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This from [a href="http://www.overheardinvancouver.ca/"]Overheard in Vancouver[/a][/p]
 Overheard at the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal,[/p]  [blockquote]1st BC Ferry Worker, into their walkie talkie: "We've, uh, got a hearing-impaired gentleman with us, so we're going to have to delay the boarding just a bit to accommodate his needs.[/p] 2nd BC Ferry Worker, loudly and clearly over the walkie talkie: "Okay, but I'm not doing it when the ship starts to sink. He'll be on his own. Not like he'll notice until it's too late..."[/p] 1st BC Ferry Worker, back into walkie-talkie: "Uh... the whole lobby just heard you."[/p][/blockquote]  

Please introduce yourselves or give a wave.  We don't bite.  

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[Duke Grad Builds Beer Tossing Fridge]

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[/font][/td][/tr][/tbody][/table][font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"][span id="article"][div class="KonaBody"][span id="intelliTXT"] RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.[/p] "I conceived it right after I got out," said Cornwell, a May 2006 graduate from Huntington, N.Y. "I missed the college scene. It embodies the college spirit that I didn't want to let go of."[/p] It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.[/p] With a click of the remote, fashioned from a car's keyless entry device, a small elevator inside the refrigerator lifts a beer can through a hole and loads it into the fridge's catapult arm. A second click fires the device, tossing the beer up to 20 feet - "far enough to get to the couch," he said.[/p] Is there a foam explosion when the can is opened? Not if the recipient uses "soft hands" to cradle the can when caught, Cornwell said.[/p] In developing his beer catapult, Cornwell said he dented a few walls and came close to accidentally throwing a can through his television. He's since fine-tuned the machine to land a beer where he usually sits at home, on what he called "a right-angle couch system."[/p] For now, the machine throws only cans, although Cornwell has thought about making a version that can throw a bottle. The most beer he has run through the machine was at a party, when he launched a couple of 24-can cases.[/p] "I did launch a lot watching the Super Bowl," he said. "My friends are the reason I built it. I told them about the idea and hyped it so much and I had to go through with it."[/p] A video featuring the device is a hit on the Internet, where more than 600,000 people have watched it at metacafe.com, earning Cornwell more than $3,000 from the Web site.[/p] Cornwell said he has talked to a brewing company about the machine, but right now only one exists. Asked if he might start building some for sale, he said: "I'm keeping that option open, depending on interest."[/p] When Cornwell was a student at Duke - an elite, private university in Durham - he participated in the engineering school's robotic basketball contests, said mechanical engineering Professor Bob Kielb. He said students tried to build a robot that could retrieve a pingpong ball and toss it into a small hoop.[/p] "He always did well in it," Kielb said. "He came up with completely unique ideas."[/p][/span][/div][/span][/font][/font][/span]  

Any guesses?
 
 Not Betty Krawczyk- she was already behind bars.
 
 Not Sam Sullivan- he can't climb up that high.
 
 
   

calls for a joke.
 
 can't think of one right now.  Anyone?
   

Here's an article that describes the 39 ingredients in a Hostess Twinkie.  Yuck.
 
 [a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17303919/site/newsweek/"]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17303919/site/newsweek/[/a]  

Here's someone's version of How to Save A Life.  It looks totally like Vancouver to me.
 [a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=coral302"]http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=coral302[/a]
   

   

Anyone else have snow right now?  

I always go for Costco butter, cheese and wine.  And groceries at Trader Joe's.
 
 You?
   

[[span class="dateline"]OCONOMOWOC, Wis.[/span][span class="dateline-separator"] - [/span]]

[h1]Porn DVD screams prompt sword 'rescue'[/h1]      [h6]Associated Press[/h6]         [!-- begin body-content --] [span class="dateline"]OCONOMOWOC, Wis.[/span][span class="dateline-separator"] - [/span]A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.[/p]  "Now I feel stupid," said James Van Iveren, who has been charged in the case. "This really is nothing, nothing but a mistake."[/p]  According to a criminal complaint, the neighbor told police that Van Iveren pounded on the door and kicked it open without warning Feb. 12, damaging the frame and lock.[/p]  "Where is she?" Van Iveren demanded, thrusting the sword at the neighbor, the complaint said. "Where is she?"[/p]  The neighbor told police Van Iveren became increasingly aggressive as he repeated the question, insisting that he had heard a woman being raped. The complaint said that, with the sword pointed at him, the neighbor led Van Iveren throughout the apartment, opening closet doors to prove he was alone.[/p]  The neighbor later played for police the part of the DVD he believed Van Iveren heard downstairs.[/p]  Van Iveren, 39, of Oconomowoc, was charged with criminal trespass, criminal damage and disorderly conduct, all while using a dangerous weapon, and is due in court March 5. Together, the misdemeanor counts carry a maximum sentence of 33 months in jail.[/p]  Van Iveren said Tuesday that he heard a woman "screaming for help," grabbed the sword, bounded up the stairs, kicked in the apartment door and confronted the man who lived there.[/p]  "I intended to hold it behind my back and knock. But I froze and instead, what happened happened," he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.[/p]  Contesting his neighbor's account, Van Iveren said he didn't look anywhere in the apartment except the front room, and that he never threatened the neighbor with the sword.[/p]  "I had the sword extended. But that was all," he said.[/p]  Van Iveren, who lives with his mother in the downstairs apartment, said he did not call police when he heard the noises because he does not have a telephone. He said he barely knew the upstairs tenant.[/p]  Police seized Van Iveren's sword, which he said was a family heirloom.
 [/p] [a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16749069.htm"]http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16749069.htm[/a]
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not me.  I'm a refugee from DV.  From Vancouver.