] "Ward was five miles from the coal mine where he works as
] a security guard and two miles from the nearest home when
] his car went off the road December 2. It plunged 150 feet
] and hit a tree, destroying the headlights and horn.
]
] The area's first major snowfall hit a few days later and
] temperatures remained below freezing for several days. To
] stay warm, Ward ripped the lining from the car's roof and
] used it as a blanket, Likens said.
]
] He also burned paper, including pages from his EMT
] manual, and melted snow to drink. His only food was what
] he could get out of an old peanut butter jar and sauce
] packets from Taco Bell."

Only in West Virginia.

Man saved by condiments

] "The Rawhide Kid series, beginning with the first edition
] "Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather," will run about 22 pages and
] have a suggested retail price of $2.95."

Reminds me of the only funny thing I've seen on Saturday Night Live in years: The Ambiguously Gay Duo. The first person to buy me this comic book gets a prize.

Marvel Comics to unveil gay gunslinger

] "The Mohegan Sun replicates the outrageous sensibility of
] Sun City. Its profitability is equally immoderate. This
] year it became Connecticut's and Indian country's second
] billion-dollar casino (after Foxwoods) when annual
] revenue hit 10 figures. The 32% increase over last year
] follows the opening of a second complex, which makes the
] Mohegan Sun's total gaming area larger than the combined
] area of the Mirage, Stardust and Tropicana casinos on the
] Las Vegas Strip."

I love Mohegan Sun. It's beautiful and fun. I never win there. Foxwoods is nice, too (and bigger) and I always win hundreds there. I like the Indian casinos. I like living 15 minutes from both of them. I wish I were part Indian so I could win even more money.

Look Who's Cashing in at Indian Casinos

] "Whatever your holiday travel travails were Thanksgiving
] weekend, it could have been worse: You could have been on
] Sally Weisbrot's bus the night of Nov. 30.
]
] Eager to get home after spending the holiday with her
] sister in Mount Laurel, Weisbrot, a 30-year-old New
] Yorker, watched from her second-row seat with mounting
] dismay as the Greyhound driver, trying to find a
] less-congested route north, made one bad move after
] another.
]
] His biggest mistake came while the bus was mired in
] traffic on Route 9. After exasperated passengers asked if
] he knew where he was going, the driver got on the public
] address system and made a remark he would soon regret.
]
] "I'm taking you to the Taliban," Weisbrot heard him say.
] "Don't worry about it."
]
] It was a bad, nonsensical joke, everyone agrees now. But
] with the specter of war with Iraq looming and Osama bin
] Laden still at large, America is hardly in a lighthearted
] mood."

I don't know, I'm an American and I'm in a lighthearted mood because I thought this whole thing was pretty funny...

Highway to Hell

Courtesy of my sister, who for some reason sent this link to me.

Final Meal Requests

If this guy graduates from "colledge", I weep for the future.

But it has "softwhere" and "a modem for the internet"!!

I seriously hope that this is a joke

I love the Discovery Channel.

Bismarck Expedition -- Discovery Channel

] "TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A team of researchers at a leading
] national university have set a world record by
] calculating the value of pi to 1.2411 trillion places,
] one of the researchers said Friday."

Well, then.

A big slice of pi

] "For General Dynamics, the effect would be that the
] government would withhold $1.15 billion in payments its
] subsidiaries are due.
]
] For instance, Electric Boat, a General Dynamics
] subsidiary, might receive only partial payment for any
] submarine work it completes in coming weeks."

Oh crap. There goes my bonus.

Pentagon preparing to collect GD debt

In case you ever need to know where or what an area code covers.. and lots more useful phone number information here.

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