OK... This post has been rattling around in my head for a while and I "just can't take no more."
Where has all the bathroom etiquette gone??
The last few days here at the office, when I've gone into our floor's ladies room, EVERY TIME, I have walked into a stall that either has:
1) leftovers in the toilet--EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
2) residuals in the toilet -- almost as bad as item #1, or
3) a giant wad of toilet paper that didn't flush
Ladies... take a look behind you when you're done flushing. It won't take long -- give 'er a second courtesy flush, for all concerned, if you're in doubt that your "extras" willl go down the pipes. This includes you germaphobes who use the tissue-paper "seat covers." Like those keep you from "getting" anything.
On a related note, wipe off the seat if you leave anything there. You know who you are.
And how have these same people, who can't seem to get the concept of flushing what should not be left for others, need a SECOND garbage can in the vestibule between the bathroom entry doors for their "I don't want to touch the door handle" paper towels? Not only is this ridiculously wasteful - even if we do use 60% post-consumer content hand towels - you're still going to get the same damn germs from passing intercompany mail around, touching the copier buttons, the elevator buttons and all the OTHER door handles in the place. I'm all for washing your hands and that seems to be happening, but really.
As for discussions in the bathroom between stalls... keep it free of swears, evil gossip, details of your child's delivery/any one else's terrible birthing stories, gory descriptions of health issues you or others may be having, etc. We'd all prefer that you just didn't talk at all. Do your thing and get out. Neatly.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
(HUH!) Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit
By JUANITA COUSINS, Associated Press Writer Wed Aug 20, 1:22 AM ET
ATLANTA - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit.
Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.
The revelation comes just days after a much ballyhooed news conference was held in California to proclaim that the remains of the creature found in the North Georgia mountains was the legendary man-ape.
Steve Kulls, executive director of squatchdetective.com and host of Squatchdetective Radio, says in a posting on a Web site run by Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi that as the "evidence" was thawed, the claim began to unravel as a giant hoax.
First, the hair sample was burned and "melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair," Kulls said in the posting.
The thawing process was sped up and the exposed head was found to be "unusually hollow in one small section." An hour of thawing later and the feet were exposed — and they were found to be made of rubber.
ATLANTA - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit.
Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.
The revelation comes just days after a much ballyhooed news conference was held in California to proclaim that the remains of the creature found in the North Georgia mountains was the legendary man-ape.
Steve Kulls, executive director of squatchdetective.com and host of Squatchdetective Radio, says in a posting on a Web site run by Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi that as the "evidence" was thawed, the claim began to unravel as a giant hoax.
First, the hair sample was burned and "melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair," Kulls said in the posting.
The thawing process was sped up and the exposed head was found to be "unusually hollow in one small section." An hour of thawing later and the feet were exposed — and they were found to be made of rubber.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Uh-huh. "Bigfoot’s press conference reveals possum DNA"
By BOB KEEFE Cox News Service
Friday, August 15, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Bigfoot lived in North Georgia, and his cousins are still there. That’s what a pair of Clayton County outdoorsmen claim.
But if they have definitive evidence to prove it, it wasn’t presented at a press conference here Friday where they had said they would make believers out of everyone. Dozens of mostly skeptical reporters showed up, lured by a flurry of interest in the story since pictures of the supposed discovery hit the Internet late last month.
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer said a second round of DNA testing (on what they claim is a dead 7-foot bigfoot they say they stumbled upon while hiking in June in North Georgia) is still being completed.
Of three samples in a preliminary DNA test, one came back inconclusive, one contained traces of human DNA and one had traces of opossum DNA -- probably from something the creature ate, they said.
They didn’t produce a body -- that’s in a hidden location, they said, after being moved from a freezer that broke down a couple of times. They also wouldn’t say exactly where they found the creature, and where they claimed they saw a band of others watching them. And they won’t let anyone but their own hand-picked scientists examine the body.
Friday, August 15, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Bigfoot lived in North Georgia, and his cousins are still there. That’s what a pair of Clayton County outdoorsmen claim.
But if they have definitive evidence to prove it, it wasn’t presented at a press conference here Friday where they had said they would make believers out of everyone. Dozens of mostly skeptical reporters showed up, lured by a flurry of interest in the story since pictures of the supposed discovery hit the Internet late last month.
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer said a second round of DNA testing (on what they claim is a dead 7-foot bigfoot they say they stumbled upon while hiking in June in North Georgia) is still being completed.
Of three samples in a preliminary DNA test, one came back inconclusive, one contained traces of human DNA and one had traces of opossum DNA -- probably from something the creature ate, they said.
They didn’t produce a body -- that’s in a hidden location, they said, after being moved from a freezer that broke down a couple of times. They also wouldn’t say exactly where they found the creature, and where they claimed they saw a band of others watching them. And they won’t let anyone but their own hand-picked scientists examine the body.
Friday, August 15, 2008
And hell is freezing over tomorrow.
Two men in Georgia claim they've found Bigfoot, and are supposedly doing a news conference on it later today. Hey, it could be real. But I liked this article's sarcastic tone.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-15-bigfoot_N.htm?csp=34
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-08-15-bigfoot_N.htm?csp=34
Monday, August 11, 2008
Another golf post...can you tell I'm going through withdrawal?
This is pretty cool!
GAYLORD, Mich.
For somebody who'd been playing golf 50 years and never had a hole-in-one, Bob Hickey got the hang of it quickly. The 66-year-old Grayling man used a 7-iron to card his first-ever ace Thursday on the 167-yard 10th hole at Marsh Ridge in Gaylord. Then Hickey used an 8-iron to ace the 147-yard 17th hole.
According to a 2000 Golf Digest article cited by the Traverse City Record-Eagle, the odds of one player making two holes-in-one during the same round are 67 million to 1. Hickey, who finished at 2-over-par 74, says he'd made two eagles but never came close to a hole-in-one before Thursday. The long-haul trucker says he thinks he benefited from "just pure luck."
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Information from: Traverse City Record-Eagle, http://www.record-eagle.com
GAYLORD, Mich.
For somebody who'd been playing golf 50 years and never had a hole-in-one, Bob Hickey got the hang of it quickly. The 66-year-old Grayling man used a 7-iron to card his first-ever ace Thursday on the 167-yard 10th hole at Marsh Ridge in Gaylord. Then Hickey used an 8-iron to ace the 147-yard 17th hole.
According to a 2000 Golf Digest article cited by the Traverse City Record-Eagle, the odds of one player making two holes-in-one during the same round are 67 million to 1. Hickey, who finished at 2-over-par 74, says he'd made two eagles but never came close to a hole-in-one before Thursday. The long-haul trucker says he thinks he benefited from "just pure luck."
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Information from: Traverse City Record-Eagle, http://www.record-eagle.com
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