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Tuesday Morning Meanderings..

It's a grey morning here (I always forget, is it grey or gray?).. the sun's nowhere to be seen, though it may come out this afternoon.
Work's going to be real busy today with 2 meetings at the main office.
Watched the UCONN women destroy Penn State last night to earn a place in the Final Four. It'd really be something if both the men AND the women won the national championship!

Oh, and this is for Jim Furlong, one of only 2 ballot casters in the country that didn't vote Diana Taurasi for the First Team, All-American.
PHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTT!
I'm sure he knows now he screwed up! Idiot.

Ok, someone has too much time and too much money!

And we have here a nominee for the Darwin Awards!

Oh, and this, from the "Top 100 April Fools Jokes of All Time!":

#1: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in, and many called up wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. To this question, the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

#2: Sidd Finch
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph (65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their teams's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. But in reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the writer of the article, George Plimpton

Have a great Wednesday!

posted by Dave at Tuesday, March 30, 2004