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The Importance of Real Friends
07 November 08 09:10 AM | scoutmom | 1 comment(s)
Make sure you have friends in all aspects of your life. Friends where you work, friends where you play, friends where you hang out. They are the most important thing in your life. You may not realize it right now, but down the road there will come a day when something truly great or truly awful happens in your life and you will need to pick up the phone and call a friend to be there with you right now. As you grow older, you will understand the importance of having someone you can call your friend not just an acquaintance or someone I know from wherever. A real, live person you can share with. Let’s just say I had a big dose of reality from someone yesterday and I wanted to share this with you. So, call up one of your friends and plan something for this weekend. Go do something! Have a great time. Enjoy your life with a friend.
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The World in Weird - Another Day, A Little Stranger
21 February 08 12:57 PM | scoutmom | 2 comment(s)
If it's strange, I'm gonna tell ya about it! From stupid criminals to "moose-icide"...
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Too Good Not To Share
16 January 08 04:19 PM | scoutmom | 5 comment(s)
You've seen the personalized M&Ms, right? No, well, trust me, they're out there. Now, there's something even better - personalized Dove chocolates! Your message printed right inside the wrapper. How can you go wrong, I mean, it's CHOCOLATE! http://www.mydovechocolate.com/home/index.asp
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The World in Weird
16 January 08 08:37 AM | scoutmom | 4 comment(s)
Well, not all weird. I did include some "stupid criminal" stories too. If you have any you've seen that you'd like featured, PM me the info and if possible, a link to the source. Romance Novelist Plagiarism Scandal Apparently, Cassie Edwards, who writes those trashy romance novels, didn't know you're supposed to give credit to someone when you cut and paste their information and put it in your book. Not only did she fail to give credit, the guy whose stuff she lifted is a nature writer for Newsweek, Paul Tolme. Yep, she copied his work about the black-footed ferrets word-for-word and plunked it right into the middle of one of her books. Duh!! Better Watch What and WHERE You Eat Take a truck full of fish processing waste with an open cover, temperatures in the teens and add fifty bald eagles and what do you get? Birdsicles! In Kodiak, Alaska, the eagles swarmed into the truck and began gorging themselves on the fish waste. Mmmmm, tasty! But they got so dirty, they...
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Figure Skating Champ "Bowman the Showman" Found Dead
11 January 08 11:42 AM | scoutmom | 1 comment(s)
Former US figure skating champion Christopher Bowman was found dead of a possible drug overdose at the age of 40. Bowman, whose nickname came about because of his flair and style on the ice, was pronounced dead at 12:06 PM Friday in a motel in the North Hills section of Los Angeles. An autopsy is planned for this weekend according to Coroner's Lt. Joe Bale, although additional details on the possible overdose were not available. "He just passed away in his sleep," Bowman's mother Joyce, told the Detroit Free Press. "His friend told me that he was fine. He just went to bed and didn't wake up." Bowman won the US men's figure skating titles in 1989 and 1992, and was runner-up in 1987 and 1991. Internationally, he won a silver medal at the 1989 world championships and a bronze in 1990. In the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics he was a member of the US team and finished seventh and fourth respectively. He was a former child actor ( Little House on the Prairie...
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What's Missing?
07 January 08 08:22 AM | scoutmom | 10 comment(s)
Hello? Anybody home? (scoutmom taps on the screen to get your attention). I have an important question for you.
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8th Circuit Court Ruling Permits Hateful Protests to Resume at Military Funerals
10 December 07 08:55 AM | scoutmom | 1 comment(s)
I am so outraged, I can't even begin to express myself clearly. After my opinions on this matter, I have included the press release from the Governor of Missouri - a strong advocate veterans and their families. A three-judge panel has decided that Westboro Baptist Church group who achieved infamy by staging hate-filled protests at the funerals of our Nation's fallen soldiers has the right to do so once again. The State of Missouri, to protect the grieving families from people spewing vitriolic idiocy, all while claiming First Amendment rights, passed a law that restricted protesters to no more than 300 feet from the grave. I find it difficult to conceive how any court could allow this to happen. Their protests have nothing to do with the individuals and for a court to say they cause no harm. Why are they protesting at the funerals? Because according to a spokesperson for the group "members of her church believe God is punishing America for what WBC considers the sin of homosexuality...
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25 Days of Savings from Good Housekeeping
21 November 07 01:15 PM | scoutmom | 2 comment(s)
Would you like to save on your holiday shopping????
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I OWE MY MOTHER!!
18 November 07 08:18 PM | scoutmom | 3 comment(s)
1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning." 2. My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet." 3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!" 4. My mother taught me LOGIC. " Because I said so, that's why." 5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me." 6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident." 7. My mother taught me IRONY. "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about." 8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. "Shut your mouth and eat your supper." 9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. " Will you look at that dirt...
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Veterans Affairs Bans Flag Folding Ceremony at Military Funerals
30 October 07 12:50 PM | scoutmom | 5 comment(s)
Somewhere along the lines, the Department of Veterans Affairs has forgotten that one of the Freedoms the veterans fought for was Freedom of Religion, not Freedom FROM Religion. Last month, the VA made a new policy to "streamline" burials at federal cemeteries by banning the flag-folding cemetery at military funerals. How outrageous is that!? They made that decision in September, after someone filed a complaint about a service at the Riverside National Cemetery. During the ceremony, the Memorial Honor Guard folds the flag for presentation to the family. It makes 13 folds to represent the 13 original colonies. While the folds are made, they recite what each of the folds represents. The complaint was about the 11 th fold and the accompanying recitation that describes it: "in the eyes of a Hebrew citizen, represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and King Solomon, and glorifies, in their eyes, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob". The 12th fold relates to...
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Gold Rush Needs Your Help!! - Vote for TV Guide Online Video Awards (And Maybe GR2)
17 October 07 07:24 AM | scoutmom | with no comments
Gold Rush has been nominated for the TV Guide Online Video awards. I need all you Gold Rushers out there to vote early and vote often. Yes, repeat voting is ENCOURAGED. In fact, after you vote, it gives you the option to "vote again". This is our chance to let them know how we feel, and maybe get the fire relit on Gold Rush 2. Here's a link - after you get to the page scroll through the bar at the top for "Original Reality Series) http://www.tvguide.com/Special/OnlineVideoAwards/videoplayer.aspx?maven_playerId=ovalargeplayer&maven_referralPlaylistId=06a95b847cc7966a68d38242286210cef6bb7403&maven_referralObject=fdc12155-6edd-47b3-a02a-a3cbce8f4d96 So get those voting fingers ready (hmmm, that doesn't sound right, does it? clicking fingers?) and let's show them how we feel. We've crashed the servers before, let's do it again, folks!!
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Help Search for Fossett from Your Computer
18 September 07 06:39 PM | scoutmom | with no comments
You can join the search for NESA President Steve Fossett by using your computer to study recent satellite images of the area where the adventurer disappeared September 3. To sign up to help, visit www.mturk.com and follow the instructions and text link near the top of the page. The site requests volunteers age 18 or older. After registering, the Web site will assign you an image of a 278 -foot- square section of the 6,000 square miles being searched in Nevada. After studying the image, you simply click “yes” or “no” as to whether there is any sign of Fossett’s airplane that might warrant further investigation in that section. Anything larger than two or three feet will appear in the image, and instructions and examples help you better determine what you are viewing. The flagged images are passed to the search team coordinating the flights over the area.
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Makes You Wonder...
06 September 07 03:42 PM | scoutmom | 4 comment(s)
- What is the speed of dark? - When you're sending someone Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? - Why are there Braille signs on drive-up ATM's? - If women wear a pair of pants, a pair of glasses, and a pair of earrings, why don't they wear a pair of bras? - How come you never hear about gruntled employees? - What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free? - After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour before getting out of the water? - If white wine goes with fish, do white grapes go with sushi? - What's another word for synonym? - If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? - When sign makers go on strike, what is written on their picket signs? - Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"? - Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? - Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor and planes don't have a row 13, but book publishers aren't afraid to have a Chapter 11...
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Official TLAPD Kick-Off
04 September 07 03:53 PM | scoutmom | 3 comment(s)
Avast!! I've heard from Ol' Chumbucket, and we arrrrrrrrrr to be included in the Talk Like a Pirate Day Calendarrrrrrr ! This be yer chance, mateys! Now is the time for all of ye to spout yer best pirate-speak! Show the world that the folks at Steeple Media be more than just a pack o' scurvy dogs! For those of you that be needin' some assistance in this matter, you can find a few terms to add into your conversations to make them sound a bit more piratical: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html Here be the address of the "pirate translator": http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html or here: http://www.syddware.com/cgi-bin/pirate.pl or even here: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translatorold.html No excuses, mind you. Speaking like a pirate is not an optional activity. We have only 15 days left before this international even arrives!!
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Arrr! Don't be Forgettin' That Sept. 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day!
31 August 07 01:52 PM | scoutmom | 4 comment(s)
That's right, mateys, just 19 more days till we be back to talkin' like the scallywags we are! (Remember, grammar need NOT be correct when you're pirate talking!) Now, before ye get started, here are the only three, true pirate jokes (these being pirate jokes, consider them rated PG - and I don't just be meaning pretty good!): Thar be only three pirate jokes in the world. The biggest one is the one that ends with someone usin' "Arrr" in the punchline. Oh, sure, thar be plenty o' these, but they're all the same damn joke. "What's the pirate movie rated? - Arrr!" "What kind o' socks does a pirate wear? - Arrrrgyle!" "What's the problem with the way a pirate speaks? - Arrrrticulation!" ...and so forth. The second joke is the one wear the pirate walks into the bar with a ships wheel attached to the front o' his trousers. The bartender asks, "What the hell is that ships wheel for?" The pirate says...
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