A man in Minnesota fed up with teens toilet papering his house at night took matters into his own hands when he donned a pair of night-vision goggles and a squirt gun full of fox urine in September.
I think the story is rather humorous only because I can imagine this curmudgeonly old man hiding in the bushes all night muttering to himself waiting for those, "dang blasted meddling kids" to strike at any time. Still I had no idea where the old man got the fox urine from. The article didn't mention any breeding of foxes in his backyard.
UPDATE
Apparently after googling 'fox urine' and finding more versions of the same article I've learned that fox urine is an effective natural means of protective homes and gardens from other predatory animals. I only wonder now what fox urine smells and tastes like. It seems to me that you could probably mix some chemicals and emulate the pungent aroma but any expert fox hunter would tell you nothing beats the real thing!
I guess it should come as no shock that the through isolating their gene pool, eating primarily organic and unprocessed foods and refraining from using modern pesticides have made the Amish super beings!
Actually its not freshly churned butter that makes the Amish superior and its not their knack for craftsmanship. Rather there is a genetic anomaly that is found in 5% of older members of the Pennsylvania Amish population.
This 5% only have one working copy (instead of two) of a specific gene (APOC3) that produces a protein that slows the breakdown of fats (triglycerides) circulating in the blood.
Scientists are already experimenting with new drugs that will target this gene.
I thought the best way to describe my love for coffee was through an abstract collage. Coffee is a multibillion dollar buisness. It is the caffeinated fuel that many bodies crave. Withdrawal symptoms to caffeine addiction are not so dissimilar to heroin (with the obvious exception of vomiting, intense stomach pains, profuse sweating, hallucinations....).
I can't really begin to fathom the hypocrisy involved with a decision like this; this idiocy on the parts of the voters is on the same level as the Proposition 8 fiasco in California last month. According to the yahoo news article, 68% of voters approved making the heroin program permanent because it has been credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts since it began 14 years ago but only 36.8% voted for decriminalizing marijuana.
Sorry to break it you Switzerland...everyone knows the best marijuana in Europe outside of Amsterdam is grown in your backyard. Furthermore the excuse that you don't want Switzerland to turn into a tourist attraction for pot smokers like in the Netherlands is also backwards. People don't just come to Amsterdam for the weed they come for the prostitution, tulips and Van Gogh museum. That and I forgot to mention tourists also get high and visit Anne Frank's house.
This so-called Swiss initiative is reminiscent of other similarly themed government programs that offer its citizenry free needles in exchange for clean ones. To my knowledge these programs have not curbed the use of intravenous drug use but only has encouraged it.
Either way I will not be traveling to Switzerland for the drugs. I can get better heroin in Camden (which until a few years ago had the purest heroin in the United States).
Here is a copy of my favorite appetizer ever -- Gravlax. Click the image on the right for a larger version. Gravlax can be served all year round, not only on holidays accustomed to eating turkeys.
This easy homemade smoked salmon recipe is easy and not time consuming in the slightest.
It turns out the hippies were right. That terrible planet of the apes was our planet all along and we blew it up to make way for the apes to evolve and take over.
Ending Change: Mark Wahlberg lands at the steps of a monkey-lincoln. Wow that's some intense stuff...wait a minute that doesn't make any sense at all! The movie is about time traveling apes that coincidentally created their own identical Washington D.C. ?
Ending Change: Theatrical release: Will Smith blows himself up and a bunch of vampire-plague survivors with a grenade and a latino woman and optimistic little boy hide in an oven and bring the cure to a refuge city north of Manhattan...even though the film shows all bridges connected to Manhattan destroyed and the tunnels are clogged with both traffic and water.
The DVD has two separate endings. The directors cut is considered controversial by the studio but illustrates the point of the title of the film...Will Smith is the biological deviant/boogey-man who haunts and murders the plague victims indiscriminately.
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I don't think there is currently a 3rd Charelton Heston film waiting to be remade. My suggestions though would be first with Soylent Green.
It's going to be tricky to come up with a unique ending. Everyone knows what makes soylent green taste so good. I think today's audience would be shocked only if the other colored soylents were made of their former pets. What I always wanted to know about the world of Soylent Green is why does soylent blue, red and yellow taste so bad. But people flavored soylent is delicious?
That answers that question the meat and texture of people is so much more tasty than plankton and algae paste (the main ingredients of the other colored soylents).
Last week the bi-annual California wildfires commenced once again, destroying thousands of acres of pristine dried forest. I've visited California many times and I've never once had the inclination to live there. Yes it's a beautiful part of the country, but add a terrible freeway system and the constant threat of environmental/natural disasters that should be a tell-tale sign that maybe you are not suppose to live there? Maybe when the big earthquake that is proposed by the Discovery Channel hits maybe things will change...
To my knowledge scouring the news reports was that there were thankfully no fatalities but over 600 homes were destroyed. Thank fully Oprah's ,massive 42-acre estate (with both ocean front and mountain views) in Monticito was spared. Frankly I was more concerned about her many dogs that reside at her Monticito estate, otherwise known as -- "The Promised Land".
Rob Lowe one of Oprah's neighbors, home and valuables was spared. I wonder if the original master copies of Rob Lowe's 1988 sex tape featuring himself in a menage a trois with a 16 year old at the Republican National Convention made it through unscathed as well?
Unfortunately the real celebrity tragedy of course is the destruction of Christopher Lloyd's home. LLoyd was filming in Canada at the time of the fires and the majority of his home was destroyed, including his large collection of antique furniture and memorabilia throughout his career.
I've never really seen the 'real' Christopher Lloyd, still the footage that's been shown on television of Lloyd sifting through the ashes that was once his living room is sobering none the less.
So I was at CVS today I came across this item featured on the right. I don't know how I feel about seeing a such a personal item on the shelf. Usually I thought determining the paternity of a child was reserved for the courts or Maury Povich.
Either way for $29.99 (plus an additional $111.99 in shipping and lab processing fees) you too can determine if you owe back child support. But before you get ready to find out your true lineage you'll need a DNA sample from the alleged Father and the biological mother. It is is highly recommended you use DNA samples from the biological mother otherwise you run the risk of inconclusive results.
What if the alleged father doesn't want to submit and offer a DNA sample??????? That's easytoo, you'd be surprised how much DNA each and everyone of us leaves around the house. When he's not looking see if you can pluck a couple strands of hair from his scalp; if he questions why simply say there was a bug in his hair you were trying to get at. You can easily find hair samples off a comb, brush or razor.
If you can't find a hair sample, just apply a q-tip to the inside of a recently discarded cup. If Fox tv shows and Law and Order Special: Victims Unit have taught me anything is that discarded Starbuck coffee cups are an excellent source of DNA.
“Do we really know the person writing a chilling account of surviving a tsunami is really who she says she is?Technology has indeed made it possible to communicate instantly with limitless numbers of people, but how much trust should we place on the truthfulness of our fellow communicators?” Communicating EthicallyPage 296)
This quote originates from the Blog section of chapter 13 Communicating Ethicallyand while the text demonstrates this principle with an extreme example of a dishonest author, the text raises an ethical dilemma found with social media and online advertising.A fake blog or otherwise referred to as a flog, is a form of online communication that would at first glance appear to emanate from an unbiased source when in reality is created by an organization with a specific agenda or message.It is hoped by the organization and the public relations firm creating the campaign that their flog, will generate buzz and be shared virally in an effort to create an artificial grassroots interest.There are a plethora of examples of this form of disingenuous marketing throughout virtually all organizations and corporations ranging from:McDonalds to both the Democratic and Republican parties.
In 2006 an online social media promotional campaign for McDonald’s Monopoly Prize Game was developed.Neither website is still currently operating due primarily as the result of real bloggers discovering the media deception on behalf of McDonald’s.Two fake web blogs were launched by McDonald’s:mcdmillionwinner and 4railroads.Neither blog had any sort of indication, disclaimer or notification that these blogs were related to McDonald’s or were official McDonald’s blogs.The mcdmillionwinner flog had claimed to be authoredby Marcia Schroeder, the 2004 Monopoly Prize Game winner.Marcia Schroeder had blogged about her daily life as well as subtle complimentary statements about McDonald’s and their Monopoly Prize Game:"Some nights, we skip cooking dinner at home just to take a trip to McDonald's so we can play Monopoly. Thank goodness they have lots of variety on the menu to choose from."[1].The other fake web blog, 4railroads, chronicled the quest of Stanley Smith who sought after all four Monopoly railroad game pieces.The 4railroad blog employed a faux documentary style to Stanley Smith’s various exploits and attempts at collecting the four railroad Monopoly game pieces.
As previously mentioned, McDonald’s decision to attempt to create an artificial grassroots marketing campaign failed when it was discovered in the blogosphere, a collective term that encompasses all blogs and their interconnectedness as an overall larger online social network, that the blogs’ authors were not whom they had claimed to be.For definitive proof of McDonald’s purposefully deceptive social media marketing strategy, on October 19th 2006 a press release was issued by the public relations firm JSH&A with the title “More than 20 Million Winners Claim MONOPOLY® at McDonald’s® Prizes”.The press release concludes with: “For an inside look at how previous winners are reaping the MONOPOLY awards and to see just how far consumers will go to win big at McDonald's, visit http://www.4railroads.com .”[2].Shortly thereafter the press release, bloggers discovered McDonald’s ruse when it was uncovered that both the mcdmillionwinner and 4railroads blogs’ media content (i.e. videos) were hosted on the same server, 4railroads.com.Furthermore, these two unrelated blogs demonstrate that they are indeed connected through the redirection of the consumer’s web browser; the URL – 4railroads.com (prior to being taken down) when loaded redirected the consumer’s web browser to the mcdmillionwinner blog.
It should be noted however that certain blogs are legitimately created by company’s in conjunction with employees and used by various companies to push overall company marketing agendas and are fully disclosed as being operated and owned by that company. Two examples of popular blogs that feature postings from their employees are: Blueshirtnation.com Blogsouthwest.com.These blogs each feature not only written articles but employee-usergenerated video and other such content.
In conclusion the fake blog is reminiscent of previous dubious and deliberately misleading grassroots marketing campaigns of the past.Such attempts at public relations campaigns based on deceptive practices such as these are expressly prohibited by the Public Relations Society of America’s Code of Ethics.According to the Public Relations Society of America’s code of ethics, “Front groups: A member implements "grass roots" campaigns or letter-writing campaigns to legislators on behalf of undisclosed interest groups[3]” are ethically prohibited by the Public Relations Society of America’s Code of Ethics.I cannot think of a more perfect example of this behavior as demonstrated by McDonald’s and the public relations firm JSH&A through their total lack of corporate disclosure with the creation of their flogs.
I woke up at 4 am this morning to the text message alarm on my phone. I thought it was a bit puzzling since the number was a 215 number I didn't recognize. A few minutes later I received another text message from this stranger and that's when the hilarity ensued. For everyone's benefit I'm going to write the transcript from Mr. Random 215 number:
Random 215 number (4:13 am): What up what u doin dis TY i luv my sista mooda
Me (4:21 am): Dear Sir or Madame, I believe you text messaged the wrong individual. I'm sure Mooda will appreciate your love once you add her correct number to your phone book. But I still think you texted the wrong person.
Random 215 number (4:29 am): Yo tyshawmwm dis tyler im om my sis phone u trinna sound all proper. i luv my sista mooda Me (4:21 am): Once again I am sorry to inform you that you have the wrong number Tyler. Tyshawmwm what kind of name is that anyway? Where does it originate from? I bet it's Dutch! Please stop texting me at 4 in the morning. This is hilarious but you really have the wrong number. Random 215 number (4:53 am): What eva !@#$% stop textin my !@#$%^ phone. Who da !@#$ r u . Iight oxaf we can box. i luv my sista mooda
Me (4:58 am): Well thanks for the stimulating conversation. Don't ever text me again at 4am and learn how to memorize a nine digit number. It's not so hard if you try! i bet you can do it. Also there's this thing called T-9 or predictive texting, it's a really great service that can correct your grammar. I mean clearly you have it on your phone when you r able to spell "proper" correctly but "tying to" becomes "trinna". Good luck with all your endeavors in the future & of course, I luv your sista mooda
At this point, most people would have common sense to let this texting misunderstanding go, but the constant barrage between 4 and 5 am is a little too much. And sometimes...we'll its too funny not to agitate someone.
So let's examine some of the language in the text message that may be unclear (or at least was personally confusing):
Iight oxaf we can box. Entering that phrase into google was not particularly helpful. You can view the results by clicking here
I then tried to isolate the individual words of the slang itself. "Iaight" -- translates roughly to "Alright". Now the next word is very peculiar "oxaf"; a google result reveals that Oxaf is is a general purpose thiazole accelerator for latex. Typically used in combination with Butazate® or Methazate® for fast cures in latex . Sooo I don't think Tyler or Random 215 Number, was using OXAF as a trade name for anything. For further research on this clarification of the word "oxaf", I turned to http://www.urbandictionary.com -- no luck there either. Apparentlyoxaf has not been defined online there either. This is a real shame because without knowledge of the definition for the word "oxaf" I can't come to any conclusions to the final phrase worth examining: "we can box". Sigh
So in conclusion I have no idea what Tyler meant when he texted me Iight oxaf we can box. If someone is able to discern this gibberish, it would be extremely helpful. Well that's a lie, I could care less about some drunkard misdialing multiple times.
