News

Leave the flying to the professionals... or maybe not...

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Most passengers on an airliner never even look out the window, but about 300 people on a commercial flight bound for Japan are lucky that U.S. Air Force Staf…

Shortly after takeoff from Chicago, Bachleda noticed what appeared to be a plume of fuel leaking from the left wing. He told a flight attendant about the apparent leak, but at first got…
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Humour

The Vanilla Pudding Robbery

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This is just too funny not to share… Excerpted from an article which appeared in The Dublin Times about a bank robbery on March 2. Once inside the bank sho…

The robbers cracked the first safe's…
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Humour

Therapy

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When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you d…

A couple of days later, right after calling the first asshole…
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Twitter

Twits du Jour

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My slapdash tweets for April 17, 2009

Playing with Nambu on the iPhone. First twitter…
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Twitter

Twits du Jour

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My slipshod tweets for March 20, 2009

Started FireFox for the first time…
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Twitter

Twits du Jour

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My prolix tweets for March 19, 2009

Obama will be the first sitting…
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Humour

Country Funeral

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As a young minister in Iowa , I was asked by a funeral director to hold a grave-side service for a homeless man, who had no family or friends. The funeral wa…

As a young minister in Iowa , I was asked by a funeral director to hold a grave-side service for a homeless man, who had no family or friends. The funeral was to be held at a new cemetery way back in the country, and this man would be the first to…
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