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[Moddex]

Man, that's gotta give reason to retaliate. Like blowing an airhorn at her when she's asleep. That's what me, maybe Millie, would do.

[Richard K Niner]

Eh, I'd go with the routine from Back to the Future.

[Niko123000]

Man, that's gotta give reason to retaliate. Like blowing an airhorn at her when she's asleep. That's what me, maybe Millie, would do.

thats what i think anyone would do.

never saw Back to the Future... i only have this as something related

[Richard K Niner]

never saw Back to the Future... i only have this as something related

Watch it. *suddenly has the urge to watch the trilogy again*

[Niko123000]

beleive me ive seen so many satires and alterations (back to ALVIN's future from Alvin and the chipmunks) i want to see it, but my mom can't find her tapes of it anywhere

plus DeLorians are cool cars!

[Tom Flapwell]

You know, in an anthro version of BttF, Marty should be at least half fly.

[Niko123000]

this aint my work, you want to tell that to the artist heres her website:
http://whitewolf.denofwolves.com/index.html

shes a pretty good artist (a little obssed with scar from lion king and steele from balto

[Zaaphod]

Money literally going down the drain...

Retiree flushes fortune down the toilet

Thu Apr 20, 9:20 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German pensioner flushed bundles of old banknotes worth a small fortune down the toilet because he thought they were now worthless, police in the northern city of Kiel said Thursday.

"He flushed the cash down the loo because he didn't think it was worth anything," said police spokesman Uwe Voigt.

Police said he dumped some 60,000 deutschemarks -- which the euro replaced in 2002 -- into the bowl, unaware they could still be exchanged for about 30,000 euros ($37,000).

Sewage workers recovered about half the sodden currency from the 64-year-old's plumbing. The remaining notes created a bottleneck in local sewers, where most were fished out.

"There may have been more cash that got away," said Voigt.

Police said the man lived in "spartan" circumstances and had dried out the notes and taken them to a bank. It was unclear if he had laundered the money first.

[Niko123000]

i would hate to be the banker who handled those banknotes

[VisibilityMissing]

Ghosts on an old whaling ship? What are the odds?

Researchers Probe Ghost Sightings on Ship


MYSTIC, Conn. (AP) -- Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer.

A five-member team from the Rhode Island Paranormal Research group visited Mystic Seaport on Friday night to spend time on the Charles W. Morgan, a wooden whaling ship where several visitors have reported seeing the apparition.

The 165-year-old craft made 37 ocean voyages in search of whales during the 60 years it was in use. About 1,000 men worked on the Morgan over those decades.

The ship, due for a $3.5 million restoration next year, one of the main attractions at the Mystic Seaport maritime museum.



The Rhode Island Paranormal Research Group became interested in the Morgan after receiving reports from three different groups of people about the apparition.

The visitors said that while touring the ship last summer, they saw a man in what appeared to be 19th-century clothing working below deck. They said the man, who had a pipe in his mouth, nodded at them but did not speak.

When they went returned to the main deck and asked a museum interpreter what the man was doing, they were told that no one was down below and that no one was assigned to be on the boat that day.

"I automatically questioned it, but they insisted they saw something down there," Andrew Laird, founder of the paranormal research group, told The Day of New London.


He said that when he asked the three groups for more details, they responded with the same accounts. The three groups were from Massachusetts, Arizona and New York and did not know each other.

They visited within a week's time of each other.

"The fact that we had three reports that were the same made everyone's eyebrows go up," Laird said.

He said that he also received about 40 other reports of possible paranormal activity before those groups related their experiences.

Museum officials gave the group permission to conduct the investigation.

"We're interested in what they find out," said museum publicist Mike O'Farrell, who attended Friday night's investigation. "It's not so much we believe in ghosts and spirits, but it's a chance to do something fun."

Laird and the other investigators said their few hours on the ship convinced them that there was enough evidence of paranormal activity in certain areas to warrant a return visit with more sophisticated equipment.

Renee Blais, who described herself as a "sensitive" who uses touch and smell to connect with a place's energy, said she felt the presence of a seaman named Gerald.

She also described a sense of "sickness, death and despair" among about 15 men as they rode out a large storm in their cramped sleeping quarters.

Some museum employees might not be surprised by the speculation that the whaling ship is haunted. Dawn Johnson, a longtime museum interpreter who used to be assigned to the Morgan, said she used to hate to go down below and close up for the night.

"It was creepy down there at night," she said. "It's cold and clammy. You hear moans and creaking, and you wonder what it is."

Laird said that 90 percent of the time, his group finds a natural explanation for what people are experiencing, whether it's an animal making noise, something structural in the house or a hoax.

"We mainly go in to investigate. We're not saying a place is haunted. We go in with an open mind," he said.

The group also recently investigated reports at Ledge Light in New London Harbor, and believes the brick lighthouse is haunted by a woman and group of children. They plan to return there on June 3.

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Information from: The Day, http://www.theday.com

[Niko123000]

i love a goood ghost story by a camp fire

[Tom Flapwell]

Revenge Only a Rich Person Can Have
A Saxilby, England, businessman who was sued by an employee for unfair dismissal has gotten some degree of revenge, at least on the horseracing circuit. Nigel Gravett was successfully sued by ex-worker Emma Nicholson, after she said she was fired for becoming pregnant. Now Gravett has registered his newest racehorse, a 2-year-old filly, with the name "Emma Told Lies," the Lincolnshire Echo reported. "There is no law about what you can or can't call a racehorse," Gravett said.

Let's assume for the moment that she did lie and shouldn't have won the suit. It's still a bad idea. Now every time he refers to his horse, he'll be reminded of the money he hated having to pay to his opponent. What a bitter, bitter man.

[Muninn]

And I say it's a more creative form of revenge.

[Zaaphod]

Be careful when using cyanide in an act of robbery...

Thieves gas themselves in cyanide heist blunder

Mon May 1, 9:54 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - Two hapless Chinese thieves gassed themselves to death with cyanide along with five intended victims while trying to rob a gambling den in the city of Ruichang, the Xinhua news agency reported Saturday.

A court in nearby Jiujiang Thursday sentenced their three surviving accomplices to death for the robbery, carried out last June.

One of the three passed out for several hours from the effects of the gas -- but still remembered to rob the dead of 15,950 yuan ($1,990), five mobile phones and a gold necklace when he came around, Xinhua said.

[Bringerofpie]

At least they had their priorities strate.