More on Rickey

Forgot a very well written post from Curt Fenell from www.phins.com it's a
good post
http://www.phins.com/op/op-1-04.html
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Do you have a little too much time on your hands?

Try searching for 'elgoog' @ www.google.ca

HINT -- hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button

Way to keep our borders secure
Strippers need naked pics for visas
Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa. The Canadian Embassy in Mexico says "stage photos during performances are required'', says Ottawa's CFRA radio. Immigration officers are having to pore over naked pictures of hundreds of exotic dancers to keep imposters out of Canada. In a memo to fellow visa officers around the world, officials said if a dancer passes the no-clothes test, they may then require a police certificate or medical examination.

Run (away) Ricky Run

My thoughts on Ricky Williams...

As you may or may not know or (care) I'm a huge Miami Dolphins fan, so it
was MORE THAN A LITTLE suprising they he announced his retirement yesterday

ESPN.com Story

And I thought I'd maybe just post a couple of thoughts regarding this

1) As a 'Phins/ NFL fan ect... I think it's incrediblly shitty I honestly
feel like he owes us, as horrible as it sounds we've do contribute to his
salary ect... me level the league/fans, ect...

But realistically
2) It's his life and and the only complaints that you can make are selfish
and childish (boo hoo my team that maybe might have made the playoffs - but
would have screwed up in the playoffs anyways)
But that' silly ... and writing this down and has helped me realize that

In the end it was nice having him in Miami for two years (would have been
better, if they'd had a anti-crazy clause in his contract or trade agreement
with N.O.), so the the 'phins wouldn't have been stuck with nothing -- or
god forbid let the organization know a week earlier so we could have signed
someone like Eddie George

Oh well
Better start practicing the "Run, Travis (Minor) Run" chants

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Swiss Public (and I mean really public) Toliets
Here's a picture of a public toilet in Switzerland that's made
entirely out of one-way glass. No one can see you in there, but when
you are inside, it looks like you're sitting in a clear glass box.

.... Second not so cool thing out of Japan recently what's up with that?

TOKYO (Reuters) - They may not look cool, but knife-resistant kid's sweatshirts and coats are the latest products aimed at providing parental peace of mind in a Japan horrified by a series of gruesome attacks on children.
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The sweatshirts, and coats that look like plain waterproofs, are made from the same fibers used in police and military knife-proof and bullet-proof vests, according to the maker, Madre.
"We created this product so children would be ok, even if they went off to play by themselves," said a spokesman for Madre, a provider of child day-care services before it added protective clothing to its portfolio earlier this year.
The clothing, sold only through the company's web site, www.defense.to, isn't cheap, at 46,095 yen ($419) for the coat and from 40,950 yen for the sweatshirt. They come in 12 colors and can be embroidered with initials or other slogans.
Japan has always prided itself on its low crime rate, but concern over child safety has grown after a series of crimes involving children.
An intruder attacked pupils with a knife at a primary school in western Japan in December 2003 and an 11-year-old schoolgirl murdered a classmate in June by slashing her throat.
Earlier this month, a Japanese software firm unveiled chip-embedded student ID cards that alert parents via email when children arrive at and leave school.

I'm sure he was just researching, if they are distracting while trying to concentrate
A Croatian MP was spotted watching a porn movie in parliament when he was supposed to be debating road safety.
He was allegedly seen watching an X-rated film on a laptop he had brought into parliament, local weekly Globus reported.
One person in parliament who spotted the MP's dirty movie said: "Within a few seconds he had the attention of all his male colleagues. It was very amusing."
The MP allegedly spent five minutes watching the porn film before closing his laptop. No action is expected to be taken against him.

Ok, so maybe Japan isn't quite as cool as I believe
Japanese ice-cream lovers have swapped traditional flavours such as raspberry ripple for something a little more exotic - horse-flesh.
As Tokyo swelters in soaring temperatures, people are being invited to cool off by choosing from a variety of unusual flavours.
Garlic, potato and lettuce, and cactus and seaweed along with raw horse-flesh are now available in Japan's shops.
Adventurous ice cream lovers not tempted by those flavours could try soybean and kelp or strawberry and spinach.
The new flavours are being promoted by the Japan Ice-Cream Association which has set up a summer trade fair.
It hopes to boost the popularity of ice cream during the current heatwave as, although the Japanese spent more than £1.5bn on ice-cream and sorbets last year, the country ranks only 19th in world consumption.

Hmmm... I prefer words like 100% and all, when talking about filtering and food I'm asked to pee on
US food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding dirty water or urine.
The ration comes in a pouch containing a filter that removes 99.9 per cent of bacteria and most toxic chemicals from the water used to rehydrate it.
The aim of this kind of ration is to reduce the amount of water soldiers need to carry. One day's food supply of three meals, weighs 3.5kg, but that can be reduced to about 0.4 kilograms with the dehydrated pouches.
The pouch - containing chicken and rice initially - relies on osmosis to filter the water or urine, says the New Scientist.
A hungry soldier pours dirty water into one end of a foil sachet containing two inner pouches separated by a membrane. The water seeps through the membrane into the dehydrated food on the other side.
As it dissolves large molecules in the food, it creates a very high concentration solution. The osmotic pressure created then draws more water through the membrane.

Come on you can't tell me, that Japan isn't cool
Gadget geeks with cutting-edge cellphones will soon be able to call up their medical records, anytime, anywhere or in a totally different vein, check out the provenance of their broccoli at the supermarket.
Produce grower and exporter Dole has introduced a new technology service that allows a cellphone user to check vegetable information while at the store.
Consumers can learn where the produce came from and how it arrived on the shelf, along with cooking tips.
The service only works on produce packaged with a ``QR'' barcode, a matrix-type super-code capable of storing lots of information. The shopper needs a cellphone equipped with a camera and scanner equipment that can read the codes.
For now, only Dole's broccoli has the QR code, but the company plans to expand the service to other vegetables.(IHT/Asahi: July 17,2004) (07/17)

Ah true love
Woman, 71, marries teenage student
A 71-year-old grandmother who has married a 19-year-old student denies that she's a "cradle snatcher".
Nyanginda wa Ngugi is living with her teenage husband James Mburu Kamau at her home near Makuyu in Kenya.
Her son Gicharu wa Ngugi, who at 33 is 14 years older than his stepfather, also shares the home, reports the East African Standard.
The woman, who has five married children, said she was happy Mburu had chosen her "following the will of God".
The teenager said no amount of threats, intimidation or raw force could force him abandon the wife God had ordered him to marry.
"I am not going back to school. Never. I discovered that I have been living a lie all my life. Now I have discovered God and happiness," he said.
However, at his former school in Makuyu, his former classmates were said to be in deep shock, with some vowing to "deal with the old woman to get their colleague back".

Ummm ... seriously what can I say
Naked man covered in nacho cheese arrested
A man has been arrested in Tennessee after police caught him running naked from the scene of a robbery covered in nacho cheese.
Michael P. Monn's jeep was spotted by a routine police patrol in a car park in Maryville in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Minutes after officers found clothes and a bottle of alcohol in the vehicle, Monn ran towards the jeep carrying a box of snacks and nacho cheese.
The 23-year-old was charged with burglary, theft, vandalism, public intoxication and indecent exposure, says the Daily Times.
An officer said: "The male had nacho cheese in his hair, on his face and on his shoulders. The nude male had a strong odour of alcohol and was semi-incoherent.''

Ah man ... I've got to sort hitting more garage sales
What could be one of the most hotly sought after lost archives of Beatles recordings has reportedly been found in a Melbourne flea market.
The archive of tapes and photos, which are believed to have belonged to Beatles roadie Mal Evans, were in a suitcase spotted by British holiday maker Fraser Claughton, who was looking for some cheap luggage.
He told the Times: "It is like finding the end of the rainbow in Australia.
"I spotted one tatty old suitcase, which frankly I wouldn't have given house room, but when I picked it up I realised there was something in it."
Thinking that the contents looked 'interesting', he agreed to buy them for £20.
Now experts believe the four-and-a-half hours of recordings, which include alternate takes of We Can Work It Out and Cry Baby Cry, could fetch several hundred thousand pounds at auction.
Peter Dogget, pop memorabilia consultant at Christie's, said: "It sounds very exciting indeed. It certainly does tie in with Mal Evans. He had access to the Beatles making music when no one else was around."
Children's publisher John Read, who is handling the collection on behalf of Mr Claughton, said it was already known that Mr Evans, who was shot dead in a bungled police operation in 1976, went to Australia as a sound engineer.
He said his name appears on some of the recording sheets in the collection.
However not everyone has been convinced. Mark Lewisohn, from the Beatles' Apple label, said he could not tell if the tracks really were new because so far he had only heard them over the telephone.
He said: "I am prepared to be excited, but from my point of view there isn't anything lost here."

Single worst thing I have ever seen ... no serious even worse than the Chicken-Noodle soup flavoured Neo-Citron they marketed a couple of years ago

from GizModo.com
SmartKlamp: Single-Use, Automatic Circumcisions
I'm all for the future. I mean, look at where you're at, who you're talking to. I like the future so much that I even like the past's futures, futures that were planted with love but never quite formed into a fully blossoming flying cars or whatever. But in the future, as I'm lounging around with my dome open, instructing technicians to lift my brain onto a substrate of pure electrical joy, I will never, ever, ever let a robot cut my dick. I might have sex with a robot, that's fine; looking forward to it, actually. But at no point will I be placing my penis into a tube filled with knives.
I'm a penis slicer luddite, I know, but no, for real, no. So why do the people that make SmartKlamp think that -- when I wouldn't let a robot, which can maneuver with mathematical precision, touch me -- I would use a Bris-O-Matic on my or my progeny's spurters? Is there a market need here? Are scapel-wielding doctors and rabbis not fast enough to get the job done? Is there a worldwide circumcision shortage?

Horribly graphic product page (follow at your own risk)
SmartKlamp

I could so be that guy ... only during Stampede tho
Beer-mad Bosnian wins advertising contract
A beer-mad Bosnian who has drunk more than 15 pints a day for almost 50 years has been offered a lucrative contract promoting his favourite drink.
Marijan Camber, 61, from Sutina, was made an offer he couldn't refuse after a local paper pictured him drinking his 400,000th bottle.
He said: "Negotiations are still ongoing, and I am not allowed to name the firm, but I think we are close to signing a deal. I am the world's biggest beer fan so I'm happy to be its ambassador."
Friends confirmed to Croatian daily Jutarnji List that Camber drinks at least 30 bottles containing a third of a litre a day, and say the beer seems to have no affect on him.
Camber said: "I once drank 80 bottles in one day to see how far I could go, and I still didn't feel drunk."
He added: "To be honest I don't drink to get drunk. I think I've been drunk about three times in my life - and that was when I drank other alcohol and not beer.
"There are always at least 20 different beers in my fridge. My favourites are from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia."
He reckons beer is as good as it gets: "Sex is a fleeting pleasure that is not always that great and not always available, but the pleasure from beer is always good - and you can have it as often as you want."

Man line me up, this place sounds like a riot
Broken-hearted drinkers pay to cry into their beer
A bar for the broken hearted has opened in China where drinkers pay to cry into their beer.
Tissues and menthol drops are provided at the bar in Nanjing as well as onions and red peppers for customers who need help to burst into tears.
Bar tenders play sad music and there are dolls available for customers to throw around or beat to vent their anger of a broken relationship.
Customers must pay £3 an hour, on top of their drinks bill, to weep and wail to their hearts content, a report in the Jinling Evening News said.
The bar has been a big success and is attracting crowds of depressed drinkers every day, according to the newspaper.

A slender Japanese man has won the annual hot dog-eating contest at New York City's Coney Island for the fourth year running. Takeru Kobayashi , of Nagano, - just 5 ft 7 ins and 9 st 4 lbs - wolfed down 53 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes, shattering his own world record. His nearest challenger managed to eat only 38. "I could have done a lot, a lot more," Kobayashi said through an interpreter.

(contest controversy from two years ago -- just as a point of reference)
NEW YORK -- On Thursday, competitive eating made a lot of progress in proving that it is indeed a sport. Like the NFL, NHL and NBA, it apparently needs instant replay.
Takeru Kobayashi, center, won the title with 50½ hot dogs, while Eric Booker, right, finished second with 26.
Japanese professional speed-eater Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi destroyed the competition for the second consecutive year at the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July international hot dog eating contest, scarfing down 50½ hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes.
The 24-year-old Kobayashi, who weighed 113 pounds before the contest and almost 120 pounds after, bettered his 2001 world-record performance by half a hot dog despite having to fight off the 100-degree heat. He also covered the spread of Internet gamblers, who favored him to win by 20 hot dogs.
But in the final seconds, with many of the 20 competitors already satisfied with their effort, Kobayashi's body heaved as his cheeks ballooned with remnants. Since visible regurgitation during competition means a disqualification, many in the crowd cried foul and waited for the title to be given to Eric "Badlands" Booker, who finished second with 26 hot dogs.
Seconds after the contestants were told to put down their hot dogs, Kobayashi's individual judge, Gersh Kuntzman of the New York Post, and Mike Devito, the commissioner of the International Federation of Competitive Eating (which sanctioned the contest), ruled that the victory was official.
"It's the Raiders-Patriots game all over again," joked Rich Shea, president of the IFOCE.
But instant replay would not overturn the fumble, as it did during the AFC divisional playoffs.
Kobayashi captured the coveted Mustard Yellow Belt for the second consecutive year.
"If you suffer a roman-method incident (the IFOCE's term for regurgitating) during the contest, it's an immediate DQ," said Rich's brother George, the chairman of the federation, which would later review the tapes as a formality. "My understanding is this not only happened after the contest, but that none of the hot dogs and buns actually hit the table or the floor."
Footage captured by ESPN confirms that some hot dog slush did spill through Kobayashi's fingers and pieces of liquid bun spouted out of his nose, but footage shows time had already expired.
"I feel good I got over the 50 mark, even by a half," said Kobayashi, through an interpreter. Others weren't as satisfied.
"He should be disqualified, period," said "Hungry" Charles Hardy, a 5-foot-11, 360-pound New York City corrections officer who had 20 hot dogs. "Eric should have that belt. I mean, I had people in Atlanta call me on my cell phone saying they saw it on TV." While eating a 15-foot sushi roll during the Glutton Bowl on Fox in February, Hardy was disqualified for regurgitating.
"I was standing right next to him, but I was too focused on my game," said Booker, a 6-foot-5, 400-pound New York City transit conductor. "I didn't want to suffer the mistakes I had last year, where I was looking around to see what everyone was doing. It was just me and the dogs."
Eating only 26 hot dogs was a somewhat disappointing effort for Booker, who set a new U.S. record of 28 on June 2. Three hours before the competition, Booker boasted that he hoped to "eat one for every state in the union." After seeing Kobayashi use his "Solomon" method -- where he splits the hot dog in half and puts both pieces in his mouth at the same time -- Booker employed a new method this year: "The Double Japanese" (putting two hot dogs in his mouth at one time, then dipping two buns in water and putting them in his mouth at the same time).
Controversy and the international hot dog eating contest actually go hand-and-hand.
Last year, there was another controversy surrounding Kobayashi.
"These (American) guys last year were yelling and screaming drugs, drugs, drugs," said Rich Shea, who noted that contestants accused Kobayashi of using muscle relaxers. "I was with him all morning, and I've seen no evidence of it. As the international federation, it would be our duty to bring drug testing into this sport, but there's just no evidence."
In 1997, when the first of three Japanese champions came on the scene at Coney Island, Shea said competitors complained he had two stomachs. "No one has two stomachs," Shea said. "We're all born with the same stomach."

... but boy oh boy, will this taste good in two months
A London restaurant chain is offering customers free DNA testing to see if they're descended from Genghis Khan.
Restaurant Shish has promised free meals for any found to be related to the notorious Mongol leader. The unusual promotion is to mark the Mongolian government's decision to allow citizens to have surnames for the first time since they were banned by the communists in the 1920s. Some 50,000 Mongolians now proudly claim direct descent from and bear the name of Genghis Khan. Shish has teamed up with DNA-based research company Oxford Ancestors to offer descendants food from their ancestral homelands. From Saturday July 3 to Friday July 9, diners at the Shish restaurant venues in London's Hoxton and Willesden Green will have the opportunity to have their DNA sent off for analysis. The procedure needs only a small brush to be rubbed quickly around the inside cheek of the participant. The sample is then sent off for analysis which takes around two months. It is estimated that 17 million people worldwide, including the British Royal Family, Iranian Royalty, and the family of Dracula, are direct descendents of Genghis Khan. The conqueror founded an empire which, at its height, stretched from The Sea Of Japan, across Russia and northern India, to the edges of modern day Eastern Europe.