Browsing Posts published in February, 2010
MOSCOW – A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday. An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.
”The beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze,” the Komsomolskaya Pravda paper said.
It added he has now been transferred to the city of Kazan, about 800 km (500 miles) east of Moscow, for rehabilitation treatment.
I guess this is where the term “Monkey Business” came from. But seriously, this has to be a prime example of peer pressure because it seems as if people were just throwing booze at him. Not many people out there would ever pass up on free beer.
A short film from Jamin Winans commissioned by Pentax cameras. RT: 5:22
I think I may have found a company worse than Sears. I give you Chase Bank and their forced-fixed-policy insurance.
“Homeowners insurance serves two purposes — it protects both the homeowner and the mortgage bank against a disaster. In this tough economy, more Americans have let their homeowners insurance lapse, but that decision has consequences. If they don’t pay for coverage, their lenders will force a policy on them, at a much higher cost. ”
read more here: Forced-Fixed-Policy
Sears is a terrible company. They make poor quality products and their auto centers are run by mother f#*kers. My less than 2 year old oven handle ripped off the oven door awhile back. It is going to cost me $200 to fix this. This just pisses me off. You should see how they designed the oven door. It would take me a few hours to dissasemble the whole f$*&ing oven to reattached the new oven handle. They design it like this so you have to have some sears technician come to your house – after waiting around all f’n day on a Saturday. I hope somebody reads this blog and decides not to shop at Sears. Spread the WORD!
Just trust me on the autoZone. They will take you for everything your worth there. Do not take your car there!
Andrea Fay Friedman, the voice actress who played the role of “Ellen” –the character depicted as having Down syndrome on the Valentine’s Day episode of Family Guy, has responded to the criticism of sometime-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Of special significance, Friedman herself has Down syndrome. Palingates has Friedman’s complete response:
My name is Andrea Fay Friedman. I was born with Down syndrome. I played the role of Ellen on the “Extra Large Medium” episode of Family Guy that was broadcast on Valentine’s day. Although they gave me red hair on the show, I am really a blonde. I also wore a red wig for my role in ” Smudge” but I was a blonde in “Life Goes On”. I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm”.
In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
“I think the word is “sarcasm”
*From the Huffington Post.com
