Tag: randomness

Hard to believe, but true. Found in Dvorak’s blog:

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The Denver Post – Santas warned “ho-ho-ho” offensive to women — Welcome to the new Australia.

Santas-in-training in Australia have been warned by a recruitment firm that “ho-ho-ho” is no longer politically correct.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Westaff – which supplies hundreds of Santas across Australia – is telling trainees that the signature catchphrase could frighten children and be derogatory to women.

They suggest “ha-ha-ha,” instead. Some Santa hopefuls have dropped out of the course in protest.

One would-be Father Christmas said he was told that the traditional expression was too close to the American slang for prostitute.

An anonymous reader writes “You’re doing something interesting. The phone rings. You get up, pick up the phone, and hear only silence. It could be a slasher waiting outside your house, but it’s probably an errant computer at a telemarketer. This article describes how some are fighting back by setting up websites to track the worst telemarketers by their caller ids. The article mentions whocalled.us (one of the funnier urls I’ve ever seen), 800notes.com and numberzoom.com . One intrepid guy is even writing a program to check these sites when the call comes in before ringing the phone.”

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 Christmas Angel Project

We have decided to do the Christmas Angel project this year for grades K-12. If you would like to purchase gifts for a child this Christmas, you can pick an angel up at the Community Education Center or we can bring an angel to you. Gifts have to be turned in to the Community Education Office by December 7. If you have any questions, please fell free to ask.

Judy Feeback

859.234.7160

Friday begins the Southern Lights Holiday Festival at the Kentucky Horse Park. The festival will run seven nights a weeks from 5:30pm to 10pm with December 31 being the final night (Attractions other than the driving tour will be closed on Thanksgiving, and Dec 24-31)
There will be the usual attractions; Petting Zoo, Model Trains, Mini Train Express, Santa Claus, International Museum of the Horse, Kentucky Horse Park Gift Shop, and Area Performers. New to this year’s event will be: Interactive Children’s Exhibit by Explorium, Miniature Doll House Display, Carousel-themed Pony Rides, BBQ, Funnel Cakes, Kettle Corn and much more!
More information on the event, themed weekends, and pricing available at http://www.kyhorsepark.com/sub.php?pageid=46&sectionid=4.

Ok, showed me this one, and I just have to share…

A quarter of men are so embarrassed by their bodies that they are reluctant to be naked in front of their partner
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I found this story posted on Dvorak’s blog…

Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday.
In the latest example of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hair bands have been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in southern Guangdong province, China Daily newspaper said.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20130705055047/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0DcqENG9L1Z3TnL94DJdaJuhXfA

WKYT News aired a clip last night of an odd segment of video captured by a surveillance camera at a Marathon station in Parma, Ohio.
Video of the story is available here:

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Flags To Half Staff for Fort Campbell Soldier

Flags will remain at half-staff until sunset on the day of Spc. Franklin”s funeral.

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    Title: Flags To Half Staff for Fort Campbell Soldier
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    Publication Date: 11/13/2007 10:28:00 AM

Verunks writes “A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails in response to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether e-mails have been destroyed in violation of federal law. The issue surfaced in the leak probe of administration officials who disclosed Valerie Plame’s CIA identity. ‘ The Federal Records Act details strict standards prohibiting the destruction of government documents including electronic messages, unless first approved by the archivist of the United States. Justice Department lawyers had urged the courts to accept a proposed White House declaration promising to preserve all backup tapes. The judge’s order “should stop any future destruction of e-mails, but the White House stopped archiving its e-mail in 2003 and we don’t know if some backup tapes for those e-mails were already taped over before we went to court. It’s a mystery,” said Meredith Fuchs, a lawyer for the National Security Archive.'”

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