Once again, it's time to review the winners of the Annual Stella Awards.
The Stella's are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled
coffee on herself &successfully sued McDonalds. That case inspired the
Stella Awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United
States.
6th place
19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles, California, won $74,000 &
medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda
Accord. Mr. Truman apparently did not notice there was someone at the
wheel of the car when he was trying to steal the hubcaps.
5th place
Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had
just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the
garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning.
He could not reenter the house because the door connecting the house &
garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family were on vacation & Mr.
Dickson found himself locked in the garage for 8 days. He subsisted on a
case of Pepsi he found & a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the house
owners insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish.
The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.
4th place
Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 & medical
expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's
Beagle dog. The Beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The
award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been
a little provoked at the time, as Mr. Williams who had climbed over the
fence into the yard, was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
3rd place
A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, $113,500, after she slipped on a soft drink & broke her
coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had
thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
2nd place
Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, sued the owner of a night club in a
neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor &
knocked out two of her front teeth. This occurred whilst Ms. Walton was
trying to crawl through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying
the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 & dental expenses.
1st place
This year's runaway winner was Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new Winnebago Motor Home. On
his trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway,
he set the cruise control at 70 mph & calmly left the drivers seat to go
into the back & make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly, the RV
left the freeway, crashed & then overturned. Mr Grazinski sued Winnebago
for not advising him, by reading the owner's manual, that he actually
could not do this. The jury awarded him $1,750,000 plus a new Winnebago
Motor Home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of
this suit just in case there were any other complete morons buying their
recreation vehicles.
A very attractive lady goes up to a bar. She gestures alluringly to the
bartender. When he arrives, she seductively signals that he should bring his
face closer to hers. When he does, she begins to caress his beard. "Are you the
manager?" she asks, softly stroking his face with both hands.
"Actually, no" the man replies. "Can you get him for me? I need to speak to
him," she says, running her hands beyond his beard and into his hair.
"I'm afraid I can't," breathes the bartender. "Is there anything I can do?"
"Yes, there is. I need you to give him a message," she continues, running her
forefinger across the bartender's lips and slyly popping a couple of her fingers
into his mouth and allowing him to suck them gently.
"What should I tell him?" the bartender finally manages to say.
"Tell him," she whispers, "there is no toilet paper, hand soap, or paper towels
in the ladies room."
Young TZ found it impossible to get a date. He’d start to talk to a girl, and his tongue would twist up like a pretzel.
He went to a bookstore and looked for something that would help him overcome his timidity. On a nonfiction rack he saw a book titled "Ways to Women". Blowing his entire allowance, he bought the book, rushed home, and discovered that he had bought volume ten of the encyclopedia.
In school one day the teacher decided that in
science class she would teach about materials;
So she stood in the front of the class and said,
"Children, if you could have one raw material in
the world what would it be?"
Little Stevie raised his hand and said "I would
want gold, because gold is worth a lot of money
and I could buy a Porsche."
The teacher nodded and called on little Susie.
Little Susie said, "I would want platinum because
platinum is worth more than gold and I could buy
a Corvette"
The teacher smiled and then called on Little
Johnny. Little Johnny stood up and said, "I would
want silicon."
The teacher said, "Why Johnny?"
He responded by saying, "Because my mom has two
bags of it and you should see all the sports cars
outside our house!!
Относно: in view of some notorious board noise occuring lately I thought it might be a good idea to bubblish ( for your Fun and Profit:) the known Ferengi Rules of Aquisition
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# - Once you have their money, never give it back.
# - You can't cheat an honest customer, but it never hurts to try.
# - You can always buy back a lost reputation.
# - Sex and profit are the two things that never last long enough.
# - If you can't break a contract, bend it.
# - Never let family stand in the way of opportunity.
# - Always keep your ears open.
# - Keep count of your change.
# - Instinct plus opportunity equals profit.
# - A dead customer can't buy as much as a live one.
# - Latinum isn't the only thing that shines.
# - Anything worth selling is worth selling twice.
# - Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.
# - Anything stolen is pure profit.
# - Acting stupid is often smart.
# - A deal is a deal.
# - A bargain usually isn't.
# - Beware of relatives bearing gifts.
# - Don't lie too soon after a promotion.
# - When the customer is sweating, turn up the heat.
# - Never place friendship before profit.
# - Wise men can hear profit in the wind.
# - Never take the last coin, but be sure to get all the rest.
# - Fear makes a good business partner.
# - Talk is cheap; synthehol costs money.
# - Never make fun of a Ferengi's mother.
# - Be careful what you sell. It may do exactly what the customer expects.
# - It never hurts to suck up to the boss.
# - Money talks, but having lots of it gets more attention.
# - Caressing an ear is often more forceful than pointing a weapon.
# - The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.
# - Good customers are a rare as latinum--treasure them.
# - Friendship is seldom cheap.
# - Free advice is seldom cheap.
# - Never use credit where your words will do.
# - Never buy what can be stolen.
# - The riskier the road, the higher the profit.
# - Get the money first, then let the buyers worry about collecting the merchandise.
# - Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
# - Never do something you can make someone do for you.
# - Sleep can interfere with opportunity.
# - Buy, sell, or get out of the way.
# - A friend is only a friend until you sell him something. Then he is a customer.
# - Wives serve; brothers inherit.
# - If you can sell it, don't hesitate to steal it.
James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, MI, was killed in March as he was
trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns got a
friend to drive the truck on a highway while Burns hung underneath so
that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise. Burns'
clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found Burns
"wrapped in the driveshaft."
Medieval Chastity Belt
King Arthur was in Merlin's laboratory where the great wizard was
showing him his latest creation. It was a chastity belt, except
it had a rather large hole in the most obvious place which made
it basically useless.
"This is no good, Merlin!" the King exclaimed, "Look at this
opening. How is this supposed to protect my lady, the Queen, when
I'm on a long quest?"
"Ah, sire, just observe," said Merlin. He then selected his most
worn out wand, one that he was going to discard anyway. He
inserted it in the gaping aperture of the chastity belt whereupon
a small guillotine blade came down and cut it neatly in two.
"Merlin, you are a genius!" said the grateful monarch. "Now I can
leave, knowing that my Queen is fully protected."
After putting Guinevere in the device, King Arthur then set out
upon a lengthy Quest.
Several years passed until he returned to Camelot. Immediately he
assembled all of his knights in the courtyard and had them drop
their trousers for an informal 'short arm' inspection.
Sure enough, each and every one of them was either amputated or
damaged in some way. All of them, except Sir Galahad.
"Sir Galahad," exclaimed King Arthur. "You are my one and only
true knight! Only you among all the nobles have been true to me.
What is it in my power to grant you? Name it and it is yours."
But, alas, Sir Galahad was speechless.
The Worlds thinnest books
21. HOW I SERVED MY COUNTRY - by Jane Fonda
20. MY BEAUTY SECRETS - by Janet Reno
19. HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN AIRPLANE - by John Denver
18. MY SUPER BOWL HIGHLIGHTS - by Dan Marino
17. THINGS I LOVE ABOUT BILL - by HILLARY CLINTON
16. MY LITTLE BOOK OF PERSONAL HYGIENE - by Osama Bin Laden
15. THINGS I CANNOT AFFORD - by Bill Gates
14. THINGS I WOULD NOT DO FOR MONEY - by Dennis Rodman
13. MY WILD YEARS - by Al Gore
12. AMELIA EARHART'S GUIDE TO THE PACIFIC
11. AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR LAWYERS
10. DETROIT: a Travel Guide
9. A COLLECTION of MOTIVATIONAL SPEECHES -by DR. J. Kevorkian
8. EVERYTHING MEN KNOW ABOUT WOMEN
7. EVERYTHING WOMEN KNOW ABOUT MEN
6. ALL THE MEN I HAVE LOVED BEFORE - by Ellen de Generes
5. MIKE TYSON'S GUIDE TO DATING ETIQUETTE
4. SPOTTED OWL RECIPES - by the EPA
3. THE AMISH PHONE DIRECTORY
2. MY PLAN TO FIND THE REAL KILLERS - by O. J. Simpson
And the world's Number One Thinnest Book ....
1. MY BOOK OF MORALS - by Bill Clinton/with introduction by The Rev.
Jessie Jackson
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, both male and
female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year. Male drop their
antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to December.
Females retain
their antlers till after they give birth in the spring. Therefore,
according to EVERY historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer,
EVERY single one
of them, from Rudolf to Blitzen, had to be a girl. We should've known.
ONLY
women would be able to drag a fat-ass man in a red velvet suit all
around the world in one night and not get lost.
The Lone Ranger was ambushed and captured by an enemy Indian war
party.
The Indian Chief proclaims "So, you are the great Lone Ranger.
In honor of the Harvest Festival, you will be executed in three
days.But, before I kill you, I will grant you three requests. What is
your first request?" The Lone Ranger responds, "I'd like to speak
to my horse." Chief nods and Silver is brought before the Lone Ranger,
who whispers in Silver's ear, and the horse gallops away. Later that
evening, Silver returns with a beautiful blond woman on his back. As the
Indian Chief watches, the blond enters the Lone Ranger's tent and spends
the night. The next morning the Indian Chief admits he's impressed.
"You have a very fine and loyal horse, but I will still kill you in two
days.
What is your second request?"
The Lone Ranger again asks to speak to his horse.
Silver is brought to him and he again whispers in the horse's ear. As
before, Silver takes off across the plains and disappears over the
horizon. Later that evening, to the Chief's surprise, Silver again
returns, this time with a voluptuous redhead, even more attractive than
the blond. She enters the Lone Ranger's tent and spends the night.
The following morning the Indian Chief is again impressed.
"You
are indeed a man of many talents, but I will still kill you tomorrow.
What
is your last request."
The Lone Ranger responds, "I'd like to speak to my horse,
alone."
The Chief is curious, but he agrees and Silver is brought to
the
Lone Ranger's tent.
Once they're alone, theLone Ranger grabs Silver by both ears,
looks him square in the eye and says, "Listen carefully, for the last
time, I said
BRING POSSE!
I don't give a.. what Solus thinks of this f...joke
A big earthquake with the strength of 8.1 on the Richter scale Has hit Mexico.
Two million Mexicans have died and over a million are injured. The country is totally ruined and the government doesn't know where to start with providing help to rebuild.
The rest of the world is in shock.
Canada is sending soldiers to help the Mexican army control the riots.
The European community (except France) is sending food and money.
The United States, not to be outdone, is sending two million replacement Mexicans.
Относно: Signs the Enterprise is nearing the end of its warranty
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21) Impulse engines stall when used in reverse.
20) Digital speedometer on helm console stuck at "88".
19) Shields fail to work on alternate Fridays.
18) Rust problem in engineering causes support failure:
one corner of warp coil now held up by phone book.
17) Computer fails to process any instruction beginning with "w".
16) Booster cables become permanent fixtures in transporter room.
15) Captain's chair must be propped up against screen to keep image
from flickering.
14) Guinan stops wearing large, heavy hats for fear of falling through
squeaky part of floor in 10- forward.
13) Main sensor array unable to pick up anything except CBS.
12) Lower part of bridge falls even lower and ramps along either side
become too steep for crew to climb.
11) Turbolift cannot climb past deck 5 when there are more than 2
people on board.
10) Holodeck becomes caught in an infinite loop: ship is overcome by ten
thousand care bears.
9) Ship cannot enter warp while food dispenser is making Kraft
macaroni and cheese.
8) Food dispenser in 10-forward will only serve light beer.
7) Bug in main computer speech processor: computer voice will either
stutter or talk like Barbara Walters.
6) Untraceable glitch in plumbing periodically replaces water in
Wesley's shower with frozen concentrated orange juice.
5) Ship's dryer indiscriminately shreds crew's uniforms, and related
problem in fabrication machinery will only produce new clothing with
Roger Rabbit caricature prominently displayed.
4) Computer refuses to carry out commands unless captain says
"Pretty please with sugar on it."
3) Riker unable to sleep for 2 weeks when holodeck computer crashes and
loses access to women's volleyball program.
2) Replacement parts for automatic door to captain's ready room are
exhausted and door must be replaced with bead curtains.
1) Saucer section separates whenever ship makes left turn.
In one room there are 3 light switches, and in a completely seperate room (not visable from the first) are 3 light bulbs. You are in the room with the switches.
Your task to find out which switch turns on which light. (tehy are of course randomly wired)
You can leave the switch room and enter the light bulb room only once.
How do you work out which switch controls which light?
A guy walks into a pub and says to the bar man "a larf of hager and a blass of geer please".The bar man says "pardon"?.The guy repeats his order "larf of hager and blass of geer please".The bar man says "got it,you want a half of lager and a glass of beer,yes"?
"Thats what I said" retorted the customer.
The bar man explained that the guy had a slip of the tongue--a freudian slip and the words came out different to what he had intended.The bar man said to him "don't worry it happens to everybody at some time or other,in fact it happened to me the other morning.I was sitting at the breakfast table with my wife and intended to say to her--would you mind passing me the teapot darling,but I had a slip of the tongue and what I actually said was---You big fat bastard you have ruined my life"
!!!
Two eggs boiling in a saucepan.One egg turns to the other and says "Its getting hot in here".The other egg replies " Wait till they lift you out--they will smash your head in"
A piece of bacon, an egg, and a sausage are frying in the pan. The sausage turns to the piece of bacon and says:
"its getting hot in here."
The bacon turns to the egg and replies:
"Well s**** me, a talking sausage!"
A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband. Suddenly her husband burst into the kitchen.
"Careful ... CAREFUL! Put in some more butter!
Oh my GOD! You're cooking too many at once.
TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW!
We need more butter. Oh my GOD! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER?
They're going to STICK! Careful ... CAREFUL!
I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never!
Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind?
Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!"
The wife stared at him. "What the hell is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?"
The husband calmly replied, "I wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving."
Put three coins on one side of the balance scale and three on the other. If one side tips up, the fake is amongst them. If they balance, the fake is one of the three unweighed coins. Weigh two of the three coins known to contain the fake, one on each side of the scale. If the scale rises, the fake is on the high side. If they balance, the unweighed coin is the fake. :-D
There are 9 seemingly identical coins - but although they look identical one is a counterfeit. The false coin is lighter then the others. Using a balance arm scale ONLY TWICE can you determine which is the false coin?
To: Large Human Resident of My Home
From: Her Royal Highness, Princess Feline
Subject: The burdens I must bear
You are my most senior staff member, and by "senior" I mean, of
course, "oldest," because I hold both of your daughters in much higher
regard. This position means you have certain responsibilities,
responsibilities you are not living up to.
Naturally, I am speaking about the dog, who has recently written a
cowardly memo to you in an attempt to spark a revolt in the household.
It was your duty to administer swift and preferably capital
punishment to the insubordinate animal, and your dismal failure in the
matter has led me to craft this letter. This forces me to do
something I am utterly loathe to do--acknowledge your existence. I
must warn you that as a result, I am putting a copy of this memo in
your personnel file.
This whole matter is most unseemly, as the dog lacks standing to
register a complaint of any kind. This is an animal who, when
excited, attempts to make love to the sofa--an animal who, when
allowed outside, rewards us by defecating in our yard!
How often, I ask you, have we been enjoying a lovely evening of our
favorite activity--sitting in front of the television in the family
room, everyone taking turns stroking and worshiping me--only to have
this mutt release a gaseous emission that brings tears to our eyes and
screams of anguish from your children? Of course, you yourself are to
blame here for the bad example you set with your own flatulent
behavior. In fact, there is such a strong link between your initial
discharge and the dog's follow-up volleys that I've come to think of
them as "sympathy farts." You'll never catch a cat performing such an
indelicacy. In my view the both of you should be banished to the
deck--you can watch television and me through the window.
His tendency to bark at the most routine event--such as the ringing
of the doorbell (is this supposed to be some sort of warning? We all
heard the doorbell, for goodness sake!) is most perturbing, as it
interferes with my hobby--bird watching. (I've been observing the
birds in the feeder for more than a year now, and have determined that
most of them can be classified as "edible.")
The only function at which the animal excels is as a pillow for my
mid-late afternoon nap, and sometimes for my early late afternoon nap
as well. Yet even at this he often fails, falling into a restless
state full of leg-twitching and soft yipping. (I know you think he is
dreaming of chasing rabbits, but nothing could be further from the
truth. You know what he is dreaming of? Running from cats, and well
he should. He knows he's in serious trouble with me, you can tell by
the way he slinks around in my presence.)
As a species, canines represent a broken rung on the evolutionary
ladder. Have you ever seen two or more of them mingle together? They
sniff each other in unmentionable places, then race over to lift their
legs on the bushes, proudly strutting around as if they've caught a
mouse or something, when all they've done is urinate on target.
Even worse: I think the fool canine actually likes me. It's probably
because I am so beautiful; but have you ever thought about what it is
like to be licked by that tongue? It's like being wiped down with a
drooling carpet.
In short, the dog has done nothing but cause trouble ever since I,
its replacement as the most beloved animal in the house, arrived to
take the throne. This attempt to violate the chain of command and
appeal to you to stage some sort of peasant uprising is just the
latest affront. We would be much better served if we replaced him
with a pet we would all find more enjoyable and fun.
May I suggest a family of free-range gerbils?
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The Cameron Column, A Free Internet Newsletter
Copyright W. Bruce Cameron 2004 http://www.wbrucecameron.com/
I SHALL TAKE YOU TO BED AND HAVE MY WAY WITH YOU... I WILL MAKE YOU
ACHE, SHAKE AND SWEAT UNTIL YOU MOAN and GROAN. I WILL MAKE YOU BEG FOR
MERCY... BEG FOR ME TO STOP. I WILL EXHAUST YOU TO THE POINT THAT YOU
WILL BE RELIEVED WHEN I'M FINISHED WITH
YOU.
AND YOU WILL BE WEAK FOR DAYS.
ALL MY LOVE,
THE FLU
Now get your mind out of the gutter...and GO GET YOUR FLU
SHOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU are driving a bus.Six people get on,three get off,then eight get on and 10 more get off,then six people get off and two more get on.What colour are the driver's eyes ?
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