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The Druggie, The Witch, You, Me and Harry Potter
2007-03-19 14:51:00
With the Harry Potter juggernaut chugging merrily along, almost anyone worth their weight in bat wingtip soup has dived into the fray of hot, bubbling pottering action. And that includes drug dealers no less! Heck, they aren't about to miss out on a good thing! Not to be left out of the Harry Potter drama-rama, New York drug dealers have started peddling ecstasy pills engraved with Harry Potter book and movie images. One can only speculate that their train of thought must progress along the lines that the success of the runaway Potter behemoth must surely rub off in some way on their products, even if in only some miniscule manner; after all, in Potter Universe, small magically transforms into a respectably impressive amount in Muggleworld.That said, it is evident that these guys aren't too savvy when it comes to demographics. Even if utilizing super-elastic mind-stretch, it's hard to picture the average Harry Potter fan cavorting and gyrating wildly in some hip nightclub, as the i
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Just A Bus Trip Or A Daytime Nightmare?
2007-03-16 12:45:00
I found myself having to catch a bus last week, the second week of the children's school summer holiday. I was instructed to take my son to his Grandma's house and with my wife having the car it left me with no choice but to do something that I hadn't done for over twenty years - take the bus.The 188 from Weymouth to Poole. I was to get on from the stop at the end of my road which wasn't too far away from the town but a little too far to walk.My son and I reached the stop ten minutes before aforementioned bus was due. Forty minutes later it still hadn't turned up so I got on the number 92 which stated, Poole. On we jumped - I asked if he went all the way to Poole. No, he said, I don't. Well it says "Poole" on the destination board, I stated. It says India on the tyres, he replied, but I'm buggered if I'm going there (Okay, the old ones are the best) - yes, of course I'm going to Poole. ?1.35 for you, half fare for the boy. It was just 14 pence the last time I went on
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Fun Free Games
2007-03-15 16:58:00
Having a party? Or a get together with some friends? Trying to think of things to do for a childrens party? Then get the party going and people interacting by introducing some fun free games.Everyone likes to play games from children to adults and you do n have to hurt your wallet organising a fun day or evening of entertainment. Some of the most enjoyable activities are simple free games like charades and Limbo.Other free games for children's parties are: Simon Says A simple game where one player plays 'Simon' and gives the other players various instructions to do simple tasks prefixed by the phrase ' Simon Says' He then tries to catch the players out by giving them an instruction without saying Simon says beforehand. If a player follows that particular instruction then he is out. The winner is the last person to be left.Musical Chairs The players sit on chairs in a ring facing outwards. There should be at least one less chair than there are players. When the music starts the pla
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How Grandma's Lap Robe Saved My Legs
2007-03-13 11:25:00
We lived almost exactly one mile from the heart of Auburn California on Palm Avenue between the old Highway 49 and the new, broader Highway 49; the highway that connects Auburn with Grass Valley, both towns formed during the Gold Rush of 1849. The city limit line ran right down the center of Palm Avenue, so we lived just a few feet inside the "city"; really a town of about 3000. Palm tress, unusual in Auburn, used to line our road, but through the years some fell, some were cut down by progress, and now they were scattered; one here, then a quarter mile, then a cluster of a half-dozen, then more for a space. As a small child I used to imagine that Palm trees were giant one-legged ostriches, now petrified, like ancient prehistoric birds. The house I grew up in was built the year before I was born for thirty five hundred dollars. It sat on the northeast corner of my Grandfather Eisleys' property, a ten acre segment now occupied mostly by my Uncle Henry's nursery, aptly named Eisley
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The Truth Behind Valentine's Day - Past and Present
2007-03-13 03:00:00
It is not true that Valentine 's day is a holiday invented by greedy greeting card companies eager to sell more stock or by candy companies to sell more chocolate, or general retailers to create more business once Christmas is over. It is easy to imagine that Valentine's Day was created by them because as soon as the stores put away their Christmas merchandise, out comes the Valentine's Day items - even though Valentine's is still more than six weeks away.In a blink Rudolph and Santa are replaced with red ribbon and pink hearts and mass produced Valentine's Day cards in thousands of designs and sizes - large, small, serious, silly, inexpensive, expensive, musical (my least favourite because they sound so tinny) and traditional ones. Valentine's Day is the biggest single twenty hour period for florists, a huge event for greeting card companies and a boon for candy makers.Valentine's Day began more than 1,500 years ago. According to legend, Valentine was a priest who performed m
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Rate People And Get Yourself Rated On Websites
2007-03-12 17:27:00
Did you know that there are websites that offer rating facilities to you? Well there are so many websites which gives you this kind of service and that too, free of charge. Of course, you are required to submit some of your pictures so that the members of a particular website can rate you on the basis of the photographs you submit or upload in the website. Now there may be some of you who would think that why people would even want to have themselves rated online when they can easily ask their friends or family members to rate them.To speak the truth, the people that you can to rate yourself (i.e. your family members and friends) are those people who know you. Their rating may be biased because they are close to you. On the other hand, the members of a rating website are from all over the world. Most of them are unknown to you. Their ratings are considered to be more accurate because they just rate you judging on your looks. Their ratings are not partial like those of your family and f
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Remote Viewing & Remote Influencing - What is it?
2007-03-09 17:17:00
If you're like me, you spend hours surfing the internet looking for weird stuff that you've never seen or read about before. During my extensive research one evening, as I scoured cyberspace to find some new and unusual crap to entertain myself with, I finally found what I was looking for.At about 2:00 A.M. on a Thursday night, I couldn't relax, couldn't sleep, so I traveled downstairs to the computer and went online to find some information about meditation or relaxation techniques to help me clear my head so I could fall asleep. On one of the websites I visited, there was a collection of links to various websites that teach meditation and relaxation techniques, such as yoga, Zen, and something called "open-eye meditation." None of these things interested me, until I found a link to a website for something called "Remote Viewing & Remote Influencing." This was intriguing, so I clicked through to the website.At the very top of the first page was the title, "Welcome to the Remot


Express And Impress With Buddy Icons
2007-03-09 17:17:00
The icons used in many IM programs like AOL Instant, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger are referred to as buddy icons. These images can be of any kinds of formats like BMP, XBM, GIF, ICO or GIF and these images are usually found in 50*50 pixels.These icons can be in the form of still animation or animation. Regardless of the kind of images, the size of these icons is usually not more than 7160 bytes. The first IM program to have used icons is the AOL Instant Messenger and some people refer to these icons as buddy avatars.You can download aim icons from different websites. Some websites charges you money for downloading them but there are some websites from which you can download these icons for free.As we all know, the present Internet users are very much in to chatting online, as it is one form of conversation, which is very 'in' among the people. On an Internet chat, the users type whatever they wish to say to his or her friend through the keyboard and then the message will appear
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Galloping Gooseberry - A Real Life Experience
2007-03-09 17:17:00
Summertime was always so much fun! Away from homework and Ms.Kamala's piercing gaze (that is my class teacher). I sometimes used to spend the vacation at my grandpa's place. He had a lovely sprawling farmhouse with lush green meadows, chirpy birds, wild flowers and mooing cows.A tomboy to the core, I was then in my third standard, and like every other kid, loved to get a wee bit adventurous. The previous day I had gone to this movie, which was all about an Arizona ranch and sturdy cowboys!When I was strolling around the farmhouse, I was stopped short by a fat, short and absolutely adorable cow, who had decided that my mushroom cut was 'grazing material'. I pushed her away gently, when a crazy thought entered my head. Ever since I saw the cowboys in the movie galloping smartly across the screen, I had wanted to ride a horse but then no horses were around, so I decided to be the 'cowgirl' literally.I led the unsuspecting cow, to a big block of stone, As she stood there gazing quizz
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Honey Do List Gone Wild For Unemployed Men
2007-03-22 12:50:00
Wash the damn carSeal the drivewayClean the air filtersEmpty the vacuum bagCut the frigging grassOrganize the garagePaintSee that chair, don't sit in it.The dishes are piling up, let's get 'er done.But wait, it's raining, get the clothes off the line, FAST.Look in the fridge, what do you see? Nothing?Get busy, here's the list, off you go. Have fun.What took you so long! Gheesh.You what! You bought a new lawnmower!Let's do the math. The square footage of the house is liketen times that of the lawn, so why didn't you buy a new vacuum?Just wondering.Here's the credit card, go buy the kids their school stuff.Did you get the mail today?About that credit card, don't you dare!You're back already?What! The car broke down!Take the car in.How much? Here's another damn credit card.Your son wants a new video game.Don't you dare!Fix that leaking tub.You can't fix that leaking tub?Hire a plumber that takes a credit card.About that credit card.Did you see the hydro bill!Too bad we can't
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Never Open An Outhouse Door Without Knocking
2007-03-24 14:52:00
I suppose that every hometown of every child holds certain favorite hiding places, or short cuts, or little-known doors or cubbyholes or secret passageways or whatever, and Auburn was no exception. One of my favorite such places was the train tunnel that ran under Palm Avenue and the Auburn reservoir, and came out just this side of Gasoline Alley, a wide spot on Highway 49 about a mile north of where I lived. Tales of being caught in the tunnel when the train came were standard Auburn lore; one of my older cousins' cousin swore that he got caught one day with the train coming, and had to lie flat on his stomach between the tracks while the train passed over him. I believed him until I was about ten or so, when I started to notice that each time he told the story some of the details were different, such as whether it was night or day, with friends or alone; that sort of thing. Being somewhat timid by nature, I never would have taken the dare to run through the tunnel if I was a


Why Are Some Plants Called Weeds?
2007-03-27 11:58:00
That plant is a weed.This may sound like two minutes with Andy Rooney but I just don't agree with this term. If a plant looks pretty and it has some quality that makes it useful, then why is it a weed.What is a weed?The chicory plant has a pretty little flower and some people use it to make tea. Isn't the bright yellow flower of the dandelion similar to a marigold or some little yellow daisy? You can make wine from dandelions. That's good isn't it. what is grass. It just lays all over the place and looks plain old green. I guess cows can eat it. I don't think it's a weed but I think it acts like a weed. Grass tries to overpower everything else. If Creeping Charlie tries to do that, we call him a weed.Do weeds have some exclusive property that we can use to define them from other plants? Are those other plants just "plants" or should we call them "non weeds"?When my wife "weeds" the flower garden, she will constantly ask "is this a weed?" Does it really matter? My response is alwa
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The Effects Of Funny Things
2007-03-31 10:24:00
This article looks at the wonderful effects of laughter & really funny things.Are you feeling run down? You could try laughing more! Some researchers think laughter could be the best medicine, helping you feel better and bringing that spring back into your step.It makes sense that if people can get more laughter in their lives, they are happier and healthier too.Laughter is a wonderful thing - that's why we have all heard the saying "laughter is the best medicine". There is strong evidence that laughter can actually improve health and help fight disease.Test the theory and see for yourself!First id like you to think of some really funny things, situations you have been in or pictures you have seen, as long as it's really funny!Now I want you to smile, come on! Let the corners of your mouth turn up. Giggle, chortle, chuckle. And slowly build up into a loud laugh.How do you feel now? Refreshed? Exhilarated? According to recent studies done by neuroscientists and psychologists, as well
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How I Found Out That God Bowls On Monday Evenings at 7
2007-04-05 15:58:00
I grew up in a little town named Auburn in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. On Sundays we faithfully attended the Pioneer Methodist Church, directly across the street from Harry Sand's Chapel of the Hills Funeral Home. My folks were married in that church in September of 1929, a fact which had nothing to do with the crash of the stock market the following month. Of course I couldn't know then that my parents 50th anniversary reception would be held in that church, and five years after that, my Dad's funeral. All the Shinn tribe had been Methodists from way back, including my grandfather in Missouri who was a circuit-riding preacher, and some great-great-great grandfather who apparently worked along side John Wesley in the English revivals of the 1700's. Down the street from our church was another church, which my folks referred to as a "holy roller" kind of church, with a sign outside that read: Jesus Saves & Heals Every Evening at 7PM Except Monday s I grew
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