Bang Bang

R.I.P, B.B.

Suggesting Answering Machine Messages

*We are unable to come to the phone right now. At the tone, please leave your name, number, and Master Card, Visa, or American Express account number and we'll get back to you, pending credit approval.
*You have reached the , Strategic Air Command Nuclear Missile Storage Facility. We are unable to come to the phone right now. At the tone, please leave you name, number and target or list of targets and we'll launch as soon as we can. And have a nice day."
*Hello. This is {name}. John and Mike aren't here right now, but if you leave a message, they'll get back to you as soon as they can."
*Hello. I'm {name}'s answering machine. What are you?"
*(Annoying flute music in background) Good day, Jim. Your contact, [insert name], is not available right now. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to leave your name, number, and a brief message at the tone. This tape will self-destruct in thirty seconds. Good Luck, Jim.
*In the background can be heard Gregorian Chant or some other church music Good Day My child, you have reached {name} dial a confession. At the tone if you will leave your name, number and short confession I will get back to you with your penance. Thank you and may God go with you.
*Hi this is {name}. I'm sorry I can't answer the phone right now. Leave a message and then wait by the phone until I call you back.
*This is a boring answering machine message. Leave a message anyway.

Srecan Bajram, Bozic, Nova Godina, Hristos se rodi - svima iz Zenice.

Merry Christmas!

A little boy sits at his desk writing a Christmas list to Jesus. He first writes, "Dear baby Jesus, I have been a good boy the whole year, so I want a new..." He looks at it, then crumples it up into a ball and throws it away.
He gets out a new piece of paper and writes again, "Dear baby Jesus, I have been a good boy for most of the year, so I want a new..." He again looks at it with disgust and throws it away.
He then gets an idea. He goes into his mother's room, takes a statue of the Virgin Mary, puts it in the closet, and locks the door. He takes another piece of paper and writes, "Dear baby Jesus. If you ever want to see your mother again..."

Real Universal Soldier

Folk singer Donovan, 61, announced plans to open the Invincible Donovan University in his native Scotland to advance Transcendental Meditation teachings, asserting that a critical mass of practitioners (concentrating in unison) can cause society to reduce its crime, violence and stress (he said the critical mass for improving a small country like Scotland would be only 250 meditators).
Think happy thoughts, people!

Remember London... 1985

Let's catch nasty Santa!

Those weirdoes!
Canada's post office and police are trying to track down a "rogue elf" who wrote obscene letters to children on behalf of Santa Claus. At least 10 nasty letters had been delivered to little girls and boys in Ottawa who wrote to Santa this year care of the North Pole, which has a special H0H 0H0 Canadian postal code. Return letters from Santa are in fact written by an 11,000-strong army of Canada Post employees and volunteers. Canada Post's popular "Write to Santa" program - which last year delivered more than a million letters to children in Canada and around the world - has been shut down in Ottawa until the offender is caught.

Gary Moore

Southern thinking

Georgia:
The owner of a golf course was confused about paying an invoice, so he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help. He called her into his office and said, 'You graduated from the University of Georgia and I need some help. If I were to give you $20,000, minus 14%, how much would you take off?'
The secretary thought a moment, and then replied,
'Everything but my earrings.'

Alabama:
A group of Alabama friends went deer hunting and paired off in twos for the day. That night, one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under the weight of an eight-point buck'Where's Henry?' the others asked.
'Henry had a stroke of some kind He's a couple of miles back up the trail,' the successful hunter replied.'
You left Henry laying out there and carried the deer back?' they inquired.
'A tough call,' nodded the hunter.
'But I figured no one is going to steal Henry!'

Louisiana:
A senior at LSU was overheard saying, 'When the end of the world comes, I hope to be in Louisiana.'
When asked why, he replied he'd rather be in Louisiana because everything happens in Louisiana 20 years later than in the rest of the civilized world.

Mississippi:
The young man from Mississippi came running into the store and said to his buddy, 'Bubba, somebody just stole your pickup truck from the parking lot!'
Bubba replied, 'Did you see who it was?
'The young man answered, 'I couldn't tell, but I got the license number.'

Tennessee:
A Tennessee State trooper pulled over a pickup on I-65.
The trooper asked, 'Got any ID?'
The driver replied, 'Bout whut?'

Arkansas:
A man in Little Rock had a flat tire, pulled onto the side of the road, and proceeded to put a bouquet of flowers in front of the car and one behind it. Then he got back in the car to wait.
A passerby studied the scene as he drove by and was so curious he turned around and went back. He asked the fellow what the problem was.
The man replied, 'I have a flat tire.'
The passerby asked, 'But what's with the flowers?'
The man responded, 'When you break down they tell you to put flares in the front and flares in the back. I never did understand it neither.'

General:
You can say what you want about the South, but you never hear of anyone retiring and moving North...

Bad Co.

Sooo, what's happening around the Globe lately...

*The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made a special announcement in October that it is once again safe to eat squirrels in New Jersey. (Good to know!)

*As protesters gathered at colleges around the US to criticize federal budget cutbacks that would raise the price of subsidized birth control at student health services, one University of New Mexico student described the imminent horror: "(Students shouldn't) have to make a choice between their birth control and their cell phone bill or their birth control and their gym membership ..." (There, you have it!)

*Armin Meiwes, the German gourmet-cannibal who was convicted in 2004 of killing, filleting and eating an apparently willing victim whom he had met via the Internet, gave his first extensive interview from prison in October to German TV and mentioned in passing that his sauteed morsels "tasted like pork, a little ... bitter, stronger." And in November, a Green Party activist who visits Meiwes' prison told a reporter that Meiwes had been elected by fellow inmates as a discussion leader on environmental, tax and legal issues and was demonstrating his commitment to Green Party principles by eating mostly vegetarian meals. (I must have misinterpreted this Party's principles earlier on...)

They're back!

After their sensational comeback at London's O2 arena on Monday night, rumours are now rife Led Zeppelin are set to embark on a world tour, which could net them a massive £1 billion. All ticket sellers have been told a world tour will take place, there's just some ironing out of contracts to be done. They are already talking about playing venues like Knebworth and Glastonbury. They were looking to do it in March but now it will most likely be May. The band were really fired up and were talking about their late drummer John Bonham and what he would have thought about it - it was time for reflection. Earlier this week, Plant fuelled tour speculation, saying: "It wouldn't be such a bad idea for Led Zeppelin to play together from time to time." Page has previously stated: "It's a bit selfish to do just one show. If that's it, we probably shouldn't have taken the genie out of the bottle." If the tour does go ahead drummer Jason Bonham, who replaced his late father John Bonham for the reunion, is expected to join the original trio.

The Cult

Macedonian Nectar

In 1916 French troops were hunkered down close to Gradesnica, Macedonia. French army had packed copious supplies of wine and cognac to keep out the cold. The German artillery shell exploded in their midst, wiping them all out, but for some odd reason the liquor store was unscathed by the explosion and lay undiscovered and undrunk for a while. Then, about 15 years ago Stefan Kovacevski stumbled across a case of the liquor. While the wine may have seen better decades (being buried in Macedonia is not the recommended storage technique for wine) the brandy is designed for long term maturation and was delicious. And more cases/bottles have turned up periodically since then - while ploughing, or just looking for a stray glint or two. And now the hunt is on in earnest. This nectar of the Gods is now worth about $5000 a bottle, so a case is worth enough to cover your luxurious vacation costs. Question is, how do you find this buried treasure? Truffles also lie hidden under the ground and are sought by special truffle hounds or pigs. They have to be muzzled to prevent them eating the treasure they have just unearthed...;~)

Los Lobos

Useful Labels

*On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom) -- "Do not turn upside down."
(well...a bit late, huh!)
*On Sainsbury's peanuts - "Warning: contains nuts."
(talk about a news flash)
*On Boot's Children's Cough Medicine - "Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication."
(We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction accidents if we could just get those 5 year-olds with head colds off those bulldozers.)
*On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding - "Product will be hot after heating."
(...and you thought????...)
*On a Sears hairdryer - Do not use while sleeping.
(That's the only time I have to work on my hair.)
*On a bag of Fritos - You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.
(the shoplifter special?)
*On a bar of Dial soap - "Directions: Use like regular soap."
(and that would be???....)
*On packaging for a Rowenta iron - "Do not iron clothes on body."
(but wouldn't this save me time?)
*On Nytol Sleep Aid - "Warning: May cause drowsiness."
(I'm taking this because???)
*On most brands of Christmas lights - "For indoor or outdoor use only."
(as opposed to what?)
*On a Japanese food processor - "Not to be used for the other use."
(help me on this...)
*On an American Airlines packet of nuts - "Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts."
(Step 3: say what?)
*On a child's Superman costume - "Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly."
(I don't blame the company. I blame the parents for this one.)
*On a Swedish chainsaw - "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals."
(OMG...was there a lot of this happening somewhere?)

XYu - Djavoli

I'm Dreaming of a Christmas Bonus

Ten signs you're not getting a Christmas bonus:
10. Co-workers refer to you as "the ghost of unemployment future"
9. The last time you saw your boss was when he testified against you at the embezzlement trial
8. On your door, you find a lovely wreath of pink slips
7. What you call "my new office," everybody else calls "the supply closet"
6. Boss's Christmas card says, "Don't let the door hit you on the way out"
5. You keep getting memos reminding you that employees are required to wear pants
4. When your boss came over for Thanksgiving, he was crushed under an avalanche of stolen office supplies
3. Whenever you ask for a raise, a guy shows up at your house and breaks your jaw
2. In your most recent performance evaluation, the word "terrible" appeared 78 times
1. You're the starting quarterback for the New York Jets

Ed Norton

Edward Norton's acting career has thrown him into a number of roles over the years, from scary skinheads to his most recent role, a man who turns green and busts everything up. But now he's onto something else, courtesy of Hulk co-star Tim Blake Nelson. Variety reports that Norton will play dual roles in the upcoming comedic thriller, Leaves of Grass - a project Nelson wrote and will act in. Plot details haven't been released yet, but: "Norton will play identical twins - one an Ivy League classics professor, and the other a hedonistic, pot-smoking career criminal." Nelson has got to be relieved. He said that if Norton had declined, "there would have been no second choice."

My favourite Norton's movies: Primal Fear, American History X, Fight Club, The Illusionist

Fantastic actor, this fella! He knows how to pick his movies, too.

Carlos / Eric

Euro 2008

The Tournament will take place in Austria and Switzerland between June 7 and 29. The official slogan is "Expect Emotions". Check out the group of death - C (Italy and France again? Can we expect a headbutt revanche?)

Holy Smoke!

A Greek Orthodox nunnery was turned into a marijuana plantation by two men posing as gardeners for elderly nuns. Acting on a tip-off, police raided the nunnery in the village of Filiro, near the northern port city of Thessaloniki, and found more than 30 large cannabis plants in the enclosed garden. The nuns did not know what they were and assumed they were large decorative plants.
Police "did not arrest the nuns" (?!) and have launched a hunt for the culprits.

Dennis Edwards

Super-Hicks

If anyone can equal Amy Winehouse in drinking, then that is the younger version of former Guns’n’Roses guitar player, Slash. Slash (42) stated that up until a few years ago he could be without problem Amy’s drinking buddy. "Amy continuously talks about how much she drinks, and once I could do that as well. If I were still into drink, I am sure that we would be of good company for one another", Slash said.

Special Dental Treatment

*In November, a California administrative judge sided with state dental authorities and suspended Dr. Mark Anderson's license, following complaints by female patients that he had massaged their chests to treat a jaw disorder. Anderson's lawyer, citing alleged dental journal articles, had asserted that jaw pain was related not only to pectoral muscles but even calf muscles. (In November, Anderson was also indicted for sexual battery against patients.)

*Let's stick with dentists for awhile...

A husband and wife entered the dentist's office. The husband said, "I want a tooth pulled. I don't want gas or Novocain because I'm in a terrible rush. Just pull the tooth as quickly as possible." "You're a brave man," said the dentist. "Now, show me which tooth it is."
The husband turns to his wife and says, "Open your mouth and show the dentist which tooth it is, dear." .

Patient: How much to have this tooth pulled?

Dentist: $90.00.

Patient: $90.00 for just a few minutes work???

Dentist: I can extract it very slowly if you like.

Who Wants to Live Forever

CheckMate

Chess grandmaster Anatoly Karpov was turned away when he tried to visit and offer moral support to his old rival Garry Kasparov, under detention for anti-Kremlin protests. Kasparov is serving a five-day sentence at a Moscow detention centre for leading a protest against President Vladimir Putin last weekend. Karpov is a member of the Public Chamber (collective government oversight body) and has the right to visit those detained. All the same, they would not let him in. Karpov must have been seeking to extend moral support or see the conditions in which Kasparov is being held. Karpov became one of the Soviet Union's most influential public figures after Leonid Brezhnev personally branded him the "The Chess King". His reign was over when he lost the title to Kasparov who confessed eventually that by defeating Karpov he was also challenging the old communist system. The two men's personal ambitions and different political views seemed to matter little. Karpov told the radio station he must have spent more time at the chessboard with Kasparov than with any other player, including a gruelling match that went on for four months.

Ribar family

November 29,1943 was the day when Yugoslavia definitely became a Republic or seized to remain a Monarchy. The Proclamation ceremony was presided by Dr.Ivan Ribar, a wealthy Croat lawyer who before the war lived in a palatial home in Belgrade, and then replaced it with humble surroundings, which was quite a comedown for a man accustomed to so much of the comforts of life. His luxurious home was destroyed by the Nazis. All his art treasures, books and worldly goods went down in flames... Ribar was a leader of the democratic party that dissolved the Communist party in 1924. This shows how widely divergent were his views against Tito's.
He lost his both sons, Jurica and Ivo Lola in the war.
Ribar name to date symbolizes untainted association of sacrifice and fight against injustice.

Syd Barrett Tribute

OMG

As an alternative to burial, cremation is no longer green enough, say environmentalists, because it releases smoke and mercury, and thus the industry is considering "promession," in which the body is frozen in liquid nitrogen to minus-320 degrees (F) and then shaken until it disintegrates into powder. For green burials, the United States has at least six cemeteries that require biodegradable casings and for bodies to be free of embalming chemicals. The Forever Fernwood cemetery in Mill Valley, Calif., goes even further, banning grave markers, but, said the owner, "We issue the family a Google map with the GPS coordinates" so they can find their loved one.(!!!!!)

Omid Djalili

A British-Iranian London born comedian that "put the 'fat' into 'fatwa'" who has his own prime time BBC1 show . Has featured in movies such as The Mummy, Gladiator, Spy Game, Pirates of the Caribbean III,...co-starred in Whoopi Goldberg's sitcom.

If you know anyone with AIDS - please have them watch this

In 1984 we were told that HIV was the cause of AIDS. In his provocative documentary film, Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS, Gary Null, Ph.D., challenges virtually every statement ever made by the American medical industrial complex on the virus - including those of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute for Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). While presenting the findings of Nobel Prize-winning scientists and leading virologists, the film exposes the political maneuvering, conspiracies and cover-ups that have provided obstacles to the study of this human catastrophe from the start. While presenting the findings of Nobel Prize-winning scientists and leading virologists, the film exposes the political maneuvering, conspiracies and cover-ups that have provided obstacles to the study of this human catastrophe from the start. For example, there are experts who believe that AIDS is the result of multiple factors, including drug use, stress and nutritional deficiency, but that government agencies made a politically strategic decision to de-emphasize these hypotheses and thus discourage certain researchers and their funding. Meanwhile, AZT, an infamously failed treatment for cancer, and now the primary FDA-approved approach to treating AIDS, is highly toxic and can produce the very symptoms of the illness it is prescribed to treat. “Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS” goes beyond medicine and science to question the very foundation of our reliance on government bureaucracies where it concerns matters of life and death.

Letter to my Mother

Are you still alive my mother?
Alive am I, and greetings I send.
And may the tranquil light of evening
Upon your humble home descend.

They write me you are anxious, mother,
Consumed with longing for your absend son,
Are seen too often in your faded jacket
Waiting by the roadside when your work is done.

And when you sit alone in twilight,
A horrifying vision makes you start:
You see me brawling drunken in a tavern
And someone stick a knife into my heart.

Take comfort, mother: that is only
The foolish fancy of a troubled brain.
Not such a drunkard I, nor such a monster,
To die without embracing you again.

I love you tenderly as ever
My only hope, my only desire
Is to find at last a longed-for harbor
Besides your steady-burning fire.

I'll come when buds are bursting in the garden,
When in the orchard blossoms blow.
But mind you do not awaken me at dawning
As you were wont to wake me long ago.

Do not awaken what is meant to slumber,
Do not evoke the ghosts of blighted dreams.
Too early did I suffer bitter losses,
And learned the worth of human schemes.

And do not try again to make me pious:
What's gone is gone - forever out of sight.
You alone are all my strength and gladness,
You alone - ineffable my light.

So be not anxious any longer, mother,
Not warse your strength in longing for your son.
And go no longer in your faded jacket
Down to the roadside when your work is done.

Sergey Esenin

Alice In Chains

Layne Staley (1967-2002): "I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh*t. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning, and I'm throwing up all the time and sh*tting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body."



Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam recorded a song eulogizing Staley, titled 4/20/02

Good answer

*It was mealtime during a flight on a British Airways plane: 'Would you like dinner?' the flight attendant asked the man seated in the front row.
'What are my choices?' the man asked.
'Yes or no,' she replied.

*A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets. As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her. Without blinking an eyelid she said,
'Sir, I need to see your ticket not your stub.'

*A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at a supermarket but she couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a passing assistant, 'Do these turkeys get any bigger?'
The assistant replied,'I'm afraid not, they're dead.'

The policeman got out of his car and the boy racer he stopped for speeding, rolled down his window. 'I've been waiting for you all day,' the cop said.
The kid replied, 'Yes, well I got here as fast as I could.'

A truck driver was driving along on a country road. A sign came up that read 'Low Bridge Ahead.' Before he realised it, the bridge was directly ahead and he got stuck under it.. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up. The policeman got out of his car and walked to the truck's cab and said to the driver, 'Got stuck, eh?'
The truck driver said, 'No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of diesel!'

Billy Cobham

How 'bout tasting a snake?

The 33-year-old Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun, American Psycho, The Prestige, Batman Begins) who stars as Dieter Dengler in new movie Rescue Dawn, agreed to the movie after being challenged to eat several live animals by the film's director Werner Herzog. Christian said: "Werner said to me, 'How do you feel about swimming through a snake-infested river?' so I said, 'How do you feel about it Werner?' He said, 'I will do this if you will.' Then he asked, 'How do you feel about eating a live snake?'"It was a curious conversation, with more and more crazy questions. I thought, 'This sounds like an interesting endeavour.'" In one scene, Christian - who lost 55lbs for the role - also had to eat live maggots, after the director insisted he wanted the scene to look real. Herzog said: "There are too many computer effects in movies these days. I wanted audiences to start believing their own eyes again."
Rescue Dawn tells the real-life story of American Navy pilot Lt Dieter Dengler, who was captured by Laotian soldiers during the Vietnam War. Dengler was one of two survivors to have escaped from a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos. He was rescued by the US military after 23 days on the run in the jungle, in which he watched his close friend being decapitated. The film was shot in remote parts of Thailand's North and South. It was shot backwards, meaning the final scenes of the movie where Bale had to look his thinnest after surviving the ordeal were shot first.

Why we love children

*A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he'd found a cat, but was dead. "How do you know that the cat was dead?" she asked him. "Because I pissed in its ear and it didn't move", answered the child innocently. "You did WHAT?!!" the teacher exclaimed in surprise. "You know", explained the boy, "I leaned over and went 'Pssst! and it didn't move."
*A little girl goes to the barber chair, while her dad gets his hair cut, eating a snack cake. The barber says to her,"Sweetheart, you're gonna get hair on your Twinkie." She says, "Yes, I know and I'm gonna get boobs, too."
*As exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief finally asked him, "How do you expect to get into Heaven?" The boy thought it over and said,"Well, I'll run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, "For Heaven's sake, Dylan, come in or stay out!"
*One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her son into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in his voice, "Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?"The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug."I can't dear,"she said. "I have to sleep in Daddy's room."A long silence was broken at last by his shaky little voice:"The big sissy."

XYu - Leo Martin

It ain't easy for the doctors either...

1. A man comes into the ER and yells, "My wife's going to have her baby in the cab!" I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs and I was in the wrong one.
Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Francisco
2. At the beginning of my shift, I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. "Big breaths," I instructed. "Yes, they used to be," replied the patient.
Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes, Sea ttle, WA
3. One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a "massive internal fart."
Submitted by Dr. Susan Steinberg
4. During a patient's two-week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications. "Which one?" I asked. "The patch, the Nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it!" I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see. Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body!
Submitted by Dr. Rebecca St. Clair, Norfolk, VA
5. While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, "How long have you been bedridden?" After a look of complete confusion, she answered..."Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive."
Submitted by Dr. Steven Swanson, Corvallis, OR
6. I was performing rounds at the hospital one morning and while checking up on a woman, I asked, "So how's your breakfast this morning?" "It's very good, except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste," the patient replied. I then aske d to see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet labelled "KY Jelly."
Submitted by Dr. Leonard Kransdorf, Detroit, MI
7. A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room when a young woman entered wearing purple hair styled in a punk rocker Mohawk and sporting a variety of tattooes and wearing strange clothing. It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis and so she was scheduled for immediate surgery. When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green, and above it there was a tattoo that read; "Keep off the grass." Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, which said; "Sorry, I had to mow the lawn."
Submitted by RN no name
8. As a new, young MD doing his residency in OB, I was quite embarrassed when performing female pelvic exams. To cover my embarrassment I had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly. The middle-aged lady on whom I was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing, further embarrassing me. I looked up from my work and sheepishly said, "I'm sorry. Was I tickling you?" She replied, "No doctor, but the song you were whistling was, "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener".
Dr. wouldn't submit his name

Tito i Lennon

Novootvoreni bar "29. novembra" sa simbolima komunističke Jugoslavije pred ulazom i Titovim portretom u unutrašnjosti, postao je turistička znamenitost u Mariboru. Neki se ispred njega slikaju za uspomenu, a istovremeno su lokalu već više puta razbijani prozori.U tom prostoru na Gosposvetskoj cesti prije se prodavalo pecivo i zvao se Croissant. Novi vlasnik Božo Tukanj kaže da su njegovi gosti dobro primili redekorisani ambijent, a među ostalim mogu naručiti "špricer Tito", koji se sastoji od dvije trećine štajerskog bijelog vina i jedne trećine mineralne vode Radenska. Tukanj odbija proteste boraca za samostalnu Sloveniju navodeci da on nazivom lokala ne pokazuje nedomoljublje, te da se i sam borio za Sloveniju, ali da sve starije generacije "ono što su stekle, stekle u bivšoj Jugoslaviji" i da jugoslavenska ornamentika u Sloveniji nije zabranjena. "Uostalom, 29. novembra nije se rodila samo bivša Jugoslavija nego i John Lennon", rekao je vlasnik lokala. U Mariboru, koji je drugi po veličini slovenski grad, još uvijek postoji i Titov most i Titova cesta. Ali i ultranacionalistički lider Zmago Jelinčič, koji je u Mariboru tokom nedavnih predsjedničkih izbora dobio veći broj glasova od protivkandidata Alojza Peterlea i Danila Tuerka, a za kojega se baš ne može reći da se bori za "bratstvo i jedinstvo", u svom vrtu ima repliku Augustinčićeve Titove biste u maršalskom šinjelu...

Zoran Predin je takodje iz Maribora. On kaze: Maribor je slovenački Niš. Emocionalac. To oko jugonostalgije nije tako čudna stvar. Maribor je pristanište na obali Panonskog mora. Sam sam načetvrt Vojvođanin...

Cosa Nostra Commandments

After arresting a top Godfather Salvatore Lo Piccolo near Palermo, Sicily's police have found what may be the legendary mafiosa "10 Commandments" at the house of a Mob boss, detailing how to get "made" and what level of loyalty is required. Lo Piccolo apparently carried the papers everywhere with him. It has given investigators a unique insight into what makes a perfect mobster.
“I swear to be faithful to Cosa Nostra. If I betray, my flesh should burn,” reads the text, which goes on to set out a moral code for Mafia members:
1. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.
2. Never look at the wives of friends.
3. Never be seen with cops.
4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.
5. Always be available for Cosa Nostra, even if your wife's about to give birth.
6. Appointments must be respected.
7. Wives must be treated with respect.
8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.
9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra are anyone with a close relative in the police, with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.

XYu - Zorica Kondza (Stijene)

Who wants to watch?

It is well known that war films make up for poor reporting.

Brian De Palma's Redacted, arguably the most shocking feature yet about events in Iraq (about to hit theatres) is using a documentary style to tell the true story of the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl by U.S. troops in 2006. Paul Haggis also based In The Valley Of Elah on true events linked to the war, although, unlike De Palma's cast of unknown actors, he employed major stars Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon.
Both film makers have attacked mainstream media for their coverage of the Iraq war and events leading to it. During the Vietnam war there were terrific journalists doing their job, reporting on things that no one wanted to hear.
Many in the U.S. media admit that reporting of the war, and particularly the failure to question the reasons given for it, left much to be desired. Many recent films dealing with wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the repercussions of the September 11 attacks have failed to find an audience, including those who feature top talent. In The Valley Of Elah earned just $9 million at the box office worldwide. Rendition, a film about detaining terrorism suspects and starring Reese Witherspoon, earned $15 million globally, while audiences for Lions For Lambs, with Tom Cruise in an Afghan war-themed plot, have been disappointing, according to reports.

Hallmark pearls

A criminal defense lawyer and adviser to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, Terrye Cheathem has developed a line of greeting cards for a Hallmark-ignored demographic: the recently incarcerated. Among her selections are cards reading Sorry to hear about your arrest, and Honestly, I never knew anyone who was arrested before, and, simply, Not You! A remorseful correspondent could choose: I know that I have not visited you. But I still care about you ... When are you getting out, anyway? Card sales are slow and Cheathem acknowledges that people might prefer to ignore their connections to criminals. (You think?)

Molly Johnson

Less known films worth mentioning this year

No Country for Old Men





Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson
Plot: The story begins when Llewelyn Moss (BROLIN) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (JONES) - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives (BARDEM) - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as newspapers' headlines.


Eastern Promises




Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Plot: The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen), who is tied to one of London's most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna (Naomi Watts), an innocent midwife trying to right a wrong, who accidentally uncovers potential evidence against the family. Now Nikolai must put into motion a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution.

Essential Vocabulary Additions for the Workplace

1. BLAMESTORMING : Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard
4. SALMON DAY : The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.
6. PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
9. STRESS PUPPY : A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
11. XEROX SUBSIDY : Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE : The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
15. 404 : Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.
16. GENERICA : Features of the North American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
17. OHNOSECOND : That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).
18. WOOFS : Well-Off Older Folks.

XYu - Atomsko Skloniste

Posljednje zelje

*Ljudi sirom svijeta sve cesce zele biti pokopani sa svojim mobilnima. Trend je krenuo iz Juznoafricke Republike, te se brzo prosirio na Irsku, Australiju, USA, i Ganu. Sve je krenulo kao urbani mit, a onda su se neki uistinu odlucili na taj korak. U Juznoj Africi se kao razlog pokapanja s mobilnim najcesce navodila zelja da mrtvac, ukoliko se probudi, uz sebe ima mobilni kako bi odmah mogao uspostaviti vezu sa zivima. U Australiji pokojnik na taj nacin zeli u vjecno pocivaliste otici s predmetom koji dobro ocrtava njegov nacin zivota. Jedna osoba je trazila da bude pokopana s mobilnim i laptopom.
*Kako bi ispunila poslednju zelju svog pokojnog supruga, Ute Miller, medicinska sestra iz Berlina, platila je jednoj americkoj kompaniji $10.930 da organizuje prenos pepela njenog supruga Heinza u svemir. Oko deset grama pepela u svemir leti u kapsuli velicine ruza za usne. Raketa s pepelom lansirana je iz svemirskog centra Bajkonur u Kazahstanu u januaru 2003. Kapsula izbacena iz rakete, kruzice oko Zemlje pet do sest godina, nakon cega ce se raspasti. Ute Miller dobija video snimak dogadjaja kao potvrdu ispunjenja poslednje zelje pokojnog supruga. "Kada se kapsula raspadne, ne zna se gdje ce pepeo zavrsiti. Mozda stigne do Sunca, ko zna?", rekla je Ute. (2002.)
*Alfred Nobel je cijelog zivota imao fobiju da bi mogao biti ziv sahranjen, zato je nalozio da njegovu smrt ustanove najmanje dva ugledna lijekara, a da zatim bude kremiran. TEKST NOBELOVOG TESTAMENTA:"Ja potpisani Alfred Bernhard Nobel moram ovime,nakon podrobnog razmisljanja, izjaviti svoju posljednju volju u pogledu imovine koju cu moci da ostavim u casu svoje smrti. I to kako slijedi: Sve sto preostaje od moga vlasnistva i sto se moze realizovati da bude raspodjeljeno na sljedeci nacin: Kapital koji ce izvrsioci oporuke u pouzdane obveznice treba da stvori fond od kojega kamate imaju svake godine biti raspodjeljene onima koji su u protekloj godini iskazali najvecu uslugu covjecanstvu. Kamate valja razdijeliti u pet jednakih dijelova koji ce biti doznaceni kako slijedi: Jedan dio dat ce se onome koji je postigao najvece otkrice na podrucju fizike; jedan onome koji je izvrsio najvece hemijsko otkrice odnosno usavrsenje, jedan dio onome koji je postigao najznacajnije otkrice na podrucju fiziologije ili medicine; jedan onome cije je dostignuce na podrucju knjizevnosti bilo najizvrsnije u idealistickom smislu; i jedan dio onome koji je najvise ili najbolje uznastojao za bratimljenje naroda i za ukidanje ili smanjenje stajacih oruzanih snaga kao i za podsticaj i razvitak mirovnih kongresa. Nagrade za fiziku i hemiju dodjeljivace Svedska Akademija Nauke; one za fizioloska i medicinska dostignuca Carolinski institut u Stockholmu (Carolinianum); one za istaknute domete na polju knjizevnosti Svedska Akademija za Knjizevnost. Nagrade za mir dodjeljivat ce odbor od pet clanova koje bira Norveski Parlament (Storthing). Ovaj testament je odsada unaprijed jedini vazeci dokument te ponistava sve moje prethodne oporucene odredbe pretpostavivsi da se koja od njih pojavi nakon moje smrti. Konacno izjavljujem da je moja izricita zelja i volja da se nakon moje smrti otvore moje zile kucavice, a kada to bude ucinjeno i mjerodavni ljekar ustanovi nedvosmisleno znakove da se zivot ugasio, da moje tijelo bude spaljeno u takozvanoj krematorijskoj peci."

Dave Matthews

About the Universe

Everything in the Universe rotates. The Earth spins on its axis. The whole planet orbits around our parent star, the Sun. The Sun rotates around the centre of the Milky Way, along with the billions of other stars in the Galaxy. Studying how fast stars at the very edge move reveals the mass of the whole galaxy. The faster the Galaxy rotates, the more mass there is inside it. There is also stuff out there that we just can't see - and so it's called 'dark matter'. If this dark matter wasn't there, galaxies would fly apart as they spun round. Imagine looking at a tower block at night. Although you can only see lights coming from some of the rooms, that doesn't mean that there aren't any more rooms in the tower. Just like these unlit rooms, dark matter can't be seen, because it doesn't shine. Finding it will help to answer one of the most fundamental questions in astronomy - what is the fate of the Universe.

The fate of the Universe is basically a battle fought between the inward pull of gravity and the outward push of expansion. So astronomers are trying to calculate the strength of these forces. The amount of gravity the Universe has to wield against this expansive onslaught depends on how much stuff there is out there in space. Anything with a mass has its own gravity. Even you yourself have a gravitational force that attracts everything else around you, including other people. The bigger you are, the stronger this force is, and so, the Earth, being the most massive thing around, completely overwhelms the tiny forces that we personally possess. So to calculate the fate of the Universe, we must weigh it to find its density.
Also, in about 4 billion years the Sun will expand and engulf our planet Earth. Also around the same time, our nearest galactic neighbour, Andromeda, will start to crash into our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

Life on Earth must escape into space if it is to survive.

Nov.12 B-Day: Auguste Rodin

The Hand of God

About Rodin

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings

Radiohead's getting out

Radiohead has set a Dec. 31 international release date for the physical version of its new album, In Rainbows, which fans can currently download from the group's Web site for a price of their choosing. The album will be released on CD and vinyl, followed by the single, Jigsaw Falling Into Place on Jan. 14. Here's the Rolling Stone's Track-By-Track preview with some concert videos.

Kerouac

The name typically evokes a sense of hip, cool, rebellion, exploration and of course "Beat," as in voice of the Beat Generation. Exhibit opening at the New York Public Library reveals some less flattering sides of the writer: mama's boy, anti-Semite and perhaps women hater or misogynist, if you will. The centerpiece is a scroll on which Kerouac wrote "On the Road," the iconic work of the counterculture Beat Generation and one that is marking its 50th anniversary.One can see handwritten notebooks, photographs, diaries, letters, paintings and manuscripts. There are harmonicas and dice, crutches from a football injury, a brown pair of ankle boots and a partial pack of Beech Nut chewing gum, even a list Kerouac compiled of women he had slept with. The list of conquests indicates that Kerouac often could not remember the women's names, instead using geographic labels like "Harlem" or derogatory terms such as "NYU Junkie" and "Mary Filth." The illustrated "sports diaries" of his youth give voice to his well-documented athletic skills, while original paintings attest to one of his lesser known talents. Images of angels, shepherds, a crucifix and Buddha reflect his Roman Catholic identity and 1950s flirtation with Buddhism. The exhibit also includes a letter from Kerouac's mother, Gabrielle, with whom the writer lived for most of his adult life, to Allen Ginsberg, demanding that the Beat poet avoids further contact with her son. Calling Ginsberg and experimental novelist William S. Burroughs "miserable bums," she wrote, "You are not free to associate with us Christians." The exhibit also shows Kerouac conforming to his mother's anti-Semitic ravings, at least in his final days. His mother subverted virtually every serious relationship he ever had, except the last - Stella, Kerouac's wife (at the time of his death in 1969 at age 47 following years of heavy drinking). An interview with fellow bad boy Ken Kesey, author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," quotes Kerouac as saying: "The Communist is the main enemy -- the Jew."

Prodigy vs. White Stripes

Marketing Fiascos

*Coors put its slogan, "Turn it loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer from diarrhea."
*Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux."
*Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick", a curling iron, into German only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the "manure stick."
*Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.
*An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of "I saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts read "I saw the potato" (la papa).
*Pepsi's "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave", in Chinese.
*Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "it takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."
*The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Ke-kou-ke-la", meaning "Bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "ko-kou-ko-le", translating into "happiness in the mouth."
*When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "it won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you". Instead, the company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant."

How much would you pay for it?

The escalating value of the late Italian conceptual artist Piero Manzoni's canned feces was chronicled in News of the Weird in 1993, 1998, 2002 and 2004, but now in June 2007 his former colleague Agostino Bonalumi told a reporter that the project had been a hoax and that Manzoni had merely filled the cans with plaster. Manzoni created 90 small tins, and collectors had paid thousands of dollars each (making his feces worth more per ounce than gold, including once, in 1993, paying $75,000 for a tin). A spokesman for Britain's Tate gallery, which once paid the equivalent of about $35,000 for one, said that the actual content of the art is beside the point.(?)

Pavlov's Dog

Don't mind the cheesy spot...

The history of mankind?

They say that history is the teacher of life and that whoever does not learn from his history is doomed to repeat it forever.
Giza Pyramids
The pyramids are set almost perfectly in relation to the North Pole, which tells us that they obviously knew about the North Pole, at least in a theoretical or mystical sense. The base of the Cheops pyramid forms an almost perfect square that was constructed so precisely that it is difficult to reproduce even with today’s technology. Perhaps the greatest mystery is that the pyramids are standing even today. They weigh thousands of tonnes and still did not fall through the sand to this day.
Stonehenge
The society that built it must have been, without a doubt, quite developed to be able to engage the work force on such a demanding project. When modern scientists tried to make a reconstruction of the building of Stonehenge using ancient construction means, the stones that weighed several tonnes simply fell through into the soft soil. And after somehow constructing it, the mysterious builders also managed to build it so that it could be used to follow events in the sky. This proves that they also had great knowledge in astronomy.
Moai
The mysterious statues from Rapa Nui (Easter Island), are believed to depict the predecessors of the island’s inhabitants. A society that was capable of creating such big statues should have numbered several thousands of citizens to be able to keep an army of workers. The population of Rapa Nui was never more than several thousand people, which is simply too little for such an endeavour.
The myth about dragons
The Westerners mostly see them as evil beings that like to steal sheep, incinerate crops and amass gold. The Easterners saw them as wise creatures crucial for the functioning of the world. How could people thousands of kilometres apart who did not communicate before the Middle Ages share the same myth?

Age of man
Science claims that the first real people originated some 200,000 years ago and the first script some 6,000 years ago. From that moment, simply put, the beginning of human civilisation began. Ancient people arrive at the history scene with great and never explained knowledge of archaeology and astronomy whose origins were never established. What was never explained is the great time difference from when man originated to his technological development. If man managed to conquer the Moon in less than 10,000 years since the beginning of written history, the logical question to ask oneself is: what were we doing the remaining 190,000 years?

U susret Novoj godini - Slozna Braca

Malo grafita...

*Dzaba ste krecili!

*Kad ja tamo a ono medjutim...

*Zvoni! Kucanje ne radi.

*Kisa pada, trava 10 maraka.

*Imam problem za svako rjesenje.

*Gdje bi nam bio kraj da nije tako blizu.

*Proleteri svih zemalja - izvinite! Marx

*Kud narkoman prodje tu trava vise ne raste.

*Embargo, em sankcije.

*Restoran radi od otvaranja do zatvaranja.

*Um caruje, a Dundo Maroje.

*Slozne zene javnu kucu grade!

*Klint se Istvudom izbija.

*Smrt Klintonu, Monika narodu.

Not a joke!

As several sightings were made around Washington, D.C., of dragonfly-looking bugs hovering in the air at political events, government agencies were denying that they had released any tiny surveillance robots."I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?'" asked a college student at an antiwar rally in Washington. "They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But ... those are not insects." Several agencies and private entities admitted they were trying to develop such devices, but no one took credit for having them in the air yet.
The robo-spies are expected to be used to track suspects, guide missiles or (!) find trapped survivors in building rubble.
Read the Washington Post story.

Mano Negra

Deranged Minds

The human mind is a place where the greatest creations are made, but also where the darkest abyss hides. Nobody knows this better that artists, a special kind of people who are forced to live with their own visions and views of what we perceive as normal. The line between genius and madness has always been thin and can easily be crossed on the examples of five authors who have struggled with their demons their entire lives. Even though they have created works after which they will be remembered, in the end, they lost the battle and have disappeared in their own madness.
Jack Kerouac-One of the most respected writers of the New Continent, is famous for his cult novel On the Road, which is considered to be the pivotal book of the so called beat generation. Kerouac was a restless spirit who married three times, obsessively wrote and travelled across the USA. He ended his life in Florida in 1969. He arrived there a day earlier due to strong abdominal pain, brought on by internal bleeding and caused by liver cirrhosis. The urban legend states that he wrote On the Road in a three-week long session, with Kerouac not sleeping, but maniacally typing, haunted by amphetamines and vast amounts of coffee. Not to interrupt his writing with placing new sheets of paper, Kerouac thought to type on a large roll of paper, which reeled off over the course of these three weeks as he typed in new lines.
Marcel Proust-Although his novel In Search of Lost Time is one of the most respectable writings of the 20th century, the author himself was a great eccentric. Proust never worked because he had a huge inheritance, but he was troubled by great misfortunes in his personal life. He lost his brother and mother in a short period of time, he had no fulfilled romances and he started pining away towards the end. He had an incredible precision and sensitivity. Proust was a welcome guest in hotels because when he would like to stay in one, he would take five rooms. He would live alone in one of them, while the other four surrounding his would have to be empty in order for the writer to sleep peacefully, without any noise, heard by only him. He never left his bed in the final three years of his life, where he maniacally finished his epic work.
Robert E. Howard-US writer who invented the sword and sorcery genre, and is one of the authors whose work has become more famous than themselves. Howard is Conan the Barbarian`s father, embodied by a California governor on film. He wrote his work for various pulp magazines which boomed during the Great Depression. He suffered from a great depression himself and often contemplated suicide, but he wanted to end his life in a truly morbid fashion. After hearing about his mother being on her death bed, Howard stormed out of the house and got in the car. He took a borrowed gun from the glove compartment and shot himself in the head. Even though his father and a doctor rushed to help him, there was no saving him. He died eight hours later and his mother the next day.
Franz Kafka-The Metamorphosis and The Trial (Process) author lived in Prague, but spent his entire life writing in German. He was so fluent in the language that serves as a nightmare for translators to this very day. Not because of his ungainliness, but the craftsmanship which enabled his sentences to be a page long. His name went down in history and the term Kafkian situation is used today to describe an excruciating and unsolvable situation. Kafka was convinced he was not a good writer and before his death he requested all his work to be burned. He suffered from great depression and migraines his entire life and he tied many cures, including a novelty at the time called vegetarianism. He died of starvation and a poor condition caused by tuberculosis-devastated throat. He foresaw closed and rigid totalitarian systems in his work, which would kill his entire family in concentration camps several decades later.
Edgar Allan Poe-One of the most famous poetry writers, author of the famous The Raven is one of the most influential writers America has ever had. He pursued cryptography, journalism and mysticism. He suffered from depression and manic episodes. Poe foresaw black holes and various physics paradoxes, thus surpassing physicists for a good period of 80 years. His death is one of the most spectacular and mysterious examples in literature. When Poe appeared completely psychically lost in the streets of Baltimore in 1949, he was rushed into hospital. Still, he could not be rescued. What was surprising is that nobody could realise what the famous author died of and speculation included alcohol, a weak heart, cholera and many many others. The popular belief is that he has subcome to an apparition from his obscure stories.

Znanje - Nemanje

U istrazivanju Geographic Society (USA) na uzorku od 300 mladih Amerikanaca izmedju 18 i 24 godine, dobijeni su porazavajuci rezultati o njihovom geografskom znanju:
- 11% nije znalo obiljeziti podrucje na kojemu se nalaze SAD,
- 29% nije znalo pronaci Pacific ocean, - jedan od sedam nije znao na karti pronaci Irak,
- 35% zna da se ostrvo Marquesas iz emisije Survivor nalazi u Juznom Pacifiku
- 30% zna na karti pokazati gdje se nalazi New Jersey
- pri lociraju 10 bilo kojih drzava SAD-a, vecina (85%) je znala tacno locirati samo Californiju i Texas. Njih 51% znalo je pronaci New York.
- Na karti svijeta Amerikanci su uspjeli pronaci samo 7 od 16 trazenih drzava.
- 81 % ispitanika zna da je Bliski istok najveci svjetski proizvodjac nafte ali 24% njih zna na karti pronaci Saudijsku Arabiju.
-55% Amerikanaca znaju da je Sunce zvijezda, ali je 20% ubjedjenja da se Sunce okrece oko Zemlje.

Etta James

Ah, those names

*Convicted of murder in a home invasion, Mr. Andrew S. "Junebug" Warrior (the "S" stands for Sweetie)
*Discouraged by school officials from attending a Catholic school because of his name, the 5-year-old Max Hell (Melbourne, Australia)
*Arrested for stealing three rolls of toilet paper from a courthouse, Ms. Suzanne Marie Butts (Marshalltown, Iowa)
*Leading a fight in the Kenai Peninsula Borough (Alaska) Assembly to defeat a term-limit rule, Assemblyman Gary Superman

It's about time

Identity fraud is a crime in Canada, but gathering and trafficking identity information (credit card, banking and other personal data for the purposes of using it deceptively) generally is NOT. Finally, the government plans to criminalize identity theft to give police the ability to stop such activity before any fraud has actually been carried out.

National Day of Action

Anti-war demonstrators marched in a dozen U.S. cities on Saturday to call for an immediate end to the war in Iraq and a cut-off of funding by Congress. The National Day of Action, sponsored by the United for Peace and Justice coalition, attracted protesters in cities from Boston and New Orleans to Chicago and Los Angeles on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Senate's vote authorizing the invasion of Iraq. Leslie Kielsen, a local UPAJ organizer, said the "half a trillion" dollars spent on the war was money that could have been used for education, housing and to feed the hungry. The demonstrators, who included labor unions activists, also spoke out on issues including nuclear weapons and what some see as the increasing likelihood of U.S. military intervention in Iran over its escalating nuclear program.
"This is across-the-country sentiment about ending the occupation, redirecting funds for needs in this country, our attempt to get Congress to stand up and have its prerogative to cut funding, to take charge. That's our hope."
Dum spiro spero...

Best Instrumentals

And the winner is....Booker T & the MG's
Just mentioning rock offers associations with loud singers, but some of rock`s cult bands have fantastic instrumentals which say it all – just with the help of their instruments, without a single word. The Rolling Stone magazine has formed a list of 25 favourite instrumentals, with the help of their readers.
In the very top are Pink Floyd, masters of instrumentals. When instrumentals are in question, Pink Floyd top the charts with One of These Days, taken from the 1971 Meddle album. The only line is: 'One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces'. The song`s trademark are two bass lines, played by Waters and Gilmour. The only line in the song was spoken by Nick Mason and having in mind BBC Radio 2 host at the time, Jimmy Young as Pink Floyd members were not fans of his.
Led Zeppelin’s Moby Dick also found itself among the most famous instrumentals. The song was taken from the 1969 Led Zeppelin II album and was created by only three Zeppelin members – John Bonham, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Page often listened to Bonham`s improvisations in the studio, recorded and edited them. It was allegedly called Moby Dick because Bonham`s son suggested his dad did a song as large as Moby.
In order for master of the industrial sound Trent Reznor not to be omitted, fans made an effort to enlist Just Like You Imagined from 1999. Mike Garson played the piano, who is famous for collaborating with David Bowie and the Smashing Pumpkins. The odd song was appenerly liked by many and it became the unofficial soundtrack to this year`s smash hit film “300”.
All instrumental performances from the list have their stories, while they are good concert breaks for fans, if nothing else, when you can get a beer and it is good material for the record label to complete singles.

Watch for this one!

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron), Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar), Babel (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu), The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)...) said he is not tempted to work in Hollywood, despite receiving many invitations. "The closest I got to Hollywood was a movie I did in Tijuana. And it is really close, about three hours,". He said when he selects a project he thinks about the industry it represents. Bernal is working mostly with Latin American directors. In the latest movie, Past (Hector Babenco), he plays a father whose son is kidnapped (set in Buenos Aires, which Gael considers his second home). His directorial debut, Deficit, depicts the clash of different social classes in Mexico. Bernal is now working on Blindness, with a Brazilian director, Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) inspired by a Jose Saramago novel about a blindness epidemic that results in the collapse of society.

Big Sugar

Church Bulletins

*The Fasting and Prayer Conference includes meals.
*The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water."
*The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
*Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
*Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.
*Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
*Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not come this way again," giving obvious pleasure to many in the congregation.
*Next Thursday there will be try outs for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
*Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
*A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
*At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What Is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.
*Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
*Scouts are saving aluminium cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
*Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
*The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
*Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
*The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
*This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
*The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
*Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
*Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
*The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
*Pastor Updyke unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday with the slogan: "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours”.