Lego Ship in a Bottle
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Bag of Randomness
- Unwed Teenaged Mother Earned Over Quarter Million Dollars For Supporting Abstinence – But the foundation she supported at least distributed $35,000 in grants towards the cause.
- The people of the South take their American patriotism seriously, very seriously; so the guy responsible for this has his days numbered – Decapitated bald eagle found in Louisiana ditch
- They also take their NASCAR seriously, at least in Alabama.
- This guy makes me feel I don’t do enough to honor my grandparents – Man buys Justin Bieber shoe for $1,425 to honor grandfather
- A great illustration showing the 1,235 of the potential alien planet candidates NASA’s Kempler mission has found to date. OK, maybe not great, but pretty neat.
- The Science Channel decided to change its name . . . well, kinda.
- There have been 17 government shutdowns since 1977 – source
- Sheep gives birth to dog?
- The voice of Shredder on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the actor who played Uncle Phil on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
- Jackie Chan wants to have $0 in his bank account when he dies.
- Speaking of death, this book interests me, and I thought the title was catchy- Does This Mean You’ll See Me Naked?: Field Notes from a Funeral Director
- And for more death related stuff – Dying? Plan ahead: Priests scarce for last rites
- Boy named rail ‘director of fun’
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If I was a 10-year-old with $8500 I’d spend it on something else
William “Refrigerator” Perry received an unexpected surprise last week: His Super Bowl XX ring came back to him.
Ten-year-old Cliff Forest, a Chicago sports fan, bought the ring a sports memorabilia store in New York City for $8,500.
After reading about Perry’s health and personal issues, Forest was moved to spend his own savings — earmarked by his parents for a college fund — to help Perry.
“It was exciting,” Forest told ESPN. “He looked really happy. He said, ‘Thanks.’
“It’s what I wanted to do. When I Googled Mr. Perry after I got the ring, I saw he had (Guillain-Barre syndrome) and went through rough times. And I thought he needed it more than I did.”
Forest’s parents weren’t thrilled with his plan at first.
“When Cliff saw the ring, he said he had to have it,” his mother, Tracy, told ESPN. “Once I saw the price, I said, ‘Absolutely not. We’re not buying the ring.’
“He ended up taking money out of his savings account. We told him it was money for college, but he ended up getting the ring.”
Bacon fat clogs Bedford sewage pipes
No, not Bedford, TX. This one is in Canada.
Halifax Water is warning residents to be careful about what they pour down the kitchen sink after an accumulation of bacon fat clogged sewage pipes in the Ridgevale Drive subdivision in Bedford.
Some basements were damaged when raw sewage built up during a two-week break in February and spewed into homes.
Halifax Water spokesman James Campbell said crews sent cameras down manholes, and discovered the problem was created by bacon fat. The cameras sent back images of thick, white congealed fat, oil and grease.
“Most people think, ‘If I just pour a little bit down, what’s the big deal?’ But, you know, if there’s a couple hundred thousand people doing the same thing throughout the city, I mean it’s going somewhere,” Campbell said Friday.
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