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*Hey Hay!*
 Hayley Call |
Read this when you should be workingMon, July 7, 2008 @ 1:49PM While you are chained to your desk at work, at least this blog should cheer you up.... or at least make you think. I got these fun facts from a website. The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal. There are 206 bones in the adult human body and 300 in children (as they grow some fuse together). The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year. Sound travels four times faster in water than in air. The only letter not appearing on the periodic table is "J". Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man. Starfish don't have brains. but they are still cute! The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes. |
Backfire
 Paul Giannamore |
Shake n Bake to herpesMon, July 7, 2008 @ 10:18AM Am I the only one who sees a sad commentary on the changes of society from the 1960s to now based solely on two TV commercials? 1960s: Little girl standing proudly next to her mom and a tray of fresh fried chicken. Mom says, "It's Shake n Bake." Little girl adds, "And I hept." (The little girl inevitably has a bad Southern accent in my memory. Sorry.) 2008: Handsome man with pretty girlfriend peeking up from above his right shoulder. Man says, "I have genital herpes." Pretty girl says, "And I still don't." Thankfully, it means he never "hept." |
Something for Nothing
 Jeremy Johns |
High School Pregnancy PactMon, July 7, 2008 @ 12:07PM If you haven't heard about the alleged "Pregnancy Pact" of 8 or more girls under the age of 16 at a Massachusetts high school then you have been sleeping under a rock. I will be kind and give you a quick background before I go on my rant. "As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies — more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October, after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, a
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Enjoying the Journey
 Janice Kiaski |
No clowning aroundFri, July 4, 2008 @ 10:43PM First let me say that I extend my condolences to the family of Larry Harmon, a Toledo, Ohio, native who was a longtime Bozo the Clown. He died Thursday at the age of 83 from congestive heart failure. Now let me note with a sense of longtime zero tolerance, clowns are not my friends. Never have been. I've never liked clowns -- not their red hair or red noses, not their striped outfits, not their weird face makeup. Nothing. Clowns are spooky, and I've never understood why they're supposed to make kids happy. I've seen kids cry when they see clowns, the same way they burst into tears when their parents take them to get their pictures taken with Santa Claus or a giant Easter Bunny for the first time. Instead, you're traumatized for life. Yikes! These are scary things in the eyes of little kids, don't you think? I never took my kids to the circus because as much as I wanted to see the cute little elephants and tigers, I worried that we'd be cornered by a clown. Help! No clowning aro
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Mark's Law
 Mark Law |
Buford Williams ... Walking tallWed, May 21, 2008 @ 9:28AM There's a new sheriff in town and his name is Bruce “Buford” Williams. Steubenville City Manager Bruce Williams was standing outside the city building with several department heads and Herald-Star reported Dave Gossett when a vehicle drove by with a trailer full of tires. Well, Buford has been trying to catch the perps responsible for dumping tires at the old salt pile on University Boulevard. Buford kept a close eye on the vehicle, while beating a hunk of some tree in the palm of his hand. He commented that he was going to follow the vehicle if it didn't turn onto the Market Street Bridge. It didn't and Buford jumped on his horse, aka his personal vehicle. With tires squealing, he began to tail the tire dumping perps. He followed them to the Convenient Food Mart parking lot on University Boulevard, where the tire rustlers pretended to be checking the ropes on the trailer. Williams returned back to the city building and sent Joe “Festus
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Preparing for rain
 Mike Mathison |
We are not outragedFri, July 4, 2008 @ 0:40AM You can call us a lot of things, but those of us who attend Colonial Baptist Church are not outraged about what happend to our building - regardless of what you may have heard. We are saddened by the fire. We feel like we have been collectively kicked in our guts, but we are not outraged. We are saddened because one or more set this fire on purpose. But, we are not outraged. We are looking forward to what God has planned for His church. We are looking forward to the big, beautiful unknown avenues we will travel in the months ahead. what is that to thee? follow thou me. We are not vengeful people. We are thankful people. The amount of love and 'what can we do for you' that has come from inside and outside this community has been beyond words. We appreciate all the well-wishers. We appreciate all the prayers. You know, folks, it's just a building. |
Country Girl
 Esther McCoy |
Going greenMon, June 2, 2008 @ 1:40PM I have been trying very hard to "go green" and save some of the earth's resources. With this in mind, I bought a green mesh-weave tote from Riesbecks that is supposed to be as close as my best friend when I go into any store. This is a very good thought but nine chances out of 10, I forget to take it with me. When checking out, it's not feasible for the clerk to hold up the line while I dash to the car for the bag that is supposed to alleviate the wanton waste of using up a tree or clogging trash piles with plastic bags. So, it is either carry out five or six items in my arms or tell them whether my desire is paper or plastic. We have now installed light bulbs that resemble a twisty ice cream cone in most of our light fixtures. I am noticing that a 100 watt energy-saving bulb is not as bright as a 100-watt light bulb though. I turn off lights as I leave the room, turn off tap water when brushing my teeth and make sure I have a full load for washing clothes. I'm trying very hard to
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RATED Rossi
 Gio Rossi |
Getting SmartTue, June 24, 2008 @ 10:11AM Whether you are a fan of the original series or not, Get Smart is a good choice for a weekend movie. As far as relaunching an old series into a new era, the movie took a very interesting approach. We are told that Control and Chaos have both disbanded; however, they remain as government secrets. There is a museum dedicated to "What is left of control" which shows us some of our favorite props from the televised series. (Just for reference, I only talk about the original series, not that rip off with Andy Dick.) While it is made out like the "Original Control" is a thing of the past, the characters we meet in the film are the originals, just with a few more liberties. The Con
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Some "What?!" Moments
 Julie Stenger-Ghrist |
Things I've learned...the hard wayMon, June 23, 2008 @ 12:02PM Once in a while you accidentally learn something. So I thought I would pass along a few words of wisdom that might be of assistance to you at some point in your life. In all reality though, you will never experience any of these things I mention because stuff like this usually just happens to me. Go me. I have learned that smoke alone doesn't just cause a smoke detector to go off. I know this because the other day my children squirted water on the ceiling, hitting the device - which then resulted in that irritating beeping that just won't quit. Now, you would think those things would know better. I was always led to believe that water is what puts out a fire. But apparently, it can also make you think that you started one. Whatever. I have learned that you have to look both ways on a one-way street. How do I know this? Because even though a car probably won't be coming from the opposite direction, chances are somebody in a
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Balancing Act
 Summer Wallace |
Fireworks and Flying HotdogsWed, June 25, 2008 @ 3:42PM So, now we've got a bunch of icons to do things to the text which I likely will never use. Cool. There's one that says "source," and I don't know what it does, but if I ever have to "source" something, I'll be able to do it. Now, if we could only get rid of the ugly, ugly ragged left on the cutlines. Anyway, this blog is about going to the ball park, so .... We went to the ball park. Not Consol Park, where we could have watched a winning team, but PNC Park to watch the Pirates. The last I heard (and between Lynnellen, Fred on The Copy Desk and my husband, how could I not?) they were under 500. Apparently this is bad. However, if they should ever start winning, the entire area would lose an easy, cheap source of humor, my husband's long wait and seething at "fair weather fans" would be vindicated and it would make it that much harder to aggravate Fred on The Copy Desk. So, I guess I don't mind if they continue t
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"Piraette"
 Lynnellen Winkler |
I'M BAAAAAK!Mon, June 30, 2008 @ 8:18AM I'M BACK AND HERE TO STAY! And I hope that the few fans that were reading my blog before my "break" will remain as faithful to me as I am to the Pittsburgh Pirates! I began my brief, silent protest from blogging after reading an "Inside the NL" brief from the sports pages of the Monday, June 9, 2008 issue of the USA Today newspaper released shortly after the MLB draft. According to the brief (Affirmation - I'm getting so much better at this!) titled 'Pirates' quandry,' "The Pittsburgh Pirates might wait until close to the Aug. 15 deadline for signing drafted players before deciding whether to sign and how much to offer injured second-round choice Tanner Scheppers." Both the FAN and the JOURNALIST in me immediately lock in on the word "INJURED." Scheppers, a ri
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