I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember?

Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

Newsreels before the movie

P.F. Fliers

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4601), and Party lines


Peashooters

Howdy Dowdy

Hi-Fi's
45 RPM records

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps


Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Mimeograph paper

Beanie and Cecil

Roller-skate keys

Cork pop guns

Drive ins

Studebakers


Washtub wringers

The Fuller Brush Man

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

Tinkertoys

Erector Sets

The Fort Apache Play Set
Lincoln Logs

15 cent McDonald hamburgers

5 cent packs of baseball cards - with that awful pink slab of bubble gum

Penny candy

25 cent a gallon gasoline

Jiffy Pop popcorn


Do you remember a time when...

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe"?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do Over!"?

"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest?


Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?


It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "cooties"?

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?

"Oly! -oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

Born Losers - Matthew Good

HIT PLAY ON THE PLAYER TO THE RIGHT.


Well there ain't nothin' to this but your daughter
And the life you would not give her Break your plans
Traipsed across the continent, a squatter
For your lies at night to sleep between my hands

When the lights come on this whole place gets ugly
But when they're out, strangers fall in love
She could never say that flat out she don't want me
'Cause I could never say that halfway ain't enough

New Order's on the turntable, we're dancing
'Cause what else do you do when you don't talk
Crucified then crawled into your mansion
Yeah, that's why I learned to crawl before I walk

We're back where we belong
Straight back where we belong
No days for nights [??]
No cocaine calls
Just back where we belong

Take me out back to your promise
And beat me until I can't even stand Your whole life, a plane without no landing gear
So if this is it, then come on let me land
That trailer trash pedigree is callin'
It rides you out when you're down on all fours
Me I like to cast my death on yesterday
'Cause what doesn't kill us now Just makes us better whores

We're back where we belong
Straight back where we belong
No days for nights [??]
No cocaine calls
Just back where we belong

Go put it in the ground
Go bury it somewhere it can't be found
Go put it in the ground

Well there ain't nothin' to this but your daughter
And the life you would not give her, break your plans
Traipsed across the continent, a squatter
For your lies at night to sleep between my hands

Bono, the lead singer of the band, U2, is famous throughout the
entertainment industry for trying to help poor people in the world.

At a recent U2 concert in , he asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in
the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds.

Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, 'Every
time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.'

A voice with a broad Scottish accent from the front of the crowd pierced
the quiet....

'Well, foockin stop doin it then, ya evil basturd!'

WTF?

"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife
Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:53am EDT



CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.
Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.

Woman hopes China trip can make her well

By Ramón Rentería / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 08/29/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

Diana Morales uses her CB radio to advertise her homemade burritos and tamales to truckers in the area while parked in an empty lot next to the Flying J Truck Stop in Anthony. Morales is trying to raise about $25,000 to travel to China for an experimental stem-cell transplant.
(Mark Lambie / El Paso Times)

Diana Morales has found a possible "repair kit" for her damaged body.
Morales, 35, is trying to raise $25,000 so that she can travel to China for an experimental transplant of umbilical-cord-blood stem cells.
She is optimistic the surgical procedure, available in the United States only in clinical research, will regenerate nerves in her spinal cord and help her regain feeling and movement in her paralyzed legs.
Morales is hopeful, too, that stem-cell treatments may someday help restore the ability to walk that she lost six years ago when a drunken driver pinned her against her lunch wagon near an Anthony, Texas, truck stop.
"I have faith something positive is going to come out of this," Morales said. "If God wants me to be in a wheelchair the rest of my life, ni modo. I have to accept whatever comes."
Some scientists and doctors consider stem cells one of the world's hottest research areas.
Stem-cell research is also very controversial because of its ethical implications. President Bush in 2006 vetoed a Senate bill that would have permitted federal dollars to be spent on embryonic stem-cell research using embryos left over from in vitro fertilization procedures.
Morales does not expect a miracle, but she has read the encouraging testimonials of others who have found relief in stem-cell therapies. She chose to pursue umbilical-cord-blood stem-cell treatments because of her Christian beliefs. One of her doctors suggested stem cells might be an option worth exploring.
Doctors have discovered in recent years that umbilical cord blood, usually discarded at birth, is rich in stem cells -- the body's building blocks -- that can be used to treat a variety of diseases.
The accident put Morales in a coma for two weeks and in the hospital for six months, paralyzed from the waist down.
Truck drivers along Interstate 10 truck call her the burrito lady and seek out her homemade burritos and tamales as an alternative to routine truck-stop chow.
Dave Hill, a Missouri truck driver, has known about Morales since she was selling burritos out of her car years ago. "The guys on the road talk about her all the time," Hill said. "She's an inspiration. I've got kids that won't even get out of bed. This woman told me one time that she's out here because it's better than being on welfare."
The Anthony, N.M., mother of three has been selling flautas, sponsoring dances and asking merchants for donations to cover the trip, the procedure and a monthlong rehabilitation. So far, she has raised $15,000.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, no type of stem-cell treatment is licensed in the United States.
Stem cells can be found throughout the body in tissues and organs and in umbilical-cord blood. The National Institutes of Health maintains updated information about federally and privately supported clinical stem-cell research in human volunteers.
The China trip represents another challenge in a string of struggles for Morales, who had just graduated from New Mexico State University with a degree in government and was looking forward to entering the job market when the accident changed everything.
Even her marriage ended after the accident, but Morales eventually regained custody of her children: Delilah, 13, Louie, 11, and Sabrina, 9.
Morales still has trouble adjusting to offensive stares. Every time she applies for a job, she says, prospective employers never call back once they find out she is disabled.
Friends and relatives describe Morales as a high-spirited wo man, always laughing and telling jokes and always looking after her children and a set of aging parents. She most misses dancing cumbias and corridos.
Brenda Velazquez, 24, a cousin, says Morales has remained very independent.
"She's never given up," Velazquez said. "She's a great role model."
Morales still parks her lunch wagon on an empty lot not far from the accident site and solicits truckers' business on a CB radio.
Rita Valenzuela, 44, works for Morales in the mobile kitchen.
"I admire the strength she has to try to get ahead," Valenzuela said. "Sometimes she is out here until midnight."
The burrito lady keeps on being optimistic, keeps praying that she'll collect enough money for a journey offering hope halfway around the world.
"I've gone through the worst already," Morales said. "What else can I lose?"

Ramón Rentería may be reached at rrenteria@elpasotimes.com; 546-6146.

To help
Diana Morales plans a fundraising flauta plate sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 7-8 at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, 224 Lincoln, in Anthony, N.M. $5 a plate.
Donations also may be made to: Diana Morales, P.O. Box 726, Anthony, NM 88021.
Information: 875-6066.

Michael Vick's Jury

And I thought my name was bad!

just a tad bit confusing

Pussy of Death!

Oscar the Cat Predicts Patients' Deaths
PROVIDENCE, R.I. July 26, 2007, 10:23 a.m. ET · Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.
"He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," said Dr. David Dosa in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"Many family members take some solace from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one," said Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.
The 2-year-old feline was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The facility treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses.
After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He'd sniff and observe patients, then sit beside people who would wind up dying in a few hours.
Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously and is generally aloof. "This is not a cat that's friendly to people," he said.
Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work there, said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University, who treats patients at the nursing home and is an expert on care for the terminally ill
She was convinced of Oscar's talent when he made his 13th correct call. While observing one patient, Teno said she noticed the woman wasn't eating, was breathing with difficulty and that her legs had a bluish tinge, signs that often mean death is near.
Oscar wouldn't stay inside the room though, so Teno thought his streak was broken. Instead, it turned out the doctor's prediction was roughly 10 hours too early. Sure enough, during the patient's final two hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside.
Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white cat are so ill they probably don't know he's there, so patients aren't aware he's a harbinger of death. Most families are grateful for the advanced warning, although one wanted Oscar out of the room while a family member died. When Oscar is put outside, he paces and meows his displeasure.
No one's certain if Oscar's behavior is scientifically significant or points to a cause. Teno wonders if the cat notices telltale scents or reads something into the behavior of the nurses who raised him.
Nicholas Dodman, who directs an animal behavioral clinic at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and has read Dosa's article, said the only way to know is to carefully document how Oscar divides his time between the living and dying.
If Oscar really is a furry grim reaper, it's also possible his behavior could be driven by self-centered pleasures like a heated blanket placed on a dying person, Dodman said.
Nursing home staffers aren't concerned with explaining Oscar, so long as he gives families a better chance at saying goodbye to the dying.
Oscar recently received a wall plaque publicly commending his "compassionate hospice care."

Things that make you go HMMM.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)


If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced
to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)


The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
(Don't try this at home,maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?!)


The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the
length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)


Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)


The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.(Hmmmmmm......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)


A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)


An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)


Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)


Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread these crazy
facts and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to, maybe even a
chuckle.

In other words, send it to everyone!
(And God love that pig!)

UMMM Tasty

BERLIN (Reuters) - A mayor in eastern Germany has filed charges against workers at his local zoo for shooting animals and selling them as meat.
A spokeswoman for the mayor's office said deer were among the animals killed and sold by workers at Erfurt Zoo without permission over a number of years.
"The case is now with the state prosecutors," said the spokeswoman, declining to give further details.
The German Animal Protection League demanded a review of controls at the zoo and at all other institutions with animals in the state of Thuringia.
"We are worried this is only the tip of the iceberg," said Wolfgang Apel, president of the League, who also said the case raised serious questions about the zoo's management.
Die Zeit newspaper quoted an anonymous zoo employee as saying the number of animals had been declining and: "It is high time something is done about it."
Erfurt Zoo, home to lions, elephants and giraffes as well as horses, donkeys, sheep and goats, declined to comment.
Animal rights campaigners and federal authorities have previously complained about the zoo's imports of wild elephants from South Africa.

Sleepy Sailor

By the time the sailor pulled into a little town every hotel room was
taken. "You've got to have a room somewhere," he pleaded. "Or just a
bed, I don't care where."

"Well, I do have a double room with one occupant -- an Air Force guy,"
admitted the manager, "and he might be glad to split the cost. But to
tell you the truth, he snores so loudly that people in adjoining rooms
have complained in the past. I'm not sure it'd be worth it to you."

"No problem," the tired Navy man assured him. "I'll take it."

The next morning, the sailor came down to breakfast bright-eyed and
bushy tailed. "How'd you sleep?" asked the manager. "Never better."

The manager was impressed. "No problem with the other guy snoring?"

"Nope. I shut him up in no time," said the Navy guy.

"How'd you manage that?" asked the manager.

"He was already in bed, snoring away, when I came in the room," the
sailor explained. "I went over, gave him a kiss on the
cheek, and said, 'Goodnight beautiful,'...And he sat up all night
watching me."

The forecast for the 4th of July......Bitches

Now c'mon you know you have to smoke one!

This brand is for the ladies!

All I can say is....

Well I feel a bit saucey. A bit how shall we say.....


BORED OUTTA MY SKULL!!!

Seriously!

Ok anybody here have any medical problems? Huh? Seems like I have them all this year and it's REALLY pissing me off! Crap now I know why my parents used to say "Wait till you get older!"

Damn it!

I felt better when I drank and smoked!!

UH Hello

Test 123.

Uh right about now I am feeling very nostalgic.

So we will ROCK with ZZ TOP!