different for me," he said. "Coming from Tampa, from that environment to that environment was so different I didn't really understand what I was getting myself into. I think that was the big thing. There was just such a big difference from what I was used to.
"I definitely wouldn't have went to the highest bidder. If I could have done it over again I would have gone into more detail into everything. I didn't do any research about nothing. I didn't know much about Boston, only when I played there. If I went into a little more depth as to what I was getting myself into things probably would have been a little different."
Unloading Crawford was part of a rebuilding process that ultimately led to the Sox' 2013 World Series title. But even that isn't enough to change how Crawford feels about the city.
"They say everything is different. But you can have a good team, but you can't escape all that other stuff up there," he said. "I don't want to get into all that other stuff. It's good they won a World Series, but I'm pretty sure nothing has really changed."
|Buster Olney on M&M: 'The reaction around the sport is that [the Yankees] overpaid' for Jacoby Ellsbury
|12.04.13 at 2:09 pm ET
ESPN's Buster Olney joined Mut & Merloni on Wednesday and discussed the Yankees' reported signing of Jacoby Ellsbury, and other free agents around MLB.
Ellsbury, according to a report by CBS Sports' Jon Heyman, signed a seven-year, $153 million contract with the Yankees on Tuesday night.
'I don't think that the Red Sox were close, based on what I've heard. Basically it was communicated to them, 'Look, we're talking about numbers in a different ballpark,' and I think the Red Sox all along thought that there was a good chance that that was going to happen,' Olney said.
Ellsbury's deal mirrors Carl Crawford's contract with Boston in 2011, as the speedy outfielder received a seven-year, $142 million contract from the Red Sox to leave the Rays. This is now known as one of the worst contracts in baseball, considering that Boston traded Crawford after less than two injury-plagued, disappointing seasons.
'I'm sure that the Yankees look at this deal a little bit like they did the [Mark] Teixeira deal where their feeling is, 'We know at the beginning of the deal we'll probably get good production, we'll hope for good production, and at the end of the deal it could get ugly,' ' Olney said. 'The reaction around the sport is that they overpaid.'
New York made its first big splash in the free agent market on Nov. 23 when the team signed catcher Brian McCann to a five-year, $85 million contract.
'When I heard about [the Ellsbury signing] I wasn't really surprised,' Olney said, adding. 'The Yankees brand is about winning and it's about making the playoffs, it's about winning the World Series. And so after the struggles they had, especially their offense in 2013, you knew there would be a response.'
New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica joined Dennis & Callahan on Wednesday morning to discuss Jacoby Ellsbury's reported deal with the Yankees, as well as Robinson Cano's free agency situation.
On Tuesday night, CBS Sports' Jon Heyman reported that New York signed Ellsbury, the former Red Sox outfielder, to a seven-year, $153 million contract. This figure seems exorbitant considering that Ellsbury, 30, frequently has struggled to stay on the field, and his best season was in 2011.
'Jacoby Ellsbury has been on two World Series-winning teams, I love watching him play baseball, has anybody ever thought of him as being one of the top five players in baseball?' Lupica said, adding: 'And now you're paying him like one of the very best players in baseball, even though he's three or four years past the best numbers he's ever put in the books?'
The deal, orchestrated by agent Scott Boras, is similar to what Carl Crawford received from the Red Sox in 2010. Crawford, an outfielder who relies on his speed like Ellsbury, got seven years and $142 million from the Red Sox entering his age-30 season.
'You know that Boras came into this thinking, 'I'm going to get him more than Carl Crawford,' but the Carl Crawford deal is universally analyzed as one of the dumbest the Red Sox ever made in all of recorded history,' Lupica said.
After his breakout campaign in 2011, Ellsbury struggled with injuries in 2012, and, to a lesser degree, in 2013. He missed 116 games in the last two seasons. Additionally, Ellsbury missed almost all of the 2010 season.
'I'm just more mystified that you're taking a fragile player, who depends on his legs, who played [134] games last year, we don't even have to go back to where he missed [almost] a whole season,' Lupica said.
|Carl Crawford on Boston: 'That was just a bad experience'
|08.23.13 at 11:38 am ET
Of the high-priced players the Red Sox sent to the Dodgers in last August's megadeal, outfielder Carl Crawford has been the most outspoken since, not hesitating to let everyone know that his time in Boston was miserable.
As the Red Sox and Dodgers prepare for a weekend series at Dodger Stadium, Crawford again touched on the subject.
"That was just a bad experience," Crawford told The Los Angeles Times. "I definitely felt like I had a chance to get a fresh start. With a team, new atmosphere, new environment. New everything."
Crawford is hitting .289/.340/.413 with five home runs, 23 RBIs and 11 stolen bases in 88 games this season, helping the Dodgers to first place in the National League West.
Looking at this weekend's games, Crawford said: "I want to win all three games. Bad. Then on to the next series.
Both teams are in first place after disappointing 2012 campaigns, and the trade is being credited with helping both clubs.
"It was the right time for Boston, in their mind, to do something. It was the right time for us to do something," Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said. "Both cases were dramatic."
|Red Sox-Dodgers series preview
|at 11:17 am ET
It will be a clash between two first-place clubs and a chance to see some old friends as the Red Sox head to Los Angeles to take on the red-hot Dodgers this weekend.
Almost exactly a year ago, the Red Sox and the Dodgers completed one of the biggest trades in MLB history, with the Sox sending first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, outfielder Carl Crawford, pitcher Josh Beckett and infielder Nick Punto to Los Angeles in exchange for pitching prospects Rubby De La Rosa and Allen Webster, first baseman James Loney and minor leaguers Ivan De Jesus and Jerry Sands. Both teams benefited from the blockbuster deal, and now both sit atop their respective divisions.
Beckett — who talked to WEEI.com's Rob Bradford about his trying last days in Boston — is done for the season after having surgery in July to relieve pressure on a nerve in his neck. The former Sox starter made only eight starts on the season, going 0-5 with a 5.19 ERA. Gonzalez has been a big part of the Dodgers' success in 2013, putting up a .297/.346/.456 line with 26 home runs and 77 RBIs. Punto, who was only with the Red Sox for a brief few months in 2012, has benefited from more regular playing time, batting .257 with a .335 OBP in 276 plate appearances. And Crawford, who was more than ready to get out of Boston, looks revitalized, hitting .289/.340/.413 in 88 games.
"I want to win all three games. Bad," said Crawford, who has made his feelings about his time in Boston well known. "Then on to the next series."
The deal allowed the Red Sox to rebuild their club and become a contender this season, just a year after losing 93 games. "At the time things weren't going well for us and we simply weren't who we wanted to be," general manager Ben Cherington said. "Though there were many reasons for that, we felt a significant reallocation of money might allow us to reshape the team more quickly and get us started down a different path.
"It wasn't about the players we traded. It was simply an acknowledgment that things weren't working."
The blockbuster has played a part in the Dodgers' success this year, undoubtedly. But there are many reasons why LA, a team that played .500 baseball in the first half, has become the hottest team in baseball, going 28-5 since the All-Star break. The rotation, the bullpen and the offense has begun to click and get hot at the same time, and a few additions (starter Ricky Nolasco and, most notably, rookie sensation Yasiel Puig) have sparked a talented team and made it one of the toughest clubs to beat. The Dodgers sit 9½ games ahead of the second-place Diamondbacks, their biggest lead of the season. They grabbed hold of the division lead on July 22 and haven't looked back since, continuing to expand the gap between them and the rest of the division.
The Red Sox aren't in a bad spot either, but the race for the AL East title is a little more competitive, to say the least. The Sox briefly lost their lead in the division, with the Rays pulling even with Boston on Tuesday, but a series win against the Giants (and a victory by the Orioles over the Rays) means that the Red Sox are alone again at the top. The series victory against the reigning World Series champs was the first series win for the Sox since taking two of three from the Astros earlier this month. The Red Sox have played .500 baseball this month, going 10-10, but they still have yet to lose more than three games in a row. They hope that the resurgence of Will Middlebrooks, the addition of top prospect Xander Bogaerts, the return of David Ross and the eventual return of Clay Buchholz can inject some life into a club that's been unable to string wins together.
|Tom Werner on D&C: 'Winning is the best revenge' for Terry Francona book
|05.03.13 at 9:13 am ET
Red Sox chairman Tom Werner joined Dennis & Callahan on Friday morning to talk about the team's early season success and promote Saturday morning's Run-Walk to Home Base charity event.
Following last year's forgettable season, the Red Sox entered 2013 with low expectations around baseball.
"I am an optimistic guy, and we certainly thought we were going to do much better than we did last year," Werner said. "We were amused at the preseason predictions. I think there were something like 41 ESPN analysts and they had 20 predicting the Toronto Blue Jays were going to win the division and I think 18 having the Rays win the division and zero having the Red Sox winning. So, it's certainly been a very enjoyable month. And clearly, everybody is contributing."
Werner credits the team's new manager as the key.
"I think John Farrell, you start with how he's turned around this pitching staff," Werner said. "And not just Clay [Buchholz] and Jon Lester, but the back end of the rotation, it's been terrific."
The Red Sox stayed away from making any major splashes in free agency this past offseason, signing less-heralded players Mike Napoli, Shane Victorino and Ryan Dempster to short-term deals.
"I think you guys know that we always want to win, and we have the resources to win. But you don't necessarily win by signing those high-priced players," Werner said. "It's not that we cut our payroll this year. I just think we used it in a different way. We avoided the $150 million, five- or six-year contracts, the Carl Crawfords, and I think there's another way to win."
The turnaround comes after the ownership group was the recipient of some criticism in a book by former manager Terry Francona.
Said Werner: "Winning is the best revenge for that book, isn't it?"
To hear the interview, go to the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page. For more Red Sox news, visit the team page at weei.com/redsox.
|Buster Olney on M&M: Rival GM says Red Sox would get 'nothing' in trade of Alfredo Aceves
|04.24.13 at 1:17 pm ET
Buster Olney of ESPN joined Mut & Merloni on Wednesday to talk about what the Red Sox might do with Alfredo Aceves in light of his mounting issues, and about some of Carl Crawford's recent comments about his time in Boston.
Olney said he doubts the Sox would get much, if anything, by trading Aceves, more because of his attitude problems than his pitching.
"I'd be surprised, after he had that incident in spring training, if you guys remember — the live BP session in which he wasn't giving 100 percent effort," Olney said. "I asked one general manager, what could you get for him? And he said, 'Nothing.' Basically, because his reputation as a teammate is so bad. That's not to rule out the possibility that he would go someplace else and actually pitch OK, but I think all the personality stuff we've seen in the last two years is going to certainly mitigate some teams' interest in adding him while giving something up that they consider to be worthwhile.
"Maybe the best thing the Red Sox could hope for would be some degree of salary relief, and there are certainly teams out there that would take a shot at him because they're struggling for pitching. The Angels, who are absolutely starved right now, maybe they would take a shot at him, but again, I don't think they're going to get anything serious in return based on what I've heard from rival general managers."
Meanwhile, in a Wednesday column by ESPN's Jerry Crasnick, Crawford said that he'll always carry his time in Boston with him, "because it did so much damage to the inside of me." Before Crawford came to Boston, Olney said, there were people in the Rays organization who were concerned about his ability to move to a higher-pressure market. There also were members of the Yankees organization who had the same worries, even as the Yankees showed an interest in him.
Even so, Olney said he thinks Crawford's attitude toward Boston since being traded to Los Angeles is more an effort to keep himself sharp than anything else.
"I think a lot of what you're reading from Carl is him finding and developing a chip on his shoulder," Olney said. "I was around Carl for a good number of days when he was with the Red Sox. I didn't think he was mistreated at all. I thought he was treated great. Relative to how he was performing, yeah, he got booed a little bit. I don't think the media was really all that tough on him. But I think that what you have is, Carl will tell you about, people back in high school didn't believe in me, I had doubters, people wondered, and I just think this is a way to motivate himself on a daily basis. And he is a motivated guy. The guy's getting up at 4:30, 5 every day to work out. '¦ It's like he's playing ninja mind games with himself."
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Clay, so much wet, dripping, slipping clay. And somewhere beneath it all are Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore – the amorous but doomed Sam and Molly – in the most famous moment of one of the biggest movies of the 1990s.
"That" scene from Ghost, where Sam and Molly put a spin, so to speak, on getting dirty, is so ingrained in popular culture that it continues to inspire copycat date-night events among enterprising ceramics studios 25 years after Moore put hand to potter's wheel. It's been emulated and parodied across genres and years – on Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, Glee and even the decidedly PG Wallace and Gromit.
Soon, the scene will be replayed again, this time live on stage and, less predictably, as part of a musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning film. There's clay to be sure but the emotion is different, full of longing and heartache between Molly, played in the Australian production of Ghost the Musical by Jemma Rix, and Sam, played by Rob Mills. The Righteous Brothers' iconic Unchained Melody is there but that's different too and, for Rix, it had to be.
"They've done it in a way that's not like the movie. I think that's the best way to do it because it's too iconic, it would become too cheesy," she says.
"That's what I love about it, they've still paid such respect for the film but they've also written it so well that it's not predictable. There's no cheese whatsoever. It's completely real and honest."
This depends, of course, on how quickly you buy into the premise of the musical, which builds on the film's improbably successful "romance comedy-suspense" formula and adds impressive special effects (objects fly; people walk through doors) and, clearly, music.
Written by Bruce Joel Rubin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the film Ghost, the musical borrows heavily from the movie and chunks of dialogue, particularly of the clairvoyant Oda Mae Brown, seem lifted directly from the character that won Whoopi Goldberg her Oscar.
As in the movie, Sam and Molly's relationship moves at a clip on stage, leaping from moving into a loft together to topless make-out sessions to Sam's death-by-mugging in an alley and all that this event triggers. They're helped along by songs written by a couple of heavy hitters of pop music: Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics and Grammy winner Glen Ballard, co-writer and producer on Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill.
It helps, too, that Mills and Rix are friends, having played love interests before as Fiyero and Elphaba in the musical juggernaut Wicked and have an easy chemistry of their own.
"Jemma said to me on the first day, 'we'll probably have to pash'," Mills cheerfully remembers. "But these guys are adults, they're in love and they're moving to their apartment for the first time. 'Let's christen the house', it's that moment."
Rix says she was drawn to Stewart and Ballard's score years ago, after the production first opened in England. She was in Korea in 2012, playing her career-defining role as Elphaba (she would go on to do more than 1000 performances as the green-skinned witch of Oz, one of the longest-serving cast members in the show's history), and listening to the West End cast recording of Ghost the Musical on her hour-long commute every day.
She loved the modern, pop-rock style of it. "That's my voice, that's my tone," she says. "My background is from pop, I used to sing in a band, so that's sort of my thing. Singing the material is just like heaven, I love it."
Who wouldn't want the opportunity to say that you love each other one more time?Jemma Rix
She had hoped to audition when Ghost was first due to come to Australia in 2013. But when those plans fell through because of the technical difficulties of transporting the show's special effects-heavy set and a shorter-than-expected British season, Rix stuck with Wicked for another two years. (The show comes to Australia following runs in China and Singapore.)
As important as the role has been to the 30-year-old's career, she felt only happiness the night Wicked closed in Perth in 2015. "I was ready to put the broomstick away and move on to the next adventure," she says.
She and her husband took off on a nine-week tour of Europe and it was during this holiday, somewhere in Italy, that she got the call to audition for Ghost. Coming off the back of years with Wicked, this time she paused: was it worth the effort and disruption? How would she even rehearse?
Rix hadn't sung in a month but she decided to go for it; within three days her husband was recording her audition video on an iPhone and sending it to producers in London. Mills was cast early. By October, Rix learned she had the part too.
Despite their bankability as musical theatre stars, both Mills and Rix speak of moments where they've deliberately retreated to take stock of their lives. For Rix, it came at the end of the 2012 Wicked tour when "she never wanted to do it again". She revelled in normalcy, worked in a cafe, put on a cabaret show at Melbourne's Butterfly Club and rediscovered her passion to sing.
Cabaret was also something of a refuge for Mills, with the opening last year of his "off-off Broadway" solo show Rob Mills is Surprisingly Good in, of all places, Mackay.
"It was very rewarding and good, too, for people to see me being me," he says. "I think I've always been a character on a stage, people still may or may not know me as the kid from Idol. That was a long, long time ago and was someone who was not sure of himself at all – probably cocky on the other side of confident."
Sam is a big role for Mills in every sense: not only is it forever linked to "The Swayze" but he spends just 12 minutes off-stage for the entire two-hour production. Add fight scenes and a spot of guitar, Mills' stamina will be tested and he knows it.
Both Rix and Mills project humility and some vulnerability too, perhaps echoing the qualities that eventually won Swayze and Moore their roles 25 years ago. But whereas Ghost was a movie of its time set in a New York riven with shadowy, devilish figures, the stage production takes every advantage of the technological present. Elements of the story, dated though the invocations of heaven and hell may be, remain ageless.
"Who wouldn't want the opportunity to say that you love each other one more time?" Rix says. "To hold each other one more time? What a touching moment that people would only dream to have. And I think that's a universal power that everyone can be affected by."
Ghost the Musical is at the Adelaide Festival Centre from January 7; Regent Theatre, Melbourne, from February 5; Theatre Royal, Sydney, from March 18; Crown Theatre, Perth, from May 21.
The writer travelled to Singapore as a guest of the show's producers.


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| Leonie1988 chapter 1 . 3/29/2013
I always wondered how Gabrielle really got along with Sarah and I really like your story for showing, that Gabrielle is just as kick-ass and cool as Xena is. Nice, thanks!
| Mireille chapter 1 . 5/12/2011
Eh eh ;) Really well done! Great characterizations, and great scene that could have come straight from the series :)
Thanks for sharing this with us!
| Marisa chapter 1 . 2/14/2011
this is a corker of a story - absolutely cracked me up
pity they never used it in one of the episodes - thanks heaps
| Lady Razeli chapter 1 . 8/27/2008
Lol I can't believe I didn't review this when I read it the first time. Loved it, made me laugh all over it again, you have a gift for comedy.
| Purplehawke3 chapter 1 . 9/20/2007
This is such a cute story. I loved it. Never cross a bard in a bad mood.
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LMAO! Love this! What a great continuation of the episode. :D
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These promos were given away during an official tournament, it was held since May 2003 and ended on October 2003. During the six months of the tounament, two different cards were given every month to the participants.
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