The inventor of a guy's most cherished object died this past week. Also, talking urinals and Eminem's not so good in the sack so we hear.
Scott Baio of Joanie and Chachi tells us about his love life, aren't you beyond excited?
Finally, Media Nuggets and Snopes defuses that wildly popular Internet myth about Reverse PIN numbers and ATM's.
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Eminem's Ex-Wife Reveals Eminem's Bedroom Problems
Snort.
Of course one has to take recent ex-spouses with a grain or two of salt. Still, I don't especially like Eminem and goodness, the fellow's not only NOT well-endowed, but as young as he is he needs a pill to keep things moving along?
From DETNEWS.com:
In an explosive interview with WKQI-FM's (95.5) "Mojo in the Morning" show today, Eminem's ex-wife Kim Mathers flipped the tables on Em and cleaned out her closet live on the air for all to hear.
"I can't stand him. He's an absolutely horrible person, and he gets worse every day," Mathers said. "I vomit in my mouth whenever I'm around him or I hear his name. There's nothing left in me for him. Nothing at all."
She categorized sex with her twice ex-husband as "bad," and said "he's not very well endowed." She added, "If you're going to have sex with Marshall, make sure you have a little blue pill, because otherwise it does not work."
Grammys "Make Nice" With Dixie Chicks
It IS possible, of course, for the Dixie Chicks to make a startling comeback. But NOT, I argue, in the country music genre.
See, the Dixie Chicks did the stupid when one of their members, married to a Muslim Palestinian by the way she is, went overseas and condemned our President in front of a foreign audience. Couple of things here....it's okay that they don't like Bush, damn lots of people don't. It's okay that they disagree with his policies as well. But let us not forget that this group made its fortune off of the AMERICAN people. That frenchie audience didn't make the Dixie Chicks so popular.
Country music folks are notoriously patriotic and tend to look down on artists, or anyone for that manner, who talk bad about our country overseas. Call them stupid dumpkins if you want, it's their nature and they are the ones buying the records.
So the Dixie Chicks kept trying to come back, they scheduled concerts, they bribed (via Arab oil money I am totally convinced but cannot prove) but the Dixie Chicks were avoided totally by country music fans across the fruited plains. Sure the elite pundits lambasted the stupid American public but like the saying says...you can lead these horses to water but damn you can't make them drink.
So now the Palestinian has evidently laid out some bucks to the Grammy award committee, whoever and wherever they are because the Dixie Chicks went home with FIVE awards at the 2007 Grammy awards when this group sold the fewest country records on the planet.
From Yahoo.com:
Winners at Sunday's 49th Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in
Los Angeles:
Album of the Year: "Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks.
Record of the Year: "Not Ready to Make Nice," Dixie Chicks.
Song of the Year: "Not Ready to Make Nice," Martie Maguire,
Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks).
New Artist: Carrie Underwood.
Female R&B Vocal Performance: "Be Without You," Mary J. Blige.
Pop Vocal Album: "Continuum," John Mayer.
Pop Collaboration With Vocals: "For Once in My Life," Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder.
Country Album: "Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks.
Rap Album: "Release Therapy," Ludacris.
Rock Album: "Stadium Arcadium," Red Hot Chili Peppers.
R&B Album: "The Breakthrough," Mary J. Blige.
Hey, we've got American Idol and we can elect our country music stars. We've got Carrie Underwood so who the goddamn hell needs this trio of idiots and their Islamofacist spouse?
These Grammy awards will get the Dixie Chicks invites to swanky parties, perhaps a performance with Britney Spears.
They won't make the American public buy their records but hey, let them keep trying and bribing. Natalie's Arab husband is going to have to bribe everyone in America.
Some quotes about entertainers who would try to educate us politically....:
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
Robert A. Heinlein
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If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." - Alice Cooper
Reverse PIN Will NOT Summon Police
Just as soon as an email containing approximately the following wordage passed through my ebox I knew it was not true.
I just found out that should you ever be forced to withdraw monies from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse. The machine will still give you the monies you requested, but unkown to the robber, etc, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.
The broadcast stated that this method of calling the police is very seldom used because people don't know it exist, and it might mean the difference between life and death. Hopefully, none of you will have to use this, but I wanted to pass it along just in case you hadn't heard of it. Please pass it along to everyone
Not that I had any inside knowledge or anything about PINs but if such a system were in place a)surely criminals would know about it too and be on the lookout for such shenanigans as they held a gun to your head and waited for your money to come out of the machine and b)more people would know about this system as I've read plenty of stories of people abducted, taken to their bank to withdraw money at force, then killed or hurt once the perp gets what he wants. Surely SOMEONE of these victims would have known about this reverse PIN thing.
Sure enough, from Snopes.com, we find out that in fact, entering a reverse PIN number when under stress or forced by a threatening gun, will NOT summon police and might likely make the perp with the itchy finger nervous and fearful you are trying to pull something over on him/her.
According to the Snopes post linked above, such a system HAS been considered by various state legislations but was dismissed based on, well pretty much the reasons stated above. For if the VICTIM knows about it, trust that the CRIMINAL probably does too. As soon as such a thing becomes common knowledge its usefulness is pretty much kaput.
She'll Dance With Only One Leg
Not that it isn't just great that Paul McCartney's estranged wife, Heather Mills, has a job what with divorcing this wealthy man and only having one leg. But doesn't this scenario just lend itself to mockery? I mean a one-legged dancer?
From the Indy Channel.com:
The estranged wife of Paul McCartney will be "Dancing with the Stars" when the ABC competition returns next month.
This year's season of "Dancing With the Stars" premieres on 3/19/07 and along with Mills, Billy Ray Cyrus and boxer Laila Ali will dance.
Fox's New Satire Show Funniest Thing This Year
It premiered on Sunday 18, 2007 but I was laughing at this series fully a week before anyone ever heard of it.
From ABCLOCAL.com:
It's the opening skit in the series premiere of "The Half-Hour News Hour," the conservative version of Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." The show is set to debut on Fox News this Sunday at 10 p.m.
I was watching Hannity and Colmes when nature called. Upon return there was some sort of comedy clip being aired on H&C and I scratched my head.Lord but it was funny. It featured a new magazine called "BO" and was billed as the definitive magazine on all thing "Barack Obama". The magazine featured Barack's favorite recipes, Barack in bathing suits, Barack every day and every way. I had no idea what I was watching and wondered if someone had flipped my channel from Hannity and Colmes and why would anyone sneak into my house and change my channel. In due course I learned that Hannity was showing a clip from the new Fox satire "The Half-Hour News Hour" and all I could think of, it's about damn time.
I've never watched "The Daily Show" but as I understand Stewart's show pokes fun at politics and has a generally liberal bent. Which is fine as it's a free country and everything. But a satire with a conservative bent?
Who knew conservatives had such well-honed senses of humor?
Co-Inventor of TV Remote Dies
He lived a long life of 93 years until his heart finally gave in. At that age, we must doubt that Mr. Adler, famed for co-inventing the TV remote, spent all his hours as a couch potato and slave to his own invention.
From Townhall.com:
Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died. Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.
Men of the planet, take a moment of silence in homage to an inventor who contributed so much to the happiness of males everywhere.
Talking Toilets Join in Fight Against Drunk Drivers
What's more intriguing about this article is the fact that New Mexico has the highest rate of DUI accidents of the 50 states. Which makes me wonder why this is so. Then again, I must suppose that SOME state has to have the highest rate. It's not at all clear what the "average" amount of DUI accidents are for a U.S. state but we must, as always, hope that it's not high and keeps going down.
From TheStar.com:
RIO RANCHO, N.M.–New Mexico is hoping to keep drunks off the road by lecturing them at the last place they usually stop before getting behind the wheel: the urinal.
The state recently paid $21 (U.S.) each for about 500 talking urinal-deodorizer cakes and has put them in men's rooms at bars and restaurants.
Ah. So a talking toilet is going to coerce drunks from getting behind the wheel in an impaired state? I'm not convinced.
Winnie the Pooh Licensee Unchanged
As near as I can figure out, sometime in 1983, Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard, licensed out the right to their joint creation to someone named Stephen Slesinger. Evidently Slesinger got licensing rights to Winnie forever and ever, amen.
From Reuters.com:
LOS ANGELES, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Los Angeles has rejected a Walt Disney Co.-backed attempt to strip rights to the "Winnie the Pooh" character from the estate of long-time Pooh licensee Stephen Slesinger, according to court documents made public on Friday.
The most intriguing thing about this case is Disney's interest in the lawsuit. In the above-referenced lawsuit, Disney was not a party in the lawsuit but, "the company paid legal expenses for both women". We can thus assume that Disney wants this Slesinger character stripped of his licensing rights to the Winnie character.
It's not at all clear just why the author and illustrator licensed the rights to Winnie the Pooh, although I read that as far back as 1930 Slesinger had the rights to Winnie the Pooh, and it's equally not clear on what grounds the estates of the Winnie author and illustrator see as grounds to strip Slesinger's estate of the licensing rights. I suspect, and this is just a guess, that back in 1983 the two creators of Winnie the Pooh signed over licensing rights to Slesinger in an attempt to recoup SOME money from their creation. Slesinger likely agreed to market Winnie and handle other matters if the creators would just agree to give him complete licensing rights. Which means the royalties would go to Slesinger, NOT the Winnie creators.
Thus far, the Supreme Court has bailed out on the case, implicitly agreeing that the original 1983 agreement is correct and legal as written.
Finally, Disney is not paying royalties to Slesinger's estate even with the 1983 agreement in effect. I must suppose that Disney is letting this legal case play out in the court system because surely Disney must pay royalties to SOMEONE. Disney will string you up in a public square should anyone try to use their characters illegally. I suspect that the estates of the original Winnie creators will take a lower percent royalty than the licensee Slesinger's estate. But it's just a guess.
Who knew a cartoon character would cause so much letal intrigue?
"Happy Days" Scott Baio Writes Book...Describes Sex With Joanie
Well we must suppose that Scott Baio hasn't much left to raise some attention so he pens a book titled "How I Dated and Loved Hollywood's Most Beautiful Women and Ended Up Alone." Damn, the title alone will raise a few eyebrows. Why is it that Chachi doesn't strike me as a great lover along the lines of Omar Sharif?
From Radaronline.com
The book, which Radar obtained the first 60 pages of, is effectively a compendium of love advice Baio gleaned from flings with everyone from Pam Anderson to Heather "The One That Got Away" Locklear to, um, Liza Minnelli
One of the better stories, and probably the only true one, is his tryst with Joanie of "Happy Days". Seems Scott, deep in the midst of passion, somehow inserted his "love machine" in the wrong place and ended up making love to the couch pillows rather than Joanie.
Heh.
From: Janet Charlton
ASKED
This high powered music mogul is fabulously successful and lives in a grand manner. He has one of the most famous names in the business. Everyone wants to work with him because it's a ticket to success. He's always showing up at events with beautiful women on his arm and they're thrilled to be in his presence. No one seems to think about his sexuality. But in reality the love of his live is a cute young GUY who is not in the industry. Their relationship remains a secret because our mogul is still deep in the closet - for some reason he can't bear to reveal his real self.
GUESSED
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What's With the Gay Hatred?
Goodness, what's with Tim Hardaway and his unabashed gay hatred? It's not like he stated he's uncomfortable around gays, or feels like he doesn't fit in or something else stupid but remotely understandable. The man stated he HATES gay people! Why?
From WZZM13.com:
Undated - Former NBA All Star Tim Hardaway is apologizing for comments he made recently on a radio program in Miami.
Hardaway said quote, "I hate gay people. Let it be known, I don't like gay people."
The NBA has banned Hardaway from this weekend's All-Star game festivities in Las Vegas.
NBA commissioner, David Stern, explained why, "We acted immediately, we told him he couldn't do anymore work for us because his views don't represent our views."
Of course carte blanche hatred of any individual or group is a bad thing but I can, on some level, understand a distrust, yes even hatred, of Muslims, for instance. No, it's not fair but a person of limited IQ could conceivably blame all Muslims for the terror so many of them enact.
But what on earth did gay people ever do to anybody?
This sort of hatred flies way over my head. Perhaps it's a hetero-guy thing, perhaps there really IS such a thing as homophobia, perhaps Hardaway is scared senseless that HE might be gay.
For his unreasonable hatred, much less his totally unnecessary public pronouncement of same, makes no sense at all. Perhaps Hardaway needs to go into anti-gay-hatred rehab.
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