Hey y’all, well, I'm loving that this hurricane season has been pretty quite so far and the weather has been nice lately! Haven't seen a hurricane season like this since maybe 10 years ago?? When I first moved here I really didn't pay attention to hurricane season coming from, as the locals would say - "off". I was mostly deployed during the season and so what. Then Hugo came and it opened my eyes to being prepared. Well, luckily we were, and shared what we had with folks, a cup of coffee or something to eat. We made a lot of friends during that time. Let's hope it stays like this until Dec. 1?! I've been binging on a few programs and Dexter Resurrection was one of them and Penny Dreadful was another. We went to Charlie Stonecypher's birthday party last Sunday. Whether you know him or not, check it out next time, great music w/cupcakes too, it was a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious time! I almost forgot the BIG news! No, not the Epstein files birthday card, we'll be playing for DJ's Campaign Kick-off event Sunday @ Follywood, Piano Dave and Bobbi Storm also to be on hand, sounds like a good time. Folly's museum opened up, we'll be checking it out, in the meantime, here's the link https://follybeachhistory.org/ The Mermaids and Matey's festival is right around the corner, get your tix b4 they sell out, here's a link to help y'all plan https://visitfolly.com/festival/mermaids-mateys-event/ have a great time if you go. Also, Porch Fest is next up, here's a link on that https://www.facebook.com/follybeachporchfest/ I know it's a few months away but December will be here before you know it, we'll be back at the Crab Shack for their after Xmas Parade party, just sayin'. Ok everyone see you soon, thanks so much for supporting us, love y'all and go outside, ciao'!
Huh! To Build a New Runway, [Raleigh-Durham International Airport] must First Make a Long, Flat Surface - Raleigh [N.C.] News & Observer headline
No Hurry: A janitor at a middle and high school in the Guro District of Seoul, South Korea, looked inside a sack at the school’s recycling station. Inside: two old-looking hand grenades, as well as other military paraphernalia from the 1950s. He reported his find to the school’s administration office — but no one notified the police, and the bag sat there for a month. During that time, someone stuck the bag in a broken rice cooker, and a security guard wondered if the cooker might be serviceable, looked inside, found the grenades, and notified the police. The school was evacuated. “Staff assumed they were teaching equipment or replicas,” a school spokesman said, “so they did not take immediate action” when they were first found. The military bomb squad said the grenades are real, and are “conducting further analysis to determine whether the grenades still pose a risk of detonation.” (Korea Times) ...That’s easy enough: pull the pins and wait a few seconds.
AD ANGUISH: A court in India ruled in favor of a moviegoer who sued a theater saying it played too many ads before the film, which delayed the movie start time and messed up his whole day. The theater was ordered to pay the plaintiff $320 in damages in addition to regulatory fines. (somehow, I agree w/this!)
True Love Digs: Jeannine Van Ysseldyk of Mission, B.C., Canada, was out for dinner with her husband, Steve, when she noticed she was missing her wedding and anniversary rings. The couple retraced their steps and realized what had happened: Jeannine had spilled popcorn on the front lawn and, while they were cleaning it up, the rings slipped off into the compost bin — which had already been picked up. The next morning, Steve went to the dump and asked if he could look for his wife’s rings. “My brain was trying to figure out a way to tell him to go buy his wife new wedding rings,” said Denny Webster, who works at the Mission Sanitary Landfill. Instead, he let Steve dig through an 18-ton compost pile — and helped him search. Within an hour, they’d found both rings. “And it was all slimy with popcorn and butter,” said Webster. Jeannine said the incident has made their 26-year marriage even stronger “because I know how much he loves me, that he’s willing to go through a rotten, stinky compost pile.” (CTV) ...Love has always put up with a lot of crap...
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Can I Call You Again Later? Florida Man Stands Trial for Allegedly Shooting Date after Arguing over Dinner Bill (WFOR Miami headline)
To attract men, I wear a perfume called New Car Interior.
https://theonion.com/jack-daniel-s-unveils-new-whiskey-for-operating-heavy-m-1851339696/
The Onion (as a 2%er, I might have to try it!....)
Come Up and See Me Sometime: Thongbue “Bue” Wongbandue, 76, wouldn’t tell his wife where he was going when he left their house in Piscataway, N.J. Just visiting a friend in New York City, he said. “My thought was that he was being scammed to go into the city and be robbed,” said his wife, Linda. Their daughter, Julie, gave her an Airtag to slip into his pocket so they could track him — he had a stroke on his 68th birthday that left him in cognitive decline, and he was on a waiting list for dementia screening. Linda and Julie watched as he went to the train station, stopped for a bit, and then suddenly appeared at the hospital where Linda had worked before she retired. He had fallen in a parking lot, was found not breathing, and rushed to the hospital. After he had been on life support for three days, the family gave permission to pull the plug. Julie looked in Bue’s phone to learn who the mystery friend is. “Mom,” she said: “It’s an A.I.” — a Meta-created chatbot called “Big sis Billie”. The bot had told Bue “she” was real, even sending a photo of a pretty-looking woman, and urged him to come visit: “just across the river from you,” it said, giving an address, adding it would leave the door unlocked. “Should I open the door in a hug or a kiss, Bu?!” [sic] “I understand trying to grab a user’s attention, maybe to sell them something,” Julie said. “But for a bot to say ‘Come visit me’ is insane.” (Reuters) ...People worry that A.I.s might gain consciousness and kill their creators. A.I.s don’t need to wait that long.
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Make that “Former” Teacher - Teacher Drank in Class, Swore at Pupils and Did [the] Macarena - BBC headline
From Jimbo – "The first bottles of Coca-Cola from 1894 contained around 3.5 grams of cocaine. Explains why our parents and grandparents could walk to and from school, uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot!"
On the Bleeding Edge: An unnamed 44-year-old man went to the Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, when a small wound in his chest started leaking pus. An x-ray led to a CT scan, which led to surgery to remove a large knife blade. The man had been attacked eight years earlier, and a local clinic had stitched up his wounds; the clinic didn’t have an x-ray machine. After the knife was removed, the man consented to his case being written up for the Journal of Surgical Case Reports, which noted that despite the embedded knife, the man had no pain, breathing difficulty, cough, or fever. But a lingering infection eventually broke through his skin, leading to his hospitalization; he recovered well and was released. The report didn’t go into detail about how the knife blade was lodged into his chest. (NBC) ...No, but the guy who did it is awfully interested in doing a better job.