At the time of this posting, my audition video to be Southwest Airline’s Blog-o-spondent is in 6th place.
If you haven’t already, please click this link and click the green up arrow. If you already voted, please pass this on to a friend or two.
Much LUV,
Geeding
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• It’s the world’s third-busiest airport in terms of takeoffs and landings. It’s the world’s sixth-busiest if you’re counting passengers.
• The airport covers 29.8 square miles. That’s bigger than the island of Manhattan, which is just shy of 23 square miles.
• It has seven runways, plus room for an eighth. It can land four airplanes at once, something no other airport can do.
• And it’s served by 21 airlines that can take you to 173 destinations.
• Vendors are allowed to charge a maximum of 10 percent more than similar items cost outside the airport. The add-on compensates for the higher costs of airport operations.
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The 26-second mark kind of creeps me out.
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I stapled a dollar bill to a telephone pole just out of arm’s reach.
How long will it stay there?
Place your bets and then click here to find out.
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Sting and The Police have come top of the charts again, for writing the most misheard pop lyrics of all time.
Message in a Bottle, the band’s 1979 hit has the line: “A year has passed since I wrote my note”, but fans regularly mishear it as “A year has passed since I broke my nose.”
The lyrics from his 1980 song “When The World Is Running Down” came top of the list.
“You make the best of what’s still around” is a line regularly misheard as “You make the best homemade stew around.”
The 56-year-old front man beat pop legends the Beatles, Bee Gees, Queen and David Bowie in an online poll of 2,000 music fans by specialist hearing aid retailer Amlifon.
The Beatles also appear twice in the top ten.
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PHOENIX (AP) — When it comes to marking up historic signs, good grammar is a bad defense.
Two self-styled vigilantes against typos who defaced a 60-year-old hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park were sentenced to one year of probation and banned from national parks for a year.
The men, Jeff Deck, of Somerville, Mass., and Benjamin Herson, of Virginia Beach, both 28, pleaded guilty on Aug. 11 to damage done in March at the park’s Desert View Watchtower. The sign was made by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, the architect who designed the rustic 1930s watchtower and other Grand Canyon-area landmarks.
Mr. Deck and Mr. Herson toured the United States this spring, wiping out errors on government and private signs. They were interviewed by National Public Radio and The Chicago Tribune, which called them “a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation.â€
[Thanks, Gabe!]
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Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” is already welcoming the Grand Old Party to next week’s Republican National Convention in St. Paul – sort of.
The fake news program has erected a billboard near the Twin Cities along I-494, picturing the show’s correspondents and the words “Welcome, Rich White Oligarchs.”
Oligarchs?
I’ll be honest, I had to look it up.
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A guide to (almost) everything there is to know about presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, from the important issues (Best Speech) to the really important issues (Hairstyle). Electopedia will be updated regularly—look for new categories ripped from the headlines!
Lots of fun and interesting facts.
[Thanks, Suzy!]
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An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies.
The country’s media are calling him “the miracle baby”.
He was born prematurely to a 14-year-old girl in a shanty town outside the capital, Buenos Aires.
She is said to have panicked and abandoned the boy in a field, surrounded by wooden boxes and rubbish.
Then along came La China, reports say, the dog which somehow picked up the baby and carried her 50m to place him alongside her own puppies.
The dog’s owner reported hearing the child crying and finding him covered with a rag.
The baby, weighing 4kg (8lb 13oz), had some slight injuries, but no bite marks.
The owner called the police and the child is now being looked after by the authorities, while a decision is taken about his future.
The frightened mother appeared shortly after her baby was found.
The Argentine media has descended on the shanty town, talking of “the Argentine Romulus and Remus”, the founders of Rome, abandoned as babies and rescued by a wolf, nearly 3,000 years ago.
La China, worried about her own puppies, is reported to be petrified by her new found fame, and her owner says he is worried that she is not eating.
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A blog by a nameless Texas Penitentiary inmate that is currently serving a life sentence
He updates the blog daily with the help of a friend that is not in jail. The inmate hand writes and mails 5 posts once a week to his friend who then types a post for each day that week. All comments and e-mails are given to the inmate who will eventually respond by the blog.
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As a burglar, John Pearce thinks nothing of turning his victims’ homes upside down.
But this time it was the house that turned him the wrong way up.
Attempting a daylight raid, the 32-year-old somehow got his foot caught after smashing his way through the front window of a Victorian terrace home at 6pm.
Unable to free himself, Pearce was left hanging upside down in the window frame for more than an hour as a crowd of 30 neighbours and passers-by gathered to ridicule him in Dartford, Kent.
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