Wal-Mart documentary / Stowing away on planes / TITANIC song / Creepy kittens
Jon sent a bunch of us an email: he's got this Wal-Mart documentary from the Richmond Public Library. Walmart: the High Cost of Low Price is supposed to be really interesting, and reveals just how Wal Mart can price its products so cheaply... he's hoping to watch it this Sunday. Sounds like something I'd be up for... man, I've watched a lot of those documentaries lately, but it's all good!
What the... Toronto just beat Boston 10-2?! Holy crud... o_O
Today's Ripped Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
The body of an apparent stowaway was ripped in half during flight Tuesday and his leg crashed into a suburban neighborhood, where a homeowner found the severed limb in the middle of her lawn, authorities said. Pam Hearne heard "a loud crash" and later was stunned to see a foot clad in an Adidas sneaker and a sock in her yard, said Officer Thomas Blanchard. The leg, with hip and spine attached, dented the shingled roof of her garage before bouncing into the lawn. Police suspect the remains are from a stowaway who may have been crushed as the South African Airways jet lowered its landing gear on its approach to Kennedy Airport. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said the pilot of flight 203 would have probably started lowering the plane's landing gear in the sky over the home in Floral Park, about 5 miles from the airport. Peters said a Customs agent that met the flight at the airport found another leg hanging from the wheel well. The airline said in a statement that the flight landed with "no impact" on the passengers and crew, and it was working closely with authorities to investigate how someone may have stowed away. The flight originated in Johannesburg, and made one stop in Senegal. Authorities had not identified the remains, which were hauled away from Hearne's yard in a plastic bag. Hearne, a special education teacher, said that when she first saw the leg in the grass, "it didn't look real." "But I am very glad that I live where I do," she said, "so I don't have to run for my life like this man probably was doing."
Culled from: USATODAY.Com
Generously submitted by: Patina
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No, but you do have to run for your life to avoid falling legs!!
Thanks to everyone who sent in entries for the Morbid Caption Contest. The response was better than I'd dreamed: Over 100 entries! I'm going through them and will share the results in a few days. Good luck!
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Morbid Lyrics Du Jour!
Marco submits the following for morbid consideration:
"There's an old happy / funny / sarcastic folksong about the sinking of the Titanic. Here are the words, though the way it's sung is what makes it funny. It's all lilting and sprightly, especially the part about husbands and wives and little children. And everyone in the audience wails and laughs, 'SO SAD!' and 'TOO BAD!' And it requires banjos and kazoos."
The Titanic
Oh they built the ship Titanic to sail the ocean blue
And they thought they had a ship that the water would never go through,
but the gentle Lord raised up his hands
And he said that ship would never land.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Chorus:
Oh it was sad (SO SAD!)
Oh it was sad (TOO BAD!)
It was sad when
The great ship went down.
(To the bottom of the sea) (Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives)
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Now they sailed away from England, and were almost to the shore
When the bloody snooty rich refused to associate with the poor.
So they locked them in the hay, where they could never get away...
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Chorus
They lowered a few life boats on a glassy eerie sea
And the band stayed on the deck playing Nearer My God To Thee...
While some were homeward bound,
Sixteen hundred had to drown.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Chorus
Kaplunk, it sunk. What a brilliant piece of junk.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
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Morbid Link Du Jour!
Shauna sends a link: "Here are some very creepy kitties... I want one!!!" So say we all, Shauna. So say we all.
What the... Toronto just beat Boston 10-2?! Holy crud... o_O
Today's Ripped Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
The body of an apparent stowaway was ripped in half during flight Tuesday and his leg crashed into a suburban neighborhood, where a homeowner found the severed limb in the middle of her lawn, authorities said. Pam Hearne heard "a loud crash" and later was stunned to see a foot clad in an Adidas sneaker and a sock in her yard, said Officer Thomas Blanchard. The leg, with hip and spine attached, dented the shingled roof of her garage before bouncing into the lawn. Police suspect the remains are from a stowaway who may have been crushed as the South African Airways jet lowered its landing gear on its approach to Kennedy Airport. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said the pilot of flight 203 would have probably started lowering the plane's landing gear in the sky over the home in Floral Park, about 5 miles from the airport. Peters said a Customs agent that met the flight at the airport found another leg hanging from the wheel well. The airline said in a statement that the flight landed with "no impact" on the passengers and crew, and it was working closely with authorities to investigate how someone may have stowed away. The flight originated in Johannesburg, and made one stop in Senegal. Authorities had not identified the remains, which were hauled away from Hearne's yard in a plastic bag. Hearne, a special education teacher, said that when she first saw the leg in the grass, "it didn't look real." "But I am very glad that I live where I do," she said, "so I don't have to run for my life like this man probably was doing."
Culled from: USATODAY.Com
Generously submitted by: Patina
**********************************************************************
No, but you do have to run for your life to avoid falling legs!!
Thanks to everyone who sent in entries for the Morbid Caption Contest. The response was better than I'd dreamed: Over 100 entries! I'm going through them and will share the results in a few days. Good luck!
*******
Morbid Lyrics Du Jour!
Marco submits the following for morbid consideration:
"There's an old happy / funny / sarcastic folksong about the sinking of the Titanic. Here are the words, though the way it's sung is what makes it funny. It's all lilting and sprightly, especially the part about husbands and wives and little children. And everyone in the audience wails and laughs, 'SO SAD!' and 'TOO BAD!' And it requires banjos and kazoos."
The Titanic
Oh they built the ship Titanic to sail the ocean blue
And they thought they had a ship that the water would never go through,
but the gentle Lord raised up his hands
And he said that ship would never land.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Chorus:
Oh it was sad (SO SAD!)
Oh it was sad (TOO BAD!)
It was sad when
The great ship went down.
(To the bottom of the sea) (Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives)
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Now they sailed away from England, and were almost to the shore
When the bloody snooty rich refused to associate with the poor.
So they locked them in the hay, where they could never get away...
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Chorus
They lowered a few life boats on a glassy eerie sea
And the band stayed on the deck playing Nearer My God To Thee...
While some were homeward bound,
Sixteen hundred had to drown.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Chorus
Kaplunk, it sunk. What a brilliant piece of junk.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
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Morbid Link Du Jour!
Shauna sends a link: "Here are some very creepy kitties... I want one!!!" So say we all, Shauna. So say we all.
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