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Freak out man!!!

Ahoy maties! Make sure ye observe the fairest day! ARGH!

Talk Like A Pirate Day

crankymessiah wrote:
] ] Late this year the company plans to begin auctioning the
] ] best seats to concerts through ticketmaster.com.
] ]
] ] With no official price ceiling on such tickets,
] ] Ticketmaster will be able to compete with brokers and
] ] scalpers for the highest price a market will bear.
] ]
] ] "The tickets are worth what they're worth," said John
] ] Pleasants, Ticketmaster's president and chief executive.
] ] "If somebody wants to charge $50 for a ticket, but it's
] ] actually worth $1,000 on eBay, the ticket's worth
] ] $1,000."
]

Is this not the definition of ticket scalping? Just because there are people willing to pay $1000 for a ticket, if the cover price of the ticket is $75 and you knowingly charge more that makes you a scalper. Does this mean that scalpers will be able to sit outside shows and "auction" off what tickets they have to the highest bidder as well?

RE: Ticketmaster Auction Will Let Highest Bidder Set Concert Prices

] A pizza delivery man told police he had been forced to
] rob a bank and asked authorities to help him minutes
] before a bomb strapped to his chest exploded and killed
] him.

that's just fucked up.

NEWS STORY

2003 Darwin Awards
In case you have been waiting breathlessly for this year's Darwin
Awards,here they are. The awards this year are, once again, truly
classic.

These awards are given each year to bestow upon (the remains of) that
individual, who through single-minded self-sacrifice, has done the
most to remove undesirable elements from the human gene pool. Just
think... until these events, these same people were walking the
streets like normal people.

5th RUNNER-UP:
Goes to a San Anselmo, California man who died when he hit a lift
tower at the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on
a foam pad. The 22-year old David Hubal was pronounced dead at Central
Mammoth Hospital.

The accident occurred about 3 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's
department said. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked up a ski
run called Stump alley and undid some yellow foam protectors from lift
towers, said Lt. Mike Donnelly of the Mammoth Lakes Police Dept. The
pads are used to protect skiers who might hit towers. The group
apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed
into a tower. It has since been investigated and determined the tower
he hit was the one with its pad removed.

4th RUNNER-UP:
Goes to Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St.
Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call the police, Puelo
grabbed a hot dog, shoved it into his mouth and walked out without
paying. Police found him unconscious in front of the store. Paramedics
removed the six-inch wiener from his throat where it had choked him to
death.

3rd RUNNER-UP:
Goes to poacher Marino Malerba of Spain, who shot a stag standing
above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell
on him.

2nd RUNNER-UP:

"Man loses face at party." A man at a West Virginia party (probably
related to the winner last year, a man in Arkansas who used the .22
bullet to replace the fuse in his pickup truck) popped a blasting cap
into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his
lips, teeth, and tongue. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the
blasting cap as a prank during the party late Tuesday night, said Cpl.
M.D. Payne. "Another man had it in an aquarium hooked to a battery and
was trying to explode it." "It wouldn't go off and this guy said I'll
show you how to set it off." He put it into his mouth, bit down and it
blew all his teeth out and his lips and tongue off, Payne said.
Stromyer was listed in guarded condition Wednesday with extensive
facial injuries, according to a spokesperson at Charleston Area
Medical Division. "I just can't imagine anyone doing something like
that," Payne said.

1st RUNNER-UP:
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2003 Darwin Awards

] Do you ever wonder where that paper money in your pocket
] has been, or where it will go next? This is the place to
] find out.
]
] All you need to do is enter the denomination, series, and
] serial number of any US dollar bill, and your current USA
] ZIP or Canadian Post Code

Ever run across a dollar bill with the "http://www.wheresgeorge.com" URL on it? Be sure to enter in the bill's serial number to this database before you spend the bill somewhere else -- this site tracks the flow of certain marked bills around the world. Fun!

Where's George? - Currency Tracking

Decius wrote:
] ] The "translator of a baby's cry" for an elementary mama
] ] appeared. This equipment that analyzed and made the kind
] ] of a baby's cry shows a baby's feeling by five, a hungry
] ] feeling, sleepiness, stress, and inconvenient, and the
] ] degree of correctness exceeds 90%.
]
] You knew this was coming soon... (Wasn't this a Simpson's
] episode??)

Yes that was the theme of a simpsons episode 8F23 to be exact. http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-146/epid-1344/
Also it will be out on DVD tuesday (8/26/03) http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=FXD006970

RE: Japaneese Baby Translator

Laughing Boy wrote:
] Peer down at your house!
]
] ] TerraFly ® changes the way you view your world. Simply
] ] enter an address, and our system will put you at the
] ] controls of a new and innovative way to explore your
] ] digital earth.
]
] Not for terrorist use.

Pretty cool, IE only though. I can see some interesting uses for it when trying to get a hotel close to a location. Nifty

RE: TerraFly Puts You Over Any Land Address

] An amusement park operator was killed Saturday when his
] hair got caught on a roller coaster car, pulling him up
] as high as 40 feet before he fell, back-first, onto a
] fence.

Ouch!

CNN.com - Man killed when hair catches on roller coaster car - Aug. 17, 2003

] NEW YORK, Aug. 13 -- It was the summer of 1998. The bull
] market was kicking into full swing. Wall Street banks
] barely gave a second thought to hiring young whiz kids
] straight out of college.
]
] Historically staid brokerage giant Merrill Lynch & Co.
] sensed an opportunity to make big money in the new Wild
] West world of deregulated energy trading. But no one at
] the firm understood the market. So Merrill went out and
] hired people who said they did.
]
] Among the recruits was a 22-year-old wonder boy named
] Daniel L. Gordon. At an age when many students are just
] finishing college, Gordon already had a master's degree
] in international economics from Yale and had spent a year
] working at an energy-trading firm in Baltimore.
]
] Within two years of joining Merrill, prosecutors allege,
] Gordon would steal $43 million. If true, it would be one
] of the most audacious heists in Wall Street history.
] Gordon has not been charged with any wrongdoing. His
] attorney, Alan Levine, declined to comment on the
] allegations and said Gordon would be unavailable for
] comment. Merrill would not comment on either the
] allegations or Gordon's tenure with the firm.

Interesting read.

A Merrill Lynch Whiz Kid, and Then a Suspect (washingtonpost.com)