pig in boots

this little piggie was afraid of the mud.

(thanks to chang for the link)

drivin'

+------------------ Bizarre Motorists -------------------+  
  
Former traffic policeman William Alexander set out to drive the 15 miles from Hereford to Ross-on-Wye in 1996. He and his wife were found confused 36 hours later, after a 1,000 mile drive, going the wrong way down the MI near Barnsley.  

In 1994, a nun who said she was rushing an injured dog to the vet was fined for reckless driving after refusing to stop for armed police in New York State.  

Leroy Linen, a scrap-metal dealer from the Bronx, was banned from driving 633 times between 1990 and 1994.  

Assuming she had failed after hitting the curb during her 1995 test at Lowestoft, Tcheeka Johnson punched the examiner on the leg, screeched to a halt and pushed her out of the passenger door.  

Trying to test his oil level manually, a Wakefield motorcyclist got his finger stuck in the oil tank and had to summon the fire brigade to release him.

draggin' boat

oh man oh man is this gonna be a crazy saturday. last weekend i only made 3 of my 5 db practices (altho there were two more optional ones that i'm not including in my 5). tonight i did a pool practice for harry (at thy's house). romrow night i got a pool practice for ryan. friday night i got bbq shopping wit thy. saturday morning i got space dragons practice at the beach from 7:30 to about 9.45am. then i got pool practice for socow from 10-12pm (and yes i will be showing up to that. if only because hopefully that'll convince my newbs to show up as well). then we got a socow bbq (yay!). long beach tourney's captains' meeting is at 6.30pm that night (altho i'm showing up at 6 to help out). and afterwards i got a space dragons party to attend. on sunday i got back to back to back practices wit dragonauts, socow and space from 6:30-11:15am. and then i'm done. lol. crazy this is. if i do actually miss anything, it'll be sunday's dragonauts and space practice. but that doesn't clear up my saturday at all.

it's seriously crazy tho. this summer season is gonna be nuts for me. i'm leading / rowing a team (and stroking too, so i gotta do good). just rowing for another (i'm moving up in the team [a boat! {as opposed to b boat}] but am missing half the practices and not rowing in their biggest tourney, so again, i gotta do good). and substitute coaching yet another. on top of that. i've been put in charge of the steering certification stuffs. (which is ironic cause i don't kno how to steer) that's supposedly a pretty big job. i really don't kno wat it entails yet tho, so hopefully it won't be super crazy. most likely i'll just have to send out a prelim email and a few followups.

this is good tho. i like helping out wit stuff and i kno the dragon boat people have been swamped wit stuff. socow will only be until the end of july and then that's over till next summer. the substitute coaching will also only involve a limited number of practices. maybe only 3 more? and i'm not doing anything for space except rowing. so as long as i show up to practices i should be moving up. it really shouldn't take too much extra time / effort. the steering thing... i don't kno about that. but it should be just fine. anyway. here's to hoping that i haven't taken on too much.

cheekin!

TEMECULA, Calif. - Employees of a Temecula, Calif., McDonald's said they have captured a chicken that had terrorized the restaurant's drive-through lane for nearly four months. The employees said the brave fowl would anger customers by blocking the drive-through lanes and bother  employees by shedding feathers around the premises, the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise reported. Restaurant manager Chona Cauley said the chicken evaded numerous capture attempts, but was finally ensnared after it fell asleep atop a drive-through window. "Normally, the chicken sleeps in the bushes," Cauley said. Esmeralda Ruiz, an employee who helped capture the chicken, said she has adopted the animal as a pet. "She's one of our family members now," Ruiz said.

updates 2

bah. it's been another two weeks since my last post. so another quick update.  1. got my computer up and running thanks to rip and some new hardware.  2. started working full time.  3. made women's national dragon boat team. but then both national teams (women's and men's) got canceled. not too happy about that because my other national's team also got canceled. maybe i'm a hex.  4. so cow is up and running. first beach practice this sunday.  5. dragon boat is really starting to kick up. i got five practices (for three teams) lined up for this weekend. i'll most likely only be doing three.

toss it

camera tossing! how awesome is this? altho, yeah, i also worry about my catching abilities... not so good wit the hand eye coordination. :(

extra-human

+----------------- Bizarre Humans ------------------+  

Juan Baptista dos Santos - He possessed two functioning penes and three scrota, the outer two of which each contained a single testis.  

Josephine Myrtle Corbin - Known as the The Four Legged Lady, he extra legs were part of a twin that did not split correctly. Each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs.  

Gabrielle Fuller - Born in Basle, Switzerland, in 1884, the Half Lady had a perfectly formed upper body which ended smoothly just below the waist.  

The Human Unicorn - In 1930, a Chinese farmer from Manchukuo was discovered by an expat Russian banker. The Russian was able to take a picture of the man who apparently had a 14-inch spire-like horn growing from the back of his head.

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