What do hockey players do in the off-season?
Author: Murray
No more volcano offerings?!
HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii – Rangers at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are launching a program to stop people from leaving religious offerings at the summit of Mount Kilauea — including food they say attracts rats and cockroaches. Visitors leave 45 pounds of offerings from Halemaumau Crater each week, including flowers, bottles, money, incense, candles […]
Are you good at texting?
NEW YORK – Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pa., was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins” in 15 seconds. “I’m going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes,” the teen said after winning her $25,000 prize from the electronics company LG. Morgan defeated nearly 200 other […]
Why do people name their cars?
Herbie, KITT and Vanish are more than cute and clever nicknames. They are the monikers of automobiles forever etched into our psyche — and they are not alone. The onscreen Volkswagen Beetle, Pontiac Trans Am and Aston Martin V12 Vanquish are representative of thousands of less famous vehicles that dot driveways around the globe. There […]
I bought it on Ebay!
Do you know Ebay? It is a very popular auction site with sellers and buyers from around the world. Here is a funny Weird “Al” Yankovic parody of a popular Backstreet Boys song.
Japanese billionaire hands over homes!
HONOLULU (AP) – Japanese real estate mogul Genshiro Kawamoto handed over three of his many multimillion-dollar homes in Oahu’s priciest neighbourhood to homeless and low-income Native Hawaiian families on Thursday.
Recycle those messages in bottles!
LONDON (Reuters) – Incurable romantic Stuart Conway has spent the last 10 years throwing messages in a bottle into the sea off Britain — but now his local town council says it’s time to recycle. A quirky eccentric ever eager to spread a little happiness, he has a website offering to print out people’s innermost […]
The 13 Worst Buzzwords of 2006
Here’s the complete list: 1. leveraging our assets: The ultimate DUH in business. Every company attempts to leverage its assets. It only makes sense that companies put their resources, whether it’s money, location or talent, to best use in order to make a profit? 2. mission-critical: Another sign that too many people in today’s business […]
It doesn’t make “cents” to keep the penny
 A new study says it doesn’t make ‘cents’ to keep the penny. In fact, only 37 per cent of Canadians still use the coin for purchases, found a survey conducted by Desjardins Group. According to economists with the group, there are about 20 billion pennies in circulation — amounting to about 600 per Canadian. But […]
MP3 Player Knot
Are the wires for your MP3 player or MD player always tangled? Mine are. Here is an interesting way to tie them!
