Beck & Paige at the Warren County Fair

 

Fla. Man, 86, Pays $1 Ticket From 1946

PALM HARBOR, Fla. - William Fogarty doesn't understand the fuss. He just forgot to pay a parking ticket. When he finally realized it, the 86-year-old retiree made good and mailed in a money order, to pay a $1 ticket he got 60 years ago.

Fogarty got the ticket in Norfolk, Va., in May 1946. Soon after, he bought a $1 money order to pay the fine but forgot to send it in. About a month ago, as he was looking through a box of collectibles from his Navy days, Fogarty discovered a wallet with the money order inside.

So he wrote a letter to the Norfolk Police Department and included
the money order.

"At my age, when I go out of here, I don't want to owe anyone a dime,"
he told the St. Petersburg Times.

Fogarty's money order will not be cashed, Norfolk police Officer Chris Amos said. Instead, it will be framed and displayed in the department's museum.

"It's one of those restoring your faith in mankind things," Amos said.

Associated Press/AP Online

Love this shot!

Most amazing card trick, eva!

and when you are done lifting your jaw up, read this for instructions on how to do it
http://www.instructables.com/id/EUO2ZWGMX3EQEC14US/

'A basic rule of punctuation'

This story is similar the the NBA/ABA story I posted a few days ago, except that a single comma, separating two thoughts, (like those), will likely cost Rogers Communications over $2 million.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060806.wr-rogers07/BNStory/Business/home

A Solar Prominence

Who do we think we are? I know we are a whole lot less significant in the universe then we all think.

An interesting fact: It would take about one million Earths to fill up the sun if it were hollow.

Take from here.

Lessons to learn

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her
shower, when the doorbell rings.

The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When
she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor. Before
she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you $800 to drop that towel."

After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands
naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars
and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back
upstairs.

When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, "Who was that?"

"It was Bob the next door neighbor," she replies

"Great!" the husband says, "did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?"

The TV Deal the NBA Wishes It Had Not Made

I love capitalism!  30 years ago, two brothers owned an ABA basketball team and forged a deal for a small percentage of the TV revenues from 4 new teams entering the NBA from the ABA.  Their attorney did them a "solid" by writing this into the contract:

"The right to receive such revenues shall continue for as long as the NBA or its successors continues in its existence."

Yeah, since 1976 their team has folded and the NBA must still pay these guys.  This year alone, their cut could be $24,000,000.  For.Doing.Nothing .

Good job, boys!



http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-aba31jul31,0,917243.story

Add a "Gmail This" Bookmarklet to Your Browser

For those Gmail users out there, this is similar to the email this button you've seen in office applications.

You simply drag this little link to your toolbar, and when you are on a page you want to email, just click the link.

I'm here for you

http://email.about.com/library/misc/blgmail_this_bookmarklet.htm

Can tossers

How many takes do you think it took????!!!!!

My favorite email today

From: Becky
Date: Jul 31, 2006 9:05 AM
Subject: soooooooo
To: Patrick

YOUR daughter put her underwear in the toilet………………….

This is much more like the Microsoft we know then the post below.

Speech recognition demonstration goes bad, bery bery bed.

Hahahahahaha

http://blogs.reuters.com/2006/07/28/when-good-demos-go-very-very-bad/


Update: Google Video of the mishap.

Microsoft working on something amazing

For the first time in a loooong time MS is working on something REALLY cool.  Imagine collaborating online automatically with millions of other people who have taken photos of the same place/thing you have.... this tool will give you the ability to walk through the photos in the third dimension, and click on any one shot to see more detail.

Looking forward to this!  http://labs.live.com/photosynth/video.html

Kaity BIRD

 

She is such a Skipper. 

Great family shot

 

June Pictures

I know I am late posting the June album, but it was worth it - full album here. 

Nasty NASCAR crash at Bristol

This is damn cool!

I bet this game can guess your animal, vegetable, or mineral in 20 questions or less!

When it started asking me "Is it furry?" on question 12 when my item was a stuffed animal - I laughed out loud!

FREAKY!

http://www.20q.net/

One in 50-100 million

A rare two-toned lobster is seen in this Thursday, July 13, 2006, photo taken in Bar Harbor, Maine. The lobster caught by Alan Robinson in Dyer's Bay is a typical mottled green on one side; the other side is a shade of orange that looks cooked. Robinson, of Steuben, donated the lobster to the Mount Desert Oceanarium. Staff members say the odds or finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million to 100 million. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Abigail Curtis)

It looks half cooked!!!! Yummy.

And a shout out to Scotty B and Chris who both sent this to me.

link here

Sword Slip (QVC)

Guy has a little "accident" on QVC while showing off a "real, functional" katana sword. Listen closely to the stand-in at the end.... ha!!!!!!